Which is kind of bullshit because prosecutors cannot be trusted to tell the truth or ascertain as such. A crime is a crime and should be charged and not treated differently because the prosecutor has caused to impute motives that might never have been there.
The fools that passed these laws knew or should have known that people like Pam Bondi would be wielding them sooner or later. It did not take a lot of foresight to see how these laws would be abused but here we are.
The kind of ignores the fact that government behind the scenes leans on social media to ban users they do not like as was seen with the Homeland Security Department. They got cause from the far right and then predictably used it more against the left.
Or with israel, you won’t get banned for what you are getting banned for, they find some other pretext and because we have a zero rights online they don’t have to find something that is actually against their rules to ban you.
Social media is a public utility and needs to be regulated as such. It should be still at the state level as the feds will not do it in any good way. We should have a right to Fair enforcement of the rules, to know the decisions that went to into taking enforcement actions, and being able to appeal to a jury of our peers or whatever.
Our lawmakers are near all sociopathic nhilists that believe in nothing outside of self interest. The only check on their behavior is re election, remove that they will be worse their last term.
Lawmakers that have been in there forever and Corruption and misrepresentation of their constituents may seem correlated but it is not a causation.
It is not lawmakers being in there forever that has caused our lawmakers to suck. It is a very purposeful half-century long campaign by big business, from 1972 in the business Round Table that made a plan to corrupt and ultimately kill the Republic.
The one silver lining is that if the autocracy succeeds all of these guys will be supplanted, many by being persecuted. I suspect supreme leader will have a Joseph Stalin level of paranoia after the epic fight in the Viper pit for that position in 2028. That is if we do not get our shit together and get a popular muscular reform champion to run against them and overcome the vote rigging they plan on doing.
The rich people supporting him will get it worse than anyone, at some point they will start accusing them and seizing their assets, at first those that crossed the party, later seizing assets will be the end in itself.
Since I wrote this the Utah government was saying he was a roommates with a transsexual and suggested that was the cause. We should not expect reality too stop these people. Without organization and counter operations we are doomed here. The opposition party is lame and worthless by Design and fighting under their leadership is doomed to fail. Yet we continue to accept them in power.
Marcos saying he would be out there too if not prez.
If he is serious they should bring the hammer down on anyone buying luxury mansions and Villas and European sports cars with the what was it 9 billion US dollar equivalent of flood control projects that are sometimes non-existent in construction
The us admin will work to cancel it, as long as google is up to date on their protection money paid under the table through layers of shell companies. Also a specific extra commission. It is exactly like that. These guys are the most corrupt us Administration ever. And they are making money hand over fist under the table in addition to the 3.6 billion extra they have already made that they would not have. They being the president’s share of business ventures. His appointees are getting paid too you can bet.
He already bullied countries into backing off silicon valley regs and penalties, the eu appeased him so far.
The eu does not need the us they should have held firm, but I guess they are too busy trying to lock down the internet and read everything everyone has done online.
100 percent chance modi is running pegasus and like nso type spyware.
That was likely part of the deal, for expanded or continuing surveillance powers.
Pegasus and the like were likely the flame virus tweaked and repurposed, that infected iranian centrifuges and computers some 20 years back. Described as the most malicious virus to date back then, it listened and watched and logged and shared everything on iranian computers secretly even when off, and ruined centrifuges by mis tweaking their spin rates.
Any targets of bjp should ditch all smart phones.
Idk the term limits will help or hurt here. Being limited our lawmakers would sell out all the harder to set themselves up in their last term. It makes sense for executive positions because they can cement themselves in power.
I believe the answer is to organize and find and groom our own candidates that can win. Ones that will acknowledge and address the actual sources of our problems, which would be massively popular with voters you better believe it.
All of the west has had conservative aristocrats take over their mainstream parties, the only reform vote is the far right misdirecting anger from the plutocracy to immigrants and everything else.
Without getting a popular reform option fascists will seize the entire west with russia and the us helping behind the scenes, and fix elections like in hungary or however and we will not be able to get rid of them even as they get worse every cycle.
The western european countries will fall like dominoes with current leadership and lack thereof. We need to organize first, then find and groom real leaders, then take elections and direct anger to it’s sources, the super rich.
Our senators are old hacks, chosen to be weak.
You can talk all you want about unity and moving forward but you are not fooling anyone, it only gets worse from here.
And I do not identify as a progressive, because many that do would tar me in association. Content to be the little junior partners of the moderstes that have nothing but contempt for them, that would rather the Republicans win than a progressive…
It is pathetic, and republic ending allowing this dynamic to continue.
Compromising and making everyone vulnerable was the point behind doing it, protecting the kids was just the Trojan Horse.
A slate of true populists, a charismatic leader, and populists that fit their districts cooperating and what they agree on like the rich not fucking working people without their consent, would be wildly successful. It would rule for four to six presidential terms.
Obviously we are not going to get that but I feel like I have to try. Apparently we have to let this dumpster fire burn out, and take the Democratic establishment with it, before we can change anything because people still Trust them to run the opposition.
The president is popular because he looks like he is fighting. He is the only one that looks like he is fighting. Directing the justifiable anger of the voters albeit to the wrong sources. Which is why the rest of us hate him. Directing that anger to the right sources would be massively popular as FDR was.
They are further along in fascism in some respects than the us is. They just have mealy mouth leaders that do not say the quiet part loud.
I am not trying to be a dick either, but the same people are still in control of the opposition and fighting under them is doomed to fail. There might be a finality to elections now, we are now facing a pretty aggressive rigging. But since there is a succession battle we could still take it back with a muscular popular reform Party. I just do not want to see America get settled with a kakistocracy, rule of the worst, fixing elections.
Plus bringing the military into domestic affairs, which always ends the same way, the military sees the weakness of the political leaders and the levers of power and they subordinate the politicians and become the true rulers. Honestly the military would be an improvement over these malicious fucking clowns in politics, It could last decades.
When all we need is a new deal to usher in more prosperity for everybody, the grasping Rich included. They have no idea what they are supporting, the monster they’re supporting will destroy them which is the only silver lining here.
As a Mangione inspired billboard in Portland said, I think with a picture of part of mangione’s face, don’t look left or right, look up.
Racists are just tools of the super rich using them, religious, the ignorant disaffected, etc.
After they consolidate power they will be relegated with the rest of the population. They are being used because they are ill-informed, but they are not the ones pulling the strings, not the ones calling and running the plays here. It is moneyed interests doing that
Huh, I do not know the ins and outs but I am pretty sure I have seen popped wheat before at a minimum but yeah maybe it has to be done a certain way with a certain prepared grain.
Wrong. If hate speech is illegal those opposing the hate speech sponsored by the politicians are the ones that will be prosecuted under hate speech. How do you guys not get this by now?