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Comment Re: Don't jump to conclusions (Score 2) 95

It isn't "bad mouthing" an ideology to clearly indicate the consistent ideological association of that ideology with state-sponsored genocide.

That's kind of a big thing.

"Cancer is the rapid growth of cells, just like when you're young and growing strong!" is how most advocates paint socialism. It's dishonest.

Comment Re: Don't jump to conclusions (Score 1) 95

Truth has a well-known left bias.

A common lie told by the indoctrinated, to justify their shitty behavior. When no other opinion is valid, you can reduce people to subhuman status and treat them accordingly.

You're just mad that OP is generally correct, and instead of responding with anything that resembled a coherent well thought out reply that supported your opinion you just shouted "NAAAAH AAAAAAAAAH" and confidently hit submit.

Absolutely! He’s simply incoherent and angry! I am sure you’ll forgive me for repeating myself, so here, again, is definitive proof that the Truth has a well-known left bias. It’s a Biden-era fact check guide that was carefully constructed by the finest left wing minds to debunk far right media:

* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particularly insightful article about this.)
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California

Now, also, we must be very careful. These far right folks are sneaky. I’ve seen misinformation from far right folks that classically liberal right leaning ideals like blind justice, free speech, decentralized governance, property rights, capitalism, free agency, rule of law, empiricism, falsifiability, judgement by merit, and the sanctity of individual life are NOT actually causes of fascist bigotry, but are empirically proven necessary for a flourishing humane government. Do NOT listen to them! Reality has a left wing bias!

Submission + - Trump admin announces $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new large nuclear reactors (apnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright and other officials said Tuesday.

“This is the start,” Wright said on a call with reporters. “We’re going to move with the players that are ready to stand up and move quickly. Once that supply chain is up and running, do we think there will be dozens of these built going forward? I’d be very surprised if there were not.”

Most U.S. nuclear power plants were built between 1970 and 1990. Only two new large reactors have been built from scratch in the United States in recent decades. Those two reactors, at Georgia Power Co.’s Plant Vogtle, were completed years late and billions of dollars over budget. The 10 new reactors will use the same design, Westinghouse’s AP1000.

Wright said the Plant Vogtle project struggled because of bad planning, supply chain problems and the COVID-19 pandemic. But, he said, the reactor design is “robust and sound.”

Submission + - Walmart's first nuclear deal shows demand beyond AI data centers (msn.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Walmart is signing a long-term contract to buy nuclear power for the first time ever, a promising sign that the industry’s future is supported by more than just the AI data center boom.

The retail giant agreed on Tuesday to buy power from a nuclear plant in Illinois owned by Constellation Energy for its operations in the area, including its stores and a high-tech warehouse in Illinois that stores and sorts perishable food.

Walmart will buy 176 megawatts of power from the plant over a 15-year period, or enough power to serve around 150,000 homes.

The Walmart deal will allow Constellation to expand the capacity of the Illinois plant by 30 megawatts, a process known as an uprate, which can involve replacing older equipment and improving efficiency.

Walmart, which has pledged to eliminate net carbon emissions from its U.S. operations by 2040, will also receive the environmental attributes associated with the nuclear energy, which generates electricity without carbon emissions.

Comment Re:Don't jump to conclusions (Score 1) 95

Take your blinders off. Stop obsessing with “cope”, “X”, “Russia”, “republicans”, “democrats”, and “Reddit” - do your own research. All of the items I listed are easily proven false. Understanding this is key to making the world a better place. Here’s just a small sample of what’s actually true:

Gallup shows that approximately 75-80 percent of Black Americans actually support Voter ID, support school choice, and oppose defunding their local police.

And Black American Mississippi fourth graders are more than twice as likely as their California counterparts to be reading proficient. Also, per https://oxfordeagle.com/2025/0... :

“Notably, African American, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged Mississippi 4th graders outperform their peers nationally. African American students rank No. 3 in the nation for reading and math scores, Hispanic students rank No. 1 for reading and No. 2 for math, and economically disadvantaged fourth graders rank No. 1 in reading and No. 2 for math.”

Comment Re:Before someone says it (Score 1) 106

It's not just the right, it's also the left. Remember Russiagate? That went as far as being published by the NY Times

Are we talking about the same New York Times that got a medal from Castro for helping him take over Cuba?

Yes. And they got a Pulitzer for hiding the Holodomor.

It’s a hundred year pattern. The NYT was also pretty happy early on with Lenin, Trotsky, Mussolini, Stalin, Spanish Republicans, Mao, Ho Chin Min, Pol Pot (!), Khomenei, Ortega, Chavez, and Putin. Give the NYT a leftist narrative and odds are high that it’ll glaze it.

They’re the “paper of record” after all.

Comment Re:Not a good idea (Score 1) 106

I could be persuaded to your line of thinking but it's easy for me as someone that doesn't do social media, unless you count /. of course.

I think a lot of people would be rather upset with that outcome and would definitely push back on the idea.

It's not that your outline for how social media should work is bad (I think it's good actually) but given how society is already structured, it will be difficult to change this. Maybe all the lawsuits happening will help. We might get a tiny bit of what you suggest, though I don't see ads ever going away (which sucks, I hate them).

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 175

That use to be true but now it requires two incomes where as 50 years ago, it required one income. This is not isolated to just USA either.

Also, depending on how you prioritize your earnings from your 8 hour a day job, of course you will have enough to cover food. Possibly not a car or vacations or anything that makes life actual worth living but that's up to how you prioritize your earnings.

I know if you work any kind of job that's bring down less then the average, you are asking for economic hardship by adding kids to the equation. Sad but that's where we are.

Europe doesn't have ANY of those problems though, right? Y'all have affordable housing, free childcare, free food, free education (though I don't see WHY people come to USA university if your Euro colleges are free). Did I miss anything or is that stuff not actually free their either?

Comment Re:Don't jump to conclusions (Score -1, Troll) 95

Truth has a well-known left bias.

Exactly right brother! Need proof? Just take a look at these Biden era left-approved fact checks:

* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particular insightful article about this.)
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California.

Brilliant!

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 175

The only "voting" that happens in a union is when they present you with the contract that they negotiated on your behalf. The union will literally tell the workers, "Okay, this is a good deal and we should accept it." Most people will blindly do whatever the union suggest. My favorite part of the contract negotiations is how both sides try so hard to look like they are "winning" when anyone with half a clue realized that 99% of that contract is already figured out and we're really just posturing to look good to the shareholders and the union members.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of industries do well with a union. I know my union job is definitely better then the exact same job that is not union, though not by a great deal.

The real job of the union leadership is to continue to provide income for union leadership. Ideally, this lines up with providing the best deal they can get for their members, but not necessarily. If an okay deal is all they can muster, that's still better for union leadership then no deal at all.

I still ultimately think union membership is an overall good thing but there are of course pluses and minuses. They are good for worker class jobs but actual professional middle class jobs, I don't know that I would agree. Then again, nurses seem to be doing just fine, so maybe they are good for "real" jobs as well.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 175

If this is all the Republicans fault, then why didn't the fucking Democrats handle shit when they had the necessary majorities to pass stuff? It's a serious question. If team blue is so fucking noble, then why haven't they setup paradise where they have super-majorities?

Turns out, politicians don't actually give a fuck about the people. What they say is absolutely irrelevant when after all these years, they are still promising to fix the same problems we had decades ago.

But yes, it's ALL the Republicans fault. Keep letting them divide you and pitting you against your neighbor. New flash, you have more in common with a typical Republican then you ever will with the politicians you vote for.

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