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gardylou

@ gardylou @lemmy.world

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  • Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better.

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  • Oh look, it's the intercept blaming dems and liberals for what fascists and Republicans do. Never seen that before!

  • Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’

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  • 100% correct.

  • MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden

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  • Awww! Well Boo Fucking Hoo for you.

  • JD Vance opposes military aid, NATO membership for Ukraine. He's now Trump's VP pick

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  • Putins favorite, JD Vance.

  • New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it

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  • Explains a lot actually.

  • Why are so many young people addicted to video games?

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  • YSK the full scope of the recent US presidential immunity decision

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  • Well we still can if we are collectively smart enough that being fascist is worse than being old.

    I put the odds at a coinflip.

  • YSK the full scope of the recent US presidential immunity decision

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  • Agree with everything except why Biden won't do it--its a paradox of trying to maintain our status quo democracy with the traditional tools of our status quo democracy.

    I recognize that its a horrible asymmetry of power that they will have presidents that abuse power while dems will try to respect traditional lines of power....but the populace and parties themselves are also a correlary assymetry---cult 45 will cheerlead any horrible thing their guy does (or pretend it isn't real, or isn't really that bad, whatever the moment requires to avoid cognitive dissonance), but it Joe abused power, both Republicans and Democrats in power and as citizens across the nation would cry out for accountability.

    It's a right clusterfuck, that is for sure.

  • YSK the full scope of the recent US presidential immunity decision

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  • To this point, the military has remained an independent institution that has followed rule of law--the Iraq War, however awful, was legally authorized (note: I am not saying that soldiers haven't done illegal things, but the military writ large has been beyond the reach of the president to be wielded like a weapon to do explicitly illegal things).

    Trump mused bombing antiquities in his presidency, and the military swiftly responded that they are bound not to follow illegal orders.

    My fear now is that if military leadership falls into the wrong hands, immunity can be used to argue that the conduct is no longer considered illegal, or the line becomes so blurred that it ceases to functionally exist.

    If that happened under a president like Trump, God help us, every horrible nightmare outcome could be on the table.

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  • Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

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  • Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off

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  • Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries

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  • How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford

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  • How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford

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  • Elon Musk wins back his $44.9 billion Tesla pay package in shareholder vote

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