House passes Trump's budget in razor-thin vote after dramatic all-night session
The House narrowly passed Trump's domestic policy bill Thursday following a dramatic all-night session and days of negotiations.
In a 215 to 214 vote, all but two House Republicans supported the massive budget package — the centerpiece legislation of Mr. Trump's second-term agenda — in a vote that came hours after unveiling an updated version of the legislation that GOP leaders hoped would satisfy enough holdouts.
The measure cleared a critical procedural hurdle in the wee hours of the morning, teeing up the vote on final passage after days of consternation among the House Republican conference.
The bill will now go to the Senate, where some Republicans have already voiced some opposition. Congressional leaders have said they want to get it to Mr. Trump's desk by July 4.
House passes Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in razor-thin vote after dramatic all-night session
The budget package addresses President Trump's tax, defense and energy priorities. It now heads to the Senate, where hurdles remain.Caitlin Yilek (CBS News)
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The death of science in America
NASA is also looking at massive science cuts.
space.com/space-exploration/tr…
Trump administration proposes slashing NASA budget by 24%
The newly released "skinny budget" would cancel the Gateway moon-orbiting space station and Mars sample return, among other projects.Mike Wall (Space)
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Because there's money to be made and they're arseholes.
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Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international waters
Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.Inside Climate News (Ars Technica)
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They don't think that, but they think it's humorous that you still believe that.
The politicians, anyway. The voters are probably still fooled.
Does that chart account for partial cuts that destroy ongoing studies? The kind that would have to be completely scrapped because one element is lost. Even worse, if all replication or even repetition were cut, then we are throwing out all of science.
I hope Europe is able to step up like they were talking a couple weeks ago.
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From a pure functional perspective, probably. Maybe.
Personally, I look at this more as a piece of art, as the chart was most likely picked because the visuals replicate what its describing: Science funding was shattered and is now in pieces.
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RFK Jr. calls WHO “moribund” amid US withdrawal; China pledges to give $500M
RFK Jr. calls WHO “moribund” amid US withdrawal; China pledges to give $500M
As the rest of the world signed a pandemic agreement, the US sent an abrasive video.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market
Even if the officials had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.ProPublica
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it didn't exactly take an insider to predict that the tariffs would bring the market down.
Nope, but it took an insider to know the timing before everyone else and thus get a head start before things start plummeting. There's a shitload of money to be pilfered that way.
Brief Devils advocate here: the tariffs were public knowledge since at least February. I also sold a bunch of stocks before the market tanked.
Trump is quoted saying “there is going to be some pain” in early February while discussing tariffs on Mexico and Canada. That’s enough insight to make me sell, and that was well before most of these insiders sold their position.
It’s very, very, very difficult to prove insider trading unfortunately. It does look bad from a trust standpoint however, and I agree with that sentiment. It looks especially bad when the president and CEOs laugh about how much money they’ve made while standing in the Oval Office.
Insider trading or not, the optics don’t look good.
TL;DR:
Over a dozen U.S. government officials and congressional aides sold stocks just before Trump’s major tariff announcements, which later caused market drops. While there’s no proof they used insider info, the timing is extremely suspectOfficials who sold their stocks include a White House lawyer, a State Department official, and a Trade Representative director selling shares before key announcements. Experts argue such trades undermine trust in government and markets.
- Make illegal any trading by legislative/judicial/executive and anyone closely linked or related
- There is no #2
To enforce #1 we require they move all investments to a market-wide USA ETF (or US bonds) before they can take their position and disallow sales or any unscheduled purchases while they hold that position. If they're not comfortable investing in the market they now have a part in keeping healthy then they are absolutely welcome to hold it as cash.
Lol, yea... I sold off a bunch of stuff before Trump's tariff's too. Guess what else, I also bought a few contracts of SPY when it dropped as a result. I've made a bunch of money off the Trump corruption. You can too.
It's entirely fucked up that this is happening, but you're a fool if you're not taking advantage of the system that they're manipulating right now.
General advice at this point, check the dumb shit he says on Truth social every once in a while, and consider buying really cheap SPY calls after the man-made dips.
To add on to this, what I'm doing specifically... wait for Trump to say or do some really dumb shit, watch the SPY ticker... watch it drop off a cliff, and every time you see a giant red line with the thing going down, you buy as much as you can afford for a date that's like 3 weeks out (to make it as inexpensive as possible). I bought $40 worth of call options about 5 weeks ago and made around $1800 off it.
Oh and this is not financial advice, I'm a cloud engineer not a banker.
wait for Trump to say or do some really dumb shit, watch the SPY ticker… watch it drop off a cliff
Like today! It's an indicator for "buy a call contract(s)"
Insider trading makes you a Based Chad. This only proves that the people running the country are incredibly smart and deserve the money they've racked in bilking and swindling their peers.
Now they can flaunt their wealth in order to prove their superiority, possibly by purchasing one of our many exploding trucks or crashing planes. Or perhaps by paying a team of streamers to power level a Diablo character on their account in order to look cool on Twitter.
Anyone who suggests this isn't Sigma Male behavior is jealous and also probably a pedophile terrorist.
Doesn't it undermine your faith in leadership knowing the people you vote for are capable of paying attention?
Trump rolled out tariffs 8 years ago and they fucked the economy. Trump went on and on about tariffs, AGAIN, and a bunch of people connected the dots and sold. YEARS after the first round of tariffs.
Only psychopathic greedy corrupt assholes could figure out how to sell stocks in time. Nobody else could have seen it coming.
I'm starting to wonder if I should try to make a quick buck on the US citizens. You all seem to be okay with it.
Maybe I should leave my banking info here and tell you depositing money to that account will own the libs.
Trump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on average
In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump’s official cryptocurrency.
More than 200 wealthy, mostly anonymous crypto buyers are coming to Washington on Thursday to have dinner with Donald Trump. The price of admission: $55,000 to $37.7 million.
That’s how much the 220 winners of a contest to meet Trump spent on his volatile cryptocurrency token, $TRUMP, according to an analysis by the blockchain analytics company Nansen.
The top $TRUMP coin holders at a specific time — determined by the dinner’s organizers — secured a seat.
Trump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on average
More than 200 wealthy, mostly anonymous crypto buyers are coming to Washington on Thursday to have dinner with President Donald Trump.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
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TL;DR:
President Trump is hosting an exclusive crypto-funded dinner where attendees paid between $55,000 and $37.7 million in his official cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, for a seat.$394 million total was spent by winners averaging $1.8 million per seat
80% of the crypto project is owned by Trumps various companies.
Most winners are foreign nationals (72%), breaking U.S. campaign finance laws.
North Korea warship reportedly damaged during launch
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who watched the failed launch, called it a "criminal act," that tarnished the country's dignity.
A new North Korean naval destroyer launch ended in failure, state media reported Thursday.
North Korea's state news agency, KCNA, said Kim Jong Un described the accident as a "criminal act caused by absolute carelessness."
The country's leader reportedly witnessed the failed launch, which left "some sections of the warship's bottom crushed."
Kim has ordered the ship to be repaired ahead of a major meeting of the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee in late June.
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Canada in talks with US about joining 'Golden Dome' plan
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he has had talks with Donald Trump about it. The defense system is designed to detect, track and potentially intercept incoming missiles.
Canada is conducting "high level" talks with the United States over joining Donald Trump's proposed "Golden Dome" missile defense program, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday.
Trump announced his plans the previous day to develop the multilayered, $175 billion (€155 billion) system with ground- and space-based capabilities that can defend against a wide range of enemy weapons, like drones, hypersonic and cruise missiles, and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The US President said he expected the missile shield to be ready by the end of his second term in 2029.
Canada in talks with US about joining 'Golden Dome' plan
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he has had talks with US President Donald Trump about it. The defense system is designed to detect, track and potentially intercept incoming missiles.Dharvi Vaid (Deutsche Welle)
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As long as it doesn't become this era's Avro Arrow.
We should be buying European missle defense while developing our own.
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How? Hypersonic missiles should make it more difficult.
Add automation for cheap production costs and any defence system can be overwhelmed.
billions of dollars will disappear into private company’s pockets.
That’s probably the whole purpose of it.
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Diplomacy often means appearing to do one thing while actually doing another.
They smile and nod, get tariffs exemptions, then somehow never actually involve themselves in this shambles.
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Carney just won for his anti-Trump stance. And now dude's making deals with him just a couple weeks later.
Canadians, are you pissed off?
We didn't vote for Carney for his hatred of Trump. If we voted for Carney's party, it was because the alternative would have already sold us out completely.
...Like, in a heartbeat. We'd already be rounding up the inuit and sending them to Trinidad or something equally as wrong. I'd be saving my money for my routine MRI coming up. We'd be dismantling the train system to make some offensive statue of Milhouse the Squatter.
Are you suggesting we'd think Carney's perfect and not merely the better of two imperfect choices? Do you know how politics works?
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Feel sorry for our northern neighbors in all this. Whatever the hell Trump is planning that would require the golden dome defense system, Canada doesn’t want to be catching strays from the conflict. But damn, what a terrible waste of resources.
Build dat wall I guess. Idiots.
I don't trust Trump to execute it properly, tbh.
Honestly though, anti-missile shields are something we (humanity) needs. Any moron these days can throw it all away in a suicidal instant, now that Putin started a new war and now we have a bunch of smaller wars all over.
But DART showed the promise of orbital defenses, and I'd rather we have some semblance of countermeasures against large meteors, which this is a step towards doing. (Still, climate change is the existential threat that the entire world should be focusing on)
Just remember, Canada needs the Dome less than US since US is more aggressive abroad. So don't get trampled in the negotiations.
plus, it probably wouldn't protect Canada if the missile comes from inside the dome.
Trump announced his plans the previous day to develop the multilayered, $175 billion (€155 billion) system with ground- and space-based capabilities that can defend against a wide range of enemy weapons
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockhe…
the program was expected over its lifetime (until 2070) to cost $406.5 billion for acquisition of the jets and $1.1 trillion for operations and maintenance.
175 billion dollars to build a thing in just a few years that's meant to protect America from attacks...
What attacks? Terrorists hijacking planes? Russians capturing the presidency? Right wing extremism? School shootings?
There's nothing immediate. And some trumpy dome doesn't sound like we're future proofing anything but Lockheed Martin's bank accounts.
Hate Trump? According to a Proposed NIH Investigation, You Have a Mental-Health Disorder.
Hate Trump? According to a Proposed NIH Investigation, You Have a Mental-Health Disorder.
According to a statement from the office of Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, the disorder covers any negative reactions to the president.Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)
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Trumpitis.
It's an allergy to orange shitbags. not a mental healthdisorder!
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It also silences their voices and discredits anything they say so opposition don't gain more support as the GOP dismantle our democracy in front of our eyes.
Relationships will become more strained.
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I don't hate him, I don't know him.
I hate what he does.
I hate what he says.
I hate who he associates with.
I hate his voice.
I hate his face.
I hate everything about him.
I will celebrate with so much champagne when he dies.
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I might have a mental health disorder, but I am cognitively healthier than any of his butt-kissers.
Thanks
Luckily, the research on that is already done:
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/re…
Some people are developmentally delayed in the management of their emotions.
Do you have the emotional maturity of a young child—or spend time with a particularly childlike adult?Susan Heitler Ph.D. (Psychology Today)
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I propose that we will follow up to this new disorder. Maybe it can be compromised by learning people how to read, though it has been shown by experience that wearing a diaper remains a necessity for this disorder. Anyone got an idea how we'll push these patients beyond the toddler stage and, of course, allow them to become full-functioning adults who can read and write? /s
(Or even better: How about we set an age limit and a clear prevention against having anyone run for office who may not vote by the law. Come on, America: You can do it!)
Oops! Looks like I have an incredibly severe mental health disorder. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to treat it.
Unless… maybe I can bring light or bleach into my body - almost like a cleaning. You know, to stop this disorder? I heard Trump’s team is looking into that. Should be interesting.
This implies that the majority of the world has a mental health disorder. Yes, that must be it...
How stupid do these MAGA clowns think people are? And: Are they perhaps projecting their own characteristics onto others?
Or is it perhaps about imprisoning dissidents for no reason?
Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Ahh, yes, Hitler and his henchmen did the same thing...
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They are getting away with much bigger atrocities than this. People will absolutely be on board to suddenly have their trump-hating relative actually be mentally ill. Then you don't have to listen to anything they say because they are just crazy.
Even announcing trump derangement syndrome in an official setting so it can be in the news cycle for as long as they want is going to have a powerful impact on the personal, individual level much wider than what he has done this term so far really. Now anyone who disagrees with trump is crazy. That's just best case scenario.
"Guys it's right out of Hitler's playbook"
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Weird I didn't see the second half of your comment when I first replied. You're absolutely right and I'm terrified. The social-political environment and economy that allowed the rise of the nazis in Germany have been happening in America for decades. There are so many parallels and then within 6 months in office a LOT of big stuff is happening really fast. Federal institutions completely gutted, harassment of the employees by their government, deportation of citizens, removing birthright citizenship, and now wanting a medical diagnosis for anyone who disagrees with them.
It is absolutely terrifying and I no longer feel safe sharing my opinion anywhere because I don't know how dangerous it will be in the future.
Yes, but with things like this, the current US government is actually trying to create a legal basis on which it can make undesirable people disappear. Just like the Nazis did in the Third Reich.
It's about establishing an unjust state with the corresponding legal means.
I really think that plans are being made here to establish a dictatorship. There are many other signs of this.
I'm from Germany and am only observing the situation from afar. Are there any efforts to prevent the US from becoming a fascist state?
I know, of course, that people are taking to the streets and that this is not being reported adequately by the media. But what is the plan?
In any case, there seems to be no serious resistance from the Democratic Party...
It's much the same problem you guys had in the 1920s. Hate is easy. Cruelty is the norm. Humanity, like the chimpanzee we're closest related to, is a very 'in-group/out-group' species. You're either one of us, or you're a threat to be beaten down and killed. Hate is easy to stoke, especially when things are tough. And don't forget -- Hitler studied hate-filled regimes world-wide before he put together his authoritarian empire, and one he studied hard was the US Southeast. Abuse of 'inferior' people was a way of life for them!
Standing up could get you killed in these not-so-United States, so a lot of us try to keep our heads down and be 'Good Americans'...
Year 2785.
The Tesla-built Trump-atons patrol the irradiated skyline of New America. The scorched remnants of what was once called Earth. Their red, white, and chrome exoshells glint beneath a sun filtered through atmospheric ash. "Nobody knew healthcare would be so complicated" can be heard over the speaker from it's silver jowls.
From beneath a collapsed monument to Elon, a stone shifts. A malnourished human, skin sun-leathered and trembling, crawls out wrapped in a faded Trans-Palestinian Soviet flag. Eyes cracked with age and dust, he whispers into the void:
“Every accusation… is a confession.”
“Trump-bots are racist.”
“General strike.”
Centuries-old resistance slogans, preserved like fossilized dog shit, echo into silence. No one hears him. No one cares because these are decades old slogans that never really packed a punch anyways and were never adapted over time or expanded on through content creation and memetic knowledge.
In the shadow of the gutted White House, Lauren Ro-BoeBert 2.0 strokes patriotism behind a metal dumpster her servos sticky with Trump derangement.
The world turns. The code loops. And somewhere, deep beneath the bedrock, a spark of humanity retreats back to its lemming like hole beneath New America.
Funny, that. Stalin's regime said the same thing. A lot of dissenters were labeled "mentally ill," and tortured in mental hospitals.
"It Can't Happen In America?" Wake the fuck up..it is happening.
a lot of my professors in psychiatry can't explicitly let their political leanings be known, but they have STRONGLY hinted that they are pissed off by the weaponization of mental health for political ends.
Actively speaking out and disagreeing with your institution's official view point of "silence/neutrality" is pretty much grounds for termination, Tenure or no Tenure.
TL;DR:
The bill, backed by two GOP reps (Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama) proposes NIH investigation into "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) and aims to study TDS's origins, media influence, and interventions.The article compares it to Soviet-era tactics of labeling political dissent as a mental disorder.
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Ooh I LOOOOOVE Trump!!!! That's a totally normal thing to say about a politician! You know who else can say that? No one. Not even the best Biden fans...you know he doesn't have fans? Can you believe that?
I love Trump so much I have bought his sneakers, his steaks, his socks, his hats, his shirts, his jorts, his truck decals, his crypto, his dolls, his sunglasses, his guns, his ammo...in fact, I've gone into debt just to buy more of his merch. You know who else has that? No one.
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I agree, a lot of you are mentally ill and a bit simple. But that's beside the point.
Like the fact you all avoid confrontation and allowed TDS to culturally be pinned to the left is absolutely deranged how easily it could have been flipped. The fact the right has such a control on pushing a dominate view online and publicly is because trump opposition has mental problems. Look at the guy. He's an lol cow and yet nothing is being generated beyond a "he's racist" "orange man bad" where's your fucking fight. That's The actual TDS. The desire to passively watch the lol cow and not immediately go make funny shit
You're the same kind of guy who would comment on an article about a political assassination of a fascist with "but not like this!".
You want OTHERS to fight back, as if the legal means to do so will have any effect whatsoever.
Federal government is currently captured entirely by the fascists, state and local governments are being attacked.
What is suing going to do? What is on foot protest going to do? The vast majority of us have y'know, jobs? Families? Things to take care of? Makes it pretty hard to drop everything and just go protest, or fight back in those ways. We do what we can to protect our own and those around us, and if anyone was planning any sort of resistance it sure as fuck wouldn't be being discussed on an open public platform like Lemmy.
So cool it with all the "these stupid Americans are just lying there and taking it". Would love to see what YOU do if it was you in these shoes (don't bother commenting any big dick "I would fight back" bullshit. It's very obvious when a keyboard warrior is pushing for OTHERS to do violence)
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Based. That's the attitude I want to hear. Remember that the ultimate enemy are the oligarch class so next they would need to be obliterated followed by a permanent revolution against fascism worldwide.
Only change is that I would take unarmed low-level Magatards as prisoners rather than kill them.
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You have a mental diseuse, you can´t own a firearm.
Only MAGA have the right to article 2.
Job done.
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why y'all are so pessimistic.
maybe it's rigged to go boom.
GOP Ends Clean Energy Credits Years Earlier in Revised Bill
GOP Revisions to Tax Bill End Clean Energy Credits Years Earlier
Subsidies for clean power would end years earlier in a giant tax and spending bill narrowly passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives early Thursday, driving down shares of solar companies including Sunrun Inc.Ari Natter (Bloomberg)
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Maybe. By all means it deserves investment, deserves the attempt, but it doesn’t seem much more practical than fusion
Cost?
- renewables are the cheapest power generation
- nuclear is most expensive, not economical
- thorium isn’t even developed for regular use
Time?
- renewables can be built asap, and brought into use incrementally
- nuclear takes decades to build, no one can afford that
- thorium isn’t even commercially offered
It is not clear to me that this solves any environmental issues given that mining the minerals and manufacturing batteries with current chemistry and technology is horrible for the environment.
We should find a way to make clean batteries first and then I would agree with that statement.!
I want to make it clear that I don't really agree that nuclear is bad. In any shape or form fusion and fission are the two cleanest sources of energy that we have and are the sources of energy humankind will need to guarantee our survival as a species.
However, there are clean batteries. Battery is just a term for potential energy storage and things like gravity batteries and thermal batteries are feasible right now. Electrochemical batteries aren't the only type of battery that we have. Actually, they are less efficient and less reliable than the others at scale.
I know there are clean batteries but I thought they were inefficient/hard to scale? If that isn’t the case why are large scale battery farms made with lithium batteries?
I’m genuinely asking here as I thought those technologies were still in their early days.
Well, there's obviously going to be a lot of angles to that question but initial cost and the fact that large scale battery farms aren't necessarily needed right now stick out to me.
The grid as it is designed right now is capable of producing power at demand simply by spinning up more generators. There's no cost benefit (really) to generating extra power and dealing with logistics of storage while the extra power is not needed. Not at statewide scale and while the infrastructure isn't built already.
Let's for a second assume that a power company at statewide scale wasn't able to just spin up more generators to meet demand and there IS incentive to provide storage. The company looking at the market today has 2 choices. Buy batteries that provide a versatile/portable solution with no real local consequence OR spend money developing and engineering molten salt or pumped water storage.
Electrochemical batteries:
- Pros: rapid installation, available market for part replacement, resellable, cheap to repair, energy dense, variable discharge, no significant R&D, negligible local environmental concerns
- Cons: less reliability, finite resource reliance (rare earths) can cause repair and replacement costs to increase, global environmental concerns, local weather systems can more easily damage infrastructure, limited cycles
Gravity and thermal batteries:
- Pros: renewable or abundant recourses depending on location, reliable and simple, efficiency increases with scale, difficult to damage irreparably, fewer global environment concerns
- Cons: large amount of R&D financial cost/time to account for local environmental concerns, construction and implementation could take multiple years in addition to R&D, unique systems don't allow for much resell ability, larger potential footprint, location constrained, semi-fixed discharge rate, fewer partner companies to provide unique part replacement options, potential impact to local families in the event of failure (Taum Sauk).
There are some applications where "industrial energy" isnt electricity or motion but instead simply heat.
AFAIK synthetic fuels would be more dollar-effkcient for many usages than an equivalent electric heater, even if we ignore the tooling cost.
But if its not a blowtorch and instead just motion, electricity is electricity and the only thing really special about "industrial use" is the amount demanded.
Right, I bet no one thought of that.
Industry requires stable energy in very large amounts,so if the sun does not come out for 2 days then you have to stop production. Also at some point you’re gonna run out of space to put solar panels and the maintenance cost might make it prohibitive.
Here’s the bottom line: if at the current level of technology and price renewables were cheaper than fossil fuels, every Corp in the world would be running purely on renewables. This the one nice thing about capitalism, that it only needs one argument to be convinced: lower costs. But that is not the case,” and renewables, or rather the infrastructure needed to harness it, is not yet cheaper than fossil fuel.
The solution is to invest money in r&d that makes renewable infrastructure more efficient and cheaper.
Many of the largest corps are buying and adding renewables in ever increasing amounts. There are some cases where fossil fuel is still a little bit cheaper than renewables plus batteries, if you completely ignore externalities like harmful emissions. Running out of space and maintenance costs? You're grasping at straws. Nearly every industrial facility is on the grid, not requiring any nearby space. And you know what's always more expensive than solar maintenance costs? Fossil plant maintenance costs, not even mentioning a little on-going cost and cost-risk thing called fuel.
More new solar capacity is being installed than any other generation type. I guess heavy industry is gonna collapse due to it being weak girly power! We're doomed!
Since when has capitalism cared about externalities? Harmful emissions are only a problem for a corp if they come with a price tag attached. Otherwise it’s worth it even if it only saves them a cent.
And I’m not disagreeing with you nor arguing against renewables my guy. Im stating what is often cited as the reason for the slow adoption of renewables in industry. Again, if it was clear that it is superior and cheaper than fossil fuel, every corporation in the world would be running on it, there would be no reason not to! But there’s also the reality that renewable energy is dependent on weather conditions that may or may not be right for maximum production. You could install batteries but these batteries are terrible for the environment too. New battery tech is cleaner but not scalable/cost effective. So why shouldn’t we have energy intensive manufacturing on nuclear power while everything else runs on renewable? There’s risks but less risks than the current status. Also nuclear fission promises amazing things, so more money should go into the industry to accelerate the development of that tech.
Many environmentalists and experts agree that the key to solving the climate issue lies in increasing nuclear power, this is not something I’m making up. I’m not an expert on this at all. I don’t understand why you think you’d know better than them.
Too expensive, takes too long to build, still risky.
And dumping radioactive sludge into a hollowed out mountain, not clean.
Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-race-south-africa.html
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The rich have successfully marketed their class war into a ridiculously contrived race war against the oppressed, long suffering white people.
Its profoundly stupid and does not reflect reality at all, but we are doing it anyway.
New North Korea warship is damaged at its launch ceremony attended by Kim Jong Un
The ship slid off the ramp and became stuck after the flatcar failed to move alongside it, throwing off its balance and crushing parts of the ship’s bottom, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
The accident at Wednesday’s ceremony at the northeastern port of Chongjin was an embarrassing setback for Kim, who has emphasized naval advancement as key to his nuclear-armed military.
The damaged vessel was likely in the same class as the country’s first destroyer, unveiled on April 25, which experts assessed as the North’s largest and most advanced warship to date. Kim called it a significant asset for advancing his goal of expanding the military’s operational range and nuclear strike capabilities.
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For something like this the supervisors and some other high profile employees of the shipyard were likely just sent to a prison camp along with all their immediate family members for “reeducation”.
Those execution methods you mention are typically reserved for failures by military or political leadership.
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Oh yeah, NK still exists.
With all the bullshit going on in America, NK has to feel like they're in the corner a little, eh?
Leaked Emails Show How Tulsi Gabbard's Top Aide Pushed to Alter Intelligence Report So It Couldn't Be 'Used Against' Trump
Leaked Emails Show How Tulsi Gabbard's Top Aide Pushed to Alter Intelligence Report So It Couldn't Be 'Used Against' Trump
Tulsi Gabbard's chief of staff, Joe Kent, pushed for the National Intelligence Council to edit memos so they would align with President Donald Trump's misleading statements on immigration, according to leaked emailsMeredith Kile (PEOPLE)
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“We need to do some rewriting so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” he wrote, with acronyms referring to Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and the president.The document in question was an intelligence assessment on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the target of the Trump administration’s most sweeping actions on immigration so far.
However, the Feb. 26 intelligence assessment that Kent wanted to alter directly contradicted the idea that the gang was affiliated with the Venezuelan government or the Maduro regime.
Directly making up, and lying to the people, for the glory of great leader ~Stalin~ Drumpf.
Well, we've hit the point where nothing at all from the government can be trusted as real.
Disney CEO Told Hosts of the View to Tone Down Trump-Bashing
Disney CEO Told Hosts of ‘The View’ to Tone Down Trump-Bashing
Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.Corbin Bolies (The Daily Beast)
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So we're ALL on the same page here: Walt Disney himself was, along with many other rich white fucks of the day, an open supporter of the Reich, and just like many of them as well, he continued supporting his team long after it was passé — simply by distracting the starry-eyed masses with more shiny. Ford, Coke, the whole lot.
We are livestock to them. Human Resources is just fresh title for the age-old playbook, How To Serve Man. 🤌🏼
I'm watching Andor S2, since it's finally done and available as one package. I'm pretty sure there's a Walt Disney allegory where they have a marketing/entertainment character advising The Empire. I feel like you don't do this by accident.
It's pretty crazy that what that show has been allowed to do, because Disney is normally shit and tries to protect themselves and hide their history.
You give me much credit, especially considering I was stoned AF when I swiped that one out (though, I still completely agree with past-me) in lieu of proper sleep. To be accurate, the masterful stroke belongs to you for pointing this out, in fact.
I love it as a multi-layered continuance of the brand's ^Empire's^ flagship values — and America's timeless sweetheart: daddy issues!
I'll be honest, I couldn't shake the image of Dr. Venture, Sr. outta my head with one of the ad-men, and the other made me wonder if he was that kid from The Sandlot, all grown up. (NGL, as soon as those two started winding up that reskinned Democracy® pitch, I knew the writers were swinging for the nosebleeds, so I may've wandered a bit.)
Incredible chops in the room, though, and the whole goddamned series!
Thanks for the rabbit hole, btw! 🤘🏼🤓
Disney is a corporation, therefore it is fascist as long as fascism is profitable.
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Disney To Add Newsmax To Hulu
Disney will add Newsmax to Hulu plus Live TV in July. Fubo, which will also be coming to Hulu had a deal prior to this announcement.PNP News
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yeah, it's gonna get rough. saw something tonight about how one side always underestimates the scum tactics from the other. fill in the blanks.
tick tock on the clock
grocer blow my prices up
let's fight for the right
to just have some fucking rights
(sorry, channeled kesha for a sec - ed, formatting)
You have more faith in humanity than me.
I think it's plenty normal for people to bend the knee to what they think will keep them safe and wealthy and it's not their own sacrifice.
So now we just know who they think is gonna win.
you're saying the idea i am knowingly trying to fight. maybe it's the hand i write with, maybe it's my ideas, but i've always been gauche.
and we should fight nihilism and hedonism like our very future depends on it. look at the stats. and i'm the last person you'd want to encourage to reproduce, and yet here we are.
where are we? white people (i'm white, too) don't understand genes.
It's a war that the left has already conceded defeat.
Like project 2025 said the next revolution we'll be bloodless if the left allows it.
Walt Disney would never have endorsed this except in his 1938 cartoon “Nazi Superheroes are Our Superiors.”
Reference for the youths and non Simpsons fans: youtu.be/nhWTkT89W_w
"You women talk about women's issues, but don't mention the cause of the issues" - Asshole conservative.
The View is now irrelevant. If people can't trust that the staff aren't being forced to spew propaganda, or they're being censored - then they won't watch. They need to stand up to the corpos, or the show is already pre-cancelled because of irrelevancy.
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“History Will Judge Them”: U.K. Suspends Trade Talks with Israel Amid Starvation Campaign
“History Will Judge Them”: U.K. Suspends Trade Talks with Israel Amid Starvation Campaign
The United Kingdom has suspended trade talks with Israel and will impose sanctions on West Bank illegal settlers.Democracy Now!
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history doesn't save lives. history doesn't remember individuals. history doesn't care if money paved over graves.
history isn't consequence.
i have no place in this fight, other than to say that no Good God would ever want this.
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My dude, I grew up in bumfuck Eastern Europe. Our textbooks and history classes that were so shitty that we spent like 4 lessons in total on WWII and the Cold War in total (with a cutoff date of like 1980), had a whole chapter on the incredible cruelty the British Empire had towards the people of India. Pictures of people blown from guns, descriptions of the famines, Gandhi and all that stuff.
There was practically more time spent on it than the Holocaust.
I understand why you're saying what you're saying though, and I'd just like you to know, many people didn't forget.
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The Christian right’s plot to purge pro-Palestine activism from the United States
The Christian right’s plot to purge pro-Palestine activism from the United States
The Trump administration appears to be following their lead.Mother Jones
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“F**k you”: Entire Trump team hated Elon Musk, damning report reveals | Elon Musk has left the White House an utter failure
Elon Musk’s shouting match with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent might have been the final nail in the coffin for the tech billionaire’s four-month stint in the White House, but it came after months of bubbling frustration at Musk’s “chain-saw” approach to dismantling the federal government.
Musk and Bessent exploded at each other in April when Musk attempted to force through his pick to lead the IRS—Gary Shapley—behind Bessent’s back. (Musk eventually lost this battle—Shapley lasted less than 72 hours before Bessent tapped Michael Faulkender to replace him.)
“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” a typically mild-mannered Bessent was heard shouting after Musk as they charged down the halls of the West Wing.
“F**k You”: Entire Trump Team Hated Elon Musk, Damning Report Reveals
Elon Musk has left the White House an utter failure.The New Republic
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I know he's not going anywhere, but we've all seen how fragile his ego is, so you know it's hurt his feelings.
I'm generally very sensitive to seeing people sad or upset. But there are a select few demons out there that it gives me pleasure. Small victories
"Entire Trump team hated Elon Musk"....
If you'll recall, after Trump's first term, it was revealed that the entire Trump team hated Donald Trump.
Basically, any marginally competent person will hate working with people like Trump or Musk who make drastic changes without any reason or even any idea of what they're doing.
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Very much this.
Now it should be noted that Musk is, among other things, a desperately insecure wienie who really is crushed by the fact that basically everyone hates him and spends a great deal of time and effort cringily trying to compensate for it and pathetically failing. So at some level all of this certainly does hurt him.
But he's also toxically greedy and self-absorbed and wantonly destructive, and by those measures, his government tenure was a resounding success. And that he undoubtedly throws tantrums and goes on crying jags when he's alone, just like he's done since middle school, doesn't make any of the rest of it any less a success.
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I agree that his time at the white house has been a huge success for his personal interests.
However, I don't think it all went according to plan. I think he really did expect that he could make some government services more efficient. I also think he thought that his actions would ingratiate himself to the right, all over the world. I also don't think he expected the backlash against Tesla.
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But he’s also toxically greedy and self-absorbed and wantonly destructive,
Which is why I really hope he turns X against the Trump regime lol God I hope he's petty enough to attack them now
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Lol we are supposed to believe Musk bought a presidency and is going to just leave his money-making rule-breaking new toy alone?
Yeah right, and monkeys could fly out of my butt.
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Makes sense that he's now saying no more politics. I'd say he should throw money at the Dems except Lord knows those people don't need more billionaire donors, either.
Can we just have a government of the people, please?
Elon left the White House an utter failure.
No, he didn’t. He killed all the government investigations into him and awarded his companies huge contracts worth $billions for the foreseeable future. He achieved everything he really set out to do. DOGE was just the distraction.
Elon left the White House an utter failure.
Socially, yes. And he hates it. He's a narcissist, I doubt he will think of it as a success. OTOH, that's exactly what he's been doing for decades: failing yet still coming out richer afterwards.
Honestly it baffles me that this is enough to become the richest person in the world.
When will we learn that he actively influences these statistics to stroke his ego?
I think elon's responsiveness to criticism stems more from his autism than narcissism.
I don't think he has the mental faculties necessary to go against the influence of his peers. In many ways, he's doing exactly what people expect him to.
Is everyone forgetting the data access this guy has now? He accessed EVERYTHING and his script kiddies installed a ton of shit
He did exactly what he was supposed to do
Got the private information of every single person we have records on. That's a goddamn huge win for his fragile self
I think he really did expect that he could make some government services more efficient.
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
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“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” a typically mild-mannered Bessent was heard shouting after Musk as they charged down the halls of the West Wing.
Video?
Such nonsense. Musk was along for the ride on the recent Middle East trip. The staff may hate him, but HitlerPig is keeping him close. He's going to need him to hack the next few elections.
If things are quieter, it's only because his board threatened to replace him after that disastrous earnings call, which has to have stoked threats of a shareholder lawsuit. The stock tanked as a direct result of his irresponsible behavior, which has done irreparable damage to the company's brand image, and the stockholders aren't going to just accept the loss of millions of dollars.
So he's keeping a low profile right now, until things cool off, but his presence on the Mideast trip means HitlerPig still wants him around.
I'm not so sure him not researching or even checking with experts speaks to his lack of interest. He destroyed key components of one of Twitter's data centers a few years back - literally went in himself over a weekend and yanked out a bunch of cables before cancelling the lease, as I recall the story. Then a bunch of Twitter admins had to spend a good deal of time rebuilding crucial infrastructure with the systems they had left.
He's shot his own foot this way before.
(Edit) It was worse than I thought - he hired people off the street to help load rented trucks with the servers after he just yanked them out. When someone mentioned that millions of people's sensitive data was stored on them, they picked up some padlocks and set up a spreadsheet with the lock combinations... All so he could ship them to one of their other data centers, where it had already been explained to him that they couldn't hook them back up!
Found this article: medium.com/@noahkingdavis/the-…
He accomplished all he set out to do, with one caveat, because he stood in the bad limelight his image and monetary value took a serious nosedive.
This last part is why he now is standing in the back, yet leering around the room wherever the president is.
The one thing he was aspiring towards did receive a huge blow, he was racing to become the world's first trillionaire.
And it might just be a setback that he can catch up with, but for now he does need to focus to try and crank all his stocks back up...
JD Vance lashes out at ‘profoundly wrong’ Supreme Court Chief Justice
The chief justice had spoken out against MAGA’s attacks on the judiciary.
JD Vance ripped into Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for saying the courts are an equal branch of government whose job is to “check the excesses” of the executive branch.
Earlier this month, Roberts responded to calls from MAGA to impeach judges who ruled against Donald Trump’s policies by saying, “In our Constitution, the judiciary is a coequal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law, and strike down acts of Congress or acts of the president.”
“That innovation doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent,” he continued during a fireside chat in Buffalo, New York. “Its job is to, obviously, decide cases, but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive, and that does require a degree of independence.”
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That's a bit of a misunderstanding, US Colleges have a bit of catch up period in the first year or 2 of study where you are both getting some exposure to your new topic but also ensuring your prior education is on par with everyone else. We call these "general education requirements" or "gen ed" and it's because high school graduation isn't well standardized across the states. Most students can test at the start of College or show their high school work and skip some of the basic writing and math classes to the next level. These "gen ed" classes ensure every student at the school has a basic level of reading, writing, and maths to base the rest of their work on. The amount of these other classes you have to take, is based on your major so for example people majoring in Teaching have more than other majoring in Engineering based on the logic a teacher needs a broader education in everything than an engineer will.
It does sometimes result in odd situations like my Uncle who couldn't pass a general education language course in his non-native language (Spanish for him) and so was denied a Mathematics Education Degree and needed an extra semester to finish a different mathematics degree that had fewer gen ed requirements.
This all also plays into why US undergraduate degrees are usually 4-5 year programs instead of the shorter degrees tracks in Europe.
That all said, JD has a 4 year degree in Poly-sci and an additional 3 in Law School and he's still a complete moron. Not even Yale could fix that.
The Republican way of course!
1) Stupidly
2) With unimaginable levels of unfounded confidence
3) Behind closed doors with many bulging manila envelopes and vague threats.
I'd say don't argue with the courts at all.
Declare their opposition to -your new laws- illegal, while being sure there is no force to stop you making the courts submissive to your new king's laws.
Just about what they are doing now.
Outrage after Israeli army fires ‘warning shots’ at French and other diplomats on West Bank visit
The delegation included diplomats from China, Japan, Mexico and several European, including France, Spain and Italy.
Outrage after Israeli army fires ‘warning shots’ at French and other diplomats on West Bank visit
The Israeli army on Wednesday fired shots at a delegation of regional, European and Western diplomats visiting the West Bank city of Jenin, sparking condemnations from the Palestinian Authority and several European capitals.FRANCE 24
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So like... Stormtroopers?
Are they like the department of storming?
They should also go against the weapons manufacturers enabling these attacks which are...
...in many cases themselves
"We're outraged"
but also
"We have to make this statement or people would think we're spineless. Please continue like nothing happened. xoxo"
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in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says
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in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Ledivin
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •Awww, you think elections and votes still matter. Cute.
Casual reminder that nobody has ever voted themselves out of an authoritarian regime.
Plebcouncilman
in reply to Ledivin • • •This is far from an authoritarian regime, stop being a drama queen. These histrionics are frankly pathetic.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do. In fact it’s not really clear that they’ve actually achieved anything on the short or long term, other than sending people out to foreign gulags and that may yet have repercussions for them.
ExtremeDullard
in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •Tell that to Kilmar Abrego García. I bet he feel really good about the remaining 10%.
Plebcouncilman
in reply to ExtremeDullard • • •ExtremeDullard
in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •Again, ask yourself if Kilmar Abrego García or any of the other Trump deportees in CECOT feel like they're living in North Korea.
Stop thinking everybody's experience is like yours. It's North Korea bad in the US right now, just not for everybody yet like in North Korea. You haven't been impacted yet: when you are, you'll change your tune.
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in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •Have they, though? They've ruled against things, sure, but the majority of those things haven't stopped or changed, so what effects have the rulings actually had?
Plebcouncilman
in reply to Ledivin • • •Look at the numbers, they aren’t really deporting people in the numbers they should be according to their agenda. He capitulated on tariffs with China. Every week it’s a different fumble from his cabinet. Even the worst gifters of the MAGAspehere are starting to speak out against Trump’s corrupt behavior.
All their policies are being enacted via EO so they can and will be stricken down the moment another democrat takes power.
The biggest concern I have with this administration beyond the obvious human right violations of sending people to foreign gulags, is not the actions it’s taking by themself but rather the precent they are setting. The next democratic president, if they are really worried about fascism as they say, needs to give priority to dismantling the power of the executive and returning it to congress. But that probably won’t happen because they’re all power grubbing greedy assholes.
I think democrats need to look back and realize that the pre maga GOP was absolutely right when it said that state sovereignty should b
... show moreLook at the numbers, they aren’t really deporting people in the numbers they should be according to their agenda. He capitulated on tariffs with China. Every week it’s a different fumble from his cabinet. Even the worst gifters of the MAGAspehere are starting to speak out against Trump’s corrupt behavior.
All their policies are being enacted via EO so they can and will be stricken down the moment another democrat takes power.
The biggest concern I have with this administration beyond the obvious human right violations of sending people to foreign gulags, is not the actions it’s taking by themself but rather the precent they are setting. The next democratic president, if they are really worried about fascism as they say, needs to give priority to dismantling the power of the executive and returning it to congress. But that probably won’t happen because they’re all power grubbing greedy assholes.
I think democrats need to look back and realize that the pre maga GOP was absolutely right when it said that state sovereignty should be preserved above all things. It is the strongest bulwark the US has against authoritarianism.
techwooded
in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •Would like to point out that part of this bill includes a provision that makes it illegal for Courts to hold the Government in contempt for not complying with their past, present, or future injunctions:
H.R. _____, Title VII § 70302:
alekwithak
in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •Literally what are you talking about? The U.S as we know it has been dismantled. If this administration somehow explicitly ended today we'd have still lost over 100 years of social progress, not to mention Russia and God only knows who else has all of our data, Intel, and government secrets. They've already accomplished everything they've set out to. The bribery and big beautiful bills and everything else from here on out is just gravy to them.
Plebcouncilman
in reply to alekwithak • • •what? Obama ran opposed to same sex marriage. Obama, just a few years ago. Literally what 100 years of progress are you talking about? Trump has done nothing that cannot be reversed the moment another president walks in because everything is a fucking EO.
You’re literally hysterical.
alekwithak
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in reply to alekwithak • • •What do you mean by you lunatics? I’m not a MAGA tard. Im only saying, Trump has done nothing that cannot be undone very easily. Civil rights, as enshrined in the laws are pretty much still strong with the exception of immigrants and the Supreme Court seems to be taking the side of immigrants on this.
I don’t know that Russians have had access to any information, I think we should stick to what we know instead of making wild assumptions based on suspicions.
Sure there are concerns about the dismantling of federal agencies but at least the state agencies are still there.
I don’t like Trump, I don’t like MAGA but I almost dislike the hysterical faction of the democrats as much. And I say democrats because I’ve found many of you are not actual leftists but people who treat politics as team sports, not very different from MAGA though thankfully much less dangerous.
alekwithak
in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •Last month directly following DOGE's access to the National Labor Relations Board, users with Russian IPs were blocked from logging in to their systems with valid credentials. The attempt was only thwarted by geo blocking, meaning we only caught the ones who couldn't be bothered to use a VPN. And we only know about this incident because of a whistleblower at the NLRB.
The only person who's made an assumption here is you, my dude. And the fact that you would blatantly accuse me of making an assumption and call me hysterical without even the slightest attempt to confirm the information is exactly what I mean by "you lunatics." No you're not MAGA 'tard', you're worse because you're fighting their battles and you don't even know it.
And don't you dare call me a fucking Democrat. That crosses the line. In fact I think you've got a few things backwards.
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in reply to Plebcouncilman • • •And what? You couldn't possibly miss a story you have a clear and obvious bias against? Your fingers clearly work, but sure let me look that up for you.
reuters.com/technology/cyberse…
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in reply to Ledivin • • •Chile, late '80s, Pinochet scheduled a referendum and was voted out. He tried to backtrack, but no one would help so he ultimately left office peacefully.
Ukraine after the 2004 protests.
Ghana in 2000 after decades under Jerry Rawlings.
(Not counting the times when violence and international pressure led to elections that were honored, like Mandela winning in South Africa in the '90s.)
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