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Reminder that many #Disabled people have trouble getting up earlier in the morning, as determined by sunrise and not arbitrary numbers. #DaylightSavingsTime further excludes us from public life by making everything close an hour earlier, on top of further disconnecting everyone from the natural cycles of the world.
"A human is dead!"
A lot of human beings are dead, ones who never harmed anyone, because of the one human being who is now dead. I don't see why I should care.
I don't like it, but that is where we're at.
Just wanted to say, former #FedChairman #JeromePowell is a hero, and I don't think people appreciate his heroism enough.
The job of the #FederalReserve is to prevent bank-runs, #debt crises, and #inflation, by manipulating the money supply, and it's set up the way it is to ensure it's run by calm hands and not panicky #investors and #politicians with ulterior motives. People genuinely do not realize how much it protects us.
Jerome #Powell protected us from #Trump, under threat of violence and the reality legal attacks that are still attempting to put him in prison. #Trump demanded for years that he lower interest rates so he could have a quarter with more spending, which would've sent the #US #economy into long term #HyperInflation, making food and housing way more unaffordable than they are now, and had global ramifications that would last decades.
He protected us from that.
No matter what other disagreements we have with him, we can say for a fact that Jerome Powell did his duty, for the #American people, under threat. And for that, he will always be a hero.
All this furry #art in my feed is such a good palate cleanser between the negative news and politics...
Heard a yell and a clatter, found my mom on the floor.
Everything was fine, but a good reminder not to live alone, or at least not so alone that help won't be finding you soon.
Disclaimer before I write this, I support and have done some campaigning for James Talarico. I also campaigned for Beto O'Rourke.
Just a reminder, as #BetoORourke crawls out of the woodwork give commentary and campaign for people, that he is basically responsible for a lot of the problems that #JamesTalarico is now facing with #SwingVoters in #Texas: the last time #Democrat had this much traction for a #Senate seat, he lost by a slim margin, then less than 2 years later stood on a stage and said "Hell yes, we're going to take your guns!"
For people like me, it seemed like he had had a complete mental breakdown when he realized he couldn't win the presidential primary, as if anyone has ever been entitled to win a presidential primary. For most of Texas, it seemed like outright #corruption, that someone who had almost been a senator was willing to back a no-go position in order to woo a small group of party elite billionaires, against the wishes of the vast majority of his own state, even his own home district.
I agree that it's stupid, but if Texans seem confusingly interested in this bizarre mythology that #Talarico is a "secret vegan", remember that a lot of them are still getting over the time that a Democrat blatantly lied to them about a central policy issue in order to get elected to their senate seat, and a lot of people who actually voted for him feel like they had dodged a bullet when he didn't win. Black voters especially seem to be really hesitant about him, because right now, Democrat leadership is scrambling to throw every marginalized group under the bus: we don't know how hard it will be to get him to even show up for civil rights issues.
So as #DemocratParty leaders sit there scratching their heads as to why no one votes for their candidates, remember, nobody can trust their candidates.
Again, I am saying this as someone who supports Talarico and thinks the country would be much better off with him in the Senate. It is night and day between him and #Paxton, who openly took bribes to dismiss charges against people, and who was recently seen cavorting in Mexico with yet another mistress, all the while running a campaign that is firmly rooted in hatred for minorities. My issue isn't with Talarico here, it's with Beto O'Rourke and the corrupt Democrat Party leadership he represents: they have created an incredibly difficult situation for everyone trying to support #CivilRights and fight conservative #authoritarianism.
Democrat leadership must be removed.
It feels like a scam almost when the #Democrat Party (or the #Republican Party for that matter) send me requests for donations... Like, you don't intend to represent people like me, you intend to represent the #billionaires that are already giving you money to spend against primary challengers who want to represent people like me. Why would I give you this $5??
I'll give it to someone I like who won their primary, likely in a place I have some actual connection to, thanks but no thanks.
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"Because I am not among a group that is a frequent target of abuse, I have the privilege of enjoying the benefits of being on an “open” instance without having to worry about the drawbacks."
But here's the flip side of that, one of the main things that makes people a bit squeamish about this: because you're not a member of a marginalized group, you haven't been on a server that has been brigaded with false reports trying to get the mainstream to block you, and then suddenly find a bunch of other marginalized groups' servers have blocked you without checking up on those reports. This is one of the things we keep seeing between queer fedi and black fedi.
What's to stop a member of one group, bigoted towards another, from getting in here and keeping servers that should be on the list off of it?
It then becomes a question of who will bell the cat: who will take on the responsibility, and thus open themselves up to abuse, of maintaining this?