They did help people, and did it about as much as the government could. Almost 16m jobs created, 6m more than pre-pandemic.

The issue was inflation, but that was global, and the US did better than most of the rest of the industrialized world in that regard. It is a complicated truth vs simple lies: you figure out how to get Americans to listen to the one and not the other.

You mean the railroad workers? Did you stick around to listen to the end of the story? Where scant weeks afterward, his administration negotiated a contract for the workers that gave them more paid sick days than they were asking for.

Harris did… exactly that. That was a huge part of her messaging.

The GOP controls the storylines that the media runs along: “Kamala just isn’t being specific about her policies” when she was robustly specific, and while Trump said absolutely zero specifics about anything and no one said a word about it.

The Dems have been putting workers first under Biden the whole time. Putting workers first more than any administration in decades. You guys just believe a bunch of bad press.

See, you’re just lucky. Many folks don’t have good bosses, so a law like this is good.

Honestly, i don’t get why more folks aren’t enthusiastic about EVs. I got a used Bolt, and i love it. Much easier and cheaper maintenance, fewer moving parts to wear out, no gas prices drama… never buying an ICE vehicle again.

Seriously. Brand recognition like Twitter is the dream. It’s so strong, X will forever be known not as itself, but as “X, formerly Twitter”.

Hate this. Every time, I seem to guess wrong.

Guess I’m a robot.

People responding to the meme that needing cars isn’t evil, and is required for many areas, are missing the point of the meme.

The meme is complaining about areas we built that can exist as they are only if everyone owns a car. If we weren’t so consumerist, and if white people could better tolerate living near black people, we wouldn’t have so much of the population living in suburban areas where cars are so necessary. A lot more people would live in circumstances where public transport is more viable for them.

And, of course, some shade thrown at the car buyers who buy comsumptively-extreme cars to do piddling stuff in. The number of basic sedans that can be had with 200+hp engines, or F150 pickups with massive gas-guzzling engines, that only get used for surface road driving one or two people around, is pretty ridiculous.

The main wrong thing about the meme is that it’s assuming our situation was created specifically so that evil corporations could sell cars and gas… no, they’re profiting from, and exacerbating, the problem of white flight from cities. Most of the country’s problems come in large part from racism first, and then profiteering on top of that.

It’s amazing Canter & Siegel were the most hated people on the Internet at one time…

Call servers “Lemmy Service Providers” and people might make the connection with what ISPs do.

I am able to see other communities, but not comment on posts in them without a login for that instance, in my experience. Is that supposed to be the case?