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Rottcodd

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  • Philippine president says he'll fight vice president's plot to have him killed

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  • Again though it wasn't just a threat - it was a very specific if/then statement - "I've arranged it so that if he has me killed, he will be killed."

    Granted that it's a bit unsettling, my immediate response, and IMO the likely immediate response of virtually anyone and everyone, would be "But I don't intend to have you killed."

  • Philippine president says he'll fight vice president's plot to have him killed

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  • Huh.

    She didn't simply threaten to have him killed - she said that she had arranged to have him killed if he had her killed.

    So it's only really a "threat" if he intends to have her killed.

    So essentially, Bongbong is admitting that he intends to have her killed.

  • The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

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  • Why would you think ideology is even relevant?

    Much though the world would be instantly improved if that vile, racist piece of shit Pauline Hanson was dead, she's under no real threat of being murdered by her political opponents - that's just not the way that Australians do things.

    And she knows that.

  • The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

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  • Isn't accusing Marcos of corruption sort of like accusing the Pope of being Catholic?

    I mean - he's a Marcos. Corruption is all he knows.

    And really, specifically what she did was threatened to have those people killed if they had her killed.

    That seems to me to be a reasonable precaution, all things considered.

  • Senator dismisses Gaetz allegations: No one should be 'disqualified' over a 'media report'

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  • Hmm...

    I actually hadn't thought about it that way - to the degree that I thought about it at all, I guess I pretty much assumed that opportunistic sycophancy was just his nature.

    But yeah - now that I am thinking about it, it is quite likely that to the degree that it's not his own nature, it's a role he has to play at the behest of and on the behalf of his patrons.

    And the only other thing I've really noticed about Graham is that pretty much no matter what he's doing or saying, there's this ongoing low level sense of sleaze that just sort of emanates from him. He just seems like the sort of "conservative" with a sex dungeon in his basement and a bunch of highly specialized escort services on speed-dial.

    Which ties in neatly.

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  • Sorry - I edited that because I could just see some tight-assed mod getting all twisted up over it, and I wanted the underlying message to not get deleted, and only saw your response after the fact.

    But now that you mention it...

  • Senator dismisses Gaetz allegations: No one should be 'disqualified' over a 'media report'

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  • Lindsey Graham can always be counted on to suck up to whichever Republican is currently getting the most headlines.

  • Organize

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  • Not "now" - I have been for years. Ever since I figured out that the US has no future - that the ruling class is already preparing to put down any opposition (that's why we have a militarized police force and the largest prison system in the world, and that already, before Trump's proposed detainment camps that are supposedly going to be built to hold undocumented immigrants, except that the undocumented immigrants are going to be deported, so self-evidently they're going to hold someone else).

    There is no way to make any lasting change in the US. The ruling class is too firmly entrenched and too out of touch, and frankly too fucking insane. They will, and already intend to, go to war to protect their grotesquely destructive privilege, and the nation will not survive that.

    So the only hope is that our descendants will build something better out of the rubble we're going to leave behind.

    And again - that was already the case. Trump is just accelerating the process.

  • Donald Trump Has 'Obligations' to Those Who Brought Him To Power - Nikolai Patrushev

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  • We're in a timeline now in which truth is entirely irrelevant.

    Trump supporters are necessarily one of two things - deluded or dishonest. Either they've been manipulated into not seeing the plain fact that he's a corrupt and self-serving autocrat and an existential threat to the US, or they know exactly what he is and just don't admit it publicly.

    In either case, truth and reality count for nothing.

  • Donald Trump Has 'Obligations' to Those Who Brought Him To Power - Nikolai Patrushev

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  • That's the deal.

    Literally.

  • US army major faces rape and sexual assault charges involving 20 victims

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  • So as is generally the case with this sort of story, I find myself wondering if he's such a monster that they can't sweep it under the rug or if he just happened to piss off the wrong people.

    Sexual assault in the military - like church pedophilia, police brutality and political corruption - is one of those crimes that is deplorably common and almost always ignored. So when they do prosecute someone for it, there has to be something else to it. It can't just be that he's thought to be guilty of the crime, since hundreds or even thousands of others are at least as likely guilty of the same crime, and are not even under threat and quite likely never will be. So what's special about him?

    It's not really relevant to anything, and it's certainly not as if he should be spared just because so many others are allowed to get away with it (exactly the opposite in fact - each and every single one of them, without exception, should face the full force of the law, and the fact that so many don't is a prime example of why and how this country is going to shit).

    Still though, I find myself wondering, as I often do.

  • Millions at risk of losing health insurance following Trump's victory

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  • The next year or two is just going to be an orgy of face-eating leopards eating faces.

  • Stabbings, car ramming as Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans violently attacked in Amsterdam after match

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  • There was a time when I would've sympathized with and supported the Israelis.

    But that was 40,000 murders ago.

  • Dr. Seuss book banned by GOP after right-wing blamed “woke left” for “canceling” him

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  • While the decision to stop publishing the six books was made by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, right-wing outlets like Fox News mischaracterized it as a book ban.

    Unsurprisingly, it has actually been Republican-backed laws like Tennessee’s that have resulted in the banning of Dr. Seuss books from schools.

    And that's the way it works pretty much without exception - private individuals and businesses and such make independent decisions and the Republicans scream that they're being oppressed, then they pass laws in the name of freedom.

    Even with as insane as the Republican agenda is, and as deluded as their supporters necessarily must be, that particular aspect of it really stands out to me. It's just so perfectly Orwellian.

  • Video showing “Haitian immigrants” illegally voting was faked by Russian disinformation unit, US says

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  • I'll never stop being cynically amused by the fact that the self-styled American patriots are letting the Russian government tell them how to vote.

  • Idaho Public Health Department Barred From Giving COVID Vaccine— Experts say it's a first

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  • Setting aside the anti-health and anti-sanity aspects of this, the thing that gets me is that Republicans somehow continue to believe that they're the party of freedom when everything they do involves ever more regulation.

    They frame things as if the Democrats are oppressing people and the Republicans are fighting for their freedom, but the exact opposite is actually true - the way that things actually work, consistently, is that Democrats want to give people the freedom to do things and Republicans are fighting to destroy those freedoms. Their reaction to every single thing they encounter is to pass a law against it, which is literally the exact opposite of freedom.

    Now granted - most of their positions are insane, so it's not as if rationality should be expected, but this just seems to be something so simple and so obvious that they can't possibly miss it. Yet somehow they do.

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    China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

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  • Any ideology that bans books is self-evidently intellectually and philosophically bankrupt.