I don’t think Kamala Harris would have pushed for the U.S. to literally annex Gaza and build a resort town on the rubble
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I don’t think Kamala Harris would have pushed for the U.S. to literally annex Gaza and build a resort town on the rubble
Or otherwise have to enter the EU illegally and take on the risks that entails
Good luck developing and maintaining competencies when your agents have to choose between drawing a lot of attention to themselves by consistently needing to get their passport stamped under the same alias in countries that just so happen to suffer Russian covert ops
Hell, even if we're not going to do that a basic Visa ban on all current and former employees of the Russian security apparatus combined with collecting biometrics to compare against all former visitors at ports of entry would make Russian covert operations so much fucking harder.
Furthermore, the state didn't fail them, there was no solution to the people who very specifically were essential workers with no family and disabled children. And that really sucks. But that doesn't mean they should be allowed to make the rest of our lives suck as a consequence.
Okay but here's the thing: you took the argument as one worth listening to Men are 6x more likely to divorce their wives after a cancer diagnosis than the other way around, and I'm sure those husbands have reasons but I'm not going to sit here and act like it's anything other than reprehensible.
Full offense, but as a caregiver to a disabled adult the idea that their kids being disabled is an argument to keep schools open is obscene. God forbid a parent spend time with and take care of their disabled child.
Plus they literally never go "maybe it was a bad idea to have packed bars down the shore while we were running out of respirators and filling mass graves" Instead they choose to complain about actually decent policy.
"He noted that snippets of Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies."
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
After losing an appeal against CNN, Alan Dershowitz plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 case that protects journalists and others from weaponized lawsuits. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
the reason I know “fiscal conservatism” isn’t real is that most fiscal conservatives, when you explain this to them, are willing to pay extra just so people who don’t “deserve” a benefit don’t get it
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
every day the double standard just gets more and more unbearable Tim Pool and Dave Rubin were getting paid millions of dollars by the literal Kremlin to produce Russian propaganda meanwhile there are people on the left running exposés on Pakman taking a DNC check fucking kill me dude
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
Just so we're clear here speaker of the house is said that there needs to be "accountability" for trans people because the last two mass shootings they decided to care about both involved trans people. What sort of 'accountability' does this piece of shit have in mind?
there have to be tribunals
the context is even worse
Not to throw hands at a random but I do find it fucking hilarious that doctors would pretend they would try to get to the bottom of an unknown complex health case under any circumstances. Every doctor I've ever dealt with would rather die than crack open continuing education for particular case
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
yeah they were doing that stuff at least as early as the mid 2000s when i was in school, by the mid 2010s when i graduated they had stepped up their game to having police practice clearing the school while we practiced hiding in the corner.
reminded of how a skeet i made to the effect of 'i think its not good that there are lots of smut readers claim they cant read anything if there isnt someone schtupping every 15 pages' and my mentions were filled by people accusing me of right wing censorship. it really is tied up in identity.
I find it funny that even on this website there are SpaceX fanboys who name search their favorite billionaire owned rocket company so that they can defend Daddy.
our ratfucking media betters think this is a scandal in a way they fundamentally do not believe when it’s about Benny Johnson or Charlie Kirk
I'm more amused by how there's a dude is basically saying "Wait you don't like transphobes *OR* transphobes?!?! What do you want?"
You really searched out people to dunk on in defense of a fascist billionaires flying death trap. Don't you like, have a job or a family or something?
Starship finally launched semi-successfully a full *checks notes* 3 years after the SLS. I wonder if the SpaceX Bros will ever acknowledge their hubris. Eeeh who am I kidding.
He's a sitting US senator. He is literally One of the top 100 most important political figures in the country. Acting like he's too smol bean to criticize him for supporting Donald Trump is obscene
Haberman not even bothering to go with the "Trump moves" or "Trump says" qualifier. "Trump dismissed" Cook, in an "aggressive" move. Never mind the law.
Hey remember ten seconds ago when SCOTUS was allowing Trump to fire everyone except - because they have 401(k)s too - except very specifically the Fed board? Like they went out of their way to say, "he can fire everyone, except THESE people upon whom our wealth depends." Aaaaand here we are.
To be fair, in my opinion Trump has more of Charles X than Charles II. There's more reflexive ideological reactionism and stupidity than was found in Charles II.
I cannot possibly describe to you how much better I would feel if I'd heard these kinds of statements from Democratic leadership in January
It may sound like an intellectual gotcha, a sort of cheap shot, but it's not. It's fundamental flaw. If the United States can fail to act in its own rational self-interest without appropriate coaching from Mearsheimer, then Russia certainly can too, and then the whole edifice crumbles.
I feel this too: "this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different. Today, August 25, 2025, is that morning. Something is materially different in our country this week than last"
I distinctly remember numerous occasions where people would say, "Why did the "We're not going back" chants stop?" and I could turn on MSNBC and see a clip of Harris leading one of those chants from within the last 24 hours
i dont think its so much laziness, its desperation from pro-Trump embeds in the mainstream media to continue ignoring the scandal without breaking kayfabe
I think a lot about someone I knew in high school who couldn't navigate their own hometown without a GPS and couldn't find their way out of an office building they had walked into not 10 minutes earlier. People seem to just not have any spatial awareness RN
Like people literally do not walk 20 ft over to their neighbors anymore, and when they do go somewhere they're purely dependent upon a GPS to hold their hand the entire way.
On top of that something I've noticed on the doors of late is people increasingly seem to be exclusively using their garage to get into and out of their houses to the point of filling up their front doorstep with a bunch of random shit.
The median voter isn't a pureed balance of elite centrist takes, they're somebody who has a passionate opinion about vehicle registration fees but couldn't name the current vice president.
And underdiscussed component of modern living is that GPS is causing a lot of visual navigation aids to go away House numbers are harder to find, street name signs sometimes just aren't there, it makes figuring out where youre going a lot harder unless youre constantly eyes down
I really, really don’t think what blue voters want to hear right now is “military takeover is redundant because we can crack down on crime more effectively.” They want to hear “this is fascism and we won’t stand for it” and vanishingly few national dems are doing that
What's really funny is seeing r/neoliberal of all places clock that this is a useless, impossible to enforce suggestion because no politician talks like this yet Tom Nichols falls for it.
I think the important part is if this rhetoric spreads to other states and if the words are followed up by actions
I don't want to get all kremlinologist on you guys but I feel like using the phrase "sovereignty of our state" as a Governor speaks volumes I don't think ive ever seen anyone outside of Texas use this kind of state-as-nation rhetoric (at least not in my lifetime)
but doing so would require senators and representatives to willingly submit themselves to being told what to do by the state party and that shit just aint happening, they buck the state party as a hobby and would much prefer to just pick their own toadies (if they get involved at all)
and the things that *could* be done the centralize authority requires (you guessed it) centralized authority! it would actually be legal and pretty easy for state parties to get better control of the local committees by say, having congresspeople endorse local committeefolk that will play ball
We’re still having discussions about how Zohran Mamdani is a “socialist” because he wants to open one state-run grocery store, meanwhile the US government now controls 10% of Intel. I find this super amusing.
anyways i think this reflects what the russians would call "getting in the enemy's headski" where you pre-emptively declare that any attacks on your bases are escalatory, but attacks on their bases are totally normal and that just seeps into american natsec brain, somehow
I think the desired outcome from uniformed protests would not be stopping the deployments, which legally probably cant be prohibited from within the Pentagon, but rather in helping politicize and non-normalize these operations.
like i fully expect the GOP to try to keep him around as long as he still has a pulse, hes the only thing holding their coalition together
not to be a doomer but i think the working assumption is that trump will continue to be a threat until he is cold in the ground.
its only a matter of time until one of these goons drops a protestor on video
“I have considered the politically motivated occupation by the military of American cities and concluded that the military is apolitical; therefore the politically motivated occupation by the military of American cities is apolitical” - the apolitical military professional
They do this because they like this type of thing and fantasize about Bradley's on every street corner pointed at the nearest brown person in sight.
Oh and God forbid a student has a disability, mandating that we invoke the ADA at an IEP every time a student so much as rolls their ankle is a fucking joke. Just give them more time!
I did not open my locker once in the entire time I was in high school because even going directly from one class to the other without stopping to talk or go to the bathroom I still was late a significant portion of the time. Either ditch the lockers or give students the time to actually use them.
I wouldn't mind these policies if schools gave students more than 3 minutes in between classes I don't know why they don't get that its not tenable to walk to the opposite side of a building the size of a warehouse, open a combo lock and get back to class in the time it took to write this skeet
New euphemism for "corrupt authoritarian abuses of power" just dropped
We don't talk enough about how despite the pearl clutching the press did about people telling trump officials to get fucked during trump 1 casual heckling of them has become ubiquitous now without press outcry. They used to be able to get brunch undisturbed: no more.
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
God they really are turning into Midwest igor girkin
Any framing other than "these guys are illegally doing segregation and they think they can get away with it because of Trump" Is a conscious choice to support jim crow.
Respectfully, if whatever you are doing may require consent then it should be gotten before you do it. Furthermore you're not really familiar with what happened with me or the other students so I'm not certain if commenting on it is a good idea in general.
I think a lot about a girl who went to my college who sexually assaulted me as well as several other students People ostracized her, but not because she was a predator, but rather because people saw her as slutty People are so incapable of recognizing female predation that they revert to misogyny
I have a sneaking suspicion that the organizers are more in the fandom scene and failed to realize they're making a porn convention with sex workers in attendance and thus security needs to be tight
Very seriously: if you think there's even a fraction of a chance that Trump will try to rig the election in 26 or 28 you should be canvassing/phone banking for the dozens of local officials who will be managing our elections in swing districts, not dooming on bluesky.
Have you heard me utter a single nimby thing thus far this conversation? The problem with the matty style abundance liberalism is that they are explicitly saying we should not focus on discrimination of minorities, there is literally nothing wrong with building grain power plants or more housing.
Giving up on civil rights to focus purely on economic messaging is literally clintonite triangulation yes. They're doing a 2020s version of "it's the economy, stupid"
As I understand it it's centrists claiming that we should do Clintonite triangulation
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
ive heard the great recession a lot but even then that mostly a recent thing
Hey remember when Trump's former chief of staff bravely came out publicly during the election to warn the nation that Trump was a dangerous fascist and the New York Times ran a story about on page A14?
A few years ago, I thought the term “Cold Civil War” was hyperbolic, but when red states are literally sending sending armed military forces to occupy blue areas for the purpose of threatening coercive violence, idk what else to call it.
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
Okay but can we talk about how fucking funny it would be if solar freaking railways succeeded where solar freaking roadways failed?
It's always wild interact with a never Trump Republican in the wild Former Republican who became democrats in reaction to Trump are a dime a dozen, but committed Republican partisans who just fucking hate Trump are a bit of a rarity
They like Trump and want to help him and coverage of anti-Trump protests hurts him so they don't do it
I think it's concerning actually that tech Bros roll out a new DOA show pig technology every year or two. Like at some point they have to deliver a product that isn't just an overhyped, broken, mess.
The scale is though, you can't move up or down on the horseshoe, only left or right. You can't have an actually centrist authoritarian in it unlike on a pyramid.
No because the horseshoe is a one-dimensional scale which presumes that going left or right is what makes you authoritarian, as opposed to making it an axis unto itself like I was supposing.
My heart take is that horseshoe theory isn't real but instead triangle there is, with people on the left and the right increasingly becoming closer together the more authoritarian they are.
It is at this point I would like to remind the class that mountain lakes NJ functionally had a gentleman's agreement to prevent anyone other than WASPS from buying a house there until damn near the turn of the millennium and is still over 89% white
even if the govt tries to come after your DSA chapter or something the yellow dots wont help them if they already fucking know who you are based on your online presence/participation in protests/ect.! this shit genuinely isnt for you!!
like im aware that 'if youre not commiting a crime you dont have worry" is often used to cover for authoritarianism but the only use case for the yellow dot thing is if they know that the page was used in the commission of a crime but dont know who printed the paper do you know how narrow that is?
ngl it always pissed me off seeing people be like "printers use yellow dots so they can track you, the government is out to get you!!!" the only way that the yellow dots will be used to find you is if you commit a crime using the printed paper, unless youre printing ransom notes youre fucking fine.
The only “sincerely held beliefs” given force of law are “I hate the gays” and “the state assumes control of a woman’s body upon zygote fertilization.” The only “divisive concepts” banned are things like “slavery was bad, include that in history lessons” and “two male zoo penguins adopted a chick.”
Trump’s DOJ: Throwing a sandwich at a law-enforcement official is a felony. Also Trump’s DOJ: Encouraging a mob to “kill” police officers during an insurrectionist attack on the Capitol is fine — and won’t prevent you from getting a job at the DOJ. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
One of us has blocked the other, what does the video show?
Hell, the mob mob is still around, even if they aren't as important. My high school girlfriend had a uncle who was a 'plumber' with the most palatial house I may have ever seen. New Jersey is different man.
BREAKING: LOS ANGELES (AP) - California Gov. Newsom calls for Nov. 4 special election on redistricting plan aimed at adding Democratic US House seats.
It's because half of the country thinks summer ends when summer vacation ends.
2025 really do feel like this
the fact that this happened, at the same time as the media is breathlessly talking about A Crime Wave in terms that a) do not reflect reality in any way whatsoever and also b) explicitly frame things in a way that benefits the GOP, and it was buried almost instantly
Well presuming that the supreme Court actually follows the Constitution (a stretch, I know) The full faith and credit clause should require all 50 states to honor marriage certificates from any of the other states.
I'm sure Greece is having a *ahem* very fun time
I like how Donald Trump got ridiculously lucky and that his first foray into martial law didn't explode in his face and so now he's determined to try again until he can get the American tiananmen square he clearly wants desperately
if we banned investment firms from owning houses tomorrow it would increase the available housing supply by roughly a percent (singular) the reason housing is expensive is that most people hate new housing being built and have successfully outlawed it in basically every city worth living in
