Generally find PBS (News Hour) to be a good source overall. The Guardian’s coverage of the US is generally decent. Others include ProPublica, The Intercept and some of NPRs reporting (it’s gotten v corpo friendly but some good content remains). Al Jazeera can have good framing of what the US looks like from the outside.
Have taken issue with most of these on occasion and it’s difficult to keep up with each of their politics. Would love to see other suggestions.
And they’re undoubtably confident a taxpayer bailout would fill any loss that might occur. And it’s unfortunately a solid bet.
This can never be mentioned enough. Change won’t happen in the party until the members can’t be bought.
I hadn’t watched the segment since it aired and… you’re right. Thanks!
Everyone should watch John Oliver’s Chocolate episode (as much as is preferred not to link YouTube). Tony’s is discussed, and it seems more ethical than most. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8
Edit: updated comment to better reflect coverage.
Don’t underestimate the number of idiots that will vote to inflict pain on everyone. Fight it, if you can. Signed, a population learning the hard way.
It really was not much effort. And since we’re all sharing anecdotal perspectives, I saw news about this weeks ago on here on lemmy, heard other people participating irl and find encouragement in tangible activities that could make a real impact over time. There are so few (by design) to begin with. Enough hate, if you have another idea consider yourself encouraged to go out and do a thing you find more meaningful. Otherwise, you’re just contributing to the problem at hand.
That misses the point. Directional support is all that’s needed here as a start.
As someone said in a different thread, it’s a first step in gauging support for a broader effort. It gives a sense of how effective getting the message out is, and how many people join on.
And here’s how and why it will be enshitified:
High speed rail is amazing! Let’s do it
His pic there reminds of this fun site: https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/
Or another way, the process is the point
It’s for control. Same reason companies support administrating health insurance. It’s massively complicated and expensive but it enables control over the workforce.
And… it’s the physical manifestation of the hierarchy supporting exec and investor ‘king’ egos over their proverbial kingdom.
Most execs are also extroverts and run their businesses through personal relationships and experiences. And of course, the company pays for their commutes, housing, meals, and all the other reasons you and others have posted about. It’s advantageous, for them.
That Dems are more opposed to supporting an actual progressive candidate than they are to the current administration (if we can still call it that) is very telling.
The right had a vision, a story (a dark one but nonetheless). The dems platformed on nothing in particular. Obama won overwhelmingly on Hope and Change (only to squander much of it trying to cross the aisle). Having a vision makes all the difference.