I found the reason on Wikipedia
“The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder.”
It’s the bird the US leadership most identifies with.
They’re dead serious and doing what they were paid to do.
They weren’t paid to protect you, they weren’t paid to make your life easier, they weren’t paid to represent you at all.
Dee is my national bird.
I think it’s the eyes…
What say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?
i would, but my asshole is in a jar 50 miles away. are you willing to wait?
Both parties are very serious…
…About keeping this economy and system exactly as it is, as they bicker over social wedges that don’t meaningfully impact quarterly earnings expectations.
They’re both paid well by the same oligarchs to do so.
If you wanted to see them scrambling to pass real legislation to protect the government from an incoming administration, you should have elected a leftist. You’d see Democrat and Republican reps holding hands, having sit ins, and desperately chanting we will overcome if an incoming administration was promising to dismantle for profit healthcare, for example.
Don’t worry though, they’d never let that happen. They have all the tools they need to prevent such a disaster as they see it. Their bribes would dry up overnight if they lost control of the narrative and their plebs.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.
Investigating TikTok is money well spent, fuck the CCP.
TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.
It is not unique about either of those.
Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was “we can’t tell you but there’s classified info that means we should ban it.” Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of ‘those dang kids’ being annoying.
TikTok
Is Run
By Dictatorship Military
It’s a weapon that wants to cause permanent irreversible harm to hundreds of millions of people, by design.
Agreed.
They’re also not materially different from Instagram or Youtube. Singling them out as “the problem” is short-sighted at best.
Bet there gong to spend millions to brag about a partisan feel good bill that will distract us from tasty CEO blood.
Wait, I thought this was already the national bird: 🖕
Or was a close call. I heard that were debating changing the national bird to the Hawk Tuah
Ah yes, really focusing on the important shit here. I can see why the US is doing so well.
It is time to dissolve the United States. Once a nation reaches this level of corruption and political dysfunction, it cannot be repaired. Even the nominally liberal party is so utterly corrupted by money that it can no longer keep things from further degrading, let alone actually fix things. We are at our “dissolution of the Soviet Union” moment.
The national government needs to be dissolved in its entirety. Each state needs to be granted full independence. Then individual states can come back together and form whatever new federations or confederations they want.
This nation can no longer be salvaged. It is broken beyond all repair. It’s time we put it out of its misery. The alternative is we limp along as a parody of our former self, like the Roman Empire pretending to still be a Republic.
The United States is already dead. We’re just too afraid to admit it.
Buddy. We are nowhere near where we used to be. We used to call out the soldiers to shoot at striking workers. We used to grow out our hair so we could get paid for voting 3 or 4 times. (Get a shave, get a haircut, lose the mustache and the rest of the hair.) It used to be impossible to convict anyone of killing a black man.
We aren’t anywhere near as bad as things have been in the past.
And the Soviet Union at its collapse wasn’t as bad as the nadirs or tsarist Russia. Just because things were worse 150 years ago doesn’t matter. The problem is the system is now intractably broken and further progress cannot be made.
It’s broken for 4 years at least, sure… But it’s not beyond hope. Did you see share that Luigi guy did the other day? That dude was American, and he’s broken far less laws than our next president.
Our history shows progress can be made because we did it before.
The President has never been above the law in reality. Nixon thought he was, Reagan got away with shit, but they always had the law to obey or face punishments. Trump doesn’t need to worry about anything other than his health or a 3rd shooter.
What do you propose happens to the nuclear weapons? Or the treasures in the Smithsonian? Or the gold in Fort Knox? Or the federal currency that each of these states economies relies on?
The US simply cannot be undone.
Nominally give each new state a proportional share of the weapons. In reality, the states will quickly come back together into one or a handful of new countries. Nuclear weapons are incredibly expensive to maintain. A newly independent North Dakota will not be able to maintain the weapons that are assigned to it. They’ll quickly trade them as bargaining chips in negotiations with some larger state.
It’s important to consider the alternative to dissolution. We are no longer capable of solving real problems. The currency and economy are already doomed, as we’re not going to be able to put our fiscal house in order before the debt collapses everything.
A major economic upheaval is already locked in, assured by our irreparable political system. Better to just admit it now and dissolve the country peacefully. The alternative is we have a series of bloody and ruinous civil wars as states try to break away one by one from the dying empire.
They’ll quickly trade them as bargaining chips in negotiations with some larger state.
Full stop. If part of your solution is selling nuclear weapons to whoever pays the most to cover your bills your plan is already shit.
That’s literally what happened at the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This has been done before.
Which went really well! No complaints! No weapons went missing at all!
Well, we haven’t had any exploded nukes yet, and any lost have expired by now. So I think it went down pretty well actually.
damn we’re edge posting today
Not saying I disagree, but the premise is untenable.
The problem is that the second the federal government fully collapses and states are left on their own, a majority of them will become captured by megacorporations or China. Red states like Mississippi just fail to function on their own, they would require an entity with seriously sizable funding to subsidize them, and the number of entities that can fit that bill is pretty small. Even if these red states band together…they’re the worst states. 5 of them together doesn’t equal the income brought in by places like California or New York, who would perhaps instead enjoy a large surplus of state funding they could make use of and maintain individuality in the face of a corporate dystopia.
They would still be among the wealthier countries on the planet. Mississippi is wealthier than the UK outside of London. They’ll manage just fine. As far as corporate corruption, well they can be responsible for their own sins.
Represented with great honor in this new legislation is the humble American crow – the true reflection of our nation’s soul. For what is the bald eagle but a symbol of outdated pomp and a government that’s too busy patting itself on the back? The bald eagle, after all, has been perched atop its perch since 1782 – a symbol of a country that’s more concerned with conserving its own status than doing anything to actually improve itself.
Meanwhile, the American crow is out here living its best life. It’s always scheming, always scrounging for scraps in the garbage of society. It’s a bird of the people – and by people, I mean those of us who are still trying to make ends meet while the fat cats at the top continue to feast on the nation’s wealth.
It’s also a symbol of our nation’s laziness. The bald eagle may be proud of its slow, majestic flight, but we’re more proud of being able to do absolutely nothing for hours on end without any consequences. We’re a country that can’t even be bothered to show up to its own problems – and the American crow is the perfect representation of that.
Furthermore, have you seen the state of our national parks? A bunch of underfunded, neglected monstrosities that are more like a symbol of our own institutionalized apathy than anything we’d want to attract. It’s like the bald eagle is just trying to pretend we’re better than we are.
Meanwhile, the American crow is out here building its own infrastructure – a nest made of whatever it can scrounge up, with twigs and trash and other people’s detritus. That’s the American way – we don’t need no fancy-schmancy ‘bald eagle’ perched on some government-mandated pedestal; we’ve got our American crow, proudly wallowing in its own mediocrity.
So let’s be real, folks – the next time you see an American crow, that’s what we’re really looking at. That’s what we are as a country: lazy, corrupt, and proud of it.
Wasn’t the bald eagle already the US’s national bird?
If only someone had bothered to research this and write it up in a clear, easy to read fashion. Oh, there’s a link along with this post!
If you’re thinking to yourself, “Gosh, I thought the bald eagle was already the United States national bird,” welcome to the club.
This timeline is suck.
they finally changing it from the turkey?
Doesn’t seem very fitting. Maybe pick one of those birds that eat eggs from other species, replaces with their own and then their babies destroy the other eggs.
maybe I’m out of the loop, but when did people start using “unserious”?
i mean, less than ideal time, but this was a long time coming, you should look into the laws surrounding bald eagles, one of the most protected species in the US lol.
Biden could protest this nothing bill by refusing to sign it or veto it.
Worst case, he leaves a bit of extra paperwork for Trump.Edit: some context
President has 10 days to sign or veto. If 10 days pass, the bill will become a law if Congress is in session. The bill will die if it is in recess.
Remember, this was a serious contender for president to the media, while they blacked out Bernie.
She’s still better than what we got with Biden.
She’s younger, a woman, and probably would have pushed for protecting abortion and maternity leave.
That specific example means jack shit with the even split senate and stacked SCOTUS, though.
Not to mention a whole bunch of other progressive positions that Biden doesn’t share.
You got downvoted, I got upvoted, despite us both saying the same idea. Lemmy just hates when someone lightly calls out Biden.
Snow woman
yass queen
