Not a big ask. That's the baseline. Doesn't matter where. Doesn't matter who. Don't support it. Fight against it. Because we are all human beings.
If you want enthusiastic grassroots support however. That's gonna cost you actual policy that actually helps people. Here's some examples. Universal Healthcare. Free college, which you should be supporting anyway if you dont want the country to be left behind the rest of the world. UBI cuz it's just a good idea and it's been proven to work. Also we need it because -gesticulates wildly at everything- and ...people spending money is good for the economy. Sadly, we're a capitalist country. And if everyone is broke the house of cards will just unceremoniously collapse.
I rewarded our farmers with a payment of $28 Billion Dollars, all through the China deal. It was a great transaction for the USA, until Crooked Joe Biden came in and didn’t enforce it
Just the choice of "rewarded" makes me want to punch his face in
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center, in west-central Texas, under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th-century wartime law that allows for accelerated removal of foreigners deemed a threat by authorities.
"The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court," the court said in a brief early Saturday note. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
"This is really going to impact institutions that we take for granted," Internet Archive director of archiving and data services Jefferson Bailey told the Standard, "like our museums, our historical societies, our public libraries, our academic libraries — just a lot of people that keep information free and accessible and online."
These should only be allowed in ordinary flight zones, far away from any buildings it may smash into.
The CPC will likely never approve of anything similar to this anywhere near residential, industrial or commercial zones due to the danger it represents
Plus, the use of these flying cars are essentially the same as Helicopters
These articles also never mention how this is going to work in the fabric of a city.
Say optimistically a 15 second separation between vehicles, 4 passengers per vehicle, means one ¨sky-lane¨ can transport 60/15 * 60 * 4 => about 1000 people per lane. That´s worse than a car lane, and an order of magnitude behind bicycle lanes and subways. You can stack multiple lanes vertically, but then it becomes more fun with traffic control for take-off and landing and still a bicycle lane transports more people.
So far these things seem better as a city hopper, or used in a rural setting, but the current ones don´t have the range for that either.
Special licensing that is on-par with a helicopter license is needed immediately. They also need to establish travel corridors for commercial drones and flying cars. Delivery drones and flying cars without corridors just means debris fields.
The alternative is autonomous AI trafficked flying cars that is networked with all commercial drone traffic, but that is 5-10 years away from being reliable and possible.
Regardless, the big issue is safety, a helicopter can land without the engine running. A flying car can also land without power, but not as softly and with less survivability.
The alternative is autonomous AI trafficked flying cars that is networked with all commercial drone traffic, but that is 5-10 years away from being reliable and possible.
50-100 years is more likely. The complexity of automated low altitude flight is exponentially more complex than driving on the ground.
It isn't that complex. The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it, especially if we are talking about an autonomous car with idiotic vision mapping without lidar.
With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do, and the locations of every stationary object based on maps and lidar on the vehicle, you can keep collisions far less likely. Taking the human control out of the picture improves the conditions substantially.
I wouldn't trust a flying car at all, but I would trust an autonomous one with AI ATC far more than an autonomous car going through a construction zone on a highway in a major city during rush hour.
You would have a point if the flying car didn't have to take into account the wind, updrafts, downdrafts, wind sheer off buildings, and a ton of other flying related stuff that helicopter pilots need to take into account which are barely noticeable to cars the majority of the time.
Then there is landing, the most dangerous part of flying. Imagine if the emergency braking in a csr needed to stop the car without spilling a liquid from an open cup.
Being on the ground is far less complex than flying, otherwise getting a pilot's license would be easier than a driver's permit.
With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do, and the locations of every stationary object based on maps and lidar on the vehicle, you can keep collisions far less likely.
This magically perfect AI would work on the ground too. I mean, it knows what birds are going do, why not people?
The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it
With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do
Spoken like someone from a culture where drivers are the only thing around because they have gotten so used to ignoring pedestrians, bicyclists, animals (wild or otherwise),.... that might be found on the road and hasn't considered what else might be in the air at all.
There are a whole lot less obstacles and unknowns in the air, as well as more planes (ha!) of separation available than a car.
When flying, you don’t really need to worry much about random pedestrians, for example.
If the entire system were completely automated, from the car all the way to ATC, and it’s essentially a taxi that you just tell what location to go to and it handles the rest… well that’s basically air traffic today minus the automated ATC part. (That isn’t to diminish pilots at all; just that I think it’d be a lot easier, in general, to replace a pilot than a taxi driver with automation. They’re both still extremely challenging problems.)
If you ignore take off and landing, birds, weather conditions, and everything else that makes flying more complex and dangerous than driving on the ground, sure.
And if you ignore construction sites with high cranes and not documented buildings. Or overland high voltag power cables, wind mills, hobby drones, and local variations of birds.
It‘s just taking the complex challenges of autonomous drivinf into the third dimension. Making it even more complex.
Other than the takeoff and landing, cars have to deal with those obstacles as well.
A computer running a citywide automated traffic system for cars would have all the same complexity, without the ability to separate traffic in three dimensions.
So yeah, if you ignore the parts that make it more complicated it seems easier!
If it is windy, it is far more complicated than driving on the road, especially in cities with taller buildings. Like not crashing into buildings is far harder than applying the brakes when there is ever changing wind shear that you can't see. This applies to most days in most cities.
And they communicate in real time while individually checking their collision sensors for non swarm obstacles. The technology is 100% there, the flight capabilities do not matter nor the fact it's a passenger vehicle; we have the algorithm and sensor packages right now to do what you think is a hundred years away.
You completely glossed over the small, agile part.
A drone can do a fucking barrel roll with zero impact on its flight capabilities or passengers. Have fun with passengers when an automated passenger drone needs to quickly change thrust direction because of wind shear.
That's a matter of changing the PID compensations, it's not a difficult problem. Do you think all drones can do a barrel roll? There are nonagile drones in operation right now, in swarm configurations. Not as large as a car, but again, that's a matter of tweaking the PID, nothing more or less.
To put it another way you don't restart learning how to drive a car each time you drive a new car. You tweak your internal pids to that of the new car. The difference is humans are stupid, slow, and have terrible coordination that can't be immediately transferred over a fleet.
A lot of posts here lately are kind of silly ideas that China tries to sell as the next big thing because it‘s cyberpunk. We should be more cautious about these stories.
25 mins of flight on a charge, and that’s not going to be at max speed , so we’ll ballpark it to 15 miles of range perhaps and that’s assuming no “traffic” or delays on landing. Not terribly practical like pretty much all of these flying car concepts.
Oh, and if anything goes wrong, you’re likely dead.
No I've just been to countries that aren't stupid enough to have overhead power lines anywhere near residential or commercial properties, even in rural communities. The amount of money you save by being lazy with overhead lines is eaten up by the constant repair and maintenance, and in a competent country, health costs that they inevitably cause.
Underground lines are the only sensible solution. I mean you should be generating power that far from its primary draw anyway.
I have gotten to the point that when a scifi world is made futuristic by having... traffic jams in the sky, and futuristic cities absolutely must have magic sky cars in their skyline but there is ZERO thought towards futuristic mass transit I just shut it off.
We already have flying cars that people use as their primary vehicle, it is called living in the middle nowhere Alaska and owning a bush plane. The thing is, that is actually the only kind of situation where everyone owning a flying car makes sense, extreme isolation, huge empty distances and no roads.
The whole point of a city is NOT to need something like a flying car.
I still don’t understand how helicopters are not flying cars.
If you want everyone to have a flying car, we should talk about everyone having a helicopter first so we can quickly come to the conclusion of why that’s a bad idea.
It's like hover craft, sure they work, but at what cost? Bicycles, now there's a design one can roll with. There was an HPV, The Gossamer Alabatross, crossed the English Channel in '79. Is anybody riding them now? Do you see similar HPVs anywhere now? No!
You are 100% correct that helicopters and their issues are the exact reason why flying cars are a terrible idea for the general population. I even like to point them out as the same thing when people talk about flying cars. There are some technical differences between people's image of a flying car, which is closer to a drone with the multiple lift producing drives than a singular giant spinning blade, although the little ones would be comparably dangerous in a crash.
That said, helicopters aren't flying cars because you can't drive them around on the ground. Which means this product is a helicopter, not a flying car.
The problem with a flying car for the general population is that people are already bad at navigating in 2D and that any technical failure in the air means a vehicle drops onto something and the average person is not going to do a proper checklist and rigid maintenance schedule on their private vehicle.
I would hope that by the time something like this launched to the general public, it would be a service rather than an expected purchase. Like self-driving-flying taxis.
It doesn’t make sense to have everyone owning their own when they will probably be largely autonomous to avoid issues with individuals driving them (not that everyone owning a car makes sense either, but I digress), so the maintenance shouldn’t be an issue either.
The problem with an air ambulance idea is you need to make it big enough to work on a patient and it needs to be big enough to hold enough battery to have enough range. You could maybe have one big enough for working on the patient, but with a shorter range, with the only advantage over a helicopter being a smaller area needed to land.
I think it will be a Segway of the air, meaning only "rich" douchbags and sightseeing companies use them in America until enough people die. Opulent presenting countries will use them for headlines like Dubai and SE Asian countries will have them for the police tactical units.
Jesus F. Christ the BS that gets posted and upvoted in this community is getting more ridiculously Chinese propagandist by the day. Freaking air taxis? Really? Germany has like a dozen of those dumpster fire startups that chew up subsidies like it‘s no tomorrow (because for them there really isn‘t).
Are Car Accidents a Leading Cause of Death in America? _x000d_ Yes, car accidents are indeed a leading cause of death in the United States, particularly for certain age groups.
What kind of a backward ass piece of shit country would allow these things to fly all over the place? This entire industry is ridiculous and doomed to fail from the start.
I got a fitness armband as a gift and use gadgetbridge (free and open source Android app) gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/weara… Maybe it supports your watch?
I got a Sonos speaker for Christmas a couple years ago.
As soon as I realized I needed an account for it to simply play music, I went to return it. The guy in the store told me that there were no speaker brands that did not require an account these days, and that I shouldn't be so petty. He said "but you also have a Google account, right?", "Why is a Sonos account such a problem?".
I told him indeed, I already need a Google account for my phone to work, a Spotify account for listening to my music, and now a Sonos account for my speaker that plays that music , and I thought that was ridiculous.
My previous speaker was a Sony, and while that did have an app to configure it, it didn't require setting up an account with any personal data, which I think is fucked up for a device whose main purpose is just to produce sound. I left the speaker in the store and got my money back.
I did some research and found Teufel devices, speakers from Germany that work fine with an app that doesn't require an account. Now all my speakers and soundbars around the house are Teufel, and I'm very happy with them. I think also Yamaha has (or at least had) accountless speakers. So win/win - buying European and keeping my privacy a little more in check.
I did the same for my smart scale. I don't want my weight in the cloud somewhere, or on the servers of some Chinese or U.S. company somewhere. An app on my phone can store daily weight and other health data just fine.
So when I wanted a smart scale, I also did some research. It turns out there's an open source app called openscale that does exactly that: just store the data locally on my phone, and it supports a bunch of devices.
I got myself a Beurer scale (coincidentally also a German brand) because I read you can skip the whole account setup. Then used openscale to register my weigh ins. It works, I'm sure the cloud apps of larger brands have a nicer user interface, but they come at the cost of my privacy, which I simply refuse to sell out for a piece of hardware whose main purpose is to show me what I weigh.
I think people should be more conscious about their data. I don't use apple pay or Google wallet, my bank already knows most of what I pay, where and when. Why would I want to share that with these big corporations? I will gladly trade in a little convenience for a lot of privacy.
Is it a smart speaker? (In the sense that it supports playing music over the network and Spotify connect?) Because if so, I'd like to know the brand and type. I couldn't find a lot online.
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Oggi, la giornata odierna, se ci fermiamo un attimo a pensarci su, è un giorno a dir poco incredibile. Oggi è davvero la ricorrenza di tutto e di ogni cosa, dove le forze del buio e della luce si contrastano pacificamente sullo scenario del calendario, portandoci a riflettere sulle coincidenze in cui possono incorrere le […]
Oggi, la giornata odierna, se ci fermiamo un attimo a pensarci su, è un giorno a dir poco incredibile. Oggi è davvero la ricorrenza di tutto e di ogni cosa, dove le forze del buio e della luce si contrastano pacificamente sullo scenario del calendario, portandoci a riflettere sulle coincidenze in cui possono incorrere le date che, volenti o nolenti, regolano il nostro mondo:
Pasqua, giorno del Gesù (la sua resurrezione per mezzo di evaporazione su in cielo, vabbé)
“4/20”, festa della Maria (inteso, quella che non necessariamente approvo, non parlo della mamma di Cristo)
20 aprile, compleanno di Adolf Hitler (che ad oggi giustamente non si festeggia più)
Una situazione insomma un bel po’ frizzante, rispetto all’anno scorso, in cui Pasqua è caduta in un giorno in cui si onorano due ricorrenze molto meno memabili (TDoV e ora legale); il 31 marzo, data che per giunta è facile persino per me dimenticare esista (e mi chiedo come mai sia in realtà così diffuso il “sentire” che marzo abbia 30 giorni anziché 31, ma questo sarà un dubbio per un altro giorno)… 🙏
La cosa strana però è che oggi sono tipo stanca… e ormai questa è sempre più una non-novità, certo, ma oggi è particolare. Casualmente, come Pasqua dell’anno scorso, nonostante la data completamente diversa, la mattina avevo da stare fuori casa, e sono poi arrivata a poco prima di pranzo praticamente a crollare senza alcun spiegabile motivo. Probabilmente è il caldo, perché fuori fa fin troppo caldo, anche se io in realtà non lo percepisco consciamente in questa parte dell’anno. (E no, l’antistaminico non l’ho preso… è assurdo.) 🥀 In buona sostanza sono moderatamente contrariata dal fatto di non essere vaporizzata e ascesa al cielo anche io oggi, ma suppongo che arriverà anche il mio tempo, prima o poi. Buona Pasqua questa volta ve lo faccio dire dal riccone a noi tanto caro, che stavolta ci ha fatto proprio un regalone che altro che l’uovo (si vede quanto ce l’ha grosso l’abbonamento della palestra), e dalla sua tipa, che per una volta non ha messo foto proprio quando è stato il ragazzo a farlo… i ruoli si sono invertiti! 🤯 (Ma a parte gli scherzi, dove cazzo sta Durov, assieme ai crapetti???) #caldo #domenica #DUROV #Pasqua
Enrico Mattei è una figura che ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella storia dell’Italia del Novecento, non solo per la sua leadership nel settore energetico, ma anche per la sua capacità di opporsi ai poteri internazionali.
An American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by U.S. border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada.
Bachir Atallah told CNN he and his wife, Jessica, were driving back into the U.S. Sunday evening after visiting family in Canada for the weekend when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped them for a secondary inspection at the Highgate Springs checkpoint in Vermont.
Atallah, who is originally from Lebanon, said he was told to park his Range Rover and hand over his keys. When he asked the officer why, the officer placed his hand on his gun and told him to exit his vehicle, Atallah said. He said he was then handcuffed and led into a cell, where his belongings were confiscated. He said his wife was put into a cell across from his.
“Seeing my wife’s mascara running because she was crying, it was heartbreaking,” Atallah said. “It wasn’t humane.”
The Democrats have cried about "the most important election of our lives" too many times, and people tuned it out. For people crying how terrifying a Trump presidency was going to be, their actions told voters that they would be happy to let this happen and keep working with the same individuals they told them would end democracy, and so far, they continue to work with the Republicans, with a very few conspicuous exceptions.
People warned the Democrats they could only run that play so many times before it no longer worked, yet they decided to stick with it anyway. If the Democrats wanted to win, they needed to have run a very different campaign, if not a different candidate.
Democrats keeping his name in the media 24/7, refusing to listen to the demands of its voters, refusing to primary Biden until the donor class stopped the flow of money, and the constant gaslighting of our day to day lives did more to elect trump than anything.
Democrats didn't point a gun to your head and tell you to stay home. The Democrat nominee wasn't God-tier-perfect, so you pulled a temper tantrum. If you opted to sit the election out, that was a decision you made. You made the active choice to help return the man you're supposed to be dead set against back to office. Don't go around blaming "Democrats" or anybody else for the choices you made.
These were your choices. Own them.
Maybe next time you'll learn that you don't stop yourself from shooting yourself in the foot by aiming the gun at your own head instead.
Imagine being so brainwashed that refusing to condone genocide and acknowledging liberals as being the left wing of fascism is viewed as god tier perfect. The mental gymnastics coming out of BlueMAGA is giving MAGA a run for their money
So the solution to a politician who is "condoning genocide" is to instead elect a person who was actively campaigning on genociding harder, seizing the land, and turning Gaza into beachfront property for the rich?
You still think dems can win running a pro genocide campaign from (what they call) the left? That strategy is a special kind of stupid. Dems will not only continue to lose but continue to permanently lose voters from their base if they keep trying that. But I say go for it-- its time to get rid of the existing democratic party and form something new anyway. So good luck to you.
If you honestly think these people are the reason the Democrats lost, then you should adopt their policies instead of courting voters on the right. Even though I agree with a proper ceasefire, I don't think they're the reason the Democrats lost.
It could be the headline writer to blame, but I'd like to recommend that these people stop making "demands" of the only party in our two-party system that recognizes them as human, and start working with them to make incremental improvements. It won't get fixed overnight, let's not pretend it can be fixed by making "demands".
I understand it's not their fault that our two-party system is as fucked up as it is. But, for all practical purposes, there are only two sides to choose from here, and one side wants to pave over Gaza and build resorts there. Gazans will be shipped out by the bus load, and the only ones allowed to stay will cater to wealthy Americans and Israelis. People who advocate for Palestinians, but refuse to work with Democrats, will be just as culpable in that outcome as the current US Administration who is deporting anyone they can who says publically that Palestinians are humans who have the same inherent rights as any other human.
I’d like to recommend that these people stop making “demands” of the only party
I'd like to suggest you stop trying to nag voters into doing whatever evil nonsense the corporate and far right genociding donors tell you they bought fair and square. Its not going to happen and you just look stupid trying to make it happen.
Join the repubs if you so badly want to service those donors.
I did, it just such a tired argument I didnt feel countering it yet again. Everyone else is sick of it too-- talking to you is increasingly a waste of everyone's time. Check out the party approval rating if you need some feedback on how compelling your dem centrist narrative is.
As a legal immigrant from New Zealand this is starting to concern me. At first I didn't have a problem with the deportations. I mean, America has a border and it's there right to enforce it but now they're just arresting and deporting random people. It doesn't help that as a mixed race person I'm commonly mistaken for a Latina as I am half white and half Maori.
So did I. It's kinda normal and shouldn't be a problem in a functioning state. I hope you can find someone knowledgeable to talk this through with IRL, asap.
As an American who was mortified by the racially-motivated deportations from the get-go: I want you to explain why you were initially ok with them. It is blatantly obvious that they were being organized and conducted in bad faith.
As I said in the post America has its borders and it's they're right to enforce them. Every country has. It isn't good for the illegal aliens but frankly the illegals shouldn't have entered the country if they didn't want to deal with the consequences. I have nothing against immigration just as long as it's done legally.
His attorney said that as of 28 March, the day after his arrest, his F-1 visa was still active. [Harsono’s lawyer] Gad said the government revoked it without any notice to him, and then claimed he had overstayed. The revocation was backdated to 23 March and allegedly based on his 2022 misdemeanor conviction for graffitiing a semi-truck trailer. Gad said that this is not a deportable offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The completely unethical (and hopefully illegal, but I'm not familiar enough with US immigration law) behaviour by the government here clearly has one purpose: intimidate immigrants to get them to leave voluntarily.
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Democratic U.S Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan is calling for the impeachment of Trump over the case of the man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Thanedar's office said in a release Friday that the Trump administration's "blatant disregard" for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring they facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a "direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution."
"I've seen enough," Thanedar said in a social media post on Thursday. "Trump is not abiding by a Supreme Court ruling. I fully support impeaching him. Now."
Thanedar's office said in a release Friday that the Trump administration's "blatant disregard" for a Supreme Court ruling requiring they facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a "direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution."
Before we start buying kits that assemble together: a large blade, two tall posts, some rope, and a basket. Of course the actual apparatus will need more support beams and other accessories but you get the idea.
oh, if you want to establish an effective visual that will serve as a long-lasting reminder to future ambitious sociopaths, film one of these sub-humans getting fed feet first into a chipper shredder and make it mandatory viewing.
Not only that, it's entirely unprofessional for official statement to be this childish fuckery. In my entire lifetime, I've not seen anything more unprofessional than this to be jeeted out in the world by official government account. Never.
It'd be very curious if there was literally no country on the planet that permitted him entry. I was about to say Russia, but he's only been useful as a pawn in the US to them.
I don't think we should create arbitrary punishments for him. He is subject to due process and the maximum punishment prescribed by law. Just the same as anyone else in this country.
Charge his ass with Treason and give him the maximum punishment.
I keep wondering why should I or anyone else have to learn to behave professionally when you can behave like Trump and be given one of the most important jobs in the world
They finally picked something from the pile to impeach him over? Not DOGE, not threatening to invade our neighbors, not the whipsawing of the market thanks to his tariff games, or any of the rest?
They need to pick something both the court and some gop will go for. Stripping power from Congress and the judiciary branches would normally seem like a slam dunk but here we are. They have to choose battles they have a chance of winning.
So let's say....somehow....every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?
Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I'm not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn't a white male.
Politicians try to stay at the head of the parade. They only go where we force them to go. Are you going to give up already? Cuz that's exactly what the fascists would prefer.
This is Lemmy. Of course they want to give up to the authoritarians. That's been the steady drumbeat of this community for as long as it's been big enough to be classified as a community. They'll sometimes post about guillotines or green Mario because they know that those will never translate into action, but whenever the possibility of something actually being done comes up the chorus of defeatism becomes deafening.
Even if that happened, you'd just end up with Vance as president. If you somehow remove both Trump and Vance, you get Mike Johnson. The US has effectively no mechanism to force new elections - in Westminster style parliament, a majority 'no' vote on certain legislation (i.e. budget) immediately triggers dissolution of parliament and an election must happen. A party can also call a vote of no-confidence, which will do the same thing if it passes.
There's also another "oh shit" button that can be pushed for those of us still beholden to the Crown, which is King Charles can mandate the dissolution of government unilaterally, which actually happened once in Australia.
Even before the supreme court he has been ignoring law with flimsy "logic" on why he can do it. Ignoring congressional laws and court orders are more than enough reason.
if we want to retain our norms, then we need to establish a norm that assures that such callousness and cruelty is sure to trigger being drug into the streets
I've said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard...
It's just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It's like the people who thought China paid the tariffs...
The house is almost tied. That's who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents...
218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.
Let's see, take New York for example.
26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.
5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.
People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn't matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.
Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.
Apathetic morons who don't realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.
District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.
Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state... Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.
So, if you think that your vote for president doesn't matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you're a fucking moron who can't grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.
And don't get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.
Every fucking vote counts.
And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we'll keep getting the shit we deserve.
I don't disagree with your conclusion but in this case it's actually irrelevant. A simple majority in the house doesn't mean shit for following through with an impeachment.
House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.
Democrats would need ~18 seats.
First, that won't happen in 2026.
Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.
Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.
How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we're living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers...
Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles. * Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026): * Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include: * North Carolina (Budd-R) * Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting. * Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout). * Iowa (Ernst-R) * Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups. * Kentucky (McConnell-R's seat - potential retirement changes dynamics) * Kansas (Marshall-R) * South Carolina (Graham-R) * Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters. * Texas (Cornyn-R) * Mississippi (Wicker-R) * Alabama (Tuberville-R) * West Virginia (Capito-R) * Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner) * Wyoming (Lummis-R) * Idaho (Risch-R) * Arkansas (Cotton-R) * Nebraska (Ricketts-R) * South Dakota (Rounds-R) * Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system. * Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead) * Highly Competitive Targets: * Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup. * Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here. * Stretch Targets: * Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested. * New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back. * Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states) * Tennessee (Hagerty-R) * Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics) * North Carolina (Tillis-R) * Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially) * Texas (Cruz-R) * Kentucky (Paul-R) * And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).
It's going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.
The amount that's being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities...
We're on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.
No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.
Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.
In the United States, impeachment is the first of two stages; an official may be impeached by a majority vote of the House, but conviction and removal from office in the Senate requires "the concurrence of two thirds of the members present". Impeachment is analogous to an indictment.^1^
First, it acted with startling speed—so quickly, in fact, that it published the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent; he was forced to note only that a “statement” would “follow.”
Relatedly, awkward phrasing in court’s order may imply that Alito—who first received the plaintiffs’ request—failed to refer it to the full court, as is custom, compelling the other justices to rip the case away from him.
Second, it is plain as day that the Supreme Court simply did not trust the Trump administration’s claims that it would not deport migrants over the weekend without due process.
Finally, and perhaps most obviously, it’s critical that only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents. When the court takes emergency action, justices don’t have to note their votes, but they usually do; we can probably assume that this order was 7–2. That would mean that Chief Justice John Roberts—along Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—joined this rebuke to the Trump administration.
Wasn't he a judge for barely a year before getting appointed? Then for three decades he just agreed with whatever evil shit Scalia said. He really might not know how to be a judge.
He was a questionable pick back then, from my memory the Dem Senate grilled him so hard for his personal life that he hit the bench with a vindetta and has never made a good judicial decision in 3 decades. I believe he was also a hand pick from the heritage foundation, so he came with a TON of baggage and has always been this way as far I can remember. I'm no court scholar I just know Clarence Thomas is an asshole.
They are criminally corrupt, and deserve to spend life in prison. The fact these whores sit atop the highest court shows how much of a banana republic kleptocracy the USA is.
hey now. there's no need to use that language here. sex work is difficult and involved, and many whores work tirelessly when they're not getting paid to organise and fight for a better future through political engagement. they're less like whores and more like vampires
It is kind of surprising that all three of the trump-appointed justices went along with the opinion. They’re no heroes by any means, but I’m still relieved when they decide to do the bare minimum. Really, it just shows how depraved Thomas and Alito are.
My gut thought, is they both had all of their dirty laundry aired during their confirmations, and haven't been in long enough to really break too many laws. Thomas and Alito are as dirty as they come and have nothing to lose trying to protect themselves. They're at different parts of their careers, and T and A have skeletons.
Honestly, if they and people in government had done the bare minimum to uphold the law, much of this would not have happened. This administration has been working in legal gray areas since day one. I recently learned of the phrase "state of exception" and it fits a lot of what they're doing and how they're doing it.
It then gave these migrants “notices,” in English only, declaring that they would be deported immediately, without stating that they could contest their deportations in court.
Suddenly the executive order that English is the official language of the United States became a lot more clear in it's purpose.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
It’s kinda amazing how this was something people debated for a long time, talked about potential benefits and consequences, tossed around different reasonable ways to mitigate harm that might be done, what the point or use would be..
Then Trump just signs a piece of paper, and it’s barely even newsworthy before we move to the next thing.
Probably, but that shit isn't even written in English. It's written in lawyer.
Have you noticed that with enough money you can't just commit a crime? Trump could pop in the Epstein video of him on every display in Times Square and the response would be "the alarming possibility that Trump engaged in potentially illegal acts."
The law has become so inscrutable that you literally can't know whether a crime has been committed until you have a jury trial. How is a soldier supposed to disobey illegal orders when he can't possibly know whether orders are legal or not?
I remember I wasn't too long out of the army when the stuff about waterboarding and abu graib came out. I would've refused orders to torture people had I been there. And I'd have probably gone to Leavenworth for years for disobeying orders.
The law has become so inscrutable that you literally can't know whether a crime has been committed until you have a jury trial. How is a soldier supposed to disobey illegal orders when he can't possibly know whether orders are legal or not?
I get what you're saying, but one of our foundational principles (at least until now) was that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. So this notion that "we can't know if a crime has been committed until a jury says so" isn't a bug, it's a feature. Yes, it makes things complicated, but it is designed to minimize the chance that innocent people can be deprived of their liberties just because the government doesn't like them.
I'd counter part of that is that US law is based on common law, which is defined by prior court cases not just law - vs civil law which is only based on law.
There are issues with both of course, but, its common law that requires lawyers and knowledge of every court case and knowing what a judge in the 1800s thought a word means to win or lose a case.
I think the common law system of justice is deeply flawed and leads to this legalese where everything is vague and malleable with no certainty
Let's say "French inspired". I'm sure we're creative enough to come up with something fun and unique. I'd argue using guns is the defacto American style, albeit not as much flare as a public guillotining.
Lynching is pretty standard fare for mob justice in the US. It even happened to white people.
"The Tuskegee Institute has recorded the lynchings of 3,446 Blacks and the lynchings of 1,297 Whites, all of which occurred between 1882 and 1968, with the peak occurring in the 1890s"
Really? Say what you want. Tell everyone in plain words, no hemming and hawing. What do you want? You want a mob if millions running around the United states are just hurting people.?
Say it. You won't. You are being insulting, small and trying to make yourself look like a tough guy. You wouldn't have the courage to stand in front of a u. S cop, much less do what your suggesting , tough guy
Let me tell you something you won't believe , but I KNOW.
He will be jailed. It will happen.
Now you can either say what you mean using all the words you're thinly veiling, or have the courage of your convictions.
"A majority of justices signaled that they no longer trust the administration to comply with the law"
"...the government’s unlawful efforts..."
"...the government lied to a federal judge..."
"...this president will gleefully defy judicial orders..."
It's all topsy-turvy. A.K.A. "coup". And not just any coup, a fascist coup. Who still thinks the comparison to Germany in 1933 is exaggerated? It isn't. But maybe we can still influence where it goes from there.
Years ago, I was calling out the Bush administration for following the Nazi playbook, and was constantly berated and insulted, and slapped with "Godwin's Law," which has been sufficiently proven to be Nazi counter-propaganda designed to silence critics, while the inexorable crawl to Nazism continued.
I think Godwin's law was meant for like arguing about tabs vs spaces, or other low stakes things.
But as discussed elsewhere, conservatives have abysmal literacy and analytical skills, so it's not surprising they wouldn't understand when a comparison is merited.
Everyboy immediately thinks of the Holocaust, that's why. The US isn't quite there - yet. All the more reason to point out the similarities to the beginnings.
You'd think this would escalate things rather than be an actual way to avoid repercussions. Would the same breakdown in law apply if a domestic abuse victim got a restraining order in the Southern District and then their abuser approached them in the Northern District?
I’ll believe that this was effective when it’s actually confirmed that orangeboi and DoJ + ICE did not in fact, ignore the order. My assumption at this point is that they will do it anyways.
Honestly it wouldn't be too little to late if the reps in the house and senate grew a spine and pushed back as well. But I think that they have had it too cushy for too long and don't actually know how to govern.
Having the branches of government fight amongst themselves is kinda the idea.
It's when they all fall in line behind one man that you get 1930s Germany.
Would I prefer they fight over how best to improve life for all of us and not how best to oppress people? Sure. But we're talking choosing between lesser evils here.
I always look to what people actually do, not what they describe as their reasons. It doesn't matter if you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, as long as you do the right thing. We have so much disengenuousness these days, look to their actions, not their words.
I mean, that's exactly why the checks and balances were set up this way. The founding fathers assumed no one branch would want to concede to another. Really it's congress fucking it all up right now.
Yeah, congress refusing to check Trump has really allowed everything to snowball. They’re abdicating a LOT of power, purely because Trump has an (R) next to his name.
That's where the constitutional crisis comes in because they aren't listening to court orders. The ones who'd enforce a court order are the ones defying it. "Who watches the watchers?"
They absolutely would have defied the lower court's order and just flown them to El Salvador. Then, when confronted, they could claim some sort of misunderstanding/incompetency. The worst that could be done to them would be to force them to ask El Salvador to return the migrants, to which the government of El Salvador just says "no."
It's better to seek forgiveness than ask for permission.
The fact that they rushed their decision before Alito's dissent is amazing. They knew that Alito could take his time writing it, giving HitlerPig cover to keep deporting while this decision remained buried. Instead, they basically said Fuck You to his attempt to collude with the Nazis. It was a direct slap in the face by 7 of his colleagues.
Sounds like the Supreme Court has been overly stressed of late and making poor decisions. I know of a cozy little retreat down in El Salvador in which they can get some R&R and a fresh perspective.
This piece of shit Alito actually wrote this in his dissent, presumably with a straight face: "The papers before us, while alleging that the appli- cants were in imminent danger of removal, provided little concrete support for that allegation."
I live in New York City, and there are so many stories about how stupid Trump is.
When he built his Tower, the building he had to raze was considered on of the most beautiful examples of Deco on 5th Ave. His architect told him to preserve as much of the building as he could, but Trump overruled him. When people asked him to save some of the art work, he promised he would, then destroyed it. Later, he lied about everything.
He had a golden opportunity to get in good with the Manhattan elites, and threw it away because he was too dumb to listen to anyone.
it's so frustrating how little we listen to eachother. black and jewish new yorkers have been saying what a huge problem this guy is since the 1980s. but did he go to jail back then? no. he just slowly amassed clout until he was president
He was a joke. I remember telling a good friend of mine that he was running for President. She's extremely political and she pooh-poohed the idea that he'd ever win anything. I watched him roll on and on and I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that so many people could vote for the pussy grabber.*
*After the tape came out, a Conservative woman went on 'The View' TV show to defend Donnie. Another panelist kept repeating 'pussy' over and over. Finally the GOP lady had had enough and demanded that the other woman stop using the offensive term.
Two things. First, we could probably sit down and swap stories and each of us would hear at least one tale that was completely new to them.
Second, if you're a New Yorker you'll love this book. It's about a man who owned a furniture store on 125th Street back in the 1960s through the '70s. He's a hard working man, a loyal husband and a good father. All he wants to do is sell good merchandise at a reasonable price and take home a decent profit. The book is full of colorful characters and loads of great descritions of Harlem and the rest of the city, including Radio Row [which was demolished to make way for the World Trade Center]
There's some criminal activity and a couple of murders, but those aren't the main thing.
I took my wife & kids to NYC last summer as part of our family vacation. It’s just amazing to me how the city’s changed from the Ed Koch days. I mean, I lived there through Giuliani (back when he was relatively normal), I saw the evolution happen in real time, but it’s still kind of boggling to think back on it.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance group Hamas, released a brief video on Saturday featuring an audio message from an Israeli captive, titled “Soon … Time is Running Out”, Anadolu Agency reports.
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The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance group Hamas, released a brief video on Saturday featuring an audio message from an Israeli captive, titled “Soon ... Time is...
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a twenty-year-old American citizen born in the US, has been released as of Thursday evening after spending 24 hours in jail on charges of entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” Lopez-Gomez has alleged that his claim to the arresting officer that he is indeed a US citizen were ignored, despite Lopez-Gomez backing that claim with his Georgia state ID and a copy of his social security card.
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a twenty-year-old American citizen born in the US, has been released as of Thursday evening after spending 24 hours in jail on charges of entering Florida as an 'unauthorized...
Attacks believed to have been carried out by nomadic cattle herders killed at least 56 people in central Nigeria in one night, the Benue state governor's office said Saturday. Competition over land use has long been a source of tension between largely Muslim pastoralists and largely Christian farmers.
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One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world’s highest peak for the 31st time — and possibly the 32nd time as well — and break his own record
A federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked.
A federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was de...
Three Indian and two Chinese students are part of a suit brought against the Trump administration over the termination of several international students' F1 visas.
Israeli authorities have denied Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa permission to visit Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank that have been repeatedly targeted by illegal settlers, a Palestinian official said Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports.
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Israeli authorities have denied Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa permission to visit Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank that have been repeatedly targeted by illegal settlers, a...
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Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate.
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DHL Express, a division of Germany's Deutsche Post, said it would suspend global business-to-consumer shipments worth over $800 to individuals in the United States from April 21, as U.S. customs regulatory changes have lengthened clearance.
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Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.
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Gasoline Alley è il secondo album solista in studio del cantautore britannico Rod Stewart. Uscito il 12 giugno 1970, è stato originariamente pubblicato nel Regno Unito dalla Vertigo Records, rimasterizzato e ripubblicato nel 2008 dall'etichetta russa Lilith Records Ltd... Leggi e ascolta...
Gasoline Alley è il secondo album solista in studio del cantautore britannico Rod Stewart. Uscito il 12 giugno 1970, è stato originariamente pubblicato nel Regno Unito dalla Vertigo Records, rimasterizzato e ripubblicato nel 2008 dall'etichetta russa Lilith Records Ltd. Si tratta di una raccolta di cover combinate con composizioni originali di Stewart. Come molti degli album solisti di Stewart del periodo, presentava significativi contributi musicali degli altri membri della sua band, i Faces.
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Strato Emulator APK is a fork of Skyline is an open-source emulator for Nintendo Switch games. Android devices with ARMv8 support run it. Switch games that are otherwise exclusive to Nintendo consoles can now be played on Android thanks to the emulator. It enables you to play games without having to purchase a Nintendo system. It is a different method for Android smartphones to access the switch games.
In buona sostanza sono moderatamente contrariata dal fatto di non essere vaporizzata e ascesa al cielo anche io oggi, ma suppongo che arriverà anche il mio tempo, prima o poi. Buona Pasqua questa volta ve lo faccio dire dal riccone a noi tanto caro, che stavolta ci ha fatto proprio un regalone che altro che l’uovo (si vede quanto ce l’ha grosso l’abbonamento della palestra), e dalla sua tipa, che per una volta non ha messo foto proprio quando è stato il ragazzo a farlo… i ruoli si sono invertiti! 🤯 (Ma a parte gli scherzi, dove cazzo sta Durov, assieme ai crapetti???)
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in reply to Peter Link • • •Don't support genocide. Materially or tacitly.
Not a big ask. That's the baseline. Doesn't matter where. Doesn't matter who. Don't support it. Fight against it. Because we are all human beings.
If you want enthusiastic grassroots support however. That's gonna cost you actual policy that actually helps people. Here's some examples. Universal Healthcare. Free college, which you should be supporting anyway if you dont want the country to be left behind the rest of the world. UBI cuz it's just a good idea and it's been proven to work. Also we need it because -gesticulates wildly at everything- and ...people spending money is good for the economy. Sadly, we're a capitalist country. And if everyone is broke the house of cards will just unceremoniously collapse.
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in reply to RangerJosey • • •Looks like that was the game plan, all along, unless they could sucker the populace another few terms.
technocrit
in reply to Peter Link • • •What have palestinians done for the dems though?!?! Did they vote for kamalacaust?!?! DID THEYYY?!?!?!?!?
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