[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago

Oh look - a blatant quid pro quo.

Supreme Court apologists have weakly been trying to excuse the Court's "gifts aren't bribes" ruling by pointing out that it still counts as corruption if the thing of value is given in advance and if there's an overt quid pro quo involved.

Both of those are the case here, so even by the Court's new abysmally weak standards, this counts as official corruption.

So who thinks anything will come of it?

Yeah - me neither.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

At the least, that should qualify as manslaughter.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago

That'd be about par for the course. When too much attention is focused on their abject evil in Gaza, one of their strategies is to suddenly go stir the shit in Iran or Lebanon or Syria and get attention focused there instead.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago

History, as it does, will recognize this genocide for what it is, and will not only condemn thise who are carrying it out, but those who are standing idly by and letting it happen.

One would think that Germsns would be particularly aware of that fact, and after already being responsible for one genocide, would deliberately not be complicit in another.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

I have zero doubt of both of those things.

I think he saw tariffs as something that would provide him with leverage, and that's it. I don't think he's ever had a clear goal or an end game, and I'm pretty sure he's never even been entirely clear on just what tariffs are or how they work. He just saw a weapon to hold over other countries' heads in order to swing some kind of deal, and grabbed ahold for that reason alone.

And while he prides himself on his supposed deal-making prowess, never forget that this is a man who couldn't even keep a casino running in the black.

And broadly - he's really rather obviously insane. It's debatable how much of his brazen disconnect from consensual reality is delusion and how much is lies, but it works out to insanity either way.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago

Even if he has to make it up.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago

It goes even beyond that.

Extroverts are for all intents and purposes vampires.

They aren't "rescuing" you. They're capturing you, so they can feed on you.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

It's worth noting that they're never talking about actual privatization, which is when a thing that was formerly a government service is turned over to private enterprise, but a grotesquely inefficient hybrid system in which the service is still funded by the government, and the only thing that changes is that rather than the budget being turned over to a government agency, it's turned over to whichever private contractor offers the best bribe and kickback package.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago

Is there any one quality that more of the people surrounding Trump share than being serial sex abusers?

I can't think of one.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

Tate is the main inspiration for my theory that "incel" behavior and attitudes aren't necessarily tied to involuntary celibacy.

I think it's more fundamental than that, and it's just that that personality type often ends up involuntarily celibate, which amplifies their bitterness and spite and misogyny.

But there's another distinctive type of "incel" who, through some happenstance or another, manages to get laid. They share the same bitterness and spite and misogyny as the celibate incels, but the fact that they actually can manage to get laid adds a layer of entirely unwarranted arrogance on top of that.

And Tate is the exemplar of that. He just radiates "incel" - only with an extra layer of arrogance on top of it.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago

The Toddler-in-chief strikes again.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago

Yes we do.

He's leading a coup.

On behalf of the would-be US dictator Donald Trump, he and his mercenaries are taking control of vital government functions away from the duly appointed authorities and claiming it as their own.

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