Triasha @ Triasha @lemmy.world

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It's not actually that powerful. Private prisons are all at the state level, and only some states.

They are opportunistic, not monopolistic, and the political pushback reversed the trend toward privatisation in most of the country.

Private prisons are a stain on our national character, they need to be shut down. but we have bigger shit to worry about right now.

You can imagine being freed from a concentration camp but can't imagine successful community defense.

Cops don't want to die in a hail of bullets either. There are more of us than them.

We are going to find out if we prefer the consequences of revolt or the consequences of not revolting more.

No.

Like, it could be a brick in the road, but it won't.

Tells you what this is really about.

His term launched with the Muslim ban. He tried to repeal Obamacare until John McCain stopped him and he had to settle for tax cuts to the rich like every fucking Republican.

He tried to bully Zelenski into providing him dirt on Joe Biden and launched the Biden laptop scandal on no evidence. But that was after telling people to inject bleach for COVID.

The first three years he was largely restrained by a combination of his own incompetence and establishment Republicans. He relied on them to figure out how to govern. The 2025 people saw that andwent to work to see it won't happen again in their quest for Gilead.

Bernie might have helped but even if he got into office Congress would have stopped nearly everything he campaigned on.

The administrative state would not have been torn up but that's just tinkering around the edges. Things like IRS free file expansion or banking at the post office.

The supreme Court would belong to Democrats but....tinkering around the edges.

If Bernie got re-elected (no guarantee, his first term would have ended in COVID and broken promises, probably impeachment by a Republican house). 2024 would 100% have gone to a Republican.

We don't need Bernie now. His plans are mostly just a harder crank on the ratchet. Good, but insufficient. We need Allende. Someone that wants to build non-mariet solutions to make our lives better, and a movement behind them in Congress.

Agree completely.

I'm aware of the condition. It's the primary adults get circumcised.

Yeah, world police is more apt than I would wish. ACAB.

China doesn't have the capacity to fill the role of world police and probably never will.

What we will get is a more violent, dangerous world, with periodic waves of refugees.

I'm afraid we are only going to learn the hard way. I pray that as few innocent's are hurt as possible.

It's both, obviously.

It's not puppet masters pulling strings on a marionette. It's gardeners watching the fruits of their labor grow.

Their media campaign is part of how they influence trump. He watches Fox and reads xitter/truth social, and anything they can get into the buzz with their influence campaign shows up in front of his eyes. Tucker Carlson going to Moscow to interview Putin is a blatant example of their ties that are mostly more subtle than that.

Tulsi Gabbard is another huge win for them, and she is in charge of what intelligence Trump sees.

Trump doesn't "take orders" from Moscow, or the intelligence sharing pause with Ukraine would have happened earlier and never resumed.

When it happened I thought: The only way Russia wins this war outright is if the US switches sides and supports them instead.

We didn't do that. Russian control is not that tight.

He doesn't have the charisma, but he is smarter, and has way less ego. He's less dangerous in the short run, more dangerous in the long.

Damn I'm sorry.

Singing is 10% talent and 90% practice.

You do you, of course, you don't, 't have to sing. But if you do it you will get better at it.

To me that sounds like "I just walk around without taking any steps."

I was not sure if I was cut or not for a long time. They left me enough skin that it still slides like you describe.

It's the same picture.

Alabama is a developing country.