thisorthatorwhatever

joined 2 years ago

Trump will come up with something dumber tomorrow, it'll be impossible to keep pleasing him and stay sane. Sooner or latter everyone around Trump falls.

Thanks for the moral courage, too many in power are going along with Trump. It's not easy to quit.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Need to rejoin England, go back to a proper parliamentary system. Everybody who saw the American Constitutional, from it's first publication, said "this will end up as a dictatorship, as the role of president has too much power''. Finally that scenario has played out.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I hate articles like this. He won, he is in power. He will be in power for 4 years. His popularity doesn't matter anymore.

All other western democracies use some sort of parliamentary system akin to what the English have, a party appointed Prime Minister with very limited power. Presidential systems always devolve into fiefdoms.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (29 children)

The U.S.A. is done. Such sabotage by Trump, Musk and MAGA takes decades to recover from. 40 to 50 at least; rebuilding the civil service, amending all the laws back to normal, fixing the Supreme Court, probably needing Constitutional amendments. This easily echos for a hundred years.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (23 children)

This is not the Democrats fault. It is the fault of those that voted for Trump. The knew exactly what he was, and still voted for him. They wanted this.

I'm suspect of posts that blame Democrats, are these posts put up by paid shills?

WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS THE FAULT OF TRUMP, AND HIS MAGA FOLLOWERS!!!

I don't think data and studies should ever be buried. I do think we need to do a better job of exposing this data as nothing more than scattered tea leaves, with no validity to it. Just because someone spent lots of money collecting numbers, doesn't mean those numbers reflect anything real. And yes billions of dollars and hours of time can be spent collecting 'data', but the cost doesn't mean it's reflective of any truth.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Data' is not neutral! The point of collecting data on teachers and schools was always about control, pushing down pay, cutting benefits and cutting funding. That's why these monitoring programs started, and continued to exist. A few naive people think that they might have some use in monitoring standards between schools, THEY DON'T. Pearson, Springer, and the other large education companies suck up much of the funding...not to the benefit of classrooms and students.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In a few years we're probably going to find out that Musk uses the cameras on Teslas to 1)creep on women he likes 2) spy on politicians for compromising material Between Teslas and Starlink he literally knows where people are.

 

Looking for someone that has a hobbyist website that posts to it guitar lessons.

I'm trying to stay away from Youtube, as it is too hard to sort through so many videos, and many of them are just ads for courses.

Love old website and blogs, from the before social media times.

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