My first thought: This is theater. My second thought: Doesn’t change a thing. Fuck em both before, fuck em both now. Focus on the fascist govt giving all of our data to Palantir so that they can create a database to track all US residents and deport whoever they want whenever they want wherever they want.
There was a court case called the ‘Citizens United v FEC’ that ended up ruling in favor of corporations; It said corporations and organizations and unions can ‘donate’ as much money as they want to political candidates i.e. legalized bribery.
It was a post-doc student who wanted to continue his research at UMich on the fungus to develop ways to prevent blight. His peer-reviewed published research on the topic is available through google scholar: Google Scholar Link. He was wrong to try and sneak it in, but this looks like a dedicated scientific researcher making a bad decision - not an attempted terrorist attack.
Nit picking appreciated! I can’t believe I’ve been reading it and seeing ‘7’ instead of ‘T’
add to the list of parallels to Germany in the 30’s: (1) RFK implementing our own version of Aktion 74 (nazis ''forced euthanasia" of ‘undesirables’ including the disabled and sickly; the US version simply removes healthcare and obfuscates medical science). (2) The German ‘Law of preventing overcrowding of universities’ which sought to remove all undesirables from the higher education system - focused on Jewish people but also foreigners in general, and removal of those not party-aligned; The US version is starting by banning Harvard from enrolling foreign students and forcing schools to make lists of ‘suspect’ students, mainly Chinese students and pro-Palestine students
Maryland is super-blue politically and includes regions of the wealthiest black people in the country. They don’t want us to have AR’s
I think ‘S’ might be ‘binary’ in this situation
I can’t remember where I saw it, but it was a quote from an elderly man who was sad that the vast flocks of birds he saw over the midwest as a child are no longer around. Literally just directly poisoning the earth. Madness.
What is this exactly? Overriding congressional budget authority by executive order?
Step 1: Enact tariffs. Step 2: Eliminate Taxes, and convert federal revenue to a tariff-funded system. Step 3: Anger international trading partners leading to reduced trade, thus reduced tariff revenue for the federal government. Step 4: Federal government goes broke and the oligarchy turns every town into a company town.
RFK is enacting “Aktion 74” to cull the undesirables, and trump is working on enacting the “Law against the Overcrowding of German American Schools and Universities”.
this is called fraud
Do you have a source for that? I found this source that is citing data from the congressional budget office. SOURCE (I followed the link and did confirm the numbers match). I made a quick plot so it was easier to see trends. Nothing stands out to me about 1983 - there’s a small dip and then a course correction back towards the upwards trajectory, but this data tells us nothin about wealth inequality. We can’t use total values because of inflation and such , probably have to use revenue as a %GDP or something but I’m too lazy too keep searching at the moment :) My immediate thought looking at the plot is this: If the total tax rev kept going up, and the top tax rate was cut, then the increased tax burden must have shifted to the poorer classes; I’d have to verify but it seems like a logical conclusion.
i’m doing graduate work at the NIH and whewwwwwww the magas in the extended family think I work in the seventh circle of hell for satan
In the US, 1950-1980 is the era of lowest wealth inequality in the countries history. The top tax rate reached 91% in that time period. It is currently around 37%. Us poors had it worse before then, and have it worse after then. They won a birth lottery. Source: Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st Century’
I was just daydreaming about how the future of ‘AI assisted web search’ might quickly destroy our grip on reality. For instance if my MAGA mother-in-law says covid vaccines contain magnetizing microchips, and I say no they dont, then she googles ‘covid vaccine magnetizing microchip’, then the ‘AI assist’ automatically generates a video/article for ‘covid vaccine magnetizing microchip’ 🤷 . I realize this is basically happening already, but this is terrifying and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how we can collectively hold on to reality beyond what we can confirm with our own five (or however many) senses.
I believe they are referring to racial segregation in the US which adopted a ‘separate but equal’ mantra [in theory]. In practice, it was EXTREMELY unequal and clearly racist, with a white majority being first class citizens and a black minority as second class (or worse) citizens. Separation between mens and womens sports is separate and also unequal, the reasoning for which could be debated, but population wise thats a 50/50 split so in practice it ends up being ‘less unequal’ than would a segregation between a majority and minority. The trans population is less than 1% of the total pop, so ‘separate but equal’ would most definitely become highly unequal in practice. Is it compassionate, then, to have the handful of trans kids play sports against themselves in what would most definitely be ‘second-class’ conditions? How many ways must our society tell these kids that they are ‘others’?
I use LLM’s to help with math/science/coding, and the thing it screws up the most seems to be simple math (typically units/conversion issues) so I would be weary about gleaning financial advice from a chatbot.
I believe this is the american reichs version of Aktion T4
Yikes yep that would be something worth trying to distract people from. Also, I did giggle at the comment with djt being in the Regina George burn book. I’m sure he doesn’t know if butter is a carb.