News

32759 readers

3162 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

JonsJava@lemmy.world

gedaliyah@lemmy.world

little_cow@lemmy.world

518

Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown (www.military.com)

submitted 5 days ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

69 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck.

During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do not negotiate.

Every conflict is merely a prelude to negotiations. The problem is that Democrats genuinely value the institutions of federal government being threatened with defunding, while Republicans only really see these as pain points with which to extort the liberal establishment for more social conservative policy.

Dems are primed to cave over time, particularly when the heavily privatized corporate media is on the side of the Republicans.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's definitely been the dynamic in the past, but I think things have finally gotten to the point where Dems are realizing their isn't much left to lose. Their internal polling and party leadership is telling them to hold fast (arc).

Also, I don't have the link handy, but there was a KFF poll like last week saying something like 70% of self identified Republicans want the ACA subsidies Dems are fighting for extended. Any way you slice this, it's a political disaster for the GOP and it's only going to keep getting worse for them as people's rent comes due and credit card bills come in and cheap talking points about "extremist terrorist liberal blah blah blah" don't pay those bills.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Dems are realizing their isn’t much left to lose

The thing to lose is their mega-donors and their future careers as pundits/board members/lobbyists at friendly US Government contracting firms.

70% of self identified Republicans want the ACA subsidies Dems are fighting for extended

Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think

Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans have essentially no impact at all.

American public opinion exists as a bellweather for advertisers and marketing teams. It does not exist to inform public policy but to inform policymakers of what they need to do to reset public opinion (ie, Ban TikTok, greenlight more media consolidation through the FCC, invoke the Espionage Act against whistleblowers, bomb journalists covering a genocide, etc)