I also think that every single police department that falls for a SWATing call should be held criminally liable. Obviously, an anonymous phone call is not enough to warrant a full-on raid of a private home. Allowing that to be the standard operating procedure is negligent as it keeps the door open for SWATers.

Yeah, my anarchocommunist cousin had to have explosive diarrhea like half a dozen times before she’d admit it was raw milk causing it.

As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal.

Ana Marie Cauce has called the situation in Gaza “horrific”, has vocally supported a ceasefire, and allowed UW students to form a pro-palestine encampment on campus, despite opposition from her colleagues.

I am doubtful that these were actual pro-Palestine protesters. “UW partners with Boeing (the largest employer in the Seattle area) and Boeing does business with Israel, therefore the president of UW is pro-Genocide” doesn’t sound like a real argument.

The goal was to attract Twitter refugees. No ads helps sell the “greener pastures” the users were looking for.

Once those users are comfortable, Threads can do whatever it wants. They know how much it took to get Twitter users to leave Twitter.

People acting like Meta launched Threads out of the kindness of Zuck’s heart are dumb as fuck. Threads has the same goal as Facebook: to make money selling your eyeballs to advertisers and your metadata to data brokers.

The frustrating part of all of this is that it is true that puberty blockers aren’t approved by the FDA for delaying puberty for gender affirming treatments, but it is used anyway as an off-label use. Criticism of off-label uses of pharmaceuticals is a perfectly valid concern to have.

But if you actually had this concern in good faith, you would be putting pressure on the FDA to investigate this use of puberty blockers directly and make a call or whether or not this is an approved use. You would be demanding that the FDA fill in the gaps in their knowledge, and only allow this use of puberty blockers if there was no harm found.

Going straight to the legislature and banning it outright is underhanded as shit. The only reason to do that is because you know that the FDA has no reason to disapprove of this use, and you want to medically oppress trans people regardless of what the science actually says.

It’s transphobic bullshit, and anyone telling you that their concern is the safety and welfare of children is lying to you, because if that were true they would act like it.

considering he can just lock anybody who opposes him up

He cannot. He says he can and will, but he has absolutely no legal authority to order people’s arrest or imprisonment.

This is a picture of Tehran’s upper class youth from the 70’s, and it is often posted as if it were everyday life in Iran.

Spoiler: The rich in Iran can still do whatever they want.

Me who digs stuff out of e-waste bins in office building parking garages.

Immunizing Trump as an individual from prosecution related to acts performed as President, while deeply problematic, will not prevent legal challengs his EO’s. Striking down a president’s EO is completely different than convicting a president with a crime.

The bridge is necessary because BlueSky and Mastodon cannot federate, and they never will be able to. ActivityPub and ATProto are different protocols.

Trump is literally filling his cabinet with people he things will “trigger the libs”. It’s honestly quite beautiful watching him set himself of for complete and utter failure. This was always the state of right-wing politics, now the brainrot has full control over the Government.

Like last time, I think the only campaign promise he’ll be able to keep will be cutting taxes for the rich. Outside of that, this admin is going to be a complete chaotic disaster.

This is absolutely the wrong person for the job (if you’re Trump). This is basically good news.

Gaetz has literally no demonstrable experience as an attorney that would help him in this role. He got his license to practice law in 2008 and has periodically worked at Keefe Anchors & Gordon where he only practiced real estate, employment, property insurance, and contract law and later lost his law license because he forgot to pay his dues (while in office, where having that kind of credential could be valuable). KAG (now AnchorsGordon) appears to mostly have employed him as a political tool, not as a legitimate attorney that represented their clients directly. There are few if any legal documents with his name on them, so he very likely did very little actual legal work during his employment there.

Since then over 400 alumni of his Alma Mater have described him as “unfit to write or determine the law”.

This is a position you want a competent and experienced attorney serving your administration. Gaetz may be a yes-man for Trump, but this is a massive strategic mistake for him and his goals. Trump’s proposals so far are absolutely guaranteed to be challenged by the courts if he moves on them, and Gaetz is going to be literally the worst possible representative you could choose to try to defend your admin in that scenario.

In China? I mean, there were two back to back incidents, but to my understanding not a pattern.

I didn’t say it brought USA into the war

You literally did

Ya, CCCP started it all with Hitler, the USA was forced in to the war.

Now, perhaps this isn’t what you meant to say. It is, however, what you said

What information did you add to your worldview that led you to embrace hatred as a political ethos?

Alright, let’s clear this up. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact wasn’t what brought the US into WWII. That pact was a non-aggression agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in August 1939, which allowed both powers to avoid fighting each other while they focused on expanding their influence in Europe. This agreement directly led to the invasion of Poland and the start of WWII in Europe, but it didn’t prompt US involvement.

The US didn’t enter the war until December 1941, over two years later, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. That was the actual catalyst. Up until then, despite plenty of pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi sentiments among the populace, the US had largely followed an isolationist policy, though they supported the Allies with programs like Lend-Lease to aid Britain. The US’s decision to go to war was mostly a response to Japanese aggression, and Germany’s declaration of war on the US shortly afterward sealed the deal for full US involvement in both the Pacific and European theaters.

So yeah, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was important for starting the conflict in Europe, but it wasn’t why the US entered WWII.

No, this is the voter she pissed off Dem voters for…

Not sure why you said “no”, since you’re making the same point I was. This is who the party asked her to sway, and now the party is blaming her for not working hard enough to win the votes of complete fucking morons.

I could have told you that ignoring these morons and running a campaign focused on the working class, social justice, and economic fairness would have gone 1000% farther than trying to win over fence-sitters during the most divided election in U.S. history. Not sure why the Democrats ignored this, I assume they have at least one competent advisor that said this…

This is the voter Kamala was supposed to sway with “better messaging”.