Jeffw? He’s an active Lemmy poster and mod of many communities and always posts a ton of news content. Considering the recent events, it’s not that surprising that a lot of news would be about groups paying lip service to wanting a fair political climate.

They certainly tried with Secure Boot. Thank Stallman that UEFI is a somewhat-open architecture.

Keeping turning that other cheek and eventually it’ll be pleasant. Or at least, that’s what my educational sources from the Hub tell me.

Multimillion-dollar ad-buys highlight a so-called “car ban”

A recent fuel manufacturers ad shows a woman driving through a suburban neighborhood. A narrator warns that “President Biden is banning most new gas cars” and that he has put the “freedom to choose what to drive in the rearview mirror.” As the woman drives, she notices that Biden is gleefully sitting in her back seat.

This kind of shit is why we need to have better regulation and oversight of advertisements.

• ✅️ False information presented as fact.
• ✅️ Fear mongering.
• ✅️ Dishonest use of a political candidates likeness.

Even if the most rational voters fact-check what this ad is saying, it will still succeed at convincing emotionally-driven individuals to vote against Biden.

I say it sarcastically, but not without a hint of truth behind it. With the current political leanings of the Supreme Court, if Biden ever tried to off a political opponent as an official act, they would probably call for him to be impeached and hung for treason. If a republican did it, they would likely throw a pizza party and declare the act a necessity to preserve American politics.

Those rules were not meant for the current president! /s

This is about as surprising as finding out water is a liquid.

The only thing worse than making him a martyr would be failing to make him a martyr. If he had died, the person taking his place wouldn’t have the same die-hard following or charisma as he does. Now, he gets to reap the same benefits as if he were martyred, without the disorganization and fragmentation of someone trying to fill in his shoes.

This is truly the worst timeline.

That’s on me. Should’ve read the date and post body before commenting my joke.

Oh, the irony that this was signed into law today…

I wonder if this one will make it to killedbygoogle, or if it’ll be omitted because it wasn’t public-facing.

I can’t wait for the new curriculum where they teach financial planning. I’m sure it won’t boil down to “unions steal your wages” and “be thankful for any job,” no sir-ee.

You don’t at all see how this could be abused in the exact same way as what you’re complaining about, do you?

For example, maybe Trump relaxes some restrictions on China, and the Chinese government just so happens to decide to host an expensive event at one of Trump’s businesses afterward. It’s not a bribe; it’s business as usual™

If Gemini has shown us anything, it’s not even useful AI. Like you said, the solution is as easy as turning it off.

I think we all know that one of those two things will never happen in the land of the free and home of the mass-produced automobile.

It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that the DNC would rather lose than have an actual progressive win.

It’s not in their interests to let a progressive win. Just like their counterpart, the DNC takes a shit ton of bribery donations from corporations lobbyists. Bringing in a progressive who would reform the system or push back against pro-corporate policies is biting the hands that feed them.

I’m mad that Biden and the Democratic leadership seems to have put their own interests above the interest of the party people.

The interests of the party is the interests of the rich :)

The system is set up in a way that the only viable options are between two evils, unfortunately. Under a FPTP system where the only good options are minority parties that won’t win a single seat in their districts, you’re left with the choice of voting for the lesser evil, or voting for your morals but increasing the risk of the greater evil winning.

It’s a no-win situation.

The Democrat party is just as corrupt and bought out by corporations as the Republicans are, but at least they aren’t trying to get the country to circle the drain as quickly.

Ah, but you see, that’s where the national security and economic prosperity conditions come in. Can’t be having alternative teachings encouraging terrorism and communism, you know?