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Post by energy123 »

watwut wrote: post #120
energy123 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Metrics are averages that obscure the heterogeneity of base reality. About 100 million Americans own no significant assets. Metrics that show stonks going up is not lived by these people. They hold some fiat which deteriorated in value and a real wage which has declined because housing inflation is a larger proportion of their expenditure than what the CPI basket has weighted. Housing ownership is further out of reac…

The same people will vote for radical conservatives after inflation and prices rises again. And they won't vote for democrats no matter well democrats run the economy. It is not inflation. Inflation is something they latch on when convenient.

Elections happen at the margins. Most Trump voters are Trump voters regardless of anything. But inflation is what moves the marginal vote. It's what motivates higher turnout on one side vs the other, for example.

Dems performed well among the people that benefited from inflation -- boomers who owned homes and the college educated who own assets.

Republicans performed well among the people who were harmed the most by it. Hispanics, and those without college degrees.

Incumbents everywhere, left or right wing, are falling because of inflation.

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Post by benterix »

buckle8017 wrote: post #64
beowulfey wrote: post #49

For those wondering why this exists: many of the pages that were formerly listed on the CDC website have been disappearing, likely in response to recent executive orders, though this has not been made explicit. As an example, I checked the Women's Health page and noticed a lot of removals -- the pages on menstrual health and hygiene ([1] vs [2]), or the page summarizing health disease statistics in women ([3] vs [4])…

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> The Bureaucracy intentionally read the executive order on gender in a broad and absurd way.

I think Trump's biggest stunt is to convince almost half of American voters is that the cause of their financial problems is not the broken system (of financing higher education and healthcare) nor the top rich people who get richer whereas the poor become poorer, but some magic "Bureaucracy" - basically people like you and me, some of which at some point decided to serve their country rather than get a job in private sector for more money.

I saw this rhetoric of common enemy before, but I never believed people would be gullible enough to believe it. (I say this as a person who believes that periodic review and improvement of functioning of all infrastructure is crucial, but the way you do it is decisive.)

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Post by M95D »

aqueueaqueue wrote: post #32
xnx wrote: post #22

Were I rich, I would buy a new tld (.usgov?) where we can recreate all the stuff being destroyed.

It is possible for 1yr TC of many people here. But you need to apply and wait. And the same hostile government, using ICANN, can can your TLD.

Just like browsers can invalidate a root certificate, so can DNS servers replace their root DNS servers, at least for specific TLDs such as this one, thus bypassing ICANN entirely.

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Post by crowselect »

gitaarik wrote: post #102
buckle8017 wrote: post #64

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You said “LBQT focussed articles” when every example in the grandparent comment was about women’s health. So, who benefits from the articles? Well, women for starters.

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Post by nocab »

unification_fan wrote: post #115
AlphaSite wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this is exhaustive and things have expanded since this was published, but this[1] somewhat covers this > CDC webpages currently note that the "CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders." Specifically, the CDC has been purging its website of topics related to diversity, gender identity, and LGBTQ issues. In addition, CDC researchers have been ordered to retract pap…

> pregnant people I'm usually not a bigot but that one is dumb

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

exe34 wrote: post #117
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #33

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Yes, it is. It's also science, and also a good thing , but that doesn't stop it from being politics. > Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. ­— Wikipedia

by that logic absolutely everything about government is politics, and therefore the word is not very useful. why do you keep using it? is it possible you're trying to lean on some implications of using the word but you haven't been brave enough to state them outright?

Most likely that implication was intended. But, because so many things that matter (civil rights, housing policy, free software, criminal sentencing guidelines) are political, I think it's important to push back explicitly against that connotation when it comes up.

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Post by gitaarik »

crowselect wrote: post #124
gitaarik wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You said “LBQT focussed articles” when every example in the grandparent comment was about women’s health. So, who benefits from the articles? Well, women for starters.

Yeah bit they werd removed because they were supposedly written in a LBQT focused way?

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Post by southernplaces7 »

unification_fan wrote: post #115
AlphaSite wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this is exhaustive and things have expanded since this was published, but this[1] somewhat covers this > CDC webpages currently note that the "CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders." Specifically, the CDC has been purging its website of topics related to diversity, gender identity, and LGBTQ issues. In addition, CDC researchers have been ordered to retract pap…

> pregnant people I'm usually not a bigot but that one is dumb

And it's not bigoted to point out a completely absurd phrase.

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Post by wahnfrieden »

Nasrudith wrote: post #114
sepositus wrote: post #48

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Interesting question. Why didn’t America fail right off the bat with this problem? What has changed that this type of behavior is becoming increasingly common?

The gain of cowardice and/or implicit official approval by not reflexively cracking down on them. In the 18th to 19th century American administrations weren't squeamish to outright use the army to gun down riots or insurrections. Influenced perhaps by the very literal "reading of the riot act" as an official threat to shoot entire crowds as an accepted thing. Attempt death threats to public officials then and the onl…

What’s the budget for 24/7 SS coverage of all legislators?
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