ultranaut

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think it is more a declaration of a willingness in the US military to engage in extrajudicial killings of Americans whenever Trump is ready to give the order. He is probably referring more to death squad type operations rather than full on military engagement.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 88 points 4 days ago (6 children)

My first impression reading his bizarre comment was that Trump believed a MAGA cultist killed the Reiners for their politics, and he was happy about that and taking credit for what happened. Basically, "look what happens to meddlesome priests".

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I vote in primaries every year, it's not just the Presidential election that has a primary.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It might be more prevalent with fentanyl but it's not unique to it, I remember seeing the fold happening decades before fentanyl was around. I do think it is unique to opioids though, there's a similar thing that can happen with dissociates but it's got a different character to the movement and poses.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not just fentanyl, it's opioids in general. Junkies have been doing this long before fentanyl was available.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ms. would have come across a little better. Boomer feminism appreciates the distinction.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

20 years sounds incredibly optimistic for any Samsung appliance.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely. There would have been people watching everything in real time and making the decisions about what to do.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That doesn't seem true though, most actual leftists don't like tankies and the people on Lemmy complaining about tankies seem to mostly be leftists themselves. Tankies are like LaRouchites, no one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy. It's not a left or right thing.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's vague on purpose, what contributes is entirely contextual. It would take a lot to explain in detail and I don't see a reason to spend the time when a high level summary gets the idea across.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I upvote things I disagree with if they contribute to the discourse in some way.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

The Republican party has not been a traditional political party in quite awhile now, Trumpism has fully transformed it into a dangerous cult. Continued affiliation with the Republican party in the current political context is plenty of evidence to know someone is deeply biased and poses a threat the rule of the law.

 

Never give the cops your phone.

 

For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

 

In November, Ohio residents will have an opportunity to vote on Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would finally abolish the state’s extreme partisan gerrymandering. Voters will not, however, be informed of this fact on the ballot. Instead, the Ohio Supreme Court’s Republican majority ruled Monday that the amendment will be described in egregiously misleading terms on the ballot itself, with ultra-biased language designed to turn citizens against it. Incredibly, a proposal that would end gerrymandering will be framed as a proposal to require gerrymandering, a patently false representation of its intent and effect. The court’s 4–3 decision marks yet another effort to subvert democracy in Ohio by Republicans who fear that the citizenry—when given a voice on the matter—might dare to loosen their stranglehold on power.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html

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