Makes sense given that Israel is modeling 1940’s policies from Germany in its approach to Palestinians.

Is there a word that describes the paradox of creating a society that operates well enough to make it safe to be unserious and stupid to a degree that endangers the society?

Mr Robot Mad Men

If only there was some kind of defensive immune response our society could have against this toxic infection called RFK.

Democrats should obstruct this in every way possible. Shut it down. Get on every media channel, 24/7, constantly blaming Republicans. Of course, they won’t because they are spineless wimps. Prove me wrong.

I’ve heard that National Parks have been unable to buy supplies like toilet paper because of this.

Safety is relative. A nuclear capacity doesn’t make them safe, especially in a world dominated by an unhinged US. But, it does make them vastly safer than not having it by raising the potential cost of any proactive strike against them. Direct military implications for the US are minimal. But that’s not the case for US clients and US interests in the region.

What US policy has demonstrated is that US belligerence is a constant, regardless of whether Iran enters treaties or not, and regardless of whether Iran pursues nukes or not. Under those conditions, having nukes is pragmatic.

Peanut farm.

That might be the most titan-looking expression that I’ve ever seen in a photo of a human.

At this point, why would they ever trust the US to abide by any treaty agreement? We have created the conditions in which their safest course is to race to nuclear capability as fast as possible. As far as I can tell, the only reason they might want to negotiate some kind of agreement with the US, is as a stalling tactic to facilitate their nuclear program.

Sounds like a prisoners’ dilemma scenario.

Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he’s a crypto scam promoter.

I would love to understand why anyone should expect the Democratic Party to improve if they aren’t called out or held accountable for either their long history of fucking this up, or their continued active fucking up as was displayed in full force last night.

I agree that Democrats aren’t as bad as Republicans. But clinging to their slim moral superiority (and it is slim when you consider their actual record), and downplaying decades of fascist enablement as merely ‘ineffectiveness’ really demonstrates how not up-to-the-task some of the constituents are. It signals that nothing is going to change and we can expect fascism to march onward with Democrats slowly starting to pick up the mantle and join in. Don’t accuse me of hyperbole, I just listened to the Democratic response in which she waxed on nostalgic for Ronald Fucking Reagan.

I suppose that I shouldn’t blame the Democratic electorate too much, as the party has never (in my lifetime) shown leadership on policy or cultivated expectations from its supporters beyond “Republicans bad so you have no choice”. That doesn’t work, as demonstrated by decades of eroding support, lack of legislation, lost elections, and an Overton window that only ever moves in one direction. Calling this out is not idiotic, it’s rational. From a purely self-interested point of view, it’s idiotic for the party to ignore and deride this sentiment.

The lack of substantive opposition to Republicans for decades has been a big reason why they’ve been able to slide us into fascism. The sooner people like you wake up to this, the sooner we have a chance to actually do something about it.

Not sure why any developer who isn’t a self-loathing masochist would work for these clowns ever again. Rose was a brittle little bitch who threw his own dev team under the bus when Digg 4 bombed. Somehow I doubt that years of fattening up while marinating in venture capital and crypto wealth have matured that shallow tea-sucking fucker in any meaningful way.

What do you call a dozen burned teslas?

A good start.

I’ll be here all week. Tip your waiter.

This is the answer. trump and his colleagues have learned that there are no consequences for any misdeed, be that violating the law, ignoring the constitution, contradicting cultural norms, fleecing cash from their own supporters, or even directly and actively hurting their own political constituency. In that environment, they are free to act to enrich and empower themselves in the long run even if the short term consequences are dire for everyone around them. Billionaires will not feel the economic impact of his policies, even if their portfolios drop on paper for a while. While Elon has lost a huge percentage of his “wealth” in terms of the drop in his stock portfolio, he still has hundreds of billions of dollars on paper. While that’s happening he and his class can start buying the dip, seizing ever more assets from the struggling masses just trying to stay afloat. Then, when the macroeconomy stabilizes, they will be sitting on that much more of the pile. Rinse and repeat.

Well, I suppose if you’re an incredibly racist freak, and you define any Muslim with a gun as a terrorist, then — you’re still fucking wrong and just peddling the same racist, anti-historical nonsense that fascists have used to rationalize apartheid, ethnic cleansing and active genocide for decades.

For anyone interested, Hasan never did this.

Given that my comment explicitly decrying anyone thinking about killing Rick Scott was modded, I can only assume that the mods are advocating for killing Rick Scott. It’s a madhouse.