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It’s difficult for Vetrini to see the rhetoric espoused by right-wing media and not feel hurt. Since going viral, Vetrini has been subject to vulgar and offensive comments from people who disagree with her perspective.

“Those comments are really hard to deal with, mentally. The hardest part is my dad feels the same way as these vitriolic commenters,” she said.

But she still recognizes the qualities in her father that remind her of Walz. Those are what keep her maintaining a “complicated” relationship with him.

After her TikTok went viral, Vetrini called her dad to tell him about it – hoping to hear it from her first rather than a news show.

“He responded exactly the way I would predict he would respond. Which was to remind me that socialism will ruin America,” she said.

Oh no, the Elites are succeeding with their Great Replacement project!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States

I don't understand: how would prohibiting LE from "administering" a rape kit to a raped minor "deny the state evidence" of who did the raping. Wouldn't LE still know who the rapist was, independently of whatever medical care the victim received?

I don't know what's in a rape kit but I'm guessing that there might be something that could (with luck) prevent conception in a female child who's raped. Idaho Christofascist Republicans WANT rape victims who get pregnant as a result of the rape to be forced to carry the fetus to term. That's how they exercise power and control over women, and that's one of the main things that they get off on in life. This news post is absolutely repulsive but nothing surprises me about that Christofascist hellscape called Idaho anymore.

Didn't know that. Glad to hear it. Let's hope the Dorito gets some.

Say it ain't so! I know DD formally changed its business name and nobody cared much (most probably ignored it and kept calling them DD) but damn if they cut off the New England donut supply the pitchforks would have come out!

Another f-ing right-wing weirdo, lovely. I haven't been in a DD since I was 10 and we don't have them here on the left coast AFAIK but if there was any kind of boycott by these freaks, hell I'd mail order a half dozen boxes (if they do MO) and share at the local food pantry. DD donuts are awesome, loved them as a New England kid.

TF. This scum should be rotting in some damp airless dark cell for at least 2x that term. Please tell me he won't be eligible for parole, or have access to the internet while on the inside.

Wow, the thing just falls out of the sky.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/aug/09/plane-goes-into-a-spiral-descent-before-crashing-in-brazil-video

If he wasn't senile, I might think that he's assuming that his pronunciation "sounds Indian", and is thus just a continuation of his fuckwitted assertion that she "turned Black" (from Indian). But he IS senile, and I can't credit him with being able to string together an insult (that she's lied about her racial heritage) even as simple-minded as that.

North Dakotan (rural values!, family values!), and of course Republican, enjoys gay sex with children. This is what they (Republicans) mean when they talk about how much they love kids.

Will do. In my state the current AG is running for governor, so I'm quite interested in knowing how corrupt he is (or isn't), and naturally our biggest corpos are quite interested in seeing to it that he's going to be fully malleable if he gets the job.

Many of you may find this book interesting: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism Available at a library near you, until banned. There are also some interesting audio interviews with the author online.

Where's the list of names of the AGs who took the grift?

Going to hell would be letting this guy and the US soldiers willfully performing this massacre ('we were only following orders when gang-raping your daughters and bayoneting your infants and old folks and anyone else who didn't look like a good American and burning down every house in sight') off way, way, way too easy. I invite everyone to check out the Wikipedia page on the My Lai Massacre, including, if you can stand it, the gruesome photographs taken by US photographers while it was happening and of the aftermath. And don't miss the verbal quotes of the soldiers while they were having their fun, rapey, civilian-slaughtery holiday. This voanews article seems to leave out the additional cruelty of the US troops taking the murdered Vietnamese and dumping them in the village's wells, just to make sure all the water supplies were poisoned. American cruelty at its finest. And of course, the one perp, Calley, who actually gets called to account for his deeds, just a little, for show purposes, gets just a slap on the wrist, because American military people = "good guys", "heroes" even, by definition, always.

"Calley was court-martialed and convicted of murder in 1971 and was initially sentenced to life in prison. He only spent a few days in jail before President Richard Nixon ordered him to be transferred to house arrest. His sentence was eventually reduced to 10 years in prison before he was freed on bail and granted parole in 1974.

A few days in prison was what he got, for mass gang rapes, mass murders, and covering it all up. He should have been handed over to the S. Vietnamese villagers to face real justice.

And to cemeteries. Some of the cemeteries here are enormous and they keep them watered and green despite the fact that we've had hardly any rain for months and the cems get just a handful of visitors per day.

Yes, the Department of Offense IS a socialist organization. But the fact that it has to do with offense and killing and 'projecting power' and bribing 'friendlies' with money and weapons while scaring 'unfriendlies' with the same, does not whitewash it into acceptability. We could, and should, take that roughly $850B/yr and plow it into domestic infrastructure, public R&D (no patents or other encumbrances), education, public health care, social supports (such as Medicare/SS), the Arts, basic research, the sciences (climate, space, etc), public housing and clean energy generation to name a few things. We could do all this if it weren't for the fact that in the US the only acceptable form of public spending is public spending on weapons of war, on the means of bullying and killing those who we don't like or who won't cooperate with us. By all means, we should keep up the socialist spending, but it should be directed in such a way as to improve the lives of the citizens directly, not just as hypothetical trickle-down improvements from making ever more deadly and expensive killing technologies.

Just a few hours from me is the Grand Coulee Dam, built in the 1930s and one of the Wonders of the World. There's no reason that we couldn't be engaged on projects of this scope and size all the time, but nope, that's evil socialism, and big government-funded projects are only acceptable in America if they directly have to do with providing us with new or better weapons to wield against Those People (foreigners mainly).

As my 90+ YO (now dead) aunt put it to me, "90 is enough!". She lived on her own and was relatively healthy right up to the end, but had no fairy-tale beliefs about the joys and virtues of extreme old age. I once asked her, after she made such a proclamation, why anyone who, like her, wasn't put away in an old folks home or suffering from illness/injury would prefer The End arrive, and she said "there's just so much you can't do anymore". I took that to mean a) activities that you are newly physically incapable of (say, rock climbing), b) activities that are now too difficult and/or dangerous (say, solo long-distance hiking), and c) activities and life-paths that are practically-speaking now closed off to you, like finding one's soul-mate, traveling the world w/same, getting an advanced degree, being hired-into and rising through the ranks of some admired org ... all the sort of stuff that might still seem perfectly possible in one's 20s/30s/40s/even 50s. I can see how even in the best of cases, the world slowly but surely crushing your dreams and closing you out of any potential joys could bring you around to the belief that '90 is enough'.

My thoughts exactly. Somehow, year after year, we can always come up with $800B+ for the offense budget ($842B FY2024) and that never gets seriously questioned, despite the US not being technically at war with any other major or minor powers. The offense budget is always a "must pass" proposition, whereas spending that actually helps Americans, like Medicare, Medicaid, and SS, are treated/portrayed as some sort of obscene "entitlements" that only the most profligate and immoral nations would ever direct tax money to. Those, and any kind of non-military infrastructure, are just examples of coddling the undeserving citizenry. Investing in the means to kill "foreigners", in contrast, is money well spent!

The whole "standing army" paradigm needs to be scrapped and the sooner the better.

Another recent law penalises "discrediting" the Russian army, and it has been applied to a broad variety of actions interpreted either as support for Ukraine or criticism of the war.

These include:

•         Wearing clothes in the blue-and-yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag
    

•         Writing anti-war slogans on cakes, as did pastry chef Anastasia Chernysheva
    

•         Dyeing one's hair blue-and-yellow or listening to Ukrainian music
    

•         Displaying anti-war posters with messages ranging from "No War" to eight asterisks - the number of Russian letters that spell "No War" - or even just a blank sheet of paper.
    

A village priest in Kostroma region was fined for discrediting Russia's armed forces after praying for peace and mentioning the sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".