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Some people are comfortable living with the delusion that if nobody votes, the White House will remain empty until the next election. Authoritarians only need to win once.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/doug-skaff-snake-campaign-signs

You're not looking then. Members of his war cabinet are starting to publicly distance themselves from him over the lack of direction of the Israeli response. The US also suggested that Israel should change leadership a few months ago. The thing is, you won't find any of this in this thread...

I don't know why you bother explaining all of this. You're trying to reason with someone who thinks Biden is leading the Knesset, who's making fun of the women's march at the beginning of Trump's term, and who's has completely ignored everything about Trump's disdain for Muslims. Yes, they...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza

Conservatives are very intentional in their use of the "Bill of Rights" when referring to constitutional amendments. The term only refers to Amendments 1-10. So, it's not used as a shortcut, but as a signal of what they value and what they want to get rid of.

What she also found was an effort by conservative billionaires to decrease trust in public education in order to funnel public funds towards private and religious schools via vouchers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/att-paid-bribes-to-get-two-major-pieces-of-legislation-passed-us-govt-says/ Straight up bribes though... :smh:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/14/texas-voting-map-case-appeal

Woody Allen right now:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/world/middleeast/gaza-war-hamas-yahya-sinwar.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/world/europe/secret-hamas-files-palestinians.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/world/europe/secret-hamas-files-palestinians.html Propaganda goes both ways. In an environment where people's ability to dissent is systematically watched and taken away, it's hard to give weight to the numbers that indicate Hamas support among Gazans. The...

You're a clown. After the Camp David talks fell through, there was another series of talks mediated by Clinton that didn't amount to much because Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ran out of time. Meanwhile, the Israeli public decided to shift towards Sharon and the right-wing (basically...

She got paid to clean up her room.

See below: Again, I said: I wouldn't be surprised if she was targeted. I didn't say that FSB agents put weed in her bag; I meant targeted as in "when she comes through, pay extra attention to her and her belongings." You'd be surprised at the kind the stuff that can get you in trouble when...

I wasn't making an apples-to-apples comparison. My point was that there's only so much due diligence you can do about what's acceptable or not when traveling, and if the will is there to get you in trouble, something as innocuous as camo clothing can be considered an offense. Now, weed is not...

There are places where you're not allowed to wear camo print, but you'll never know that until you step off the plane and get hit with fines/bribe requests. I said I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. It could also have been a random check-turned-arrest that fell on Putin's lap.

If you have money and/or influence, autocrats will let you collect misdemeanors/offenses with no impunity until they can use your wrongdoings to support their messaging. I'm sure it was known she smoked and that she was gay. I wouldn't be surprised if she was targeted when it became convenient...