...the decision to support Ukraine at all has angered populist conservatives in the House
They self-evidently aren't populists, since handing Ukraine to Russia isn't the populist position.
They're Russian assets.
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law enforcement officials who support the law say that the boards subject their officers to unwanted scrutiny.
Exactly. The thugs, thieves, murderers and rapists are uncomfortable with the fact that the public is becoming aware of the fact that they're thugs, thieves, murderers and rapists, and they want to go back to being able to beat, steal, murder and rape with impunity, and that requires eliminating oversight. So they're actively moving to eliminate meaningful oversight.
It really is just that simple.
Holy shit - look at that face.
You can see it in every line and wrinkle - that's not just an expression he made at some point - it's his normal resting expression.
That's the face of a man who has spent his entire life being angry and hateful.
How deliciously ironic that this is paywalled.
Yes - there have been widely differing accounts of events throughout this war.
On the one hand, there's been Israel's account. And on the other hand, there's been the truth.
Imagine how much better the world would be if politicians had to pass a simple mental health assessment in order to hold office.
No good can ever possibly come from granting authority to psychopaths, and it's long past time for humanity to wake up and stop doing it.
I think the whole idea of a "right to privacy" is misleading and destructive, since it places the focus incorrectly.
The question shouldn't be whether or not people have a "right to privacy," but whether or not other people should have the right to violate their privacy.
And the clear answer to that, IMO, is no.
So for instance, if you provide personal information to a website, the concept is that they have the right to do as they please with it unless and until you are declared to have a right to maintain the privacy of that information.
But I think that starts with a flawed presumption - the company should NOT have an inherent right to do as they please with that information. That information is not their property - it's yours. You shared access to it with them for a specific purpose, and the presumption right from the start should be that the only right THEY possess regarding that information is to use it for that specific purpose. You shouldn't need a right to stop them from doing any more with it because they shouldn't be seen to have the right to do so in the first place.
Of course that's not going to happen in our surveillence autocracy - the last thing in the world the wealthy and empowered few want is to have to make a case for a right to every abuse they want to pursue rather than being able to do as they please save for the bare handful of rights to be free from abuse that they grudgingly allow us plebes to claim, but still...
Ah...
Yes - that tracks.
I continue to wonder how it is that anyone holds to the belief that the election was stolen when every single actual investigation - even by Trump's most determined supporters - into every single accusation regarding it has failed to provide sufficient evidence to support the claim.
I mean - yeah - obviously it's some combination of a desperate desire to believe and affirmation through the constant barrage of bombastic headlines over stories that don't actually say anything of substance, but isn't there an upper limit to credulity? It just seems ro me that any reasonable person has to conclude that even to the extent that there was near certainly some fraud, it still wasn't and couldn't have been sufficient to change the results.
And yeah - I know that a lot of these people simply aren't reasonable, but it seems that the number of people who (claim to) believe that the election was stolen far exceeds the number of people who could possibly be that unreasonable, even in this benighted country in this benighted century.
Just another of those instances in which I find myself looking around in dismay, wondering how it is that I came to be in a world that's so blitheringly insane, and how it is that seemingly no one else recognizes how insane it is.
A white cat to go with the blue horses...
I'd never seen this before - thanks.
...expressed concerns about child deaths in Gaza
...made controversial comments about political Jews using their Jewish identity to shield themselves from criticism.
...fired from The Daily Wire due to tensions over her alleged anti-Semitic views
And it's certainly not a coincidence that those isolationist and extremist policies are being actively promoted by the MAGA Republicans.