• diskmaster23@lemmy.one
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        5 months ago

        And that’s why there is a portion of people who dislike Harris; they dislike anything.

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          5 months ago

          No they dislike anything that sounds reasonable, logical and rational. Or they don’t like anybody who comes up with ideas that would take them 50 years to come up with. Everyone wants solutions now, not whenever you’ll get to it.

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            5 months ago

            Harris will be painted as socialist/communist. It will be interesting to see how much stigma those labels still carry.

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                5 months ago

                I mean it would be funny to turn the tables on their nationalist rhetoric by noting the USSR wasted a lot of resources on border security and stupid walls. We’ve gone from a country that celebrates walls coming down to a country that will never be satisfied with the worlds largest contiguous wall.

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            5 months ago

            I feel like that happens no matter what? Doesn’t make it right. Like, we install dictators all the time that commit genocide.

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          5 months ago

          I mean you can drop the sarcasm indicator and actually be correct. Every single state has price gouging laws already. However, I know Republicans will now act like it’s a terrible “communist” plan just to obstruct it.

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      5 months ago

      It’s supposed to be, but laws generally only kick in if there’s an emergency like an earthquake or hurricane.

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          5 months ago

          Yup and the argument over if it qualifies or if they were doing it at the time is for the lawyers.

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              5 months ago

              Right? My favorite. It’s not really something that’s enforceable on that level though. It would be easier to bring prices down by breaking up these large companies. And if that fails, just start a government grocery store that opens up in food deserts first, then in high cost of living areas. See what happens to prices when they need to justify people going there instead of the government store.

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                5 months ago

                Depending on how the recenr precedent curtailing the agency of government agencies holds up, teams of lawyers presenting teams of scientists to judges with political agendas may become the norm.

                Legally, criminalizing systemic food waste would be a good step.