[-] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago

Ken M used to be better .

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I trust the guy that coined the term "enshittification" a whole lot more than the politicians who have been enabling it, anyhow.

Cool so he has your vote. Who else? As expected the people who want Biden to bail at the 11th hour have no actionable plan.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This is pure delusion. A rushed primary now does not in any way guarantee a win. The process will be chaotic and uncertain. The army of shitty oped writers will go to work asking "what do we really know about ____". They'll dig up innocuous shit from their past that make good headlines. After all of that the favourable a and hypothetical polls will not count for much. Acting like Biden stepping down is a sure way to win had no basis in reality.

Should he have announced he wasn't going to run a year ago ? Yes. But we're past that now.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago

I love how Rey could have been an example of how the force can manifest in anyone . But instead she's Palpatine's granddaughter so never mind turns out it's just hereditary lol. They had it all setup and then fumbled it.

It's kind of amazing how shitty episode 7-9 are. The franchise made a profit on momentum alone.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

There are no laws governing Israel's conduct in Gaza at this moment , and unconditional US support ensures that this will remain the case. You're purposely talking about irrelevant nonsense to deflect from their obviously immoral acts.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Agreed. He's old AF and lives on McDonald's - death isn't that far off anyways. More to the point, everybody dies . Death isn't justice. Everybody dies. The only way for America to heal from what he's done is for him to see the inside of a jail cell. That possibility seems increasingly remote.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

It would quickly degenerate into a contest to say the craziest shit possible. It might seem like we're already there, but right now there's an established level of crazy required to stay in the MAGA camp. If Trump has died the desperation to fill the void would crank it up to 11.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Even if Baldwin wasn't the one holding the gun, even if was in the hands of a completely different actor, he should have been charged as part of the Producers for failing to provide a safe work environment.

Then you're advocating for a fundamental change to way America manages workplace safety. If Baldwin hadnt been the one to pull the trigger he would never have been charged in a million years. Criminal charges require some level of intent , including involuntary manslaughter or negligent homocide. Unless you can find communications that show that the producers knew the workplace was unsafe and purposely didn't take action (not acting sufficiently probably wouldn't be enough), no charges were even possible.

At most the family of the deceased would have had a strong civil cause of action against the production company, because that's how workplace safety is handled in 99 percent of cases in the US. That civil liability can then be quantified, analyzed, and insured against. I'm not saying this is a good thing , but criminal charges for company owners have never been how these things have been handled.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

At this point, NYT finally writing this column is like Ja Rule finally telling us what to think .

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The Geneva convention isn't relevant to Israel's current war in Gaza. Blowing up hospitals remains immoral. Sorry if you don't like it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

That said, “hospital” is just a word. If the building is occupied by patients and doctors and is not part of the fighting, then I fully agree with you. If it is empty of doctors and patients, and instead a battalion of soldiers is shooting at you from it, it should be blown up.

Adressing only both of these extremes ensure that nothing you said addresses any aspect of reality.

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