• angband@lemmy.world
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    And with climate change, it could possibly spread further north than it used to, before it was eradicated in the US.

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    ‘Murica got exactly what’ Murica deserved

    There are awful, powerful people in the background pulling the levers of power, but this isn’t new

    It has always been fucked. It wasn’t founded on the ideals of freedom or anything noble

    It was stolen, then built with slavery, and that slavery was just rebranded as capitalism so white people would buy into it, so long as they still felt superior to everyone else

    The cruelty and greed have always been the defining characteristics

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    Daily reminder that the US government is a doomsday cult. This is is by design.

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    In fairness they’ve been spreading Northward yearly for several years, we knew they were coming and eradication efforts have been underway for a while to try to blunt it. But, with the idiots currently in charge, just assume those efforts have been botched until proven otherwise.

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      the eradication program ended in 22-23, they were making headway ever since. likely it wouldve been restored under harris, A GOP wh will never restore something like this. they always end using budget cuts to fund TAX CUTS.

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        At no point did the eradication program end. In 23-24 Biden’s USDA quadrupled funding to the Panama facility producing sterile flies. The facility had been underfunded for years (/wave Trump1) and at some point during Covid lost contain of the Darian Gap, officially reaching “we fucked up” thresholds in 2022.

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      We do a fair job at banning some of their people too

      I like seeing local losers pay for tickets to the speaking event of some utter cunt who will be refused a visa, and then the pathetic losers whine about losing their money

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          I live in what is considered “regional” Australia

          The inbred hicks who think that sharing a name with a coloniser who died a hundred years ago is a flex resent it when they’re shown up as simple, unworldly people

          They resent the stereotypes, but they go out of their way to reinforce all of the worst of them

          Luckily, they’re not Queenslanders, or Territorians, so it could be worse

          I still have say that I live in paradise, but I choose my company

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    Well don’t worry, this administration has a tried and true solution. If you stop checking for screwworm, it’s not there.

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    Conservatives only know how to do one thing while governing which is to close their eyes, turn off their headlights, press the gas pedal and dare the road to swerve as they hurtle ahead into the darkness with no clue what is going to happen.

    Ironic we call them “conservatives”.

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      The only thing “conservatives” ever conserve, ever have conserved, or ever even intended to conserve, is hierarchical power. Conservatism only happens to line up with “preserving that which currently exists” in the sense that, when conservatism was initially developed, the system that currently existed was monarchy.

      Make no mistake: under any system but monarchy/dictatorship, “conservatives’” single purpose will always be to transform it into monarchy/dictatorship as switftly, radically, and even recklessly as they can possibly manage.

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        It’s mind boggling how many people don’t know the origins of modern conservatism. The nobles that escaped having their heads chopped off with the king in France formed a political party to conserve the old hierarchical system to retain control of the country. From the start they are only motivated by power. If you ever wondered why they don’t really have any values or moral compass, that is the answer.

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      They’re called conservatives because they should all be in conservatorships. That being the case, I think they should be called asylumists.