gAlienLifeform

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A pattern which would repeat in 1980, 2016, and 2024

Yep, and so many of the same people were involved in each of them, and every single one should have been in prison or executed.

tbf, knowing my countrymen... they probably would.

I agree with everything else, but I'm not so sure about this. I think if we had said "This is treason" and treated it like what the average American thinks a treason/coup scenario would look like (dramatic and violent, like a tv show where the president is played by Harrison Ford or Kiefer Sutherland) and used whatever force was necessary to put people in jail immediately most Americans would have rallied 'round the flag.

Either way, yeah we definitely should have rolled the dice on it.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

At the risk of spoiling a future HistoryMeme, I think a very important part of this story is that as a candidate in the 1968 election he conspired with then mid-level diplomat Henry Kissinger to undermine peace talks (arc). Literal damn treason that cost literally goddamn hundreds of thousands of lives, all because he didn't want to lose a campaign talking point.

e; Oh, and Kissinger was rewarded by being made Nixon's Secretary of State, where he went on to be the Henry Kissinger we all know and are hopefully completely horrified by.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Any candidate for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary better be getting asked about pardoning all these people

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yep, and having seen all the ways for profit market based entities have screwed people over my entire life I think the only real answer to this problem of construction is a massive public works project. Housing healthcare education and public safety are all too important to be left up to markets.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Even if this exact version gets passed into law, courts are going to kill the ban on venture capital buying homes or the rich assholes will just find a loophole, and the slashing of regulations and subsidies just mean for profit developers are going to get paid taxpayer money to build barely affordable shit boxes that will fall apart in a few years

We need actual public housing and to tax the big investors out of existence

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately (almost) anything you do for a living becomes a chore even on the best days

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

"Plan to close doors in front of smouldering crater where barn once stood under consideration"

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Be a Parent, help your kids succeed and stop blaming everyone else for not doing your job for you.

When people stop understanding child care and education is everyone's job societies collapse

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Majorites have supported stricter gun laws for a while now but our government doesn't care what we want

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Furthermore, Miguez’s campaign responded to the Guardian’s list of questions about the police report by providing a 24 February email sent by the accuser’s father to the state senator’s office, which had the sentence: “Everything my daughter has reported about you were lies and she is a liar and has a drug problem.”

The email doesn’t elaborate on precisely how the author knows his daughter told lies, and he didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But Miguez’s campaign said in a statement: “The woman’s father gave permission to share this email with you.”

This is like the most abuser coded series of actions and statements short of actually assaulting someone I can imagine

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Average American: "That won't stop me because I can't read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower]."

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I found folding chairs for $30 each just now without even trying, there is absolutely no justifying $1000 on a damn chair

 

Even when people engaged in passive resistance or nonviolent civil disobedience such as a Jan. 19 sit-in on the edges of the building’s driveway, the unidentified federal officers said they were justified in using chemical munitions against those who failed to leave the property.

They still maintained they did nothing wrong after lawyers for protesters presented them with the Federal Protective Service public order policy, which allows using aerosol sprays only against people who are violently breaking the law or “actively resisting” arrest.

They were never disciplined, they testified in the sworn depositions. Supervisors never discussed their behavior with them or suggested they change their tactics, they said.

When asked to respond if his spraying of pepper spray into the faces of protesters simply sitting on the driveway met policy standards, one Federal Protective Service officer said: “I wish not to.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260305130346/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-officers-violating-policy-by-firing-pepper-balls-using-pepper-spray-against-passive-protesters/ar-AA1XxjB3

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