I work in a factory in R&D, we are planning a factory out. What you are saying is absolutely true. After a certain point the tariff walk backs are irrelevant because big purchases have already been made which locks the choice in. This point has already been hit and upper management, hell honestly even vendor we talk to, has zero confidence in how everything will play out until trumps out of office.

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Fair enough i was trying to have a more positive message but I consider the Reagan era to be the largest turning point for the US’s decline tbh. Of course the 50-70s were horrendous if you were a poc but at least that was getting corrected in the 70s and 80s. Unfortunately while civil rights was making strides during that time Reagan started targeting those communities with the war on drugs. Once we started the new age slavery program (privatization of our punal system) the US started on this fucked trajectory. This is all just my opinion of course

Yeah there is, I get it though. I’ve noticed that in myself I have a much shorter fuse now. I try not to take it out on people because I recognize it’s just misplaced frustration.

Part of the reason I made this post was to just let people get all of their vitriol and upset feelings out, if even a little.

It’s of course not helpful to shout in the void but it also alleviates some of that frustration people feel. I thought it may be a bit therapeutic to give strangers a little spot to direct some of that negativity to.

Thank you for the kind words and your quotation perfectly sums up the response I’m trying to maintain in my mind, if only for my own sanity.

I don’t think this will happen

this is purely me trying to find any crumb of hope in this abysmal situation

It’s more about the less people have to lose the more they are willing to risk

The enlightenment!

If only there was some way to determine which content was shown on your device.

Not really sure how to filter posts whose top comment is regarding moderation, pretty damn specific filter. Then again your comment is a large giant nothing burger that continues to ignore the point I’m attempting to emphasize so I don’t think you really thought it through in the first place.

Didn’t say moderation isn’t necessary, it is. What I said is it’s sad the top comment chain is about moderation.

I opened this post to read comments out of curiosity, I still don’t even know the context of this article because the top comment is about the title which I find sad.

maybe calm down a bit

While my tone wasn’t cordial it also wasn’t ALL CAPS SAYING KYS

You may be projecting a bit?

Regardless I’ve seen this garbage take on lemmy enough that I’m not going to politely point out the fault. I’ll check their Lemmy contributions and call them fucking clowns if they are saying silly shit like “remove content me no likey for pendantic reasons” while contributing nothing to posts.

It’s alotta reddit entitlement and I will attempt to call it out when i see it and I’m not going to be pleasant about it

It’s so pathetic that the top comment chain is discussing this pedantic issue instead of the actual article. Thank god for this moderation or my experience may have been slightly degraded.

Man fuck em, thank you for adding to the fediverse OP! You should look at non .world communities. .world is the more shitty instance filled with “um actually…” Style users and mods

Lol “the people actually making content are the problem” y’all are fucking clowns.

Can we just be loose with the moderation while the “top” posts don’t even get 2k upvotes.

It gave lemmy content, it led to engaging discussions, who tf cares if the title is bad.

Jesus Christ I don’t understand this mentality

You’ve made 3 posts in 2 years, op contributed to more fediverse in a day than you did in two years.

You really want to make this place better, then quit your bitchin or contribute more and your bitchin will be more understandable

I dunno why you’re getting down voted, this is the world as it is unfortunately.

I mean didn’t Schumer just bow to the Trump admin to get their budget passed? I don’t know about everyone else but I see most dems talk a big game but when it comes down to actions I just don’t see them following though.

I would like to caveat this with, I did vote and I voted blue across the board( even though few dems on my ballot were actually progressive). I’m not saying both sides are the exact same but in my mind the decisions the DNC made up to this point are part of the variables on how we got here. Ex: if Hilary wasn’t hamfisted in in 2016 maybe we wouldn’t be in the worst time line, and that’s the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

I love the “but it pays for schools” argument, like how about we drop 3 less bombs per year and just pay for all the schools out of the existing tax pool like it should be.

Gotta be one of the most dogshit takes I’ve ever seen, hope you’re evicted one day!

Was he the one caught smoking crack?

Trump lies every time he speaks, it’s the expectation and he met it. That’s not news. Biden showed up looking like he was on death’s door when he hadn’t before, that is news.

It’s not right wing narrative. After I watched the debate I was pissed and felt like the Biden administration had hid the fact that Biden isn’t in a condition to be president because that’s what happened.

Trump didn’t have any coherent answers but you could at least hear him

The system is really bad but you should also factor in the price while searching for schools, I went to a state University, one of the minor ones, and tuition was under 10k/year. So your son paid more for 1 year than I did for my entire degree by almost a factor of 2. Some universities are way more expensive than others. I got a STEM degree and was employed 2 months after I graduated, with a very prestigious research position. So it’s not like going to a shitter on paper school had an impact on me personally.