Tourists from 42 countries will have to submit 5 years of social media history to enter U.S. under Trump plan
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week.
Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days for tourism or business travel, without needing to apply for a visa at an American embassy or consulate, a process that can take months or even years.
The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
Tourists from 42 countries will have to submit 5 years of social media history to enter U.S. under Trump plan
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from countries with visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit five years of their social media history before they can enter.Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS News)
US wants Ukraine to withdraw from Donbas and create ‘free economic zone’, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone
The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a “free economic zone” in the parts Kyiv currently controls, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
Previously, the US had suggested Kyiv should hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled to Russia, but the Ukrainian president said on Thursday that Washington had now suggested a compromise version in which Ukrainian troops would withdraw, but Russian troops would not advance into the territory.
“Who will govern this territory, which they are calling a ‘free economic zone’ or a ‘demilitarised zone’ – they don’t know,” said the Ukrainian president, speaking with journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.
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"Free economic zone" raises my hackles. Is this a technical geopolitical term or is it really just gonna be the Corporation Wars zone?
EDIT: I think I was kind of thinking of "Free trade zones" which this is not. So who knows what they're talking about.
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Yup. And he wants to do the same in Palestine.
Probably other places too.
Everything's a grift with this guy.
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Everything’s a grift with this guy.
You would think that EVEN THE DUMBEST OF THE DUMBEST WOULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT BY NOW - BUT NO.
The clowns and incompetents in his regime know it but are in on the grift.
Is it Corozal Free Zone? Why is it that I can only find photos that look like they're from the 90s?
Why do I kind of want to go there?
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The Ukrainians haven't been profiting from anything in Ukraine since 1990.
Inflation-adjusted GDP PPP in 1990 was $1.2 trillion, it collapsed after the dismantling of the Soviet system, and by 2022 it still hadn't recovered to 2/3rd of what it was in Soviet times as it was below $800bn. And this is even before taking into account the massive inequality that was created at the time and has perpetuated itself. Sadly, Ukrainians have suffered immensely in the economic sphere since 35 years ago.
Any time you see "economic" in a war plan it means "give the land to the most powerful capitalist"
They've been saying the same thing about Palestine
Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction – The White House
DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursorThe White House
The 2002 remix is ass.
2055, privacy is now classified as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, so we can bomb a carousel in Canada.
There is an "increase in the de-sovereignization of part of Russian territory in favor of China," Ukrainian Intel says
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/47116727
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"We are recording an actual increase in the de-sovereignization of part of Russian territory in favor of China. This primarily concerns the use of resource-rich lands and the sale of scarce resources to China," Ukraine's President is cited after a report by the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko.
"We are also recording that China is taking steps to intensify cooperation with Russia, particularly in the field of the defense industry. Intelligence services of our partners have similar information."
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In a related report, U.S. outlet Newsweek cites Patrick Cronin, the Asia-Pacific security chair at the Hudson Institute: “Xi Jinping views Russia as an indispensable strategic partner in constructing a post-U.S.–led world order.
“Reconciling these competing impulses points toward a strategy of slow, steady accretions of effective sovereignty, punctuated by performative shows of solidarity, from parades to joint military drills, that mask an emerging asymmetry," Cronin adds.
Cronin said however that China "clearly appears poised to expand its influence across its shared borderlands through a mix of brazen cyber intrusions and opportunistic moves to anchor itself inside Russia’s increasingly enfeebled economy."
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We are recording an increase in the De-sovereignization of part of Russian territory in favor of China — President
The President reported this on December 10. “Many details concern the foreign policy...armyinform.com.ua
Indiana Senate rejects GOP-drawn congressional map in a major rebuke of Trump
Trump and national Republicans pushed Indiana lawmakers for new district lines that could have allowed the party to gain two seats in next year’s midterms.
The Indiana Senate voted against a new Republican-drawn congressional map Thursday, rejecting a bid led by Donald Trump aimed at boosting the party in next year’s midterm elections.
The vote was a rare and stunning instance of elected Republicans rebuking Trump, who had pressured Indiana lawmakers for months to pass new district lines. The GOP leaders of Indiana’s Senate had long resisted joining the unusual mid-decade redistricting battle playing out across the country, saying there wasn’t enough support in the chamber for a new map that was designed to dismantle the state’s two Democratic-controlled districts.
They ultimately agreed to hold a vote to settle the issue, as Trump and national Republicans pledged to back primary challengers to those who opposed the map, and as a growing number of Indiana lawmakers faced violent threats and harassment.
But even after the state House approved the new map last week, it failed overwhelmingly in the state Senate by a vote of 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats in opposing it.
Indiana Senate to vote on Trump-backed congressional map despite GOP resistance
Trump has been pressuring Indiana Republican lawmakers for months to pass new district lines that would boost the party in next year's midterms.Jane C. Timm (NBC News)
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Figured this much.
Honestly though, we have until Monday December 15th to make a decision on which plan or whether to even have a plan. Regardless of the outcome, even if it's a no, this is something that should have been written in stone MONTHS ago, not several days before the deadline for Americans to choose a plan.
It's literally a clown show, and regardless of political party, these people should be ashamed of themselves.
Democrat Rob Long wins big in Florida House race, defeating MAGA Republican
Democrat Rob Long is the newest member of the Florida House of Representatives, after winning an overwhelming victory Tuesday in a Palm Beach County special election.
Unofficial results Wednesday showed Long with 9,553 votes, or 63.2%. Republican Maria Zack finished far behind with 5,424 votes, or 35.9%.
Long is a loss control engineer, runs a political organizing firm, is a former member of the Palm Beach Soil and Water Conservation District board, and a former president of the Palm Beach County Young Democrats.
If Dems want to win, they need more than 'not Republicans... but essentially the same'. They need to be active and they need to be seen. Loud and visibly against this regime and everything that enabled it. They need small dollar donations, ditch the corporate donors. They need to get themselves arrested protesting ICE or, ideally, actively resisting them.
Show some fucking spine.
Kristi Noem literally runs out of House hearing to avoid Dem questions
The Homeland Security secretary said she had to get to another meeting—which turned out to have been canceled.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly ended her time before the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday, angering lawmakers by stepping away from the hot seat to attend a highly anticipated meeting on the future of FEMA.
Except that meeting never happened.
The FEMA hearing was scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. Noem was reportedly informed at 12:26 p.m. that it had been canceled, a DHS spokesperson told The Hill.
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Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head, she bravely turned her tail and fled.
Yes, brave ICE Noem turned about.
And gallantly, she chickened out.
Bravely taking to her feet,
she beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, ICE Noem.
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Sounds like she's not very well behaved, probably can't be trained either. Let me check her book to see what she thinks is best to do in this sort of situation...
Oh, oh my, well that would be unfortunate for her.
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This is hilarious.
I bet she deliberately scheduled that FEMA meeting for the time at which she knew she would be getting grilled.
Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
AHAHAHAHAHA, must be one big fucking coincidence that all the people who caved aren't up for re-election this next round, huh?
Totally not a co-ordinated cave
Look at the people who voted to end the shutdown: no one who's up for re-election this next cycle.
Either Schumer is one hell of a terrible leader, or there was a very obvious attempt at co-ordinating the vote to take advantage of voters' (lack of) long term memory.
Pedo-nald being the head of the republican party is a gift to the democrats, who can't run a fucking campaign for shit. I really wanted Kamala to win, but goddamn if she didn't absolutely fuck it up. Between not being able to be the nominee from the start (Thanks ~~Obama~~ Biden!) and campaigning along side republicans while being rather tone deaf in her messaging did not help her cause in the slightest.
Ignoring the more reasonable side's fuckups because the other side is an active garbage dump fire is only going to push us farther along the same path. Maybe democrats will finally learn their lesson and actually campaign for the people instead of their donors. Actually run on a platform to help people, and maybe people will actually vote for them. Worked in '08, and while I'm not naive enough to fall for 'hope and change' again, it would be nice to feel like the person I'm voting for actually gave a fuck.
Did they bring it about?
Did they vote for the clowns running this circus?
I seem to recall “Entitlement Reform” as bipartisan issue.
Always laughable to hear republicans call for 'entitlement reform', because the reform is always 'fuck you, you don't get this anymore'. Or they sell the service to a private company who gets to wring you for every cent, then tell you 'fuck you, pre-existing condition, go die'.
Yeah, totally republican ass mentality to want to keep subsidies for people instead of caving on a vote that will totes happen. You ever think 'their interests' is having healthcare subsidies? Or do you assume the worst unless someone breaks out the crayons?
Fucking copium, my dude. My family has snap benefits and medicaid, and it would have been in my best long term interests for the government to stay shut down until the republicans caved and let the democrats help people. It was going to be a hard couple of months, but I was hoping my reps would have the stones to fight for their constituents, instead of rolling over (as is tradition) and letting the republicans have another win and take more from the people who have the least.
But hey, good thing they thought of the best interests of the economy and wall street. They're the real ones hurt during these shutdowns. 🙄
Its OK to dispute it, but you understand that you're basically describing a filter bubble, right? You're well educated and surround yourself with well educated people, but that's not something that will describe the average person. Its a bit naive to assume that because you understand these topics and surround yourself with others of your ilk, your peers are doing the same.
Millennials had plenty of people who were well educated and could engage openly and honestly about hard topics. But they're outnumbered by those that choose not to think too deeply. Just like Gen X, Boomers, etc. And unfortunately, without any evidence of the contrary, its a safe assumption that your generation will run along the same lines. I really hope I'm wrong. But as they say, hope in one hand....
It’s a Republican ass mentality to say it serves me me me. If the user had said it was for the greater good because of subsidies and Trump and what not, I wouldn’t have left the comment I did. But they said it serves me me me and they don’t care about any of the people genuinely affected by the government shutdown.
The opinion is not republican, but the behavior is 100% republican.
Edit: It’s also worth noting my original comment that started all this.
Imagine if the government was still shut down and we still didn’t have these subsidies.
So the user’s reply to that comment was to say he didn’t care about the subsidies or shutdown cause it benefited them.
Time to start framing it to the idiots that the cost increase is from "kickin all the illegals off of insurance" that they were never on.
If ya wanna get real racist with it, talk about how they grew up fighting mosquitos to get a drink of sewage water so they come to america and never get sick and just pay into the system.
How about the other party was so damn foolishly incompetent they couldn't win against a well-known racist, misogynistic, fraud, felon, and also a pedophile. See I can change the narrative too.
You love to turn it as "BoTh SidEs" when the parent comment doesn't even equate them, shows how cultist you can be.
If you can't go beyond taking every little criticism as an attack on your identity, equating both sides and calling them Russian bots, you kinda get what you deserve.
Trump was literally responsible for covid shitshow in US, killing thousands.
The base stands for what he is: racist, misogynist, fraud, a felon, and a pedophile, not what he does.
What he does is irrelevant.
Did they vote for the clowns running this circus?
Giving every die hard Ted Cruz supporter a free pass
I think the thing that people like you don’t realize is that government shutdowns almost never lead to legislation changes. It is basically just a political gesture that is meant to move public opinion only.
Dems maintained positive public opinion for a while, but it wasn’t going to last forever. Republicans were not going to cave on the issue, and after the longest shutdown in history, it’s possible their internal polling showed public opinion was starting to sour.
Your opinion (and a lot of others in this community) is to keep the government shut down forever and magically that’ll lead to all your legislations getting passed and nobody will be harmed by this shutdown and only republicans are viewed negatively. It’s a great fantasy, but in the real world, you don’t get everything, especially when you are not in control.
What I see here is the Republican Party voted to get rid of these subsidies, and you guys just want to blame Democrats because they didn’t want to shoot themselves in the foot on top of being smothered by the party in power.
Oh, I am fully aware that legislation changes are impossible even under the threat of a continued shutdown. What I'm interested in is usurpation of Congress by the states. Illinois governs a lot better than the feds do, and I very much desire Illinois, California, and other agreeable Democratic states to ignore the directives of the three federal branches and recognize a new three that they all favor.
I am aware of the Logan Act, and I don't care. The new three branches will serve the people far better than the old ones. Hell, I would like Illinois to deal with Canada directly so the US' allies know which states are friendly and which are not. This is also the only way to overthrow the current SCOTUS in our lifetimes.
It's the only way out. Those in charge won't allow any other way.
People like to hate on Democrats for all the appeasing they do, but they sometimes get hesitant when thinking of the alternative. Freedom isn't supposed to be easy when you're subjugated.
And considering how awful the US military is with quelling dissent in countries they've invaded, I'd say the Democrat states have a good chance if they stay focused. Not to mention all the foreign support flowing in due to the opportunity for a regime change.
I swear they play a game of chicken with the voters every fucking election. How shitty can they get away with being and still win the election. Well they openly snubbed their base and lost.
The establishment Democrats really are just controlled opposition. They'd rather throw an election than move to the left.
Meanwhile, it seems the very people that are supposedly going to “save us” are getting rapidly red-pilled into crazy right wing extremism on the platforms.
If I went back to the 90's and told people that Silicon Valley Tech Billionaires and Donald J. Trump controlled the nation, that they'd think the Democrats were in power.
My employer provided insurance didn't go up much this year, I can't wait for it to go up 40% next year.
This is all so dumb. We need socialized healthcare. If we did that and took all of the unnecessary grift/overhead and put it into research, we would probably be even better off.
Please tell me again how these fucks the FUCKS YOU elected “represent us”… y’all need to stop watching the billionaire owned media and understand how fucked up this shit is and do better use your critical thinking skills (if you have ANY) which are lacking right now and it’s savage that y’all don’t even know it!!!
“Obama’s policies aren’t gonna kill us.” It’s 100% Trump because he’s willing to put America citizens at risk of his billionaire friends!!
I am done being a millennial trying to work my ass off while I am dealing with crisis after crisis after national crisis after crisis after crisis, we can only do so much in own generation and y’all keep blaming us for this shit! It’s savage!!!!
Stop telling us healthcare cannot be a thing where we are paying billions for wars that we don’t even believe in!!!!
Did they bring it about?
Yes, clearly. They put these people in power. They happily voted for a guy who had a health care policy that amounted to "concepts of a plan" for like a decade now.
The people who didn't vote for Republicans don't deserve it. The children and dependents of Republicans don't deserve it. The adult voting Republicans do deserve it. They did it to themselves, I have zero guilt nor sympathy for them specifically.
I seem to recall “Entitlement Reform” as bipartisan issue.
I don't. I can't think of a single time from last election season where this was agreed upon as a bipartisan issue. Also, health insurance has never been lumped in with this. Your argument that both parties wanted to end ACA subsidies is absolutely asinine and totally divorced from reality. More lazy "both sides" nonsense usually originating from people who want to feel superior to everybody while also not having to do any work.
FFS, look at the Michael Bloomberg campaign. And he’s practically running the national party at this point.
What Bloomberg campaign?
Don't see a lot of libertarian arguments around here.
Four upvotes on Lemmy for a right-wing "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" political position. Incredible.
How is the electoral reform campaign going in your state rhoeri? I know you hate the spoiler effect that comes with First Past The Post voting, given your prolific commenting about 3rd parties. You do want to do something about the spoiler effect right?
Always looking forward to your status updates buddy.
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Videos on alternative electoral systems
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What the fuck are you talking about? NO HE DID NOT. He was NOT one of the Democrats who voted to end the shut down.
You know being progressive isn't an excuse to be downright dishonest, right?
So you want a "party leader" to literally control all other politicians in their party? That's representative democracy to you? What "control" is he supposed to have?
What a stupid fucking argument. He doesn't have a goddamn mind control device and Senators are individuals that make their own decisions.
Just admit the truth. You criticize Schumer BY DEFAULT no matter what he does. That's what this boils down to. He did exactly what you said you wanted him to do and now you're moving the goalposts. You are literally incapable of admitting that he did something you agree with.
When one side is hellbent on criminalizing your existence, why would you give a shit about trying to appease the other side and shake their hand lol.
But hey, if you got a place where people accept each other and are willing to work together for a better future, good for you. I'm just hoping I don't get dragged away from my family, and to outlive those who try.
Fuckin A brother. I grew up on the hopium of making changes and leave the world a better place but giant swathes of people would rather see it all burn just so they can show the other side they were right.
Me n mine are doing what we can to survive whatever the hell happens and just be happy in our little slice of heaven as independent as we can be.
When one side is hellbent on criminalizing your existence
The bipartisan war on drugs is decades old.
Pass electoral reform at the state level and replace First-past-the-post voting.
This way more then two political parties can exist without a spoiler effect, and the people can have more options in the voting booth. No more hostage situation of being forced to vote against a party, rather then voting for the solutions to our problems.
Unfortunately, blue maga has decided for you that you dont get to have a choice. You are locked in to mr bones wild ride, and you better smile and thank them for it or else you are a Russian bot!
Hoping this is sarcasm mocking this kind of take.
Everyone deserves healthcare. This is like the "I'm calling ICE on my neighbors that I know have undocumented family members because one of them voted for Trump". It's just treating politics as a team sport for entertainment; and not actually caring about it because you want positive change for the world you live in.
Yeah what a coincidence that all the representatives that broke the shutdown weren’t up for re-election next time. Very convenient! I’m sure there was zero coordination to decide who would break rank.
But even if there wasn’t any of that, Chuck still bears responsibility for the failure of the shutdown even if you don’t want to admit it.
Chuck led the shutdown. For better or for worse, it failed to accomplish its goal. Ultimately more responsibility falls on him as minority leader than anyone else. It’s not insane to want someone who coordinates a major gambit like a government shutdown to be capable of keeping the other representatives from breaking rank to accomplish the goal of the shutdown. Coordinating votes is literally a huge part of the job as majority or minority leader. It’s disingenuous to say expecting a party leader in the house to line up votes is contrary to representative democracy.
Just admit the truth, you’ll suck Chuck off no matter what he does. You’re literally incapable of not sucking his dick
The end game of AI.
The 1% wants fully automated workers/military so they can finally solve their biggest problem. (Us)
I'm sure he'll be having frantic conversations with the ~~split personalities~~ ~~alternate identities~~ mental fabrications of the "median voter" he's constructed in his head.
mediaite.com/media/news/scott-…
That's not really a joke, for nearly two decades now, he basically invented multiple, imagined "median voters" in his head, gave them complex backstories, frequently refers to them as if they are real, frequently cites "conversations" he has with them, in writing, to justify/explain his thinking process.
Hooray for the gerontocracy, long live decree by dementia!
Scott Jennings Roasts Schumer for Inventing Actual ‘Imaginary Friends’: ‘Does He Belong ...
CNN's Scott Jennings roasted Chuck Schumer and asked whether he belongs in an asylum over him referencing for decades voters who don't actually exist.Zachary Leeman (Mediaite)
Anyone who was surprised by this needs to retire from having political opinions of any kind, to say nothing of such people who actually hold any political power.
The former should develop humility and realize they are idiots.
The latter should be maimed, defrauded of their wealth, and then forced to endure their own system.
It will, in the sense that the US Treasury is now shifting massive amounts of its debt burdern from longer term bond issuance(5y, 10y, 30y), to shorter term (3m) debt, and then just trying to keep refinancing it, every 3 months.
The Federal Reserve has now lost the ability to actually set bond market intetest rates.
They can raise or lower the interest rate, the bond market is currently laughing at that and setting their own interest rates.
So, what that means is, the next government shutdown will result in even more economic destruction and chaos, even more things we have long taken for granted just disintegrating.
So you have no proof whatsoever. You guys are essentially Trumpers just on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Factual reality just does not matter to you. Just "vibes". It's absolutely pathetic.
First and foremost, he voted against it. You have no proof that he only did so because he coordinated with others to vote for it. That's a conspiracy that you have concocted because you HAVE to believe Schumer is evil because you've already decided that he is.
He opposed it on the floor. He was NOT part of the group of Democrats that negotiated with Republicans.
The shut down was ended by the choice of individual Senators, not a party-wide dictum. The reasons they gave, right or wrong, were based on their constituencies. Some over SNAP. Some because they represent a good deal of federal workers and got concessions from Republicans on that front.
Durbin said Schumer had nothing to do with it and that Schumer was "not happy" about it.
Only Durbin and Shaheen have said they're retiring at the end of their current term. That's only 2 out of the 8 Democrats that voted fort he stopgap.
Schumer is your boogeyman "establishment" scapegoat that you have NO ISSUE being blatantly dishonest about because you think your particular misinformation and conspiracy theories are morally justified. They're not.
You guys will stop at nothing to continue to ensure Republicans destroy this country.
Being a leader doesn't mean the rest of the Senators in his party are his slaves that have to do his bidding. Republicans break ranks sometimes too. It happens because Senators focus on their constituency because that's what keeps them in power.
Yeah fuck him, not the people who actually voted to reopen the government. That makes sense. Using scapegoats instead of those who are actually to blame. Using emotion instead of logic. It's pathetic.
There is literally nothing Schumer could do that wouldn't result in you criticizing him, made plenty clear by the ridiculous stretch you're taking here. You've prejudged any action he could take. He's the evil "establishment" Democrat that people like you have decided are worse than Republicans. Just admit the truth.
This is like the “I’m calling ICE on my neighbors that I know have undocumented family members because one of them voted for Trump”.
I'm sure liberal has done this IRL. The desire to punish brown people for voting incorrectly is strongly bipartisan.
First and foremost, he voted against it. You have no proof that he only did so because he coordinated with others to do so.
Lol, this your first time following national politics on a controversial issue? Or are you naive enough to think that a POLITICIAN won't play POLITICS? You're right that I have no proof, but the Democratic party has long lost the benefit of the doubt in my mind. I still vote for them because there's no other option, but I'm not going to pretend like their shit doesn't stink.
You guys will stop at nothing to continue to ensure Republicans destroy this country.
Classic response for pointing out how CONVENIENT the expected democratic belly roll ends up being. Also, way to completely disregard the actual point while you're busy defending the shit moves the Dems make
must be one big fucking coincidence that all the people who caved aren't up for re-election this next round, huh?Only Durbin and Shaheen have said they're retiring at the end of their current term. That's only 2 out of the 8 Democrats that voted fort he stopgap.
politico.com/news/2025/11/09/s…
Most, but not all, previously held state-level office — including four former governors. Most, but not all, come from presidential swing states. Two have announced they are retiring from the Senate after their current terms end, and two are senior members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.None are up for reelection in 2026.
But yeah, the person who wants the democratic party to fight for the people instead of rolling over is totally wanting the republicans to win.
Go back to the circus 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
The AP article says the democrats “forced” a shutdown over the issue
Subtle but that’s how we know all media is fascist
He caved
No, he did not cave because he did not vote for the stopgap. He was not involved in the group of Democrats that negotiated with Republicans. Saying he "caved" is 100% false.
for a vote he knew would fail
The vote passed, it didn't fail. Somehow I'm not surprised that such fundamental details are lost on you. Assuming you meant he knew that it would pass, you have no proof whatsoever to back up the assertion that he only voted against it due to that and not due to other reasons. No, your hatred of Schumer and "establishment" Democrats is not proof.
Angus King isn't even a Democrat.
logrolled the votes so that the I’ll informed would think he didnt have a hand in it.
You guys can't seem to decide if Schumer is all-powerful or completely powerless.
The shutdown was painful, but what comes next will be a lot more painful.
I agree. Ending the shut down was a mistake and killed momentum they had gained from recent elections. Not too mention giving credence to the idea that they're weak. The eight Senators who voted for the stopgap are the ones we should be criticizing but I never see them named in these threads. You're not interested in the truth, you're only interested in furthering your agenda.
"word on the hill" sounds like nonsense that conveniently supports a predisposed argument. People who have already decided that Schumer and "establishment" Democrats are the enemy will jump on anything that feeds their confirmation bias.
These people aren't looking at the facts and coming to a conclusion. They've come to a conclusion are only looking for "evidence" that confirms it.
6 of the 8 are due in 2028, just a bit more than two years away. Senators serve a 6 year term. Voters would have to support a primary challenge, possible but difficult. It would have to be based entirely on their decision to fund the stopgap, which would be tough as they can give their reasoning as to how they thought they were helping constituents. Given the power of incumbency, I have serious doubt many of them were worried about being voted out a year later. You're right about the memory of the voters, it is short and 12 months is a long time.
Schumer being a "leader" doesn't mean he controls other Senators. That's just not how it works. Senators are accountable to their constituency, not the informal leader of their party. These Senators did not consult with Schumer because they DIDN'T HAVE TO. They are federally elected Senators and can think and act according to their own logic.
In fact, demanding this kind of conformity or slavish adherence to a single leader is something you'd likely criticize if you saw it happening on the other side of the aisle.
Go ahead explain how "shitty" Harris was, essentially a younger Biden, someone you had no problem voting for just 4 years prior.
Let's hear it. Let's hear, specifically, why you think she would be worse than Trump. I'm so sick of people acting like Harris was the only one in the election. Voting or refusing to vote to "punish" a party is childish and obviously counterproductive. It makes it clear that your so dearly held beliefs are nothing more than props.
How about the other party was so damn foolishly incompetent they couldn’t win against a well-known racist, misogynistic, fraud, felon, and also a pedophile. See I can change the narrative too.
How about the fucking dumbasses that refused to vote for Harris and let Trump win? What's their justification? Did they forget who Trump is? Did they forget he had more criminal trials coming?
Are they not responsible for their choice? The Democratic party MADE THEM DO THAT? What a load of fucking bullshit.
Harris beat Trump so badly in their one debate that Trump was afraid to debate again. She campaigned extensively and did a ton of interviews with friendly and unfriendly organizations.
What did Harris do that was so different from Biden, aside from her not being a white man?
I'm tired of these pathetic fucking excuses while I see the country torn apart by this fucking maniac. It's not the party's fault. It's not the DNC's fault. This time, it's the voters fault.
Why don't you explain to me what exactly was so horrible that it justifies 10 million less people voting for her than did for Biden just four years prior?
Because that's something you tend to leave out when you engage in your good times diatribe circle jerks.
Pedo-nald being the head of the republican party is a gift to the democrats, who can’t run a fucking campaign for shit. I
Explain exactly what you mean that. I'm tired of generalities. What specifically makes you say that?
Because I thought she ran a good campaign. She was aggressive, she whipped his ass in the debate, she was willing to do interviews with friendly and hostile media organizations. She wasn't just "not Trump", she had a platform with a bunch of policy ideas that I guarantee a large portion of the people taking part in the discussion here on Lemmy are unaware of.
You didn't give Harris a chance. You wanted to "punish" Democrats. All you did was make everything worse for everybody.
They happily voted for a guy who had a health care policy that amounted to “concepts of a plan” for like a decade now.
They were the same guys voting for Romney in 2012, the man whose health plan was good enough for Obama to crib wholesale.
I can’t think of a single time from last election season where this was agreed upon as a bipartisan issue.
Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years
What Bloomberg campaign?
He's the thirteenth most prolific campaign financier in 2024
Fact Check: Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years
“I tried with Senator Grassley back in the 1980s to freeze all government spending, including Social Security, including everything,” Biden said in 1995.Ryan Grim (The Intercept)
I'm not going to bother engaging with any of your comment other than this bit:
You didn't give Harris a chance. You wanted to "punish" Democrats. All you did was make everything worse for everybody.
I voted for her and wanted her to win 🤡🤡🤡. Which should have been obvious if you bothered to actually read my comment.
Go back and look through my comment history and show me where any of your lazy and thoughtless accusation came from, other than me not showing unconditional approval for the Dems nominee.
I will not hold the person I vote for above scrutiny, and I only have contempt for the idiots who do.
Edit: and do you really need me to spell out how tone deaf she was supporting Israel and saying the economy was great? Or that she wasn't the nominee for a large chunk of the race?
You're deliberately misreading what I said, and if you think that he didn't know or wasn't part of the negotiation as to exactly who was going to vote to end the shutdown amongst senators who wanted it to end but didn't want their fingerprints on it, I have several pieces of waterfront property for sale. For their part, senators Durbin, King, Hassan, Shaheen, Masto, Rozen, Fetterman and Kaine should not have a place within the Democratic party (Also Manchin, Sinema had she not already fucked off of her own accord).
If you want to be a pedant, there has been no vote on the ACA subsidies other than a failed cloture vote. The vote to re-open the govt passed. The agreement to have a vote on the ACA subsidies was the "compromise" that was the condition of voting to pass the appropriations bill and end the shutdown.
Schumer is neither all-powerful or completely powerless, but he is the leader of his party in the Senate, so he is ultimately responsible for actions taken by Senate democrats. He is either insufficiently committed or insufficiently competent, for the family who's health insurance costs become unaffordable, it doesn't really matter which.
Dems are weak because they can't win elections because they fail to deliver results (because they can't win elections). The shutdown was the only real lever that they were able to pull unilaterally, they picked the right hill to die on, and ultimately accomplished nothing.
My agenda is being able to leave my job for a year to focus on finishing a degree and a couple of professional licenses without completely wiping out what little savings I'm able to scrape together by delaying every other financial goal and for my peers to have an easier time with similar hard choices. Whatever makes that happen, yeah, I'm fine with.
Did you look at the actual vote? There doesn't seem to be any pattern besides party affiliation.
From the article:
"The Senate voted 51-48 not to move forward on the Democratic bill, with four Republicans -- Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Alaska Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan -- voting with Democrats."
The 51 side was the side with the 4 Republicans. All the Democrats and both Independents voted in favor of it, the problem was they needed 60 votes to break the filibuster.
Of the 4 Republicans who flipped, Collins and Sullivan are both up for re-election in 2026.
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Voting No:
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moran (R-KS)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Paul (R-KY)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
Of the "No" votes, 17/48 are up for elections in 2026:
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Ernst (R-IA)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY) (retiring)
Mullin (R-OK)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rounds (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Or maybe you were talking about the OTHER bill? The one by Republicans that would create under-funded HSA accounts? 🤔
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All the Democrats, both Independents, and Rand Paul voted "No". Paul is not up for re-election.
Yeah apparently so. -7 downvotes (and counting) for me trying to figure out why they're blaming the minority leader for this...I am so confused.
I'm not sure if this is maga on lemmy trying to make the dems look bad, or if it's russian trolls pretending to be dem supporters sick of the establishment or something else but whatever it is, putin has definitely got what he paid for.
Yeah, not sure why they assume I had "no problem" voting for Biden. I did so rather begrudgingly.
They are making rather ridiculous assumptions in their comment. No one is talking specifically about Harris other than them.
Republicans being worse is no excuse for democrats being dog shit.
You should be fucking ashamed of yourself for giving Republicans a free pass like this. What a stupid fucking attitude. Way to make it plain that all of the issues you claim to care about don't matter to you at all. Kids are getting ripped out of grade school and sent across the county, put into ICE detention and deported to fuck knows where. You try to take the moral high ground, like you care about the people now suffering? No. Absolutely not. You spit directly in the face of those people just so you could "stick it to the man" like a high school freshman. Pathetic. And you think Harris was that much WORSE than this?
You acted like there was only one person in the race,. The choice is which side you think better benefits your views. Do you understand? Anything less means you don't care about those views. You DO NOT get to claim you care about those issues when you ACTIVELY make their situations significantly worse. It is just fucking beyond stupid and irresponsible to equate a serious and capable politician with a con man, carnival barker, convicted felon pedophile. THAT is what you helped bring to power. You're a Trump supporter. You don't get to pretend that reality isn't the way it is.
Did you defeat the two party system, champ? No, you didn't. Good job.
There is no logical way to argue that Trump and his psychotic policies and sheer incompetence is in any way comparable, let alone BETTER THAN Harris. It's non-sensical bullshit. You fucking selfish assholes spend all your time in echo chambers doing things like bemoaning "Biden's crime bill" while being sure to NEVER mention that Sanders voted for that same bill. That doesn't jive with your propaganda though, does it? I believe I also heard Sanders make positive comments about Trump's immigration policy, isn't it funny how that never comes up in your echo chambers? You're not interested in truth, you don't care about Bernie Sanders. You don't care about what Bernie Sanders stands for.
Guess who Sanders told you vote for? Guess who has never claimed he was "cheated"? Bernie Sanders has integrity and understands that some progress is ALWAYS better than drastic regression. You do not have integrity, you have no real beliefs, you're in the liberal personality cult and you morons will be a stain on Bernie's legacy. History will remember your dedication to him when you outright refused his voting suggestion. When you told him you'd rather have Trump because, somehow in your convoluted fucked-up mind, that signals loyalty to Bernie. It doesn't. You stabbed Bernie in the back and set back progress on issues he cares about for decades if not worse. Amazing you agree with everything he says, EXCEPT THAT.
Not even a fucking SINGLE year in to Trump's term and it is already an unmitigated disaster. You own a small amount of responsibility. I don't. It's not my fault for voting for the Democratic candidate. I didn't make you sit out. YOU are the only one responsible for your decision. Now you want sit here and act like the Democrats "made you do it"? No, you made an incredibly stupid decision that you can't even remotely justify. You threw a hissy fit because you didn't get exactly what you wanted.
So the argument isn't that he caved. The argument is that he doesn't have total control over other Senators?
That's stupid as fuck. He can't control other Senators, you fucking dumbass. Senators are responsible to their constituency, not the informal party leader.
The fact that you guys NEVER list the eight Democrats that actually did vote to end it and ONLY put the blame on Schumer, despite that making no sense, is ridiculous. It's plainly obvious that the truth does not matter to you. Schumer did exactly what you said you wanted him to do but now you're crucifying him anyway because he's the "evil establishment" Democrat. You picked sides LONG before this, you never had any intention of judging Schumer fairly.
Schumer negotiated the deal,
That is an absolute fucking lie. You should be ashamed of yourself, intentionally spreading misinformation like this, We get enough of that from the right.
Zero proof for any of your convenient assertions.
You get it! I've been voting for a few decades, and what do you know, they have done absolutely nothing.
But I'm sure if you keep voting Democrat, they will stop trading stocks and devaluing the dollar (inflation) and so on. You know the secret to stemming the tide.
They're not the same, silly! One is the good cop and one is the bad cop.
They do have some similarities, though. They are both pro-corporate and anti-union.
You don’t!
You see, democrats keep fascism from destroying the fabric of our democracy. Not voting- DOESN’T
I can make this simpler for you:
You vote AGAINST fascism, not FOR democrats.
Watching you all having not learned this lesson is both frustrating and fascinating at the same time. It’s like the ignorance that make MAGA possible doesn’t affect conservatives and conservatives alone.
I have solutions, but they are not officially sanctioned by the US government.
All I know is what isn't a solution.... voting. You can't force a long-gone and corrupt government to fix itself by voting and saying "please stop".
I've been voting for a very long time, and for some reason they still listen to corporations instead of millions of voters. It's almost as if they are financed and controlled by business in some way. It's a great mystery.
We have been fascist for a long time.
You vote FOR fascism, every election. Those are your only options. Remember, if you sit at a table with Nazis, you are a Nazi! They all sit together, at a table that you are not invited to.
The reason you are frustrated is that you are witless. Ignorance, indeed.
I don't know, I've never lived under a socialist/communist government, I've only lived in a plutocracy.
Union membership is down to 10% (from 35% peak in 1950s, our "glory days") perhaps if we get it down to 0% they will reward us with medical care and lots of free cookies? Worth a shot.
Vietnam urges factories to cut output as Hanoi chokes on smog
Vietnam urges factories to cut output as Hanoi chokes on smog
Hanoi has been placed fourth on the list of the world’s most-polluted cities, according to AirVisual. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Vietnam urges factories to cut output as Hanoi chokes on smog
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/54788141
Vietnam urges factories to cut output as Hanoi chokes on smog
Vietnam urges factories to cut output as Hanoi chokes on smog
Hanoi has been placed fourth on the list of the world’s most-polluted cities, according to AirVisual. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/31361035
Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.
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wow, the turd squad is out in full-force.
FYI, OP, in the US, Tate is universally hated for being a neo-nazi kiddie fucker. you may find a tiny minority of equally-demented idiots that are also neo-nazi kiddie fuckers, but you won't be welcome here for the millennia such an exercise might take. oh, and if y9ou do it sooner, give us their names and addresses-- so we can share our holiday cheer!
if you think that's a good thing... well, lol, fuck you.
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Indiana Senate Republicans Defy Trump Admin and Reject Gerrymandered Maps
Indiana Senate Republicans Defy Trump Admin and Reject Gerrymandered Maps
Despite months of mounting and concerted pressure from the Trump administration, the Indiana Senate rejected a proposal for a new gerrymandered congressional…Khaya Himmelman (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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I'm not exactly sure what they're getting at, but I did see someone from the Nobel Peace Prize committee call for Maduro's removal just as the US has been ramping up its "anti-narcotics" operations in around the oil and lithium rich country, complete with extra judicial killings of Venezuelans, telling other nations to avoid their airspace and very recently seizing an oil tanker ship...
So it kinda feels like the Nobel Peace Prize committee is trying to add justification to the cause for war that the US is trying to drum up, which is wantonly egregious, so maybe they're implying that both the Nobel committee and Eurovision are tacit supporters and backers of imperialism.
I mean Maduro is pretty bad. If that statement was just about him, I don't see the issue. They seemed to quite dislike everything Trump was doing.
The most confusing part about that statement was Americans seeing what the Nobel prize is. They especially should stfu after electing that shit-show XD
You’re saying that there was no Afghan war for the first 10 months of Bush’s admin and no Iraq war for the first two I take it?
Even with that factored in, from what I can tell the Bush admin dropped nearly double (100k for Obama vs 200k for Bush), although I’m not sure where they’re sourcing their information from.
Of course, but thats another thing. Americans are sick people.
The problem with ellection in Venezuela is that they are stupidly rigged. It is said that Maduro lost the last one 70-30, and expatriates were not allowed to vote alleguing bs reasons. (Those are ~5 million voters that were heavily sided against maduro). If thats true, Venezuela has to "decide" by storming the streets at this point
Venezuela has to “decide” by storming the streets at this point
Still up to them. Being a foreigner you may even cheer for either side, as long as you don't send armies there to plunder and murder.
I will state this cause i think it may be subject of misinterpretation: i stated "decide" in comas because maduro lost the last 2 elections (the first one may be arguable, the second one was scandalous) and nothing changed, not because they should be "coopted to decide" or something.
And just to clarify, the USA should stay out of venezuela
I thought I read they did storm the streets of Caracas, during the last Trump admin, in support of Maduro, during a previous coup attempt.
Like the US got caught sponsoring mercenaries and trying to ship in a load of guns to start a coup. I don't imagine everything is peachy in Venezuela, but I do wonder how much of that is due to meddling by foreign powers versus corruption.
News in Latin America is hard to trust one way or another, because it always seems like it's being twisted to support one goal or another. Like, I know the state media is biased, but I also know the Western media is eager to support bloodthirsty actors who want to pillage their resources.
Okay, you were given two examples of why this is bad (Qaddafi, Sadam). Here's another: Syria was a stable and semi-prosperous country before the meddling began, and then it was turned into a basket case. It took over ten years to depose Assad, and in the meantime their economy has been obliterated and half a million people died.
These are just the recent examples, there are so many more: Sukarno in Indonesia, Allende in Chile, Lumumba in Congo, over and over and fucking over the US comes and fucking destroys countries in the name of "liberating" the people. Your government programs you to hate these "regimes" but they're actually stabilizing forces, and without them everything is worse.
Making things worse is the point. If they can't install a puppet regime friendly to US interests they'll settle for turning the country into another basket case, because taking Venezuela's oil off the market raises prices (and thus profits)
And Trump is already promising to do the same fucking thing in Colombia! It's so nakedly evil, and you just lap it up like a dog. The US's internal politics don't even matter, this is bipartisan.
It's political.
Think about it like wrestling. Everybody is a character, nothing is real, but they really need you to believe it is. It's all an act to keep your attention.
Fun fact: 100% of countries have done fucked up shit.
I'm not pointing that out because I think that excuses any of the fucked up shit. It doesn't.
I'm pointing it out because by the standards of "shut up if your country was ever genocidal", only people from countries with very little power and influence are allowed to try to do or say anything to make the world a better place for those of us not in favor of genocide.
TL;DR: STFU with that ultra reductionist edgelord bullshit. You're not helping and you're not being clever.
Im indigenous so 🤷♂️
Can’t really guilt me into disliking all the colonists and their hypocrisy
Are you saying that indigenous people never warred with others/neighbors and wiped out other tribes? Never raped, never put their enemies into slavery or sold them to other indigenous, or never tortured those they were at war with?
Because, to me, it sounds like you’re making that case with your comment and that is a bullshit case to be made. Humans are historically awful.
Are you suggesting that indigenous peoples have never done any of what I said above?
I’m not trying to guilt you into sympathizing with colonization. I’m trying to get you to understand that, “I’m indigenous, so only bad things ever happened to people like me because of colonization” is a naive idea to have.
No, you're trying to equate to genocidal, "wipe out all indigenous people" with let me check... warring tribes can grouping them all as "all countries do bad things." Which vastly outweighs the evils of the two approach.
You're not trying to guilt him, you're just trying to wash away your colonialist guilt than anything else.
No. I’m really not trying to equate that at all. Using “I’m indigenous” as an excuse to imply that you’re beyond criticism is bullshit. Everyone can be criticized. Everyone has skeletons.
You’re trying to pull words out of nothing. All I was responding to was the whole “ Im indigenous so 🤷♂️” comment.
Because I’m NOT comparing it. You need some serious reading comprehension practice. You’re all riled up for the entirely wrong fucking point that I have repeatedly said I am not arguing.
Good gravy.
What a dipshit take.
There is not a single patch of land where humans have lived where atrocities haven't happened. Not one.
Some countries, though, are committing atrocities right now.
Equating them is absolutely moronic. What kind of Old Testament whacko are you? Put that "sins of the father will be paid by the son" bullshit in the bin where it belongs.
It all lip-service actually. These countries (EU and US) have all the political, economic, legal and military power to actually punish Israel but instead they choose to do these meaningless acts. In fact they benefits from this genocide/colonization.
When someone is at the (benefit) receiving side of colonization process, of course, they would not want to be punished for sins of their father, but they will also not give up on the jewels looted by their father too.
Now let the downvotes shower begin.
The ESC winner of 2024.........
The attack on Israel was 2023..........
Israel has been in Gaza since 2023... This was already brutal in 2024.........
Israel was part of ESC in 2023 and 2024.......
Looks like a publicity stunt.......
Winning and refusing to accept the prize would be a much more powerful message with the biggest audience.
This is a stunt.
Israel has been in Gaza since 2023
I mean... They've been in there for much longer than that
This is why the left is doomed at the moment.
Someone stands up for the left side, they receive: "fuck off you're not perfect enough"
Whereas any branch of the right will get behind another if they're even slightly nudging the way they want.
Nemo broke the code to be just kinda awesome.
Its like a modern enlightenment but songified.
Japan: Hundreds get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling
Japan: Hundreds get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling
The drunk cyclists were deemed by police as likely to pose a "significant danger" as car drivers.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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It sounds like you are saying that if a drunk cyclist hits a pedestrian, it's impossible for the pedestrian to get injured.
Or if that same cyclist weaves out in to the street, a car that hits them cannot be damaged (and the driver of the car won't be held liable even though cyclists pretty much always have the right of way vs. cars).
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Based on their comment above I asked if the following assumptions were correct. They appeared to confirm them:
It sounds like you are saying that if a drunk cyclist hits a pedestrian, it's impossible for the pedestrian to get injured.Or if that same cyclist weaves out in to the street, a car that hits them cannot be damaged (and the driver of the car won't be held liable even though cyclists pretty much always have the right of way vs. cars).
Are you saying there are recorded facts that agree with their assumptions? Could you please provide a source?
No, I'm saying cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks do, which is what your disagreeing comment appeared to be replying to. It's a recorded fact that cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks. For my country, that's in the Recorded Road Casualties of Great Britain dataset.
I replied about your assumptions in another comment.
Yeah and donkeys kill more people per year than sharks and more people die at their home every year than at volcano eruptions and earthquakes put together.
If you want to quantify danger of something you need to account the number of encounters.
And you did not answer the question.
Not impossible, but very very rare in practice.
And whether the driver is liable varies around the world. Most countries require drivers not to hit dumb animals, including drunk humans.
If its like Australia, then its probably because the way the legislation is worded.
If the DUI legislation has demerit point accumulation for DUI, and it covers all vehicles, not just motor vehicles, then drunk cycling or horse riding could also result in a loss of licence.
The article discusses forfeiture of driving license as a consequence of cycling whilst drunk. My stand is that this is unreasonable, as the damage that a drunk cyclist can inflict on others or themselves is magnitudes lower than that of driving drunk.
We can discuss walking if walking whilst drunk also can lead to a forfeiture of a driving license. Because hey, a drunk person could walk into traffic just as much as a drunk cyclist could.
See, the larger vehicle is responsible for accidents over here, almost all of the time. So if cyclists get drunk and a car hits them, the car driver could get a lot of flack, legally and in insurance costs. Which is kinda fucked up, but that's the system.
So we expect cyclists to be sober. So they don't create those situations.
Only thing i agree with you is that this is dumb.
Getting fine from public intoxication is just so weird concept for me. Especially when thinking some assbackwards places where its legal to carry a gun in public, but carrying open beer bottle is punishable.
Also drunk cyclist can be dangerous. If they collide with pedestarian or another cyclist there is good change for a hospital trip, or in extreme cases morgue. Especially now when e-bikes are more common.
Few years back some drunkard who was biking at the side of large road suddenly and without any signal crossed the road and allmost got hit by my car. I needed to pull over after that and wait for some time to get my hands stop shaking. If i would had bad brakes he would be dead and i would be traumatised, or if there would have been another car following me there would have been a crash.
Reason why i think its dumb is that if the punishment for driving a car and driving a bike is more or less the same, more people are going to choose the car.
I get where you're going with this but it's not that dumb IMO, the maximum penalty absolutely is dumb.
If a person can barely cycle and obviously is drunk on a bike I think it's fair to assume that they're a danger to others so it should be illegal but the police shouldn't be breathalysing everyone.
With tweaks to the law I think it's fine:
- Allow 0.3 instead of 0.15 so you can have two drinks and ride a bike. Bikes go a lot slower so the reaction time requirement is not the same.
- Removing driving license for a non-traffic violation doesn't make sense, it disproportionately affects those that have licenses.
- The fine and jailtime is ludicrous. Add in recklessly riding a bike for those such as riding too fast past pedestrians and jailtime for seriously injuring someone like breaking their leg or something.
Generally you want people to ride a bike instead of driving a car when drinking, it's a lot safer for everyone but still discourage it enough so people consider taking public transportation. If people walk their bike through crowds and then ride along empty streets just let them.
Bottom line, it's a good idea, but horrible execution.
Authorities deemed that the offenders were "likely to pose a significant danger when driving a car".
That's quite a leap of reasoning.
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Ohh not that drink cycling...
M friend got super fucked up falling off her bike doing this. She was in clip in pedals tho.
It is hella fun though! Just know your limit.
Alcohol has long been seen as a social lubricant for thousands of years in Japan, where business deals and difficult issues are discussed over bottles of beer and sake.It is believed that drinking alcohol creates a more relaxed environment for such discussions.
This is such an odd bit of “cultural context” to include in the article. Alcohol is a social lubricant in basically every culture that doesn’t outright forbid it.
Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English)
Yours is an incorrect correction.
So the more comfortable way to lose a license is to drive a car instead?
If you punish everything you'll just get people who stop caring.
Not really, same in Germany if you are generally drunk in traffic (except by foot or public transport, i.e. an active participant) the same sober laws apply. So the incentive is not to do that when drunk. Also believe me when you lose your driving license completely you will care if you need it, and even if you don't, fines hurt, too.
Japan is even harsher as you can go to prison directly, and if you are in their court system once (that is after only a fine or simple suspension) due to customs and cultural norms you will be found guilty with a chance of about 99 % (the Japanese court system is notoriously bad).
Alternatives to escalating by using a car can bet walking or taking the metro, the latter is easily possible in Japan, for instance. When the trains don't run there are plenty cheap manga cafes or capsule hotels.
Not really, same in Germany if you are generally drunk in traffic (except by foot or public transport, i.e. an active participant)
An active participant in operating a vehicle, I'm sure. I would disagree with the implicit characterization of walking on foot as being a non-active participant in traffic.
Alternatives to escalating by using a car can bet walking or taking the metro, the latter is easily possible in Japan, for instance. When the trains don’t run there are plenty cheap manga cafes or capsule hotels.
If you're in Tokyo, maybe. I imagine this might be a bigger problem in rural areas, where the distances are greater and public transportation less available.
The distinction you make is fair. What I meant by active is as you describe "operating a vehicle", pedestrians are active participants as well, but you arguably are more likely to cause harm when misusing vehicles than on foot.
I was generally speaking about cities where most of these fines/sentences happend. In rural areas it is harder in many countries, although bare extreme mountainous parts, Japan is generally OK here as well.
Though I believe in these parts you are not only less likely to cause harm when drunk driving + police is less likely to stop you as well.
Generally speaking, it is always possible to either plan well enough to be able not to operate a vehicle drunk, or to simply don't drink if the former isn't possible. Don't you agree?
The same thing can - and has - happened in England.
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Can you lose your driving licence for a cycling offence?
A couple of people have asked me whether you can get penalty points on your driving licence if you jump a red light on your bike. I’ve always thought this was an urban myth, and that no matter how …UK Cycle Rules - information on cycling law in England and Wales
‘We are Russia’s next target’, warns Nato chief on Berlin visit – Europe live
Meanwhile, (NATO Secretary General Mark) Rutte delivers a very stark warning in the opening lines of his speech in Berlin as he says:
“I’m here today to tell you where Nato stands and what we must do to stop a war before it starts. And to do that, we need to be crystal clear about the threat: we are Russia’s next target, and we are already in harm’s way.”
He says that while the decision to accelerate defence spending at Nato’s Hague summit earlier this year was welcome, “this is not a time for self-congratulation.”
“I fear that too many are quietly complacent. Too many don’t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now. Allied defence spending and production must rise rapidly. Our armed forces must have what they need to keep us safe.”
Rutte says that Russia “has become even more brazen, reckless and ruthless towards Nato and towards Ukraine.”
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They could roll in with tanks, if enough pro-Russian parties came into power in the EU. The Baltic countries are not very big. Creating a situation where an Article 5 is called by a small country, but not answered, would be the ideal result.
Let's also not forget that Putin has only done a very limited amount of mobilization so far.
insane warmongerer clinging to power; never money for wellfare, always money for tax cuts and military spending.
talk of war on an international level "for democracy" is never about anything like democracy.
generals gather in their masses... just like lobbyists round parliaments now.
ask yourself if you want europe to die for NATO or if NATO shall die for europe as russia joins the european union.
the reason russia is being attacked by EU is because USA fears unification of EU+russia.
european wellfare states or warfare states; criticizing USA & understanding states at war or never questioning USA and shaming empathy.
What the hell? This is most insane thing I've read in a while. The EU is not fighting Russia at all, but Russia has been undermining the EU for 2 decades now. Russia attacks EU neighbours to keep them out of the EU, and talks about attacking EU countries. And Russia has not the slightest interest in joining the EU.
Meanwhile, it's the US that's siding with Russia against the EU. So yes, Europe needs to take its defense a lot more seriously.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.Mother Jones
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The goodread stuff... You just can't make that up.
Gonzo journalism (ok it's a stretch) needs to make a massive comeback. These people need to be very uncomfortable all the time.
Imagine posting kompromat on main… Like dude, the golden rule of security clearance remains: if you aren't willing to tell your grandma, either don't do it or don't get a job with clearance.
Also why is it always Thai trans women. You never hear about a hijra fetish or someone who thinks that Belarusian trans chicks are just particularly hot. It's always Thailand.
Russian asylum seekers expelled from US have ended up on Ukraine front
Deported from the United States and then immediately dispatched to the front lines by Russia. Such was the fate of several Russian nationals who, after being detained and put on a plane in Arizona on Monday, December 8, eventually landed in Moscow on Tuesday, December 9, after a stopover in Cairo.
According to the independent Russian media outlet Mediazona, 64 Russian passengers were on board. The authorities have provided no information about their current status. However, several of them received military draft notices as soon as they arrived, the first step toward likely deployment to the front in Ukraine. The information was confirmed by the group Russian America for Democracy in Russia (RADR), an advocacy group established in the US by opponents to the Kremlin.
The only official statement from Moscow came after the plane landed: The Office of the Prosecutor General announced the arrest of Zair Saimullin, age 69, who was charged with fraud and whose extradition from the US had been requested by Russia. According to RADR, he was likely on board the flight from Cairo.
Russian asylum seekers expelled from US end up on Ukraine front
Amid surging anti-migrant sentiment in the US and growing ties between Moscow and Washington, 64 Russians were deported from Arizona. Upon arrival in Moscow, the men soon received military draft notices.Benjamin Quénelle (Le Monde)
I had to tutor three teen kids math for four hours today.
Kid and their friend write a test today. I will see fractions and percentages tonight in my nightmares.
Why are Israeli lawmakers wearing gold nooses?
More than 110 Palestinian prisoners have died from torture and mistreatment since Itamar Ben-Gvir became Israel’s security minister. Now he wants the power to hang them.
Why are Israeli lawmakers wearing gold nooses?
Israel's national security minister wants the power to hang Palestinian detainees accused of terrorism.Al Jazeera
I stopped. I was very pro Israel back in the day. Even said “well Israel wants to divide the country while hamas wants all Jews dead… I have to side with the Jews”
But then they did a genocide and it’s like “well there goes that theory”
No one likes to be wrong but what’s worse is continuing to be wrong after you know.
I don’t know the solution but I’ve changed my mind on the problem.
Always is very broad term. I can tell you during ww2 they were not genocideing Palestine.
I agree that this was ramping up for longer than I knew but using words like “always” only hurts the cause .
The regional rain changes during the late 1400s tho! Let’s talk about the crusades. What about this night doing that thing 1500 years ago.
I have my line. Respect it.
You’re right. I’ll go back to siding with Israel. You win brother. You changed my mind.
You ever consider leaving well enough alone?
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lol middle ground? You think I’m unsure about the importance of this?
You want to give me a lesson in historical events to prove a view I ALREADY Agree with.
I’m explaining I’m very busy and I don’t care.
Sounds terrible sure. I’m already on your side brother and your view is “but you don’t agree the 3rd crisis of the second realm caused the orphan of impossible fate! How could you claim to care if you haven’t experts dark water in the limitless plane!!!”
Dude I’m on your side! What nonsense are you going on about?! I sheltered homeless people in my home. I’ve hid immigrants. I showed employees how to work HR systems to report bosses.
I’m sorry I haven’t read the forgotten tomb of great regard but I’m doing more than my part.
You are hurting your cause bro. Chill. Take the easy win.
You must be a bot to be this upset about an obvious win that don’t meet pre- determined metrics.
“He agrees but he didn’t mention the translcuent dragon only the clear dragon!!! We must educate him”
What exactly is your goal? Explain to me what “winning” against me looks like?
It was "only" displacement, colonization, and (smaller) ethnic cleansing at that time
Edit: here's a list of bombings by the Irgun, a Zionist militia and terrorist organization (who were eventually folded into the IDF) during (and after) WW2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
Hers a list of mammoths migration patterns that sparked a resource war with Neanderthals.
I’m sure you are technically correct but that isn’t most people “starting point”
There’s only so far back you can go before people labor it non important
Edit: not important to current events. Not saying it wasn’t horrible
My point is 2000 years ago that was undisputed “Israel “ how far back are we going before we have to admit “that doesn’t matter for this discussion “
Not important to current events? Explain to me how groups that were merged together to form the IDF, and were fighting to create Israel is unimportant to Israel and its current actions and existence.
From the very beginning of Zionist migration to Palestine (the historic region, whether it was under Ottoman rule or British rule), it was colonial, and intended to remove the people currently living there. You can read it from Theodore Herzl, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Some of the first and very prominent Zionists. David Ben-Gurion,the first prime minister of Israel himself, in a letter to his son basically said the partition plan was just the first step to taking the entire land.
Without that ideology and attitude, we wouldn't be where we are now.
I already explained.
“If we look at migration paths of mammoths we can see…” you have to draw the line somewhere. It’s complicated.
You have something that shows it was this groups fault? Great a few years before that it was someone else’s choice.
It’s over 2000 years of history. We have to draw the line somewhere.
It's not really that complicated.
The "over 2000 years ago" or whatever previous maybe exigent state of Israel has nothing to do with the current one, other than as a religious fig leaf and excuse for Zionism.
To quote Ilan Pape: "Most Zionists don't believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine"
You're the one that brought up WW2 as a time period in the first place. Only to discard the evidence I presented of yes, in fact Zionists (who ended up forming Israel, and Zionism continues to be the basis of Israeli society and politics) were already committing what would/could/should be considered terrorist attacks against Palestinians.
As long as Zionism/Zionists have existed in Palestine, they have existed to displace or kill all Palestinians.
I draw the line at the most logical place: Zionism's creation/popularization. It is the root cause of all this.
It’s not complicated? I’m on your side brother but I’m not expressing it “enough@ for you. I’m not hitting all the correct notes for you. Therefore you need to change the person “on you’re side”
Sound complicated to me brother.
If someone come to me and talks me slavery is bad I don’t need to explain the complicated back story. They are on my side. I accept them.
It’s important to you that I know specific backstories.
Sounds like it’s a complicated issues then brother.
I’m not signing up for the lecture. I’ve already landed where you want.
Is that not good enough my friend?
You have a stupid argument not worth mentioning. But I’ll indulge you.
My argument is history is written by the victors and it’s over 2000 years of complications. I don’t care to hear about what 100 years ago. It’s not on the table.
What I will say is you’re arguing with someone who’s already on your side about complicated past stuff and making me feel bad for not knowing.
Fine you win. I’m back to supporting Israel. I was on your side but wasn’t educated enough so now I’m supporting Israel again. Good job.
Let’s talk about Pangea?
Double down? No im reversing course.
Your different accounts haven’t explained why I’m in your hotseat for agreeing with you?
The negative votes don’t matter to me because I know where they come from.
Say something valid or leave bot man.
Fuck you. I’m back to pro Israel because you needed to run your mouth. Good job bot boy.
You drastically overestimate your power here lol
What a terrible explainer holy shit. You had someone one your side and you turned them away. That’s on you buddy. You totally fucked that up lol
I’m moody son of gun. You had me in your hands bet you couldn’t shut up. You had to point out exactly why I wasn’t right enough and I turned away…
You’d make terrible leader I know a thing or two about leadership. You are worse than nothing.
Simply existing and speak hurt your point.
And that’s my fault? That’s you being crappy at explaining things. Do better in the future.
I’d wouldn’t trust you with the bag holding my dogs shit and you think that’s my flaw?
That’s on you buddy. You fucked that up. Good job. You’d help your movement more by shutting the hell up lol. Good job.
You took an easy and given win and made it a loss. Good job. You are definitely more mature than me lol. You couldn’t shut the hell up for for team. You just had so much to say, you couldn’t hold your face closed. Good job, you earned a loss from a win. You changed my mind lol.
All you had to do was nothing and you fucked that up do you know how stupid that makes you? My damn confession helped more than you actively turning people away. An outsider did more than you because you couldn’t shut up. Doing nothing would have been better for you.
You are worse than nothing lol literally. I can’t imagine a bigger failure. You were winning then you spoke. Now you’ve lost. Jesus Christ how do you sleep at night being such a failure? Every word you speak hurts your point bro lol
No, it really isn’t about the argument at all or that person.
I didnt really switch back to supporting Israel either.
I just have a lot going on lately and little stuff can set me off in to a kind of … episode…
That’s what you saw there and why it sounds so… unhinged.
Why are Israeli lawmakers wearing gold nooses?
To symbolize that they need to be hanged for crimes against humanity?
Itamar Ben-Gvir became Israel’s security minister.
Fun fact:
In the days leading up to the attack, that guy was spending his time giving interviews about how spitting on Christians is a harmless tradition that needed to be protected rather than discouraged
He was such an extremist at 18, that he was banned from joining the IDF even though they force people to join.
And that's not even getting into his connections to assassinations and car bombing...
In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander
But in the end, the vote wasn’t even close: 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats in opposition. In fact, more GOP Hoosiers voted against the measure than for it.
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The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP. Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.
So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.
Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.
So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.
That's not what that sentence is saying. Note the "party-affiliated" qualifier. I checked and according to the first search result I found 25% of Indiana voters are registered Democrat, 31% are registered Republican, and 44% are "unaffiliated".
Source: independentvoterproject.org/vo…
Indiana Voter Registration Statistics
Learn more about Indiana's Partisan primaries, partisan voter registration statistics, current voter totals, political parties, and more from the Independent Voter Project.independentvoterproject.org
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That is exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated. Going by your logic you would need to assume that the 44% unaffiliated are all republicans, which is very unlikely.
Certainly it seems to be close to the presidential election results over the last 20+ years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.
Edit: and indeed, if you add up the 2024 congressional results you get 58-39-3 percent.
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"When will I get credit for having created, with No Inflation, perhaps the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country?" Trump wrote, with characteristic hyperbole, in a post on his Truth Social network.
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Jesus the quotes in this article are a real bleak loom into how fucked we are as a country:
“Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear,” Sen. Chris Garten (R), another backer, said as he slapped the lectern. “You’re God damn right they are!”
and also:
“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action wrote on X. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.”
Because semis put a ton of wear and tear on roads and Indiana is a huge bottleneck between the Northeast and the North/Northwest.
If only there were a better way to move freight from one dedicated location to another dedicated location. If we could basically teleport goods between Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, and Dallas, THEN we'd be able to have semis (or even smaller trucks) only handle the more local portions, and we'd save easily billions on road maintenance.
I love how it papers over the fact the Republicans in Congress have abdicated all duty and made their own leader a king.
Also, I would hazard that heritage action is some bullshit foreign account? Maybe Nigeria?
No matter how you look at it, this is a headline that contain the words "Trump" and "blow" in the same sentence.
Nice little bonus that it happens to be a situation where cheeto mcpedo doesn't get his way.
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in reply to FreshParsnip • • •Iv unironically not been hired for jobs because of this. Because of how well I separate my online and offline life and my entirely non use of Facebook, Twitter, etc. iv had background companies report me as suspicious due to lack of information.
It's fucked up.
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in reply to Bwaz • • •No, that's ANTIFA, who is fully supported and funded by the Democrat Party.
/s, just in case.
FreshParsnip
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in reply to MicroWave • • •As if people are even planning to visit. I’m not, not even when Trump is dead.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •They really want to kill the tourism industry.
Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •"I don't use social media."
You can't prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with "That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental."
Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won't have a leg to stand on.
Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn't be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they'd have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen...
Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.
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in reply to Furbag • • •They'll just say you're lying, detain you, and charge you with withholding evidence.
I'm not kidding
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They'll just say you're lying, detain you, and charge you with withholding evidence.
I'm not kidding
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in reply to Furbag • • •You have to provide all your email addresses for the last 10 years and the names, phone numbers and addresses of all your family members as well.
BTW, Lemmy is social media.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •Just don't go there. There's no due process currently over there, at least for foreigners.
If you absolutely need, send a robot instead of yourself. Much less hassle. :)
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Also Trump: $12B projected loss? Hold my beer.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •The trump administration can kiss my dick.
There. This is part of my social media history now.