While I'm not arguing with #MedicareForAll (though I'm open to other approaches too), $20B is tiny for the US, and bailing out Argentina really has nothing to do with our lack of a decent healthcare-billing system.

But kids come into the world extremely curious and love to learn things. I would argue that we get taught by society to stop indulging our curiosity and just accept what the powers that be tell us, as awful as that is.

If Congress is looking for something to impeach the felon for, accepting bribes in order to give a military base to a foreign power in our country seems like a good one!

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room.

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

And this sort of post is what people point to when arguing against even a ceasefire agreement.

Reader - One of the uses of the historical counterfactual is to figure out how likely/important an individual is. Let's take the proposition "FDR was the most important President of the 20th century" and test it by looking at the plausible alternatives to FDR - other possible Dem nominees in '32.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

Israel does exist. Whatever injustice led to its creation. Period. Calling for it to be eradicated is just as genocidal as the actions of Netanyahu.

Yep, that's weird. Please feel free to reply/quote-post with your cutest spider pictures.

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

TEN COMPLAINTS OF ICE AGENTS 10. The mainstream media has brainwashed everyone we meet into believing that there’s something bad about rounding up the migrants and throwing them into camps 9. You shoot ONE protesting pastor with a pepper ball, and suddenly you’re the bad guys

This is true. There is no question that anti-semites do exist in the anti-Israel crowd, and I suspect they are driving the push for the "genocide" label when "war crimes" is far easier to prove and just as good as a basis for calling to end it... But plenty of decent people oppose Netanyahu too.

2/ Now we are pretty much unique in paying for close to 100% of employees—and dependents—costs. But it is generally INSANE that employers are the ones to decide what quality of healthcare people get and whether or not or how much to to pay for it.

"Someone who has lived there for generations"? I can assure you...*nobody* you are thinking of has lived *period* for the length of time implied by "for generations", never mind lived in a particular place that long.

This looks like AI slop. Everyone with any sense knows that "AI" just repeats what is to be found on the internet, with no actual understanding sufficient to address complex concepts such as ethnoreligions unless explicitly asked about them in such a way.

Yeah, that was one of the events that made it very clear to me that something very very wrong is going on in Israeli culture. And by "one of the events", I mean "easily tops the list". But it still does not disprove the fact that Jews are indigenous to Israel.

We're both, inextricably linked.

In 2000, the Democrats were the incumbent party and the Republicans the challengers, so Gore was represented in blue and Bush II in red. When the election outcome dragged on and on and on for weeks, the teeming masses & media alike got so used to red for Democrat and blue for Republican it stuck.

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“The Constitution [should not be] a document for the government to restrain the people: it [should be] an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” —Patrick Henry, anti-Federalist

"Everyone's an ally until it costs them something." is a phrase I keep thinking about. I said it back when the wizard game came out a few years back. How people squirmed to justify giving their money to bad people. It feels like people are all about supporting the left until push comes to shove.

Consider that I initially heard the term "throw-down gun" from a police officer. I think that suspicion of the police is only sensible. A throw-down gun - Idioms by The Free Dictionary share.google/Cl0vDNstECM9...

How I see it: The objective of local police departments is to protect and serve, arrest actual criminals. ICE is comprised of criminals committing violent & anti-Constititional acts against innocent people. THEREFORE: Local police should be present and arresting ICE thugs for their CRIMINAL acts.

But Congress is afraid of his cult, so they keep pretending...

The problem with Newsom doing it is I'm not sure he'd be willibg to reduce the abuse potential of an office he clearly has his eye on...

Lack of willpower, nothing else. There is nothing stopping OR from arresting every ICE agent who has POLICE on their uniforms as they are all committing felony impersonation of a peace officer. We’ve sadly forgotten what state sovereignty means & why we have the 2A & 10A (they’re for right now).

Yeah they just don't want to admit that Jews are indigenous to our own homeland. They'd rather believe that Arabs are, even though the land became dominated by Arab identity and culture through colonial rape of our own homeland. Palestinians are indigenous. "Arabs" are not.

More of this!

Theory: ICE is tear-gassing Chicago cops bc they’re scraping the bottom of the recruiting barrel hard enough to get a lot of guys with criminal records who don’t like the cops. Why not take advantage of your new position to fuck with the police who gave you a hard time?

DHS is less than 23 years old, created because something had to be done, and a department was something. TSA exists to foil movie plots. Abolish all of it. Move necessary functions, like the Coast Guard, elsewhere, like back to DOT.

Ya know, if I wanted to constantly hear from a dorky and not-that-bright CEO of a social media company trying to play the victim on their platform, I would have stayed on Twitter.

Never Forget!

The News on Tuesday: “Police abusing their powers”. The News on Sunday: “Police to be given more powers.”

Actually, do we have any cases in which lower court judges have expressed highly negative views of SCOTUS?

Some of you are saying that because of NSPM-7, you're blanking out your social media accounts and going to ground. Has it occurred to you that \the intent behind issuing this gigantic, unconstitutional, and unenforceable thing was to get you to do exactly that?

We all love to joke about being hoist by one’s own petard but I never see anybody talk about how “petard” seems to translate to “farter”

Dearest Isabelle, We have taken refuge with thousands of fellow citizens at the town stadium in war ravaged #Portland, as drums pound and smoke fills the air, along with the cries of the citizenry. Around us we see the horror of empty beer cups and insufficient hot dog relish. #BAONPDX

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable." President John F Kennedy

So let’s say that you believe existing in the U.S. as an immigrant without a bunch of documentation is illegal (a construct I hate) since when does a nonviolent offense warrant violent break ins to your home, your property destroyed, and your children zip tied??

Did just accidentally tell you that he has dozens of inaccurate points?

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Agreed. And even if you hate New Yorkers enough to think they do, *Cuomo* still doesn't deserve to continue to have a political career.

Praying Mamdani takes the election. New Yorkers really don’t deserve to be subjected to Cuomo again in any office.