UK seems to be in an all out race to beat the US to full-on Orwellian dystopia. They’ve consistently been about 5-10 years ahead of the US when it comes to spying on citizens for decades now, but that gap does seem to be narrowing a bit.
Banning Israel’s political enemies from travel does put them squarely in the lead, but don’t count out the USians yet! Palantir’s Flock is spreading its wings, after all.
Very promising, this is great news!
Strangely enough, it’s still the same ones in office after all that time…
Every accusation is a confession.
Gaslight. Obstruct. Project
Just vote for us one more time bro, please bro, we’ll totally investigate the high crimes of DC insiders bro just more votes bro just this one more time PLZ!!!
I actually lol at “actively working on…letters”
This would be a fantastic time to try to organize labor in tech. We have needed unions badly for decades now. I hope the AI debacle coupled with rising socialist sentiments in the face of global fascism can finally give us the momentum to get there.
I have industry knowledge on bridges, and would be happy to sell you a new one.
Just normal terrorist things. Israelis are monsters.
Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, a timeless classic.
Their newly released fail report from ‘24 election doesn’t even mention Israel once. They are paid to learn all the wrong lessons, only.
I genuinely believe the Dems are done because they have completely abandoned the working class. Unless they hard pivot to a far left socialist platform (lmao), we are better off organizing around a completely new party who will work tirelessly to root out corruption and bring these child raping, robber baron, smug pieces of human excrement to justice.
Same thing I did, first thing.
These absolute fools have learned all the wrong lessons, once again. At this point I won’t be surprised if they find a way to hand Trump his third term.
Not that laws even matter much anymore for Repugnantcons, but we do have some good ones on the books for dealing with acts of treason. If Biden had respected those laws given his mandate upon election, things would have been different.
America keeps letting traitors off the hook, and paying for it dearly.
Only the best people
E Pluribus Unum
Privatize the gains, Socialize the losses.
I know you joke and I did have a chuckle. The tech jobs offered by these projects are so few and far between it is truly laughable.
We’re fighting a data center construction by Google in our area. One of the major obstacles is that blue collar workers, electrical hvac etc, all believe this will bring them new jobs and continued work in maintenance of the facility over the years.
They aren’t necessarily wrong on that point, and it’s a challenge to convince them that infrasound noises they can’t hear will make them sick over time.
I wish they were this excited about building and maintaining solar and wind projects instead of data center generators, but alas, many of them are constantly subjected to propaganda painting green tech in a negative light.
More like president for Israel, and he did it for free. They didn’t even have Epstein files on him, he just did it for the love of Zionism.
Well, no. Pretty much the only bills that get passed in modern era Congress are omnibus budget bills. MTG’s Israeli funding reduction was a specific amendment to one such bill, which AOC chose to vote against.
I’m sure the rest of what got passed had all sorts of whacko conservative garbage within, because they control the entire federal government at this time. This is likely partially why AOC voted against the actual bill as well.
That said, if you consider Israeli control of the US government an existential threat, which I do, then that makes it even more important to find opportunities to work with the conservatives in power to curtail Israel’s influence, which MTG’s amendment would have done.
AOC could have had her cake and eaten it too, by voting to pass the amendment to remove some funding to Israel, and then casting a performative nay vote for the overall budget bill.
So yeah, I’m disappointed that she chose partisan politics above achieving an impactful, measurable result. But that’s liberals for you. The only reason I care is because I hold AOC to a higher standard than most of them, because she is by far the closest to representing my own values in terms of her actual voting record and what she claims to believe in.
Perhaps. But just to put a fine point on this matter - I am glad that AOC came around to the correct position on whether we should continue funding the terrorist nation state of Israel, in that we absolutely should not. They are literally using this money to buy off our politicians so that they don’t work for us, instead they work for Israel. It’s wrong in every possible way.
I sincerely hope this is how AOC will vote regarding bankrolling Israel in the future, regardless of whether the authors of said bills have an R next to their name, or whether she perceives them to be a hypothetical future opponent in a presidential race.
Cash is fungible. Israel doesn’t care what it’s earmarked for, giving them money further enables the genocide. The important thing is that the US attempt to apply leverage by reducing what we give them.
My positions on Israeli genocide and the shameful involvement of the US, due to our government being captured wholly by Israel, have been consistent throughout.
It’s funny you make this claim however. The bad faith argument was from AOC claiming that she had to vote no because of offensive weaponry, when in fact she did so because her esteemed colleagues told her to heel. After the vote, she changes her position. Interesting.
Ok well MTG isn’t running for president, nor would I vote for her if she did because like AOC, I don’t trust her at all.
However, when she drafted a bill to reduce aid to Israel by 500mil, AOC voted against it. AOC claims she is about results, but then does her own purity tests like this which further enable genocide. It is damaging, divisive, and disingenuous of her to do so.
Yeah they’re trying to go after Platner for alleged sexting too. Still trying to Anthony Weiner style cancel these politicians, when we literally have Mr. “grab em by the pussy”, convicted and not just hearsay mind you, elected twice. The moral right is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical, who gives a shit.
If their partners have a problem with it then that’s between them to figure out, I don’t see how it affects their politics at all. Certainly didn’t matter for notorious playboy JFK, and doesn’t matter with convicted orange rapist either.