Congress gave you money to do a job, it’s not a suggestion, dipshit.

Same, when the rachet effect going on has been so effective on the other side it no longer behooves us to “be better” than to flip the direction and do the same by the same methods. Righteousness is all well and good until it becomes part of your opponents strategy to take advantage of you.

I know most internet people are ready to offer psychological advice at the drop of a hat, but this is really a question for a therapist because every situation is different and we don’t know your struggles even close to enough to speculate.

This doesn’t seem like something to rush into, personally.

If the court was doing their job they would have ruled this unconstitutional in the first place. A tariff is a tax, the executive explicitly does not get that power

Probably worth a warm soap soak or maybe vinegar treatment to reduce any calcium build up in the head. Electrical-wise you could bypass the circuit to power the motor and see if it spins okay with either a variac or a variable dc power supply depending on what motor it is. If it still stalls then could check brushes/any gearing jammed up. If it doesn’t stall then I suspect a overcurrent or thermal protection circuit is triggering. Could be corrosion on the board, a heatsink coming loose, or simply a jam you can’t see. Lots of possibilities, but people who work specifically on these would know more about the most likely things.

NYT using neutral speak and missing important context, as always. Anything to cover for those in power.

On the bright side at least their health insurance extends during furloughs up to a year.

It’s important to be sympathetic but not capitulative imo.

Wormtongue Miller sure had an easy time with whatever’s left.

I look forward to the dam breaking on NC gerrymandering. They will never hold power again.

The point as I understand it is that they’re allowing other unions to set their contract expiration to the same date, which increases the potential for pain during their next negotiations and makes for a quasi general strike across all unions who participated. It’s a pretty good idea all in all.

Also, it’s complicated who Sean Fain aligns with. He’s pro-tariff and praised Trump for incentivizing cars to be made in the US, although it seems like that’s the extent of it, and I wonder how he feels about it now that it’s been fully unmasked to just be market manipulation by Trump’s circle of billionaires. Sean’s speech still hit most of the socialist talking points of pro labor even though it was to a bunch of Republican donors, leading to the funniest and most revealing awkward silences after sections about how the working class is who provides all of the value in an economy.

I’m dubious that a general strike is possible in the US. All of the other countries that have had massive strikes affecting large chunks of the market were driven by large unions. Our unions don’t have that sort of sway and they rarely help others to maximize their diminishing bargaining power with the ongoing degradation of workers rights. Importantly this also happens on the supply side, the consumer side will just buy it tomorrow instead usually. A day of no productivity has much bigger consequences.

That being said, I’ll definitely participate.

Pretty sure it was glass from the teleprompter. Ears have a lot of blood flow, especially when you’re on a bunch of uppers. Probably wouldn’t leave much more than a tiny scar line that you couldn’t see. It also behooves them to not say this because it’s less cool and laughter is antithesis of small men insecurity.

Doesn’t really matter, the fact that a right wing nut shot at him is still pretty noteworthy for the current climate.

Brian Thompson and Alex Jones are the only example of rich people falling from grace because of people in a different class that I can think of. Most examples like Elizabeth got clapped because they played class warfare tactics against their own team. Grifting is only allowed against the poor, otherwise it’s called securities fraud.

Isn’t it kinda hard for LLMs to be programmed to not just point them towards leftism in that case? Right wing ideology isn’t based in established truths, it’s based on whatever the individual thinks at a given time subject to radical change. Leftism having consistency that science and academia offer means it is the obvious citation for most political facts if the model was going to choose an angle. Exception perhaps being anticommunism since it’s highly established in history books as justification for the Korean and Vietnam wars.

DHS trying to repair their reputation with local police departments one dead dog at a time.

Idk about you, but if my neighbor had a bunch of guns and threatened to shoot me if I ever got guns, I’d definitely secretly obtain guns.

These people are not equivalent at all lol

Because both parties have either been pushing narratives to make these actions sound reasonable or capitulating and staying silent as the other party does. This is why politicians who stand in opposition to constituents when they’re propagandized into the wrong position are the only ones with any chance of getting us out of this.

This you?

This reminds me of something Cold Ones would come up with for a tshirt.