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[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Seeing Queer people vote for Trump reminds me as a Jewish person that many Jews voted and supported Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Makes me think of Fritz Haber. His story is too complicated to sum up in a quick blurb. But essentially he was a German-Jewish chemist and nationalist that developed poisonous gases eventually used in gas chambers during the Holocaust. Even though he was basically a national hero he had to flee for his life once the Nazis came to power. There was an episode of Behind the Bastards about him for anyone interested.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Meta-comment: I've seen a lot of people referring to the Department of Education as "DOE", which I thought was unambiguously the Department of Energy. Apparently, the Department of Education refers to itself as "ED" on its website, https://ed.gov/.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I find most terrifying about this, is that this isn't the first Trump term. There's no guessing what his politics are like. This woman must've been presented a completely wild reality by social media algorithms for them to think Kamala was the worse choice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

If you can't trust the Fat Thigh Business, what can we trust?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I am really curious what "beliefs and faith" people think Trump is going to champion. I keep hearing similar statements but nobody (except racists) ever goes into what those beliefs are or why they think Trump will uphold them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Making abortion illegal and declaring Christianity the state religion. That’s pretty much it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, Trump has claimed for probably roundabout everything that he's going to champion it. If you're not skeptical and you just hear what you want to hear, then you would probably believe that he's going to champion your thing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it was John Oliver I saw recently that said this:

"Trump lies so frequently, and about everything, that anyone can think whatever they want about his true intentions and they could be right."

Which explains so, so fucking much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You're correct this is from the latest last week tonight.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

There was someone on Lemmy saying he's going to "Make America Healthy Again." Apparently, the man who chooses McDonalds as his presidential meals is going to reduce food additives and make it cost less for the consumer while doing so.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Becoming politically aware has been one of the most frustrating things to ever happen to me.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

Not to worry. She protected her “beliefs and faith”, so she’s still got “thoughts and prayers” to fall back on, right?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's true! He can't defund them, Congress holds the pursestrings. Too bad they also voted Red up and down the ticket, meaning that Congress sure can take away funding, and he can happily approve it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

But he can make it an utter fucking mess for those funds to be distributed.