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faab64, to spain

Turns out is now …

@palestine

grumble209,
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@faab64 @palestine How sad for the IDF - they'll have to switch to bayonets if the US bombs can't get there.

That's going to be a lot more work for the IDF public affairs team to spout platitudes about accidentally bayonetted children.

foser, to random
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Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned a convicted murderer and virulent racist who, after writing text messages suggesting he would kill a protester and then claim self-defense, killed a protester and claimed self-defense. I wrote this a year ago:
https://www.findinggravity.net/p/republican-politicians-embrace-another

grumble209,
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@rticks @foser Bipartisan means billionaire donors from both parties will benefit.

Nonpartisan means something that will only benefit the 99%.

RealJournalism, to ethelcain
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Failing Senator and forced pregnancy enjoyer Katie Britt is now proposing a national pregnancy register that she assures us would not be used to track the movements of pregnant women. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/11/2240194/-GOP-s-Gift-To-Moms-Katie-Britt-Wants-To-Have-A-National-Registry-Of-Pregnant-Women-in-MOMS-Act

grumble209,
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@RealJournalism I think the only appropriate response to this is 24/7 monitoring of politicians.

Those fuckers are dangerous.

grumble209,
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@qkslvrwolf It would be nice to cut down on the illegal transfer of gold bars to politicians, too. So far, that's mostly Democrats.

Fascists are pretty fucking bad. Corruption is bad, too - it's what got the fascists a toe-hold.

grumble209,
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@qkslvrwolf Weird that the Dem party never bankrolls challengers to corrupt Dem incumbents (Cuellar, Menendez) or their designated scapegoats (Manchin, Sinema). One could infer, rightfully, the Democratic Party wants power more than, well, democracy.

Political parties aren't mentioned in the Constitution. They are a cancer, selling policy to their donors and delivering tribalism to their voters.

Corruption is corruption, whether it's for fascists and religious zealots, or for "normal", mainstream billionaires. America deserves better. We can have better, if only we put aside partisan bullshit.

ai6yr, to random

I am unsure if this is click bait (outrage baiting?) or is CNBC trying to make their wealthy readers feel good? 🤔

grumble209,
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@ai6yr I pity a human who can look at this big beautiful world and can't think of anything better to do with their brief time here than to make money.

faab64, to Eurovision

The stench of hypocrisy surrounding the Eurovision this year was just astounding.

While Israel was performing at #Eurovision, their troops were murdering displaced Palestinians in Rafah, bombing UNDP building and invading parts of Gaza they had declared "safe" for refugees.

And then this POS hypocrite who was so strongly supporting the ban on Russia 2 years ago is now acting like "music and entertainment is not politics".

#Hypocrisy #Genocide #Politics #Israel #Gaza #Rafah
@palestine @israel

grumble209,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel A lot of European countries have histories of brutal colonialism. Can't you be happy that they can accept Israel as an equal?

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A second Boeing whistleblower is dead https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joshua-dean-boeing-whistleblower-dies-sudden-illness/

grumble209,
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@w7voa This is very concerning, yet refreshing, that Boeing is killing their own employees and not the general public for a change.

petrillic, to random
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I'm not saying Boeing murdered the whistleblowers. I'm saying try not to run a company such that people think you MIGHT have.

grumble209,
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@petrillic Boeing makes weapons and weapon systems. Boeing is in the business of killing people.

This kerfuffle over shitty quality is that Boeing might accidentally have killed people.

I have no doubt Boeing might kill their own employees if their profits are at risk. If Boeing profits fell enough, they'd be unable to kill strangers.

boogah, to random
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Just came to this quote in “A People’s History of the United States” and thought it worth sharing — even though May Day is almost over.

“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.”

— Joseph Ettor

grumble209,
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@fraying @boogah Putting millions of people out of work is a really short-sighted strategy for a capitalist's personal safety.

#EatTheRich

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: University of Indiana, Bloomington, yesterday.

grumble209,
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@fkamiah17 You can't overestimate how frightened and desperate the ruling class can get when the mob disobeys them. And right now the US ruling class is backing Israel.

The fucking upper class is outnumbered 99 to 1.
The ruling class is outnumbered 999 to 1.

randahl, to random
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This is how fake it is:

Picture 1: On social media, Conservatives are celebrating that Trump visited a bodega in Harlem, where the locals loved him and “spontaneously” chanted “four more years”.

Picture 2: One of those Harlem “locals” were Gavin Wax.

Picture 3: Gavin Wax is the president of… [drumroll please…]
The New York Young Republican Club, who organized the visit.

Picture 4: Fox News shows a successful Trump, cheered on by Harlem citizens, who in reality are actors organized to appear.

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grumble209,
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@randahl If Trump ever gets a parole hearing, I want to be there to chant "four more years".

Nonilex, to conservative
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In 2006, …Donald #Trump met the adult-film star #StormyDaniels. According to Daniels, things got intimate. (“The sex was nothing crazy,” she would go on to say.) A decade later, Trump was running for President, as a kind of #Republican uber-family man, drawing crucial support from #conservative, #evangelical voters. Daniels decided to go public: her encounter w/ Trump had taken place while he was already married to his third wife, Melania.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/donald-trumps-trial-of-the-century

grumble209,
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@Nonilex Frame the case as "election interference" if you like, but that relies on the assumption that the electorate cares about the truth. Seems obvious that the population (as a whole) couldn't care less about the truth. Certainly they don't care enough to let the truth influence how they vote.

Trump is a silly asshole, and if justice is ever served, he's going to suffer mightily. But the bigger problem is that 1/3 of the country identifies with him.

grumble209,
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@joeinwynnewood @Nonilex "how important is it that ..." is click-baitingly vague.

I'd like to see the poll results for "Will you change your vote for president based on the results of Trump's trials?"

grumble209,
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@joeinwynnewood Last paragraph from link below (where you got the poll results above).

"The country has been locked into their opinions about Trump (and Biden) and those opinions may not change — despite people’s answers to hypothetical questions,” Frankovic says. “It’s possible for people to say a conviction would change their minds, but when/if [a conviction] happens, it’s possible (even likely) that it won’t matter at all."

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/48654-would-donald-trump-conviction-move-his-voters-evidence-from-past-present-bill-clinton-polls

billyjoebowers, to random
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"I'm so fucking radical I won't vote no matter how many people die" freshman bullshit is so tedious.
Block that shit.

grumble209,
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@billyjoebowers I'm unclear how voting will make the fascists disappear.
I'm unclear how losing another election will even slow fascists down.

If fascists they truly be, they will only be stopped with force.

Of course I vote. Just like I pay my taxes and serve on juries when called. But those things won't change a goddamn thing - at best they reinforce the status quo bought and paid for by the wealthy.

grumble209,
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@moira @billyjoebowers I like your analysis. My only quibble is that I don't think that fighting the fascists outside of the voting booth will be easier.

If the Zoomers and Millennials actually wield electoral power, I look forward to seeing them unfuck things that are way overdue: expanding SCOTUS (how about 17?), expanding the House (how about 2500?), codifying abortion access (where's the draft legislation?), campaign finance reform, etc.

My God, the Democrats might support actual democratic reforms for a change. That would be a sight to behold.

TonyStark, to random
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Trump and Republicans get the blame for this. This ruling would have been unconstitutional under Roe, but Trump is proud that he stacked SCOTUS with anti-abortion justices who overturned it. There are many effects of losing those protections, and this is one of them.

As always, don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do.

Arizona abortion law: State Supreme Court upholds near-total ban:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2024/04/09/arizona-abortion-law-state-supreme-court-upholds-near-total-ban/73251148007/

grumble209,
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@TonyStark Congrats, Arizona! If Idaho's experience is any indication, you've just fucked over women by encouraging your local ObGyns to leave the state.

Your rural hospitals will be hit the hardest, and many will stop offering delivery services. But even in metro areas any ObGyns not close to retirement will relocate to California or New Mexico. Your middle-of-the-road infant mortality stats will likely get worse.

Will there be fewer abortions? Who knows! We'll have to wait and see the stats from neighboring states. In a state directly involved in cross-border human smuggling operations, I kind of doubt running abortion travel services would be too hard to develop.

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    grumble209,
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    @DrALJONES LARRY HEBERT: ... they all told me that joining the Air Force would set me up for life, through education, through housing, through, you know, just the basic pay. And while that was true, there is an element that I realize that I didn’t understand the entirety of, you know, our foreign policy. So, that was my reason for joining. And I don’t entirely regret my time in the military, but now that I’m more aware of our foreign policy and what’s going on, I definitely — I can’t see myself continuing service.

    My comment:
    It most definitely sucks when you take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution but end up being a henchman for politicians and their foreign political friends. Even worse realizing the thin veneer of democracy allowed to US citizens this century doesn't include any meaningful input on America's foreign policy.

    Vote Dem (or GOP); have a big protest; starve yourself; immolate yourself - the decision makers don't notice or care.

    melissabeartrix, to random
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    The war between Israel and Gaza, Will end the moment the Israeli government forces the ultra orthodox Jews into national service ... My opinion

    Hugz & xXx

    grumble209,
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    @melissabeartrix Funny how bullet-headed politicians can find a different solution than war when its their own kids who get to die screaming in a ditch.

    QasimRashid, to random
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    It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2024. That’s a 25,714% markup.😳

    That isn’t inflation. It isn’t supply chain issues. It is 100% corporate greed.

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    @cswalker21 @QasimRashid Government-owned, Contractor-operated. The US already uses this approach to buy nukes, tanks, jets, bombs, missiles, etc.

    For the few billion it would cost to build a pharma plant, the US would get local jobs, more supply of off-patent drugs (lowering the cost), domestic supply and supply-chain diversity for the next pandemic, and low-cost drugs for Medicare.

    sharan, (edited ) to random
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    Well now.

    grumble209,
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    @sharan It's all those lions going into the tourist bath houses.

    The bouncers should be fined.

    rbreich, to random
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    One of the richest men in the 1920s was Andrew Mellon — an early prophet of “trickle-down” economics.

    His grandson, Timothy Mellon, is bankrolling Trump's reelection.

    Timothy uses his platform to rage against social programs.

    This is how dynastic wealth works.

    Wealth tax now.

    grumble209,
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    @rbreich until the wealthy support the wealth tax.

    maxkennerly, to random
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    We don't need a conspiracy theory for this to be problematic. On the face of it, a Presidential candidate will owe $91.6M to someone—maybe Chubb, maybe a bank that gave him a line of credit to give Chubb, etc—if he loses the appeal, as he likely will. That's a lot of leverage on a President.
    https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/trump-posts-nearly-92m-bond-to-appeal-e-jean-carroll-defamation-damages

    grumble209,
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    @maxkennerly If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you.

    If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.

    pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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    This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

    “Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

    This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    grumble209,
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    @jackofalltrades @pvonhellermannn Look at capitalism from the perspective of the mid-18th century: it's a fantastic way to take the little surplus in society and create a larger surplus. The fact that the surplus is not shared equitably is less important than the idea of making more surplus, because almost everyone is one bad harvest or one new virus away from an early death.

    Now it's 300 years later. The planet mostly creates enough calories for our massive population to live without the constant threat of starvation. We've got enough medical care to live most people a decent life span.

    Now we can afford to reign in the excesses and transition to something more equitable.

    In the meantime,

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