Definitely wouldn't trust this Ro Khanna fella
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Definitely wouldn't trust this Ro Khanna fella
Can't say I've heard of this group. That's a powerful statement, but I remain wary of academic judgment on this issue. Experts - as we saw with thousands of doctors during George Floyd and shrinks during Goldwater - can be moved by politics.
This man was just Granted Asylum by a Judge and ICE grabbed him up without cause.. This is fuked up..total disregard and disrespect of the Court and the Judiciary .. š±
Oh, they're definitely les tacos than they are somethin' else
I'm actually good with this because getting rid of cops would make my proclaiming myself overlord of these United States and ultimately the entire world *so* much easier.
In other words, I side with Cameron.
Its already likely too long for me, solid 30 minutes to the closest hospital. I figure extending it by another 10 (next closest hospital, this one in an actual town/city prolly won't make much of a difference. I'm probably dead either way. My point being, decisions have consequences (mine included).
You started it
Or why can't the hospitals simply close?
The times it really surprises him are the times it gets stuff right. š
Worst dealmakers of the century
Seems to me that this would only be favorable to Mr. Garcia, the alleged criminal in this case, which is why the rules against prejudicial public statements by the prosecution exist. Talk about unforced errors and shooting yourself in the foot.
I was homeschooled. They already were. š
Its interesting to me with whats going on in DC and the threats being made about Chicago and other cities that these folks are still going hard for civillian disarmament.
Ehh...
So, i'm definitely not a fan of this, however, it does seem to me that, a nation who is largely "my body, my choice" being adamantly opposed to this is a bit hypocritical.
In fairness, its kinda weird and probably not a little unhealthy, that the seat of the federal govt. is considered a tourist attraction
Guess this fella is unfamiliar with this little piece o' literature I like to call "The Bible"
This, but unironically
IT ME IRL:
I mean, *I* have the right to do anything *I* wanna do and I'm *NOT* the president of the United States
*Yore
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnāt write it
E'er'body needa relax. I'm sure the food is still unmemorable.
Hope you've never told a MAGAt "How dare you ask questions and look at inconsistencies in the data"
Er... 2021
Were you making the same argument on Jan 6. 2020? š¤
Statistics is definitively speculation. Educated speculation, but, speculation none the less.
one sign that the āunitary executiveā is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
tbh, i am not even really sure you can fairly call this an error ā the framers lived in an era where this just never would have occurred. itās like calling their failure to predict reddit an error.
This was posted by one of my wife's mutuals today...
You needa come back from the brink, man.
I know a lot of people try to console themselves about the 2024 elections by saying, without evidence, that the elections were āstolen.ā There is NO evidence that the Election of 2024 was stolen. Just like there was no evidence at all that the 2020 election, which Trump lost, was stolen.
That wouldn't be an overreaction at all, no sirree
Itās sort of hard to interpret this as anything other than straightforward antisemitism
Fox News explicitly celebrates Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department. Maria Bartiromo introduces the āraidā on Boltonās home, along with the DOJ investigations of @schiff.senate.gov and @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, as "retribution" for "10 years of attacks against President Donald Trump."
Personally I think the real concern is that the GOP believes most people hate California and DC and thinks they (we) deserve whatever we get and Dems donāt want to defend āliberal establishments.ā
Ok, ok, maybe 98%
Voters didnāt head to the polls thinking to themselves āI really hate left-wing language." They walked into the polls misinformed about the state of the country, and the candidates, because they'd opted into right-wing media. And too many new converts did so because of left-wing language.
So yeah, hugging the flag (+ Cheney) wasnāt enough to turn things around in ā24 because the decisive cohort had already locked into RW media ecosystem. But irrespective of policy (which matters), itās closer to the messaging that siphons support from Rs. The other stuff induces relapse.
By 2023-2024 most of this stuff had washed out amidst the cultural backlash, but anyone who pretends this stuff wasnāt pervasive not just in niche media and academia but also politics at all levels of government (largely thanks to advanced degreeād staff) is just delusional. Tom has plenty to cite!
This is about 95% correct.
In fairness, you guys kinda are. Its not your fault though. You're products of the public education system.
People all pissy with Mark here interestingly conflate/equate "legal" with "moral".
Nah. Fundamentally its the same calculation, the numbers are just bigger.
I think fish don't know they're wet.
Boy, I tell ya... its a good thing this fella ain't an elected official or we might have somethin' t' worry about. š
Can we add "lived experience" to the list? I mean is deaded... er, deathed... er, uh... deceased experience a thing to the point that we hafta differentiate, or can we just call it, ya know, experience.
I suspect I could say "don't stick a carrot scraper up your nose" and some corner of Bluesky would do it just to show that they don't take orders from patriarchal fascist heteronormative carnivores
but, as the leader of the GOP in that era, the only complaint I'm willing to listen to about him is over his "Big Tent" approach. There were definitely folks in that tent that shoulda been exiled to outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mostly fair, I think. I'm a huge French fan. I *do* think a critical mass of nuts can exist on a certain "topic" on one side or the other where its no longer unfair to point at them and be like "Are you guys gonna do somethin' about these folks, or what?" I'm an even bigger Reagan fan than French,
I'll bet you *did* see how some rank and file GOP'ers doin' racist stuff, even if (in the past, at least) most elected GOP officials didn't, was an understandable reason for folks to think twice about voting for them. Conceptually its the same, even though one is worse than the other.
Agreed
Yeah, they're definitely worse. Just tryina help you folks be better. Still votin' fer yer guys though.
Dude, you gotta *say* it right
As an independent, I love how the folks that've been responding to posts like this over the last two days always make it about *elected* democrats (unlike the original posters) like somehow those elected democrats aren't representing the rest of you and are therefore inextricably linked.
RIP your mentions
I've done this job (or as similar to it as existed in the pre-AI times). Back in the day we didn't brag about it.
Many people are saying
Google will not be long defunct in 25 years
This, at least, is a better analogy
Kodak refused to innovate. I think AI is silly in its current iteration, but, its definitely an attempt at innovation
1400 guys total. I think I can take 'em.
I seem to recall 2 armies in the first Civil War
One reason I find it sort of hard to take these people seriously is that āKamala Harris was committing genocideā is an absolutely incoherent statement. In what way was she doing that specifically, and what is the mechanism by which she could have ceased?
Shouldn't you be on Twitter?
robots / AI need to not simply "be better", but error free. The ol' standby "I'm only human" is unavailable to them.
I don't think its an element. Its the whole ball game. No one assumes humans are 100% good. The assumption, and its a correct one, is that when a human makes a mistake, its understandable because we know we're all human and a component of humanity is mistake making. To have a shot at being trusted,
I'm not sure I think things have changed. I think folks, be they politicians or rank and file, have always had the capacity to be liars and/or hypocrites. Could be wrong, I suppose
If you're attitudinally a pussy, don't become a cop. There's always accounting. manhattan.institute/article/ny-d...
Manhattan Institute analyst argues in the New York Post that when critics call for ICE agents to wear badges and not masks, it is because we *want them to be afraid for their personal safety,* not because, say, we want them to be legally accountable and not terrify innocents. Utterly contemptible.
Has Claremont started infiltrating Manhattan Institute?
Oscar, on the other hand, does *not* get it.
All the fuss in DC is because he's planning it as his personal fiefdom. Pretty soon the whole country will ALL "belong" to him for his purposes & pleasure. In his mind, it already does. Not only is there nothing small about his aspirations but there is nothing of historic conservatism or the GOP.
Not so long as my little bit o' the country exists and I'm still breathin'.
And those same "state's rights" folks are applauding federal troops invading "blue" states. These are not conservatives, they are followers of a fascist cult. Of all the lies maga tells the most insidious are that the left is antiUSA and the right is pro democracy.
Dad? Dad, is that you?
Yeah, but those were American conservatives. MAGA seems to like Hungarian conservatism for some reason. We really wanna be more like Hungary?
American conservative, properly, and definitionally, understood.
Forest *gets* it. Genuine American conservatism has *always* been different from European conservatism, because America was *literally* "built different" and therefore the object of its conservatism is a fundamentally different thing. If your focus is not *that* object, you are no longer and an
You still are. These folks are *not* conservatives. They've simply "culturally appropriated" or "transed into" the handle. Kind of ironic, tbh.
In fairness, you're conflating GOP and conservatives, as is Atticus a little bit. Thats not a dig at either of you, its easy to do and I'm guilty of it myself, at times, but words mean things and precision is important.
Conservatives are still for smaller federal government. So, whats that tell ya about these folks?
It seems to me that, generally speaking, the average individual has spent significantly more cumulative hours watching Terminator movies than working with robots in industry and this greatly influences their thoughts on this particular subject
I can not begin to tell you how not afraid of AI I am
Every tyrant knows how to conduct a good coverup. And when to so use criminals and a state intimidation apparatus to do it. Ghislaine Maxwell. FBI. DOJ.
Jess is on vacation hot take: some things people frame as civil-military relations crises are really crises of civilian democratic governance that they're hoping the military will solve (spoiler alert: that rarely ends well)
Cops aren't legally required to identify themselves, but, in anything other than an undercover situation, they're foolish not to. There have been all sorts of illegitimate (and some legitimate too) reasons for folks to lose faith in the police in the past. This isn't one of them.
The only morality I've ever panicked about is my own.
I mean, I hope he does too, but I'd be lyin' if I said I wasn't skeptical.
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Now, I'll admit, I'm (governmentally speaking) ok with helping (within reason) *everyone* who needs it, but, I am also ok with *not* helping *anyone*, regardless of how bad they need it, as long as either solution is applied equally. Maybe that makes me a terrible person.
tried hard enough? They probably didn't so they probably don't deserve help."
Having witnessed this up close, I'm not sure this quite captures it. Its more like "When bad things happen to me (or someone I know personally), bad things happened, and I deserve help. When bad things happen to someone I don't know, well, how do I know they didn't make poor decisions or that they