Democrats continue to be all hat and no cattle, sadly
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as the adherents aren’t acting in ways that are harmful to others
The Buddhist successors to the Mongolian/Qing Dynasty were plenty harmful to others. That's what sparked the student revolts responsible for their leadership's removal.
You can blame the icky yicky communists for polarizing and galvanizing upwardly mobile tibetan youth into an insurgency. But falling back on CIA agitprop to justify what was effectively a US military operation intended to destabilize a border region isn't proof of your humanitarianism. Even the Dalai Lama himself regrets letting the CIA militarize Tibet.
The fact that the US reneged on their promises and only used Tibet to extract information about China is depressing, but not surprising.
It's the story of the Cold War told over and over again. The goal of these operations is to spark civil war, not to liberate or liberalize any population.
It's waxed and waned.
I remember when you had to log into everything, but there wasn't much to visit. Then people started using the Internet en mas and selling ads was the market maker. So you didn't need to log in, but you did get the most malicious JavaScript ever written trying to jam pop-ups under your cursor.
Now we've somehow managed to achieve the worst of both worlds
Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
‘blood red’ Kentucky has one of the highest dependencies in federal programs in the country.
It's home to a large military base and two of the nation's twelve federal prisons.
Besides, if we're being critically all-inclusive in the beneficiary of federal programs, the two biggest winners have been Silicon Valley, California and Lower Manhattan, NYC, with bright-blue ~~Langley~~ Arlington, Virginia and Boeing HQ / Secondary Financial Capital Chicago, IL running close behind. The $22B Kentucky's economy sees pales behind our Pentagon spending, our international shipping, and our multi-trillion dollar trade in US Treasuries.
also, Mitch is just an awful “human”.
Like so many other powerful Senators, McConnell's real power flows through his wife's billionaire family. Her family ties to the lucrative Taiwanese shipping magnet, the Foremost Group, has made her husband's support for US operations in the South Pacific pivotal to both their family fortune and American geopolitical dominance.
McConnell is actually a military transplant from Alabama, with family tied into the Redstone Arsenal and its attendant social circle. He's been a political chameleon for most of his adult life, slipping seamlessly between Democrat and Republican circles through the Clinton and Bush Eras. He dumped his lefty-liberal activist Sherrill Redmon the same year Ronald Reagan won the presidency, then matched with his current anti-communist beau through Ambassador to Nepal under Bush 41, Julia Chang Bloch.
So much of Mitch's position and policy have been directed by this political marriage. It's got virtually nothing to do with the political character of Kentucky voters.
Authoritarian governments do not like the anonymity the internet affords it’s citizens.
The internet has never properly afforded anonymity. Advertisers are constantly trying to tag and track people inside and between websites, apps, and platforms. What we're seeing isn't a new iteration of the surveillance state, but a weaponization of existing tracking tools.
won’t someone think of the children?
I mean, this cuts both ways. Because there is really, legitimately, and seriously a crisis of predation by commercial vendors and individual exploiters alike that's laser-targeted to the most vulnerable end-users of the internet. That's not exclusively children. Plenty of these scammers and creepers target the elderly, the mentally disabled, and the gullible. And the fact that our federal and state institutions seem cavalier to the degree of fraud and malicious practices on the internet, when they claim to be so obsessed with protecting us from migrants, terrorists, evil drug dealers, and domestic radicals really speaks to their uselessness relative to their stated purpose.
But on the other hand, yeah. All of this paranoia around kids using the internet does seem to be a backdoor to harass minority groups and dissidents. I might be more concerned about this except - per the above - they've clearly demonstrated vanishingly little technical savvy or procedural competency to date.
Seems like we're going to continue to get the same Big Punishments For Minor Infractions fear-inducing policing we've come to expect from the War on Drugs/Crime/Terrorism of the last sixty years.
Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
Not just Republicans. Most voters are fixated on local and personal issues. National politicians typically have a free rein on foreign policy thanks to the significant disconnect between international affairs and voter household issues. To add to the problem, Presidents can't be recalled. Judges serve for life. Senators hold office on six-year stretches. The only people who really face the wrath of a disgruntled populace on a regular basis are House Reps (and gerrymandering blunts that knife most election cycles).
If you really get under the hood of the GOP and ask what makes them tick, one thing that sticks out is the degree to which the fossil fuel industry's presence in a district/state influences the number of Republican voters. Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are great textbook examples, with rises and falls in the profitability of petroleum products neatly tracking their success at electing conservative leaders.
One question you might want to ask, as a liberal who claims to love universal programs like health care and education and housing and public transportation, is why your own state leaders suck at it so much. California's the 7th largest economy in the world. And they've got broad control over their Medicaid dollars, same as any other state. Why aren't they doing Public Options or State Run Hospitals like their peers in Canada and the UK?
FFS, blood red Kentucky has a more leftwing health care system than anything in bright blue Washington State or New Jersey.
Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
I feel for all those whose insurance premium is about to become unaffordable
Idk. I've been told a bunch of them are Republicans and therefore they deserve to suffer.
This is why I get all my computer supplies from goats.ex
Mamdani is a pretty good example of the left doing things right
He ran at the right time, the stars aligned and gave him some truly wretched losers for opposition, and national media tripped over a dozen billionaire's dicks trying to insert itself into municipal politics.
But I don't think Mamdani would have been successful against a Guliani, a Bloomberg, or a DeBlasio. And if a Republican had won over a fractured Liberal/Left field, I suspect we'd be getting an earful about how Radical Islamists cost the Democratic Party the election.
There's thousands of Mamdani's in modern American politics. You can find them in every DSA chapter in America. He's not simply the product of The Left Doing Things Right. He's a product of the liberals and conservatives finally running out of gas, then tangling themselves in a knot trying to block an alternative.
These are all largely arguments over organizing a working class majority in control of it's own lands and capital. None in these groups objects to the central thesis of worker self-government.
By contrast, centrist/right groups favor narrow hierarchies of elite oligarchs, them bicker over exactly which one of their kingpins should get the big chair.
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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
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The joke of all this is how her humiliation will be scrubbed from the headlines and replaced by some AI Slop that conservatives insist makes he cool