Sometimes I think Plato was right about philosopher kings. The whole problem with this anyone can grow up to be president thing, is that anyone can grow up to be president. People are idiots.
There seems to be an idea riven through our societies that merely being at 'the top' is proof that one is worthy of being there. Thanks to the internet and social media, this is now more demonstrably untrue than ever.
Stunned but not shocked that people are saying that #Biden enabling #genocide is worse than #Trump winning the white house again. Trump 100% encourages the genocide and will remove any restraint Biden still has on Bibi. Jared was excitedly pitching the idea of real estate investments and a Trump tower on the newly stolen land. No #genocidejoe is not good, Trump is still exponentially worse on anything you care about including #Gaza
Former senior foreign policy adviser Jared Kushner praised Gaza as a valuable "waterfront property," in an interview at Harvard University on 15 February.He ...
โWeโre already seeing the effects of the millionairesโ tax. โฆ This will be just another nail in our coffin.โ
Greater Boston Real Estate Board launches campaign to muster opposition to transfer fees, while advocates hail it as a solution to the housing crisis. The post โWeโre already seeing the effects of the millionairesโ tax. โฆ This will... #press
It reads like desperately trying to get the rest of the genocidal freaks to keep their eye on the ball. "Listen I know we all want to see babies starve to death but let's be smart about this and play the long con."
One of my neighbors mows his massive lawn no more than every 3 DAYS during growing season. I'm not exaggerating. That behavior and my few interactions with him convinced me he is a thoroughly unhappy person.
Donald Trump appeared in a Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendant as part of a historic trial this week โ and the former president is reportedly kicking up a stink about the whole thing, quite literally.
AUSTIN, TXโIn the latest round of layoffs for the companyโs struggling automotive division, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla fired the entire team behind brakes, sources confirmed Wednesday.
@Alina Actually assumed this was real lol. Considering they stripped out LIDAR and ultrasonic sensors I would have not even been a little bit surprised.
Wild fight breaks out between group of moms with strollers at Disneyland
In the footage โ originally posted on Instagram โ three women are seen punching and slapping a person on the ground, with one still pushing her stroller #press
Los Angeles, CA โ Over more than five hours on Tuesday night, pro-Israel Zionist agitators violently beat, pepper sprayed and threw fireworks at hundreds of college students and protesters in a โunilateral, surprise attackโ as they held UCLAโs Palestโฆ
Cassava: The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop. An anthropology professor shares what he's learned from "studying cassava gardens on the Amazon River and its myriad tributaries in Peru."
@TheConversationUS reports: "Cassavaโs many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop. But thereโs a problem: Cassava is highly poisonous."
Cassavaโs many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: Itโs highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.
Battery storage becomes biggest source of supply in evening peak in one of world's biggest grids | RenewEconomy
A landmark event occurred in the US on Tuesday night when battery storage become for the first time the largest source of supply in the California grid, which delivers electricity to the worldโs fifth biggest economy and is one of the worldโs biggest grids. The milestone was noted by a bunch of energy analysts and data geeks on Twitter/X, including by Joe Deely, who noted that the output of battery storage in the evening peak went above 6 gigawatts (GW) for the first time.
That allowed battery storage to overtake gas, hydro, nuclear and renewables as the biggest source of supply for a period of about two hours in the evening peak.
i'm told that elected democrats are slowly coming around to the idea that the army using a trapped, frightened, dying little girl to murder paramedics might be perpetrating a few war crimes here and there
that's just how politics works โ if you spend years agitating and organizing you can, perhaps, get a person in a tailored suit to grudgingly admit that using children as bait to murder rescuers and medics is quite possibly a war crime (the children are also murdered as part of the process)
Times like these, it's important to remember that someone once painted Chewbacca, atop a monstrous squirrel, attacking Nazis. (Incidentally, this is not AI art, but the work of Tyler Edlin.)
Trump plans to recruit police and National Guard from GOP governors to locate and deport millions of workers, including at least 1m farmworkers, at least 1.5m construction workers, 140,000 caregivers, and 20,000 teachers.
When Trump was asked about law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians, he basically said he didn't care. Believe him.
Republican 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump and his white nationalist aide Stephen Miller have promised to take their anti-immigrant and nativist assault to a new level of chaos and discrimination in a potential second term, proudly and frequenโฆ
But Gwen! They have a union and everything! What more should they need to do to show that they're just average work-a-day citizens like the rest of us?
Next you'll be claiming they should divest themselves of their full-automatic rifles, and frankly, that's un-American.
@theogrin @gwensnyder Police are members of an anti-union union. They are paid out of budgets funded by public/taxpayer monies, but theyโre in the business of being anti-public. Think about the irony and absurdity.
Oh, please do believe me, I know. The nature of a police union has a basis not in equity, but impunity -- the presumption that they are and always will be judge, jury and executioner whenever the opportunity allows, and that any stifling of their extrajudicial murders is a crime against them.
Here's a deeper irony for you, though: they partake in every way in actions which the corporate anti-unionist groups claim are the purview of the UAW, the Teamsters, etc.
@theogrin That is a pretty strong argument for unionization, though. Thanks to their union, these guys are paid a fortune, have an enjoyable job, and are nearly impossible to dismiss! Where do I sign?!
Cops never really truly considered themselves part of the "little people". It's been convenient for them to borrow vocabulary, at times, but that's about as far as it's ever gone.
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Alumni of the Obama campaign and White House urged Obama and President Biden to take decisive action to end the suffering in the Palestinian territory.
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If they are illogical, irrational or stupid they we have major issues and a disfunctional government.
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