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They were going to get fired anyway. It was already in the works. Resigning keeps their hands clean of this mess and likely protects them from some forms of retaliation. They've already been threatened to be investigated by their replacements. The US Attorney General is Trump's personal lawyer. There is no way these people would not have been booted.
This PBS article goes into the punishments they were looking at for sticking to their duty. OP's article goes more into why they were incorrect on not dropping charges despite the pressure being put on them.
The people who resigned weren't being weak. They were doing their duty to uphold the law, and they got thrown out. The resignations are just a F- you on their way out.
It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn't necessarily seem opposed to it. I don't recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
I seriously worry about coming off creepy or insincere, or else I would shower you with praise more constantly! Your app has made my experience here so much better, and I'm grateful for the things you've added to it, sometimes I'm sure, just for me.
You've always been really friendly and helpful and lightning fast fixing any issues, and you obviously put a lot of time and work into developing and maintaining the app, and you don't ask for money or have ads or anything.
None of the other apps are bad or anything, but I still think yours offers the most and the best for me, and how I don't see Summit near the top of every best Lemmy app posts is crazy to me.
You’re always in the fray, because you want to be seen to be in the fray, because you cannot comprehend yourself to be not in the fray.
This does feel accurate. I wouldn't know how else to explain it at least.
I don't really know much about Libya, as that took place a little before I started to get actively interested in politics. Looking it up now seems there is much more to the situation than I could pick up in 5 minutes and understand anything. I couldn't tell you why we went there, or to Somolia, or most of the places we go. Most of the things America gets involved in, I don't see what the benefit is to the actual American people. I'd much rather we go around giving aid instead of swinging a sword if we want to show others how "great" we are.
I also don't understand the idea that anyone would want to "take over" Russia as it seems their defense for most of their actions seems to be. Does anyone actually want to do that? I feel the world just wants to see them stop having crappy leaders and that's the extent of it. As deep as the US/Russia feud is, I've never heard talk of actually trying to get rid of Russia as a country in any realistic manner.
not wanting to stoke the Russia/US rivalry bee’s nest
This has been one of the strangest things to me as an American looking at this conflict. I'm not particularly anti-American, but I don't look at us as anything special either. I attribute much of our success as a nation to being industrially ready for WW2 while not really taking any direct attacks from the war. We profited and were able to pocket all that money while almost everyone else had to spend money rebuilding is my simplified understanding.
We seem to have no real skin in the game other than this was a chance to help someone else beat up a rival for us while keeping our hands clean. Why the US seemed to be calling so many of the shots seemed absolutely ridiculous other than we like throwing weaponry wherever we can get away with it. I can understand us not putting troops in Ukraine, but why it felt we limited what anyone else could do when we would be the least directly affected by the outcome was very confusing.
It seems impossible other European countries would not get involved if we walked away, but it did seem like the option that would limit the overall violence the most with us just helping Ukraine. I don't want to see more countries get pulled in, especially since America is usually all about inserting our military in places. Trump bumping off Putin seems more on brand for what his fans usually go for anyway. They already sound in a bad position, and giving them the final nudge off the edge seems like an easy way to look like a real world hero. I dont't know what would come with the collapse of Putin's control, but at least initially I think most people would be in favor of that. Pulling out and leaving it to everyone else or doing things to help Russia now just seems a negative to us and most of you with no benefit to all but probably a single digit number of people.
“and then butter became even more expensive, among other things which got worse”.
This made me laugh. I love how some people cope with things.
I have met so few actually interested in our own politics, let alone what is going on half a world away. It is very disappointing.
I'm not one to promote fighting, but Russia coming into Ukraine and being 100% in the wrong was a chance for us to do right and actually support the right side of a conflict and really strengthen relations with our allies and deal a blow to a long-time antagonist. It seemed like a thing we could do with no way of coming out of it badly. I wasn't keen on sending things like cluster munitions that have bad downstream effects, but otherwise it seemed we were sending you things we had but no longer needed, but you all were in crucial need of. The media framed it in dollar figures of aid being sent, which I feel did a disservice with people's lack of understanding here. It was money that had been spent decades ago, but people felt like it was coming out of their pockets now instead of it being bad economic policy in the present.
Now though, we seem to be taking shots at our allies and preparing to buddy up to our longtime rival so the president can finally get his Moscow apartments built and twist resources out of a beaten up ally for what his fans we feel that you guys "owe" for us helping you out and ignoring you to make peace with your invader. I don't think we could have made a better new friend than a restored Ukraine, and it would have put us in a good light with the rest of Europe, as if Ukraine compromises in this whole affair, I think that extends more danger to most of Europe, especially other former Soviet states.
If we end up screwing you guys over, I think this will go down as a huge blunder in history, and I don't think it will take long for the US to feel repercussions, as I don't see us getting much useful from an unofficial alliance with Russia, and it will ruin our trust with every nation, especially throughout Europe, unless they keep going hard to the right as well, in which case, I don't look forward to those alliances either. This all seems negative for us now here, and I feel terrible that your country is being treated like this by our government. I felt our nations were really on a great path until the election.
I and everyone I associate with still want you all to succeed. I think what is going on between you and Russia is going to have a huge influence on the whole world in the near future, and I'd rather you get back what was taken from you and end this war successfully than for my country to reap any benefit from the aid we lent you. It should have all been to do the right thing for our friends. If it wasn't, we deserve the treatment we get from the rest of the world. It will be bad for us, but there has to be a price for stranding an ally.
Good point. I tend to forget about sanctions because they're not something really visible. I'd say dropping those would be very bad optics for both the government and whichever businesses start selling to Russia again, but that seems to be a very low concern given what we're doing to our own country at the moment. It just would look like blatantly stabbing Ukraine in the back though. The US seems to be hell bent on making enemies out of everyone and I hate it so much.
Fair enough reasons. If you're doing custom ublock filters and such, you're likely able to tweak a lot to how you want it without any outside help from an app.
I see in you rother comment to someone you haven't tried Voyager in a year. I haven't tried that one recently, but I will say even over the last 6-8 months, so many of these apps have really matured from where they were a year or so ago. Very significantly so IMO. I think Summit is really the sleeper champ of the apps for my use case, and the dev is super helpful and responsive.
To each their own though. I love we have such great variety in UI here. At this point, there should be a couple viable options for near anyone.
I've tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It's responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I've seen anyone gripe about.
Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can't praise it enough.
While the US could easily veto them joining NATO, there's nothing making Ukraine accept any deal struck between Russia and the US, who, last I checked, was not an active participant in this war. I don't know why Ukrainians would just throw in the towel after losing so much. I don't know if Europe can sustain things at the level of support Ukraine has been getting with US aid, but all the talk I hear makes it sound like the EU will do what it can.
Especially if Trump expects mineral rights or whatever he is going on about. I don't know why Ukraine would give up such tremendous value to a party that just volunteers them to surrender. Losing more territory to Russia is a possibility if they can't maintain troop/supply levels, but it hardly seems worth it for them to give up at this moment. It's been my understanding keeping the pressure on Russia constantly and not letting them recover has been crucial to Ukraine's success.
It just feels like Trump trying to put himself at the center of attention when he really has nothing to do with this anymore if he's choosing to stop US aid to Ukraine.
What is wrong with apps? I get a lot of great features from the one I use that I don't get with the web client.
- multi-communities
- user tagging
- drafts
- keyword blocking
- themes
- customizeable ui
- etc
No one was posting in communities I cared about and many posts anywhere had 0 or 1 comments, so I started posting at least 1 thing every day and looking for threads with no comments where I could start the conversation. I couldn't wait forever for someone else to do it.
Now I have a ton of posts and comments, and I feel I have some good Lemmy pals and people tell me all the time they look forward to my posts, and it's just become something natural for me to do now.
Reddit could only afford a 5 second Superbowl ad, so maybe I can get a single frame slipped in next year. Get us some subliminal advertising!
I'm not sure if he lost or won. I remember even before the first term started he was shopping around for a VP that would actually do all the presidential work while he just took credit. This seems a lot like that. If things are unpopular, scapegoat Musk or some lackey. He burns all his subordinates.
Article 2: Impeachment from the House, conviction by 2/3 of the Senate and the Chief Justice.
14th Amendment: Removal for insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. As it stands so far, would only prevent someone from running again. If someone has the means to have that tried now since he was convicted before the election, that'd be uncharted territory.
25th Amendment: VP and top 15 cabinet members declare the president unable to serve.
Other options of hand would be a coup by the military or citizens, a takeover from another country, censored from natural causes or otherwise, states could leave the union. I'm sure there's other things I'm missing.
If any of those options are possible or better than what we have now, I can't say. I feel things aren't bad enough yet for any of the less civil options to come off as the morally right option. Until he starts getting some more cases brought against him to see what type of laws do or don't apply to him, civil methods of resistance are still probably the best. If either side goes non-civil, it's going to make things way worse for everyone long before it makes it better, should the side you fall on be victorious. Lose, and it will probably be much, much worse.
Not publicly advocating any of these things, but I'm a hypothetical scenario, these would be my thoughts. 😇
Saying the quiet things out loud was the first term. Now he's full mask off and burning everything to the ground.
I'm not sure how to judge if we've always been bad or not. Colonizing was big through most of our history. Perhaps all I can say, is we're bad at punishing the right people. We've refused to punish anyone with power, from the military killing natives and Mexicans, slaveholders, the Confederacy, the Business Plot, the Red Scare, segregationists, Nixon-Kissinger, Reagan-Bush Sr, and now our current leader.
We'll cross the world to crush someone, but we're afraid to punish our rich and powerful at home. That just lets the rot set in, and it's gotten to the critical level.
No, I agree with you. I put joke in quotes because his jokes are bully jokes like "maybe I'll have to run for a third term" where it's antagonist at best or a thinly veiled threat.
If the president wants to be a normal person now and then and add some humor, or especially some humility, that is a good thing. I feel it's important that a president is treated as an at least somewhat common man and not a ruler.
I don't think I'd enjoy the company of people that find Trump's humor to be funny.
I have a few cheapy cases. I have a dark one for when I need to look nicer so the phone doesnt stand out. I've got a clear one (white phone) and I've got a bright red one as well. The red one is extra grippy and the brightest color and I use that one when I'll be in the woods or taking a lot of pics so I don't drop it, and if I do it will stand out. All cases around $10 and have kept my phone looking nice. I've also printed out cool backgrounds like a Samauri Jack one that I threw under the clear case on my old phone, but the ink eventually stained the case.