“you sweet, summer child”

Oh come on. You really think rich people and the police protecting them would let a millionnaire killer run free?

They need a scapegoat, but what they need more is the certainty that the shooter won’t do more damage.

Republicans are not conservatives anymore, they embraced fascism, and fascists don’t care about rules. They only care about power, the kind that allows them to bully everyone into submission.

Yeah but he’s one of the few Democrats actually doing something against Trump and co.

Exactly. When people lose faith in democracy, leaders have free rein.

Alligator Auschwitz won’t populate itself

in order to carry out Trump’s immigration policies

Among a few other things.

I don’t know exactly how this works, but I think you’ll be held in contempt when you get a subpoena and decide not to show up.

The [AI] safety stuff is more visceral to me after a weekend of vibe hacking,” Lemkin said. I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.

This sounds like something straight out of The Onion.

Huh. I just saw that you need to be 30 to run for Senate in the US…

Please ignore my first comment :)

You’d have a hard time to demonstrate this is not discrimination against old people.

You may be right… I just wish I could be as optimistic as you are. The political opposition to Trump’s changes is very, very weak, and with all the money ICE has now, I’m afraid any popular movement will be swiftly repressed.

Let’s hope US citizens are as resilient as they believe they are.

There are many counterexamples to the third reich. China and Russia have been police states for a long time, with no end in sight.

This is actually a good argument, but the problem is that the other side don’t give a dick about rationality, the rule of law or anything that looks like a coherent political opinion. Democrats are still trying to win using rules that were thrown out the window by the GOP in January.

“Championing the status quo” is not how I would describe what Republicans are doing right now.

Aren’t there primaries for the Dems?

I’m guessing librarians know how to read more than many other categories of federal workers.

I think his top priority was to avoid confrontation. He has experience with dumb politicians from his time at the bank of England.

Carney had to use a word Trump understands.

But remember folks, calling this a genocide is antisemitic.