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No one is shocked by this. The conservative politicians knew what the outcome would be and the people who voted for them aren't hearing about this inside their echo chambers.

I expect that, if more conservative voters actually heard about women actually dying from these bans, some of the more moderate ones would switch sides on the issue. They're not hearing about it, though. I brought it up with an anti-abortion family member and they hadn't heard anything about the deaths attributable to abortion bans.

Actually, an example of this just popped up. This article states that Trump admitted to stiffing his employees by not paying overtime. If you listen to the video at the bottom, though, he said that he hates paying overtime and would "get different people in".

He didn't require people to work, then fail to pay them overtime. He would send the workers home and bring in a new shift.

I wouldn't call that stiffing his employees. I wouldn't even call that controversial. This article twists Trump's words to make up a story about him rather than focus on the very real threat that he poses. It dilutes the negative press against him and makes it look like the left are liars, just out to get Trump.

This kind of journalism needs to die. Trump is an awful human being and says plenty of awful stuff. We don't need to bend the truth or lie about him. We just need to report the actual shitty stiff he says.

I don't have anything at my fingertips. I thought I had some comments on articles that bothered me in that way, but maybe I never finished those comments. I had problems with lemmy not letting me post with my vpn turned on...

I've had several times recently where I felt that an article was making a mountain of a mole hill to make Trump look worse. I wrote, but apparently didn't post, comments saying, effectively, "Trump makes himself look bad enough without exaggerating or lying. Tell the truth about what he says and he looks like a fascist maniac. Exaggerate and you make people wonder if you're always stretching the truth.

Normally when I see a headline like this it is taking Trump out of context or giving a very uncharitable take on what he said. Every once in a while, though, what he said is truly as ad as the headline makes it sound. This is one of those times.

He is literally calling for either The Purge or Kristallnacht! This man is calling for mass murder as a way to solve crime.

Why do they say "could" at this point? The operative word here is "will". Using "could" downplay the severity of this and, even if only slightly, lowers the likelihood that people who are in danger will evacuate. Using "could" is irresponsible at this point.

Can you recommend some models to try?

How about we steer toward better data privacy in general? Cars are collecting way too much data about us? So is everything else! We need sweeping legislation to claw back our privacy. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to privacy.

It's pretty amazing to me that a company hasanagednto become so reviled that Walmart is the better and more ethical option.

For profit prisons need to be made unconstitutional. If someone is dangerous enough to be in prison, that cost should be borne by the state/federal government. This would reduce the incentive to keep people in prison and would likely lead to some justice system reform.

The fact that prisons literally profit off of the work of their inmates means the prisons have every incentive to tarnish their I mate's records to keep them in prison as long as possible. This system is also as ripe as can be for corruption.

I actually didn't realize that. Thanks!

Wait... Who is the socialist candidate?

This has nothing to do with scared students. This is the result of rhetoric from Trump and Vance about the large Haitian population in Springfield. Violent right-wingers are acting upon their dear leader's words.