Yet you understand the logic by Biden to not do the most obvious thing and stop supporting a genocide? Where is his urgency about US democracy? He has the power. Right now.
These people have a real reason to be angry and hold the Biden admin accountable, Biden does not have a justification for pushing ahead on his support of Israel. None.
I don’t really trust my car to autobreak. This could be just as dangerous as it is safe. Imagine going down the highway in busy traffic and having your breaks lock up because your car had a Tesla Moment and thought the truck driving in front of you was at a full stop.
Automated vehicles systems in general have proven to be disastrous and poorly designed over the recent years. This is premature.
What has given you the impression that Dems actually want to protect abortion rights though? They want women’s bodily autonomy to be under threat because it drives donations and voting for their corporate fat-sacks.
Democrats would be utterly at a loss if they actually legislated abortion rights. It’s why the Obama admin suddenly wasn’t in the mood when they got a super majority.
What solid abortion rights exist right now have been achieved by every day citizens getting it put on as ballot initiatives and forcing it into their state constitutions themselves.
Vote Dem, sure, but don’t labor under the illusion they want to put an end to the abortion issue for good.
Are you talking about the republican crafted bill that forced everyone to buy private insurance and if they couldn’t afford it get billed $700-$1000? That “healthcare reform”?
The one, solitary good thing that came out of the Trump presidency was him repealing that mandate.
A bit rich coming from NPR, one of the more subtle purveyors of disinformation.
They make no mention of one of the most direct ways of finding the truth; following money.
Figuring out who or what groups fund the presentation of the information you’re seeing is much more reliable way of assesing political reality than some vague woo-woo about bipartisanship and “seeing things from the side of the fascists”.
And this is why Hamas attacked when they did. This decision was in motion before october 7th, and will basically mean that the Arab world has formally abandoned Palestinians.
Blinken has described Israel’s offer of a 40 day pause on the genocide as “very generous” so I’m not exactly holding my breath on him being intellectually equipped to address this in a way that results in anything good for the future of Palestinians, but I’d be happy to be proved wrong.
A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation that the Pentagon has said will cost at least $320 million....
The very fact that we have to airdrop in aid and have to build this stupid pier to begin with tells you that it’s not going to work. It’s a delaying tactic so Biden can pretend he’s doing something.
This is the kind of shit you do when there’s an enemy force keeping you from bringing aid into a place.
He had the chance to stack the court and declined. What’s happening now is what the Democratic establishment wants to happen as well. They are not your friend and they do not care about preserving democracy, only about protecting the flow of corporate and Israeli money into their pockets.
Yeah, one lesson we all should’ve learned from the start of the pandemic is that you should have a cache of some basics in your home or apartment that can keep you stable for a few weeks at least. So you can avoid getting embroiled in the chaos of human stupidity that unfolds in public. It won’t sustain you forever but it will give you a chance to make rational decisions.
You won’t get a chance to do that stuff after whatever event is going to happen has started.
Except in this case we have 40+ years showing us that not only is the neural net design not working, it is making things worse and worse because the premise on which it operates is fundementally flawed and will never result in what it needs to.
There is no “gradient in the direction of better results” with the democratic establishment, how the hell do people not see that by now?
What about the context we’re in right now says that the lesser of two evils has been working? That it will ever produce anything that pushes the country back towards the center?
Most people don’t have healthcare, most people are already at a point where they have to “throw hands” and people in your position are telling them to shut up and vote for who you want because you are comfortable where you are and see no issue with things continuing as they are.
Partly, I’d imagine, because Musk has made an effort to frame it as a “technology platform” rather than simply a vehicle.
His image as this innovative tech pioneer has historically given him leeway with legislators and transport officials.
You saw it similarly with the stupid Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco; because it’s painted as this emerging technology of the future it suddenly becomes ok to test it out on the public.
Billionaires are afforded this assumption that they are especially competent in general, so we get things like Musks “hyperloop” and Bill Gates’ failed meddling in education reform that ended in abject failure. It’s that effect of “Well, they’re super rich so they must know what they’re talking about.”
No, the IDF are child killers because they kill indiscriminately.
The children are not Hamas. The World Central Kitchen workers are not Hamas. The medics, doctors and patients in hospitals are not Hamas. The people cut down while following Israel’s evacuation orders are not Hamas.
Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide (www.nbcnews.com)
Don't confuse attention-seeking activists for "the youth vote" (www.natesilver.net)
Are Arabs in Michigan Really Prepared to Hand the Presidency Back to Donald Trump? In a Word: Yes. (www.yahoo.com)
Why not? (lemmy.world)
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Driverless cars? No, the future belongs to the Riderless Bicycle (boingboing.net)
“I cast summon bicycle.”
Biden administration to require advanced safety tech on all new cars and trucks (www.nbcnews.com)
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Bill Barr says Trump often suggested executing rivals in heated White House outbursts (www.independent.co.uk)
Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November...
How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one (www.npr.org)
Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel: 'Decision on timing to be made in days' (www.haaretz.com)
US military ships are working to build a pier for Gaza aid. It's going to cost at least $320 million (apnews.com)
A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation that the Pentagon has said will cost at least $320 million....
The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie (www.salon.com)
What is the fucking point of living if everything you believed in can be taken from you by some old white fucks
Some disaster has befallen society: you have to secure a month of food for you and three other people. How do you do it?
Let’s assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters...
The 10 Types of Dems Who Will Decide the 2024 Election (newrepublic.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/4oDB2
Columbia students defy deadline to disband pro-Palestinian encampment (www.bbc.co.uk)
Even as some were suspended, student activists gathered around their pro-Palestinian encampment....
‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden (www.mediaite.com)
Subtle Differences (lemmy.world)
Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘extraordinarily generous’ ceasefire deal (www.washingtonexaminer.com)