Fuck you. MAGA is inherently anti Republic and anti American. Get fucked.
Political violence is bad. That’s the reason Americans are still calling for justice against the MAGA mob and it’s leaders in Congress, SCOTUS, and White House at the time to be arrested, charged, and removed from our communities to protect this nation.
You’re enemies of us all, even if political violence is now become the norm under your auspices.
I really don’t care much about the assassination attempt. It’s a natural outcome of putting more guns into a population, stirring up hatred, and then putting everyone in a financial pressure cooker. I’m surprised that we didn’t see something similar earlier than this, aside from the attack on Mr. Pelosi and some other lower profile attacks (at least the ones we found out about due to many being foiled by FBI and other agencies).
The right wing media bubble and GOP politicians have been fomenting this for years…It was done to both build a lone wolf stochastic terrorist pool and to build out the mob that attacked the US Congress on Jan 6th. The attack just happened to turn against them this time.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve been in a class with assigned readings like these books.
I’ve come full circle and now I read both for pleasure and for personal growth.
At the moment my current books are the Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth series) and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. One is for general enjoyment, the other is for self reflection and growth.
This month was a wacky selection for no good reason:
Pastoral Approach to Atheism; Pastoral Theology; Concilium Volume 23
Silver Canyon, Louis L’Amour
Compassionate Satanism: An Introduction to Modern Satanic Practice
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know
Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, Victor Dover
Babel, Kuang, R.F.
No. Trump and his Project 2025 has me downright petrified and angry.
Biden is a right wing wedge point for our GOP captured media to lightning rid with.
Hey look it’s the liberals forming subcommittees while the boots thunder down the hall.
From now on I’m going to call these articles and the related actions a “Boots Subcommittee”.
Schumer called a Boots Subcommittee. It wasn’t very effective.
That’s right! The CO2 poisoning. We did all die from that. Just like doctors and nurses do in surgery every surgery.
There were also the ones yelling about their refusal to wear lingerie on their faces.
I recall a slew of right wing anti-mask, anti-vaccine, pro-pandemic nutjobs screaming “You’re violating my HIPAA!!!” in stores, restaurants, hotels, and random public spaces. I know the GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy (fascists revel in exerting power through this), but that’s what they’re doing here.
I’ve carried a set of leather wrapped juggling balls on flights off and on since the 90’s. They used to make every X-ray reader twitch out. They’re about the right size for bad items (explosives, grenades), and I have three, not just one.
Normally it would get a quick search, a moment of confusion, and then no worries.
Once when going through the old airport in Berlin, I got searched at the second checkpoint, they brought out the balls to me, so I started juggling them and did a routine. It was really quiet so I was the only passenger in sight. That was the only time I’ve performed in front of an audience who was carrying machine guns.
I just saw the article on AI powered ammunition vending machines in OK and AL. Have you seen one in person? That’s a wild concept.
Nations with their citizen’s health as an actual priority have (mostly) solved these problems. The US is not a developed nation, nor a humanitarian one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
Storming the Bastille was done (in part) to free prisoners who were being indefinitely held for reasons related to being poor. I’m mostly just bringing that up because history has lots of interesting themes we should all be considering in our decision making during daily life.
I paid $400 out of pocket with good insurance for a standard checkup in the US recently. Protect that NHS or you too will get to decide if you want to live or die with every injury.
Yeah, but you already have a king and we in the US just annointed our president king. Unless something changes hard for the better of the Republic in November, we’ll be a dictatorship in no time.
And your God emperor is signalling bloodshed if we let you do it.
You don’t negotiate or compromise with Nazis like the Project 2025 people.
The hiding of the control panel is just extra pain for the fun of it. I know it’s the same tool they’ve had for many generations now so they’re hiding it because it’s ugly, but it’s the real way to get things done. Hiding it is just making everyone’s life harder, which is basically the Microsoft approach to OS design.
Sorta. It’s a democracy with the voting and all that at this time. Since the person holding presidency is now above the law, then as long as the current president decides that we get to continue to have a republic, then we’re a republic. The moment a US president decides that it needs to be an official act to end voting, or just stall on voting indefinitely, then we stop being a republic. Basically, we’re living on borrowed time until the “by the people” part of the US nation is taken away by whomever we voted in as president last.
President Biden has the idea that he should respect the Constitution. He’s unlikely to decide to end the republic. If he gets reelected (and the conservatives don’t just kick off a civil war trying to end the election like they failed to do back in 2020), then we buy at least a few more years. Then… we go into a cycle where if benevolent dictators keep getting elected we stay afloat. The moment a populist gets elected president who also doesn’t personally decide to not take over as dictator, the republic ends.
Why that’s easy. It’s the top elected official, of course.
That’s been a continual strategy to try to deter and block RCV. They argued that in front of the courts in Maine when the state moved to RCV.
In the end, I feel there’s one big defense: no matter where my vote ends up, I only get one for the last candidate standing that I voted for.
The other voting systems where you rate candidates on a scale, it’s a bit muddier as to what a “vote” is. A vote should be your voice that’s the same as anyone else’s in the electorate. As long as all humans get the same voice, it should be able to take any form.
I ran Storm Linux for a short while in about… 2001-2002. Got it on a CD in a misc pack of disks from some Linux distro vendor.
It was supposed to be a server oriented distro, secured more than others, and ran Enlightenment for a desktop. Overall, it was a reasonable distro, but didn’t gain enough general support and devs to keep it up and running. The group behind it folded after a short while.