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by jhp123 2y ago
There is an old documentary called "the Revolution will not be Televised" about the Chavez presidency in Venezuela. If you watch it you will come away feeling that Chavez was treated pretty unfairly by the rightist media and &quot
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A time traveller from 1945 would probably assume the side snapping off Sieg Heils to be fascist
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A recent poll found that only 14% of Americans believe that the President should ignore court rulings that he disagrees with. But when the same poll asked if President Trump should ignore a specific court order that he disagrees with, o
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The US has insulated the economic decision makers from consequences in the same way as centrally-planned economies like the USSR. We're seeing the same poor performance now. For example, the tech sector spend the 2010s chasing dumb ide
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The Anthropic guy also said one year recently. It sounds like they're feeling pressure from investors. AI bubble deflates in one year.
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That's the best they can come up with? Floyd was already handcuffed. No matter, I'm sure Chauvin's innocence will be an established fact within the right-wing canon soon enough. Poor, persecuted Saint Chauvin, railroaded just
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Is the right now truthing out over the murder of George Floyd, an event captured in its entirety on video from multiple angles?
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Eisenhower was accused of being a communist. Look up John Birch Society.
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This reminds me of Facebook's "M" assistant from 2017. > Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant. Facebook will prompt them to test it with example
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I think the discussion of traditional masculinity is shoehorned into this topic. The facts are that Americans of both genders report having fewer friends since 30 years ago. The decline is more pronounced among men - in 1990 they had more f
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If our government is so strapped for cash that it has to cancel food shipments for starving children[0], then surely we are in a deep enough fiscal crisis to stop spending money on space exploration? [0] https://www.cbsnews.com&#
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DACA repeal was blocked on APA grounds
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if you take a dollar from government spending, then 60 or 70 cents of that is coming from the bank accounts of retirees, disabled people, and the poor. If you return that dollar as tax cuts, as Trump has proposed, then something like 80 cen
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let me ask you a question. Richard Nixon had a special team under his direct control, they're popularly known as the white house plumbers. He asked this team to engage in activities not directly authorized by congress including various
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> Just as raw un restricted read/write access is constantly alleged, but we have in turn found out that isn't the case. Marko "normalize Indian hate" Elez did have read/write access, as DOGE lawyers admitted in c
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Amazon has billions of dollars of business with the US government, which Musk has just demonstrated the ability and willingness to cancel without following any legal process ... it's just a simple bribe
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> I don’t believe those who went into this past election taking pride in the unemployment numbers understood that the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing oc
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Rome (the city) does still exist, as do the Roman Catholic church and Eastern Orthodox church which were integral institutions of the late Roman empire. Rome, the original capital, passed in to possession by the modern Italian state, which
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it all mirrors the Twitter takeover (fetishizing "hardcore coders", micromanagement, randomly breaking or cancelling things), so this might just be how Elon Musk approaches things.
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> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt [link explains it is to fund economic development in North Sinai] This sounds like an absolutely expected program for USAID, given that it is a soft power aid agency. Egypt is a regional partner to t
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what is this? it doesn't load for me
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he did [0] [1] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_P... [1] https://democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-releases/ranking...
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so when Elon Musk stands at a podium and performs the Nazi salute, it is "intellectually lazy" to use labels like "Nazi" or "fascist"?
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I think the messaging was intended to create a psychological effect rather than a budgetary one. By voluntarily giving up a benefit to stay with the federal government post-Musk takeover, employees may feel more committed to the new regime.
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If he gets away with shutting down USAID by fiat then it makes it clear that he can go outside the bounds of law and demand anything of the executive branch. The next step might be going to the DOJ and telling them to detain, let's say
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I do think that congress would impeach if he said "I declare martial law and cancel elections". He'll have to get there piecemeal without creating a single moment for opposition to coalesce.
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At that point he can order his subordinates to ignore the ruling. If his subordinates claim that the court ruling overrides his orders then he can fire them. Court orders are purely advisory after the Trump v. United States decision.
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the idea of national rejuvenation by concentrating political power in a "founder" is not a new one. Mussolini styled himself "Founder of the Empire".
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I'm not a target of tech's fascist turn, but my head is still spinning from the change of direction. When I entered this industry it was for hackers, nonconformists, weirdos, nerds, people who don't care about titles or cloth
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A study of London[0] found that being bombed during the blitz was a net positive for the city, economically speaking, because the neighborhoods affected were rebuilt with more density. This gave me the idea that we could improve long-term u

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