"Always forgive your enemies. Never forget their names." -- JFK
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I think you miss the point; the poster is showing that the same states that voted for the Trump administration are some of the biggest losers when it comes to the policies they voted for. I'm not sure pointing this out is 'gloating' - and we certainly aren't having fun under trump.
"it was a JOKE" is so weak. I may seem arrogant to you, but are you sure it isn't you are just a bit dim?
no, that was exactly the point. Try to keep up, Brian.
"[...] instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
No? Economics 101; any business will invest if the prospect of profit is high. Investment to make a golden age is the province of a government, not a business. Also, if a person hears 100 songs and is influenced by them and it isn't plagiarism, then it isn't plagiarism when a machine does it.
When I see in notifications that someone reposted my comment - how do i go from there to the original thread where my comment is?
Go to the register of campaign donors. Are any of those being attacked in DC? No? Then no “representative” has been paid to oppose the takeover, have they?
It shows they aren’t just ready for fascism - they have been living it ever since Reagan allowed FOX to poison the minds of the electorate. They don’t like it any more than a German civilian liked what was done to the jews - but they won’t do anything effective.
Well it isn't great - but this was in Feb/Mar this year (so not new) and 300 US academics 'applied'. Bear in mind we hear about a spike in searches about moving to Canada every election - the time to worry is when 300 US academics *actually move* and don't just talk about it.
True - but scientific discovery uses the scientific method and produces hypotheses that are demonstrably the closest we can come to the truth given the evidence. As shorthand, we say science is true. Religion is, at best, a good story.
well - until biochemistry became a thing, we owed every single investigation that led to a new drug or treatment to someone anecdotally mentioning they thought something worked, and we should check it out.
well yeah - but how did opium become a painkiller? By 'endless anecdotes over time' piquing the interest of a scientist, who then tested it by experiment. Anecdote is one of the weak forms of guidance that lead researchers to possible areas of study.
Yes - but NATO is the way empires are built in the modern world - back in the time of Rome, you would be invaded and later told your menfolk would be joining an Imperial legion to fight far away for the glory of Rome. In the modern day you have to compromise - but NATO is how the US did it.
... and that is awesome, plainly - I'm a fan. But you take it from "where it breeds" and repeat it in cleaner, less vile places. You could expose and debunk it where you find it, perhaps? Or do you know the authors you expose are here also?
Okay. But if the US government was separate from US politics so the latter was just performative shouting and flag-waving, how would it be different to what we have? Happy Juneteenth. BTW, black home ownership in the US is about the same today as in 1960.
Question: I moved to Bluesky to get away from the scammers and liars polluting social media there. Do you think all social media platforms should be filled with the same toxic content?
Yeah, this is normal - and he thinks he is being helpful, and is probably a bit upset right now that you don't see it. I really don't know why we do this, but we do...
Does anyone know if the Vietnamese government has a force attempting to track down the over 2,500 babies taken by the US in their 1975 'babylift'? I'm not defending Russia's theft, just putting it into perspective.
I look like a sad prune - but I'm happy... or do I mean drunk? Not sure...
Well, at least we'll learn lessons from this so we don't repeat it.... only joking! Yankeestan going around is ever-decreasing circles while shouting how superior it is.
well - look on the bright side - now we know dogshit can type. Pay it no attention.
Hmmm... clicking on the link gives an error (could it be my VPN?) Also - can you share the results from your survey?
Prebiotic? Just salts, maybe?
Sorry - it is always a surprise when history moves quickly, but it did - the old, decent USA is gone. In truth, it died decades ago but the two parties did a great job of covering it up. Trump was damaged enough to let you see behind the curtain.
How coincidental! Here in Seattle, it is edible o'clock :-)
Trump is scum - we all know that, even his followers (who enjoy it). Take it as seriously as anything else you hear from a mentally-damaged compulsive liar. WE remember.
Yes, feel free to name and shame. I have plenty of spare time, happy to slap some Putinists around for a good cause :-) Slava Ukraine!
well okay - but that was old America, now we have yankeestan, a completely untrustworthy national partner. This is up to England. If we're what we say we are - we'll step up... or are we just brexitland now?
If you think ICE is bad, recall you tolerated undocumented immigrants because they worked for cheap. You failed to give them amnesty, you failed to fix the border. You're complaining about the method your political enemies use - but you failed to implement the humane alternatives.
The sequel is basically Warhammer 40K
Well yeah. America is corrupt - we all know the doctors are lying, they were appointed for a partisan purpose and, like other US checks and balances - are obviously corrupt and a useless safeguard of what we used to call our democracy. Biden's docs were no better, remember?
Ooh! Very Tom of Finland!
I agree, it is disgusting. Also - it isn't the problem. So long as America allows Russia to set its agenda through social media lies, and so long as we both can be CERTAIN the Orange Traitor isn't spending a second in jail for his crimes and neither will his minions - then we know America is lost.
Your average Trumptard hears about tariffs and thinks "foreign bad! I buy murrican, save munny!". Your average Democrat thinks "Domestic competitors will now increase their prices, so what appeared to be bad for foreign companies will in fact be bad for me"
I'm not claiming it intentionally misleads - just that if it lacks context (and it does) then people will be misled. Goofiness is a characteristic of many posts, it doesn't distinguish this one as insincere.
Just remember - whatever Republicans allow is also allowed for Democrats. Obama for a 3rd term, anyone?
Cometh the time, cometh the man... maybe the first signs of a Dem fightback? We'll know when the Republican wave of lies and smears hits - if they think Booker is Presidential material they'll start lying about him now, and never stop.
Cool. But I simply respond to posts - if they don't give sufficient context then the poster presumably expects most people to be misled... or simply wishes to have plausible deniability.
Allrighty then. :-)
Arg - don't show the bitting on your key! People can copy it.
How do you know?
I haven't heard such sophisticated rhetoric since I saw a kid fall over in the schoolyard and shout "it didn't hurt!!" through his tears.
Tell me you didn't graduate highschool without telling me you didn't graduate highschool. Economics is hard.
Another suggestion - a flame weeder. It's a mini flamethrower for your garden!
Yes. This is why America cannot be saved - Freedumb of speech is holy here, and it is being used by America's enemies to poison its increasingly ignorant masses. You can't stop liars here - they have legal protection.
Yeah - split that infinitive!
If Dr.O is a doctor then I'm Lord Mercer of London
Very few tourists are being detained - the Trump regime's attacks on its neighbors have led to a spate of media interest in border incidents, but it isn't clear there are more than usual...
I sympathize - 2 weeks until my house goes on the market, movers come this Friday. I have a box in the bedroom for all the stuff I must remember not to pack because I won't see it again for at least 9 months. Stress!
Yes! Do more of that! :-)
He died in 1926, so he didn't live to see how dreams realized in this modern utopia... oh, wait... maybe he was naive?
I'm all for letting them learn the hard way - and that is what will happen. Reality is a cold-hearted bitch with a 14-inch strap-on :-)
Agreed. Now WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY DOING ABOUT IT? Not words - actions.
Yeah, 'detox' is the point where ignorance becomes insulting - a scam promoted by people who don't even understand that our bodies are self-detoxing miracles. It's like Ancient Aliens - the same kind of arrogance that lets an explorer gaze past the locals at some wonder and say "that must be aliens"
Gosh, nothing so gauche! The US military exists to back up American corporations. It is the corporations that steal the resources through unequal deals. Read about Chiquita or Dole sometime.
well, yes and no. It's realpolitik, but more to the point, Russia is in decline and with Putin at the wheel, that isn't changing soon. After a few years of agreement to whatever extortion Trump wants, renege on the deal. Realpolitik works both ways.
Okay, so you think extortion is fine, so long as the payoff is far away. In fact you feel the victim should thank you for your kindness.
Yes. Also bear in mind Trump is a compulsive liar, so any negotiated peace will be temporary. Time, perhaps, for Europe to wean itself off dependence on an untrustworthy USA.
Don't misunderstand me - I'm very much on your side and I agree. But my fellow Americans voted in a Putinist traitor. We can hope for better days.
Roses are red, violets are blue, Russia gets Donetsk, you join the EU ... and get rich. And prepare for round 2. (not what I want, but Trump likes injustice as you know)
Well yes they are. And they love that you noticed! Trumpism is simply trolling the people they envy, and they hate that they envy. I would wish them poverty, ignorance and disease as well as a dawning sense of betrayal... but they seem to be doing that to themselves already! It makes me smile.
Really, you have to be thankful the Republicans are this stupid; even I know that if I wanted Europe to be friends, you don't turn up and spout supremacist bullshit. You'd think they'd learn from their recent lesson with Canada. But IQ isn't their strong point - and that will save us.
We'd see an America with a non-white underclass condemned to poverty and serfdom, right alongside an underclass of poor whites who fervently insist they are superior while being fed lies by an upper class so they vote conveniently. ... yeah. Exactly like today.
... but that would mean that the same people sho shouted about their patriotism and the need for law and order - are the same people who now ignore the law? That the macho, holier-than-thou paladins of American freedom folded like lawn chairs when the going got tough?
Did the same thing in June when we were in Chicago. Nowadays, I think there's a longer line.
... but won't Trump miss the kidney?
I have the courage to care. You? Not so much.
My wife and I have a deal - we can have a dog, but anything that needs 'expressing' is her problem.
Still here - and still looking stylish!
Let me respectfully disagree. What part of Trumpism makes you think the "confirmation process" will decide if he gets the job? He's in because the orange master says so.
Yep. It is 'settled science', and no, there are no credible scientists on the other side of the argument. Evolution is opposed by the kind of religionist who thinks trolling is doing the lord's work.
NYT alternate: How the stand of a sovereign country led to the tantrum of an orange dictator - so he punished his own people by making coffee more expensive.
It ain't just a river in Egypt. :-)
Are you the same Cuban who said Trump would be good for America 'like chemo'? Anyone know what happens when you get too many chemo drugs? Do us a favor; don't stand for president. This all started when America voted for the Bedtime for Bonzo guy. We need a politician, not a celeb from the teevee.
Good! My house will be on the market in about a month, and I'll be gone 2 months after - visa is done, etc. I hope you don't plan to fly, right? CO2 emissions and all... oh, and have you ever you bought anything Chinese, and how do you plan to compensate the Uighurs for your betrayal?
A few months ago, my self-appointed holier-than-thou judge. Sorry about that, I know you were hoping for a different answer. Question for you: The US is now Nazi. When are you leaving?
Me too! I was 'laid off for no reason' twice - first because my VP was an incompetent and they terminated the whole team instead of firing him, and once because a senior manager needed to claim credit for my work and it was inconvenient to have me around. The most political place I ever worked.
Yeah, in a hard week, I really needed to see a second slimy orange invertebrate. Can this one touch a Bible?
For some reason this reminds me that several years ago, researchers found a male turkey would try to have sex with a female turkey's severed head on a stick.
what a stupid thing to say. So, having bought shares in 2017, I was (er...somehow) "complicit in the rise of fascism" eight years later? Thanks! I needed the reminder that stupid judgmental people are on both sides of the political divide.
well, yeah. But things change, this isn't forever. Next time the Left tries to do this, it shouldn't ignore the poor. If they do, some fascist will weaponize them and ride them like donkeys - as we now see.
The key is to ignore what he says and focus on what happens. Trump is a damaged man who enjoys inflicting emotional pain, so do what the media seem unable to, and ignore the liar. Biden increased Trump-era tariffs, remember? Trump is business as usual, I'm afraid.
Good for her - you know about this, so it is public knowledge and not illegal. Others who did the same will have reaped the same profit. I bought Tesla 10 years ago - since then it has grown 2,800%. That makes me lucky, not an inside trader.
for the rest of the world? Nothing. For America? Well - America deserves it. Not the smart people, they have money, passports and shit. For the Trumptards.
Well - what if we think of medicine as effective and curative, while 'alternative' therapies put the mind to rest, especially in areas where real treatment is poor? Integration on that basis might not change the clinical picture but it could make it easier to bear...?
Yes. Sorry about Dogshit Donald. Turns out that Russia discovered American "freedom" of speech is how you kill America. The result will be a prolongation of the fight for Ukrainian freedom. Russia isn't getting richer or more stable as time goes on...
Yep. If you are a soldier of The Big Man, you don't need to fear justice. If you are inconveniently honest, you might lose your security clearance, or have a well-funded candidate run against you. Murrican Dumbocracy, time to leave.
sigh. This again?
... and this is why I'm returning to the UK (well, apart from the Orange loser...) - the UK's struggling economy means we can live a wealthier life there than here. A big thanks to all the brexiteers for making me wealthy in comparison.
well, if you like. My definition of wealth is you have more than enough money - and $140K in Seattle isn't enough for that. Your income would likely make you wealthy in rural Mali, but that wouldn't mean you were upper class.
So the Reader of Banned Books is recommending banning Snoop Dogg? Ironic?
You should consider opening a consultancy here in Seattle to teach all us dumb Washingtonians how we can afford houses - a little belt-tightening should eliminate the housing "crisis", and you could make a lot of money!
...but you say there are houses available! Why do these stupid people not realize there is no 'shortage' when there are indeed houses right there?? OR they can't afford a house on $140K, or something...
Recovering Facebook addict looking for a shallower cesspool :-)
well, if you are correct and any family with a $140K income should stop whining and buy one of the many huge and well-appointed Seattle houses as you say, I assume the so-called 'housing crisis' here doesn't exist? What is your explanation?
That's okay - it wasn't really there anyway. If you were a democracy, you'd have gun control. If you were a democracy, Biden and Trump wouldn't both be able to state they won't enforce the TikTok ban upheld by the Supreme Court, which as President they don't have power to do.
Well - don't you find it odd that all those people suffering from the housing crisis don't take your advice and buy themselves 2-bedroom houses for their large families? Why not do as you say, and give up the dream of a huge house in a rich area?
Understand the $140k figure is a HOUSEHOLD INCOME and not a single salary.
"very wealthy' suburbs exist here. But $140k isn't enough to buy a family home in the regular suburbs as well.
Remember - $140K is a household income for a family. You're okay with just 2 bedrooms, right? Also - while you might say this works for a family, the local home buyers disagree so much that we have a chronic housing shortage/homelessness. So somebody, somewhere, thinks they can't afford a house.