Socialist, retired structural engineer, half-assed amateur jazz musician, occasional poet, husband to a wonderful woman, and father of three awesome daughters. Probably more than you need to know, but who cares?
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To the Trump regime & its actual architects (as opposed to the cheering rubes in his peanut gallery), we are all disposable. They don’t care if we sicken and die as long as the $$ that might have gone to our health care goes into their pockets, instead.
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I get that govts going to go after people who vandalize their war machine (although I’m clearly on the side of the vandals, here). Criminalizing expressions of support for them as “terrorism” is just fascist, tho’.
If you can’t drown the government in a bathtub, you can at least fuck it up so bad it’s of no use to anyone. While you and your fellow predators loot everything in sight.
I.e., as long as they protest invisibly, it’s okay. Your response is laughable. “Law and order” is only acceptable as a moral directive when the laws are good, and the order is not based on oppression, or, in this case, support for genocide.
Meanwhile, they continue to brutally suppress anti-genocide protests. A little conflicted, here?
#iOS #grammar suggestions are often wrong. Another factor, I suppose in the general decline of our #writing.
Not a fan of Gavin Newsom. But SOMEBODY’s got to stand up to that POS, Trump, w/out waffling around it.
Billionaires only exist because wages are too low. @qyz.bsky.social @louiseparker.bsky.social @jonathancohn.bsky.social @blackjew.bsky.social
The only hope is to push the Dems WAY to the left, which means primarying & replacing at least 1/3 of them (which’ll scare the rest). Given the nature of this country, it’s not much of a hope, but I don’t really see another. Do you?
Agree. But one of Trump’s lesser crimes, in the scheme of things. And I don’t think the Dems, if back in power, will be in a rush to undo ANY of them. They’ll be studying to see how they can make USE of them.
It is anathema to capitalism for the workers to organize. That’s capital’s prorogative.
You mean when they’re not providing funds for genocide?
That is a very good summary.
Devote yourself to poetry. The world will most likely comply with the beating.
“The US is not the world’s hospital!” No. The US, with their help, is turning into the world’s cesspool.
I fear some best laid plans about to gang agley for those poor beasties.
I love the way the New Quisling Times insists on treating the Scheißführer like a President.
Oops!
Anybody that thinks (in this day and age) that irony and sarcasm are transparent in text-based social media posts (especially) is the one who should worry about things going “over their head”. Poe’s Law.
Making bad choices for bad reasons is not proof there were no better choices.
To say that the state is the agent of the capitalist class, end of story, is not very dialectical.
I wonder how many of the New Quisling Times’s readers realize that, for Trump, “Cities like Washington DC” includes New York? And his idea of “fixing up” includes military rule accountable only to the Glorious Leader?
There’s a missing letter in “MAGA”. They meant to write, “MWAGA”. But you know MAGAts can’t spell.
“Seems to be”? Sheesh. Clearly this is what they’re doing. (Whether Trump actually has the mental acumen to be actually one of the conscious planners is less clear.)
It’s not even “dog whistles” anymore. Trump’s concentration camps are designed to be forced labor emporiums.
If (not “when”) the Democrats are in again power, they will not rush to unwind the bad acts of the MAGA regime. They will wait and see which ones can be useful to them. And continue to blame any bad effects on Trump.
By all means publish the recorded convo with the self-interested and convicted liar but not the ACTUAL FILES - and by NO means consider questioning the now-grown children who were raped. (Those that have survived.)
I hope you’re right.
This has nothing to do with cartels or gangs. This is aimed at US. This is about setting up a military dictatorship. There are two questions: (1) Will the US military let it happen? (2) Will WE?
Haha. I see what you did, there.
If they try hard enough to provoke riots, eventually they will.
He says “my money” in the sense of “l’état c’est moi”.
Liars don’t like the truth. It makes their corruption more difficult.
What can you expect from the New Quisling Times?
What they used to call “abnormal psychology” at that.
Gosh. Maybe we need a charity for starving billionaires. …or at least ones who find they need to conserve jet fuel.
Pretending there’s no pattern…
I can explain the connection quite simply: Trump lies. About everything.
Most corrupt regime in US history.
Just in case #Trump needs to host a dinner party for 4000-5000 “friends”
So much making of greatness!!
Boston-area peeps…
“Sounds reasonable” tends to be compelling for most humans, including, no doubt far too often, myself.
Much of human scholarship, pretty much forever, has consisted in expressing an opinion, with little evidence (and that cherry-picked) to a chorus of yeahs and a few dissenting opinions equally thinly based. Grains of salt are liberally required.
Two states where? Israel has, by design, left Palestine with nothing to build a state in.
"Ultimately, FEMA spending for emergency housing now goes to imprisoning migrants rather than getting Americans off the streets." prospect.org/justice/2025...
The Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation is just setting out baits for the IOF murderers to spring the trap. Israel needs military intervention. Western leaders need courage - and humanity. It’s beyond BDS.
Trump is a vile, disgusting, mammoth pile of stinking shit. IMHO
Couldn’t watch for more than a minute. Vitriol w/out content from a man whose opinion I have no reason to value.
Trump don’t give a shit about precedents. Or laws.
I’ve spent enough time walking around on black, rubber roofs to testify that they do get hot AF.
I kinda think if the semi-mythical “framers” had wanted a king, they would have said so.
Apropos of nothing, fascinating that it takes off almost backwards, as, to keep its wings out of the water, it has to flap them more front-to-back than vertical.
Nothing builds patriotism faster than a neighboring country shitting on your own.
Children in the U.S. are pleading with the world to break its silence, painfully aware of their unearned privilege - simply by being born in safety - while Gazan children starve for days without food.
This is what happens when entertainment, or the arts in general, are supported by advertisers who want nothing edgy or real, only “feel good”, so viewers will think of nothing more weighty than what to BUY next.
42% is pathetically, disgustingly high. I am so ashamed of my country.
Do tell! I never really read Adams. (Did see the “Hitchhikers” movie.)
When you feel the “over 17” cohort to be “limited”…
Noem: “It’s not our fault that all the ‘criminals’ are Latino-looking.”
Most Dems, yes, a few (Crockett, Lee, AOC) willing to push more but still mainly focused on programs than just retribution. The USA’s problem ever since Radical Reconstruction was abandoned & white supremacists allowed to “redeem” the South. 🤯
People forget that Nuremberg only happened after Germany was conquered by foreign armies. Organizing a comparable reckoning internally, in this deeply divided country, esp. w/ all the appeasiationists in the Dem Party is, sadly, a pipe dream.
Good points. But we’re not going to get far with this argument while we have a SCOTUS majority desperate to twist the Constitution so it protects NO rights except the President’s.
Prolly more like “There should be no financial aid. Rich people should keep all the money.”
Probably the people pushing this don’t eat at McDonald’s much. They may buy shares of its stock, tho’.
That’s what I’d vote for, too. Sometimes it works, and holds, at least for some, for a while, in some time and in some place. History & humans muddle along. As we both believe, the struggle continues.
I’ve read too much history, I think, to be comfortable in the chiliastic school of liberation theory. I’m more of the “perpetual struggle” denomination.
Ya gotta ask: “Whose safety?”
It takes a big lens to capture a small beauty.
Speaker of the House? The way they sunk those files suggest the Repugnicans gave us a pedo PRESIDENT!
The collapsing US empire will hurt a lot of people in its death throes. But it also has the potential to liberate a lot. Not super-optimistic tho. Other tyrants have a tendency to grow into a power-vacuum.
He’s on the list. There are photos, too. That’s why Pam Bondi’s job is secure. At least until they figure out where she’s hidden it.
Shut down Alligator Auschwitz.
Seriously! Why would building youth cabins in the “high risk” zone on the flood map be a problem? Who would have expected it?
Death cult
“Brutal” rant? Trump’s Shitstapo snatches mothers off the street, leaving minor children to fend for themselves, while he jokes about alligators, but AOC is “brutal” for calling them as they lay?
Ppl just have to pick one and stick to it. I originally picked “USans”, but a friend started using “USians” so in the interest of two people using the same term is better, I switched. I haven’t seen anybody else pick it up yet, but nobody asks me what it means, either, which is good.
How come we never burn people in effigy? Remember when Kathy Griffen used an effigy Trump head (which I thought was way cool), and got cancelled for it? USians are such wimps.
Kristi Noem is a killer. Not a cold, effective, and ruthless killer, as she’d probably like us to believe. Just an uncaring, incompetent, stupid one.
Only in the USA would we build prisons and call them “homes”
Maybe that means she kept a copy of that list…
Geez. Talk about Nazi cars!!
What? Trump would go after staunch ultra-MAGA influencers who won't stop talking about Epstein? Even use the DOJ or FBI against them? I'm against weaponizing government agencies, but these cultists put Trump in power. Let them destroy each other. www.rawstory.com/trump-krypto...
Opposition to genocide is terrorism, now. War is peace. Lies are truth. Beauty is ugly.
“Most moral army” IDF = child murderers = genociders = racist occupation force
I don’t know that story. Newton passed the required zoning rules, I guess with some concessions to the opposition. Haven’t followed it closely.
Wasn’t that a thing in “The Watchmen”? The police masking to conceal their secret identities? Turned out some of them were also hiding KKK outfits in their closets, as I recall.
They’ll figure out a way to blame it on “the libs”. They always do.
Maybe if we ever get rid of the current, fascist regime, USians will start caring as much about defending democracy as the Brazilians do.
Horrible.
NASA’s been privatized to the “move fast and break things” crowd, coincidentally also the “patent everything, whether you’re going to develop it or not” crowd.
The trouble is, they moved away from the transparently visible racism. The underlying racism was still there. And especially in our foreign policy that was militaristic, chauvinistic, w/ “national interest” rather particularly defined.
Lol. Had to look “macaca” up.
Normal sucked. This sucks worse. Is “better than the old normal” too much to ask? I wonder…
Every time I read a history book, I realize how prodigiously much history I haven’t read yet.
I think in this case, the State *is* mandating the zoning change, but trying to give communities control over details. If snob-zoning towns won’t make ANY suitable plan, there are penalties. Which Marblehead is apparently trying to weasel out of. ‘Cuz they’re so SPECIAL!! (Or so they think.)
I usually figure when somebody does that, it’s because the requisite clarity is beyond their abilities, and it’s best not to engage. Sometimes I’m wrong, of course.
Maybe ppl should start calling it “Elon’s Hatebot”