• vortic@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Why does everything that comes from this administration have to be the worst possible decision for any given situation? They’re so dumb, you’d think they’d stumble into a good thing every once in a while.

    Fuck these malicious assholes!

    • monotremata@lemmy.ca
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      44 seconds ago

      They do very occasionally blunder into something that has merits. Like, they rescheduled marijuana, and they’re fast-tracking research on therapeutic psilocybin and MDMA. Those are positive things, broadly speaking. Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.

      I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head, but part of that is probably availability bias: the vaguely positive stuff that they do is a lot less emotionally charged, and therefore less memorable, than the wildly awful stuff they also constantly do.

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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      51 minutes ago

      Because there’s big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.