Rottcodd

What's with this mealy-mouthed "extremists" stuff?

The Israeli government overtly supports the illegal settlers, and the IDF and the police actually distribute the weapons with which they then terrorize and murder Palestinians.

It's not just "extremists" - it's Israeli government policy in action.

Israel is a rogue state. It's just that simple.

I guarantee that the explanation for this would become very obvious if one were to simply, as the cliche has it, "follow the money."

I understand the desire for unmuted mikes, but I think pushing for them was a poor strategy.

All the way through, while the Trump campaign was trying to weasel out of this debate, the Harris campaign had the ethical upper hand, since their position was simply that this is the scheduled debate, with this host and these terms, and the Trump campaign already agreed to it, so put up or shut up.

Now, by themselves trying to change the rules, they've lost that ethical upper hand. They've gone from looking like the party with integrity simply expecting the Trump campaign to keep its word to just another set of schemers trying at the eleventh hour to go back on their word.

So the unspoken bit about RFK Jr. is that he's a tweaker, right?

I mean, the details are all in the context of politically entitled progeny, but the underlying vibe I get from the stories about him is very reminiscent of the tweakers I've known over the years.

Israel is a rogue state.

Who said anything about striving to be different?

That's at least as cringey as striving to be the same, and generally even more so.

Strongly agreed.

I'm reminded of the scene in Groundhog Day in which they have that one day that just unfolds naturally and is so wonderful, and then the next time through, the Bill Murray character tries to duplicate it, and it's just awful and cringey.

Lemmy, given the chance, will (continue to) develop its own norms and memes and traditions, and be that much better for it. Just trying to duplicate Reddit here is not only doomed to failure, but cringey.

"Doubts grow?"

Why would they even need to "grow?" This is just June and July all over again, with the only difference being that Hamas isn't buying any of it this time around.

The Biden administration isn't trying to negotiate anything. It's just trying to strike a pose to dodge the entirely deserved condemnation it's getting for enabling a genocide while continuing to enable a genocide.

“I think she’s beautiful — very beautiful! I find her very beautiful. I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very talented. I think she’s very beautiful, actually — unusually beautiful!"

I don't think it's with her popularity that the creepy old serial sex abuser is preoccupied...

As intended. The wealthy few don't buy Supreme Court justices for no reason.

The decisions aren't just about undermining climate policies - they're more broadly about eliminating any impediments to the wealthy and empowered few raping and pillaging to their hearts' content, entirely free of any threat of consequences. But that's ncessarily largely about climate, since that's one of the most notable areas in which the wealthy few are causing significant direct and measurable harm and thus are most eager to avoid the consequences they so richly deserve.

Should they be? Yes.

Will they be? No.

It really doesn't matter what should happen, because the simple fact of the matter is that the fossil fuel companies own enough corrupt politicians to successfully avoid the wholly deserved consequences for their overtly malicious acts.

And a billionaire singer who's already such a common target for AI deepfakes that she's quite likely the one person on the planet most ready, willing and able to sue someone's ass off over them.