I don’t think this reaction makes sense when we’re talking about Catholics. Catholic clergy are already notorious for diddling kids.

Breaking Amazon’s stuff automatically makes one at least somewhat based. Fuck Amazon.

I never thought a reactionary repressive theocracy could be so based.

To be clear, we should all be glad the US doesn’t have a competent president in this case.

Very happy for them.

Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor).

I’ve seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that’s an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.

Nah those guys hate (gen)AI because it’s (gen)AI, or for other reasons that are ultimately intrinsic to the tech such as the intellectual property aspect.

Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).

Seriously, can this woman just disappear from existence? Like at least Biden learned to keep his fucking mouth shit after killing American democracy.

Frankly if you were ever counting on Harris and crew to save you you were already lost.

and the only good that comes out of it will be Americans will finally have first hand experience of real war torn violence.

Hey, it might result in the dissolution of the US, which as a firm believer in “death to America” I’d welcome gladly. Anyway in case anyone thinks a peaceful resolution is possible, yeah no.

No, it gets money; it evidently does not get votes.

the political machine we’re building to combat the Trump administration will flatten the DNC old guard pretty handily.

Except no such thing exists. MAGA hasn’t created any meaningful surge in independent progressive (let alone genuine leftwing) politics; it’s only compelled the center left to close ranks with the center against the rising tide of the far right. There’s zero momentum for “flattening the old guard;” if you want to do that you’ll have to actually try.

And anyone who didn’t vote for Harris over Palestine has now not only doomed the Palestinians,

I keep seeing liberals saying this, but it’s just not true. There’s no metric by which Trump is worse on Palestine than Biden (and by extension Harris, who has was virtually indistinguishable from him on the issue). As for everyone else, what, did you think Harris was going to do anything for poor Americans and minorities? Jk she wouldn’t have done (or been able to do) shit because centrists kill down ballot elections. More fundamentally, though, fascism was inevitable under the political status quo; the choice was between fascism now and fascism later. If meaningful change doesn’t come from the left, people will look for it on the right; thinking 2025 was fluke is nothing short of delusional.

Solidarity among evil people, never fails to make me want to puke.

Haiti? Hawaii? Honduras? Philippines? All this shit? The US went from 37 states after the civil war to 50 less than a century later. Surely you could’ve thought of a few examples yourself.

It might have originated as such, but in practice it defined a sphere of influence where America had a carte blanche to do whatever it wanted to enforce its interests. and would eventually become a form of unilateral vassalization, as seen from nonsense like the Olney interpretation and the Roosevelt corollary.

He extended the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine, which had previously stated merely that the Western Hemisphere was closed to additional European colonization: "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition…[1]

Sounds like an empire if I’ve ever seen one.

Literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine?

Why not both, but also no way this is happening without the permission and/or direction of the billionaire class so oil is definitely involved.

Did… did this person just say that unemployed people shouldn’t get to vote?