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The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 3 days ago

Nixon signed created the Environmental Protection Agency and signed all kinds of environmental acts. How far the GOP has fallen. Lost the plot.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

and he was a particular bad one of the time.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

An angry, resentful man. At least that's consistent.

[-] dinren@discuss.online 25 points 3 days ago

To the person on here who mocked me for saying he would do this, ha ha ha, I was right, bitch.

[-] eecobb@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago
[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Who said that? They always do this

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

It's a shame, but I'm not wasting my energy giving a shit when the Americans themselves are meekly bending over and taking it.

[-] CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

I'm just struggling to survive emotionally and financially while my country burns. I can barely keep up with the firehose of shit, much less do anything about it. And you know, the No Kings protests were the largest in U.S history so that should count for something. We're not meekly taking it, the midterms will be a very strong repudiation of this regime. They never had a mandate.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anyone struggling to survive has even less of an excuse than those who are living comfortably.

The No Kings protests were the largest in US history so that should count for something.

This is the most US liberal nonsense. Protests are not an end in themselves. The No Kings protests accomplished nothing and counted for fuck all- their only effect was to illustrate how little a threat the opposition is.

You are meekly taking it and getting defensive about it.

the midterms will be a very strong repudiation of this regime

I couldn’t write a funnier parody of the Democratic Party than this

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That assumes that Trump doesn't invoke Martial Law and suspend elections.

You know, that thing that the GOP screamed Obama would do. They're known for massive amounts of projection, after all.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago

I'm tired of this take. Me and everyone I know are out there in the ways we can be. I've had my life threatened, some of my friends have PTSD from the stuff they've been in. We're finally starting to get popular support and the response is always "well the masses aren't doing enough" fuck fam were trying, were out there, and doom and gloom asshats thinking they're better than us are just part of the problem

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Not only are you not doing enough, you're self-satisfied about it.

[-] Bonifratz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Which country are you from, if I may ask?

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Def rag on the USA cuz USA is sucking hard rn, please

Small introspection might be worth considering on this 1:1 comment here

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

The USA is exactly where the rest of us told you you were headed for decades.

[-] stickly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Pretty obvious you have no fucking clue how the American political system works or any idea what daily life is like.

Half of Americans have less than $500 in savings and something like 30-40% have insecure housing. There's no social safety net if you lose your job; political activism can easily spiral you (and any dependants) to an early grave. Transportation is incredibly expensive in both time and money, just getting to an urban area for a critical mass movement is quite literally more than people can do.

So that's how you end up with one of the top 2-3 largest protests in US history being on a weekend and distributed over thousands of cities. And you're right, concentrating that in Washington DC would be much more impactful. But is it reasonable to expect people to give up their livelihood and stop supporting their family to do that? To throw away everything they have in their lives just by trying?

If you think the answer is yes, that's perfectly valid. But consider this: if you live in a major city in Central America or western Europe or Canada you could get to DC easier and faster (and possibly cheaper) than the majority of people in the US. Why aren't you on a plane right now? Oh right, because you're exactly like your American strawman: you don't give a shit about stopping fascism.

[-] match@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

They're gonna burn the world to the ground, your stand for that?

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