They have Homelander, they don’t get Superman.

Jesus, did none of these dozens of upvoters even click on the link? This is full Protocols of the Elders of Zion antisemitic trash.

“If there was something in them, the Democrats would have released them, but even though there’s nothing in them, I won’t release them.”

In a poll largely pointing to positive results, this one was a big fucking yikes:

Denying alleged gang members living in the U.S. illegally the ability to challenge their deportation in court:

• All U.S. Adults: 50%
• Hispanic Adults: 55%

JFC. “Should due process be cancelable on account of alleged ties?” 50% yes. And slightly more among people who are most likely to be alleged.

People need to get it through their thick skulls that cops at any level are not trustworthy deciders of guilt. The whole reason our system exists with all this process is that the founders knew they’d make false allegations.

I wouldn’t call it nuanced. Many Americans just didn’t really think about how immigrants impact their lives or what the words Trump said would mean in practice. They didn’t have deep thoughts about how things should work and militarized raids are not it, they just kind of didn’t think about it but now they have to and they don’t like it.

“Cygnal serves GOP campaigns, committees, caucuses and center-right public affairs issue efforts with forward-thinking polling, analytics & targeting.”

Vs.

Gallup.

“Cygnal serves GOP campaigns, committees, caucuses and center-right public affairs issue efforts with forward-thinking polling, analytics & targeting.”

It has links to primary sources from the Senate itself, but there are other sources talking about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/197793/kilmar-abrego-garcia-whistleblower-emails-expose-trump-abuses

I have an active passport, but I don’t know where my birth certificate is. Somewhere in my home. Probably. It’s not a thing that came up in my life much before now, so there wasn’t much reason to care deeply about being able to access it. “Papers please” is oppression, even to people who aren’t in a target class. Not having your paperwork available shouldn’t be a jail able offense.

They also carefully say “target”. They kidnapped 200 people. They were probably just grabbing anyone they thought looked undocumented rather than following a target list.

Free and open source is the only ethical choice to use while serving the oligarchy.

Haole means white. There’s history and original translations that have different meanings, but in modern usage I’ve only ever heard it meaning white. It’s definitely not used for “not family” and it’s not really applied to other races unless it’s to describe them as being like stereotypical white people. Uncle/auntie is just an informal honorific for anyone older than you (no race or family restrictions). I’d be described as a haole and referred to as uncle by people younger than me with no implications about where I’m from. There are plenty of white people born in Hawaii that wouldn’t think twice about being labeled haole, even some with Native Hawaiian ancestry.

It’s not necessarily a slur though, that depends on context, but in the context of threatening or beating the shit out of someone it’s kind of hard to argue they were just using it neutrally. Like it’s not impossible, but you’re really starting at a disadvantage.

It’s an editorial against the concept, using incongruous words to convey the moral bankruptcy.

I’ve told bosses before they can have either my early hours or my best hours, but not both. There’s so much waste in our work lives trying to fit to some picture of productivity that isn’t actually real. We just play the parts we’re required to while getting nothing done.

Plus the fundamental insanity of saying efficiency is a single monolithic thing that can only be effectively worked on by a single person. The only reason you have that is because the type of coder these people want to abuse is the same type of person who’s bad at designing code. They just keep stumbling on subsuming additional features into the monolith because encapsulation and code design is uninteresting to their reward centers. That’s why multiple people can’t work on it, not because there’s some fundamental inability to effectively partition work during the production of innovative software.

All of these descriptors aptly describe Steven Cheung. I don’t know why anyone contacts him for anything. He just produces substanceless verbal diarrhea. You can just not talk to a “communications director” as a journalist.

Plurality.

We can’t simultaneously be in a society where productivity goes up faster than wages and AI is going to provide labor for free and one that is worried we won’t have enough resources to support the elderly in some indeterminate future.

The retired have already had a lifetime of wages stolen from them to pad capitalists’ bank accounts. The excess productivity is there, it’s just not available to the broad tax base. Take that back and there’s plenty to go around.

I hadn’t seen the “blog” discussion before. He’s been pig-headed in the past, but that’s inexcusable.

There are proactive steps that separate a forced conscript and a bomb dropper.