Now, that’s not fair. Come on!
They also protest-non-voted for:
Let me state it as a parable: If the building was on fire and someone was blocking the fire exit, but I managed to escape by shattering a 2nd floor window, yes, I would be mad at the person blocking the exit.
And more so: This was, very much, a clear and present danger. As we are all experiencing now. None of what is happening now is a surprise. Yet those people still refused to help or lift a finger to prevent it.
Doesn’t matter.
There was a clear and present danger that everyone with two brain cells to rub together was trying to prevent, and these people were actively standing in the way.
I’m a salt mine over this.
I like that expression.
People are dying, poor families with disabled children are losing healthcare, trans people are under federal attack, science and education is being gutted, and on and on
According to the people we’re both salty at, that’s apparently an acceptable price to pay to “teach the Dems a lesson”. (That was one of the most common reasons they’d give last year, and yep, I’m still salty about that too).
But at least they saved Palestine ¯_(ツ)_/¯
We could have done that last November, but some people decided it was better to single-issue abstain / protest vote / spread FUD / otherwise get in the way. Yes, I’m still salty about that.
And Congress authorized a war…when, exactly?
Aside from mentioning the reconciliation process (which I agree could have been included), that’s not even close to actual journalism. It might fly on from one of the talking heads spewing endless opinions shows on cable, but reputable outlets do not “report” that way.
Quality outlets also do not (or should not, anyway) point blame in such a brazen manner. They should report the facts and list some potential effects of those, but they shouldn’t tell you how to feel or sink into the petty bickering of the subject matter.
I’m old-school and grew up before the plague of 24-hour cable news and worked for two different newspapers, so I’m, I guess, a little more sensitive to the sensationalist crap that gets called “news” these days. I guess what I’m saying is that this article passes my “sniff test”.
Naturally, this is all the Democrats fault for not letting the republicans steamroll them with their anti-American (and frankly, anti-human) policies. Great job, media.
(Emphases about blaming the media mine) Seriously, WTF? What other way could they have reported that? They’re refusing to back the bill without ACA extensions and repealing the cuts to health care programs. As far as reasons go and playing hardball, that’s a pretty good one (or two).
And if NPR didn’t include that info about Democrats refusing to back the R spending bill, then you all would be complaining that “Oh, the Democrats do nothing blah blah whine whine blah both sides”.
As far as “the media” goes, NPR is pretty top-tier. I swear, I am starting to think half the people here just do not understand how journalism works.
Just gonna have to swipe right and find out.
No, actually, it was for the Ladybird community. But I’m also memeing about the blue Sonic, so any similarities of completely coincidental. If you’re a mod in one of those wholesome communities and both of you agreed, I stand by my tacit approval.
However, there is this: https://lemmy.zip/post/40774562
The pinned post in your Fedigrow community (also pinned in the older lemm.ee one) is literally pushing people to look for communities to consolidate and nag the mods about it. That’s where my annoyance with blue Sonic is coming from. Just going around trying to “fix” things that aren’t broken.
If you do, post it!
Not against mergers per se, no . I even said so in the post. Though I’m not necessarily happy about it.
TL;DR of my life is I’ve been screwed by M&A’s way too many times, and it’s never made things better. lol
Okay, but if that community didn’t merge in the first place - the likelihood would be that it wouldn’t even explode in activity for that to even happen as the audience would be split between multiples.
Bigger isn’t always better. I stand by that.
You see bug, I see feature.
I like having options. Meme community gets too political? Just block it and use another.
On the flip side, if a niche topic community merges with another and turns to crap (for any number of reasons), then there’s nowhere else to go unless I start my own. And if it moves to an instance I’ve blocked? Well, I’m just gonna have to go without it because I blocked that instance for a reason.
It all ends up in the same feed whether it’s a 1 active user community or a million active user community. 🤷♂️
As an example, there’s multiple Star Trek meme communities. I just switch back and forth and post to both (unique content to each).
He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn’t posted in 2 weeks.
No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.
The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies
I don’t think it’s the fact that certain parts of the country in Sinclair footprints will not see it on TV. It’s that Sinclair is wielding it’s massive footprint as a [partisan] weapon.
I mean, we all have bad days. I’m talking more of the ones that pretty much never have anything constructive to say, only point out minor faults or say it’s not good enough, and apparently saying nothing at all just doesn’t seem like an option.
If they are, and if their goal is to keep us angry, then:
I also feel there’s an equal chance they’re just perpetually online buzzkills / Debbie Downers.
Until she crawls out for a presidential run in 2028…