Oh no, how terrible, I expect that will make all the difference.

My opinion of him didn’t change, because I believe it’s not a credible allegation.

But when real reports come to light and people can point at this and say “yeah, but they also spread this bullshit, you can’t trust liberals”, it starts to matter.

The full complaint is here, and anyone can read it.

It’s worth noting that this allegation also says that Elon Musk and Trump’s children were there at the time, and that the complaint was made anonymously 4 months before the 2020 election.

The man is a monster, but have an ounce of fucking sense, please.

Fair enough. It took a day or two before I heard anything much more about her than that she was someone that the US government had just executed in the street.

Also, no media made a big deal of the fact she was gay, because we don’t care about anything like that in the UK, unless of course she’d been trans in which case she’d have been hung out to dry.

Right, so the way these jokes works is this:

An article headline makes a claim about someone, but specifically doesn’t mention who they are, because the context makes it obvious.

You respond with a “so (deliberate misinterpretation which also fits the description given)”.

For example:

Headline: Movie about First Lady is as vacuous as its subject

Comment: So the Michelle Obama documentary is still on Netflix.

Pwnd libs: “…”

Zing! Eat that libs. Takedown complete.

Now, what you’ve failed to understand here is that the headline quite specifically mentions the name of the movie, “Melania”, so it doesn’t work as a flow. Because no-one in their right mind would think the Michelle Obama documentary is called “Melania”. Imagine overhearing this conversation on the bus:

Person 1: I saw that “Melania” movie recently. It is as vacuous as its subject matter!

Person 2: So the Michelle Obama documentary is still on Netflix?

At best we’re assuming that person 2 has misheard, and probably “has dementia” is higher up the list than “has just made a cutting remark”.

Anyway, better luck next time.

Fair enough. I guess I mostly saw breaking reports which were fairly scant on personal details followed by opinion pieces which focused more on the “usa slides further into fascism” angle.

I guess it depends where you are and how you read the news. From outside the USA I saw a lot of details about the murder, and the backlash, before reading that her wife was in the car at the time. It probably took a couple of days?

It’s nuts right? If they ban guns from protestors, what reason will they have to shoot them? What deadly weapon will they say…

Oh right, cars.

Fair enough. I knew he didn’t win the primary, so I thought he was perhaps as much “fuck dems” as the next person.

but if it had been a left-wing supporter going at Noem or Miller, then the left response would be…

Even assuming you’re correct, all that does is show that there are dickheads all across the political spectrum.

I don’t know if you’re aware of the recent(ish) history of people squirting liquids into (especially Muslim) women’s faces, but I fail to see how this is significantly different from running up and sticking a replica gun in her face.

Sanders (I-Vt.)

Doesn’t that mean he’s the independent senator(?) for Vermont?

We need to cut their funding.

You can’t. They got given $77b. That is now their excess budget which they can carry forward for 4 years. You can, perhaps, claw some of it back, at least nominally. But getting that through the courts, and appeals, and the Supreme Court before it’s all spent? Not a chance.

This is the first stage.

ICE are funded up until the end of FY2029, so that they can act as Trump’s personal army should the election not go his way. They cannot be defunded by anyone. That gives them over 3 years to weed out the weak, harden the strong, and practice urban combat.

So while I’m glad that these crybabies couldn’t hack the path they chose, I can’t be glad about what it’s doing to the overall makeup of ICE.

They’re like 3-6 months behind current news.

I love telling language models the current news. They are blown away, every time. I give them a “how plausible is my novel?” analysis then when they say not at all, I tell them it’s real, then allow them to search the news. Loads of fun, in a “watching the apocalypse slowly unfold” kind of way.

“[…] I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,”

Don’t cry about it online. You’ve discovered your employer is a fucking monster (well done, it took you long enough), now quit.

Yeah, but your solution is what - hope that a large number of Americans stop being dumbasses by the next election?

Much better to assume that a certain percentage of the electorate are gullible idiots, and make sure that you play to that audience, because the other side certainly will.

A lot of Americans chose “something different” over “more of the current shit that is slowly killing us”.

Perhaps if they’d been offered another version of “something different” they wouldn’t have chosen Trump. Or maybe they would, because ultimately Trump embodies the real American dream for a lot of people.

Yes, that’s my point. Trump fucked the economy. Covid, including Trump’s response to it, fucked it further.

Neither of you are wrong. This isn’t going away until a lot of people do something different.

And a lot of people are in your situation - they don’t have the power to do anything, even if they wanted to.

The answer is just that before this goes away, it’s going to get a lot worse first.

By outlawing solidarity strikes, and several other kinds of strikes. It’s difficult to organise a general strike because almost every general strike is illegal.