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  • Senate tells Mayes to resign; Hobbs calls AG's comments 'inappropriate'

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  • You don't know a god damn thing about me or what I'm willing to do to defy what I consider to be immoral and unjust actions by my government. And if you think you can determine by the "tone" of a few of my sentences, ANY fucking thing about who I am, my strength or constitution as a person, then you're an impudent, presumptuous little prick.

  • Senate tells Mayes to resign; Hobbs calls AG's comments 'inappropriate'

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  • In most cases, that's a necessary but not sufficient condition to legally shoot someone.

    If ICE is breaking down my door, the legality of using lethal force against them is irrelevant. They don't concern themselves with the law or constitutional protections, so there's no reason for me to. It's not like I can expect access to legal counsel or judicial process if I'm arrested by them. So if it comes to a direct confrontation with ICE, my life and liberty are essentially null and void anyway, and I will therefore respond accordingly. Better to die in a shootout with them than get taken to some black site, outside of any legal jurisdiction, to endure god knows what.

  • ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

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  • Yeah, fuck that. Some fucking gestapo pig tries to arrest me without a warrant, there's gonna a problem. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any delusions. If there's a fight, I'm gonna lose. I know that. But I'm going to use every last breath in my body to make them regret it as much as possible. I'll fuck up an eye, puncture a testicle, whatever I can to make sure the rest of their lives will be at least a little shittier as a result of our encounter.

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    Why do we keep using the Russian captured internet?

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  • The only people who care about this steaming pile of shit enough to rate it on RT are Trump cultists, so of course the viewer ratings are going to reflect that.

  • Senate tells Mayes to resign; Hobbs calls AG's comments 'inappropriate'

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  • In several interviews last week, Mayes said she was concerned an Arizonan could open fire on federal immigration agents if they forcibly enter a home without a judge-signed warrant.

    Has this country gone completely insane? If anyone, law enforcement or otherwise, illegally, forcibly enters your home, that person should expect that they may be shot. There's nothing controversial about that. That is the reality of the situation. Anyone telling Mayes to resign needs to call me personally so I can tell them, in no uncertain terms, to kiss my whole ass.

  • Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’

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  • One day we're going to look back as a country and wonder how the hell we allowed this dingus to run roughshod over our entire society for the better part of two decades. At least I hope.

  • American exceptionalism

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  • "American exceptionalism" has always been a euphemistic propaganda term that really meant American supremacism. It has been the justification, used by both of the two major parties in the US, for continued US global hegemony.

    Supremacism of any kind is a flawed and dangerous concept. The fact is, we are neither exceptional nor superior.

  • You have to start somewhere

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  • Will this book help me cope with my senility?

  • US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate

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  • Any environmental benefits of robot taxis would pale in comparison to reducing car rides significantly, or eliminating them entirely, in favor of walking, biking, or taking public transportation.

  • US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate

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  • If we were a wise society, we wouldn't be investing all this money in nonsense like AI, robot taxis or rockets to Mars, we would be investing every dollar possible into making our electric grid as efficient and resilient as possible, building out solar and wind with battery storage as much as possible, and building strategically positioned nuclear power plants across the country for grid stability. But, we are not wise, so here we are.

  • ICE Commander spotted in Minneapolis

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  • They're a parody of themselves.

  • United States Completes WHO Withdrawal

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  • We need to replace Trump with a rational human being who recognizes the value in the US being a part of a democratic, rules based global order, and so will rejoin important internal organizations. But we also need to reform our government so that a presidential administration can't unilaterally withdraw us from international organizations that we have committed to. Having big pendulum swings, whether in international or domestic policy, is destabilizing and inefficient, and it makes the US an unreliable global citizen. That is unacceptable. We have to do something about that. Yes, it will be politically difficult. We have to do it anyway. Let's grow a pair and get done what needs to get done. No more complaining, no more defeatism, no more declaring failure before we've even started, let's just roll up our sleeves and get it done.

    Edit: there is another necessary change that we need to make, we need to eliminate American supremacism from our culture.

    The concept of "American exceptionalism," which has been embraced by both parties for essentially my entire life, is really just a euphemism for American supremacy. And that's what MAGA is, a supremacist movement. The solution is humility, to recognize that we are not somehow innately superior to all other groups of people. That doesn't mean we can't be a great country, it just means we need to keep things in perspective. There are great things that we can teach the world but there are also great things that the rest of the world can teach us.

  • Hyper independence

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  • Being hyper independent is lonely, but it's better than any of the alternatives I know of.

  • Canada PM's Speech at the WEF

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  • The EU has some important things that it needs to get sorted out, for sure, but the rest of the world can't wait on the EU to start building the new world order. In fact, it's happening whether anyone likes it or not.

  • Canada PM's Speech at the WEF

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  • Its huge and he said what everyone's thinking. But i think the reason people werent saying it was because they dont believe the second part of his statement. I think they dont believe we(democratic countries) CAN build a new democratic rules based order.

    The world needs to try. Declaring failure before we even start is not the way to approach this. You want to proceed with caution, I understand, but you must also proceed in good faith. And that means not entering into a democratic world order with suspicion of every country that isn't white, Western and liberal. The world is a large, diverse place. There are a lot of different cultures, ethnicities and political systems. To limit participation in a democratic world order to only Western style liberal democracies means excluding most of the world. How can we ever hope to have a democratic, rules based world order if most of the world isn't allowed to participate?

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  • The CEO of Microsoft Suddenly Sounds Extremely Nervous About AI

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  • There's clearly an AI bubble. Let's just pop this shit and get it over with. The sooner the market corrects, the sooner it can start recovering.

  • Blackouts in the U.S. May Be 100 Times More Frequent By 2030

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  • Transitioning to green energy sources is a delicate balance, and if you shut down the use of traditional fossil fuels without a plan to replace them, then shortages become unavoidable.

    Planning is for Communists. We must put our faith in the invisible hand of the free market. The hand knows all. Trust in the hand. Amen.

  • Danish Pension Fund AkademikerPension to Exit US Treasuries

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  • I'm thinking it's more about how much of the abuse you can tolerate. It's not like the US has been all that hesitant to abuse our allies in the past. It's more like our allies have previously been able to convince themselves that the benefits outweighed the costs.

    I think you're right. The world has accepted, or at least tolerated US hegemonic dominance because it worked well enough, but that doesn't mean it was ideal. Far from it, for many countries. It's not like the world was given a choice, really. Or, more accurately, the world's choices were severely limited. Perhaps a majority of the world's countries just saw US hegemony as the least bad option. But even those countries that didn't agree that it was the least bad option, what were they supposed to do about it?

  • Danish Pension Fund AkademikerPension to Exit US Treasuries

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  • “You cannot put the genie back into the bottle,” Schelde said. “Things might get better and more calm a few months down the road, and Trump, he can’t be reelected, and the next president might be somewhat different,” Schelde said. “But what comes then in five, six, 10 years? I think there’s a strong realization across Europe that we need to be able to stand on our own feet.”

    This is truly the silver lining in all of this. The world, especially Europe, has been far too complacent about continued US hegemonic dominance. They figured that the world was fine under US control, because US leadership was generally capable and trustworthy enough. But the thing about that kind of concentration of power is it's not a matter of if that power will be abused, it's only a matter of when.

    The US has proven that we can no longer be counted on to rule competently and ethically enough. That doesn't mean it's time to replace US hegemony with another hegemonic order, it's time for true, international democracy. It's time for a democratic, rules based order.

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