tabarnaski @ tabarnaski @sh.itjust.works

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Bumiller and Pershing seem to have left their post on their own will:

https://www.nytco.com/press/new-role-for-elisabeth-bumiller/

https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/politics-editor-pershing-leaving-wsj/

If this kind of thing keeps happening too often, I expect people to start falling from windows.

The fact that he'll spend all his time playing golf or whatever will leave ample room for all his appointees to actually govern. It's not Trump we should be worried about.

The US is already transitioning to a right wing society right before you eyes. Reddit as well as all mainstream media are just following this movement.

Not a lawyer, but I wonder if there a case to be made with letting a woman get an infection and die due to the fear of commiting a crime by killing the baby. In the end, two people died, but one could have survived.

Except if it's free software.

I had to rewatch the video to make sure I got an exact image of what swiggity swooty means

Not OP, but I guess it shows the general loss of confidence in institutions in the US. When people wanna shoot their guns at disaster relief organizations, it indicates they don't trust anything from the government, and the feeling is more than just skepticism, it's heinous.

Old guy here. My advice: find something you really like and do that. Doing something you like multiplies by 10 the chance you'll get good at it. You'll have to try out a few things, which might give you the impression you are wasting your time; but it's better to lose 3-4 years finding your way than burning up at 35 because you hate what you do.

He's just seeing what Trump and the GOP are planning for the US and hopes he'll be one of the oligarchs at the top in the end.

You seem to believe that Trump saying "fake news!" is enough to consider that something is actually fake news. Anyone with a bit of critical thinking can verify this kind of affirmation and decide for themselves whether Trump is right or wrong. There's a difference between a truth and a belief, but your argument seems to equate the two.

If a judge in Brazil says an account should be banned because it spreads disinformation, I can go and check what was posted and decide if it's indeed disinformation. Now I might not have time to verify every affirmation like this so I tend to trust the judicial system of any country by default, unless I have reason to believe they can't be trusted.

I think there are a few simple criteria to discriminate between legitimate opponents and others: spreading disinformation, bad faith, populism, the absence of a coherent political discourse, etc. If a government identifies illegitimate opponents based on these criteria, I'm ok with that.

So, what makes you think these accounts were legitimate political opponents?

So the X accounts belonged to legitimate political opponents, they weren't spreading disinformation?

I don't know about the judicial system in Brazil but they don't seem that corrupted...

He doesn't care, he thinks he'll get a presidential pardon after Trump gets elected.

(...) you're a racist AND dumb.

To a large extent you're racist because you're dumb.

For the last few months they've traded their dog whistles for blow horns. More and more hatred is being normalized.

A steady stream of bullshit, just like before the 2016 election. Trump won, so it's not surprising they consider this their winning strategy.

The name is just a name. Whatever you call it won't change what people think of it, why people use it, or the fact that it's a social media platform for the brain dead.

Never underestimate how much destruction stupid people with power can cause.

Oh you sweet, summer child.

Exactly. In any semi-functional democracy the government isn't some abstract entity you have no power over, and it's not monolithic either (you have municipal, regional and national levels). You vote for the people in it and they represent you.