It's surprising the new flexibility these mental gymnasts are demonstrating.
8 years ago it was, "But he goes to church. He says he loves the bible, so yeah. He closed his eyes when we prayed for him and laid hands on him and he didn't burst into flame. You know, it's all a wash after you've asked for forgiveness."
Now it's "We are smart enough to elect a president, not a pastor."
Ya sure about that one, biscuit?
They're not even hiding the fact they think he's a piece of shit. He's just a piece of shit who falls in line with their view of social dominance and control.
The upbeat background music is killing me in this video, but I also can't help but think that MGT is saying these things with a positive voice inflection. Like, this isn't the wind-up to a "AND THIS IS BAD" shoe being dropped at the end of her cadence. I'm fully surprised at how benevolent her tone of voice is here in describing anything about Biden given her other howler-monkey tendencies.
There is a single user who is posting dozens of times a day in my magazine (for which I am a moderator). Another mod on my team has raised the alarm about the user, like surely they're going through a personal crisis to be so terminally online and posting so frequently.
I'm realizing now they might be a bot. The sources of articles are varied, and quality of article is like 30/70 serious/bullshit. The user occasionally comments on the submissions and I'm realizing the comments are generic rabble rousing instead of being complex language or referencing complex details from the articles shared.
Could anyone speak more to how to identify bot accounts? Many thanks!
(Cool user name. I remember Karl Popper from my philosophy courses)
There's a certain catch 22 with presidential pardons though: the pardoned accepts their guilty verdict, they are just absolved of the legal punishment phase.
I don't think Trump could get over that first hurdle, though he is best characterized as playing both sides on anything that benefits him, so I'm sure he'll try.
I agree with @picassowary, but I also read this as complicating the virtuousness surrounding motherhood. We put mothers on a moral pedestal for being sacrificial, yadda yadda, but here is a mother violating that expectation of purity, good sense, decorum, and sacrifice. What questions can we now invite?
How vile are mothers on the far right? How tantalizing is the Kool aid on the far right to seduce virtuous mothers into debased insurrection? How troubling is white supremacy that white women participate in it because they are rewarded for being complicit?
The list goes on if you read the inclusion of the word mother as a way to violate the expectations of motherhood more than read it as a pull for sympathy.
I agree but that's so far down the line and "the damage will have been done," by then so to speak.
The two big issues of this article are 1. Start time of the trial, which Cannon has agreed that mid-December (5 months from now!) is too early; and 2. That Trump can't get a fair trial while he's campaigning (Cannot didn't agree to this).
Let's say the trial doesn't start until after March when Trump is the obvious front runner for the RNC after Super Tuesday. His next ploy will be "I can't campaign enthusiastically while this trial is going on, so delay it," and Cannon may/may not allow it. Then heaven forbid Trump is elected president again, he will claim his position is now completely beyond reproach (there's another submission in this magazine to a video explaining that this is his stated goal) and so now he's exempt from being held accountable through this trial at all.
Even if this court case was wrapped up before November 2024, he's going to challenge any outcome that doesn't exonerate him. And yes, a higher court would comment about how this shouldn't have ever received the first delay and should have started in December 2023, but what all machinations have transpired in the background while that appeals trial is happening and being decided?
I wonder if Cannon is panicking on the inside from imposter syndrome every day of her life in her appointment, or if she has like, a calm sense of self-assurance that this is right, she was appropriately promoted to this role, this is God's reward and blessing for a loyal servant?
Same to all this, except I was really feeling FOMO because my first couple of subscriptions to national and world news was moving content so slowly. I finally started following news communities from Lemmy instances, and I'm finally feeling all those great small reddit community feelies.
One of my good friends uses reddit for sex hookups, and I just can't see something like that community taking up residence in the Fediverse unless it would be a very isolated instance that recruits only by word of mouth.
I am aware that this has been covered, but I have to maintain the belief that much like the US Postal Service, the federal government will continue to foot the bill regardless.
For what it's worth, this still happens in the 2020s, but as you point out, only for affluent couples. I'm picturing here how high earners can (or may be required by state divorce law) take a trial separation for a predetermined amount of time and establish residency in a new state. That second state may have more favorable laws to one parent over the other for child custody or may have no-fault protection whereas the first state doesn't. Alimony is less of a concern for these scenarios, but family law for child custody usually gets very complicated when two states are involved.
Obviously spouses who have been homemakers can't access these relocation measures, which further highlights who exactly is vulnerable under this law.
Yes, which is why I think this law passed because home renting (being a landlord) is one iteration of a small business and the pursuit of capital. Hence HOA isn't the money-making industry.
I think because of how HOAs operate in the U.S., there is rarely ever any collaboration between them as a lobbying force versus how landlords could potentially band together to influence policy. Even in this story, it's realtors as a collective showing support for banning this kind of discrimination, not other HOAs defending the practice.
Usually the people who are involved in HOAs aren't paid, or they're paid something nominal. The only people who get rich from HOAs are the treasurers and they get rich because they embezzle the HOA funds. Also, although all the officers of HOAs own homes, they're not all landlords. So the HOA as an organization may countermand what an homeowner within the HOA wants to do with their home, such as rent it out to Section 8 recipients.
Most HOAs in the U.S. are characterized as being controlling and troublesome to deal with by homeowners within the HOA, and are overwhelming staffed (voted in) by the most bored busybodies who want to tell you how to live your life.
It's surprising the new flexibility these mental gymnasts are demonstrating.
8 years ago it was, "But he goes to church. He says he loves the bible, so yeah. He closed his eyes when we prayed for him and laid hands on him and he didn't burst into flame. You know, it's all a wash after you've asked for forgiveness."
Now it's "We are smart enough to elect a president, not a pastor."
Ya sure about that one, biscuit?
They're not even hiding the fact they think he's a piece of shit. He's just a piece of shit who falls in line with their view of social dominance and control.