To be fair depends on what you listen to on spotify. If you listen to major mainstream names, well yeah. Millionaires. If youre listening to smaller bands then the compensation model of spotify is shit and you can probably give them more direct compensation by going to a concert, buying some merch, and maybe directly buying music from them.
This is such a horrible situation for all involved. Understandably the birth parents and blood relatives want to have the right to raise their kids especially when they clean up their act and find themselves in a better place to raise their kids and make things right for their family.
On the other hand I imagine it has to be heartbreaking to foster a child who was unwanted or removed from an abusive situation and raise them for several years like your own only to have a court come in and tear that child that you were raising and caring for away because you’re not their real parents.
The whole thing from both sides is just awful.
Can they just pay their damn workers and not make it come to this? The used car market is only starting to recover from the covid shortage induced craziness.
At the end of the day Florida is guaranteed 2 seats in the senate and due to their size it will be a long while before momentum moves to the point where their house numbers are low.
Republicans want this. They want people of opposing political beliefs to leave their state en mass. Lets not forget that up until recent conservative craziness florida was known as being the most infamous swingstate.
I dont blame people for leaving from an area where their kids will be more poorly educated, where local infrastructure is decentralized highway centric HOA built community hell, and where they may be actively persecuted. It’s what the republicans want though.
On one hand I will be down the D line in the next election because I do understand that the alternative is things getting worse with the republican party and we can only hope two definitive losses can snap the party out of their current strategy and ease up.
On the OTHER hand I’ll be honest I dont see the changes in the republican party happening anytime soon especially since it’s been this way since reagan. Sure neolibs will clutch their pearls and talk about better days but while the rhetoric may be a little more transparent in some cases, the republicans havent changed all that much. Election fraud fear mongering was a bush era dog whistle, and theyve been chomping away at abortion, appointing conservative leaning judges, and trying to limit public education and programs for decades.
Meanwhile what has the status quo democratic party done about it? They pushed further right in the 90s in order to try to win away Reagan voters and then spent the next few decades as wimpy pro capitalist centrists. Gaining an inch while the right takes a foot and then wagging their finger over how they would never play so dirty. Just look at the last Obama era judge appointee.
They could have fought to make sure their neutral judge would make the bench. But oh no the norms we couldnt do that. Deep down they were so SURE that Clinton could never lose so they wanted to look like they were the grownups who upheld political norms and then get it done anyway. What wound up happening? The republicans repealed that block privilege once in power and pushed their appointments in without issue.
I cant blame people for becoming exhausted and feeling like “not being the republicans” is not enough to keep rewarding the Democrats for being weak. They abandoned the working class and unions in the 90s, they continued to push right and attack their progressive wing while trying to continue to court center right voters. Now that they let the republicans go wild the last 40 years theyre telling us “you better vote for us or DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE! and our policy is the continue doing more of the same”
It’s like if an owner of a dog spent years training it poorly and smacking it around is holding the leash tight as the dog starts barking and jumping towards you. You suggest maybe changing the owner of the dog, but they reply “well if Im not their owner anymore then Im going to let go of the leash and who knows what the dog will do while you wait for the dog catcher to come and get it”
Gotta love how the republicans try to make it seem like theyre giving you freedom of choice. If they really wanted to lift the burden of paid insurance companies and offer choice they would offer a public government option to people. Instead theyre offering something that’s essentially just throwing your money away, unless you like get hit by a car and break every bone in your body(even then the likely high deductible and limited network and lack of hospitalization coverage will still bankrupt you).
It reminds me of the conversation I was having with my family recently about how the big bad NY dems are taking away their CHOICE to use fossil fuels and its like no theyre phasing it out and offering subsidies for people to use alternatives. Theyre requiring new construction to be all electric, and then eventually theyre phasing out being able to buy a new gas furnace over a heat pump(which will also use less energy to run most of the year than your gas stove and also double as central air in the summer). Even then you can still keep and repair what you have it’s just a matter of when it’s finally time to make that expensive replacement you’ll have to replace it with something good.
Theres also fear mongering about them taking away smokers, grills, and firepits which I cant find anything other than right wing sites mentioning it cause “california did it” but then when I google california they didnt lose their grills either.
He’s best left ignored. Every time somebody brings him up or makes fun of him it sustains him. May he be forgotten.
A primary strategy the right uses is to feign responsibility and pretending to be reasonable. It usually doesnt pass scrutiny but it allows them to seem reasonable, and responsible.
It’s like fiscal republicans talking about reducing inefficient government spending, and reducing the deficit to balance the books. On the surface this sounds responsible like a household balancing their own budget. In practice some deficit is useful, and they forget all about it when they are funding military spending and giving tax cuts to the wealthy.
It’s the same as this. They arent going to outright ban abortion(yet) its a free country! But they will give a “reasonable” time frame based on an old man’s limited knowledge of female anatomy. They can then pretend that if a woman needs or wants an abortion after the deadline it’s the woman’s fault for first not using protection, and then not knowing her own body.
Never mind that these same people also limit sex ed and healthcare that would provide birth control.
6 weeks is effectively a ban. That’s not even enough time to know you’re pregnant.
Like I can comprehend their being upper limits to abortion if the mother’s life isnt at risk when the fetus is viable. There dont seem to be many people protesting states with a 24+ week to third trimester abortion bans that do exist in a lot of northern states. This is so far and away from that.
6 weeks is hardly even pregnant. The fetus is the size of a lentil, and with aid of a microscope you can see it resembles a what you’d see inside of a fish egg more than a human. That’s barely enough time to really know a person is late for their first period especially if there is spotting from the placenta attaching or a hematoma
If you’re in the US a lot of public libraries connect with hoopla which you should be able to access for free with a library card. It gives you a set number of things you can “check out” a month depending on your library(usually around 5 or 6). This includes books, audiobooks, comics(single issues and volumes both count as a 1), and of course a week of some subscription services like nebula oddly enough. Worth checking out especially since nebula is more for independent creators to actually get paid and not big name media studio.
edit: Just double checked it isnt there. I feel like there was more last time I checked but I may have also just gotten confused with great courses plus and curiositystream which do seem to be there
That depends on your definition of conservative and right wing. Casual observation the last few weeks Ive been here, but this instance leans left. You wont get banned for trying to preach fiscal conservatism or having a religion here. Certain stuff may not make you popular either depending on what conservative ideology you’re preaching.
Ive noticed the mods and admins here dont play the usual troll game. So any dog whistles, trolling, and bad faith stuff gets shutdown.
I feel like there is an idealization of far right conservatism that makes people believe that if we can just move past Trump and trumpism that things will go back to normal. That said republicans used to be more subtle and attempted to keep an air of respectability and civility about them, but a lot of the problem beliefs we had.
Tough on crime but not for white collar big crime politics, tax cuts for the wealthy, anti union stuff, racial dog whistling, gutting social programs, evangelical faux christian nonsense, election fraud, appointing judges, and etc were all present 20 years ago.
And regarding LGBT stuff both sides sucked 20 years ago, but conservatives were way worse.
Going back to at least reagan it’s been a shitshow it’s just decades of Reagan era neocon strategies coming up against impotent neolibs has brought us to where we are today. The current strategy is also far more transparent and aggressive and angry so things feel less civil, but sometimes I wonder if maybe thats not a bad thing. It’s easier to rally against trump than it is to rally against a guy you feel like you’d like to have a beer with.
Known hate group gets caught quoting hitler. Im shocked. Shocked I say
The most frustrating thing about moderate rhetoric regarding the trump administration is the myth of a pre-trump republican party that was more civil, more for the people, and more willing to work together. Trumps loud mouth causes him to more overtly buck norms and make the fascism more transparent, but the party as a whole has been like this at least since the Reagan era.
Objectively Trump’s actions have been that of a fairly normal republican president. Dog whistles of voter fraud have been around since the bush administration, rhetoric that others minorities and the poor has been around since reagan’s welfare queens, and the republican strategy of mass appointing judges is also an old one that predates trump by a long shot. Trump is a symptom not the disease. He is a loudmouth who overtly gives away the game, but the game has always been there. Hearing on npr and other moderate heavy voices act as if trump came out of nowhere and that things would just return to normal when he’s gone was a frustrating part of the news cycle during his presidency.
The thing that upsets me so much about the both sides argument is that while it’s an absolute nonsense, the dems have done a good job of working hard at doing nothing and allowing people to maintain this illusion.
Neoliberalism adopted during the clinton era and their pull right and unwillingness to stand for or fight for anything outside a few token causes is what lead us to where we are. Like think of all the blue collar voters that would probably still be voting blue if the dems didnt spend 2 decades being indifferent or anti-union and enacting policies that helped line the pockets of big businesses
mangasee is pretty solid and usually has higher quality than average uploads.