Carthago Delenda Est
“Government should be run like a business” has always been a call for authoritarianism.
This is theater with a purpose: to keep his base happy, to create opportunities to question the outcome, and to continue espousing the Big Lie that non citizens and dead people are somehow permitted to vote and such irregularity is the sole reason his allies lose elections.
I’m not much younger than you and have lived in Chicago for over 30 years. I would say “don’t take the El late at night in some neighborhoods,” but other than that, it’s very safe here.
Oh please oh please oh please
Roll Tide 🤣🤣🤣
I just want to add that it’s not crazy to pay higher taxes if it means you will not go bankrupt if you have a medical emergency and can expect to retire comfortably. What’s crazy is refusing to pay taxes because you think it provides you more “freedom.” Freedom from WHAT?
It’s eugenics. Straight up eugenics.
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“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
All because rich old men with no vision refuse to change or make plans for the benefit of future generations.
They are a symptom of a sick culture. We will repeat such lessons until we learn from them.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
Daily, since before the election of Dubya Bush.
The rich fear losing control to multiracial democracy demanding more economic justice. Those demands aren’t going to go away just because they’ve manipulated the nativist rubes in suburban and rural communities into believing immigration somehow threatens them.
They get engagement and clicks. Outrage is profitable. It becomes a feedback loop.
While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!
Thugs
Get rid of that useless old bag, Maine voters
jeez it would be such a shame if the Kelce Brothers each took one of Charlie’s legs and said, “Make a wish.”
leading to their capture. The Soviets broke through somewhere else and enveloped the tanks’ positions, which the Germans abandoned in place.
The heavier German tanks, while possessing better armor and heavier guns than many of their competitors, were very thirsty creatures when it came to fuel consumption and prone to breaking down. Supply shortages meant they sometimes could not be maneuvered aggressively to adjust to changing situation
Pobreçitos.
Would they? Don’t forget premiums cover higher administrative costs, bloated CEO salaries, and a profit margin.
There is a Buddhist aphorism that states “Any lesson you refuse to learn will repeat itself until you do.”
I would rather pay taxes to fund healthcare for everyone, including myself, than equally high premiums that do not guarantee my access to necessary care.
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
Commie /s 🥸😉
And get those little nuggets vetted, fixed, and adopted as soon as they’re big enough 👍
capitulating to manufactured outrage merely makes u look pathetic to everyone
Dumb. So f***ing DUMB.
Americans are dumb as a box of rocks - they have no problems with unelected, unaccountable corporate kakistocracy, but a competent, responsive, democratically accountable government that keeps powerful private interests at least somewhat in check is somehow the same thing as Stalinism.
Well, yes, because who gets the money? Their whole strategy is to create, then ignore, and/or perpetuate huge problems with privately owned, profitable solutions.
Agreed. Last mile solutions need to include a variety of transportation modalities, like electric buses and light rail. Bike and scooter rentals can help too. People with mobility issues may need other solutions.
Trashing our city-to-city passenger rail network in favor of interstate highways in the 1950s. We could do it at the time because of cheap gas and postwar prosperity meant most working people could afford cars.
Because goodness knows we can’t try to solve huge problems through collective action based on shared needs and values! That would socialism! 🥸 /s
Watching Loomer harass & demonize individual Muslim government employees simply for being Muslims while the Democrats & 'liberal media' say nothing is a reminder of how mainstreamed & normalized anti-Muslim bigotry is in the US, across the spectrum. Imagine if these were Jewish or Black employees.
turns out the thing most of us learned as kids is still true: stand up to bullies and they usually back down — but give them what they want and they’ll *always* be back for more
They want us focused on street crimes so that we won't be focused on theirs. And the toll of theirs in lives and money and total victims dwarfs anything happening on the street. Street crime is real—but if you're obsessed with it, they've got you right where they want you, pal.
Oh please. 🙄
Enabling the authoritarians here in the US to install an even more stringent surveillance state and begin a program of ethnic cleansing would not have been my opening move. Just saying.
Great so what are you doing to build an alternative? How do you plan to give it time and space to grow? No answer needed here, but everyone who sees the DNCs shortcomings needs to be thinking about coalition building so that we can stop this.
A major problem with us is that a substantial plurality who aren’t bigots can’t get off our asses to vote for damage control (the Dems), or will vote for pie in the sky third parties that cannot win a national election, and can’t (or won’t) build constituencies at the local and state levels first.
That's part of the trouble, the system was set up by white slaveholders for the hegemony of Virginia, and a certain Virginian named Thomas Jefferson wanted to disempower the cities while boosting the power of rural landowners. Rural states punch above their demographic weight in electoral power.
Yes. That is correct. And if a city or state government tries to use tax policy to drive pro social behavior, it causes an absolute shitstorm. We have an aversion to doing the right thing if it means some rich asshole can’t get even richer as fast as he wants.
It reveals their priorities; it seems like they give a 💩 about public health and education. Wish we could people similarly motivated here, the US would be a much healthier democracy for it.
Only if we let it happen.
That is much cheaper than the 19% VAT other EU countries place on consumer goods
Brilliant idea
That hole in the 14th amendment should never have been allowed to make it past ratification. And we had to exclude the ex-Confederate states from the ratification process to get it passed at all. Once they were able to fully participate again it was very slow going making any social progress
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The only freedom they care about is freedom to own other people’s productive time through wage slavery and anticompetitive practices
Constantly
We remember who’s on the wrong side of history
Ahem
They are paid to be stenographers, not journalists. The advertisers and shareholders will get mad and have their editors fire them if they step out of line.
Trump has given the District of Columbia the opportunity to make its case for statehood to the American public. Long overdue.
I can only imagine. It’s bad enough just having a conscience, the imaginative capacity for empathy, a desire for justice, and an intense dislike of bullies.
Better that than kowtow to the Oompa Loompa in Chief.
Compliance in advance. Not a great look
Junior had some great one liners too, e.g., “I got the FBI so far up my ass I can taste Bryl Cream” 🤣
Paulie and Silvio were hilarious when they weren’t beating and murdering people
They’re hypocrites who are happy to use him to obtain the theocracy they want. They look at Iran with admiration.
Too bad, but I get how someone might think Jello is a bit of a pain, even if you agree with him on many or even most things…
He’s not uneducated. He’s a whacko.
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
It’s as if they’re daring us to rebel
Shame they can’t be persuaded to do things that elevate people out of poverty in a systemic manner, using public policy and tax law to make it work; individual philanthropy is just reputation laundering in exchange for a tax dodge, and perpetuates the problems rather than solving them.
They’re no better than the old European monarchs prior to WWI, they just have less time in office to be terrible.
Y’all means ALL Y’all. : ) I like it.
Of course he does. Good boy, Murph.
A truly beautiful place. The eastern shore of Lake Huron has many treasures and Georgian Bay is certainly one of them!
Newtonian mechanics F=MA
Cold air is denser than warm air. This would produce greater rotational force, or torque, for the same wind velocity than warmer air, due to the greater mass of air contained within the same volume of air interacting with the windmill blades.
A name that doesn’t appear in a report requires no redaction.
Oh, sure. That will totally work. 🙄
As fascism rises in the U.S., healthcare workers need to learn from the history of medical complicity with state violence—from the Nazis to apartheid South Africa and genocidal Israel now—to urgently mobilize a “Hippocratic underground” to protect targeted groups. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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💯 We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs
I hear ya, Cisco Kid.
Dunno whether to laugh or cry at this one 😆😭
Yeah. Ever since Nixon. They only get away with what they do because of white supremacy.
A Maxwell accuser, who testified under the pseudonym ‘Jane,’ said Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump when she was 14. It was around that time that Jane testified Epstein and Maxwell started sexually abusing her.” Seems important (from 2021) www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-h...
The same people who obsessed over a tan suit, a private email server, and an autopen are strangely indifferent to the possibility that their president raped children.
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True, but their soft-pedaling of the issue by stating the child has pre-existing health problems with no further context is most certainly their fault.
And likely get away with it.
A man who is determined to assault women isn’t going to go through the expense, hassles, social condemnation, higher risk of being assaulted, and possible employment discrimination associated with transitioning just to gain access to women’s restrooms. He’s just going to walk right in (more)
This is so dumb.
Like myself
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