Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Kinda tells that for all of their claims about “we are the major market” and complaining about “SJWs destroying business”, reich wingers are not a faithful or reliable audience to cater to.

Their death threats to Target for Pride Month is a good example.

@Dustcan
Well, isn’t Joe Biden almost 80?

TBF although he is the only option so far to keep trump away, I don’t like gerontocracies

I prefer a young leftist leader to stop extremism in America and do something to help the poor.

Can we have other people run for office besides Buden and Trump?

I don’t really like either of them.

@Zaknel
Given that the incumbent president usually has the advantage, I doubt someone else gets picked in the Democratic primary, unless Biden turns into a doddering mess even worse than Mitch.

As for Trump, it depends if the recent lawsuit filed to declare him ineligible goes through. If it does, the Republicans will be forced to pick someone else (not that the other options are that much better, between Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and Chris Christie).

@Zaknel
That’s what a third party is for.

China just released the same old map about taking Indian, Vietnamese, and Malaysian territory.

No surprise when nearby countries are protesting this insult, and CCP-trolls in comments (like here) are bragging to Malaysians to bow to China.

One notable thing found by Ukrainians is that one island controlled by russia is painted as Chinese territory.

I learned that Ramaswamy is a bootlicker for putler.

I’m watching PBS Newshour, and there’s a segment about the decline of local news.

Should the government fund local news?

@Background Pony #A225
In the US, that’s PBS and the NPR. But Republicans have been doing everything they can to kill them off.

When it works well though, it does seem to be much better than some of the profit driven news, like Fox and CNN. So, maybe there should be more, like the BBC.

He is 80. And he’ll be 81 in November.

And yes that makes it worse.

Because we don’t have a max age limit the same way we have a min age limit.

So we have to witness dinosaurs cling to power until they die.

They could choose to retire and spend their golden years with loved ones. But they don’t.

absolutely not why? they’re obsolete why would I waste time turning on the TV when I can just poke around the internet. Also NPR/PBS’s public funding is a massively undersold. The majority of their cash flow comes from donations and cooperate sponsorship and gov funds are the minority and they’re dyeing due to their batshit takes.

Such as?

off the top of my head back in 2016 they pushed this crazy idea that the majority of american’s supported the TPP.

@harasha456
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You had to go back 7 years to bring up an international trade agreement? That’s what you classify as a “batshit take”, of which they’re making so many that it’s killing them off?

note the off the top of my head part of that statement.

And then you’d have to deal with TV licences.

@Terton
You mean like how the UK pays for it? I never understood that.

@Ciaran
@Terton
In other countries with state owned media, it’s just a (very very small) part of normal taxes. UK, Germany, and some others for some reason make it a non-trivial explicit separate addition to income tax.

Imagine letting someone from the TV Licensing Authority in (they don’t work for the government so you can refuse them and no one will know you have an illegal tv)

@AaronMk
Wow, I’ve finally found out about an organization that’s even more useless than the United Nations!

Georgia has announced that Trump’s trial there will be televised and livestreamed.

The other indictments are running around in a screaming panic over the thought of inconveniencing Trump at every step, and here Georgia is saying “We’re going to treat him like anyone else.”

@Dustcan
Good.

First time voting in an election
Alright gamers let’s get this bread