Yea what we really need is a song contest to whitewash the ongoing genocide, that will really bring us all together.

Eurovision is fascist-oriented and needlessly nationalistic. Surely there must be a better model out there somewhere...

You're right that Democrats are near-powerless right now, but it was only a few short years ago when they were in power. Let's not forget their actions.

When in power, they did not concern themselves with the daily atrocities or the banality of evil.

Their overwhelming support for the genocide in Palestine is just the tip of the banality iceberg.

As an American I think it's helpful to put this into some sort of perspective.

Things the US won't forget:

• Tiananmen Square (thousands dead)

Things the US will forget:

• Korean War (3mil civilian dead)

• Vietnam War (2mil civilian dead)

• Iraqi War (1mil civilian dead)

• Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)

• Violent overthrow of Afghanistan (twice, over 1 mil dead)

• Violent overthrow of Nicaragua

• Violent overthrow of Grenada

• Violent overthrow of Panama

• Violent overthrow of Libya

• Coup d'etat of Guatemala

• Coup d'etat of Iran

• Failed Coup d'etat of Syria

• Failed Coup d'etat of Indonesia

• Many failed Coup d'etat attempts on Cuba

• Coup d'etat of Congo

• Coup d'etat of Laos

• Coup d'etat of the Dominican Republic

• Coup d'etat of Iraq

• Coup d'etat of Brazil

• Successful Coup d'etat of Indonesia (1 mil dead)

• Coup d'etat of Chile

• Multiple Coup d'etat of Bolivia

• Coup d'etat of Haiti

• Multiple Coup d'etat attempts on Venezuela

• Coup d'etat of Palestine

• Mass civilian casualties, destabilization of many governments, people subject to a lifetime of torture without a trial, all under the War on Terror

This list could be so much longer, but I gotta get to work.

If you're ever lucky enough to get selected for jury duty on an "assault on a federal officer" case, then I believe it is your civic duty to acquit, no matter the evidence.

Google "jury nullification".

In my experience, when you bring up FMLA, then you're going to be fired.

Its a well-intentioned protection, but not enough legal teeth. Corporations have learned how to work around it.

This problem will continue to get worse until workers gain power in our society. Mass unionization or socialist revolution would solve the problem; both are very unlikely.

All that is left is violence; may a thousand Luigi's bloom.

I believe Luigi is the killer, and he should be regarded as a hero. The slaying of Brian Thompson was a honorable and heroic act.

Killing a man who did the evil and destructive work of Healthcare CEO has literally saved the lives of hundreds or maybe even thoudands of United Health customers who would have had their lifesaving care denied.

If you are lucky enough to be chosen for jury duty, please study Jury Nullification

I have an honest followup question to this meme (because I lived it): how long do you expect the girlfriend to stay?

At age 23 I was in a great relationship, we were in love, then I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I stopped being able to do physical things, I dropped out of school, I was bedridden. She went from being my girlfriend to being my nurse. She cared for me for a year, one long miserable year, then she left.

Is she at fault for leaving?

I honestly think if he took his shirt off it would cost him the election.

Seeing the flabby, 78-year-old American physique in all its glory would be both a literal and figurative "emperor has no clothes" moment for many of his cultists.

I'll be the pedantic one here and say it: Big Bird is wrong here, this is not wage theft.

Wage theft is unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid benefits, tip theft, etc.

If Big Bird is a Marxist, he should describe this type of theft as surplus labor value.

Or if Big Bird is a capitalist, he would just call it profit.

I graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Washington in 2020, during the height of Covid.

After over 3000 handcrafted applications (and many more AI-written ones), I have never been offered a job in the field.

I know of multiple CS graduates who have killed themselves, and so many who are living with their parents and working service/retail.

I think the software engineering rush of the early 2000s will be looked back upon like the San Francisco gold rush in 1949.

The F-15 is an air superiority fighter. It is designed to destroy other aircraft, and has little use in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

So when these are delivered in 5 years, who will Israel be attacking? Lebanon? Syria? Iran?

This deal feels more like a short-term bribe to keep the US military industrial complex on Israel's side.

I downvote it everytime because of its rightwing bias.

If you say the mainstream corporate news is center left, you're either stupid or you have a right wing agenda.

Its hard to think of anything more heroic than going overseas to run a charity kitchen in a famine-stricken warzone.

I'm confused. Is he self aware?

Does he know that this is cringe, and yet posts it deliberately to increase engagement? Like a Facebook algorithm that has escaped and gained sentience, is he a demon driven to maximize user's time on app at all costs?

Or is he the proverbial egotistical billionaire, surrounded by yes-men who have helped to lodge his head so far up his own ass that he actually believes tweets like this are cool and witty?

This asshole destroyed the public option, then a few years later my life was destroyed by medical bankruptcy.

It is sad that he got to live a full life surrounded by loved ones. He deserved so much worse.

Rest in piss, you wont be missed.

Only idiots are saying both sides are the same, but the only way to make Biden look good is to compare him to Trump. Such a low bar.

Lowering insulin prices is great, but its just another bandaid on the gaping, infected wound that is the US healthcare system. What happened to the public option that candidate Biden talked about so much?

Lowering cannabis to schedule 3 is a step in the right direction, now we can have legitimate legal studies on the drug. But this doesn't have to go in baby steps, he could have just descheduled it. We will still be arresting and prosecuting and jailing, ruining lives and wasting loads of taxpayer dollars.

The infrastructure bill is just clearing the maintenance backlog, we still have no real plans for high speed rail. Our infrastructure is 10-15 years behind China and falling further behind.

And the leader who preceded Hitler, and whose blunders helped Hitler gain power, was Paul von Hindenburg.

Von Hindenburg, running for his second term at 84, was widely regarded as being too old and incompetent. For the centrists and center-left parties, he was their only hope in defeating Hitler.

After Von Hindenburg's defeat, Hitler passed the Enabling Act to assume full power.

History may not repeat, but it rhymes.

It's not wasted at all, this is textbook Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein, 2007). This is Steve Bannons's "flood the zone" strategy that Trump is currently following.

The lies will be believed by dedicated Zionists. Paid Hasbara trolls will be repeating these lies forever.

For most news consumers, the story will come across muddled, confused, and open to personal interpretation. From their low-information perspective, a conclusion of "both sides" seems reasonable.

And for those who are paying attention and have a strong sense of morality, this will be one more battle we will have to repeatedly fight. We will have to expend time and energy to fight this lie, and it is just one of many.

And Officer Kevin Dave, who drove 74mph in a 25mph residential zone without sirens when he hit Jaahnavi in a crosswalk, is still employed by the Seattle Police Dept.

He has always told rambling, near-incoherent stories. He has always lied profusely.

What's new is how hes slurring his words, and how lethargic he is. It was especially noticable in his recent performance on the Lex Fridman show podcast.

The early signs of dementia are unavoidable at this point. It might only be a matter of time until Trump has his "We finally beat Medicare" moment.