WHARRGARBL

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[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks! It sounds like “liberal” in this thread is what I’ve always called neoliberal, and “leftist” is what’s known as democratic socialism?

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Curious comment, so I looked at Wikipedia’s Liberalism in the United States. Still not sure what you’re suggesting.

Could you elaborate?

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

IIRC, he was caught withholding congressionally allocated money from Ukraine in order to extort them into an investigation on Hunter Biden, in the hope it would impact the 2020 election. And I don’t recall any repercussions.

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Beginning retroactively with the 2021 heat wave that killed 1400 people in the Pacific Northwest:

The Shell Oil Heat Dome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Arctic_drilling_protests

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

While it’s infuriating to see millions of people denying the existence of climate change, formerly known as global warming, the fact is that we are in the 6th mass extinction, a truth that billions of people from all ideologies are afraid to face.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

What are you on about? No, if you read the article you can see this is about food grown in the UK, meaning the United Kingdom. This has nothing to do with Ukraine.

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

It’s been a weird but ok week. I must be out of the loop, because wefwef seems to have no UI?

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

Isn’t it curious how this headline implies an entirely different narrative than the actual story?

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah that extra loan hurts. Good thing you have your Super Special Boomer Advantage wealth socked away for vacations and retirement!

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Same with us - a mortgage was cheaper than renting what was available. If it wasn’t for a “zero down” VA loan and crazy low interest rates, we wouldn’t have been able to buy.

It’s horrible to see millions of younger adults hemorrhaging money on rent because they don’t have 20% to put on an overpriced house, but as you stated, that isn’t due to the year someone was born; it’s because the rich are kicking us down.

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Is there anything that's more obviously a "divide and conquer" tactic than all this unhinged generational bullshit?

It’s insane but effective. A friend who is 25 years younger than me angrily called me a Boomer because my husband and I bought a house in 2020, which means we had advantages that he didn’t get.

It was our first house, in rough shape, and it was through a VA loan. Every repair was DIY. Meanwhile, the guy who called me a Boomer inherited his house and massive acreage. Also, unlike that guy, we’re pro-union, politically active environmentalists who vote for progressive candidates. Just an absolute wtf moment.

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From the article, bruh:

“This is a highly fatal and contagious disease that humans created” (said Rowledge).

“Chronic wasting disease first erupted at an experimental agricultural station in Colorado in 1967 where scientists were conducting feeding experiments on captive deer. Sheep infected with scrapie, another prion disease, served as the control group.”

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