Every time I read it (not that I'm doing it monthly or anything) I find myself really impressed not only by his wisdom, but by his ability to express it, plainly, for any who care to listen.
Can you imagine Kamala Harris taking Florida, Texas, or (gasp) Alabama? George Fucking Wallace would rise from the grave just so he could try to obstruct progress a little bit more.
Stop with these fantasies, I can only get so erect.
Reddit 2.0… make fun of Biden… BANNED for LIFE!
By the way, did you know the modlog is public at Lemmy? So when you say things like I was just expressing my opinion and they banned me for being conservative, people can look that up.
https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=2167993
Yeah I did forget about 2008. That's the only other example I'm aware of though.
I have no concerns about any of the things you listed - mine is more about her time as a prosecutor. But again, I'm happy to just support everyone else's excitement at this point, I'm not even going to link the summary article I normally do about those concerns.
He did already endorse her but I haven't read his statement. I see your point overall though. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/politics/barack-michelle-obama-kamala-harris-endorsement/index.html
I really worried that it was too late to switch without disaster. And I was lukewarm on Harris in 2019 and also now, so was not too thrilled with that choice either.
But I haven't seen democrats this energized to vote in my lifetime (and that includes 2020) outside of places like this where we talk about such things. (and I'm in my 50s, so I've seen a few elections)
Over the past day I have pretty much set aside any concerns because it's clear that I was wrong and/or she is succeeding in a way that is galvanizing the voters in a way that goes beyond any concerns I have about her record. Everyone seems excited now, she'll be better than Trump by miles, and maybe she'll be better than I think she will too.
She's already come out as supporting Palestine more than Biden ever publicly did.
I guess it's time to just ride this exciting, unusual change and see where it goes.
Imagine being so wrapped up in your hateful bullshit that you are terrifying young children on the street and you still think you are the good guy.
Totally fair!
If anything the bigger struggle has been that every time I change machines or distros I have to manually get yakuake to start on login again.
On the off chance that you use KDE Plasma, it's just here FYI:
I hope there's a forthcoming lawsuit against the Trump campaign, because I am very, very sure that Obama is not on record publicly nor privately saying Kamala Harris is a "Marxist fraud."
Oh look, another conservative to never shut up on social media about how they can't say anything on social media, while somehow managing to be the biggest asshole in the room everywhere they go.
You weren't missed by anyone before showing up here, just FYI.
True, but Kevin certainly had his share of both.
It's a little bit ironic to me that the security company formerly run by the man who literally wrote the book on social engineering may have fallen victim to a social engineering attack.
Ironically things like UBI might level the playing field a bit in terms of entrepreneurship becoming more accessible, but for some reason capitalism advocates don’t actually want more people to be able to participate in capitalism.
Because the moment someone is given something like UBI to help lift them up and provide an equitable playing field for everyone, you get some asshole focusing on how they don't "deserve" it. As if the only thing you can possibly to in order to "deserve" to live is have a job where you are paid the bare minimum your company thinks they can get away with paying you so a few folks at the top get filthy rich and a few in the middle get rich enough not to think to much about the folks at the bottom.
They say this like EVERYONE is working 60 hours, like some kind of… reverse strawman? Weird statement to make.
NO ONE should have to work 60 hours to meet those goals.
I thought I was the only one whose first thought was that W wasn't surprised on 9/11 when I saw the clip of him being informed. Turns out a LOT of people had that thought. 😂
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1354571X.2021.1950340
ABSTRACT
Between 4 November 1925 and 31 October 1926, Tito Zaniboni, Violet Gibson, Gino Lucetti, and Anteo Zamboni all tried and failed to kill Benito Mussolini. The significance of these attempts on Mussolini’s life and their relationship to the establishment of Fascism has gone overlooked as much scholarship focuses almost exclusively on the consequences of socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti’s murder in June 1924. In this article, I analyse the impact that these assassination attempts had on Mussolini’s construction of the Fascist state. The article asks two main questions: What role did these assassins, and the state of emergency that their acts generated, play in the establishment of Fascist control? And how did they contribute to Mussolini’s cult status and his consecration as a ‘man of providence’? I argue that the failed assassination attempts were instrumental in allowing the Fascist regime to create a state of emergency and to capitalize on a fabricated demand for crisis management. These attempts fundamentally structured the conditions for the regime’s consolidation of power, including a vast expansion of laws that dismantled the liberal state and established the Fascist dictatorship.
One conspiracy is that he was paid off to shoot up the rally and Trump would cut his ear WWE style to garner sympathy.
Whether Trump’s injury was the result of a fired projectile or a piece of shrapnel, the injury was caused by an assassination attempt.
We all know what really happened.
Video appearing to show a police officer kick a man at Manchester Airport has been shared online.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25673016
> A police officer has been filmed kicking and stamping on the head of a man lying on the ground at Manchester Airport. > > The uniformed male officer is seen holding a Taser over the man, who is lying face down, before striking him twice while other officers shout at onlookers to stay back in a video shared widely online. > > Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said firearms officers had been attacked while attempting to arrest someone following a fight in the airport's Terminal 2 on Tuesday. It said it had referred itself to the police watchdog. > > Anger has grown over the video and a crowd of what appeared to be several hundred people protested outside the police station in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday evening.
Body camera video released Monday by a prosecutor reveals a chaotic scene in which a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, who called 911 for help is shot in the face in her home by a white sheriff’s deputy.
Headline is ridiculously generous to the cop.
>>The video from body cameras shows a tense moment in which former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson yelled at 36-year-old Sonya Massey to set down a pot from the stove just seconds after she started pouring the water into the sink and the two giggled over her “hot steaming water.” He then threatens to shoot her, Massey ducks then briefly rises and Grayson fires his pistol at her three times.
>>Grayson tells her to give him her ID. Then he points to the kitchen for the other deputy to check on the stove. “We don’t need a fire while we’re here.”
>>Massey goes to the kitchen and after she and Grayson share a laugh, she says, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” and asks him a question.
>>“You better (expletive) not or I swear to God I’ll (expletive) shoot you in your (expletive) face.” He then pulls his 9mm pistol and says “Drop the (expletive) pot.”
>>Massey says, “OK, I’m sorry.” In Grayson’s bodycam footage, he pulls the gun and when she ducks, she raises her hands and it looks like she has the red pan in her hands. But Grayson is still in the living room, facing Massey, behind a counter dividing the living room and kitchen, 10 or 15 feet away.
>>The other deputy, who is not named, said “I’m gonna go get my kit.”
>>Grayson said, “No, it’s a headshot. She done. You can go get it, but that’s a headshot ... there’s nothing you can do, man.”
>>He added: “What else do we do? I’m not taking hot (expletive) boiling water to the (expletive) face”
>>Noting that Massey was still breathing despite losing a lot of blood, he relented and said he would get his kit too. The other deputy responded, “We can at least try to stop the bleeding.”
>>Speaking to responding police, Grayson told them “she had boiling water and came at me, with boiling water. ... She said she was going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus and came at with boiling water.”
Body camera video released Monday by a prosecutor reveals a chaotic scene in which a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, who called 911 for help is shot in the face in her home by a white sheriff’s deputy.
Headline is ridiculously generous to the cop.
>>The video from body cameras shows a tense moment in which former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson yelled at 36-year-old Sonya Massey to set down a pot from the stove just seconds after she started pouring the water into the sink and the two giggled over her “hot steaming water.” He then threatens to shoot her, Massey ducks then briefly rises and Grayson fires his pistol at her three times.
>>Grayson tells her to give him her ID. Then he points to the kitchen for the other deputy to check on the stove. “We don’t need a fire while we’re here.”
>>Massey goes to the kitchen and after she and Grayson share a laugh, she says, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” and asks him a question.
>>“You better (expletive) not or I swear to God I’ll (expletive) shoot you in your (expletive) face.” He then pulls his 9mm pistol and says “Drop the (expletive) pot.”
>>Massey says, “OK, I’m sorry.” In Grayson’s bodycam footage, he pulls the gun and when she ducks, she raises her hands and it looks like she has the red pan in her hands. But Grayson is still in the living room, facing Massey, behind a counter dividing the living room and kitchen, 10 or 15 feet away.
>>The other deputy, who is not named, said “I’m gonna go get my kit.”
>>Grayson said, “No, it’s a headshot. She done. You can go get it, but that’s a headshot ... there’s nothing you can do, man.”
>>He added: “What else do we do? I’m not taking hot (expletive) boiling water to the (expletive) face”
>>Noting that Massey was still breathing despite losing a lot of blood, he relented and said he would get his kit too. The other deputy responded, “We can at least try to stop the bleeding.”
>>Speaking to responding police, Grayson told them “she had boiling water and came at me, with boiling water. ... She said she was going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus and came at with boiling water.”
Cool Guide to Comparing Project 2025 Policies to Trump Policies
If I can find a higher resolution version, will post it.
TL;DR: Few substantive differences.
Deputy charged with murdering Black woman allegedly told partner not to give aid
Sangamon County Deputy Sean Grayson is accused of shooting and killing 36-year-old Sonya Massey after she called 911
Prosecutors alleged that when Grayson and his partner responded to Massey’s home, Grayson allowed her to move a pot of water heating on the stove, but as she set it on a counter, Grayson then “aggressively yelled” at Massey over the pot and pulled his 9mm pistol.
Massey then asked what the deputies were doing, to which Grayson responded, “Getting away from your hot, steaming water.”
“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” Massey said twice, according to the documents reviewed by NBC News.
Grayson responded, “I swear to God. I will shoot you right in your f------ face.”
When Grayson drew his service weapon and ordered her to drop the pot, she let go, then crouched below a line of cabinets, and declared “I’m sorry” before being shot in the face, prosecutors said.
Grayson did not render aid to Massey and discouraged his partner from getting his medical kit because he thought her injury was too severe, according to the court document filed in support of keeping Grayson in custody without bond.
JD Vance's wife faces racist online backlash from far-right social media posts - ABC News
Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, and the couple's children have become targets of backlash for their Indian ancestry.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17759202
> Leopards eat popcorn.
An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
High-tops emblazoned with candidate’s bloodied face and ‘Fight Fight Fight’ offered for sale before webpage disappears
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25269065
> As surely as Donald Trump sought to cash in on his various criminal indictments, so the former president turned Republican presidential nominee began to sell merchandise commemorating his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last weekend. > > In Butler county on Saturday, a rooftop gunman wielding an AR-15-style rifle fired shots at the stage. Trump was wounded in one ear. One rally-goer was killed and two injured. The gunman, who was killed by a sniper, was discovered to have had an explosive device in his car. > > Despite such traumatic events, 45Footwear, a company which has sold $399 golden Trump-branded sneakers, swiftly offered a new range of high-tops. > > Rather more pricey than unofficial assassination merch churned out in China, the $299 white shoes were emblazoned with the US flag, an image of Trump with fist raised and face bloodied and the words “Fight Fight Fight” – his instant reaction to being shot.
Illinois woman who called sheriff's office over possible intruder was killed by the police she called for help
Sonya Massey, 36, died after an early-morning encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, authorities said.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11483245
> Sonya Massey, 36, died after an early-morning encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, authorities said. > > Crosspost from the Pollice Problem community https://lemmy.world/post/17616605
Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit
A federal appeals court ruled that three Honolulu cops are not immune from a lawsuit filed by a 10-year-old girl who was handcuffed and arrested at school for allegedly drawing an offensive picture.
Taylor said in filings that officers arrived at the school and interrogated her daughter without her present. Per the complaint, N.B. commented to a school nurse that she “wondered what spending one day in jail would be like.” According to the complaint, officers became upset by the comment and responded by handcuffing and arresting N.B.
The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) denied any racial motivation underlying their treatment of N.B. and defended their actions as an appropriate response to a genuine threat of harm. N.B. was never criminally charged for her actions.
An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17056255
> An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
I'm a mod again somehow. Please make the madness stop!
I'm now starting to wonder if it's a bug, but kind of astounded that I am seemingly the only person impacted. I only see myself added once. However, I have not been able to get any response from @[email protected]