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If only Biden and Sullivan and Blinken had understood that four years ago

I prefer to wane philosophical

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/

Yeah he needs a way to bond with his son

If only that were true. Mar-a-Lago Face is all too real, as are the Stepford Wives wearing them.

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Since last year, I and Al Shaw & @bxroberts.org have investigated the linkages between Trump appointees and the industries they oversee. Today we published a searchable database containing approximately 3,200 financial disclosure forms of roughly 1500 officials.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Today 73 ago Stalin , monster guilty in genocide of millions of Ukrainians , finally died . Died after being left to lie, powerless and alone, on the floor, for hours (or even days)

Let this be a reminder that even the most seemingly all powerful evil eventually
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like a sad piece of f*ckng dirt

Well, this is a win for me:

It's Wurman, it's by definition garbage not worth taking seriously

I'm having a hard time thinking of a book I read recently that blew my mind. A bunch have been disappointing (either just ok or really disappointing). Re-reads don't count I assume. Not sure if it counts b/c I haven't finished it but Black AF History (Harriot) is pretty great so far.

The ones I read stuck in my head, you're making me want to go back and check them out again

Ah, gotcha

Somalia is a failed state. So is Russia, use that example instead if you like, because the borders between Norway and Finland and Russia exist for good reasons. If you think what I said sounded like JD Vance you're not just naive you're delusional.

(Cheshire Hemingway?)

I read a bunch of Garner when I was a kid (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, maybe The Owl Service) and remember really liking them. Can't remember if I read Red Shift, and haven't read any of them in a long time. Sounds like you recommend it?

Emmanuel->Emanuel

Emmanuel would know, he's a significant part of the reason trust in government is broken

And I thought the #PromptStealer whiners were pathetic

Totally not what Nazis would do

These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!

FTR, Witkoff is a real estate hustler and Trump's golf buddy. Kushner is an unelected, unconfirmed, unconvicted criminal who is responsible for the deaths of Khashoggi and hundreds of thousands of Americans during Covid. Neither is remotely qualified for any political job in a democracy.

It's a dangerous idea that would cause huge problems and expose countries that tried it to exploitation and abuse. Russia is already trying to dump violent criminals on neighboring countries (until Putin started using them as cannon fodder). People like him see open borders as weakness to exploit.

Open borders sound nice. Language lessons and housing and job assistance is the humane way to handle immigrants. And people from failed countries like Somalia need help and a chance to build safe productive lives. But unrestricted immigration is not the solution nor a practical or realistic option.

Is it fair? No, but it's just not sustainable. A country can't solve the problems of all other countries in the world. Very few people just let anyone come into their living room and kitchen and do what they want. Eliminating borders wouldn't bring paradise to all, it would turn world into Somalia.

Open borders would cause massive migration problems. Systems would get overwhelmed as migrants try to move to more prosperous or stable areas. The existing very successful democratic socialist system in Scandinavia breaks down under an influx of people with different values and expectations.

Lots of culture shock and friction, reluctance to assimilate (Sweden had explicit policy of multiculturalism > assimilation, too) and too many new arrivals and result was areas of high concentrations of immigrants who don't feel accepted or at home, plus native Swedish resentment of new arrivals.

IOW they did what an ideal immigration program would do. But they got overwhelmed. They had a lot of new residents who came from v different cultures - Sweden has high level of gender equality, is very secular, etc while many immigrants are from very religious cultures with traditional gender roles.