I’ve just been saying what the world most needs now is a bunch of fucking morons with lots of money. Things aren’t nearly ignorant enough.
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Yep. The best part of the U.S. constitution is the amendments. We should probably all spend some time thinking about that. Is our constitution good? The edits and polite suggestions are. The main bits are outdated, though, and were written by eloquent people who had the same knowledge of 2024 as we have for the year 2350.
As a leftist in Louisiana, it’s sometimes important to remind people that there were more Trump voters in California than Texas.
Obligatory: when he was at Princeton, there was a tradition where during the first snowfall of the year, the sophomores would make a lap around their dorm naked. Somehow, Ted Cruz took a wrong turn and instead of waiting for him, everyone locked him out of the dorm.
The Roberts court is arguably the worst since The Taney court (before the Civil War). It’s Calvinball and whole textbooks probably have to be rewritten after this term. Several justices are openly corrupt. Half their decisions just cause chaos for lower courts because they’re too chickenshit to even be bad in a clear way and define a simple test. (What is an “official act”? Only the Supreme Court knows for sure but they’ve decided to let lower courts try to decide so they get a menu of options.)
Just open hostility to the rule of law. There’s been worse decisions but bribed judges deciding “gratuities” aren’t bribes is top 5 for most shameless.
And a huge proportion doesn’t.
Dont underestimate how many people join the military at 18 for financial/career reasons and often end up living overseas and meeting people from different backgrounds. It’s not as conservative as people might imagine.
Ok, fine. I’ll stop lighting Canada on fire. We all have to do our part.
Private Internet Access is a VPN service.
Hard disagree. Russia is worse at the moment but the West is perfectly fine with neocolonialism (using multinational corporations rather than annexations). And we spread destabilizing lies all the time. The most recent one exposed is the U.S. military’s “psychological operations team” (in Tampa, FL) spreading antivax lies about Chinese and Russian vaccines in the Philippines and Middle East.
We absolutely have large scale disinformation campaigns. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
The military’s “psychological operations team” is based in Tampa, FL and that’s all they do. And that’s just DoD. The CIA obviously does even more.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to an industrial coast but I assure you, they will do a lot to protect themselves while not doing anything positive for the residents of Louisiana. Oil executives and energy traders in Houston will reap the benefits while Louisiana gets a handful of mostly blue collar jobs in exchange for oil spills, cancer, destruction of wetlands, and climate refugees from rising sea levels.
Tomorrow is the year 1446 on the Islamic Calendar. But it’s 1445 until then. (I’m using the Moroccan calendar.)