“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” - Heather Heyer

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I mean fair, but I guess we gotta deal with hostile governments in order of proximity here

Immigration is an unfathomably evil invasion that threatens our nations security and our sovereignty and [blah blah fascist claptrap blah…]

… unless The Economy says no, then nevermind.

-administration that demands to be taken seriously

There are definitely more people responsible for this than the one person who pulled a trigger, but he certainly is responsible for that. Being manipulated is not the same as being forced to do something.

a) Those moral objections aren’t going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you’re just following orders because everything happened so fast

b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump’s army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

c) If enough people leave, it’s going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to martial force, and that’s a good thing for us.

it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

This is American English we’re talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as “G.I. cans”.[2][3] During the same war, “G.I.”, reinterpreted as “government issue”[2] or “general issue”,[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., “G.I. soap”.[3] Other reinterpretations of “G.I.” include “garrison issue” and “general infantry”.[3]

The earliest known recorded instances of “G.I.” being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of “G.I. Joe” it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that “G.I. Joe” encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term “G.I. Joe,” who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

A source familiar with the matter tells ABC News that two of those shot are state Sen. John Hoffman of Champlin and state Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park

Why these two? I did a search for recent news articles about them and nothing notable jumped out at me, but hitting two Democratic state lawmakers feels too coincidental to just be dumb spree killing.

I’ll bet, but feeling bad about it doesn’t change what they’re doing

What was the population in 2019? Don’t we need that to understand that deaths outpace population growth?

I’m pretty sure the experts and agencies they talked to in this article have numbers for 2019.

If the newer population number is an undercount, how do we know the first clause in the sentence is true?

Because the reasons for that undercounting haven’t changed between 2019 and 2023, so the degree of undercounting is probably about the same, so even if the census numbers are an estimate they are still generally comparable, at least enough to say that (for example) an estimated 10-15% growth in the population experiencing homelessness and (for example) a 200% growth in deaths are out of whack with each other.

What’s the weather looking like in DC today? Because I know these stubborn idiot fascists won’t let something like a little lightning stop their stupid little celebration of themselves, so this all could end up a really fucking stupid mass casualty event pretty easily.

Yep, in October 2024 Israel wanted to bomb nuclear and oil resources in Iran but Biden said no to that and that they needed to pick another target, so Israel blew up a military base and killed some Iranian soldiers instead

Hopefully they feel like they’re under a ton of pressure from all angles between everyone calling them out for being the fascist thugs they are and Trump constantly screaming at them for more deportations and it’s making them sloppy

Fair enough, but, like, 100 archers against 1000 people ends poorly for the archers if the people are willing to take some casualties, and a keep wall is only good so long as nobody inside decides to unlock a door or people outside can’t get a ladder set up somewhere for a few minutes

Yes, there have been successful revolutions since the 1850s, but they’re definitely a lot harder than they used to be, and I think they now really do require some sort of defection from the ruling classes or military over to the opposition in a way that you didn’t really need for, say, the French revolution, where an angry mob of peasant women could just force their way into the kings castle and tell him how things were gonna be going forward

I’m not saying it’s impossible, and I’m definitely not saying people should give up protesting all the bullshit going on right now, but I do think meta social contract between the rulers and the ruled has changed a lot since the 18th century because of technological progress

Good question

why people aren’t gathering in mobs

Well, it happened about a hundred years after your time, but there’s this thing called the Gatling gun that got invented that really became a hard counter to angry mobs trying to storm things, and once that stopped being an option they just kinda stopped listening to us

Actually, I think NPR gets money from Amazon because they pay NPR for ad free versions of their shows for Prime subscribers, and Amazon just chooses to advertise that on their own

Of course, the fact that NPR is being paid by Amazon and Amazon customers get a premium version of public media is a total fucking disgrace, but NPR rightly or wrongly felt they had to do this because they’ve been expecting the federal government to try to cut them for years and they needed new revenue streams

It’d be just perfect if after all the bullshit he’s done Trump got impeached for asserting the US’s right to control its own foreign policy (or “critically undermining Israel’s right to defend itself” as they’d put it)

I’m pretty sure their real ambition is to destroy the Iranian government so they can more easily destroy any Iranians they decide aren’t friendly enough

I wonder if Denmark regrets this yet (arc)

With 94 votes in favor and only 11 against, the Danish parliament last night (June 11) passed a new defense agreement granting the United States extended access to military bases in three Danish cities: Karup, Skrydstrup, and Aalborg. The deal allows the US military to operate from these sites, store military equipment, conduct maintenance, exercises, and station personnel. The US forces will also have autonomous legal jurisdiction over their own military, relieving them from compliance with Danish law in the first degree.