General Politics Three: But what is left/right?

[Lexicus]

They did it again?

Same bill, this time the governor signed it into actual law. I have to keep driving home the point because certain posters believe the GOP is pro-worker

 

[Arakhor]

I still don't get  why they're doing this. This is just dicking over the common man for no apparent reason.

 

[Lexicus]

I still don't get  why they're doing this. This is just dicking over the common man for no apparent reason.

No but seriously, let's ask this guy, maybe he can explain:

Everything I see is worse when [the Republicans] aren't in power, regardless of whatever the **** it is I read online about it being not so.

 

[Farm Boy]

So now is the time to call for a Florida statewide heat standard. Which would make sense. I got bussed around the state to thin and pollinate corn. It was hot as balls. Would have triggered whatever regulations piecemeal all around. The fight was always with town kids that wouldn't gorge themselves on fluids during the breaks and then would stroke out on the far side of a mile long field. Roofing looks worse. Anywhere with lots of migrants not in work permits always works worse. Like with those trafficked humans weed greenhouses you linked.

If there is a sort of humor in this it is sort of that Democrats don't destroy workers like Republicans do, they just destroy the work.

 

[Senethro]

If there is a sort of humor in this it is sort of that Democrats don't destroy workers like Republicans do, they just destroy the work.

What does this mean?

 

[Farm Boy]

Real results. California tinkers with the regulations for amtrack cars, and the manufacturing company in Illinois adapts its designs and line. Then it's tinkered with again, then the Illinois company shifted shutters and a California company snaps up the contract. Tinkering suddenly slows. It's how the machine works.

 

[EnglishEdward]

What does this mean?

I think the logic is that:

Republicans send workers out in the noon day sun where they expire of heat stroke or skin cancer.

Democrats impose so many regulations the work becomes uneconomic in the USA and goes abroad.

 

[Farm Boy]

That too(it's a bit different than economic capture), or for stuff like outside work, it just gets done illegally by those not correctly regulated to work. Like the system assumes it's going to work. Like it's correcting itself towards working so again.

 

[Gorbles]

If there is a sort of humor in this it is sort of that Democrats don't destroy workers like Republicans do, they just destroy the work.

It's nice to see what whatever anyone ever raises about the Republicans, the Democrats are magically, absent of evidence, just worse. Trust me. That's a positive metric.

Problem is, everyone likes to say "trust me". Evidence for one and not the other (and assuming the Republicans don't play crappy games with work contracts - see Musk and Texas) is just funny. But rational, of course. Fair. It has to be. Can't be bias.

 

[Farm Boy]

They're not always worse, lol.

A balance of evils does not speak to the purity of things.

 

[Gorbles]

The words were "everything I see". Kind of a totality, unless everybody's on board with inventing new definitions for "all-seeing".

The irony is, a lot of whom you disagree with wouldn't disagree with a balance of evils. Just the balance of it.

 

[Farm Boy]

Of course there is bias. I watched the train manufacturing thing happen. I work outside jobs and have for a long time. All sorts of bias in this current exchange. But it's not magic, the devil is just in the details.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

India heads to the polls in world’s biggest election​

Yet Modi and his party have been buoyed by levels of popularity not seen in decades. According to 2023 Pew research, about eight-in-ten Indian adults have a favorable view of the prime minister.


Since coming to power in 2014, Modi has overseen massive infrastructure spending, building highways, power plants and maritime projects, as well as subsidizing the construction of millions of concrete homes for improvised families.

“The BJP has developed the country significantly in the past ten years. Corruption and crime has decreased drastically. What more can we ask for?” Aditya Garg, 29, told CNN from a voting station in Muzaffarnagar, in Uttar Pradesh.


Under Modi’s leadership, the country of 1.4 billion people has become the world’s fastest-growing major economy and a modern global power.

Among the most politically important states is Uttar Pradesh, home to 240 million people who vote in all seven phases. India’s largest state is a crucial battleground with 80 seats in the Lok Sabha up for grabs.

Home to the iconic Taj Mahal and India’s holiest city, Modi’s constituency of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh is also one of the country’s poorest. And while some 38 million Muslims call Uttar Pradesh home, it is considered the BJP’s Hindu heartland and growing increasingly divided along lines of class, caste and religion.

Aqdas Siddiqui, 26, is a businessman voting in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar. He says though he’s a Muslim, he’ll vote for the BJP.

“They’ve brought in a lot of welfare schemes for the poor and Muslims are the biggest beneficiary. The government has also cut red tape and the country has become more business-friendly,” he said.

However, many Muslims CNN spoke to said that they can longer accept being marginalized by the current government and voted for the opposition.

“A country is like a family, it can only develop if the head of the family treats everyone equally and doesn’t discriminate,” said Mehtab Ali, 54.

 

[Lexicus]

“The BJP has developed the country significantly in the past ten years. Corruption and crime has decreased drastically. What more can we ask for?” Aditya Garg, 29, told CNN from a voting station in Muzaffarnagar, in Uttar Pradesh.

Somehow makes me feel a little better knowing there are people in other countries who are as dumb as e.g. the Latinos voting for Trump

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Somehow makes me feel a little better knowing there are people in other countries who are as dumb as e.g. the Latinos voting for Trump

Not really the same. Unlike their rivals, the BJP actually does stuff. The Congress Party, their main rival, has a reputation of decades of utterly inept rule, while the BJP's rule has seen the Smart Cities project, major welfare programs, a space program that can vie with China and Europe, etc.

Think of Modi as a Trump who (in an alternative universe), his demagoguery aside, actually walks his talk while the Democrats just bleat about Supreme Court decisions.

 

[Lexicus]

Not really the same. Unlike their rivals, the BJP actually does stuff. The Congress Party, their main rival, has a reputation of decades of utterly inept rule, while the BJP's rule has seen the Smart Cities project, major welfare programs, a space program that can vie with China and Europe, etc.

Think of Modi as a Trump who (in an alternative universe), his demagoguery aside, actually walks his talk while the Democrats just bleat about Supreme Court decisions.

The BJP's attitude toward Muslims is basically genocidal, whatever else they've done. If the BJP is more generally competent than Trump, it can also be said that under Trump there weren't actual state-sponsored pogroms as there have been in India. It's also no coincidence that BJP supporters have been some of the biggest fans of Israel's genocide...

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1781479225209291113

I believe the US should be divested of their nukes to keep them away from the hands of these religious nuts

 

[Farm Boy]

The secular nuts are even worse.

 

[Gori the Grey]

What's the "Biblical admonition to stand with Israel?"

 

[Broken_Erika]

And what is "Zombie Deer" disease?