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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (5 children)

Right-wingers reach for these religious or moralistic justifications and laws, but Putin is probably just noticing, like many other countries, that their economy is screwed if their birth rates continue to decline. And yet the planet is screwed if we continue to increase. As climate change eats away at the habitable areas of the planet, the obvious thing is for habitable countries with declining birth rates to accept many immigrants from places climate causes people to flee from. This will help those people and help the receiving country's economy. Unfortunately the right wing is also too wrapped up in xenophobia to accept this solution. They'd rather double down on controlling women.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Places thousands of feet above sea level found themselves under deep water after this storm.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

In separate remarks made during his speech, Trump again dialed up his rhetoric against Harris, calling her “mentally disabled” and “mentally impaired.” 

Well by the law of Republican projection there's our proof that Trump is not playing with a full deck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Peter Thiel has a reputation for being evil but smart. This guy didn't seem so smart, just cocky and ambitious.

[–] [email protected] 292 points 16 hours ago (33 children)

It gets worse:

Instead of seeking expert advice on how to retrieve the weapon, one officer decided to activate the emergency shutdown button.

"This action caused the MRI's magnet to rapidly lose superconductivity, leading to the evaporation of approximately 2,000 liters of helium gas and resulting in extensive damage to the MRI machine," the suit said.

The officer then retrieved his gun, but left a magazine full of bullets on the floor of the MRI office, the suit says.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 16 hours ago

The USA won't allow it; it will facilitate it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Police ultimately tracked down a “contract” signed by both the runaway parents and one would-be buyer, who was identified by authorities as Cody Martin.

It read: “I Darien Urban and Shalene Ehlers are signing our rights over to Cody Nathaniel Martin of our baby boy for $1,000 on 09/21/2024.

“Disclaimer: Alter signing this there will be no changing yall two’s minds and to never contact again.”

I feel sorry for the baby, but that's some top-notch contract writing.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Biden didn't seem to mention that Israel has conducted more than a thousand air strikes on Lebanon in two days, killing many hundreds, possibly thousands by now:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd5x1mnj2yo

Are all of those thousand air strikes "justice"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Some Republicans are literally working for Russia; the rest just love Putin and the reactionary religious conservatism and oppression of minorities he stands for. In either case they effectively work for Russia.

And the law forbidding promotion of the "childless lifestyle" achieves oppression of women, nonreligious people and LGBTQ+ people all in one go. Republicans will certainly want to do something similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That'll give Netanyahu the perfect excuse to continue slaughtering thousands of civilians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Their fundamental error is not noticing other people are smarter than them.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That sounds like Trump accepts Putin's line that this war was the fault of Ukraine and NATO.

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