If Republicans don’t want people suggesting that Charlie Kirk died of Gun Violence Affinity Syndrome, then they all shouldn’t be supportive of Trump’s words here.

It doesn’t have to be that way. On the west coast the Seattle mayor election went to Katie Wilson, a staunch progressive.

Vote Republican if you want someone to represent you that runs away from accountability.

I think that Donald Trump doesn’t need to convince people that he feels their pain, but I think he does need to make the case that Democrats are too weak to fix it.

The GOP pollster/strategist is correct. Democrats cannot rest on their laurels and grin at this news hoping to sail through the midterms. These potentially Democratic voters have to be presented with real solutions to the issues of affordability and getting rid of authoritarianism, and candidates with real conviction to do that.

It’s true that there is plenty of alarmism when it comes to the potential outcomes of this decision, and I’ve uttered my criticism to one such piece shared to Lemmy.

I think this article goes to far doing the same thing but taking the opposite conclusion, that this decision has absolutely no effect on private property holders. The fact I keep returning to that makes this so murky for me is that Musqueam and Tsawwassen also assert competing Aboriginal title rights that appear to be awarded to the Cowichan alliance instead of other nearby bands.

The court made a decision (I won’t accuse them of brashness or extremism as this is after years of deliberation and fact-finding) that awards the Cowichan these rights, which although an analysis I read says it covers only Crown and lower level government owned land, the Aboriginal title system supersedes in some respects the fee simple one, and exists along it or in other ways needs reconcilition in others.

People will naturally have questions and concerns about what this means about private property ownership in the area, just like the appealing Indigenous groups wondering about the effect of this decision on their own treaty claims. Seizures under owners’ noses won’t happen, but it’s like if your house or apartment is now ordered by a court to be part of a Homeowners’ Association that you didn’t sign up for, because of ill guarantees made by the Government a long time ago that you never heard about. It will affect property owners in some way in the process of requiring negotiation to reconcile competing guarantees the Crown has made. Even if nothing on paper changes to Land Title Act entitlements, the fact that Aboriginal title needs to be reconciled does affect what those entitlements are ultimately worth.

Reversing the United States’ slide into authoritarianism will require democracy’s defenders to recognize the twin dangers of complacency and fatalism. On the one hand, underestimating the threat posed to democracy—believing that the Trump administration’s behavior is simply politics as usual—enables authoritarianism by encouraging inaction in the face of systematic abuse of power. On the other hand, overestimating the impact of authoritarianism—believing the country has reached a point of no return—discourages the citizen actions required to defeat autocrats at the ballot box.

This puts succinctly the complex thoughts in my head about the US’s fate. On Lemmy there are arguments where people accuse each other of being fatalistic or apathetic with no in between.

In November 2024 my heart sunk hearing the news of Trump’s win from Canada, I don’t know how Americans were feeling okay with it. Yes it is worse than I expected but I knew at least some bad would happen.

The imbecile needs to use the banner props around him as a secondary teleprompter to remember what he’s there for.

That’s IMO a big part of what’s different between the 7 transition and this one. Last time Microsoft was going around upgrading people’s computers for them, and even if people didn’t want to jump to 10 right away, they allowed Win 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate it pretty much whenever. Now with their hardware requirement, they’re official line is telling people without TPM that their hardware is junk when they stop supporting Win 10. That drove people to look for the better alternative Microsoft won’t tell you about.

Highest disapproval poll numbers of his career, congratulations.

Or, highest poll numbers of his career of people who want to see the full Epstein files on him.

Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here’s my overall advice:

• No need to get hung up over a few early downvotes on your comment that might cause its score to go negative for a bit. People can be strongly opinionated here. Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I do appreciate people willing to post honestly held unpopular opinions and play a reasonable devil’s advocate in threads. (This is different than just being a contrarian.)
• For your own and everyone’s benefit, try to engage in thoughtful, well reasoned and good faith discussion with empathy for others where it’s due. If you feel like a chain of replies is going nowhere good, there’s no shame in walking away from it.
• Report and block the jerks, trolls and spammers you might encounter like on any forum-like site. Don’t let them spoil your experience when most people here are respectful.

Enjoy your time here!

How often would you like to hear about Beef Stroganoff?

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for lowering their grocery prices to 10% above last year.

Well I hope Democrats give it an honest try in all these red districts.

November 4th this year gave me a glimmer of hope. It’s not guaranteed but I’m feeling like this…

Israel First, Argentina First, America Last.

I’ve had a lot less of a desire to pirate games after moving to Linux full time a few years ago. But FitGirl has been the one reliable place for public torrents, compaed to chancing it on the third Google Link or scrolling through the Russian CS-Rin-Rulette forum to find links.

This movie sequel will be mandated by Trump’s Freedom-of-Speech Certified ™ state media critics, to recreate the Jackie Chan saying the N word scene, in order to be approved. /j

I love that none of the media has stuck with Trump’s renaming of stuff.

Call me a shill, but Valve’s actions indicate that they care about the money that comes from improving a product or service. That differentiates them from many publicly traded companies that care about money at the expense of the quality of their own products and services.

Folks, they were definitely the best numbers ever in Donald’s living memory, which has a capacity of 30 seconds.