I’m ending the interview. I’m ending the interview because what you’re doing is ridiculous.
What a joke of an interviewee. Reporter should have just scrapped his planned piece then, because there was no way this dude was going to give real answers. It’s an entire interview of spin and outright denial. There are some people who have an argument for why current polling might not be so bad or how we’re going to change things, but this guy was like a toddler having a tantrum. “Nuh uh!”
I guess it proved the title, but man was it kind of a worthless read.
The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles has been removed from his post three weeks after campus officials came under fire for their handling of a violent, overnight mob attack on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at UCLA....
Oh my god it’s an article with a title that correctly describes the “violence” that was the problem at the encampment. 95% of the other articles I saw just talked about generic “unrest” or “violence” during the protest, implying the protest was the source.
Did the image get copied onto their servers in a manner they were not provided a legal right to? Then they violated copyright. Whatever they do after that isn’t the copyright violation.
And this is obvious because they could easily assemble a dataset with no copyright issues. They could also attempt to get permission from the copyright holders for many other images, but that would be hard and/or costly and some would refuse. They want to use the extra images, but don’t want to get permission, so they just take it, just like anyone else who would like an image but doesn’t want to pay for it.
Judging New Delhi too important in the fight against China, the US government has adopted its own unstated policy of avoiding fights with India over human rights and democracy.
We’re always quick to come up with excuses why this regime or that is “too important” for us to criticize. In the end it just ends up with us having more terrible regimes we’re in bed with than ones we’re willing to call out, which in turn makes the American-led democratic world order a huge hypocrisy.
Maybe holding back some economic expansion from China isn’t worth letting the largest democracy in the world slip into fascism. Because it’s not like fully fascist Modi is going to be “our” dictator. Fascist leaders align with other fascist leaders. FFS they tried to perform an assassination on American soil. That’s a big fucking deal and deserves a harsh response.
It’s relevant to how the citizens view America and how supportive they are when leaders like Modi tell them American accusations or values are a sham. And even relevant to Americans when US politicians try to attack UN institutions. “Of course we’re going after the ICC, we’ve never stood up for justice internationally” is a different domestic response than “we’re attacking the ICC? are we the baddies?”.
To be fair, what was actually the point of a Democratic consultant getting people not to vote in a primary that awarded no delegates? In the bank analogy he’s robbing the Monopoly bank.
And just to be clear, I think what he did should be illegal and he should be prosecuted. I just don’t think there was a whole lot to gain had he gotten away with his scheme.
Alito and Thomas have been biding their time on the Court, waiting for the 50 year conservative project to come to fruition, and now that it is they’re no longer willing to play pretend as objective neutral jurists. Their argument is simple “we won, we can do whatever we want”.
Just need a trifecta with a spine to kill the filibuster and pass laws. Or some executives with balls of steel to take the fight to the court and flex their own power in the law-enforcing part of the equation. They aren’t omnipotent determiners of law.
If you are keeping score at home, you have surely noticed that the two most important defense officials in Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet — Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the former military chief of staff Benny Gantz — warned last week that Netanyahu is leading Israel into a disastrous abyss by refusing to present...
He doesn’t have to do a 180 to get the anti-genocide bloc to vote for him, he just needs to be better than he is. No one is expecting him to lead the charge at the ICC, but he’s gotta stop sucking Netanyahu’s toes.
And yeah, I think Netanyahu is absolutely happy to destroy Biden’s reputation and reelection, and it’s frankly bizarre that Biden doesn’t recognize him as an antagonist. Chuck Schumer was right to directly call him out as one of the main problems. Biden’s biggest flaw is he thinks bad people will be his friend if he “hugs” them. He gets proven wrong time and again but keeps at it. But if he’s not able to get over that mistaken belief on his own, cold hard electoral math will hopefully get him to take the right position even if he doesn’t believe in it.
But they know they can’t throttle back one iota until that becomes a reality.
This is just an utter failure in leadership. The majority of his party doesn’t support Israel’s war. A smaller majority of all Americans don’t support it. If you can’t make that a winning issue and feel straightjacketed by the opinion of your enemies, that’s a you problem.
Biden needs to realize who his friends and allies are. Fuck the rightwing mediasphere. If they were able to dictate which position would lose Biden the election, it’s already over. The 26 Democrats are the only problem in that whole list, and they’ve been a thorn in his eye before and were brought to heel by the party machinery reinforcing that opposing your own party’s president is a bad idea.
Then you’re an idiot. It doesn’t matter that Fox News will try to make something an issue. They’re going to call Democrats antisemites while chanting the great replacement theory regardless of what Joe Biden does and everyone who’s going to be influenced by them is already lost to him for five other made up crises. Liberals like you are continually jumping at the shadows thinking there’s some masterful triangulation that will thread the needle just right to make the rightwing mediasphere unable to push a message while completely losing the plot about how that comes across to the voters that actually matter.
The very instinct to just duck and defend at every turn is why we lose on issues like this where the majority of the country are with us. Chuck Schumer isn’t some DSA member and he had it right: take the political fight to the people who mean to do us harm and define them as the problem. Biden should be spurning Netanyahu, both because it’s the right thing to do and the right political move, and he should be saying it out loud, defining the narrative rather than waiting for it to be defined for him. There’s a perfectly good message here about the United States as a moral force promoting a just international order and the dangers presented by rightwing fascists motivated by hate and putting personal needs above what is good for their nations.
You can treat symptoms and then address longer term problems when able. It’s not like it would be better for these people just to keep paying because the current divided Congress won’t address the core problem.
COVID non-payment periods counted towards the 10 years. Anyone who was 9 years and 10 months would become eligible at 10 years, even if they didn’t have to make the last two payments.
I think we could benefit from some off-topic comment enforcement by the mods. Or just downvoting and not rising to the bait, but we all know that’s not going to happen. The Palestine conversation is completely unrelated to debt cancellation. The “both sides” is itself also just trolling for an off-topic fight.
Amongst the general powers conferred by Congress to the Secretary in the HEA is the power to “enforce, pay, compromise, waive, or release any right, title, claim, lien, or demand, however acquired, including any equity or any right of redemption.” 20 U.S.C. § 1082(a)(6)
I don’t think the US university system is going to rework their fees because 160,000 people got public-service or low-income related forgiveness. It’s not even giving money directly to schools or financial institutions. The worst case is people who plan to either be poor or do public service may be less cost conscious when applying to schools, but the PSLF and income-based payment programs already existed and more importantly 18 year olds are just completely clueless about what taking out a $100,000 loan means. People fetishize economics like it’s a perfect mathematical system where every dollar spent will yield results in some other part of the system while just outright ignoring all the complete irrationality that exists in consumer decisions.
These were all either existing programs or a new program that forgives loans that already weren’t being repaid (via existing IBR rules). This is “unpredictable” only insofar as the previous president refused to let the programs work.
Still find it odd that the executive branch should be able to do this sort of thing unilaterally.
He isn’t. He does have that ability (because Congress specifically gave it to the Executive in the Higher Education Act), but these are existing programs directed by Congress. The new group is just Biden automatically enrolling people who qualify in the old program.
Worry about loan forgiveness to businesses and rich people rather than to poor people and public servants. There’s corn and fuel subsidies costing way more than this that have perverted the economy and actively destroy the environment. People get really worried about the economic effects of poor people getting stuff like that’s coming directly out of their wallet when there’s so much larger and more direct issues that just get assumed as normal.
The end result was a promised program that didn’t work as intended and was unreliable. The details are a little less important than the results. However, I’m actually referring broadly to some folks that I saw saying that it should be some sort of presidential ‘ritual’ of forgiving debt, rather than being confined to select programs.
Then maybe you should have found a topic about that or referred to it specifically rather than just latching on to whatever debt-forgiveness news came up to air your grievances. It’s kind of obvious you’re not really concerned with whether a program is “unreliable” and just don’t like debt forgiveness, because all of these things exist with any program ever. The executive can sabotage it? That’s fucking everything. These are congressionally-passed laws establishing long running programs, there’s no “righter” way that means a hostile executive can’t sabotage it.
Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope? (www.newyorker.com)
Biden wants progressives to believe he’s reining in Israel. He isn’t. (www.theguardian.com)
UCLA police chief reassigned following mob attack on pro-Palestinian protesters (www.reuters.com)
The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles has been removed from his post three weeks after campus officials came under fire for their handling of a violent, overnight mob attack on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at UCLA....
AI Image Generator Avoids Copyright Issues by Training on Corrupted Photos (petapixel.com)
“Everyone is absolutely terrified”: Inside a US ally’s secret war on its American critics (www.vox.com)
Political consultant indicted for deep-faked Biden ad telling people not to vote (www.rawstory.com)
Are There Insurrectionist Sympathizers on the Supreme Court? (www.rollingstone.com)
Democrat rebuked on House floor for remarks about Trump ‘sex scandal’ case (thehill.com)
Bibi Is Choosing Stefanik and Trump. President Biden, Don’t Be Fooled. (www.nytimes.com)
If you are keeping score at home, you have surely noticed that the two most important defense officials in Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet — Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the former military chief of staff Benny Gantz — warned last week that Netanyahu is leading Israel into a disastrous abyss by refusing to present...
Biden administration canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs....