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  • As terrible as the Trump administration is, China is still worse. Think freedom of speech is under threat and reduced in the US? Go to China and criticize Xi publicly. Think the Republicans are rigging Congressional races with gerrymandering? Try one party rule. Worried that you could be disappeared and show up in a prison hundreds of miles away or in another country altogether? How about just disappearing forever?



  • Is that narrative on Kirk’s killer really panning out to be true? More will come out, but it really looks like he killed Kirk because Kirk “hated” trans people.

    Edit: Well, that spawned a very tangential side discussion. My takeaway is that the evidence Robinson was right wing is that some Republicans said he wasn’t, and they’re liars.

    I guess we will have to wait a lot longer for the slow wheels of justice to turn. We’ll have to hear publicly (e.g. in court testimony) from the parents and the roommate what was allegedly said by them as described by Cox.

    Meanwhile, I’d caution people that there is propaganda and misinformation coming from both sides (no, both sides aren’t equal). It’s the Fediverse where I learned that all of the living hostages held by Hamas as of two weeks ago were soldiers captured in Gaza or on military bases in Israel. Yet when released, an AP story only listed one as a soldier and described how others were captured in their homes going about their daily lives on October 7.

    Let’s try to spread information on the Fediverse, not bunkum we expect is true because it makes sense in our worldview.











  • I assume you mean it costs money directly to the end user. Even when there is free public schooling, it costs money - it’s just that someone else is paying it. In most cases, the government is paying for it using revenue they collect from taxes, fines, and other levies.

    It costs money because people expect to be paid for their labor (teachers, administrators, groundskeepers, construction workers, repair people, janitors, textbook authors and publishers, IT workers, trash haulers) and products (building materials, books, computers, lawnmowers, mops and brooms, gasoline).