Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego GarcíaChris Stein (The Guardian)
OK so who should I have voted for? How do you know that I would vote for the person you demand?
Why should I give my vote to a party that doesn't seek it?
I'm not suggesting you vote either way, just that its really lame to feel superior for not participating in the process.
I've been voting since 1977, and I've NEVER voted for a presidential candidate I've actually liked. It's ALWAYS the lesser of two evils. Thats just the way it is, so grow up and accept it.
When did I ever say I was superior to anybody? I simply said that I refuse to cast a vote for either of these two criminal parties. In my lifetime they haven't accomplished anything for the public good and have stopped even pretending that they will.
The only peaceful way to change these parties is for a majority of people to stop voting. We're getting closer!
Yeah, the Ostrich Strategy. Everybody should just check out, bury their heads in the sand, and let the criminals have their way. That'll show'em. Can't see anything going wrong with that strategy.
And superior acting people never think they're acting superior, they just think they ARE superior.
Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump
Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump
Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.Bernard Condon (AP News)
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It’s not fucking “strange”.
It’s Canada, Japan, the EU, and our other former allies retaliating against the US trying to use absolutely asinine and ham-fisted tariffs as a cash grab/shakedown by engaging in strategic retaliatory fiscal policy.
This is actual 4D geoeconomic chess. Because if orangeboi doesn’t listen and they keep going, the USD standard goes away.
I mean it IS retaliation though. It’s retaliation for thinking absurd tariffs are a great idea to apply to one’s allies.
And please do note that some particular countries who were until very recently considered geopolitical adversaries by our government (Russia; Belarus) are NOT targeted by any of the tariffs.
This is what happens when you switch teams, and all of your allies are not a fan of you switching teams, and they don’t want to be tied to your currency standard anymore.
The list of us interventions ending in the installation of a dictator is has more entries than the total number of countries on the planet. It cannot be overstated how many dictators the US has directly, explicitly supported and installed.
Hell we usually end up fighting them, because they stop paying whatever we charged for installing them.
Far as I can tell, Neobanks are the best option for less well-off Americans. I personally would go for Wise since it allows for banking through a desktop browser, but Revolut and Neon might be better options if you use smartphones. Neon in particular, since that is part of the EU bloc, uses IBAN Internation Bank Account Number, and is based in Switzerland. Revolut and Wise are based in London.
Mind, I haven't actually tried signing up for a neobank account as of yet. Do further research for any concerns you have, since I am pretty amateur at this fiscal stuff.
For anyone asking why it's strange, from the article
Traditionally, the dollar would strengthen as tariffs sink demand for foreign products.
If you're looking at the dollar with supply and demand, if international trade to the u.s. decreases with tarriffs, then the amount of dollars leaving the u.s. also decreases and thus the supply of dollars on the international market. Assuming demand remains constant then the strength of the dollar should go up.
For this decrease in strength you have to look to demand which has to decrease enough to counteract the tarriffs plus more. This decrease in demand is coming from both decrease in demand for assets priced in dollars (u.s. companies stocks, treasury bonds, real estate etc.) And retaliatory tarriffs which lower demand for u.s. goods.
While this has been historically true, it's not working this time.
But the dollar not only failed to strengthen this time, it fell, puzzling economists and hurting consumers. The dollar lost more than 5% against the euro and pound, and 6% against the yen since early April.
As with most things happening under this US administration, he pushes things to the breaking point to see how it reacts. He's stress testing the global economy. From there, I would guess that he'd back off just before the breaking point and move on to something else.
For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability
For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability
For a couple weeks, the green world has been rife with rumors that the Trump White House was preparing a series of executive orders to strip climate groups of…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Nobody in the DNC is interested. I've watched every president of my lifetime commit war crimes. I've seen bankers rewarded for committing widespread fraud. When people stood up at #Occupy Democrats marginalized and ignored them
The DNC is not our friend and does NOT care about holding people responsible. They care about the appearance of rule of law
"Nobody" is a very strong word, and simply false
In any case, it's not the DNC that's the barrier here; it's who is actually elected to office
That's the story I was referencing. The DNC is moving against him, proving my point
I'm not apathetic. I am informed. I know that the Democrats will never curb the abuses or roll back the power grabs. These parties are playing the game together
The author, Josh Marshall always stops short of accountability for war crimes. He usually concerns himself --at length-- with what Iran and Hamas are plotting, the nature and use of Hamas tunnels, etc. The focus is always on shadowy others. He claims Oslo itself was the fault here, not Ben Gurion's abuse and violations of it. The Nakba? Evidently no Israeli is to be blamed for that. And the attacks on Palestinians are seen as a recognition of reality from the "realist-minded" Israelis, Josh claims.
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While he is against netenyahu and bloodthirsty settlers, he is a pro israeli-state pundit, and wont make any call to halt the IDF war on Palestinian civilians. Cheap logic from a partisan hack who cant admit that whats going on is exactly what he wants and supports. He's drinking tea with his pinky in the air, and a handkerchief at his nose so he doesnt have to smell the disgusting odor of the murdered.
He was rabidly against what he called "rhetorical excesses" in campus protests, not bothering to address why people were protesting. Club those students till they are silent, for their "rhetorical excess" eh Josh. What a fine American.
While I agree with Josh that we must all start following our laws, we need to start with the first ammendment protecting political free speech and acknowledging that what Biden did was criminal and violated numerous existing laws implemented for exactly this reason. Biden aided and abeteed war crimes and a massive genocide. And he and congress abridged the publics civil rights, using state violence to silence legitimate and peaceful political dissent, brutalizing students who were concerned about basic human rights. Disagreeing with the way zionists conduct what the world says are war crimes is not antisemitism and it never was. Even if it was antisemitism, it would be protected as political free speech. For many years people openly talked about keeping black skinned people down, even with violence, and it was free speech. But today if you question zioinisms methods at all you are instantly labeled as supporting Hamas. thats unamerican, fascist bullshit and a gross misuse of power by the president and congress-- done during a democratic party administraton no less. Just Shameful.
If we cant be honest about that then our calling out republicans for their own gross lawbreaking falls a little flat. Its always rules for thee and not for me, even within our own party. And then we wonder why the voters lose faith.
While he is certainly well spoken and educated, Josh Marshall is filthy-- he is a disappointment, he is a thug, he is a bad person, and he can suck it.
Is A Two State Solution Really No Longer Possible?
What can be called a “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians ended with the failure of the Camp David summit and the onset of the Second Intifada in…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
The Anti-Vaccine Propaganda of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Take-home message:
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is one of the main activists of the modern anti-vaccination movement.
- The movie his corporation recently produced, Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, mixes real examples of racism in healthcare and vaccine misinformation to push an anti-vaccine agenda on marginalized communities of colour.
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Seriously, the fact that he's in charge of the health system is just a metaphor for the entirety of America
It's just fucked.
Fundamentally broken, and the majority of people just shrug their shoulders.
The populace is like the elephant who was tethered to a small stake while young and doesn't realise that it can rip it out now
You're all beaten down from birth
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SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary
SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary
Ocasio-Cortez, finished a close second behind only former Vice President Kamala Harris in one recent poll measuring how Democrats feel about 2028.Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
That's the thing, we're sick of the same old same very old. Walz wasn't super bad, don't get me wrong, but the democratic voter is ready for change. Long since ready. It's only the DNC that hasn't caught up. We want more left than appeasing centrists. We're tired of reaching out a hand across the isle to bring back bloody stumps.
If you think that Hillary and Kamala lost just because they are women, then you haven't been paying attention. They lost not because they are women, they lost because that is what we were told we were getting. We all wanted rocky road ice cream, and they gave us vanilla. Then they wondered why they lost out on business. Fighting against fascism didn't seem to be enough for many. It blows monkey chunks that it had to happen when we have a fascist party taking hold, but it is hopefully a shake up that will actually get noticed.
It isn't about color or gender, it's about where they fall on the scale of things as well as age. Stop forcing that vanilla ice cream. We want the rocky road.
We all wanted rocky road ice cream, and they gave us vanilla
I feel like you missed an important point here. We didn't all want rocky road, we argued quite a bit on what ''new and progressive'' flavor we wanted. Some people even wanted vanilla.
The MAGAts won because they were united in not caring what flavor they got, so long as certain folks weren't allowed in the ice cream shop.
I’ll take my beating now
Yeah, I’m an old fuddy duddy who thinks that identity politics is a losing battle, maybe if everyone can get under the umbrella of the idea that billionaires are working to ruin this country?
If that's how you feel, you're supporting the wrong people. It was centrists who turned to identity politics to hide their lack of an economic platform. Remember when Hillary said breaking up the big banks won't end racism? Remember when the new DNC chair said they would still take money from good billionaires? If you want Democrats to focus on the billionaires ruining our country, AOC's your best bet.
I love Bernie Sanders, god bless him, but AOC and Bernie spreading whatever message they are is falling on deaf ears, the ears of middle America.
10K showed up for them in Michigan. 12.5K people showed up for them in Idaho. 30k showed up for them in a Trump district in Montana. Doesn't seem like it's falling in deaf ears, but maybe your right, and the Democrats should just not try to win any states in the middle of the country. I'm sure that's a great strategy.
What does AOC stand for exactly? Just the typical Gen Z talking points? “We gotta support drag queens in libraries!”You could take your average everyday Muslim and a white supremacist and ask them both how they feel about women/jewish people/gay people and you’d get the same answer.
Get fucked, bigot.
Bernie Sanders Rally Crowd Size Tops 30K in District Trump Won Three Times
Sanders touted turnout for his rally with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a GOP-held California Congressional district.Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
"Here's a long detailed rebuttal to your badly informed opinion."
"Ad hominem!"
Reddit and its consequences was a mistake.
It’s not a badly informed opinion,
It’s one that doesn’t automatically align with most left wing talking points that are basically just about identity politics. I bring it up because it’s why Democrats continue to lose. Defenders of AOC sound like Swifties. I like Harris but she doesn’t have to be the only candidate and neither does AOC. I’ll state it in plain English and maybe you’ll understand? Islam is a religion, it’s not a race or ethnicity. When I criticize the rules of this religion, which is Sharia law, which contradicts democracy in this country and is unconstitutional it doesn’t make me a bigot. Everything that have stated here in this thread is part of the reason why Democrats keep losing. The majority of Americans are tired of extreme left wing politics and policies, and it’s why we keep getting extreme right wing politicians who win elections. You can tell me I’m uninformed all you want, call me a bigot, whatever… But come 2028 you’re gonna get president JD Vance and VP Elmo. If it comes down to it and AOC is chosen as the Democrat nominee, I will gladly vote for her, but she can’t win, she isn’t electable and it isn’t because of sexism
AOC is a gaffe machine
I actually think she’s pretty well spoken. A lot of people clip her just to farm outrage, but honestly, we’ve seen (especially with Trump) that out-of-context clips don’t really shift public opinion much anymore, they just reinforce whatever people already believe.
We need some sanity, not more crazy regime change nonsense. Markets don't like uncertainties, and markets are what leads to productivity investment.
Not that Harris is any better.
As another outside observer I'd disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there's racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.
AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like "you're not part of the political elite" and "you say it how it is" and "you seem like you genuinely care about Americans".
IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.
If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as "Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead".
No. Surprisingly it wasn't the overwhelming racism and sexism of USA. Michelle Obama would have destroyed Trump. She probably would win in 2028 too.
Like everyone else said... Kamalacaust lost because she's a genocidal prosecutor walking in the footsteps of another total failure. They're just gross people.
The dems would rather lose than betray their genocidal capitalist masters.
Second place to Harris??? Holy fuck we deserve our fate.
Edit: upon reading the article (I know...) AOC has the best net favorability. So a little more hopium there.
The majority of the voting population answers this question based on name recognition alone. You're way more up to speed on the options than the average American voter. We need to put energy into getting people like AOC in front of as many disengaged and unaware people as possible. NOT complain and whine that everything isn't handed to us on a platter.
She's in second place and we have 3 years to move her into first, that sounds worth a shot to me. But go ahead and throw your hands up in the air, tuck your tail, and say there's nothing we can do.
We are closer than we've ever been in my lifetime.
How's that working out for you?
Harris could've eased Israel. Trump is capitulating 1000%. Gaza will be an ash pile in a year.
Thank fuck you didn't vote for Harris lmao. What a load of single-issue dogshit.
Harris would not have eased Israel, she herself said as much.
This comment isn't about the 2024 election, it's about the next one. Can the DNC not provide a candidate who refuses to arm a military committing genocide?
Ok look I voted for Kamala but if a candidate fails can we please run someone one else? You don't run the same person over again because the same people who felt like she was forced down their throats are still going feel like she's being forced down their throats.
And the same bs that was used against her will be used again. But people eat yhay shit up which is why it works.
And her tactics of bring out appealing to Republicans again is probably whay she'll do again and that's going to lose more dem voters.
The corporate Dems need to go away.
On one hand I want to argue against this. People were fucking dumb not to vote for her and should come crawling back. Not because shes the best, but because how the fuck did people think this was gonna turn out? Both her and Hillary were right. And people who helped Trump win, if anything, should hr asking for forgivneas, so lets give it to her.
..... At the same time I have little to no faith they would. They would just double down and go for concentration camps again. So yeah, move on.
Does it matter tho?
Y'all know that if they say vote Kamala, y'all will vote Kamala, like it or not
And the "democrats" know that y'all will vote blue no matter who anyways
But will the public have enough confidence to vote for Harris or AOC over Vance?
Definitely not for Harris. People were definitely fine for dealing with Trump to avoid Harris. Either that, or the Dems couldn't cheat as much in 2024.
I mean, 81 million people voted for Biden to avoid Trump, weird that only 75 million came out of their shells for Harris.
Vote Blue No Matter Who didn't work for Harris, won't work for AOC either. But stranger things have happened.
I'd vote for AOC over Kamala, 100%.
I mean, I still voted for Kamala, but I wasn't excited about it.
So the "democrats" have no incentive to improve in your case
You'll just vote whoever they choose on the ballot
I come from a country without a two party system, so we criticize everybody all the time.
I will be shocked if the Dem establishment doesn't run Newsom and do their damndest to ratfuck AOC like they did with Bernie.
Sure, there's a lot of time between now and a theoretical 2028 presidential cycle...
But I have learned to set expectations pessimistically and be surprised in the optimism direction, not the other way around.
Kanzi it is then.
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Kanzi, the world's most famous bonobo, turns 40 • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The world’s most famous bonobo turned 40 today. Kanzi communicates with humans and played music with Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel.Perry Beeman (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
as if that’s somehow a qualification, and how she took a huge dump on working class Americans. Has anyone given thought to the Astronaut? You know, the guy whose wife was affected by political violence? The guy who seems reasonable and well spoken ? Middle America might actually vote for someone like Mark Kelly who flew combat missions during the gulf war. Why is the Democratic Party so obsessed with AOC? She’s not a bad person,
the right obviously hates her, and that’s shitty, but it doesn’t mean she should automatically be the darling of the Democratic Party, the obsession confuses me honestly, her personality is a bit grating tbh. Democrats are hellbent on either choosing and ineffective milquetoast man or a disingenuous woman.
Mark Kelly who flew combat missions during the gulf war
The same guy who voted with Schumer to sabotage the budget fight and leave the dems completely powerless? The same guy who AIPAC is balls deep in and who cant say enough nice things about Israel as they conduct their war crimes, and nothing ever about palestinian civilians?
Oh yeah Mark is exactly who the DNC would like to run. I can see it now, pics of him in a cockpit of a fighter jet. He wouldnt even need to talk about any policy positions at all, right?
If the establishment candidate wins the primary, we’ll dutifully vote for that candidate in the general
The core reason for the loss in 2024 still exists, and polls show that patience for DNC shenanigans has run out amongst voters.
This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump
How an expert in dictatorships helped push Harvard to challenge Trump
Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times)
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Their pressure seems to have helped Harvard President Alan Garber stand up to Trump
No: what helps Harvard stand up to Trump is that Harvard is loaded. The University of Bumfuck Nowhere will immediately cave in to Trump's authoritarian nonsense to maintain their federal funding and their tax-exempt status. Harvard can afford to do without them.
In other words, I'm glad Harvard is resisting. But this is yet another example of rich-man-can-do.
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Is the better option that rich man do nothing?
You’re not wrong that the money helps but someone also has to do the convincing part. They both help.
I believe those with more resources have more options to resist; this has always been the case. However, they don’t have all of the means.
I don’t think doomerism like this does anything but demoralize. It’s better than them going along with the bullshit. It’s gotta start somewhere, and it’s going to start with those who have the resources to resist.
I think that it’s similar to the idea that anti-racism needs to start with white people.
White people have the social capital to stay safe while protesting—thus able to further the cause for longer—and the subjugation starts with white people so they have a responsibility to start the movement.
Rich people have the economic capital to stay safe while protesting—thus able to further the cause for longer—and the subjugation originates with rich people so they have a responsibility to start the movement.
LA Times 🤮
Edit: boycott the LA Times
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LA Times billionaire owner killed op-ed that was critical of Trump’s cabinet picks, report says
Patrick Soon-Shiong’s intervention comes after the billionaire owner blocked the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala HarrisJustin Baragona (The Independent)
When the far right came knocking, Harvard made Columbia look pretty cowardly and unworthy of any prestige. Columbia should lose its "ivy league" title for good.
Good for Harvard leadership.
I might have to slap this together in photoshop before today’s protests.
Lab Leak, by Depends
Diseases occur naturally, new diseases occur naturally. We know the first cases were in Wuhan China. There are a number of theories on how "patient 0" became infected. (Bat to human transfer, lab grown, pig to human, other dead animal to human) But patient 0 is not even known, early COVID spread extremely fast and a source cannot be pinpointed. Knowing the exact source could help with prevention of future new diseases (shutting down wet markets or closing labs). But with the speed of the spread, death rate, and chaos it brought, it will likely never be known.
"Will someone pay." Without knowing an exact source we don't know if a human is at fault or if there was just the perfect storm of natural events. mRNA vaccines are a new technology that was fast tracked thanks to COVID. As a society we will benefit from its ability to develop new vaccines faster. Many nations/regions were forced to reevaluate their disaster relief plans because of COVID. If a future event occurs the lessons learned from COVID should help mitigate.
Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.Steve Liesman (CNBC)
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The plan:
1 fuck everything up
2 make people mad
3 they protest
4 use pigs to incite violence
5 martial law, suspend constitutional rights
6 cancel elections
7 trump forever
Every time I see headlines like this I think:
He told us he would ruin it. For months. He signed the plans to ruin it weeks ago. He's been organizing teams of people to fuck it up starting a few days ago. Canada has been not only openly reporting on this as a major issue but even going so far as to run advertisements on Fox News informing people about it, but people only start to fucking notice it after the fact, like this really blindsides the majority of Americans!? Buffoons!
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As a Canadian it is god damn terrifying. I can't imagine what it's like to be a US citizen under the control of a dictator right now. Watching your fellow citizens be sent to death camps along with lots and lots of other people just unfortunate enough to be brown, tattooed, born in the wrong place or a woman who fights for immigrant rights.
Then the racists cheer and heil Hitler.
It's crazyness but it's been brewing for a very long time. Hopefully it wakes up lots of my fellow Canadians so we don't end up in the same place you are.
VOTE!
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Well you can kind of relate because Canada were no saints to the native americans: politicians and officials were apologizing for that as recent as 2015 as the 2008-2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada reported on the century of abuse and mass graves of children.
But yes, it's all awful and we need to stop it immediately.
That's bullshit. Take your lumps.
Our government is still fucking the Natives today. No doubt about that. You'll get no argument from me. They're ignoring supreme Court rulings and acting like dictators when it comes to the native population in our country since before it's inception. Truth and reconciliation is a lie! If they wanted those things they wouldn't still actively repress the population, keep them poor, sick and seen as second class citizens as well actively pursue continual court cases to avoid representing the native population in any way. See dental care for northern native and Inuit children as an example.
Right now they're attacking their fishery in the east coast enshrined by law that they ignore since 1999. All parties. No one has done shit about it. They keep them oppressed and fighting with the local population to ensure no action is mounted against the government. Fascist fucks all of them. That's just one issue in an ocean of issues.
However....IF YOU'RE CANADIAN, GO VOTE!....in order to correct our mistakes as a population we need to avoid the admitted fascist in our race for PM.
It's not whataboutism to call out the lie "I can't imagine MY country doing [thing it had done for over a century]."
I'm kind of a stickler about accuracy and nuance.
I’m not an American, but how could anyone convince themselves this guy was anything but an economically illiterate buffoon?
If he wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US, the worst thing he could have done is break the relationships where they get cheap resources from us Canadians and materials like rare earths first.
Now it’s a bigger hurdle than ever to manufacture in the US.
Now we’re all galvanized against the US, we can all make deals with each other in an “the enemy of my enemy” way, and everyone is divesting of American financial leverage for fear of being extorted over it.
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He's like the snake in that old Aesop about the farmer...
"You knew what I was when you took me in."
Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war
The growing campaign, which accuses the government of perpetuating the war for political reasons and failing to bring home the remaining hostages, has laid bare the deep division and disillusionment over Israel’s fighting in Gaza.
By spilling over into the military, it has threatened national unity and raised questions about the army’s ability to continue fighting at full force. It also resembles the bitter divisions that erupted in early 2023 over the government’s attempts to overhaul Israel’s legal system, which many say weakened the country and encouraged Hamas’ attack later that year that triggered the war.
“It’s crystal clear that the renewal of the war is for political reasons and not for security reasons,” Guy Poran, a retired pilot who was one of the initiators of the air force letter, told The Associated Press.
Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war
When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document.Melanie Lidman (AP News)
Senator says Bukele staged margaritas at Abrego Garcia meeting, wanted it by pool
The New York Times reported that one of Bukele’s aides planted the tropical-looking drinks on the table to make it look like Abrego Garcia was living large. Van Hollen confirmed this on Friday. “This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what’s going on,” he said, “and it also shows the lengths that the Trump administration and the president will go to, because when he was asked … about this, he just went along for the ride.”
Van Hollen added that Bukele’s government wanted the meeting to take place by a pool: “They actually wanted to have the meeting [take place] by the side of the pool in the hotel,” he said. “This is a guy who’s been in CECOT. This is a guy who has been detained. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which, of course, is a big fat lie.”
Chris Van Hollen Describes Meeting With Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Sen. Chris Van Hollen detailed his meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported.Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
Wait hold on, they wanted us to think it wasn't staged?
The dude was sent to a concentration camp and then sitting at a table in a decent looking area? And they had fake hand gestures exactly like North Korean photo ops and they expected us to think it WASN'T STAGED?
If the MAGATs ate it up, then I realize just how hard they reject the reality over their Truth.
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We've all seen the pictures of the concentration camp, everyone in white boxers and shirt with their heads being shoved down while they walk.
It amazes me that they think we would buy this as how they live day to day?
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Much like scam emails, it was never meant to fool you.
It's meant to fool the stupid, and stupid people vote.
Well it wasn't a funeral.
Edit: oh sorry that's Taiwan
When Mr. Garcia gets back to the US take his family and put them in safety in another country - Canada, Europe, so long as they're far from El Salvador or Trump. Political asylum anywhere safe, since he can be considered now a person of interest to those wanting to upkeep democracy, and a danger to those undermining it.
I'm sure there's plenty of people sympathetic to this cause and wanting Mr. Garcia to be able to freely speak without fear about what he's endured.
As soon as he's back in the US he'll have a big red bullseye on his back, guaranteed.
like this
WadeTheWizard likes this.
He is never going to leave CECOT unless he’s in a coffin. That is literally the Warden’s mandate.
He did leave CECOT. He had been out of CECOT for one week before he met the senator.
And he can leave his current facility, too. He did for this photo shoot at a hotel.
All it takes is for Bukele to change his tune. Which he has, already once.
The pressure campaigns are working. Do not give up on this man.
Oh sorry, you are correct.
He was moved from CECOT to a different El Salvadoran hellhole, then paraded to a photo op at a hotel which Bukale later made a joke about on social media.
Exactly. Both things that a day before we were told could never happen.
The game is not over
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture.’ now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Bukele posted on X.
What a remarkable piece of shit.
I disagree. He's clearly concerned about the blowback now.
Their messaging and staging is desperately, pathetically screaming "not a gulag! Not a gulag! He's having a nice time here!"
He pulled a dude out of a Concentration Camp, brought him to a hotel, put fake drinks in front of him, then made jokes about it on social media.
He is not a politician. He literally calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator”.
Germany halts Eurofighter jet delivery to Türkiye citing tense political environment
Germany halts Eurofighter jet delivery to Türkiye citing tense political environment - Türkiye Today
Germany reportedly blocks Eurofighter delivery to Türkiye, citing concerns over political unrest in countryNewsroom (Türkiye Today)
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.Morgan Music (Latin Times)
Short answer: if they got it bad, they're dead or in a nursing home. That's why they aren't walking in a mall. They ran out of health.
Long answer: in recent times, there seems to be lower threshold of diagnosis.
But if he truly thinks he can pinpoint exposures that increase autism - things like the exposure to tetraethyl lead which probably increased criminality and decreased mental health - good luck for combing scientific studies. There may be some. But if he's gonna rewind the age old "vaccines cause" record and replay it, nah, I won't be listening.
It's not that there's a lower threshold. It's that the definitions and our understanding of Autism changed. People who formerly would have been labeled with Asperger's are now labeled (correctly) with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Plus we've learned how Autism can present differently in other communities that aren't white male children. Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).
The truth is that there are likely a ton of people out there with undiagnosed Autism, because they wouldn't have met the criteria to be diagnosed as kids based on our understanding at the time. It's why there are so many adults now getting late life diagnoses.
Yeah, my uncle who passed definitely had Autism, and so does my dad. They're half-brothers, which means it's highly likely my grandmother was as well (which my dad also agrees with).
It's definitely hereditary in my family. I also clearly get my ADHD from my mom.
Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).
That is in-fucking-sane
"No one in my generation had autism"
Sure thing. Uncle Barry, who collects every issue of Mechanics Monthly, and has spent over $10,000 on his model train set that is a perfect scale recreation of King's Cross Station, is completely neurotypical.
I have a staunchly leftist but older co-worker who thinks no one she knew growing up had autism.
"I still think something is causing it" despite being pro-vaxx.
The propaganda is extremely effective unfortunately
Considering how provaxx they where back then, it's insane seeing people who grew up with polio repeating antivax shit.
Like back in the day. No one got cancer....cause they didn't know wtf it was, doesn't mean the shit wasn't around. Science didn't stop in 1904.
I really do think autism and cancer have gotten much more common. And it's very likely something is causing it.
Not vaccines. Vaccines are fine.
Could be plastic. Could be pfas (forever chemicals). Could be lots of things, or a combination. But there's most likely an environmental cause rather than genetic or just an increase in diagnosis. (Though the increase in diagnosis and recognition is also real.)
What's causing the rise in cases is actual diagnosis. For many generations. Theirs and mine included. Either you were institutionalized. Or you were undiagnosed. People would just refer to you as Quirky or eccentric. There was no Spectrum to be on. It was treated as largely binary. Only in the last 40 years at the earliest did they start to fully understand the condition. And even now they still have a long way to go. But they've at least started recognizing the larger condition.
Thinking that the rise in diagnoses at this point is some sort of crisis/pandemic or Healthcare emergency that needs to be addressed. Is like blaming the Exterminator coming out and finding your house is filled with termites. It wasn't filled with termites before they came just a few odd little ones that you saw skittering about on the surface. All these other ones must have been brought by them or someone else right? It's not like they could have been there all along and we just didn't notice?
He looks like that old stress squeeze toy
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'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
He's even more stupid than they are acknowledging.
Y-u know guys at some point you just have to roll with this shit because it’s too absurd. I mean I remember I used to be outraged far far in the past when I still treated these seriously
Now it’s just hilarious. Outrage to entertainment pipeline
What you can do is laugh and be entertained because such stupid people at the top will probably never happen again for decades. It’s your chance to soak up all the entertainment potential
Exactly. My family is like "why does this bother you so much? You have a good job, a house a family, great holidays! All of this doesn't affect you at all!"
"Well yeah, I guess I could just ignore that the world is going to shit and that people less lucky than me are suffering through all of it..."
Problem is, all it does is push them in the wrong direction. My father went from "I don't care about any of this shit" to "what the fuck do you mean I can't go on my quarterly golf trip??" and on to "Bill Gates murders Indian children with vaccines and also have you heard about RFK Jr?"
Fuck Facebook man...
Coming from Silicon Valley, I can assure RFK, my friends with autism are absolutely crushing it out here.
I look at their homes and families and think “fuck, carve me off a slice of that spectrum.”
Respectfully, this is a vast oversimplification. There are many successful people on the spectrum in tech, but that doesn't always translate to success or money. Communication is a huge part of a development job and communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
That being said, a bunch of folks on the milder end of the spectrum have certainly had great success in the field, myself among them.
communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
You should read about the double empathy problem. It has empirical proofs and explain well the issue.
Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese
Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic.SpringerLink
Look, he's killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.
But they can't even say it lol. "oh, some people touted!"
Touted 'Unfit'
By senators prior to his appointment?
No, by some anonymous posts on social media last week
So will this result in any actual consequences?
Absolutely not
Great
the only thing that kept him out of jails due to the untreated effects when he was younger is hs family name and wealth.
That and having a penis. Rosemary wasn't so lucky.
When I hear something along the lines of "there is no way someone can be that stupid." I think about 2 things.
- How dumb the average person is and realize half the population is dumber than that.
- The interview of a Yosemite Park Ranger discussing the difficulty of designing the perfect bear proof trash can. The ranger is quoted as saything,"there is a considerable intelligence overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human."
Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools
Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools
Analysis: The cases — over a district’s opt-out policy and a religious charter school — could have ramifications for school systems nationwide.Linda K. Wertheimer (The Hechinger Report)
Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States' third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.
I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.
Everyone hop in, we’re going back to 1950!
The People's Republic of China
U.S.-China Trade Facts U.S. goods and private services trade with China totaled $579 billion in 2012 (latest data available). Exports totaled $141 billion; Imports totaled $439 billion. The U.S.United States Trade Representative
Right! You see, this will increase global manufacturing’s need for oil for all that extra shipping, thus raising the price of oil, so US oil makes us all* rich!
- “All” meaning all the people already rich from making/selling oil including, and mostly, non-American countries/oil barons. The average person will almost certainly see their overall wealth decrease greatly.
In theory.
And it actually probably would be pretty easy to do following US requirements, seeing how lax some of the "Made in USA" labels are:
Made in USA of Imported Parts
...the final construction is done in our country, but all or nearly all the parts have been imported from other countries
Made in USA with Global Components or Global Materials
...the final product is finished in the United States. There could also be a few or no parts of the product that are made in the US, but the majority are made and imported from foreign countries.
Assembled in the USA
...the majority or all of the product is put together in the United States or its territories. ...it’s a foreign product, with foreign-made materials that were only Assembled in the United States. -allamericanmade.com/what-does-…
But the logistics of funnelling $450 billion worth of parts through somewhere else would be basically impossible.
...or they could just lie.
This is what people are missing. China already built up their logistics in Vietnam and Mexico most famously. This is transhipment. Every since Trump term one, they have been planning this day.
So while your right, in normal conditions it should be impossible. In our reality it's what's already happening. Just wait till we get "Spanish" cars. This was always the plan.
"This is a mistake": House Democrats fume at David Hogg's plan to oust lawmakers
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/18/house-democrats-david-hogg-primary-dnc
Provided that the person calling for it has the opinions you prefer on guns. And only guns.
No, that conclusion does not follow from the facts at hand. There are any number of issues that raise my ire. I've railed just as vociferously against Hogg for guns as I have against any number of democratic fossils, for reasons ranging from pro-genocide, to appeasing Republicans, to senility. Gun control is just one of many disqualifying conditions. That he and I share an absolute disgust for Retired-in-Place Democrats is not sufficient to rehabilitate his image. He is an honorary fossil, and needs to go along with them.
Nobody gives a shit about the incumbent positions on anything, with the possible exception of their retirement. Get them the hell out of office, and bring in some actual leftists.
Provided that the person calling for it has the opinions you prefer on guns. And only guns.
You and David Hogg are Democrats, despite your irrational, centrist support for gun control. I'm apparently Wayne LaPierre because I oppose it.
One of us is using gun control as a purity test. The other is not.
Did you just decide to stop using gun control as a purity test?
No, you just decided to start.
You are not alone in this. The party has long used gun control as a purity test, rejecting candidates (and alienating voters) who offer anything less than full-throated support for gun control.
Until just now, when centrist control of the party is threatened.
No part of my comment history suggests I have ever supported Wayne LaPierre.
You and I probably agree on 99% of the issues, but you're willing to alienate me on the basis of this particular, obviously divisive issue.
You are not alone in this. The party has long used gun control as a purity test, rejecting candidates (and alienating voters) who offer anything less than full-throated support for gun control.
But that purity test is one of the things that needs to be excised from the party.
Gun control does not have the broad support it did in the 90's. The wave of concealed carry adoption in the late 90's/ early 2000's has radically expanded the number and political diversity of gun owners across the country. The party has thus far failed to recognize this shift in the political climate. We can see the results.
Further, Hogg isn’t trying to move the party to the left. He openly supports legacy Democrats like Pelosi and Hillary who built the failed party, and he is looking for younger candidates who will keep the party right where theose decrepit fossils planted it.
Because you don't like that he's not Wayne LaPierre?
Just seems like whenever there's someone who is trying to get the party to move to the left,
Again, "gun control" is not a leftist issue. Gun control is keeping the party from moving left.
Further, Hogg isn't trying to move the party to the left. He openly supports legacy Democrats like Pelosi and Hillary who built the failed party, and he is looking for younger candidates who will keep the party right where theose decrepit fossils planted it.
Just seems like whenever there's someone who is trying to get the party to move to the left, suddenly there's some criterion for why they shouldn't.
Bernie's too old and that was a problem from 2016 until the second Biden announced. It's a problem again now that Biden is out of office. AOC is a woman and that's suddenly a problem because she's seizing the moment. Hogg doesn't agree with the NRA on guns.
There's always some excuse.
Might as well make a bet if the sun will rise tomorrow.
If they fought against fascists like they do to progressives, Trump wouldn't have had any chance at even the nomination in 2016.
You want nothing to do with Hogg or his push to primary useless incumbents. And your only stated reason is because he's not pro-school-shooting enough.
Sounds like a purity test to me.
Nah, he's still a Democrat, even though his position conflicts with the electorate. As are you.
The "test" here isn't one of purity. Here, the test is whether he can represent that electorate. He can't.
His position on gun control is the most obvious example, but it's not the only one. He idolizes Pelosi and Clinton, and wants to replace "useless incumbents" with Baby Nancy and Baby Hillary.
???? Really you think that's what the donors think when they send money to the DNC????
"Here's my hard earned money please do what ever the fuck you want with it, efficacy be damned"
That actually explains a lot tbh. You might be on to something here!
“Here’s my hard earned money please do what ever the fuck you want with it, efficacy be damned”
I mean, that's the response they expect from progressives.
Mistake for who? Not a mistake for me, not a mistake tactically considering the policy and popularity polling, not a mistake when you consider that these people have been suppressing popular and well polling progressive policies and candidates for decades and still managed to lose the presidency and both houses to a goddamn moron…
All of this shit, all of these “reasons” they list in opposition to Hogg’s initiative, they are all bullshit. Bullshit and deflections and distractions from the fact that they are concerned exclusively about the bottom line for their wealthy benefactors, and about their own as well. The irony that is not lost on anyone is that they are the assholes who did this to us in the first place, and would you look at that, Donald Trump is about to hand them a tax cut.
Both sides, the old guard is useless but
but here comes the excuse...
he’s massively anti 2A, which is also not helpful right now.
How convenient!
Why was Elon musk allowed to spend a quarter billion Billion BILLION dollars on a single state's supreme Court judge's race.
I think you need to stare into this🪞 for a little longer than a little while.
Well that's a great point! I thought about it, and I did some research on how the DNC selects its members. I concluded that the DNC itself is an elitist organization that does nothing but provide fake opposition to a real problem with the republicans. I find that the institution itself flys in the face of fair represenation. I've really felt that way since 2016 when they didn't let Bernie take the nomination. But now I'm extra irate. and as i sit here staring at a child who is going to be determining the parties future I have real questions and concerns.
You have snarky answers and downvotes. You got a real address to my criticism or did I lose you somewhere and this is all I will get?
I looked in the mirror and what i saw was just another question. Why couldn't the DNC find a candidate to beat Trump or Mitch McConell or any other psychopath entrenched in office for 30+ years? Why is the DNC's messaging and strategy so bad that they can lose an election to a deranged tyrant... twice.
Either way I looked in the future mirror and you're starving in a camp in El Salvador, or maybe starving at your house. It's the ghost of this christmas future. Have fun when supply chains collapse and your can't exchange your money for food buddy!
"What a disappointment from leadership. I can think of a million better things to do with twenty million dollars right now," swing-district Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) told Axios."Fighting Democrats might get likes online, but it's not what restores majorities," she added.
The issue is we get majorities and then nothing gets done with depresses turnout.
We don't want to primary these old conservatives, we'd much rather them represent their constituents, but they've shown time and time again they won't.
We'd rather they get out of the way and resign, but they won't put the future of the party over their own personal power.
So fuck em.
I agree about "fuck em", let's get out with the old and in with the new.
But what majorities are you talking about? I keep seeing this repeated all over the internet- the sentiment that Democrats get nothing done when they have control. The problem is that I'm 33 years old and the Dems have only had control of the federal government for a few months of my life, and that's when they passed the ACA. I can't really make a judgement on what the Dems do when they're in power because they largely have not been.
you owe it yourself to read up on american political history and; if you did; you would learn that every time they've had control of all 3 branches of government; they've squandered it by letting a one or 2 democrats derail all of their plans, meanwhile republicans steamroll over their own dissenters every time they're in control.
you'd start to see that this pattern keeps happening again and again.
What times are these?
As I said, they have only had control for 4 months in my lifetime. Before that you need to go back to 1961-1969 with Kennedy and Johnson. I would actually need to do more research to find out whether they had a Supermajority or not, but it's not even worth looking up because going that far back in time shifts the politics of the parties significantly and is not very relevant to today. The Democratic Party still has plenty of Southern Conservatives all the way into the Carter years.
So I would love to know what pattern you are seeing.
democrats had full control from 1993–1995, 2009–2011, 2021–2023 and majority control from 2011-2015 & 2023-2024. in other words: 12 years of complete or majority control out of the last 33 years.
every single time their agenda was thwarted by one or two lone dissenters within their caucuses; where republicans completely steamrolled over their own dissenters.
have you ever wondered why republicans don't need a super-majorities or why dems give a rats ass about dino where republicans dont every-single-time?
is that not the definition of a rigged game?
I agree with the older Dems, but not for their reasons.
No, we should not support the candidates that Hogg supports. Because Hogg is very opposed to 2A rights, and ipso facto any candidate that he supports will also be opposed to 2A rights. And if you think that we're gonna just vote our way out of this, I've got some very, very bad news for you.
Primary the old fucks with young leftists (hopefully ones that actually understand economics and tax policy)? Absolutely! Primary them with ones that ideologically aligned with Hogg? No.
Most people are for gun control
There's a big problem with that.
Right now, the majority of people in the US are in favor of deporting all undocumented immigrants. Right now, the overwhelming majority of people are opposed to transgender rights (e.g., using bathrooms that correspond to their gender, participating in sports, having access to gender-affirming care, and so on). Going back to the late 80s/early 90s, most people would not have believed that Satanists had the right to free exercise of their religion (and many people still don't today). If you go back 75 years, the majority of the country believed that 'separate but equal' was entirely reasonable; sure, let those negroes have rights, but letting them live in our neighborhoods, go to our schools, get married to our women...? Absolutely not!
This is what is referred to as "the tyranny of the majority".
The whole purpose of the bill of rights is that they are RIGHTS, and not intended to be something that is up for a popular vote. All gun control is intended to prevent people from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.
You’re going to have to share your data because it conflicts with mine. I don’t think you understand what a majority is. Technically it would be 175 million people to form a majority in the USA. We live in an oligarchy, that’s tyranny of the majority by a minority. A majority of Americans do not vote.
A majority of the people in the US are probably unaware of the recent deportations. A majority of us lack reading comprehension skills above the 6th grade level. A majority of us don’t understand the 3 branches of government. I can share my data, but I’d like to see yours first
Where Americans stand on 20 transgender policy issues
Majorities agree with existing protections in the U.S. for transgender people against hate crimes and discriminatory firings, but transgender inclusion in athletics, prisons, and public bathrooms all receive more opposition than support.Taylor Orth (YouGov)
Those laws wouldn't get passed until this whole thing is over and there are progressives in office able to actually do things, if that happens. You wouldn't have gun control as the law of the land in two months. And guns need to take a massive fucking back seat in America. No more blood cult shit, because that's what it is.
Go for what you actually want, which is freedom. Freedom is when you aren't surrounded by people with guns.
So like… I was in my early thirties when this happened. I know. I remember. I watched some of the news livestreams as it went down.
I said what I said understanding that.
I am by no means trying to diminish, demean, discredit, disparage, or otherwise detract from his experience. Im saying that I am very fucking concerned that an actual war is coming, and disarming right before a war is a great fucking way to get killed.
Gun control means: mandatory background checks, waiting periods, bans on previously convicted violent criminals owning guns, potentially magazine limits or limits on fully automatic licenses to specific users (like you may need to demonstrate you have proficiency and be a member of a gun club). None of this goes against "the right to bear arms".
It does not mean nobody can buy guns or that guns are taken away - this is the fearmongering always pushed by the very conservative, very pro-Trump NRA.
We agree on what "gun control" means. We do not agree on the need for gun control, nor do we agree on the affects of gun control on the right to keep and bear arms.
Mandatory background checks
That means forced to go to an FFL dealer before trading guns with your friends and neighbors. No private sales, even to trusted parties. Unacceptable. Every legitimate purpose that a mandatory background check provides can be accomplished by creating public access to NICS. With that in place, every seller can know, and so is expected to know their buyer's status. But, "public access to NICS" is not part of our shared definition of "gun control", and has been fervently opposed by Democratic leadership every time it has been proposed.
waiting periods,
Even in theory, waiting periods can only achieve their intent with first-time gun buyers. For everyone else, they serve no purpose other than to hassle gun owners. You could theoretically walk in to a gun store with an AR15 hanging from your chest, a Remington 870 over your shoulder, a S&W 500 holstered on your waist, a 1911 on your hip, a Glock 26 on your ankle, and an LCP in your pocket. But, while you're walking around with three defensive pistols, a big game handgun, a shotgun, and an intermediate caliber rifle, the clerk at that gun store won't let you leave with a bolt-action .22LR plinker. Suffice it to say, waiting periods are unacceptable.
bans on previously convicted violent criminals owning guns,
The only reason to even mention such bans is to deceive people into thinking they don't already exist. They do. That deceit is completely unacceptable.
potentially magazine limits
The usual limits proposed are 6 or 10 rounds. These numbers are not derived from any studies on defensive need. They do not consider whether 6 to 10 rounds is sufficient to stop a deadly threat. They do not consider multiple attackers. Unacceptable. The various proposals often apply to guns that can accept such magazines, rather than the magazines themselves, and would thus make most existing guns illegal. Only firearms with fixed magazines could comply with such laws. Unacceptable.
limits on fully automatic licenses
Fully automatic firearms, suppressors, SBRs and SBSs are already overburdened with excessive licensing restrictions. Unacceptable.
Harassing gun owners with these ridiculous gun control measures is costing elections. David Hogg was brought to the DNC by the inept leadership to support their losing message on gun control. He and his pet issue are part of what the Guillotine Party needs to excise.
The USA is alone in the entire world in that it has a mass shooting almost every day of every year, and yet when faced with modest controla you're like, "if I, a citizen with no gun dealer licensr can't just sell whatever guns whenever I like to neighbours and friends then any changes are unacceptable".
You say pro gun-control candidates will cost the Democrats votes, well I think I just found a single issue voter.
You say pro gun-control candidates will cost the Democrats votes, well I think I just found a single issue voter.
It's not my vote you need to worry about. I voted for Harris, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Kerry, Gore, and more Democratic governors, legislators, judges, commissioners, and administrators than I feel like counting. Democrats didn't, and won't lose my vote over gun control.
The votes you should be concerned about are the ones who aren't here, arguing with you. The votes you should be concerned about are the ones that turned former bellwether swing states into reliably red states. Ohio for example. A state that voted for the eventual winner in 36 of the last 41 elections, going back all the way to the civil war. A state that is now considered reliably red.
Democrats did nothing to prepare for the kids and grandkids of the first generation of concealed carriers across the country. Kids who now have their own carry licenses. The Democrats never bothered to consider the effects of 30 million new gun licensees in 42 of the 50 states, nor their families and friends. Never bothered to consider that voter opinion on guns might have shifted since the civil rights era.
Gun control is one of the more prominent issues of dissatisfaction with the Democratic party.
If it has to be democrats instead of a new party, this is literally the only way to make it work.
Good Job David Hogg and Leaders We Deserve, hope you oust a ton of these ancient shitbirds.
The neoliberals no longer have the chair....
Ken Martin does...
And the same DNC voters who elected him, elected David Hogg as a vice chair...
Like, this is the party.
Why would we push for a new one, when we just got control of the old one after decades?
We're not doing another 2016
We can have leftist leadership or admit we want a fascist dictatorship.
The DNC have had over 50 years to choose to force their rich doners to make concessions. They've shown they aren't interested.
The Neoliberals don't get to be in charge anymore.
The Neoliberals don’t get to be in charge anymore.
They're literally not tho...
Like, the battles were fought, the war was won...
You just don't seem to be politically engaged enough to have noticed.
You're blaming the people elected to DNC leadership of February 2025 for things done in November of 2024 and earlier....
Why?
Why am i blaming a party that is totally incapable of representing their voters?
Because this is supposed to be a democracy?
Where was the outrage when AIPAC dropped money bombs on progressive primaries to silence opposition against Israel and the Genocide of Palestinians?
The DNC is dead to most USians, the party leadership just refuses to acknowledge it even when their candidates and strategies lose to literal outright fascists.
No, this is the bare minimum I will accept in order to not consider the DNC my enemy.
Burn it down.
Also, age isn't the problem, the problem is money and a rigid party ideology.
Where was the outrage when AIPAC dropped money bombs on progressive primaries to silence opposition against Israel and the Genocide of Palestinians?
Well when people called it out, Reddit and Lemmy said anyone who saw this was:
- Antisemitic for not wanting murder
- A Tankie/Russian Bot
- Somehow wanting Trump to win by having better candidate to win against Trump
- Sore losers who didn't like a "fair" election like Trump
- A Bernie bro who hates $THING
If you look at the lemmy.world modlog, so many people calling out this were removed and banned, and then the userbase acted dumbfounded when the legitimate users were "quiet" after being banned, so it verified their bias of "everyone who disagrees with what my favorite political tells me is a bot/troll".
I agree, I lost a huge amount of respect for the people running and moderating lemmy.world after dealing with their reactions to people simply upset that a genocide is happening.
I had an interaction with one of their mods and it was very disappointing to see them so confidently on the side of silencing voices speaking up about genocide.
Sometimes I get the feeling lemmy.world is run by a bunch of centrists who's hobby it is to undermine leftism because they are afraid of leftwing beliefs exactly the way pathetic conservatives are, and it makes it hard to take the entire community seriously.
Some of the prominent very active low effort posters like Pugjesus have absolutely trash views when you actually get into a conversation about their beliefs.
I had an interaction with one of their mods and it was very disappointing to see them so confidently on the side of silencing voices speaking up about genocide.
Was it JeffW or JordanLund? Both of those dudes can't help defend genocide. Especially JL, he openly hates Black Lives Matter.
Sometimes I get the feeling lemmy.world is run by a bunch of centrists who’s hobby it is to undermine leftism because they are afraid of leftwing beliefs exactly the way pathetic conservatives are, and it makes it hard to take the entire community seriously.
And they call us the Russian Psyop/bot. I've had so many people say things like "I'm a leftist, but [defending the most conservative positions possible]." At least .ml is honest in their intentions.
Some of the prominent very active low effort posters like Pugjesus have absolutely trash views when you actually get into a conversation about their beliefs.
And he's so fucking smug! He will defend his trash opinions, say he's the smartest one in the room, and then act like he's the victim when he says something like "I don't think you should ally with these people when ICE comes knocking" or "I don't have to respect the pronouns of people I don't like."
Lemmy.world is a majority of my blocklist. I like a handful of users from it. But the mods and admins have cultivated a inverted MAGA mentalitt around themselves. Anytime you critize their favorite thing, you'll be banned and blocked. And then they claim it's evil when .ml does the exact same thing.
On top of everything above, the snark against any criticism of us foreign policy, the DNC, or neo/liberalism has been getting really gross. Completely overriding any genuine discussions or nuance about the topics.
I got perma banned by pugjesus on one of his comms for defending the blowback podcast and the journalists who created it
I'm definitely thinking about switching instances
"Fighting Democrats might get likes online, but it's not what restores majorities," she added.
There are currently 2 vacant seats in Congress, which won't be filled until the fall, left empty by Democrats who died in office. We're not going to restore majorities by electing people who keep dropping dead.
David Hogg is literally a vice chair of the DNC and has the backing of the chair in saying this...
You're literally commenting on the DNC doing what you want and saying they're doing the opposite
Private security guards charged in Coeur d’Alene town hall dragging
Private security guards charged in Coeur d’Alene town hall dragging
City prosecutors have filed criminal charges against six men involved in a chaotic legislative town hall, including the private security guards who dragged a Post Falls woman out of the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium.KAYE THORNBRUGH (Coeur d'Alene Press)
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Those dammed bad apples.
Luckily the good apples will stop them.
Right?
In Idaho, false imprisonment is punishable by up to a year in jail and a maximum fine of $5,000, while misdemeanor battery carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
They'll get off with a slap on the wrist.
Kevin McCarthy Says AOC Could Crush Old Guard Dems and ‘Become the Leader of the Democratic Party’
Kevin McCarthy Says AOC Could Crush Old Guard Dems and ‘Become the Leader of the Democratic Party’
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is poised to raise gobs of money and potentially overthrow the old guard of the Democratic Party.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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She's young, she could decide to run for Chuck's Senate seat in 2028. She would be just as compelling a Presidential candidate in 2032 or 2036....
.... But if a fair election is held in 2028, it is essential that Democtats field the best possible candidate, not just the next one up. (Hi, Gavin!) If AOC thinks that's her, then I will happily support that. If she supports someone else (Booker, Walz, etc), I will also be listening. But if we fuck this one up, and Vance or Eric Trump or Sean Hannity get elected, that might be game over for Democracy here. We may not get another chance.
As a NY State resident, I am eagerly looking forward to voting for AOC in some capacity in 2028, whether it's for Senator, VP, or President. I'll let her decide where she thinks she can create the most change.
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HW bush ran and won off the senile ghost of Reagan's charisma...
Vance could too.
But we should still run AOC now, because after 8 years of AOC, there's be new blood
There's never a reason to "save" a candidate, and nothing is stopping her from being a senator after.
Seniority being important is something that the old guard just agreed on.
I'd be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.
Warren for sec of treasury. Walz for HUD or even better, cabinet level position in charge of figuring out the young man problem. He's representative of the role model a lot of young men are missing imho.
I don't wanna see another dem pres candidate that's older than me (mid 50s) EVER AGAIN. The problems my kids are facing aren't going to be fixed by old people, and while I'm not quite there yet, I'm fucking close enough.
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There is zero reason to throw a moderate on there.
Run a fair primary and number 2 gets first right if refusal for vice.
If they don't want it, let the candidate pick their running mate.
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I mean VP in recent history is there to balance the ticket. If the presidential candidate is weak in one area, they pick a VP strong in that area. Sometimes the VP is just to lock in a competitive state.
The winner picks the VP. If number 2 works well, great, but the winner picks.
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They just need a candidate that can get 100m votes. Like it should not be hard in the age of stolen data to pick a person who can get 100m people off the couch. I don’t care what the Democrats like at this point. If we can’t figure out a candidate and policy that will invigorate 100,000,000 people we don’t even deserve to be running.
can you get 1/3 of the country to vote against fascism? challenge: impossible
We know the DNC leadership is interested more in keeping control of their half of the duopoly than winning elections.
They will never allow a leftist to run.
in charge of figuring out the young man problem
Both a great idea and one that will absolutely piss of the conservatives that are happy to see their young men embrace far right ideologies even if it comes with violent hatred in the process.
This was a great podcast episode that addresses the young men issue directly. Scott Galloway has been talking about it for a while.
At about 70 minutes, he states that the greatest innovation from the United States is the middle class, and he makes a good argument IMHO. He talks about how there were about seven million men that came back from World War II having proven themselves, with some confidence, and of course being in uniform doesn't hurt. They had opportunity for education, help with starting a career and affording a home, and all that made them attractive mates and led to the baby boom and the rise of the middle class. (I know it's an oversimplification, of course.)
Here's a fun conspiracy theory for you – what if somebody recognizes that sequence of events and thinks the best thing we could do would be to replicate it? If that was your goal, what would you do to make it happen, but with a twist to the far right?
I would support a cutoff for president at say 60 when starting office, that would keep us below 70 for a two-termer. That's plenty old enough.
Also the 18 year rolling term limit idea for SCOTUS.
You think that's the problem. Old people running? No, it's this lopsided old people majority that the baby boom brought. They could run, but no one would vote for them.
Until we die off and get out of the way, this isn't going to change.
I’d be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.
I would fear for AOC's safety with Buttigieg as her VP. And not just because he's McKinsey. Because there are a lot of democrats that hate her and would consider Buttigieg an acceptable replacement.
I understand wishes, but let's be realistic.
Nearly half the voters went for Trump, even after everything from pussy grabbing to January 6.
If AOC god the nod, she'd have to have someone like Manchin as Veep.
I know the argument constantly rages - too left! Too centrist! and I don't know which one would be more effective.
On the other hand, the closest we've come to a real left candidate at least in my lifetime was Sanders and the thumb on the scale against him was pretty corporate blue - and the mainstream lost, so maybe we should try it the other way?
Who cares what Macarthy thinks. He’s a republican that bent the knee. He belongs in prison with the rest of the traitors.
Don’t buy into this garbage. Just another attempt at dividing people.
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Sure looks like republicans are scared of AOC.
But centrists saw a progressive woman seizing the moment and suddenly decided that women can't win.
AOC makes Trump and his shit-lickers afraid. Pelosi and Schumer don't spark any fear.
And the DNC keeps the ones who he can rally around the flag to blame for anything bad. Because no one really likes Pelosi and Schumer. People like AOC.
Remember when calling them weird was working, making them cower and the media loved it? And then they just... Stopped because how dare anyone be rude to fascists.
Seriously. I don’t care WHAT he says.
He’s a fucking shill and helped flush the country down the drain. Fuck anything that bastard says.
You can start ringing the new Skate's death knell, because EA says it's online only
You can start ringing the new Skate's death knell, because EA says it's online only
The upcoming Skate reboot will apparently be online only, meaning eventually, somewhere down the road, it'll become completely unplayable.Oisin Kuhnke (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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I wish that has worked over the last decade. It didn't. We need a governing body to stand up and represent us. That's what they're for.
And yes I know it won't be exactly as written. Read the darn thing
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It's so weird how you can tell someone is from the US(or consume tons ofor mainly consumes American media) based on the propaganda they are parroting.
Stop believing your coroporate overlords when they keep telling you that petitions, non-violent protests, boycotts, the UN, etc. doesn't work. They do, that's why they tell you they don't. Because then you'd actually make oligarchs accountable.
Another game I simply won't need to buy
I mean, that would be the case whether it was online-only or not; it's a free-to-play game
Hot take:
If its a free to play online multiplayer game, its not very upsetting.
Yeah, fans want another skate in the vein of the trilogy and it sucks we wont get that... But if i dont have to buy this game then idc if it will hit a premature death when it stops being supported.
Yeah its a waste of development resources and i wish online-only games didnt exist for the sake of preservation, but i wont be upset if i get to play this game and dont have to pay a dime.
Im not entirely sure itll be ftp though, so this take can be completely void.
If its FTP and all mechanics beyond cosmetics can be accessed with grinding (skate-pun... nice) rather than passes and subscriptions then a great many people need to STFU.
Mechwarrior Online is FTP and Online only, has been since 2013 when it was released, still has players, still gets updates and still makes money without p2w shenanigans. Ive got 3600 hours logged, I still play regularly. Sometimes I buy some shit in game because I'm a grownup with disposable income and 3600 hours worth of entertainment is worth a few bucks.
It can be done well either way. If its a premium purchased game eventually it will make more sense financially for them to release a sequel, and the player base will move on. With F2P (If its done well) the games longevity is limited solely by wether or not it keeps making money.
If we're looking at it pessimistically the industry seems to be moving towards buying a premium AAA title, being charged appropriately, being coerced into buying a season pass to play online and then still being harassed with microtransactions.
Turning my business mind towards Skate, they can make money through sources other than the customers.
Clothing companies, in game billboards, in game music deals, skateboard companies... you get the game in front of enough people and the players wont be the whales.
People are upset they arent getting the same type of game the IP is known for.
Unfortunately the IP is being used to push a different type of product. I do think people are justified to be upset about that.
As a gamer who wants more to play and wants to pay less, i am ok with this particular IP(which i dont particularly care about) becoming ftp, even if it degrades the overall experience.
If this was happening to another IP i enjoy, I might be more upset about this.
What is good about Skate? Honest question to a true die hard fans.
It is a skill and learning curve game, right?
Skate came out with much more realistic physics and the thumbstick flicking controls that made tricks feel purposeful.
I think people who do skate (or wanted to) got pulled in for the realistic skating lines and tricks. There was also still enough over-the-top jumps and tricks to keep younger kids entertained.
I'm not worried about it; EA games go offline long after I'm done with them. I've never seen them take down a game that wasn't already completely dead 5 years ago.
My major concern is with development. I don't trust them to make a great game without fucking something up somehow.
I'll never understand why a certain subset of people are so adamantly against multiplayer games. Y'all are so loud and annoying.
Single player AI is often repetitive and boring; the unpredictability of human players is what makes online games so much fun. You people should take those sticks out of your asses and give them a try sometime. You might find that you like them.
Some folks don't care about having the ''unpradictability of human players''. Or at the very least don't think that benefit makes up for the downsides of an always online game, such as always having to have an internet connection, server downtime, lag, the pricing models that pay for those servers, game modes that require you to interact with other players, etc.
I like multiplayer games, and I like single player games, I like couch co-op, and pvp, mmo's, and fighting games, but I think it's about having the right tool for the job.
But online multiplayer games that are spin offs or sequels to single player games have a well deserved bad reputation. Due to the numerous instances where the motivation wasn't to make the game better, but instead to force the more profitable monitary models that online multiplayer games allow for. Fallout 76 stands out as a prime example.
It's not always a bad change mind you, sometimes it really adds a lot to the game... like... uhhhh... er... Ultima Online? Im sure there are other examples too.
So maybe you can take that stick out of your ass and let folks enjoy what they like? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
There's too many multiplayer games.
And with them come not working anticheat, cheaters, yet another account no one asked for, and a whole other slew of BS.
Many of us find solace in single player classics.
You can have multiplayer games that are possible to play offline. My friends and I have had a grand time playing Black Ops 2 Zombies split screen.
I mean, that game is still available online, but let's be real—BO2 Zombies will outlive every game released this year
Well, as the others already said, it's a matter of taste and different factors play into it, but your argument with the AI is precisely why I find this decision so jarring: You don't need nor want unpredictability in a skating game.
It's not a competitive genre where the unpredictability makes it interesting. And I remember watching a video of a guy playing Skate where NPCs would constantly walk into his path and it was the most infuriating thing. If there would've been no NPCs, no unpredictability, the game would've been better.
Of course, with an MMO, other players will probably have no collision. But if you can still see them where you're skating, they'll still get in the way of you seeing what you're skating on, particularly if you run into trolls.
I'm not completely negative to the MMO concept. Maybe it is fun to see just the sheer chaos of hundreds of others skating in the same place. Maybe they have some sort of idea to actually make interaction with other players relevant in some way. Maybe it's kind of cool for folks to log into the Skate MMO and just hang out. Or maybe it's only an MMO hub-world and you don't have to see other players on the individual courses. But yeah, I'm just not holding my breath.
I can provide an earnest argument, if you like. I put 400+ hours into DotA in college, and enjoy games like Valheim, Lethal Company, and Monster Hunter with friends regularly, but pretty adamantly avoid competitive anonymous multiplayer these days.
- I dislike the increased commitment of multiplayer games. When playing with a group, I have to worry about "letting down" the group, and must play fully sweaty at all times. Learning is also much more stressful and frustrating due to the social element. Even if the group isn't toxic, I'm more aware of my failures and their consequences.
- There are engaging and difficult PvE games that challenge me, with good AI. Souls, Sekiro, DOOM Eternal, and Hollow Knight are all excellent examples with lots of unique and interesting challenges. I also enjoy stuff like speedrunning, which can take easy but fun games like Mario Odyssey and raise the skill ceiling infinitely.
- Matchmaking eliminates the feeling of progression. I love the satisfaction of improving. I.E. Beating Sekiro and starting NG+ only to crush the opening areas that took hours because your skills have improved so much, travelling through an earlier area in Dark Souls and marvelling at how easy it feels now, or setting a huge new PB in a speedrun. Matchmaking with strangers eliminates these moments, because your MMR increases with your skill, trapping you at a 50-ish% win rate permanently, unless you smurf, which is short lived and kinda scummy. You may improve and hit a win streak, but will quickly be slapped back as your MMR increases. And I don't find seeing that number climb up to be nearly as satisfying as real moments that prove your skill.
- I enjoy some atmosphere and narrative. It's tough to deliver a cool world via character trailers exclusively, and most multiplayer games never get an "Arcane". A single player experience will always have some of that, and it can be awesome.
- Pacing and variety. A good game experience is paced out with moments of calm, maybe some puzzle solving or narrative, and moments of intensity and tough fights. That stuff is good when done well. Something like DOOM Eternal gets my heart pounding like nothing else in arenas on higher difficulties, but knows to let you breathe in between, so I can enjoy that heart pounding pace for more than 30m at a time. Online games will try with something like spreading players out in a Battle Royale, but it's not the same.
- Also, I just like pausing, lol. If my wife needs something, it's nice to be able to just put the game down, I don't like being chained to my desk for 20-40 minutes depending on how the game goes because I'll lose rank and disappoint the team.
Also, I say anonymous because a lot of these problems disappear if you play exclusively with friends. I love the Smash series, for example. You have an objective skill benchmark in the friend you're playing with, as well as someone who's understanding when you have to go or do something. That's really cool, but also damn hard to schedule and not something I do often for PvP.
Competitive anonymous multiplayer is great, for those that like it. More than happy to let you enjoy that. But personally these cons outweigh the pros for me, and I'll continue to be disappointed when something I'm excited for turns out to be competitive anonymous PvP.
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in reply to modus • • •That's the question! These are satellite images from the notorious El Salvadorian prison from 2024. The image is viral online with people claiming this is a pile of bodies and blood, but that's unsubstantiated (and the image is from before Trump took office). Another idea is that it's a pile of construction materials and clay.
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Senator's shocking claim why El Salvador won't release innocent man held captive in 'world's worst prison'
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in reply to just_another_person • • •They need to stop this 1 at a time thing. Get like 40 members of Congress, Senators and Representatives. Show up at CECOT with cameras live streaming and demand to be admitted. When they refuse, force your way in.
I don't believe anyone in El Salvador, including Bukele and the goons staffing the prison, want to have a live stream of them assaulting/arresting a bunch of US members of Congress. And if they do, maybe that'll help wake some Republican voters up to the fascism.
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in reply to just_another_person • • •Bukele has already blinked.
I am not worried for Booker. The tide is slowing down, and may turn soon if the pressure continues from all sides. Trump has played his hand badly.