No one cares really cares about anything. Republicans: "We care about families and children!" Won't improve social services or provide additional legal benefits like extending paternal/maternal leave, refuse to acknowledge women's health issues, would dump a non-aborted baby into society with zero safety net. Democrats: "We care about women's rights!" Never actually codify abortion, also won't extend social safety nets in any meaningful way, can't talk about women without sounding like mealy-mouthed retards.
Republicans finally got the serious act of violence they're going to use to justify a massive crackdown, and we didn't even get one of the MAGA freaks taken out in the bargain. What a shit deal.
One thing I know about that part of the world is that it will see peace one day. And on that day, every member of this board will have been dead for three thousand years.
Remember when we couldn't get rid of the filibuster in order to protect voting rights and end gerrymandering in this country, because the filibuster was an important Senate institution that the Republicans would respect if we kept it and needed it later? Yeah, they don't give a shit. Overruled the Senate Parliamentarian to ignore the filibuster so they could do a favor to the fossil fuel companies. They also deployed the logic that California is so big and important, that anything they do is a federal issue, which is both wildly anti-10-Amendment as well as a hilarious confession about where "Real America" actually is.
So then what's the other option? That Muslims are dangerous psychos who have no place in a civilized society?
That name doesn't sound terribly Muslim. Also because it happened in DC, the prosecutor in the case will be Jeanine Pirro. Let the box wine flow.
Muslims will accept anyone as a convert. They aren't Jews, you know. And don't you be talkin' shit about box wine.
No word on the perp being Muslim, but he is definitely in the "Free Palestine" camp, made sure to let everyone know as he was being taken in. Same chant and all, guess Free Palestine, Inc. will need to coin a new one.
I’m just making a statement on the world at large. I’ll be honest, nearly every single event in the news makes part of my brain ask “now who benefits from this, so they can use it to justify their response?” It’s as if news, current events, and social media are all just a swirl of influence-swaying bots. Nothing happens anymore, it’s just things that allow us to feel good about our opinions on certain things.
An Australian satirical site has a good take on the recent gingernut and musk stick ambush on the South African president. https://theshovel.com.au/2025/05/23/ramaphosa-asks-trump-why-americans-slaughter-school-kids/ The idea that ambushing a foreign leader in public would in any way alter their opinion is pretty much in line with the idiocy being demonstrated so far. Only an eternity to go before the free world gets a new circus master.
Yeah it was dumb, but I also don't have a lot of sympathy for South Africa. They got what they deserved from centuries of horror they inflicted upon the natives. And yeah, yeah. Irony and all. But an equivalent would be if we still had slaves like 30 years ago.
I mean Cape Town is really nice. Having to sleep with armed guards outside your door isn't. Probably the fault of illegals from Lesotho.
Regurgitated by this guy. https://x.com/iYessyyy/status/1923227426991034621 For those curious, that's Hasan Piker. A Twitch gamer and pseudo celeb who occasionally cosplays as a political jounalist and commentator who is family of one of the founders of TYT/The Young Turks a news media company if memory serves me right and from what I've gathered is a MAJOR face of the left as well as the THE FACE of the lefts views on Israel/Palestine conflict and the Middle East in general.
The guy is a complete piece of shit human being. He's the left wing equivalent of Ben Shapiro or Tim Pool, a left wing grifter who is a complete hypocrite and milks his audience for clout and money. Another example in a long list of how social media has ruined humanity.
In related news, a Federal Court just ruled that Trump lacks the authority to implement the tariffs he has been, and has voided all of the challenged tariffs.