And afterwards, that place is cursed beyond repair. No one can look upon it

Here's a guy looking upon it 30 years ago, 10 years after the accident.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/chernobyls-intensely-radioactive-elephants-foot-lava-recreated-in-the-lab/4011170.article

You wouldn't want to sleep next to it, and you certainly wouldn't want to breath it in, but it's not going to kill anyone who looks at it.

News week ran multiple articles blaming Harris's campaign for being too woke, and I've seen countless takes on Lemmy trying to argue that the electorate move to the right, pretending that democrats didn't just move to the right.

Immigrants lost the election in the sense that the DNC spent millions demonizing them with ads like this and this and then act surprised when the people vote for the party that hates immigrants more overtly?

I wonder if the guard was like "Oh this guy is a journalist? Lets ~~google~~baidu what he writes- Oh it's just sinophobic nonsense. Tell him he has to come back tomorrow so we can waste more of his time"

Oh cool, anyone with foreign allegiances is going to oppose war, this is a good thing!

Oh it's a nazi. God dammit.

People elect representatives to represent them, not to compromise and pass the opposition's agenda.

It's forgivable if the representative failed to obtain enough power, but if they have literally any means at their disposal and don't use it, an unwillingness to use all the power the people gave them to do what they elected them to do is a betrayal of those people.

Even so, I’m not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first

We aren't able to use electoralism to fight the right as long as the political platform and messaging of the democratic party is 95% the same as the republican's.

The criticisms of the dem party don't amount to "let the right win", they amount to "the DNC prevents any political resistance to the right, they either need to be coup'd or destroyed if we want to stop the right from winning"

There was an app that censored the phrase "winnie the pooh" for a few months, he's sold at toystores all over china and you can look up images and videos of Disney Shangai's Winnie the pooh ride.

2030 is incredibly optimistic. Musk has been promising your tesla would be able to function as an automatic taxi when you're not using it for a decade.

I think they’re suggesting that, if you think what you’re seeing now is “unlimited support,” you’ll have a pretty shocking 2025.

Every weapon congress allowed, the US sent to Israel, and the US used its standing military to prevent anyone else from stopping Israel. The Biden admin has done literally nothing to limit Israel's genocide and has used the military and diplomatic power to ensure that it continues.

We had a shitty choice to make

We didn't choose shit, the democrats made choices at every opportunity that lowered turnout. Genocide lowers turnout. Saying you're going to appoint republicans to your cabinet lowers turnout. Pledging to shut down the border and build the wall lowers turnout. Means testing all of your campaign promises lowers turnout. Like anyone who's been paying attention, I spent the last 4 years telling anyone who'd listen that if the democrats do this shit, Trump will win in 2024, and now somehow it's everyone's fault except the democrats.

Remember when Biden's admin said they'd cut off aid if Israel didn't let aid into gaza and stop killing humanitarian workers, but set the deadline for just after the election?

This proves it was a cynical ploy and they never intended to limit their support of Israel's genocide.