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[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Many of these things are timed to take full effect after Trump's term. Republicans in Congress expect the next president to be a Democrat and for that person to take all the heat if they do nothing to stop it, to have to raise taxes to offset the cuts, or to incur additional deficit spending. Republicans can campaign effectively against all three, and Republican voters will lap it up like hogs at the trough.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's always been about slavery for this subset of the population, right from the very beginning of the formation of the country. Not just money, not just power in an abstract sense, but the kind of power that only comes with slavery.

The fascism is only a means to slavery. They'll take it as far as they're allowed.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 7 points 5 hours ago

When you told them they probably didn't realize at the time that Democrats could be involved

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 18 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago) (1 children)

Interesting article. Just one of these vessels can cost $5M to remove and destroy. One of them sank in the Columbia and it would cost Oregon $25M to remove it and clean up environmental damage, which Oregon doesn't have the funds for. Yet the federal government is selling them for as low as $5,000, often without verifying means and insurance. Sounds like the federal government should be paying to do the removal directly, but of course then they couldn't shift the cost to states.

Notable here is that the only shipbreaker companies in the country authorized to do business with the federal government are located in Brownsville, Texas, so in the event the ships are large enough to justify the cost and seaworthy enough to make the journey, this effectively becomes yet another tax Pacific Northwest citizens pay that goes to red states.

Abandoned and derelict vessels are quietly piling up in Washington and Oregon waterways, posing a threat to fragile marine ecosystems. At least 37 of these vessels in the Pacific Northwest, including the Pacific Producer, were formerly property of the Navy, Coast Guard or another federal agency, then bought by someone who later abandoned it. Together, these former government vessels have cost Washington state and Oregon over $21 million to remove and destroy.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They're busy enacting their final solution to the Gaza problem, so just wait a few more months and world governments can sigh a breath of relief that they don't have to pretend to care anymore when the last Palestinian in Gaza has starved to death or been shot

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

Not yet, but we all know it's coming

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What worries me is using this as "evidence" to arrest Democrats in office.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Viewpoint diversity"

The approval by the FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, comes after Skydance made commitments to the agency in three areas: ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at Skydance and Paramount have been shut down; appointing an ombudsman to review “complaints of bias or other concerns” involving CBS as part of ensuring “viewpoint diversity”; and investing in local news and working with its affiliated broadcast stations to serving local communities.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank you. I read the entire article and I don't really understand what the OP is trying to achieve with this post, which no one from that group will read, just as no one from that group has ever played a video game. They just seem like publicity-seeking busybodies with time to kill between complaints about their neighbors to their HOAs.

In particular I still don't understand why any of this is relevant to retro games. Modern games, sure. But it doesn't look like they're trying to get Crash Bandicoot banned from Steam.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I don't know what this group is and I have no idea what you're talking about. Most of all I don't understand why this is posted in a retro gaming community

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Please go back to Reddit

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know, I never quite understood why a woman named Katana fought with fans

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