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American. Pro-democracy.

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GreenFire, to random
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Putin has sacrificed over half a million Russians (some of them are foreign mercenaries shanghaied into their army though too) towards his fantasy of expanding Moscow's empire even further into Europe.

Adding in the massive diaspora and you end up with an economy that can't afford to wage this war for much longer I expect.
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112500374570747871

barney,
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@GreenFire

Putin is backed into a corner. His political survival, and possibly his literal survival, depend on getting Trump elected in November. It's his only chance. So he's pulling out all the stops.

As the summer progresses, we'll see escalating atrocities in the Middle East, bigger and more violent protests and counter-protests at home, new international wars, terrorist attacks in the West... everything Putin can throw at us.

gwaldby, to random
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A new report warns that Trump's proposed tariff on imports would raise costs for typical American consumers by $1,700 per year. And he also wants to extend his tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

Whose side is he on? Not ours!

barney,
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@gwaldby

As our reward for spending an extra $1,700 a year per family, we get... nothing.

Trump's trade war has no purpose, no goal, no economic rationale. He's just a little boy smashing his toys.

barney, to legal
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"Special counsel Jack Smith appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Donald Trump to obstruct the government's investigation of his handling of classified documents, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-suspected-additional-obstruction-effort-trump-classified/story?id=110438582

Celeste_pewter, to random
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All, something to be aware of this morning - Biden's trailing Trump in five key states in a new NYT/Siena Research poll.

https://t.co/YDLKlKUbS3

Please consider this a reminder as a lateral move - if you haven't already, adopt a Senator, adopt a House member, and get involved this cycle.

barney,
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@mpjgregoire @Celeste_pewter

That won't happen, nor should it happen. Attempting to appease unreality pushers is an impossible task.

barney,
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@mpjgregoire @Celeste_pewter

My point is, the notion that someone would let Trump win, thereby ending American democracy, just because Biden is three years older, is batshit crazy. Anyone who's so detached from reality that they're vulnerable to such low-quality propaganda would be equally swayed by any other bullshit.

They'd refuse to vote for Gavin Newsom because he styles his hair with yak mucus. Kamala Harris wouldn't deserve their vote because she secretly adopted a space alien baby.

barney,
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@mpjgregoire @Celeste_pewter

I'm very worried too. But the thing that worries me is the fact that most Americans are now deeply insane and unable to comprehend reality. For that, we can blame garbage pseudojournalism like that ABC News article, which forcibly drags people away from sanity.

barney,
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@mpjgregoire

In 2016, the Kremlin-GOP propaganda team convinced the entire American political press, even MSNBC, to push the lie that Hillary Clinton had some secret horrible mystery disease. I watched the debates terrified that she might emit a single tiny sneeze, and thereby cause a fascist revolution.

The solution was not to give Hillary an antihistamine. The solution was to somehow drag Americans back to reality.

plink, to Facebook
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from #Facebook
Photos from demonstration for Palestine In Birmingham, Alabama, US on May 11, 2024

#DontStopSharing
#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsraelNow
#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
@palestine @israel

3 banners at demonstration: 1. "From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free." 2. "Never Again is Now" with Palestine flag 3. "Birmingham for a Ceasefire" "Birmingham Against Apartheid" "Birmingham Against Occupation"

barney,
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@plink @palestine @israel

This is truly disgusting. Utterly sickening.

NinaBernstein1, to random
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Terrific and important op-ed. Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan | Arielle Angel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-university-protests-antisemitism-free-speech

barney,
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@NinaBernstein1

Hey Nina, isn't it also just a little bit problematic when Jewish college students are harassed, and threatened, and subjected to calls for them to be deported or exterminated?

No? Not a problem? The whole thing is 100% just a big right-wing conspiracy? Okay.

angiebaby, to random
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The Democratic Party is right-wing.

barney,
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@ethanjstark @angiebaby

I'm not clear on why you folks want Trump to be president again.

barney,
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@angiebaby @ethanjstark

I'm just saying, this is the Republican Party you're working for: "There are very few innocent Palestinian citizens... we should kill them all... like Hiroshima and Nagasaki... gotta finish the problem."

Obviously you're free to do that. But two million Gazans, and thousands of American protesters who care about them, really wish you wouldn't.

So do the 10 million Latinos who Trump promises to send to concentration camps in Texas.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-israel-finish-problem-gaza-1234981038/

barney,
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@thepoliticalcat

No, the nuclear bomb comment came from Rep. Walberg (R-MI). Trump only endorsed bombing Gaza into oblivion.

As president, Trump abruptly stopped all US aid to Palestine, not in response to anything, just because he hates them. He plans to ban Muslim immigration (again), and the GOP is trying to deport all Palestinians now in the US. Kushner wants to forcibly remove all Gazans from Gaza.

The pro-fascist leftists in this thread are hurting the people they claim to care about.

GreenFire, to random
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In July 2022, the price of a used Tesla Model Y (2021 model year) was $71,000. Today, it’s $32,000, reports Edmunds. Most remarkably, a used Tesla Model 3 is now cheaper than the average used gasoline vehicle.

Because of sophisticated cooling hardware and management software, most batteries are expected to outlive their car. Replacing the battery is unlikely to pay the full price of $6,500 to $20,000 cost. Warranty policies generally cover batteries when they fall below 75% of original capacity

barney,
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@GreenFire

I might say, if you aren't helping Joe Biden get reelected, then you're not necessarily a climate science denier -- but you're saying that you don't care whether or not climate change is addressed, and you don't give a shit about what happens to our planet.

barney,
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@GreenFire

I think explicitly not caring about climate change is even worse than being a climate science denier. Or, at least, it's a more hateful and offensive position to take publicly.

Because, the Sunrise Movement types of the pro-fascist left are saying, out loud, "I know that climate change will soon cause catastrophic suffering, poverty and starvation and death all over the world, especially for the world's poorest people. But f*ck those people. I don't care what happens to them."

PieterPeach, to H5N1
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“The cats were found dead with no apparent signs of injury and were from a resident population of ≈24 domestic cats that had been fed [unpasteurised] milk from sick cows. Clinical disease in cows on that farm was first noted on March 16; the cats became sick on March 17, and several cats died in a cluster during March 19–20. In total, >50% of the cats at that dairy became ill and died.”

Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Jul https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/7/24-0508_article?ACSTrackingID=USCDC_333-DM127233&ACSTrackingLabel=Latest%20Expedited%20Articles%20-%20Emerging%20Infectious%20Diseases%20Journal%20-%20April%2029%2C%202024&deliveryName=USCDC_333-DM127233

barney,
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@PieterPeach

Your link didn't work for me.

It looks like CDC posted the whole paper, here: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/7/24-0508_article

KimPerales, to random
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Russia’s assassination & sabotage squad blew up ammunition warehouses in Czechia. It had help from Elena & Nikolai Šapošnikov, a family of deep-cover spies working as arms dealers.

Villa Elena -for the last 15 years -served as the Greek safehouse for members of GRU Unit 29155, Putin’s most grimly accomplished assassination & sabotage squad, the one responsible for poisoning enemies of the Kremlin & blowing up materiel stored in Czechia & BG-.

https://theins.press/en/politics/271205

barney,
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@GreenFire @KimPerales

I fear that won't be the case. The emerging pattern is that the world's right-wing extremist strongmen are allied with each other, and against their own and each other's countries.

I'm reminded of May 2017, when Erdoğan ordered his thugs to brutally beat innocent Americans, on American soil, in broad daylight, in the middle of Washington. Erdoğan did that with Trump's blessing, and, no doubt, with Trump's admiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjxbzGlzw

JapanProf, to random
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America is not a democracy—powerful politicians and their family members are above the law. In South Korea, if the son-in-law of the President had done what Jared Kushner did, both Kushner and Trump would be in jail right now. The US politics is the most corrupt of all wealthy democracies by far. Much worse than Italy and Japan.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009426425/kushners-investments-could-be-a-conflict-of-interest-for-trump.html?smid=url-share

barney,
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@JapanProf

I think you're stated an accurate and important observation, but in a form that is counterproductive.

The problem is not that US democracy is corrupt. The problem is that the US is currently at war against an enemy power, i.e. the Republican Party, which has conquered our country to an extent that our laws cannot be enforced against it.

barney, to Palestine
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I've heard from 2 college students who went to events that were billed as "student rallies" ("for peace" and "supporting ," respectively), but turned out to be led by violent radicals who weren't affiliated with their schools.

This "United for " march at was organized by 3 right-wing Christian nationalist extremists who are not Israeli, not Jewish, and not Columbia-affiliated.

We're all being played. Think about who gains from this. They are destroying us.

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barney, to random
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I checked Google Maps. It's about 1,000 feet.

The New York Stock Exchange, where these Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists were "protesting" last week, is about 1,000 feet from where similar terrorists brought down the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Do you remember the 9/11 attacks? Do you remember anyone saying they were "heroic" or "exhilarating"?

barney, to Israel
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Here are so-called "protesters" in Manhattan last week, with a Hezbollah flag and a Hamas headband.

Everyone who's saying "peaceful protesters!" and "it's not !" needs to STFU for a minute.

Hamas and Hezbollah are antisemitic terrorist groups. In 1994, Hezbollah drove a car bomb into a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and wounding 300 more.

If you think killing every Jew in the world is "resistance," you're a sick piece of shit.

wagesj45, to random
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As your resident Free Speech Bro™, I am bothered by this whole TikTok ban. It is definitely Bad™. I think the more immediate problem will be the alienation of young voters. We can argue endlessly that "they should care more about the country than a dumb app". Put on your pragmatist hat for a minute. Some people will lose the will to vote over their feelings on this. I'd argue we need the Democrats to make more practical choices if this really is the election to end all elections.

barney,
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@wagesj45

It's not a TikTok ban, it's a requirement that ByteDance divest from the company within 9 months.

If "some people" are so detached from reality that they would condemn millions of women to potentially lethal medical atrocities, and send ten million Latinos to concentration camps, just because one of the two parties that supported the TikTok bill is the Democratic Party, then we have a very big problem. And the problem is not the TikTok bill.

barney, to Columbia
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Robert has issued a statement, saying he will no longer donate to .

Kraft claims Columbia gave him a "full academic scholarship," but that's a lie. No Ivy League school has offered merit-based scholarships since 1954.

Also, please note that Kraft supported Donald Trump, the world's single most dangerous antisemitic hatemonger. Robert Kraft is full of shit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/columbia-university-protests-robert-kraft/

stevesilberman, to random
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Shameless Bag Man Up to His Neck in American Blood and Treason Says He Still Supports 'Scarface' Capone All the Way
https://wapo.st/3w6u5a9

barney,
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@GreenFire @stevesilberman

I think there may be some confusion here. Barr did state his conclusion that Epstein's death was suicide, enabled by a series of "screw-ups" like malfunctioning cameras, the transfer of his cellmate, etc. There was also a false conspiracy theory that Barr had secretly visited Epstein in his cell prior to Epstein's death, suggesting that Barr might have ordered Epstein's murder. There was no such visit.

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-politics-new-york-business-suicides-4ff27f28f32d446795b65ac7dd8cc4ac

barney,
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@mozz

Then maybe he should shut up.

This garbage that you're posting is extremely offensive, @mozz. A national abortion ban would subject hundreds of millions of women to potential medical atrocities. Trump is promising to round up approximately ten million Latinos and send them to concentration camps.

Ralph Nader, Mother Jones, and you are helping to make that happen.

barney,
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@mozz

"how the fuck did things get to such a state..."

Because Ralph motherfucking Nader, and Mother Jones, and other scumbags like them, tore Americans away from reality and from sanity. That's how.

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