- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.
The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz (who has famously fled severe weather in his home state), Nikki Haley, and Representative Nancy Mace (South Carolina) quickly pounced, framing the request as socialism and an act of war on women in menopause (the Republican Party is notoriously friendly to women’s health).
Of course, this is pretty standard advice during a heatwave. It was the official stance of the Department of Energy that Americans should set their thermostats between 75 and 78 degrees, and Republican governors in deep red states like Texas have issued the same advice in the past — including current governor Greg Abbott.
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I did. It sucks the rest of the US didn’t agree with PSL’s platform enough to get out and vote for the obvious better choice, but that’s just another example of the tragic consequences of the US being so far behind the rest the world in education I guess.
In the general election, there were only two choices. That’s how the game theory of our election works. You can talk about making the obvious better choice in the Democratic primary all you want and that’s fine, but if you bitch about voting third party in the general election you are objectively a fucking moron who doesn’t have a goddamn clue.
Either that or a pro-fascist concern troll spreading disinformation on purpose. One or the other.
Incorrect, the first party to get 51% of electoral college votes win. That is the system Americans choose to continue to live under. Not the made up system you described.
If 31% of the US population voted third party, a third party would win the white house.
Actually it’s as low 21%, but that’s a theoretical low and unlikely to happen.
And if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle. So fucking what?
So is the shit you’re spewing!
So what, if you would use your brain to think instead of letting your owners’ propaganda handle all of your thoughts, liberal scum, is that literally all of the propaganda around “oh but you gotta vote for this single party rule! and no that’s totally not fascism! Despite us calling all single party states fascist!” is wrong. Just vote for your interests and encourage everyone to vote for their interests and congrats, a third party will win.
Yes that requires getting off your lazy liberal ass. Going outside. And organizing for once in your fucking life. And that’s hard and oh but you don’t have the time and oh but what if people don’t want to vote and but who blah blah blah.
Just vote and encourage others to vote for their interests. You will increase voter participation, which more than handles the “but where are these voters going to come from” argument your owners taught you to spew.
Yes, I’m glad you agree it’s unlikely Americans learn basic fucking math and politics. Now that you recognize the problem, instead of lazily letting your owners set the terms of your existence, go fucking solve the problem.
Blah, blah, blah. That’s a lot of words for “I don’t fucking understand math.” Or apparently the difference between a primary and a general election, for that matter. Or basic reading comprehension!
For example:
THAT’S ALL STUFF THAT HAPPENS IN THE PRIMARY!
Also, you’re a goddamn liar who is assuming a fuckton of stuff about me that isn’t true.
Maybe you should get off your ass and get some goddamn education about what’s actually effective in our political system instead of CARRYING WATER FOR THE FASCISTS BY MISLEADING PEOPLE TO DO USELESS SHIT!
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Well, I hope you enjoy the fascism you helped cause with that stupid move.
Incorrect, Third Party voters did not cause Harris’ loss.
What did was Democrats running Kamala Harris without a primary, after trying to pretend Biden was mentally and physically stable enough to actually be president again. That and the whole endorsing and explicitly materially supporting a genocide. And Harris’ extensive history of anti-black racism. And Harris exclusively catering to the far-right despite every single retired democratic strategist telling the DNC for over a decade now that going right will not win a single vote as Trump supporters do not change their voting habits.
And people like you. Trying to shame people into voting for a genocidal racist far-right fascist with a blue tie.
And because of your failure to vote usefully, and your encouraging others to do the same, we have Trump. No matter what mental gymnastics you try to use convince yourself otherwise, you know it’s your fault.
Obviously it’s leftists’ fault that Kamala was a shit candidate and not Kamala’s
It’s you’re fault if you were given the choice of bad vs very bad and you chose very bad. But we can’t fix stupid, I guess.
Actually it’s you are fault for refusing to blame the person who objectively had the most control and responsibility.
Not me. I’d prefer a different candidate for sure. But it’s a simple logic that once there’s two viable options, if you don’t help pick one, you are responsible for the other.
Incorrect..
You find one headline that’s an opinion that confirms your idiotic contention and you’re fixated on that. Maybe try critical thinking?
You should try critical thinking kiddo. How did the number of Third party voters, which was lower than the difference between Trump and Harris Voters, make Harris lose the election, kiddo?
If every single third party voter voted for Harris not only would she not have won, she would not have gotten a single additional electoral college vote.
The people that didn’t vote for Harris, and thus lost Harris the election, were democratic voters that failed to turn out for a genocidal far-right monster.
It’s the non voters too. And it doesn’t matter if you call yourself a Democrat or a 3rd party or apolitical. If you didn’t vote for Harris, you helped Trump. And you are responsible for Trump. Suck it up and take responsibility for your own actions already. If you really think Harris would have been as bad as Trump then you can say that and be ridiculed for that ignorance instead. But basic logic of how votes work in the U.S. isn’t up for argument.
I understand the extreme need to justify your horrible action/inaction to yourself. But you should keep it to yourself
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