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“They have taken immediate action to resolve this matter and are contacting impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated,” Hilton’s spokesperson said. “Hilton’s position is clear: Our properties are open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.”

A physical manifestation of the Paradox of Tolerance. I wonder how many staff members of that hotel decided to quit suddenly.

Jesus this is a bad take

80 people were killed, cities were bombed, and we've got shits on here doing "it was an inside job, aktuly"

Fucking vile.

Look up the stats on defensive gun uses. Just Google it.

The vast majority (90+%) end with no shots fired- the criminal sees the gun and runs away.

Because it's regularly over reported.

People call the police and claim they saw/heard a thing, then grabbed a gun. Police arrive to investigate and it is - predictably - nothing. Resident self-reports that they must have scared the ephemeral assailant of. Cops dutifully write it up without further investigation.

Gun-as-security-blanket is registered as successful defensive use.

They are so understaffed these days that they are no longer fast anymore.

The food itself is pre-prepared and re-heated on the spot. Go when there's not a rush on and you can get your food in minutes. Go during rush hour and you'll still be in and out much faster than at a sit-down establishment (that's also inevitably understaffed).

They’ve got people addicted to 7,000 times the amount of recommended daily sugar, fat, and salt content.

I've heard this line and I think there's an element of truth to it. Food really does taste differently if you've been eating the high salt/sugar junk for an extended period.

But you can get junk food anywhere. You don't need McD's to make it for you. Gas stations have soda fountains. Grocery stores have microwaved meals full of preservatives and sweeteners. You can just make yourself a hamburger at home, it doesn't have to come from a store.

It just takes time, a certain degree of skill, and a kitchen with functional appliances that you're going to need to clean up after you're done. McD's just goes in the trash afterwards. Far faster to buy a burger than cook one.

Presidents have been afforded enormous unilateral authority dating back to the turn of the 20th century. Particularly post-FDR and during the eternal State of Exception that was the Cold War, they accrued massive bureaucracies for a perpetual war-time footing. They gained significant influence over trade and travel via immigration and customs in an era of industrialized transport. And they operated as a choke point for legislation, via the Veto Pen, which made them critically important when lobbyists were bribing policymakers.

Trump is the apex of this consolidation of authority within the executive branch through what is known as Unitary Executive Theory.

Since the Reagan administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has embraced a stronger unitary executive, which has been championed primarily by its conservative justices, the Federalist Society, and the Heritage Foundation.

By clearing the way of obstructionist judicial authority and hobbling the legislature with aggressive use of the filibuster and other neutralizing tactics, the Presidency has effectively hijacked all the levers of power at the national level.

Add in the privatization of the bureaucracy - first through the Military Industrial Complex, the outsourcing of fiscal policy to the regulatory captured Federal Reserve, and the public-private partnership of the international surveillance/police state - and you invest the President and his cronies with millions of workers, trillions of dollars in capital and spending power, and endless latitude in setting administrative policies.

Trump's tactless deployment of these powers has soured the public on the personage in charge. But the public still doesn't seem to understand how the Presidency - as an institution - has been able to legally wield all this power precisely because the courts and legislature have surrendered it to the office voluntarily.

Once he's gone, the next guy will have all the same tools. The only question is how they're used.

Historically, it was one of the cheaper items on the menu. In college (20 years ago) I could get a large fries for under $1. Back in the 80s/90s they were practically free. Like, loose-change free.

Also one of the tastier meal items given that they went so fast you could safely assume they'd be fresh, why the sandwich options could be sitting in the warmer for half an hour or longer depending on the speed of business.

I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore.

It's all in the name. You can get through a fast-food drive through in about 5-10 minutes. Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.

With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?

Because you're fighting traffic on your way home to feed your spouse and kids.

Absolutely crazy to think Trump isn't aggressively contesting the entire Pacific Rim, North Africa, and Eastern Europe. FFS, how many times does he need to bomb Iran or Yemen before this shit is settled? How many times does need to send Steves Banon and Miller out to Germany, Poland, and Hungary to whip support within the fascist parties? How come the common denominator between every banana republic fascist in Latin America is their Austro-Hungarian parentage and their avowed support for Israel?

Might be closer to say he's ceding the African/East Asian Global South to the Israelis/Saudis/Qataris/UAE. But even that gives him far too much credit.

Crazy to see people smile benignly while US Presidents shake hands with Saudi Kings and Egyptian Dictators, only to discover their love for democracy when a socialist they don't like secures a 7-pt election lead.

If the J6ers had all been Venezuelan, I wonder if liberals would have stood back and let the US Congress get lynched?

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

Liberals will go on and on about how any defense of the Venezuelan government marks you out as a "Tankie", then clap like seals as US tanks and helicopters obliterate homes, massacre civilians, and snatch people up as political extortion.

These are the same tactics used time and again by ICE Agents within the US's own borders. They're the tactics used abroad, to quell dissidents in The Philippines and Haiti and Gaza and Yemen. These are the actions of a fascist government for the purposes of genocide of native peoples, seizure of lands, and generating capitalist profits.

Anyone who endorses it has picked a side. Just a shame they can't have these decisions carved into their foreheads for all the world to remember.

If another country kidnapped Trump

It would imply a seismic shift in the military capacity of the United States. We'd be looking at a country whose dozen-odd aircraft carriers and legions of armored cavalry and massive panopticon of intelligence gathering had fully failed to prevent the most high profile security disaster since 9/11.

Americans would be celebrating too

Liberals would be celebrating quietly while they made big frowny faces about the deplorable state of national security publicly. Conservatives would be frothing with rage and threatening to nuke half a dozen major metropolitan areas. JD Vance would be dick deep in a celebratory couch cushion in between photo-ops where he demanded bloody-fisted retribution.

Another country has no rights to interfere in America.

There's no such thing as "rights" with regard to national sovereignty. Only Might Makes Right. The people of the various states can defend themselves and one another via an international commitment to mutual aid. Or nationalist kingpins can build up military fiefs and raid one another's exposed flanks as opportunity presents. But the idea that any given national leadership is above intervention has never been true.

If anything, its the opposite of true. Country leaders appear to have a prerogative to engage one another - diplomatically or militarily - in pursuit of foreign policy aims. Had Venezuelans been as active in bribing and extorting American politicians as the Saudis or the Israelis, I suspect they'd be in a lot better of a position than they are today.