circuscritic

While I hope he’s never caught or arrested, if he does end up being charged, I suspect there will be a lot of donations to his legal defense fund.

lol wut

So just so we’re clear here, you acknowledge that it is “corporate fuckheads” who run the DNC, but insist they aren’t to blame for losing 14m votes.

In fact, it’s actually my fault, your neighbor’s fault, and anyone of voting age who isn’t employed by the DNC.

Again, the Democratic party lost this election, not me, or any other voter.

So while you identified a potential future problem, it feels like you’ve misdiagnosed who’s to blame for that possibility.

It’s quite pathetic how so many of these stories have top comments that all blame voters for the decades of compound failures by the Democratic party.

You have it backwards my friend, voters cannot fail the party. It’s the party’s job to win voters, but instead, they shed 14 million voters over the last election.

Remind me, how many users are on Lemmy?

Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here…?

Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there…?

Maybe you don’t remember Jeff Sessions.

Matt Gaetz could bring another dozen or so, 17 year girls across state lines, and still not reach the scale of evil contained within Trump’s former OG AG Keebler.

That’s my point. The best you can hope for is someone who also dipshit maxes, hard.

Let’s be real, he cleared the bar with this one.

Don’t forget, the bar was set at Jeff Sessions, and it was even lowered to the doofus who ran the patent protection scam company.

Look, he’s not going appoint anyone that isn’t awful. The most you can hope for, the best outcome, is favourable funny > evil mix.

I’m comfortable saying that Matt Gaetz, on the grading curve necessary for Trump appointments, clears that bar. He’s has at worst a 51% funny to 49% evil ratio.

Impressive.

Only one of those words is actually English, and you still managed to use it incorrectly.

Unless it was an extremely misplaced and subtle nod to Alanis Morissette.

Stop trying to police language.

Jokes need only to be judged on if they’re funny, or not.

FEDNA

It is the entire national Democratic party and their gigantic horde of consultants.

People here don’t seem to understand that Trump winning to them, is a preferable outcome to someone like Bernie Sanders ever holding power.

I’m not saying they want Trump in office, I’m saying that Trump in office means they retain their jobs and influence. Both of which are predicated upon keeping their voters trained on the idea that campaigns are only about marketing, and politics is about anything other than how it can directly improve their material conditions.

Imagine a Democratic politician broke through the existing power structures and enacted something like Medicare for All. That is is the biggest threat to their power: an actual FDR Democrat. Someone who takes money and power from the donor class, and uses it to directly improve the material conditions for the rest of us.

Yes, let’s blame the voters for losing the election…

Not the Democratic party or their candidate, because clearly only voters can fail them, they can’t fail us.

So what you’re saying is that Russia has no agency, and their invasion of Ukraine is NOT it imperial in nature.

In fact, they’re only seizing Ukrainian territory to add to their own, because of the United States. And that somehow negates any aspect of Russian imperialism.

Well that makes sense, because I know one thing about Russia, and that it’s definitely not a stitched together country of conquered and subjugated people’s.

Or, hear me out, maybe it’s possible for both the United States and Russia, to wage imperial wars of aggression. Just because the United States is an imperial power, that doesn’t preclude any other great powers from acting on their own delusions of empire.

Classic Ukrainian imperialism…

Also, classic enlisted soldier get rich quick scheme: dying just to get the death benefits.

Wait a minute…what now?

STOP. POSTING. NEWSWEEK.

It is trash and has been for sometime.

Go find this story being run In a credible outlet, and repost.

Oh, and last I saw, pretty much all credible pollsters had this election at a resounding, “heads or tails, pick one”.

Go vote.

There wouldn’t be any press…

No lawyer would take the case. Hell, a lawyer might even get sanctioned for even attempting to file it.

This isn’t like an uphill legal battle where there’s a process that can draw attention. It’s a non-starter.

Pretend you file a lawsuit by filling out a form online, but whenever you try and submit this lawsuit, it goes to 404 not found. You’re suggesting they spend thousands of dollars, for a 404 error.

However, suing the hospital, is a very long and drawn out legal process… So if your goal is to bring attention to the issue, well there you have it.

You are aware that legislatures cannot be held directly criminally responsible for the laws they pass, right?

I’m not disputing that their actions killed their daughter, I’m trying to explain to you that they cannot be held legally responsible in the manor you’re suggesting.

What are you talking about?

Are you saying that instead of suing the hospital, she should start up a PAC to go after hundreds of Texas state politicians…?

Because if you meant sue them for wrongful death, they are exempt. So even if they are more directly culpable in their daughter’s death, she cannot bring direct legal action against them for that.

As risky and escalatory as it is, I can at least understand using freight airplanes to deliver incendiary packages to shipping warehouses.

I’m not saying I think it’s good, but I can at least piece together the rationale for such actions from Russia.

The same cannot be said for blowing up civilian airliners.

Just from a realpolitik perspective, domestic support for military aid to Ukraine is broadly down across the voting populace in most, if not all, of Ukraine’s biggest ($$$$) partners. Eventually that will likely result in the election of candidates who reflect that view.

Want to know the fastest way to not just immediately reverse that, but have 75%+ of the voting populace support radically escalating Western involvement? Blow up one of their civilian airliners.

Shit, blow up a French airliner and I’d say it would be coin flip whether they deploy active duty military ready for combat operations, in theatre, within a month.