Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.
A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
There was a Mastodon post yesterday from Reuters about Rajat Khare, this post contained the article OP posted and a link to an even more interesting article about the Indian Hacking for hire that this scumbag is responsible for:
The comment was a “complete joke” and the study was made-up, the Minneapolis mayor’s office told Fortune
Ah yes the typical “what? It was just a joke, why’s everyone mad at me?” reaction to saying something only an asshole would say, fuck this guy. So sorry rich people are going to make less money off of their real estate investments, boo fucking hoo, how about adapting to technological and cultural changes better? 🤷♂️
Gee maybe because the media eats this shit up, just like they eat up any kind of copaganda. The media is overly trusting and sympathetic to cops, and conservatives in general.
“Hillary Clinton used a similar tactic against me when I ran for president in 2020, accusing me of being ‘groomed by the Russians’.”
I guess no need to be groomed by Russians when you’ve already been groomed by fanatical Christian Extremists so your values basically align with the current Russian regime’s:
Gabbard became an anti-homosexual activist before the same-sex marriage debate took hold in Hawaii.[3] Between 1991 and 1996, Gabbard founded the organizations Stop Promoting Homosexuality Hawaii (renamed Stop Promoting Homosexuality International), Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, and the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values.[10] Gabbard became well-known for his advocacy for Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 (1998). This amendment, approved by voters 69.2%–28.6%,[11] gave the state legislature “the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples” under the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996.[12][3][13]
I’ve been learning some about rabies and learned about rabies causing hydrophobia. This is just a theory, I’m not saying I know anything about this topic to be knowledgeable, but if we could get someone with rabies to not fear water, could they survive?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® said he would support the legal fund of a man who is accused of vandalizing a display by The Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Capitol on Thursday....
As a Florida resident I have the same comment in my head whenever this idiot racist homophobic governor says shit like this, and that is “don’t you have better shit to do?” Because look at all of the problems in this state, meanwhile this idiot is so blinded by his fucking culture war and his religious servility or the lure of the power that these things bring to him.
Meanwhile he’s got staffers making campaign videos with Nazi iconography while real Nazis are parading around the state threatening the many Jewish folks here, he’s got an entire coastline that’s collapsing to unusability because not just he but his predecessor and his entire political party believe that if you ban the term “climate change” from political dialogue the problem will just magically go away. Then you have this fucktard interfering with our already garbage and broken school system, and interfering not in ways to make it better but much much worse, and then making college worse for the actual adults who should be allowed to make their choices on if they want to explore gender or racial studies, while also not having propaganda that literally tells them “it’s okay the slaves benefitted from slavery” forced on them because of a bunch of political assholes trying to reshape the world to be more accepting of checks notes fucking slavery.
Fuck Ron DeSantis, fuck Rick Scott, and fuck the Florida GOP, they are garbage people making a vulnerable overly populated state much much worse, the GOP doesn’t fix things, they hoard power and wealth that’s their only real purposes.
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
Kari Lake is already pulling the same schtick in Arizona, other repugnicans have tried as well all across the country, so no definitely not going away anytime soon.
No, the US leadership is dealing with a bully with nuclear weapons, sure we can take a chance, do some surgical attacks to limit any launches and such, but that would be a big time escalation, and we’re not there yet, and that escalation would mean a lot more people would die, a lot lot more.
The main strategy has been to try to strangle Russia economically and isolate them to wear down the populace and hopefully force either a retreat or a change in leadership, all while providing Ukraine with what they needed to halt Russia’s advances. However, thanks to the MAGA/Putin alliance they have successfully stalled our resupply efforts to Ukraine, thus giving Putin more time to keep pushing and costing Ukraine lives that they can’t waste while fighting a numerically superior opponent.
So ultimately Trump’s lunatics are who aren’t afraid of winning, they don’t want Ukraine to win, because Trump is Putin’s cock holster and they are Trump’s cult who follow his signals for everything and anything. There’s no fear of winning, only betrayal and treasons prolonging the problem.
The party has turned to a moderate veteran, Tom Suozzi, to restore its tarnished brand. But the migrant influx reaching New York has complicated his task....
You mean the manufacturered migrant crisis that the Republicans have consistently made exceedingly worse purposely as a weapon against Democrats? That migrant crisis? Rather than just passing laws and helping these people these assholes are essentially sending waves of homeless migrants all across the country, not as much to make a point but as a political weapon to piss off the NIMBYs to turn them into Republican allies.
What a bullshit article, they talk about “startling revelations” about dark money, which honestly just sounds like run of the mill lobbying, then the article goes on to never name the AI investor or their lobbying group/superpac. No links, no sources, porn in the ads, seems less than credible, possibly even AI written.
Dark money is money that is laundered into campaigns through hidden means, like what the NRA was doing with Russian money:
Are you kidding me? They’ll make conspiracies about absolutely anything, and nothing at all.
I use to browse r/Conspiracytheories once in a while to see what the echo chamber was up to, and it was always a bunch of idiots throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
This is one of the many reasons why you should just call the cops and otherwise not get involved unless they’re immediately dangerous to people, a.) The companies have insurance against this stuff, and they usually have policies against would be “heroes” getting involved, and b.) They will fire you, you could get sued, you could wind up with charges yourself. You as a manager should have had an understanding of these things, but you didn’t and now you are facing the consequences of your actions, or the actions you felt forced to take.
Nobody should care that much about their faceless corporation, especially not in retail, why? Because they absolutely do not give a fuck about you, they will fire or lay you off for any silly reason, often just to make or save a few more bucks.
Everyone should just learn how to do your job and go home peacefully, and enjoy your time, or do something more meaningful with your time. You sound like you’re a nice meaningful person, maybe spend some time volunteering with the homeless or other needy groups, those people need the help, not some faceless greedy corporation.
Also get out of front line retail, it’s a shit show at every level, as a manager there are plenty of other fields you can move to if you have the ability, also getting into something like Project Management doesn’t take much, and the Project Management Professional certification is fairly easy to get, albeit somewhat pricey.
Good luck with your next move in life, hope it’s something that brings you happiness.
Comment on Headline: I don’t know if swarm is the right word, I think that implies they entered the home? I guess a group of insects is a swarm whether it’s inside or out. They had their Nazi party in the street, and the governor’s home is protected at all times by state police....
They didn’t “Swarm” anything, they threatened the lady governor en masse under the cover of darkness like the pussies they usually are, maintaining that thin veneer of legality so that the governor can’t go after them.
Now the Nazi punks are acting like they’re the KKK to a sitting governor, time to start curb stomping some Nazis kids, before they come to curbstomp the rest of us.
Exactly, this dickhead was on Rogan, Tucker, Fuentes, and any other right wingers show who would have them, and hanging out with Tucker and Fuentes is literally hanging out with the most Nazi/Russian propagandist and the most widely known Nazi talking head, well aside from Elon.
Ye has helped foster antisemitism in the black community at an alarming rate while also being the absolute worst time to do so, for both black Americans and Jewish Americans, whom up to this point in American civil rights history have been historically allies.
It’s too late for Ye to realize he’s the pawn of racists and antisemites, the damage is done thanks to his foolish mentally ill ass.
Well there’s absolutely a lot of real and actual slavery across the country, from domestic servants who are being held against their will, to sex slaves, and of course the numbers scale up with our population. So our population during the civil war was 31+ million, with close to 4 million of that being slaves, now we have 331+ million people, if you combine the instances of domestic and indentured servitude with sexual slavery, then add in those wrongfully in the prison system it scales to being much more than the sub 4 million in slavery during the civil war.
I know a lot of people would want to say “but the prison system is prisoners who committed crimes” but a lot of people are in prison because of failed justice, or on poverty based offenses, some of which compile with other petty offenses. Now also another caveat is that prison work isn’t usually compulsory, it’s normally voluntary, but one can argue that it’s the prison that has the leverage over these people volunteering or not.
Overall these statistics aren’t easy to calculate because modern day slavers want to hide and obfuscate their crimes, but it’s there, it exists, and it exists in places you may not expect, like the next time you’re sitting in a park in Manhattan consider the fact that one of the many domestic workers present may in fact be enslaved against their will, and this could be said in LA, Miami, Atlanta, anywhere in the US.
Slavery already exists in the US in various forms, and in greater numbers than prior to the Civil War, but no I would not be surprised if the right wingers legalize slavery again, or if Gilead/Texas tries first.
Either way fuck the Confederate wannabes, we should smash them now so we don’t have to do it yet again later, which is what Grant failed to do during the Reconstruction era.
This feels like one of those right wing memes that could go either way, but let’s break it down like this Uncle Ben and Aunt Jamima are both domestic servants, do you think that’s an appropriate mascot for a company? Do you think black folks want them as some of their oldest icons?
Land of lakes also has a stereotypically dressed native woman who probably wouldn’t dress like that at all even back in the day.
I get that most people couldn’t give a shit either way but when you use your brain to think about how messed up presumably white owned companies are for using slaves and genocided people as their logos or mascots is pretty fucked.
But hey you’re not here for an insightful discussion, you’re here to get those hate clicks.
Josh Hawley seeks revival of ‘Our Christian Nation,’ condemns ‘atheist left’ (baptistnews.com)
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.
Who’s Killing All These Stories About a Controversial Tech Mogul? (www.thedailybeast.com)
A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next January (newrepublic.com)
Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’ (fortune.com)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is trying a unique strategy to get remote workers to return downtown: insulting them....
During a ‘patriotic lesson’ in Buryatia, children were presented with a Wagner PMC flag that read, “Nothing personal, we were paid.”
‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases (www.nytimes.com)
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Republican bill would let AZ ranchers shoot and kill border-crossers on their property (azmirror.com)
Tulsi Gabbard repeats false Hillary Clinton ‘grooming’ claim in new book (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Democrat, reported contender for Trump running mate, sued Clinton for Russia remark but dropped case...
Old Guard soldiers charged with stealing pride flags from Arlington home (www.nbcwashington.com)
This is probably a dumb question, but if we eliminate the hydrophobia caused by rabies, would it increase the survival rate of active rabies?
I’ve been learning some about rabies and learned about rabies causing hydrophobia. This is just a theory, I’m not saying I know anything about this topic to be knowledgeable, but if we could get someone with rabies to not fear water, could they survive?
DeSantis vows to help man charged with beheading Iowa Capitol’s Satanic Temple statue (thehill.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® said he would support the legal fund of a man who is accused of vandalizing a display by The Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Capitol on Thursday....
Sen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results (www.nbcnews.com)
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
Fuck Dan Newlin (lemmy.world)
Thanks the veterans while wearing the garb of traitors and sucking up to a president that looks down on those who serve.
The West has the capability to halt Putin's brutal war - but does it have the resolve? (news.sky.com)
Migrant Crisis Complicates Democrats’ Bid to Regain George Santos’s Seat (www.nytimes.com)
The party has turned to a moderate veteran, Tom Suozzi, to restore its tarnished brand. But the migrant influx reaching New York has complicated his task....
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Obama collapsed the bridge (lemmy.world)
Trump is selling 'God Bless the USA' Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump is now selling Bibles as he runs to return to the White House....
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Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Neo-Nazis Swarm Home of New England Governor (www.rollingstone.com)
Comment on Headline: I don’t know if swarm is the right word, I think that implies they entered the home? I guess a group of insects is a swarm whether it’s inside or out. They had their Nazi party in the street, and the governor’s home is protected at all times by state police....
Kanye West apologises to Jewish community for 2022 antisemitic remarks (www.theguardian.com)
Rapper posts message in Hebrew to social media, saying he is ‘committed to making amends and promoting unity’...
Would you be surprised at all if there was a re-emergence of slavery in the United States?
Anti-racism be like (lemmy.today)
Can’t be racist if you get rid of all the brown people...