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☝️ And it works, I can confirm.

Leave it at home.

I can understand the wish to film things; I recommend buying a cheap camera, maybe one to strap on your forehead (starting at $20) or an old compact digital camera. Something without any sort of connectivity. Something you can leave behind if the going gets rough.

The US is projected to cut the most, with a projected 56% reduction compared to levels two years ago.

The Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) earlier this year has already left a hole in many international aid budgets, and several other Western nations are following suit rather than filling the void.

“A big, big chunk of overall cuts in the next couple of years are going to be from the US pulling out, rather than other countries. But these other countries are making things worse,” said Crawfurd, a senior research fellow at the CGD.

The UK aid cuts are estimated to represent a roughly 39% reduction compared to 2023 levels of spending. Meanwhile, Germany is cutting about 27%, Canada 25% and France 19% of their international aid budgets.

The true level of aid cuts remains unclear, as the Trump administration’s proposed budget and other government proposals are still making their way through legislatures.

And still we follow the United States' example as we did for the past 80 years.

Now that so-called world leaders showed us that ethics, morals and honesty are irrelevant, who's going to put the geany back in the bottle again?

They even suck at cheating.

"USA unable to restrain themselves from giving bombs to Israel"

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from implementing parts of his sweeping executive order overhauling federal elections, including by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and barring states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston issued a preliminary injunction at the behest of 19 Democratic-led states who had argued that the Republican president lacked the authority to mandate changes to elections and the states' voting procedures.

This is what really happens while the clowns are having a fight. Let's just hope these 19 states do a little more than "argue".

“The largest public gathering of centrist Democrats.”

WelcomeFest consisted of professional consultants telling politicians, ​“Don’t sound like you listen to consultants!”, followed by politicians saying ​“Ya know in my district there in the Midwest, I talk to regular folks, not consultants.”

Derek Thompson, coauthor of the new centrist Bible ​“Abundance,” jumped in with an inspiration. ​“Stories are for children,” he said, channeling the voice of a politician. ​“What Americans need is a plan.”

“I’m not a storyteller,” he declared, modeling a bold man of action. Then he pulled back from his speech, to pundit once again. ​“What I did there is also storytelling.”

This is how people sound when they’re just talking. Talking and talking, with nothing to say.

I always thought this book was more a techbro nazi utopia sort of bible.

Can't keep himself from bragging even as his PR people try to tone it down.

Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir, Meta definitely until '22, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, Coinbase, Coca-Cola

The list goes on. Never has it been more obvious who profits most from stroking his ego.

There's a 1min video of what happened. You don't need a Doctor to tell you that this cop

• has way too little or no training on how to de-escalate
• obviously gets off on holding a gun and being mean and threatening

It's all right there, and it can be summed up with "abusive asshole".

Not to speak of the even more obvious fact that he's deliberately withholding ID. Cops, like most public servants, are not allowed to do that.

Just read the whole article!

But I cannot resist quoting some bits that stood out to me:

While some organizations reported from inside the protest itself, most did not: They set up camp behind the police line, or reported using drone footage, or simply asked the cops what to say. “Dozens of people were arrested Sunday and accused of attempted murder, arson and other crimes during a day of violence and protests in Los Angeles,” NBC Los Angeles declared in an article based exclusively on LAPD sources. It’s an understandable decision on their part. Just look at Lauren Tomasi, a reporter for the Australian Channel Nine news service who got “caught in the crossfire” and struck with a rubber bullet while reporting—by which I mean an LA police officer aimed directly at the reporter from close range and shot her. (...) As of Tuesday morning, the LA Press Club documented over 30 injuries to members of the press. Easier and safer to parrot police talking points than face down their guns.

(...)

The idea that cops were just reacting to protester provocation is absurd. Cops occupied intersections in an attempt to split the protest, then occasionally charged the protest lines that surrounded them to force the crowds to temporarily retreat. These assaults seemed unrelated to protester action or lack thereof. At one point, while the cops were unloading round after round of blue-tipped rubber bullets into a crowd hunkered down behind a barricade, a different group of protesters approached from the side and threw a firework into the center of the police line. The cops turned their fire against the group, which ran off, but did not pursue them. Thirty seconds later, the cops were back to shooting at the barricade.

(...)

When I arrived on the scene, the cops were seriously outnumbered—thousands of protesters, a couple hundred cops. If there had truly been a riot, those cops would have found themselves overrun, disarmed, brutalized. But it was a protest. So they were fine.

And yet, the anti-protester framing is relentless, even from otherwise balanced sources.

I like that the writer doesn't try to gloss over the occasional violent act from the protesters' side, but instead always points out cause and effect, how understandable a reaction it is when you're being shot at for - well, protesting.

Trump can call these protests invasions all he wants: I know what I saw. As the sun began to set, riot cops from the LA county sheriff’s department showed up on trucks, fully kitted out with shields and gas masks. The rapidly shrinking protest saw the writing on the wall and, rather than confront these militarized enforcers, turned and walked away, into the night and into the city. For hours they marched, blasting mariachi music and old-school West Coast rap and chanting their simple, reasonable demand:
“No ICE in LA!”

Why do they point out that it was 4 hours ago? Did he tweet truth lie it after the attacks started? That would be ..what's the word.. sanctimonious

This is a famous example but you could have chosen any of his "speeches". I'd claim that the newer ones are even worse.

Journalists around the world have been complaining about this ever since 2016: it's impossible to write good political journalism about Trump. There was a collective sigh of relief in 2020, manifesting itself as pleasant silence. Then Jan 6 happened...

Unfortunately it also has the backing of a much larger rogue state.

Just like those weapons of mass destruction, way back when in Iraq? I'm shocked, I say, shocked!

obligated by law, to keep sending them weapons

Can you expand on that?

There are agreements but to which extent are they binding? I guess they are not unconditional.

"The West" is a bit too broad don't you think.

I think that's blinkered, if not blind. Definitely.

And that username... (edit: oh look they just changed it from "ArgumentativeMonotheist" to "YappyMonotheist")

Sounds familiar...

Here are the global knock-on effects of Trumpism. The world has been afraid of this for years. And mind you, it's not because the USA is losing its grip, its role of world police. It's because of fucked-up diplomacy dominated by egomania, backing the wrong allies in the wrong way. And being so dumb that you're easily exploitable.

I'm sorry for once again seeing every conflict through USian eyes - Americans do that well enough by themselves - but in this case it's just true. Fuck Trump, Fuck Netanyahu. Let's hope this nightmare ends soon.

From the article:

A U.S. official told CNN that the United States had no involvement or assistance in the Israeli strikes

Um, sure. No involvement at all during the last 8 decades.

And Netanyahu:

"This is a clear and present danger to Israel's very survival. 80 years ago the Jewish people were the victims of a holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime. Today, the Jewish state refuses to be a victim of a nuclear holocaust, perpetrated by the Iranian regime."

‌ Of course they stick to that one however nonsensical it has become, considering Israel is the Nazi regime now, inflicting its own holocaust on others.

This made me physically shrug: sol: shrugged out loud.