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The problem is that he doesn't have the authority to do this via executive order. So if he does create this illegal order, it will almost surely be struck down by the courts, just like the previous one was.

But in doing so, he can claim credit for trying, despite never doing anything.

It's easy to assume that Witkoff is, to quote the article, "a bumbling fucking idiot," but it's not outside of the realms of possibility that this is a deliberate act of a Russian asset.

If you assume that Witkoff is a Russian asset, then he'd want fewer intelligent Americans in the room when he speaks with Russians. It would be silly to think that he'd be getting orders or giving a report in a meeting with Putin, as there would be other less high profile opportunities, but assuming he's heavily compromised, there's a good chance he'd give something away to his American team. Fewer people means a smaller chance of being exposed.

I'm not saying that it's off the table that he's "a bumbling fucking idiot." Just pointing out that there are other possibilities. Witkoff is described as a real estate tycoon and a cryptocurrency trader, so there would have been plenty of chances for him to be targeted by Russia in the past, similar to how they targeted Trump long ago.

Bad headline, WaPo. "Judges say" is pointless. There's simply no other explanation. Somebody is saying, "I know where you live."

I think that the pros are obvious. It should simply be legal, and other comments have given good reasons.

However, there are some cons that I haven't seen mentioned yet.

It impairs you, so any activity where that is a problem, like driving, may need extra attention or public education.

For smokers, inhaling smoke is dangerous.

If you need more proof, they said Biden was most responsible, but he wasn't. He didn't propose the bill. He only tried to improve the bill, knowing that it would pass no matter what he did, and the things he changed did not do what they were talking about. That's assuming they're talking about the 2005 bill.

That would be relevant if Biden were currently president, and it would have been somewhat less relevant had Biden even been the Democratic nominee for president in 2024.

But Biden wasn't even on the ballot. It's almost completely irrelevant.

When people talk like this, it just reminds me of how they talked about Hillary for Trump's entire first term.

It just gives off the air of bad faith. We're talking about things that are happening right now and are relevant to millions of people. Former politicians can't be anything except a diversion.

In the last election, the LDP lost 68 seats for a total of 191 seats where 233 seats are needed for a majority, meaning it at least needs to make a coalition.

The CDP, which is described as center-left gained 52 seats for a total of 148 seats, and is the second largest party.

This reminds me of the old "when you see it" meme.

It's hard to imagine how he could have sycophants among those people in the first place. Those people, despite their low moral character, are among the highest echelon of politicians in this country. It's weird that they'd just fall in line.

Well, we know that some of them are simply afraid of the money that he's grifted for campaigns. And on top of that, my current guess is that Trump, a Russian agent, has been given access to all sorts of kompromat to blackmail them with.

In my life, I've had to give speeches in front of a crowd, but no matter how well the speech went, I never did a Nazi salute. I've seen many many more speeches, and again, even the ones that went very well didn't end with Nazi salutes.

Literally the only people who do Nazi salutes in public are Nazis and actors portraying Nazis. Hopefully, Musk will spend the rest of his life with this albatross around his neck. That he exposed himself as a Nazi.

The person being sworn in as President by the Chief Justice that day was ineligible for office according to the 14th Amendment section 3. And he could only do that because Congress neglected its Constitutional duty to enforce that provision.

That is all three branches of the government colluding to break the Constitution to put an ineligible man into the highest office.

I think the two things that negatively surprised me the most about Japan when I moved there and started talking to people:

First are that the press has less freedom than you'd expect for a democracy. I learned this after becoming friends with a local member of the Communist party.

Second, that although the police on the street are incredibly kind and helpful, often going out of their way for people, if you do get arrested, the treatment of prisoners is pretty bad. They are very good at getting confessions, even out of innocent people.

My take is that Slashdot's vision was of a single community, which limited its scale.

Reddit's voting and moderation design is basically flawed, and the parts of that which Lemmy has copied are flawed in exactly the same way.

Any system that requires people to be in a position of power, yet not abuse that power, is broken.

I'm not saying that it's the best solution, but when I used to use Slashdot, it seems like it would randomly ask people to moderate comments (who had opted in), rather than have preset moderators. And then presumably, they would collate the results of multiple moderators and use that to decide who could be trusted with more moderation.

This is one example of a method to avoid power tripping mods.

Nothing looks cute on an ultrasound. Humans are hardwired to see babies as cute, and even they don't look cute on an ultrasound.

It's a little difficult to see the oreo cookie wafer on the dark background. I think it would work better with a white background. Something like milk.

100 mugshots and how many total were deported? Is it also 100?

I don't agree that the things shown on these signs should lead to deportations without due process.

But even if I did think that, then this would only make sense if Trump's administration had deported around 100 people. The latest number I saw was around 140K. About 1400 per mug shot here.

This is like if you had 1400 students in your high school senior class, and they decided not to give anybody a diploma. And the evidence they showed was that one person out of 1400 had failed.

So how much more fascism will Americans tolerate before they actually do something.

What do you want us to do?

My favorite is my tablet computer with its digital pen and the default drawing software, whatever that is.

You see, I got the tablet for other reasons, and it came with a pen. What it all boils down to is that my favorite is whatever I already have. When I don't have a computer nearby, my favorite is a pencil and paper.

I had to adopt this sort of policy because of my personality. I'm not a perfectionist, but like many people, I have hints of perfectionism. And this means that I think to myself things like, "I want to draw, and of course I would, if I only had this specific tool."

But the truth is that I already had all of the tools I needed to draw. Always have. The important thing about drawing is drawing. I figure that if I ever spend a lot of time drawing and get good at it, then at that point, I'll already know what other tools I want.

He probably already does. There's a reason why these sorts of articles always use the words "at least". He has "at least 14 children".