After the incident at the cemetery, he said he was taken to a cold cell in Burlington. He saw an immigration judge, who dismissed the assault charges federal agents brought against him.
Not surprising they left the judges name out, but I feel like that’s an important detail that should be included …
It’s really fucking scary that The Oregon Trail generation got the best education American public schools have provided, ever…
It was shitty then, but God awful before and after that brief window.
Lots of animals can think abstractly.
What separates humans from animals is communication and tool use. Obviously other animals can, but none come close to humans in either category.
Books is a huge example of both. Humans don’t have to figure out complicated concepts each on our own. The Internet is that on steroids, someone on the other side of the planet can read this post the second I hit “reply”.
That exchange of information through tools is why we’re ordering Taco Bell thru Uber from the couch instead of still chasing animals till they pass out.
Whether or not that’s a good thing for us and the planet tho…
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It’s trump…
If you’re trying to argue he’s loyal and won’t switch sides in an instant, well, I’d be shocked anyone but a trump supporter would say that.
trump supports whoever gave the largest bribe, or the most recent substantial bribe. Hed turn on Israel in a heartbeat if it was personally profitable
Since nothing is going to stand in their way, how can we make sure they are held accountable for generations to come?
All that needs done is America threatening to cut off funding.
If Obama hadn’t have done that, this would have all happened a decade ago
Biden openly said he’d never do that, and talked shit as VP when Obama did. Kamala said she’d be the same as Biden.
trump, depends on if someone bribes him more.
But if America gets a progressive president next with the courage to say “genocide is bad” and actually cut off Israel…
That will make Israel stop electing genocidal maniacs. The only reason they can vote for people like Bibi, is knowing no matter what they have the backing of America.
Without that, they wouldn’t constantly be attacking other countries.
It’s like if you had a annoying little brother that picks on everyone despite being small and weak, because if shit goes down, you protect them
Sometimes, you got to let your little bro learn what happens when no one else fights their fights for them…
TIL! Never heard that definition, thanks for that.
Yeah, it’s pretty accurate and comes from the guy most equipped to talk about what consciousness is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff
He’s spent the last 30 years working on consciousness with literally the world’s smartest physicist if not human:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
Like, you know how everyone knows Stephen Hawking? Penrose was the guy doing the hard science to finish up Eisntein’s work, Hawking was the “face” who explained it to people. When it was just Penrose and Hawking working on something, Hawking was the dumb guy at the table. Which is just wild.
But for the longest time people said Hameroff and Penrose couldn’t have been right because quantum entanglement couldn’t happen somewhere as “warm and wet” as the brain. About 11 months ago we found out microtubules can not only work as tubes that can sustain entanglement, it can sustain quantum superposition.
So, another decade or two and we should have a better answer for what consciousness is and what anesthesia actually does. But for now, that’s the best we can do
I mean, people already are…
We don’t have a better definition for consciousness then “it’s what anesthesia stops” and we don’t have a better idea about what anesthesia does than “stops consciousness”. So it’s a chicken/egg thing.
The thing is, anesthesia works on everything, humans, animals, plants, even single celled organisms.
Literally everything is consciousness. Tomatoes even feel pain thru our most common definitions.
So yeah, people that claim to be vegan because of animal suffering are still causing suffering and pain to life, then ending that life.
You’d need to be some super specific type of vegan where you only eat fruits because those specifically evolved to be eaten in a symbiotic relationship with animals.
But like, I’m pretty sure that would just give you organic diabetes or something.
So everyone draws their personal line wherever, but none of us really have an “ethical diet”
And Dems think he should be the nominee
What?
The billionaires want him to be the nominee, but even with their money he can’t win a fair primary.
That’s why there’s the propaganda push to make the new DNC seem responsible for the bullshit “moderates” have been pulling with the party since Carter.
Don’t forget before this happened Newsom was doing rightwing podcast circuit talking about how conservative he really is.
This is like Elon and trump fighting, two assholes the country would be better off without
Like, why did you manufacture this intractable problem by mandating clothing and shaming nudity in the first place?
You think humans invented clothing because of shame?
That’s completely backwards, we invented clothing for protection, and not seeing everything all the time led to shame when someone could see us.
Like, I’m pretty sure hermit crabs feel something similar to shame when they don’t have a shell, they need something to drive them to not only protect themselves, but to ensure they can reproduce and raise their young. That’s why humans instinctually get weird about exposed genitals and boobs, those are the most important parts of a human from an evolutionary perspective.
I get what you’re trying to say, it’s just you’re going about it completely backwards
It’s not for the right reason…
Beta was better than VHS, but Beta didn’t have porn, so everyone got VCRs.
Meta is so big they could get sued for letting users openly make porn like this, but they don’t want everyone using the ones who can make porn. Because that’s the biggest threat to their advantage in the market.
If Meta thought they could get away with it, they’d dive dick first into porn.
He doesn’t care about that, he cares that voters will blame Republicans.
It’s why traditionally they give everyone tax breaks and then set the ones for the poors to expire when a Dem will likely be in office, and the ones for the wealthy never expire.
There’s none of that now, shits going to get bad and there’s no one to blame that doesn’t have an R by their name.
Which is still a big deal.
Like abhorrent it’s that high. But I remember people swearing 40% was the floor and due to the cult it could never go lower.
You’re thinking of the DNC as a single entity.
It’s not.
It’s about 400 people who vote for chair and vice chairs. And over time those voters as a group have become more progressive.
The chair has final say on everything, and is accountable to no one. Ken Martin could have done whatever he wanted, but he can’t time travel to before he became chair and enforce the DNC’s rules.
He choose the democratic path forward…
So I don’t understand why people keep hanging the sins of past DNC’s on his head. If you want to know what kind of leader he’s gonna be, I’m not asking for blind faith, he has a track record and all signs point to him running the DNC like he ran Minnesota for over a decade immediately before becoming DNC chair.
But imagine your ideal candidate becomes president 2028, and I show up and start saying they’re gonna be terrible because of all the shit trump is doing right now. If I told you it didn’t matter because they’re both holding the same office, I wouldn’t be surprised if people called me crazy…
Did he lose the sharpie?
The rules were violated under the last chair, and Martin kicked it to committee instead of unilaterally making the call.
We don’t need a DNC that favors progressives, we just need one that will let fair elections happen.
And for the first time in decades, we have that.
I mean. Even typing it I was remembering Philly PD doing it…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
But that was 40 years ago and was easily swept under the rug.
While he could order it to happen, and it’s technically possible every obeys that order…
Actually pulling it off would virtually guarantee every major city being 100x worse than LA has ever been, even 92 LA. Hell, that only took a decade to beat in Cincinnati. It would be trillions of dollars in infrastructure damage alone, not even getting into lost revenue.
Any attempt to use feds everywhere would spread them too thin and make them ineffective everywhere.
And Americans don’t have the stomach for the years of passive resistance that will be required.
You’re imagining organized people coordinating to work towards long term goals nationwide…
That’s not what would happen. People would just progressively lose it and start crashing out. People can still rationalize that compliance might work out best for them for now.
But if they start killing people for resisting despite not knowing who they’re even detaining…
That makes it hard to deny that compliance is pointless. And after that it doesn’t take much for entire communities to make the jump to proactive defense.
trump’s not raiding cartel safehouses, he’s going after harmless workers. So that shows everyone that using violence to resist makes them prioritize others. But some of those harmless workers have kids who were born here and are legal citizens. But they’re Americans, and Americans are rarely harmless
Hell, look at how gangs took over the projects in Chicago, they’d straight up have snipers 24/7 and if any cops showed up, it didn’t take much for the cops to leave. Like, when push comes to shove, trump can’t just bomb downtown LA, and occupying America is practically impossible, even for the American military.
First trump term I bought a modern combat rifle.
Second term I bought plates and a vest.
Doesn’t matter if you think that shit should be legal, it is and everybody else has it. Fascists are pussies, they’ll kill unarmed protesters without a second thought. But rifles and plates are a visual deterrent.