I know I'm just a dude and it's easy to say stuff on the internet but I was thinking real hard the other day about what I'd realistically do in the event I found myself near a nazi rally.
I've had some ideas.
There's some deep coded part of my genetics that sounds a lot like my great grandad giving me some very specific ideas that I'm not sure are legal, even in the case of actual, flag waving nazis.
Tell nobody and wear a mask. People largely get caught because they don’t know how to shut the fuck up
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I actually keep a keepsake of my Grandfather's in my closet at all times and take it out occasionally to remind myself that the fight against fascism never ends.
It's a nazi knife.
That he presumably took off a Nazi corpse in WWII.
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I actually keep a keepsake of my Grandfather's in my closet at all times and take it out occasionally to remind myself that the fight against fascism never ends.
It's a nazi knife.
That he presumably took off a Nazi corpse in WWII.
My grandfather left us one of those too. I looked it up on some site, I think it's a Nazi air force (luftwaffen?) officer's knife. I wished I'd known him better; he could barely speak English but he fucked up some Nazis in his day.
I know I'm just a dude and it's easy to say stuff on the internet but I was thinking real hard the other day about what I'd realistically do in the event I found myself near a nazi rally.
I've had some ideas.
There's some deep coded part of my genetics that sounds a lot like my great grandad giving me some very specific ideas that I'm not sure are legal, even in the case of actual, flag waving nazis.
Tell nobody and wear a mask. People largely get caught because they don’t know how to shut the fuck up
As I mentioned last thread that dude that punched Richard Spencer has never been identified. So much restraint to do such a badass thing and not brag about it.
I know I'm just a dude and it's easy to say stuff on the internet but I was thinking real hard the other day about what I'd realistically do in the event I found myself near a nazi rally.
I've had some ideas.
There's some deep coded part of my genetics that sounds a lot like my great grandad giving me some very specific ideas that I'm not sure are legal, even in the case of actual, flag waving nazis.
Tell nobody and wear a mask. People largely get caught because they don’t know how to shut the fuck up
As I mentioned last thread that dude that punched Richard Spencer has never been identified. So much restraint to do such a badass thing and not brag about it.
The thing about that is that, yes, it’s gotta be hard not to take credit for that, but the only thing more tempting than being known as the guy who punched Richard Spencer in the face is the prospect of putting yourself in a position to be the person who punched Richard Spencer in the face twice.
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The Biden administration is leaning into a politically potent issue — fentanyl trafficking from Mexico — to convince lawmakers to reauthorize a controversial George W. Bush-era surveillance program.
In public and in private, administration officials are stressing the need to track Mexican cartels and their Chinese suppliers in their push for Congress to reup the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 before it expires at the end of the year.
That statute — which allows intelligence agencies to read emails and other electronic communications of foreigners abroad — is facing bipartisan opposition from lawmakers who argue it has become a backdoor for the FBI to surveil Americans who are on the other end of those conversations.
Left-leaning privacy advocates and GOP stalwarts incensed by the FBI’s handling of the investigation of Donald Trump are arguing the statute can’t be renewed without major changes that limit the surveillance of Americans. The cross-the-aisle consensus makes it highly unlikely Section 702 will be reauthorized as is, so the administration is making the strongest case it can to keep Congress from drastically curtailing its effectiveness.
What if we meaningfully addressed the causes of the opioid crisis like a population that cannot get the medical care they need and are desperately trying to deal with debilitating pain the best they can.
What, no, only carceral and policing solutions where we treat drugs like a moral failing instead of a public health crisis?
Fentanyl is bad and causing a lot of deaths but also for fuck's sake please stop trying to police your way out of a problem. Put the fucking hammer away.
I know I'm just a dude and it's easy to say stuff on the internet but I was thinking real hard the other day about what I'd realistically do in the event I found myself near a nazi rally.
I've had some ideas.
There's some deep coded part of my genetics that sounds a lot like my great grandad giving me some very specific ideas that I'm not sure are legal, even in the case of actual, flag waving nazis.
There's a road in Austin called "Far West" that is basically where a lot of Jewish people live in Austin. There's an overpass over one of the two main highways for the road, and I think a bunch of times last summer a bunch of neo nazi fucks were flying flags on the overpass for all to see. Until one of the owners of the best deli in town walked down the street to the highway with his M-16 and they scampered the fuck off.
They're a bunch of fucking cowards, threaten them and they scamper.
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Fentanyl is bad and causing a lot of deaths but also for fuck's sake please stop trying to police your way out of a problem. Put the fucking hammer away.
fentanyl is considered an essential medicine by the WHO!
Fentanyl is bad and causing a lot of deaths but also for fuck's sake please stop trying to police your way out of a problem. Put the fucking hammer away.
fentanyl is considered an essential medicine by the WHO!
I mean the lacing of it with other drugs is what's causing a lot of deaths.
The sad thing is that meth probably causes more overdose deaths in this country than anything like fentanyl, but no one cares because it's generally poor folk who use meth.
Like, the local medical examiner's report came out last week and there's been a lot of focus on "fentanyl" causing a spike in deaths but like, meth has seen literally the same spike.
I might be going out on a limb but I think it would be cool if nobody had to live in poverty and then maybe could make more informed decisions about what drugs they take or maybe be less reliant on them to face the hellworld we currently inhabit
Over the weekend, on a rope line in South Carolina, Joe Biden told a voter he would commit to drastically cutting incarceration in the United States.
In a video shared with BuzzFeed News by the ACLU, Biden tells a man, Keith Albert, who identifies himself as an ACLU voter, that he’d “go further than” cutting incarceration by half.
“Would you commit to cutting incarceration by 50%?” Albert asks Biden.
“More than that. We can do it more than that,” he responds.
Joe Biden Hasn’t Kept His Promise to Reduce the Prison Population
For thousands of people in federal prisons and their loved ones, the last session of Congress ended on a heartbreaking note. Despite high hopes and bipartisan support for several sentencing bills, Congress failed to pass any meaningful reform during 2022.
That repeated failure—coupled with the Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to make adequate use of compassionate release, and President Joe Biden’s limited use of executive clemency—has translated into the federal prison population increasing for the past two years (after nearly a decade in decline), despite the president’s promise to cut it by half.
Federal prisons imprisoned 25,000 people in 1980. Today, they imprison more than six times that—nearly 160,000 people. (Fortunately, today’s count does represent a 27 percent reduction from 2013, when the population was at its peak of 219,000 people.)
The past decade of legislative reforms and policy changes, amplified during the early pandemic, have downsized federal prisons. But in the absence of new reforms by Congress and bold action by the administration, the federal prison population has grown again for the past two years.
The last two years were by far the deadliest inside jails and prisons on record. And as President Joe Biden’s second year in office begins, a sobering reality has already become apparent: Under his administration, rather than movement toward the end of a system of over-incarceration, we are instead witnessing the beginning of a new prison “boom.”
Crowded carceral settings were already well known from past epidemics to function like Petri dishes for the incubation and communitywide dissemination of infectious diseases. It was thus no surprise that by September 2021, jails and prisons constituted 90 of the top 100 epidemic hot spots in America and were spreading COVID-19 well beyond their walls.
Rather than investing in decarceration and reentry programs to protect the public as recommended by the nation’s leading health and safety experts, several states and cities have allocated federal money from the CARES Act to already-bloated police departments and to the construction of yet more jails and prisons. When petitioned to ban such misuse of these funds that were meant to provide support to struggling Americans, Biden declined to do so. Instead, in an effort to score partisan points in myopic “tough on crime” competitions with the likes of Tom Cotton, Biden has chosen to explicitly endorse the allocation of federal COVID relief funds for punishment rather than support.
Just last week in his address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Biden again made his position very clear when he told his audience, “We shouldn’t be cutting funding for police departments. I proposed increasing funding.” Reflecting this calculated political stance, in addition to earmarking $651 million in his 2022 budget to boost local police hiring, the Biden administration has repeatedly encouraged state and local governments to use the $350 billion in discretionary funds given to them by the American Rescue Plan to expand police budgets. Indeed, both Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
Given Biden’s long career of misleading conflations of punishment with public safety, his campaign promises to cut the federal prison population by over half were encouraging. Unfortunately, they’ve so far proved to be hollow. During his administration, the federal prison population has grown for the first time in a decade, reversing the marginal gains made under President Donald Trump. So too has the number of people held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, which has increased by 70 percent since Biden took office.
And, also, when Biden came into office he appointed Janet Woodman, who headed the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research through the beginning of the opioid crisis. It took a letter from multiple groups pushing back against her.
“In its opioid decision-making, Dr Woodcock, and the division she supervised, consistently put the interests of opioid manufacturers ahead of public health, often overruling its own scientific advisors and ignoring the pleas of public health groups, state Attorneys General, and outraged victims of the opioid crisis,” the letter said.
The ceremony, which will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, 67, has taken months of planning, with Welby in “close consultation” with Charles, the government and a coronation advisory group.
After Charles, 74, is crowned, Welby will invite the congregation — and an expected global audience of many millions — to pledge their allegiance with the words: “I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.”
A Lambeth Palace spokesman said: “For the first time in history, a chorus of millions in this country and around the world will be invited to participate in this solemn and joyful moment [in a] great cry of support for the King.”
The people’s homage will follow the moment Prince William kneels before his father to pledge: “I, William, Prince of Wales, pledge my loyalty to you, and faith and truth I will bear unto you as your liegeman of life and limb. So help me God.”
By the way have any of you fine folks ever heard the Irish national anthem? Lovely song. Lovely song.
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I have a trip to the tip booked pretty much bang on when the coronation will be happening. It was coincidence because I haven't paid any attention to the coronation but I feel like it's the best way I could choose to commemorate it.
In Friday’s Real Time interview, Maher implied that having more babies was shortsighted given how Earth’s resources have already grown scarce, and “lots of people don’t have enough food or water.” Musk pushed back, saying, “Earth is 70 percent water by surface area.” Maher quipped: “But you can’t drink that.” When Musk protested that “desalination is absurdly cheap,” he countered, “Why don’t we do it, then?”
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In the second exchange, when Maher asked where the supposed “woke mind virus” comes from, Musk stammered even more, then said, “I think it’s been going on for a while. The amount of indoctrination that’s happening in schools and universities is I think far beyond what parents realize.” He shared an anecdote about a friend’s high school-aged children only knowing that George Washington was the first president of the United States and a slave owner — but nothing else about him. “That is the woke mind virus, exactly,” Maher said, before lightly defending slavery as something practiced by many societies and endorsed in the Bible. He also failed to challenge Musk’s description of students learning historical fact as “indoctrination.”
The primary reason is cost. Desalination remains expensive, as it requires enormous amounts of energy. To make it more affordable and accessible, researchers around the world are studying how to improve desalination processes, devising more effective and durable membranes, for example, to produce more water per unit of energy, and better ways to deal with the highly concentrated brine that remains.
Currently, desalination is largely limited to more affluent countries, especially those with ample fossil fuels and access to seawater (although brackish water inland can be desalinated, too). In addition to the Middle East and North Africa, desalination has made inroads in water-stressed parts of the United States, notably California, and other countries including Spain, Australia and China.
There are environmental costs to desalination as well: in the emissions of greenhouse gases from the large amount of energy used, and in the disposal of the brine, which in addition to being extremely salty is laced with toxic treatment chemicals.
Despite a practically limitless supply of seawater, desalinated water still accounts for about 1 percent of the world’s fresh water.
I do not need to elaborate on why their objections to teaching about Washington owning slaves is godnumbingly stupid.
whats the wheres my money thing in reference to? Student loans?
Yeah, turns out when the Supreme Court blocks something people still blame the President for it not happening
Still his fault. Them’s the breaks. You get elected to the most powerful position in the country on big promises of cancelling student loan debt, you gotta put on your big boy pants and take the blame when you fail to make it happen.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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It’s wild that anyone believes that if Joe really wanted to cancel some student debt that he wouldn’t have found a way to make it happen.
Dude had control of the house, senate, and the White House. Not getting that done under those conditions is a failing of the party, and as the head of the party it’s a really fucking huge personal failing, too.
Or a betrayal, which is probably more accurate. I’m sure he meant it just as much as his promises to reduce the prison population, and neither of those things were just telling leftists things they wanted to hear so they wouldn’t rock the boat. That’d be crazzzzy.
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Tell nobody and wear a mask. People largely get caught because they don’t know how to shut the fuck up
It's a nazi knife.
That he presumably took off a Nazi corpse in WWII.
My grandfather left us one of those too. I looked it up on some site, I think it's a Nazi air force (luftwaffen?) officer's knife. I wished I'd known him better; he could barely speak English but he fucked up some Nazis in his day.
As I mentioned last thread that dude that punched Richard Spencer has never been identified. So much restraint to do such a badass thing and not brag about it.
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The thing about that is that, yes, it’s gotta be hard not to take credit for that, but the only thing more tempting than being known as the guy who punched Richard Spencer in the face is the prospect of putting yourself in a position to be the person who punched Richard Spencer in the face twice.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/28/biden-surveillance-program-republicans-bush-00094435
What if we meaningfully addressed the causes of the opioid crisis like a population that cannot get the medical care they need and are desperately trying to deal with debilitating pain the best they can.
What, no, only carceral and policing solutions where we treat drugs like a moral failing instead of a public health crisis?
There's a road in Austin called "Far West" that is basically where a lot of Jewish people live in Austin. There's an overpass over one of the two main highways for the road, and I think a bunch of times last summer a bunch of neo nazi fucks were flying flags on the overpass for all to see. Until one of the owners of the best deli in town walked down the street to the highway with his M-16 and they scampered the fuck off.
They're a bunch of fucking cowards, threaten them and they scamper.
fentanyl is considered an essential medicine by the WHO!
They had her on it the week she was in the hospital afterwards
I mean the lacing of it with other drugs is what's causing a lot of deaths.
Like, the local medical examiner's report came out last week and there's been a lot of focus on "fentanyl" causing a spike in deaths but like, meth has seen literally the same spike.
Except quit their online bar apparently
Joe Biden Hasn’t Kept His Promise to Reduce the Prison Population
How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom
And, also, when Biden came into office he appointed Janet Woodman, who headed the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research through the beginning of the opioid crisis. It took a letter from multiple groups pushing back against her.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/archbishop-will-ask-millions-to-pledge-allegiance-to-their-king-q6dtzfjxs
By the way have any of you fine folks ever heard the Irish national anthem? Lovely song. Lovely song.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/climate/desalination-water-climate-change.html
I do not need to elaborate on why their objections to teaching about Washington owning slaves is godnumbingly stupid.
Still his fault. Them’s the breaks. You get elected to the most powerful position in the country on big promises of cancelling student loan debt, you gotta put on your big boy pants and take the blame when you fail to make it happen.
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Dude had control of the house, senate, and the White House. Not getting that done under those conditions is a failing of the party, and as the head of the party it’s a really fucking huge personal failing, too.
Or a betrayal, which is probably more accurate. I’m sure he meant it just as much as his promises to reduce the prison population, and neither of those things were just telling leftists things they wanted to hear so they wouldn’t rock the boat. That’d be crazzzzy.
He probably just… forgot where the buck stops.
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