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Raymond Shannon @ chillBurner @lemmy.ml
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"Well, they did sign up for this actually." Trump on voters concern for higher living costs

When ABC News' Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they "signed up for," Trump responded: "Well, they did sign up for this actually."

https://xcancel.com/ABC/status/1917379788408312308

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Senator Van Hollen on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Aliens arrive on Earth like Columbus set on the Carribean. What do you think they call it?

  • Biden admin and his VP Harris, has approved so much arms to {the Zionist project}, that at the near end of his term, sent $8 billion weapon sales to them during the Gazan massacres (Only beaten by his previous August 2024 deal of $20 billion.)

    Compared to what, there was an agreement that $3.8 billion annually for 2019 to 2028 would be sent, by Trump's admin, albeit under peacetime

    (This 3 billion deal is tragically typical of him, unless he increases it more and more, if not surpasses Biden's record, when another war in Gaza breaks out)

    For now, the only thing I can say is we should count the amount of time of peace Gaza has. As for the West Bank, truly horrible what they're doing over there.

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    zuckposting

  • Like many things people say won't be done due to '3 branches of government', yes.

    Besides, don't we have the hindsight of precedence?

    Canada started phasing out its penny a dozen years ago and urged store owners to round prices to the nearest nickel for cash transactions. Electronic purchases were still billed to the nearest cent. The move came after New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, and others dropped their lowest-denomination coins.

    After Canada stopped minting new pennies, it began recycling them for their “valuable” copper and zinc, according to a 2022 report from the Canadian Mint.

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    https://archive.is/Z3gCU

    News of mass immigration arrests has swept across the US over the past couple of weeks. Reports from Massachusetts to Idaho have described agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spreading through communities and rounding people up. Quick Google searches for Ice operations, raids and arrests return a deluge of government press releases. Headlines include “ICE arrests 85 during 4-day Colorado operation”, “New Orleans focuses targeted operations on 123 criminal noncitizens”, and in Wisconsin, “ICE arrests 83 criminal aliens”.

    But a closer look at these Ice reports tells a different story. That four-day operation in Colorado? It happened in November 2010. The 123 people targeted in New Orleans? That was February of last year. Wisconsin? September 2018. There are thousands of examples of this throughout all 50 states – Ice press releases that have reached the first page of Google search results, making it seem like enforcement actions just happe

  • The labor market is indeed regulated by that supply and demand. That is a foregone conclusion. However, that doesn't guarantee necessarily higher wages and thus higher quality of life, proportionately speaking.

    That itself is a struggle over whether "general profit", after accounting for wages, is reinvested for the social needs, such as housing, food and water, education.

    Assuming that "general profit" (savings) + wages (needed for laborers' means of subsistence) = value created.

    And assuming wages are sufficient enough for higher quality of life.

    But put into the equation the landlords, the shareholders, industrialists that dominate our world by virtue of owning the property that shapes it, who want to depress wages, if it means more "general profit", and direct their savings towards more capital accumulation

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    Sometimes I'd just like to see some people's normal feelings change, as if its opposite day

    Those who are normally sad, at least smile once

    And those who are normally happy, at least tear up once

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    Well, I guess this be my first post (HERE)

    Testing.

    Honestly, this should be lemmy.ml's unofficial, if not official chat community

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    Exclusive: Syria's new rulers back shift to free-market economy, business leader says

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    Why is it in popular imagining, that ghosts are {MOSTLY} depicted as miserable lonely sad folks that are stuck to the places they've died in?

    Can't they discover the world beyond? Weren't they humans; don't they have the mind to move on and focus on something else, since trauma and grief will run its course, sooner or later, and not just haunt the living?

    If I were a ghost, I'd be tired of acting like one... even if I was murdered or otherwise died untimely

    With the exception of Casper the Ghost, I don't think I've seen the alternative take on it

    This presupposes ghosts do exist, though I believe ye skeptics would tell me no, which, alright, you win the argument

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    I don't know why but I find the term "October Surprise" to be quite amusing? Do you?

    I just can't put my finger onto it....

    Maybe my humor has de-evolved or something

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    Do you think I'd be doxxing myself if I traced one of my self-photos and used that tracing as my profile picture?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19632821

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    What else to say?

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    Raymond Shannon @lemmy.ml

    Do you think I'd be doxxing myself if I traced one of my self-photos and used that tracing as my profile picture?

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    What else to say?