Overnight, D.C. District Court Judge Tim Kelly issued an order requiring the Trump administration to immediately reinstate MS NOW, CNN, and Politico’s White House access. But, this morning, MS NOW White House reporter Laura Barrón-López was denied access. She shares her experience. Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker also join Erielle Reshef to discuss the judge’s order.
It’s never been done. That does not preclude anything from being done the first time
USA is too big. A strike means people stop working, ideally yes they show up somewhere to make it visible but you do not need to be anywhere specific for that. Everybody can strike in their own town
Re doing something small like boycotting Meta/Google: it will do nothing.
Re doing anything that requires any sacrifice: I am not willing to be DIE for this.
Re doing anything civil like writing to congress: they will just not care.
I heard/read quite a few of those type of excuses (and they are excuses, not reasons) when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and I was asking why no fucker was doing anything about it.
I have since lost hope, so much so that I have now pretty much stopped complaining about the us population being lazy, or complicit/evil, or complacent.
I got sick of, well, complacency.
Christ, I have had the “america is a large country. It’s impossible to (insert excuse here)…”, on three different occasions by three different commenters about three different Donvict Drumpf based issues.
So, yeah, I see very little of that type of comment now… but only because I can’t be arsed anymore. I now just call the fat orange imbecile a paedo and move on.
Reasons that make sense are only “excuses” if you already decided any reason couldn’t be valid ahead of time. America bad tho, true. All American bad.
sure… but also shitty excuses are just that.
I have heard the following shitty excuses:
It’s never been done. That does not preclude anything from being done the first time
USA is too big. A strike means people stop working, ideally yes they show up somewhere to make it visible but you do not need to be anywhere specific for that. Everybody can strike in their own town
Re doing something small like boycotting Meta/Google: it will do nothing.
Re doing anything that requires any sacrifice: I am not willing to be DIE for this.
Re doing anything civil like writing to congress: they will just not care.
You probably hear very little of that on Lemmy.
Disagree. And I disagree wholeheartedly.
I heard/read quite a few of those type of excuses (and they are excuses, not reasons) when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and I was asking why no fucker was doing anything about it.
I have since lost hope, so much so that I have now pretty much stopped complaining about the us population being lazy, or complicit/evil, or complacent.
I got sick of, well, complacency.
Christ, I have had the “america is a large country. It’s impossible to (insert excuse here)…”, on three different occasions by three different commenters about three different Donvict Drumpf based issues.
So, yeah, I see very little of that type of comment now… but only because I can’t be arsed anymore. I now just call the fat orange imbecile a paedo and move on.