Trump adds second endorsement of Andy Biggs for Arizona governor race
Trump adds second endorsement of Andy Biggs for Arizona governor race
President Donald Trump has added another endorsement in next year’s Republican primary for Arizona governor. Trump said Monday that he was backing U.S. Rep.Sejal Govindarao (AP News)
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her familyHannah Ellis-Petersen (The Guardian)
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Out of curiosity, do you have a source for the belief that most Jews hate Israel? Not disputing it necessarily, just curious where you get that impression from.
A quick search pulled up this study about American Jews that seems to show that even the most sympathetic age demographics display 50% or more approval for how Israel has handled the conflict. If you’ve got different numbers about Jews worldwide, I’d be interested to see them:
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How U.S. Jews are experiencing the Israel-Hamas war
Nine-in-ten American Jews say they think discrimination against Jews has risen in the United States since the Israel-Hamas war began.Beshay (Pew Research Center)
Sorry, my brain skipped over the word cool and read “most Jews”. No doubt that there are Jews who acknowledge what is actually happening, it is just disconcerting to see how far some people will bend over backwards to make excuses for their own team.
I have this argument with my family all the time when they try to act like there is something to redeem here in America—it is a strength to admit when the rot has spread and the limb can’t be saved in its current form.
Israelis and Jews in general have been victims of a massive pro-genocide propaganda campaign from the Israeli government for many, many years now. Not everyone buys into the propaganda, though.
Kind of similar dehumanizing rhetoric as we're seeing in America right now when it comes to immigrants and trans people or the cold war rhetoric of the past when it came to Russians.
There are no winners in war (except for banana companies and Big Oil).
Ah today's batch of fresh horrors has arrived.
Fucking hell. The courage of this person. That poem at the end nearly broke me.
Everyone in this thread: I want Israel shattered, and it's people cast into the sea!
Half the Jews on earth: OK, well we're not going to let that happen to us without a fight. In fact, since you all keep trying, we're going to take proactive steps to make that goal basically impossible.
Everyone in this thread: why do you love genocide so much?
Us: We hate Nazi Germany! Down with Hitler!
You: Heil Hitler heil Hitler heil Hitler heil Hitler heil Hitler heil Hitler heil (etc.)
Us: Why do you love genodice so much?
Edit:
Also it bears repeating, because you're actively ignoring it, but we're not calling for the death or Israelis or Jewish people generally, but specifically the fascist state that is commiting crimes against humanity in their name. The insistence that those two are one and the same is just fascist propaganda.
For the record, I think Bibi and most of his government belong in prison. Bibi is a fascist - but so are most Palestinians, for lack of a better word. I think Israel (as well as America, Europe and the Arab states) should pay reparations to all Palestinians who can demonstrate that they personally have been permanently displaced from land that Israelis have settled on, because it IS a humanitarian crisis - partly of their own creation.
But I'm also realistic about arab/islamic nationalism, and how those states treat their ethnic and religious minorities. I support Kurdish independence for the same reason. I support the Christians in Lebanon - I went to school with some in the early 2000's who were forced from their homes by the same "freedom fighters" who make common cause with Hamas today. Being a non-arab, non-muslim in the Muslim/Arab world is a mortal danger.
There is no scenario where Israel doesn't exist, and Jewish people in the middle east aren't subjected to exactly the kind of genocide that you're accusing Israelis of perpetrating and has been perpetrating against Jews and Christians in living memory, to say nothing of the last thousand years. Some might even call these accusations projection.
If that makes me literally Hitler, then we really don't have anything to discuss. My side keeps winning. Total Israeli capitulation isn't ever going to happen. Israel is here to stay. When certain parties finally accept that reality, maybe we can start making moves towards a lasting peace, but that peace will never include simply throwing open the gates and letting the barbarians sack Israel as they did in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen, Sudan and elsewhere.
Well, I bet it was loud!
Sorry, I had to... don't ban me
They certainly got what they asked for.
Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it.
The world is so much worse without her.
But hell yeah, sister, she set an achievable goal!
I just spent an hour going through her instagram and reading her comments. There's a lot of death, yes, but also a lot of life. It would be so hard to see the good amongst what's going on over there. She was very talented and it's sad that she won't get to see her work in Cannes - at least she knew before the end.
One of the posts was about someone who lost 12 family members in a missile strike. Eerie concidence.... or maybe that kind of story is more common than we could possibly know.
The photos and videos taken before this latest shitstorm were photos just like any other average person. Someone skateboarding, kids playing, photos of buildings in the light... watching the transformation as I scrolled back up towards the top was heartbreaking.
Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble
Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble
Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble.Wafaa Shurafa (AP News)
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The Israeli military said it struck and destroyed around 40 pieces of heavy machinery. Israel said Hamas used the vehicles, including bulldozers, for planting explosives, digging tunnels, and breaching fences, including during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
And most of the dead are women and children.
Gold is surging and it's freaking out the markets. Here's what to know
Gold is surging and it's freaking out the markets. Here's what to know
A perfect storm of geopolitics has sent gold prices blasting past $3,500 as investors flee to safetyCatherine Baab (Quartz)
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Should I invest my entire 401k in gold?
Edit: Maybe just buy gold bars and bury them in my back yard.
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Invest in gold when times are stable, only enough to winter through times of uncertainty.
Now is the time to sell gold.
I bought stocks in times of uncertainty and am now 6% total portfolio in profit after 1 month.
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Goldman Sachs (GS) has hiked its year-end forecast for gold to $3,700, citing trade turmoil and spiking volatility. Other firms and banks have followed suit.
That's all? I'm not analyst or investor, so a few kilos of salt with what I'm about to say: I'm guessing 4000-4200.
If you are hearing it now you are likely too late. You should have been in gold six months ago.
My read is Trump has exhausted all support he has and has been told to walk his recent economic policies back or he will be out in a few months. Either on his back or by a concerted campaign to oust him by our elites.
Of course it’s Trump so he’ll just find some other part of our government or culture to fuck with in order to direct the next news cycle for the next two weeks. My bet is deportations or Canada of the liberals win.
But he’s likely done breaking the economy and will sign agreements with countries that look just like they did before the market lost Trillions in value. He will likely loose big time with China. Xi can hold out far longer than he can.
Russian ammo depot, reportedly holding 264,000 tons of munitions, obliterated near Moscow
Apparently, Ukrainian drones pushed through and started a chain reaction.
Explosions reportedly continued for hours, and authorities evacuated nearby settlements. Initial reports indicate that the site, previously protected by one of Russia’s densest air defense networks, suffered catastrophic damage.
Russian ammo depot, reportedly holding 264,000 tons of munitions, obliterated near Moscow - Euromaidan Press
One of Russia's largest munitions stockpiles erupted in catastrophic secondary explosions that continued for hours.Olena Mukhina (Euromaidan Press)
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True, for some reason, I thought of units instead of tons lmao.
The damage is significantly worse then, probably months worth of production, maybe even a year. A standard shell weighs like what, 45kg?
Just wanted to have the number so others see the impact.
Just to add, Ukrainians information is remarkably reliant and verifiable, the russian information is kremlin lies, so from the start the russian part is just not very interesing at all.
Also obviously they both talk about good things for them, classic war propaganda.
Add in that Ukraine is the (incredible) underdog and here we are.
5.866.666
That is ~587 days worth of munitions if 10k a day is a good info mentioned above. bonkers
It's always the shadiest, most conspiratorial people that refuse to provide sources and say "jUsT gOoGLe iT".
Provide sources or you simply will not be taken seriously, and overall look like an embarrassment.
it's very hard to tell, I'm probably out of date on my numbers as well.
but teeeeeechnically, it's over a hundred thou so.... "rightish?" :D
Alexander Avdeyev also threatened journalists and residents with fines if they shared unofficial information about the blast.
ah yes, i always threaten journalists when there's nothing to report
Nah not really it's mostly sad conspiracy people that follow propaganda and take it for facts. Do some work you can do it.
I'm happy to discuss the fact that the start of the leaked negotiatings are better than what Russia's demands was before.
If you don't believe sure , you will just need to wait until it's undeniable. But as said I'm sure even if Ukraine was flattened and a nuclear wasteland it would be a win for you somehow.
It is not up to us to provide sources to your claim.
Just admit you don't have any sources and all of it was bullshit.
"According to preliminary information, there are no casualties," the ministry said in a statement posted to Telegram. "The cause of the fire is a violation of safety requirements when working with explosive materials."
The article also says Ukraine hasn't taken credit for the explosion, and that Russia has had accidents like this in the past.
Fuck Russia and all that, but now I'm thinking OP is full of shit.
This is evidence that the white house is riddled with Russian plants/propaganda not that the reality on the front is worse for Ukraine than we thought.
We always knew it was bad. It has never been good for Ukraine. If it ever gets good for Ukraine you will see Russians retreating. Nobody knows where that point is, but they are almost certainly closer today than they were a year ago.
Pro-Palestinian activists force entry into BBC studio in protest against broadcaster ‘silence’ on Gaza
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Good link thanks, let me book mark it if I ever need to waste someone's time.
Stalemate means Ukraine is fucked because a war of attrition potentially without US support doesn't look good for them at all
Like, it's amazing they managed to hold shit together for all this time and all, but damn they're looking pretty fucked ngl
Eh I don't think they are fucked. I feel like the perception that A. They REQUIRE US support to win (Which the US should be providing them ffs, you made them give up their nukes) and B. Russia is able to keep fighting long enough to win this way, are both false and largely influenced by a coordinated kremlin effort to portray russian victory as inevitable in order to strangle support for Ukraine.
For context, the Ukrainian people are fighting a defensive war and inflicting far higher casualties then they take for every metre of ground they lose and still have a hell of alot of ground to lose, whilst russia is not only at the disadvantage of being the aggressor (Which makes it harder to motivate your forces to fight),being a regime heavily dependent on the perception of their superiority (Making any attack like this a major blow to their "We are easily winning" internal narrative) and have burnt through almost their entire Cold War era stockpiles of materiel (This one is easy to check as a they were kind enough to store it outside in easy view of commercial satellites).
Tldr: Yes Ukraine is losing ground but they are losing it at a price russia can't afford to pay so russia is desperate for the EU and US to stop supporting ukraine before the russian public wake up.
Eh, I'll take it if we're talking about actual donkeys and not the Republican party of the US. Did you that, in lieu of a dog, a donkey is a perfect way to protect livestock?
I'm serious, a predator should think twice; A donkey can grab a cougar's tail and literally beat it to death by using the wildcat as a living flail. Very protective.
Neither the article in the OP nor the Business Insider article claim that it was an attack by Ukraine. The BI article says that Ukraine hasn't commented on the explosion:
The Ukrainian military has not commented publicly on the explosive incident at the Russian facility. It frequently carries out long-range missile and drone attacks against Russia's energy and military facilities, including ammunition depots.
I'm not saying they didn't do it, or that the accident explanation isn't propaganda, just pointing out that OP mayhaps is pulling this out of their ass:
Apparently, Ukrainian drones pushed through and started a chain reaction.
Well sure, but where's the fun in that? Eh eh
Thanks for the concern brother.
Initial reports indicate that the site, previously protected by one of Russia’s densest air defense networks, suffered catastrophic damage.
Good chance Ukraine could hit the Kremlin if they wanted to. They have drones with the 500 mile range to pull it off, and Russian air defense has become a joke. The only thing that's been stopping them was US worries about actions like that causing escalation. Ukraine has had less and less reason to care what the US thinks of late.
Despite the scale of the incident, Russian officials have offered limited information, with regional governor Aleksandr Avdeev confirming a “blast” but threatening penalties for spreading unofficial reports.
Man, the USA can be a shit show, but at least we can spread unofficial reports whenever we like.
If they left they wouldn't learn the lesson.
No, I love to hear about ammo dumps blowing up.
Some conscripts getting his by a drone, struggling to pull themselves upright so they can end their suffering with their own rifles?
That is what I truly love to see.
Pardon me while I go rub one out.
Their supersonic bombers had ethanol for cooling.
So their crews would take off, then get tanked.
While carrying live nukes.
Between the engineers and the aircrews, just geniuses all around.
People are highly biased. Le chat mistral gives me the whole story.
If I ask a marxist and a libertarian the same question, I get two completely different answers.
I cannot trust people, such a small selection of data.
I use LLM to give me a summary of all of the data and all of the opinions.
It's the complete reverse, putin can't continue selling his war if there are not at least marginal gains. Dictatorships are brittle. Russias economy is also flat out a 100% war economy already, there is nothing left to pour into the war any more. Add the soviet stockpiles going dry as we speak.
And if the USA steps away, which would be bad, remember Ukraine produces 40% of it's war effort itself, the slightly larger part of the rest comes from Europe. And the EU is manning up so it will only get worse for the russians in the long run.
Ukraine will prevail, there is absolutely no doubt about it. The variable is how long time it will take to stop the war and in what way, and get the occupied regions back (yes, including Crimea).
So no source? Not even a link? Just mindlessly spouting off?
Got it, I guess I wasted my time responding in the first place.
Depends on if Trump gives Zelenski a deal he can't refuse.
If nobody changes US or European support I think Ukraine will win eventually.
But that's a big if. As Russia gets closer to collapse they will make noises about peace and cease fires and try to hold what they have, and pushing them off where they are entrenched will be more difficult. Ukraine can do it, given time, and money, and In the short term, military equipment.
duckduckgo.com/?q=Trump+krim+w… (since ppl here don't know how to search on internet apparently)
Sorry where are you getting your news?
Ukraine is a battlefield , western olicharchy vs eastern oligarchy is the players and Ukraine will never win. And I don't believe western olicharchy is going to either , seems Russia is getting better deal than they suggested themselves before the US via EU denied any peacetalks back in 22.
Whoops, you're right. Sorry, my Canadian is showing. Tbf, American politics has always been a necessary thing to know about here.
Anyone think it's weird the Republicans would choose an animal associated with Africa and the Indian subcontinent?
About half of Americans have a negative view on Tesla and Elon Musk, CNBC survey finds
About half of Americans have a negative view on Tesla and Elon Musk, CNBC survey finds
The broad public and investors have something in common these days: They don't have a lot of love for either Tesla or CEO Elon Musk.Steve Liesman (CNBC)
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I went into a shop in MAGA country recently and shop owner broke away from his MAGA conversation to ask us if we'd heard about all the social security grift Elon had just found - apparently they paid over 50 billion dollars to people who'd been dead for 100 years - and did we think they should just refund that to us, or use it to pay off the national debt. He was legit excited.
The misinformation and propaganda and whatnot is off the charts.
Like, here you go for example:
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We The People Trump Store and More · Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Mit Google Maps lokale Anbieter suchen, Karten anzeigen und Routenpläne abrufen.We The People Trump Store and More · Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
2 things:
The survey found Musk to be a highly polarizing figure. Half of the public has a negative view of Musk, compared with 36% who see him positively and 16% who are neutral. Among Democrats, Musk’s net approval (positive minus negative) is -82 and -49 for independents. GOP respondents are +56.The survey of 1,000 people nationwide was conducted April 9 through April 13 and has a margin of error of +/-3.1%.
Who and how were the people surveyed?
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Among Democrats, Musk’s net approval (positive minus negative) is -82 and -49 for independents. GOP respondents are +56.
before the leaky diaper shitshow began its second season, before muskrat turned twitter into a propaganda machine, and before he decided to dabble in politics and buy a presidency, those results would probably be reversed.
He was always an asshole, but back then he usually kept it contained to his personal (and work) interactions.
Now he’s actively throwing his money around trying to make the world a shittier place for all humans. It’s much harder to ignore.
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I think a good percentage of those are either woefully uninformed or think people were making it up.
But that'd be only very very mildly better.
It’s always about 35% approval with the crazy authoritarian stuff in the US.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time.
It's been around 30 percent since GWB.
The math is a bit more complicated. We know 30% of U.S. adults are Nazis. We know 28% appear not to be.
The other 42% of Adults in the U.S. are still in question.
Its lies. Very few people like arrogant billionares who think they can own countries and everyone else is below them and we're leeches to be "deleted". Someone who gets off on ruining lives. Not to mention he's bat shit crazy and has a farm for his offspring. These billionares are the real threat. Trump is just a useful idiot to make things so bad the billionaires swoop in.
Musk is the billionaire Trump. Not that smart.
The smart ones are more dangerous and quiet like Peter thiel. The guy you never heard of that has in hands in everything bad with a fake stutter and compassionate tone. As they build fortresses in New Zealand. Almost like they know there will be a reason to hide.
This reads like a Joe Rogan quote
Biography? There was an honest biography of this asshat 10 years ago?
I'm thinking more hagiography.
Risks to global financial stability surging after Trump tariffs, warns IMF
Risks to global financial stability surging after Trump tariffs, warns IMF
World body says ‘sharp repricing of risks’ possible amid growing concern over role of ‘nonbank’ lendersHeather Stewart (The Guardian)
China Warns Nations Not to Cut US Trade Deals at Its Expense
China Warns Nations Not to Cut US Trade Deals at Its Expense
China warned countries against striking deals with the US that could hurt Beijing’s interests, upping the ante in the trade war with Washington and showing how others risk getting caught in the middle.Josh Xiao (Bloomberg)
U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: 'No one should be here' - The Comics Journal
Burke was not given over directly to the custody of ICE, which held ultimate determination over her fate, but to the GEO Group, a for-profit private prison contractor [my emphasis] operating 50 facilities across the United States, including the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was sent.1 In her more than two weeks in that facility, Burke was kept in a single, large dormitory alongside 103 other detained women, given limited access to food, hygiene, and clean clothes, and unaware throughout the period when or whether she would be allowed to return home. She had been allowed early on to contact her parents (with whom she remained sporadically in touch during her detainment), and they in turn were able to reach British authorities. But while diplomatic efforts bore little fruit, Burke’s case did, in the meantime, make its way into news both in the U.K. and (to a more limited extent) in the U.S., having drawn the attention of the BBC, the Guardian, Newsweek, and, within the field of comics, Rich Johnston at Bleedingcool.com.
U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: 'No one should be here' - The Comics Journal
On Feb. 26, 2025, Rebecca Burke became a prisoner of the United States immigration system. Burke, a 28-year-old comic artist from Wales, had come to the U.S. on a tourist visa on Jan.Zach Rabiroff (The Comics Journal)
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What a bloody catch 22. It's Kafkaesque how someone with intentions of following the law can get sucked into that people crunching machine.
That's the true danger of policies like that. They are supposed to be soul destroying but that kind of ruthless treatment is never confined to the people it's meant for.
That's why due process is important if you make a class of people illegal, you end up with false positives galore. And these organisations will not back down, rather double down.
Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says
Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
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The only way for Labour to govern under first past the post is to appeal to the center.
Unfortunately our country is disgustingly conservative and the right wing have always been far better organised, it probably helps they have the media on side.
Starmer is actually doing a surprisingly ok job. The austerity he's pushing is tedious as fuck but if he weren't keeping an eye on economics we'd be drowning in hysteria about "magic money trees" and labour dragging the country in to debt.
The employment rights bill will be an incredible improvement for working people. I wish it went a lot further but it's a solid start.
Unless labour support electoral reform we are doomed to an eternity of right wing government. Labour only got into power last year because reform split the vote, and very soon the reform and conservatives will merge together again.
I really have it with those old white men.
Why can’t you just shut up if you are incapable of adjusting your world view to the 21st century?
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I hope you get everything you deserve.
Edit: Ha! Huff my duff, Nazi trash.
Remeber how when there was a fight for gay marriage a good portion of people said they didnt mind the legal concept and just wanted to call it "civil unions" and we totally did that as a first step to placate those people before going full on equal marriage...
I wonder why the approach to trans rights has been so all or nothing with people
It seems like there is no real desire for progress from eithet side the way things stand now.
What happens when that attitude ends up creating more biggots and we find ourselves even more outnumbered. I dont know what the best solution is but surely its not to alienate a full third of the entire population and expect that to work out well for everyone.
On a personal one to one level i do agree they can fuck off. But from an observing the reality of living in a country that just elected a fascist, im worried all the demanding people accept things they disagree with lest they be shunned, its just going to lead to more pushback against trans and other vulnerable people.
I dont know what the best solution is but surely its not to alienate a full third of the entire population and expect that to work out well for everyone
A full third of the population is already alienated. It's not working well for anyone. I'm simply saying we should leave a full third behind in the dust if they don't want to give up bigotry. These people are not helpless, they know that they're wrong, and they're doing this shit anyway. Compromising with them is exactly why we elected a fascist.
And to be clear, conservatives drove this, they had a million opportunities to turn around, and refused every time. I'm not the one who brought us here.
By your logic, when they freed the slaves, they really should've done it slowly instead of all at once, because look how many racists it made!
Or was civil rights too fast as well?
Im not sure you have my logic correct... Im not saying we should do things slower, im saying its concerning how black or white everything has gotten, everyone has purity tests and if you dont pass you arent worth engaging with and im concerned that will have a lot of negative consequences and lead to increased hostility.
I am sharing an observation, not suggesting a solution. I am saying the way things are is concering and while i hope for a positive outcome (one where people are accepted for who they are) i see a lot more pushback than acceptance with the current strategy/mindset.
An example of compromise would be to acknowledge that trans women are biologically different from cis women.This is not an extreme or hateful idea. Other issues like sports or bathrooms can still be nuanced discussions that acknowledge peoples concerns and work to educate rather then alienate. Acceptice means different things to different people and it wont come all at once.
To compare a similar example imagine someone who comes out as gay to parents in the 90s: strict chrisitan parents might kick them out of the house and never speak to them again, - OR- they could be the type of conservative parents who say "well i dont agree with it but i still love you". Whch would you rather have? Which one would potentially lead to a potentially better outcome/changed mind?
It seems to me that completely alienating people who have reasonable objections to relatively new ideas is not the best way to go.
They asked "What is there to compronise" and i answered "an example of compromise would be to acknowledge that trans women are biologically different from cis women"...
Its called agreeing to disagee, have civil discussions with people who you might actually find you have more in common with then you disagree on and minds can be moved that way.
This whole all or nothing approach is just turning more people away, you want to talk about putting trans folk in harms way, but what happend to just wanting to be able to live a normal life?
I guess when you are in your own bubble its hard to see other perpectives, but surely you dont honestly think if you surveyed a random set of a few hundred people, the majority of them would not be on the same page about any trans rights issues, insulting or chastising them wont win them over and will only cause more resentment against trans people.
Literally no one thinks cis women and trans women are the same, so your compromise doesn't mean anything in and of itself.
I'm asking you what your position means in real world terms. What are the consequences of these differences? Because that's what really matters.
Feigned outrage because I asked you for specifics seems counter to your stated goals of reaching compromise and makes me question your motives.
So a specific compromise would be when someone says that they accept transwomen as people deserving of respect and dignity, but i dont think they should be allowed to compete in professional sports as women, you dont call them a bigot or refuse to engage with them. Its saying "could you think of a way to esure womens safety that doesnt assume all trans people are sexual predators? " when they say women should be able to feel safe in locker rooms.
Its about engagjng in good faith discussions so that people who just passivly observe things dont get the impression that the disenguous "just asking questions" people are the moderate and reasonable ones.
"I think people should have respect" isn't something you can say when the thing that follows is a list of arguments to exclude those very same people.
Even your framing highlights why trans folk are so frustrated. You talk about women's safety, as if trans women aren't part of that discussion, and on top of that, you completely brush over the fact that trans women are even more likely to be victims of violence and sexual assault than cis women.
And your response is that trans folk should just be OK with that, they should just compromise by accepting that their needs are viewed as less important than the needs of cis folk, and just silently accept exclusion.
The truth is, rights are won through social push back and confrontation. They are fought for, because they don't just get handed over otherwise. Especially when there is political capital in exclusion.
I'm also going to highlight that despite engaging with you in good faith, you almost certainly haven't become more accepting, and in fact have most likely become more entrenched in your position as you consider comebacks to my points.
That's why
Your statement seems to imply you think i disagree with you, I don't. I am expressing concern about how other peoples actions will cause more negative pushback (and this happens on both sides, across all issues, not just trans rights). You're taking what i'm saying to mean people should not push back at all, and that is NOT what im saying. You are also conflating an observation with a prescription. My initial post was only critical of the "all or nothing" approach that most people seem to take to issues these days, and how that can negatively affect progress. I'm expressing a concern about how black and white things are compared to how things seems 20-30 years ago with gay rights or 50-60 years ago with civil rights even.
I'm very curious what you think the positions i've become entrenched in are? I suppose the one thing is that I believe we as a society/human race are extremely fucked at the moment, probably past the point of no return on a number of things that will end us, but not really specific to this conversation.
Your statement seems to imply you think i disagree with you
You do. You are suggesting that trans people should offer to exclude themselves and give up our rights, because demanding equality is too much.
I am expressing concern about how other peoples actions will cause more negative pushback
Giving up some of our rights, rights that everyone else has, to appease the folk who enjoy those rights, when we are the ones more at risk of violence, and exclusion is not a viable middle ground like you seem to be implying it is.
Your framing of that as "all or nothing" means I very much disagree with you. You may think trans folk deserve rights and dignity, but you don't believe trans people deserve the same rights as cis people
You do. You are suggesting that trans people should offer to exclude themselves and give up our rights, because demanding equality is too much.
Cool strawman, but I don't think that, not even close
Giving up some of our rights, rights that everyone else has, to appease the folk who enjoy those rights, when we are the ones more at risk of violence, and exclusion is not a viable middle ground like you seem to be implying it is.
I never said to give up on anything. I was making a statement about how different the current situation is from a past situation in which noticeable progress was made on some kind of civil rights. Are you implying that people in the 90s and 00s who fought for gay rights just did stuff to appease their way to marriage equality?
Your framing of that as “all or nothing” means I very much disagree with you. You may think trans folk deserve rights and dignity, but you don’t believe trans people deserve the same rights as cis people
I'm simply pointing out that things seem to have gone beyond a point of no return in terms of 2 sides being able to agree on pretty much anything anymore because one side is composed almost exclusively of narcissists with oppositional defiance disorder, and the other side is so busy in-fighting that they don't realize they're alienating their own and not making any progess.
Again, there is no suggestion being made here... everyone should continue fighting as hard as you are able, in whatever ways are accessible to you to forward the cause of trans rights and any other rights you believe in.
there is no suggestion being made here
Yes there is. I asked you what you think compromise looks like in real world terms
You replied with this
So a specific compromise would be when someone says that they accept transwomen as people deserving of respect and dignity, but i dont think they should be allowed to compete in professional sports as women, you dont call them a bigot or refuse to engage with them. Its saying "could you think of a way to esure womens safety that doesnt assume all trans people are sexual predators? " when they say women should be able to feel safe in locker rooms.
That is quite explicitly a suggestion. Or rather, two suggestions.
In this suggestion, you use the word "women" as if it doesn't apply to trans women. ie, you say "women's safety" when you clearly means cis women's safety. Dangerous, because it normalises the attack on trans women that they aren't women. And dangerous because it implies that trans women are a risk to cis women, when in fact, trans women are more at risk of sexual assault and violence than cis women are! There is danger here, but it's not coming from the trans women, and framing it as if it is, and as if that is something that should be compromised on is dangerous to trans people.
There is no compromise, when that compromise involves having our safety ignored, and our rights rolled back. That's not compromise.
That is quite explicitly a suggestion. Or rather, two suggestions.
Yes when you (or someone) literally asked me for examples, I provided examples. You've taken my giving examples of things i have heard other people expressing as being my own personal suggestions. I can also give you an example of how some people believe the moon landing was faked, that doesnt mean i'm suggesting I personally believe them.
In this suggestion, you use the word “women” as if it doesn’t apply to trans women. ie, you say “women’s safety” when you clearly means cis women’s safety. Dangerous, because it normalises the attack on trans women that they aren’t women. And dangerous because it implies that trans women are a risk to cis women, when in fact, trans women are more at risk of sexual assault and violence than cis women are! There is danger here, but it’s not coming from the trans women, and framing it as if it is, and as if that is something that should be compromised on is dangerous to trans people.
Because Its something i've heard other cis women say, and those cis wome do not hate trans people, they arent aware of the same statistics you are, not everyone is able to follow the same news sources and some people who only get infomation on social media are subject to waves of propaganda news articles. Its one of the resons i personally got off facebook when I started seeing crazy anti-trans stuff on a completely unrelated group about a cartoon i like, this shit is EVERYWHERE and to people who are un-informed it can be scary and concerning.
You may not have a desire to engage with those people and thats totally understandable, but there should be some people who are allies, who are able to engage in those types of conversations. We live in a world where Trump won AGAIN, so clearly things are heading a certain way if drastic action isnt taken, but I'm not sure you're going to be able to bully people into accepting that "trans women are women", I personally agree with that statement, but at least 1/3rd of people probably never will agree with it, and a good portion are either not invested enough to care or very set in their existing ways and ideas and will take some convincing about one thing or another.
There is no compromise, when that compromise involves having our safety ignored, and our rights rolled back. That’s not compromise.
Right now we are literally having everyone's rights rolled back because thats how fascists like Trump act when you stand up to them, I'm not saying don't stand up to them. It's a pretty bad sign that enough people support them and what they are doing, not just trans rights everyone's rights are getting trashed and there is a good third or so of the population that is just going to stand by and cheer it on. I'd like to find as many allies as I can at a time like this, and to me that means finding ways to see common ground with people i have other disagreements with, for me there's no war but the class war, and trans people are a part of that too.
not everyone is able to follow the same news sources and some people who only get infomation on social media are subject to waves of propaganda news articles.
I very much understand that. However, this conversation is a classic example of the fact that even being told those statistics and having the context made clear, doesn't actually change anything.
You may not have a desire to engage with those people and thats totally understandable, but there should be some people who are allies, who are able to engage in those types of conversations
There are. Lots of them! It's why I am defensive with you, because despite the existence of folk like that, you don't see them, and instead categorise trans people as largely being "all or nothing". You are part of the group you were just talking about. The group that isn't exposed to the right content, and instead, only knows what they see in an actively transphobic media and social media environment.
And as I said earlier, you won't shift your opinion, you won't ease off and stop fighting me, to become one of those people that helps trans folk. Instead, you'll fight me, for daring to take issue with your framing of the situation, whilst blaming me for it at the same time.
Right now we are literally having everyone's rights rolled back because thats how fascists like Trump act when you stand up to them
That's our common ground right there. Yet instead of talking about that, you're suggesting that actually, giving in and being ok with some of those rollbacks might be ok, as long as its trans people!
If you want allyship against facism, focus on the facism, rather than demanding that your allies capitulate to it
You keep putting words in my mouth, at what point did i suggest rolling back rights for anyone?
It seems like you are just looking to be offended, good luck with that, ill leave you to your strawmen.
at what point did i suggest rolling back rights for anyone?
When you said we should accept our removal from sports, and that we should be open to exclusion from the ability to use bathrooms in public.
As I said though, this conversation is an example of why you don't see the behaviour you're asking for. It's because the responses always look like yours.
Just to correct the record here:
I am against the remove of trans people from sports, but i also realize that sports are not a "right" and you can't walk back something you never had in the first place. Sports are only accessible to privileged people to begin with.
I think all public bathrooms should be gender neutral or single person only.
The right being lost isn't the right to play sports. It's the right to equality.
And it's great that your for something that isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. But in the mean time, trans people have to navigate the situation we do have.
Yeah exactly so nothing i mentioned was actually rolling anything back, trans people never had equality, women never had equality, minorities do not have equality. You will never have equality under a capitalist system unless you have the $$$ and lawyers to backup your demands for it,.
But please keep being loud about how everyone who disagrees with you is trying to take away your rights (the ones you never had to begin with) and making up strawmen to argue with so you don't have to address anything in reality. I'm sure you'll make progress any day now with that attitude.
An example of compromise would be to acknowledge that trans women are biologically different from cis women.This is not an extreme or hateful idea.
It is also not in dispute.
What is in dispute is sometimes the extent of those differences, but is usually whether those differences are relevant at all.
Other issues like sports or bathrooms can still be nuanced discussions that acknowledge peoples concerns and work to educate rather then alienate.
Opposition to trans rights generally comes from three motivating factors:
1. The propensity to find trans people icky.
2. The desire to deny the existence of gender identity as something that is distinct from sex. (This comes in both pro- and anti- gender essentialist flavours and we could discuss it all day, but that is not relevant for now.)
3. Having a genuine concern about biological differences.
The reason why we're not having nuanced discussions is because people in categories 1 and 2 will masquerade as people in category 3 and not participate in any discussion in good faith.
Let's take trans women in sports as an example. There is - for sure - a small number of people who will argue that that anyone who identifies as a woman should be able to compete as a woman in any circumstances, but this is not a mainstream position, even in the trans community. The mainstream position is that trans women should be generally be allowed to compete as women in competition after some suitable amount of time on hormone replacement therapy.
This is because strength is not stored in the balls or in the genes; the difference in strength between cis men and cis women is a result of the effect of testosterone on the muscles, and the presence of testosterone needs to be maintained in order to maintain those muscular differences. Such studies that there are seem to suggest that trans women tend not to have any advantage over cis women after a year or two on HRT when controlling for differences in height.
Some people who are hostile to trans women in sport are unaware of this and think that strength advantages are permanent, and when you explain the reasons that they aren't then those people may become less hostile to the concept. Maybe they have doubts about the specific studies or want there to be more research for any given sport or whatever, but that is the region in which compromise is possible. But maybe they'll just start pulling further justifications out of their arse.
- "Those height differences are significant enough to merit banning trans women!" If it were then the sport would have height categories, wouldn't it?
- "What about muh bone density?" In what world does having heavier bones and weaker muscles to move them around with constitute an advantage?
However, the debate is mostly populated by people who pretend to care about biological differences, but in reality simply object to any concession that trans women are in any way women. Anyone who claims that men are biologically better than women at chess or darts is fundamentally unserious. The film Lady Ballers came about when someone at the Daily Wire suggested that they make a documentary about men identifying as women so they can compete against women. When they found out that actually, that's not a thing that happens and there are requirements that you have to meet, did they let that stop them? No, they just wrote a fictional film about it instead because they object to trans women being treated as women for ideological reasons, and they want to poison the well by persuading people that it is a thing that happens.
How do you compromise with that? How do you compromise with someone who objects to a trans woman competing as a woman in a chess competition because they fundamentally object to the premise that a trans woman is in any way a woman?
First off, thank you for taking the time for an execellent response. This is pretty much the kind of compromise im talking about, you acknowledge there are people with genuine concerns, but the vocal majority are acting in bad faith. You didnt just say anyone who disagrees with you is a bigot, you brought more information to backup your positions.
Honestly, i am with you 100% on everything you mentioned already. The reason im posting the question like this is because sadly it seems my partner of 16 years, has fallen down the Jk Rowling rabbit hole, and i know for a fact my wife does not hate trans women, but also wants "women only spaces" because on facebook and twitter you basically get nothing but hateful stuff vaguely disguised as "safety” or fairness concerns. Its not exactly easy to convince a 49 year old life long feminist that they are falling for propaganda.
Its one thing when to have this kind of disagreement with random internet people, and quiet another to have it with someone you respect and care about. The point is conversations can and should be had. If its mostly bad faith actors being vocal with fake concerns, why not respond with something that has genuine aswers to those concerns, like what you did here so that the people who do have good faith concerns but arent speaking up dont get overwhelmed by only seeing the bad faith side of things?
Why are they trying so hard to prove it, if it’s the obvious truth? I never saw my mother and sister having to prove or defend the point that they are women.
Well, regardless of my standpoint, I might not like what you have to say but I will for sure fight for your right to say it. Same goes for everyone.
Why are they trying so hard to prove it, if it’s the obvious truth?
It's unclear, and quite important, who you mean by "they" here.
I never saw my mother and sister having to prove or defend the point that they are women.
Is anybody saying that they aren't?
Well, that's cool and all but you haven't addressed anything I wrote.
What does
"traditional binary understanding of gender based on biological sex"
do to explain individuals that are born intersex? Or with chromosome xx but female biological sex organs? Etc etc.
Please address what I actually wrote.
We haven't even began to discuss concepts such as gender. We haven't moved past fifth grade biology in this conversation yet.
Can we not just have gender neutral bathrooms and changing rooms and be done with it?
"But what about MtF people going into sports?" Just put a fucking asterisk by their name on the leader boards.
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Its so tiring of people trying to patch problems with "gendered bathrooms", "train cars only for women", "women parking lots" rather than actually solving real problems. These band aids should be a temporary solutions at best but here we are - argueing about gendered bathrooms in 2025.
The worst when people try to spin these as some sort of innovation. Especially for gendered train cars here in Japan was such a huge thing and I couldn't help but eye roll when instead of addressing perverts they just herd women into protected pens and put camera noise default on every smartphone that take 10 minutes to disable by actual criminals.
train cars only for women
Good thing nobody can actually suggest that in this day and age. Because that's a concept that makes everyone immediately go "Ooooh, how delightfully 1800s. Wait, why are we doing this, I thought we were better than that."
...If someone actually suggests that, have them be detained by a few chimney sweeps until the police arrives by horse carriage.
nah that's just you guys americans. This suggestion is still widely considered in most places. The problem is that it turns from a temporary patch to a "solution".
Shopping mall next to me just added a parking floor for women only instead of hiring more security guards which here Thailand are incredibly cheap and honestly a real joy to have around. In the west people would say "it's a pointless job" but having someone maintain order and vibe of a place is much more effective and important than girl trains.
There are just so many of these populist examples that people have their brains hijacked by. Once you start paying attention you just can't wait for AI overlords to take over cause we're really not good at this.
Old man shouldn’t get a say in what a woman is.
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Guess my Canadian trans ass is boycotting the UK now too. It's been a long time coming anyway, Terf Island.
(Sorry Scotland, you're cool but also in a toxic relationship I can't be around right now. I hope we can be friends again some day)
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
They want to go back to how it was in the 1800s
Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* ghostarchive.org
Battling the Scourge of ‘Embalmed Milk’
Deborah Blum, author of 'The Poison Squad,' tells the story of an obscure Indiana public health official who pioneered the campaign against tainted dairy products at the turn of the 20th century.Deborah Blum (Undark Magazine)
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I have terrible news for you. At least in my part of America, the only milk you can buy is ultra high pasteurized.
Of course, that's what they've been doing until now. Let's see what happens without the FDA on it.
Now it’s an unambiguous statement that unknown quantities of unknown substances in your food will not trigger enforcement actions! (Regardless of the regulating body)
Federal Inspectors Found Antibiotics in Beef 'Raised Without Antibiotics.' They Took No Action
JBS, Cargill and Tyson appear to have misled consumers.Grey Moran (Sentient)
Oh, you’re right - I recalled the article and just grabbed the first one that fit when I skimmed it.
I think my point that this is a clear message that the regulators are unable to regulate right now is still valid, but I will update my previous comment for clarity.
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This tried to limit it to "400,000 [pus] cells per milliliter" but it looks like it didn't pass.
Also found this fun guide (adapted from FDA guidelines) telling labs how to count the pus cells. Particularly alarming is that they tell the labs to err on the side of ignoring pus cells "If in Doubt, Do Not Count Questionable Cells!"
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Thank you, Come again!
No returns.
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From working with lab equipment, you'd be surprised how quickly results turn to unreliable slop if not consistently calibrated. Is that what you're saying is being skipped?
The article really didn't do a good job of explaining. Would this be the equivalent of CAPP inspections where one lab will audit another?
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That kind of expense is meant to ensure standardized practices, correct?
Trump thinks measure once cut once is more efficient.
To some extent, but more so to ensure people actually absorbed the training.
So if you train people on shitty practices, then they can pass their competency tests doing shitty things really well!
The actual training (typically called SOPs - standard operating procedures / policies or some such thing) quality is generally what makes a bigger difference. Those are typically reviewed annually or on some timeline based on risk and volatility.
An HHS spokesperson said the laboratory was already set to be decommissioned before the staff cuts and though proficiency testing would be paused during the transition to a new laboratory, dairy product testing will continue.
So NOT because of the cuts… but also WTF? Can we not continue enshitifying America?
alternatives exist, it's an easy change to make.
but I'll keep speaking up. ❤
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I think food really, really, really hits close to home. For many people, especially a certain kind of man, shall we say, and women that have taken up similar toxic attitudes (see the story about the "mean MAGA girls" for an example), the very notion of cutting out even just beef gives them the vapors. You'd think someone was asking them to cut their nuts off. It's an identity politics type of thing. I think many men legit don't want to be seen as veg*ns because they think women will think they are pussies. Even the notion of reducing their intake - anathema. It is the same kind of assholery you see from people that proudly turn on every light in the house during Earth Hour, or the kind of mentality that drives someone to alter their truck to waste more diesel to blow it on other cars.
I'm 100% vegetarian. I have not cut egg and dairy out completely, though I never really could stand milk itself all that much anyway - I'm moderately lactose intolerant so take it easy on the cheese. Most of my meals are 100% vegan.
Even after all these years, I still get people - and not completely uneducated people, either - get a look of concern and ask me where I get my protein from. I try to be patient and reasoned when I get the question, but....wow. Sometimes even the SAME fucking people have asked me multiple times over the years. It's like not one fucking thing I answered them with sunk in, at all. Marketing is one hell of a drug. I thought the stupid fad of listing how many grams of protein on every item as if it was somehow a gigantic benefit would die off, but if anything, the labeling has grown only more pronounced. 🤣
I've seen this too. Way too often, in fact. You could even be among the annoying (IMHO) types that are constantly trying to out-purity-test one another and lecturing everyone on fucking everything and being all intersectional [1], etc.
I rarely bring up being vegetarian IRL. People that know, know. The only time it comes up is when arranging food or what have you. Obviously there are times when it needs to come up. But I'm not into arguing over nutrition and the whys IRL and I'm also not into the proselytizing. Best you can do is quietly lead by example, in my view. Preaching at people until they stop eating meat is not going to work.
Anyway, I've had multiple instances where it comes up and some super-dooper almighty holier-than-thou type of lefties (we all know the type, I'm sure - the kind that give a bad name to progressive causes - this kind of attitude is best left to church ladies trying to No True Scotsman each other over xtian doctrine as they see it) will make some snide remark about vegetarianism/veganism! I mean, what the actual fuck.
[1] Invariably, this tends to be a white woman holding forth and telling any white men within earshot their views on how white men should let others do the talking and just listen. Sometimes the woman will claim to be bi for extra Oppression Olympics Points. I wish I could say this was only just the same white woman in the various instances...anyway, if people wonder how to generate more reactionaries, I'm sure cartoonish and over the top buffoons like that are not helping at all. Anyway, in my view, in being decent to others or worker solidarity, etc., very few of this type, if any, are walking the walk or even have any interest in any of that.
The thing that got me to significantly reduce my dairy consumption was
1. Being exposed to vegetable milk (first soy then almond) by my roommates
2. Not keeping fresh milk in the apartment because it kept going bad
3. Losing the ability to gracefully digest lactose
I eat much less cow now because of cute internet cow videos.
Anyways, I think if 5 people reduce their consumption by 30% that's more impactful than 1 person reducing their consumption by 100%.
(Math caveat: assuming each person has the same baseline level of consumption. 5 vegans reducing their consumption by 30% won't do squat).
I misread that as "it's easy to make."
You're right. While its not so easy to make, its available at most stores, it lasts longer before it spoils, and its cheaper.
There's a reason that psychopathic antagonists drink milk in movies. You'd have to be crazy to choose to buy milk from an animal
Yeah, indeed. Even when we try to avoid a lot of the toxic output of the SAD, we get the "benefit" of the lack of regulation meaning that cow shit ends up on food.
And that was BEFORE the asshats like donnie and his dogebags got their hands on things.
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If we outlaw animal abuse, then cow populations would drop from trillions to thousands.
And then there would be no more issues with cow shit on our veggies.
So much "efficiency".
Once again, when the brainless howler monkeys like Failin' Palin were talking about "death panels", it was projection. ALWAYS projection.
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Fun fact: Up to 30% of the volume of milk can be pus in Florida (there's lots of puss coming out of these abused girl's tits due to infections on wounds caused by the machines).
So I dont know how you thought it was OK to be drinking milk before..
Pretty sure everyone who drinks animal milk is evil, so I'm fine for them to all get sick.
Do eggs next please.
Even if you were going to do this, why would you tell everyone you're doing it?
Man it really sucks living in this shithole country run by a pack of morons.
This is going to fuck up the US export market something FIERCE. The US is actually one of the largest food exporters in the world, but without proper inspection and safety checks, no country with half a brain cell is going to want to import potentially contaminated food. Whenever something slips through the cracks and some people die or get hurt from food poisoning it is always a major scandal, even if the number of people affected are in the single or double digits.
This is the type of shit that will bring the US back to the 19th century when food adulteration was rampant. Except now despite overproducing food on an unimaginable scale, they will STILL try to adulterate food with bullshit.
Why I didn’t drink American milk before:
In Canada, the dairy industry is regulated by the Canadian Dairy Commission, which sets standards for milk production, including quality and safety. Canadian milk is often noted for its strict regulations regarding antibiotics and hormones, and the use of growth hormones like rBST is banned.
In the USA, milk quality is regulated at both federal and state levels, with the FDA setting standards for milk safety. However, practices can vary significantly from state to state, and some farmers may use growth hormones, which can be a concern for some consumers.
"US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts”
Aaaand another step backwards...
People wailing for help as loved ones lay in pools of blood -- heartrending scenes after terror attack in Pahalgam
People wailing for help as loved ones lay in pools of blood -- heartrending scenes after terror attack in Pahalgam
Kashmir Tragedy: Heavily armed terrorists attack tourists in Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadows; graphic scenes of bloodshed and panic emerge.PTI (Deccan Herald)
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Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’
US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February
The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd at his rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, which included musical acts from Joan Baez and Neil Young, who encouraged the crowd to “take America back”.
Sanders’s Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here tour has been drawing massive crowds. Aided by the progressive New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the team set the record in Tempe, Arizona, for biggest-ever political rally in that state three weeks ago. In Denver, Colorado, more than 34,000 people showed up – a career-high crowd for the 83-year-old Sanders. Saturday in Los Angeles saw another record: at least 36,000 people packed a downtown park.
Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’
US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been drawing record-breaking crowds since FebruaryGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
I supported Bernie in 2016 and 2020 but we’re at this juncture because he rolled over and let Dems cheat him out of the nomination twice. The Dems have continued to push disastrous strategies one after another.
These types of demonstrations only serve to rile up the base, not help them with Independents in swing states, who are the ones that decide elections. They should be going there and building their networks now and seeing what those people think.
I’m from NC and the South previously being Democrat doesn’t have a positive influence. Especially since Dems have taken the opposition to tariffs. The people whose jobs were replaced associate globalizing decisions with Democrats (especially Clinton) and want to punish other countries who “stole” our jobs, whether it’s ultimately better for us or not. Also we weren’t big fans of Obama, he just faced weak candidates, MAGA didn’t exist yet, and he could rally the black male vote that has slowly been turning conservative. Those guys are not going to vote for an old white dude or AOC. Perhaps they’ll have a better chance in WI, MI, and PA.
The only ways I see Dems winning in the South is to change their priorities (ie stop dying on the 20% hill on 80/20 issues), if the tariffs cause a recession, or there’s another Black Swan event like the pandemic that Trump fumbles. Otherwise, as Jon Stewart was saying lately, Trump is beating their approval ratings by 20% overall, so likely even more in swing states.
Trump won by a larger margin in 2024 than in 2020, after multiple convictions and Jan 6. He had the biggest swing state vote margin apart from Obama who as I’ve said was a unique candidate/cycles.
I volunteered for Kamala and was semi shocked at the results, but it also made me expand my news sources and talk more to ideologically different people, which is why I’m more negative about Dems’ swing state chances, particularly in NC and GA.
The only issues that have remotely resonated with fellow independents is if they go past pursuing visa students and attack free speech for citizens.
Honestly, I plugged my nose and supported Dems chosen candidate since 2020 and I won’t do it again unless it’s someone like Pete.
Perhaps they’ll have a better chance in WI, MI, and PA.
Those are the places that I mean. Those states are part of the infamous Rust Belt area whose citizens are mostly working class that used to vote Democrats. They are now the swing states that I believe AOC and Bernie could easily win.
Rice crisis: Japan imports grain from South Korea for first time in more than 25 years
Japanese consumers who used to treat foreign-grown rice with scepticism have been forced to develop a taste for it amid domestic shortage
Japan has imported rice from South Korea for the first time in a quarter of a century in an attempt to address soaring prices and growing consumer anger.
South Korean rice arrived in Japan last month for the first time since 1999, according to media reports, as the price of domestically produced grain continued to rise, despite government attempts to relieve the pressure on shoppers.
The price of Japan-grown rice has more than doubled since this time last year, fuelling demand for cheaper foreign grain, despite the heavy tariffs imposed on imports.
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I heard about this from my wife (who is Japanese), and it's mostly a bad harvest along with few secondary reasons. If you're like me and thought it's the USs fault, it probably isn't helping with trade but Japan can still very much import rice from the US. Korea just makes more sense right now, probably.
In fact, ironically, tarrifs might actually help-- less US demand for Japanese rice means very slight increase in domestic supply. But it's likely not a lot.
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Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal
Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal
‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’David Maddox (The Independent)
The very Un-American US President Trump and his administration are trying to Americanise the rest of the world.
Fuck. Right. Off.
Im still salty that some people genuinely think he's doing anything positive whatsoever.
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom | It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.Adrienne LaFrance (The Atlantic)
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Announcing the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize national champions
Announcing the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize national champions
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Announcing the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize national champions - International Science Council
Marking Earth Day, the Frontiers Planet Prize reveals its 19 National Champions, representing scientific excellence across five continents.gabriela (International Science Council)
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I don't think it was the NSF directly (though their research could have been utilized), but the US did try to do something about it (at least with COVID misinfo). But then the whole "ConSErvaTivE voICEs aRE beINg SilEncED!" peanut gallery whipped themselves into a frenzy.
- ‘Facebook Files’: Fact-Checking Jim Jordan’s Claims Biden Pressured Facebook
- Mark Zuckerberg’s letter about Facebook censorship is not what it seems
- Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis
- Research Finds Conservatives Vastly More Likely to Share Inaccurate Articles Without Even Reading Them
Research Finds Conservatives Vastly More Likely to Share Inaccurate Articles Without Even Reading Them
Researchers determined that US conservatives are substantially more likely to share false information without even reading the article.Ashley Bardhan (Futurism)
A simple tweak to tax law has helped bring solar power to the communities that need it most; The Inflation Reduction Act lets companies sell their clean energy tax credits for cash. Now that's at risk
A simple tweak to tax law has helped bring solar power to the communities that need it most
The Inflation Reduction Act lets companies sell their clean energy tax credits for cash. Now that benefit is at risk.Syris Valentine (Grist)
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Just trying to function under capitalism while providing for their family? Often both immediate and extended since many of our scholars and scientists are immigrants who came here for a higher wage to send money back home to their parents.
And mostly being increasingly annoyed at how almost all media attacks intellectuals and paints us as "out of touch" and "having no common sense". All while acknowledging that the entire world is shifting authoritarian but not expecting the US to speedrun a decade or two of erosion of civil rights.
But hey, good on you for continuing to demonstrate just how ingrained anti-intellectualism is into the cultural zeitgeist. Because this shit has been going on for a lot longer than 24 years. Most people attribute it to reagan. But the end result is that basically everyone grew up on (national equivalents of) nickelodean sitcoms where the protagonist kid proves they are smarter than their teachers because they understood a pun or knew one tidbit of trivia.
Ok. I'm anti-intellectual for recognizing the post 9-11 authoritarian shift in this country.
Do you have any other astute observations to offer?
So... you blame that on "scholars"?
Because you seem to think that people weren't talking about exactly that for close to 50 years. You just weren't paying attention. And now are apparently criticizing people for continuing to talk about it.
Again, THAT is what the legacy of reagan et al is. We all grew up on media that makes us immediately want to complain that "Scientists said eggs were good for us then bad for us then good for us" and all the other crap that encourages people to just get angry when they hear "common sense" and actively ignore anything that isn't.
Language matters. And understanding that language is how you understand what biases have been ingrained into you.
You're reaching hard my guy.
Also yes. Fuck Reagan. Pissing on his grave is on my bucket list.
My brothers and sisters in Christ...
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We've always been here.
What these scholars are finally stumbling into is our age-old horrifying authoritarianism directed at upper-middle class gender normative white people. But to believe the nation that's been indulging in plantation farming and zero-hour contracts, bloated national security institutions and public-private surveillance plans, institutionalized misogyny and evangelized genocide for practically every year of its near-250 year history wasn't already authoritarian...
Who knows. Maybe now that the current administration is no longer carving us apart and harvesting from the national body like a surgeon and just coming at us with a rusty machete we can find some kind of intersectional unity. But the way I see people freaking out because pretty blonde girls and middle-aged white men are running afoul of a police force that was exclusively fixated on the epigenetic underclass a few of presidents ago makes me think this is still a nation of white supremacists who feel betrayed because the Supremacist In Chief is simply doing a clumsy job.
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When the state is imposing shitty racist inexcusable policy via the institutions of the bureaucracy, that's exactly what it means.
The FBI is authoritarian. The DEA is authoritarian. The DHS is authoritarian. Always have been, since their founding. They exist to extract labor from the political underclass by forcing submission on pain of imprisonment and death.
USA hasn't just done a bunch of racist, shitty, inexcusable things. USA is a bunch of racist, shitty, inexcusable things.
It's literally a regime founded by rapist slavers to violently preserve their disgusting privilege. Always been authoritarian.
World War 1 was so traumatic for Europe because the terrible weapons of mass destruction that they had been using to dominate the rest of the world were suddenly being used on them.
I think this is probably similar for people in the US who are not in a minority now, along the lines you describe.
the blatant ignoring of checks and balances, states rights, and the resulting constitutional crisis
You're describing any number of prior administrations. The phrase "Constitutional Crisis" absolutely echoed through the Bush 43 administration, as his bureaucracy was constantly ignoring court orders (FISA most famously) and end-running legislative constraints through EOs and Signing Statements.
Never before have so many government leaders so blatantly committed so many acts of corruption while holding themselves above the law. Never before have we so intentionally cut so many services and intentionally disrupted the economy so much. Never before have we done so much harm to the US’s stature in the world, damaged our future so much.
Everything is glaring in the moment. But all of Trump's malfeasance is just an extension of the breaches of decorum, precedent, and law executed by prior administrations. Our status as world leader wasn't single-handedly wrecked by Trump. It has been systematically distorted and eroded since at least the Reagan Administration.
This isn't a Never Before situation. It is a long continuation of horrible policies.
It's like you skimmed their reply and didn't get it. You certainly didnt refute anything.
If you can't see the massive, massive upswing in all these "existing" authoritarian behaviors that has happened in the last 4 months, that is entirely on you.
If you can’t see the massive, massive upswing in all these “existing” authoritarian behaviors
Explicitly on the college/professional classes, sure. It's abundantly clear that the Imperialism of the Periphery is returning to the Core as a Fascist tendency. We're treating Mahmoud Khalil like he's Sandra Blande. We're treating Professor Steve Tamari like he's Rodney King. We're losing our ability to distinguish between neighborhoods in the US and those in Baghdad or Tripoli. That's unforgivable, because that's not how we're supposed to treat the Professional Managerial Class in this country.
Getting pretty sick of the "told you so" or "well duh" takes.
You've got acknowledgement now. What do you want to do about it?
NPR is a major authority on whitewashing and justifying genocide.
Their promotion of these phony narratives is a major reason why authoritarianism has always been the norm.
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