Verdant Banana
Still a very green banana.
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Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Rising number of college grads are unemployed, new research showsEnglish127·13 days agoUnited States has been working on getting rid of the middle class long before Trump
Democrats never cared for middle class either and it shows with the stagnated minimum wage
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•US farm economy is starting to see first hits from Trump tariffsEnglish162·30 days agojust have to get use to less dolls
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.English21·1 month agogreat more uppity entitled African Americans because Elon was not enough
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump administration restarts student loan collections for millions in default after years-long pauseEnglish103·1 month agogood luck collecting
minimum wage and other wages stagnated
housing and food costs alone are more than average paychecks
teachers make less than police in most places and other four-year degree jobs are not all high paying or available
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Ex Memphis officer Desmond Mills Jr. testified that he regrets his failure to stop the fatal beating of Tyre NicholsEnglish91·1 month agoTakes a lot of do nothings for fascism to grow
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident in Maricopa CountyEnglish62·1 month agoIn the United States does not happen like CSI on TV
When an officer wants something to be something it is and the judge overseeing the case in court later then agrees that if that is what the officer says it is then that is what it is and no laboratory tests are ever required or needed to confirm
Combined with the use of Terry Stops the United States are a police officers’ oyster
Police officers here also double as medical professionals and their opinions carry the same weight in courts as well documented medical academia would
More like dogs of the elites than public servant peace officers
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•More torrential rain and flash flooding expected in heavily waterlogged South and MidwestEnglish12·2 months agoobviously climate change and weather play a ginormous part in all this but if there were proper drainages shit like kids washing out due to floods would at least be minimized
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•More torrential rain and flash flooding expected in heavily waterlogged South and MidwestEnglish45·2 months agoa lot of it is not the fault of weather but poor infrastructure without proper road drainages for water
water table in the US is low in most places and megacorps drain water resources astronomically
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•'Zero Self-Awareness': Musk Invokes Soros While 'Literally' Bribing People to Vote in WisconsinEnglish1·2 months agoyes two different things that are both required to ensure fascism grows and how Germany did it a century ago
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was transEnglish14·2 months agolike any of the votes ever actually mattered or were really counted
United States has all but said it is all show and both parties treat the elections like some to do party they have every four years
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•'Zero Self-Awareness': Musk Invokes Soros While 'Literally' Bribing People to Vote in WisconsinEnglish216·2 months agoDemocrats got paid over a billion just to lose but hey they are better at disguising their intent so must be a good party
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•'Zero Self-Awareness': Musk Invokes Soros While 'Literally' Bribing People to Vote in WisconsinEnglish315·2 months agoso business as usual for the US since this how all elections work and have been working and will always works until we rise up
what makes what Musk is doing any different
the two party sham has always been bought out and were never the ruling parties in the US just the puppets
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was transEnglish218·2 months agocurrent US administration is the same goddamn administration as the one we had the last four years and the last four years before that
has the minimum wage turned into living wage, or were the jackboots defunded, did we start giving a shit about the planet, did we suddenly give out universal healthcare, did we stop filling up prisons during anyone’s reign as puppet of the united states?
and we still get rid of dissidents in various ways like carting them off to some out of country prison that is an extra awful hell
just because the elites decide the new decorating color is Blue or Red does not mean things are magically going to get better
that takes revolutions
MLK and Malcom X knew this
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive changeEnglish323·3 months ago“They want to know if the people of America are going to stand up to Trumpism, oligarchy,” Sanders said to a cheering crowd.
fuck y’all
been nowhere for decades and country been needing a revolution but just now decide to do something acting like MLK
where was this “energy” a decade ago or two or at any time? Trump is just the latest spokesperson and not the only time we faced shit like this
if another rally is held most likely be in a blue state and odds are these two are just opportunistically cashing out like last time
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump administration considers plan to eliminate CDC's HIV prevention divisionEnglish6·3 months agothe industrial revolution and the corporate takeover thereafter led to an increase in polluted soil, lower air quality
the southern united states fell behind after the civil war having been burned down and was not rebuilt back up fully until the 1950s with deficits still remaining to today
education is still drastically underfunded and the minimum wage along with any wages have stagnated in comparison to the rising food plus housing costs not to mention the rest playing into poorer mental health
one plus one usually equals two and the easiest way to control a population is not fascism but restricting what living things need to grow/thrive
not the citizens fault we were corralled into this toxic environment here much like industrialized farm animals not being at fault but if we do nothing as result then yes we are crazy and no better
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Immigration checkpoints are a way of life in areas within 100 miles from U.S. bordersEnglish6·3 months agoWell before President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown further opened the door for agents and officers to question people about their citizenship and legal status, the Border Patrol had been doing exactly that at checkpoints flanking roadways within the United States.
Finally it is put out in the open that the US has border patrols flanking roadways in the United States
This includes states like Missouri where border patrol troopers will stop you at the borders for being overly tanned and noone is safe
With Terry Stops no probable cause is needed and neither is evidence because whatever the jackboot tells the judge is what happened
Trump might be taking the mask off but the face underneath was always there
Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense websiteEnglish112·3 months agothis is no surprise seeing as our last president was a big supporter of segregation with buses and schools
future US food pantry
States do things?
we are really fucked