I have a bunch of degrees and a bunch of chronic illnesses. I tried to be a professor for a while, but illness won. I hate this site and can’t seem to leave.
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They extract all of the person’s wealth until they qualify for medicaid, at which point the state pays for whatever time they have left. This is explicitly the business model. This will become extremely politically salient in the coming years.
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Capitalism: If you don't like your job, you can just get a new one.
Me: Ok, I want a new job.
Capitalism: Oh sorry, it's the time every six years where the entire economy has to collapse so rich people can loot it. have you considered begging in the street for scraps?
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SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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Crazy that our tax dollars goes towards assaulting citizens that are legally allowed to stand up for their rights during public meetings.
Concerned residents packed the Utah County Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday after it unanimously approved a widely unpopular data center ordinance without allowing public comment.
Police quickly moved on concerned residents – including swarming one young woman, dragging her out of the room, and slamming her onto the ground. The woman was left with a concussion and a bruised and swollen jaw. She spent the night in the ER after being released from jail.
An emergency rally was called for Wednesday in response to the brutality. Community members are demanding the termination, arrest, and prosecution of the offending officer – identified as Phil Crawford.
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A jury found Meta liable for over 43 million violations. The judge reduced the statutory civil penalty from $219.5 billion.
Breaking News: Meta must pay $25 billion, one of the largest penalties levied against the tech giant, for deceiving users about data privacy. nyti.ms/4yvv5yZ
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four months of "investigation" by fellow cops is always, always, always meant to dissipate initial outrage so they can come to this foregone conclusion without open resistance
The fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley by a Mississippi police officer responding to a shoplifting call was a “justified” use of force, the state attorney general says.
This statement follows a four-month review of the incident. An attorney for Wiley’s family disputes the conclusions and calls for the release of body camera footage. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mis…
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Share this and tell folks to study it. This is a common tactic employed by the reactionary forces of the state to try and discredit protest movements everywhere.
🔴 À Metz, deux policiers dissimulés, vêtus de noir et encagoulés, ont jeté des grenades dans une rue passante avant d’être escortés et exfiltrés par d’autres policiers.
Cette scène s’est déroulée à Metz, dans la ruelle située à l’arrière du café Blondel.
Partout en France, des foules immenses et pacifiques ont défilé ce samedi 17 octobre contre la vie chère et dans la continuité de la révolte de la jeunesse, en mouvement depuis trois semaines pour abroger Parcoursup, changer les rythmes et obtenir des conditions d'éducation dignes.
Pour tenter d'étouffer le mouvement, Sébastien Lecornu et Laurent Nuñez ont organisé le chaos et multiplié les violences contre les manifestants lycéens, étudiants, salariés, fonctionnaires et autres secteurs de la société mobilisés dans ce mouvement d'une ampleur jamais vu depuis mai 1968.
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Yes the French have a more developed sustained semi-riot protest culture than us but I feel ppl have memoryholed the fact that ICE deployments were not taken lightly and that the President deployed the Marines to our second largest city to counter protests
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cell phones aren’t druglike, they’re carlike. even if you consciously want to opt out, you can’t, because everyone expects you to have and use one to interact with society. i cannot even use the laundry machines in my building without being forced to use the laundry app.
Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.
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Also “help is available”. Maybe in like a stopgap sort of way. Maybe in a “better than nothing” sort of way. But meaningful help, help that would actually HELP, would require fundamentally restructuring society. And that is most certainly not available.
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If you want a good distillation of the bipartisan war consensus, here’s one: former Biden official, supposed human rights campion, Yale professor and co-host of a chummy liberal foreign policy podcast on Vox, Jon Finer, also has a job working for this guy.
I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
The premise of Tapper’s question is that it’s fine for ICE to fire into cars… as long as they check for kids first.
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“Nobody has any idea what’s actually happening out here,” Quiroga said. “This is true dystopia.”
@rdevro reports from the Tohono O'odham Nation, as DHS contractors plan to start clearing land for border wall construction on Monday—Indigenous People's Day. propublica.org/article/tohon…
