• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The thing is that a lot of libs would probably support privatization of the postal system. I’ve heard them respond to its privatization with “oh. Well that’s not a problem because Amazon can easily do everything they do”

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      I’ve heard them respond to its privatization with “oh. Well that’s not a problem because Amazon can easily do everything they do”

      Fuuuuck. Just reading that pulled me from one coast to the other and for a moment I feel surrounded by smug techbro fucks all over again. They’re the same ones that said they’d be pleased if the public libraries all went away because le Amazon is like a library but better.

      libbing-out libbing-out libbing-out debord-tired libbing-out libbing-out libbing-out

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHERE THE HELL WILL I SIT WHEN I EAT MY FAMOUS BOWL?

    (guy who thinks Kamala is going to remove all KFC chairs)

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    One thing I’m tired of hearing from liberal apologists is “We don’t know how she’ll govern” or retreating to “well the Walz pick says a lot.” Her and Walz have said they’re going to support Isreal. And now she’s saying this which 100% aligns with her business friendly record. We know exactly what she’s going to do.

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    Already started putting my clown make up on as Walz bumbled his way through the politics of joy pablum at the debate.

    I guess Bidenomics isn’t the new party orthodoxy, but was in part Biden’s personal concessions to “the Left” --explains why Bernie and AOC went to bat for him, even as he turned into the living dead in real time.

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    To be fully transparent, the next paragraph says her team disputes that characterization.

    But I remember similar articles before Obamacare was passed talking about how the admin had started assuring private insurance that there would be no public option in the final bill.

    And lo and behold, we know what happened there.

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    Going to start telling liberals I’m a single issue voter but in regards to the post office. They get my vote only after they shitcan DeJoy and fund it properly. We all know this will never happen, so I’m safely allowed to not vote for Democrats for the foreseeable future.

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      Going to start telling liberals I’m a single issue voter but in regards to the post office. They get my vote only after they shitcan DeJoy and fund it properly.

      That was so Jokerfying to me to see that piece of shit deliberately sabotage a part of government that is actually cool and good all to try to maintain the trump-moist regime with ratfucking, and even after that regime (temporarily?) ended, the piece of shit was still there. jokerfied

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        all to try to maintain the trump-moist regime

        Congress has been inching towards postal privatization for a while. Bush put the insane rules for bankrolling retirement benefits fifty years in advance into effect in order to back door defund them. Reagan capped the rate at which they could raise postal rates to prevent competition with UPS or FedEx. I’m sure Nixon did some shit, too.

        It’s been an office under siege for decades.