If you are concerned about people breaking the social contract, fair enough.
Why would people stealing groceries be the place you chose to make that stand, at this particular juncture in history?
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
It would be up to politicians and journalists to say, "hey, for the lives lost and tremendous cost - both direct and more broadly economic - what did we get out of this?" and I frankly do not have a lot of faith that they will drive that message.
The U.S. and Europe have to someday realize that what the Israeli government envisions for Iran is the largest humanitarian catastrophe of the century so far
Google screenshot of ramstein air force base in Germany, with several red pins showing how close schools are to the airfield part of the base
Schools are at military bases all the time because people live on the base. For example, any US overseas military base has schools for the family of the servicemen.
"As Americans we make mistakes in war but they are unintentional and we own them."
Oh, you sweet summer child.
How long did it take for the US to admit to My Lai? to No Gun Ri? to everything we did in the Philippines, and Haiti, and on and on and on?
The US is the OPPOSITE of owning them.
The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.
I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.
The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.
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What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since
The correct terms for this whole process are political purges and illegal rescission.
But Trump officials (including Elon Musk) say “efficiency” and “private sector” and “waste, fraud, abuse,” and a lot of people—including much of the press—buy it. At least enough to miss the unsubtle big picture.
Real irony that this is all happening nearly six years to the day from when it really started to hit home that COVID was way worse than Trump was saying it was.
To complete the 'time is a flat circle' discussion we're having rn about this being nearly 6 years to the day where Trump started bullshitting us about how bad covid was, the likelihood that we get some form of "like a miracle, it will go away" about high gas prices from him today is pretty high
imo, taxes should take into account local cost of living
Most people on here have so little idea of what "poor" looks like, but boy do they have opinions on how the middle-class can't pay taxes.
"She’s hearing from people sick with the virus:
'A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was.'"
What happens when we downplay disease.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.
It is terrible and they only ever talk about it with regards to Democrats. The Republican will be like "let's murder children" and they'll be like "A BOLD STANCE" and then a Democrat takes a mainstream concept like "abolish ICE" and they're like "sorry, you can't be electable with that!"
one genuine problem with soak the rich stuff is that while we should soak the rich 10x more, taxing the rich is mostly a tax on stock, whereas on-going expenditure typically requires taxes on flows
When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...
yeah, this is a shitty but maybe fine kind of proposal in the Before Times, but libs need to go “i am vengeance”. embrace your inner shitty pattinson emo batman
Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
So Trump’s pitch for Republicans this fall is:
1. I stole $1700 in tariffs from your family, and you’re not getting it back.
2. So what if oil/gas prices double and the world economy is in turmoil? Affordability is a Democratic hoax. Suck it losers!
3. Look at my amazing ballroom!
Could work.
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
Relative to other rich countries, two things stand out about the US tax code:
1) we are a very low-tax nation
2) our system is very progressive
The problem with our system is not that we tax people too little. We need revenue to fund the things that make society less unfair.
Cory Booker is sort of like Zohran Mamdani if Zohran had the politics of Bill Clinton but still wanted to make you think he was Zohran Mamdani, so you end up with big bold proposals that don’t really do anything and are stupid
This should, with no sarcasm or irony whatsoever, be the highlight of every Democrat's campaign starting today. Trump just effectively gave the corporate version of a pardon to the most hated company on the planet. Absolutely no one supports this.
if you believed this you should be fired on the spot because you are one of the dumbest people alive
this is pretty wild maybe stop voting to increase their budget???
I also want to note that trans people aren't the only community facing this treatment - deaths of black mothers in pregnancy, widespread mistreatment of neurodivergent people and people with chronic illness and many other issues result from a similar combo of political neglect and malice.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.
