I have better things to do with my time, then debate MMT on lemmy, or debate on lemmy in general.

Everyone in the US is affected, regardless of whether they pay federal taxes, or how much. Not only “taxpayers” are affected. US federal taxes pay for literally nothing. Not figuratively: literally.

Regardless of whether I agree with MMT this is a much more useful thing to do vs linking two posts with no explanation

And fyi I have engaged with MMT enough to know I disagree with it, I have read Michael Hudson and engaged with podcasts with people who subscribe to it.

Why don’t you explain why you think this so if someone read this they would understand what you are even saying, instead of linking to a graph and a post about Milei with no explanations, I’m not reading that and I guarentee other people aren’t either.

And if this an MMT thing, I flatly disagree with MMT, so agree to disagree I guess.

I think it’s an important point to reiterate, especially for people who might default to them for information and as a representative of the Jewish community in the US.

!remindme in 10 years

Who knows what Eric Adams is gonna do though, he has been meeting with the Trump team to see about getting pardoned, so he might do something pretty messed up if they find some arcane way he can help ICE as mayor.

You can give any fake email like aaaaa @ gmail . com and it will let you through

There is also a list published by the Trump White House

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/

I would just type “photo editor” into F-Droid and browse, nothing on F-Droid will have ads. If you don’t have F-Droid installed follow this.

https://f-droid.org/docs/Get_F-Droid/

I still wouldn’t advocate for executing them, obviously they should not be let back into society, but I really don’t see the point in killing them, it doesn’t change what they did, but as human beings they should at least have the right to live even though they denied that from other people.

I think it just feels worse in this hyper-capitalistic society, that everyone else is out working while they are “taken care of” by the state, but I think the better answer to that would be to create a society that isn’t so dire, that it doesn’t seem like prisoners are getting free handouts, as opposed to just killing the prisoners, as “it isn’t fair they get to live off the taxes of their victims”.

I probably wouldn’t go to a protest of their execution, I probably also wouldn’t protest people killing CEOs, just in terms of the operations of a state, I don’t think corporal punishment is ever worth it currently.

I got this from the feed of the United Farm Workers, who obviously care about the crackdowns if you follow them, I think framing it as something that is going to drive up costs is pretty reasonable especially if you are a farm worker and know the impact this will have on your industry.

I would agree that framing it is as a Trump thing diminishes what they are reporting on, but still worth engaging with it.

Absolutely, he did pardon the vast majority of them, but the deaths of the remaining are on his hands, especially for someone who “doesn’t believe in the death penalty”. I haven’t looked into the specifics of the 3 people he didn’t pardon, but no matter what they did life in prison makes more sense than executing them in the richest country on the planet.

Maybe Joe Biden is saving doing the public option for his 2nd term in 2028.

Given the info in this article I imagine it’s both Turkey and Thailand keeping them in limbo, Erdogan probably does not want to provoke China either and simply would prefer to keep them in limbo.

If Erdogan wouldn’t take these people in the case they were kicked out of Thailand he is not a serious politician. Forget Neo-Ottomanism if you can’t handle a couple dozen Turkic refugees.

Donald Trump specifically has a long history with being friends with gay men, his mentor Roy Cohn was a closeted gay man (althought it was a very open secret) who died of Aids all the time denying he was gay, there was a movie released in 2024 called The Apprentice the delves into this. There is also other media made about Cohn like the play Angels in America.

Dude had to tweet about Urkel worship and call American culture stupid and lazy, probably top 5 biggest self owns of any politcian in recent memory.

He surrendered all his dignity in that Ann Coulter interview where she said she wouldn’t vote for him because he’s Indian and he just took it, and then posted his way out of being part of the Trump government.

It wasn’t shitty dw. I just think it’s important to use precise language when the action is targeted at a precise group of people. It is a reality that Peter Theil is a leading right winger and Trump nominated a gay man for treasurery secretary, things have changed from the Obama era where that would have been unthinkable.

I don’t even think that he cares about “the gays”, it’s pretty specifically targeted at trans and other non binary people, his coalition has quite a few openly gay men in it.

I don’t really think there is any harm in it, the people who are only going to show up for a symbolic protest would only show up for a symbolic protest. And the people who would show up to both this and more meaningful protests will still show up for more meaningful protests.