Love Bernie, but this:

But bottom line, if we honestly believe in democracy, if we believe in freedom, all of us must be loud and clear: Political violence, regardless of ideology, is not the answer and must be condemned.

They don’t believe in democracy. That’s it. That’s the core of the problem.

Think back to when Russia was supposed to just roll over Ukraine in a matter of days and consider how years later they are still cowardly attacking civilian targets trying to break the will of this tiny country.

Part of the reason why is because Putin didn’t get realistic reports about the capability of the Russian military because no one wanted to share bad news with him. Also, everyone in the Russian government is only concerned with their own personal enrichment, so they are robbing the country blind.

So consider that and think about what President Pedophile is doing to The US.

there are 2 men that seem to be completely stoic (I don’t know what word would describe them better): they ignore drama and jabs, even if directed at them

It may be that they are just oblivious.

Years ago my wife and I noticed a difference between the men who worked for her and the women who worked for her.

She had to take a woman aside and tell her that her shoes weren’t appropriate for the office. The woman heard, “she thinks I’m a slut.”

The men would hear, “she thinks my shoes aren’t appropriate for the office.”

Science indicates that women generally have more brain space devoted to communication than men. That is typically accepted to indicate that women communicate better than men, but it really just means more of their brain is involved.

Like a person with macular degeneration seeing hallucinations because their brain is trying to fill in the missing information, some women will hallucinate information that isn’t in the communication.

They will also think they are communicating in ways that aren’t conveyed with words. Many men will miss subtle, “read-between-the-lines” subtext because they just don’t have the neural real-estate to deal with it.

Women are also more likely to care about what other people think, simply because they are more likely to be at risk if they piss off the wrong person. Men can usually be a bit more chill because less of the population can threaten them. So it’s entirely possible that those two men don’t care because they know no one is going to kick their ass, so there’s nothing to get upset about.

Men will care a lot about actual aggressiveness. When you’ve had to be stitched back together after being jumped, passive-aggressiveness doesn’t seem like that much of a big deal.

Sigh.

I think how “burning bridges” is generally used refers to not leaving yourself a way out. However in this case we’re talking about not leaving others a way in.

This seems like the perfect time to remind everyone that Trump is a pedophile, along with every single Republican*.

* if they redact every Republican name from the Epstein files, the only reasonable reaction is to assume all Republicans are listed.

Well, that’s one.

Exactly. They don’t want to go back to a time when you could be happy, healthy, and raise a family.

They want to go all the way past those times to Antebellum America, when there were no Federal income taxes (US government raised most of it’s funding from things like tariffs…sound familiar?), when kids died from diseases that we’ve since been able to prevent with vaccines, and when you had to have the kids that survived work the mines to keep the family from starving.

They wish they was in the land of cotton.

What they are trying to conserve is not how it is, it’s how it was.

You know, back before the Civil War when they could own people.

It’s not what I voted for, but it’s what they voted for whether they knew it or not.

Pathetic.

https://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-06/guinea-pig-to-become-father-to-400-after-breaking-into-female-enclosure

add more features or monetization or whatever

That “whatever” is doing a lot of work.

Security patches and bug fixes are arguably the most important reason to update.

Just make it the responsibility of the companies providing the service to stop it.

Pass a law stating that if you’ve added your phone number to the do-not-call list, and you receive a call you did not want, your carrier has to pay you $50. For each call.

Give them time, say five years, to correct the flaws in their systems. Allow them to pass the charge for any calls that get through onto the carrier who connected the caller to their network, who would presumably pass the charge on until it got to the customer that made the call.

Heck, even when it’s implemented, throw them a bone. The customer has to show it’s an ongoing issue by identifying more than one call in a week.

I’d be making a few hundred dollars a week from my personal cell phone. Over a thousand a day from my work phone.

Soon, they’d find a way to make it impossible to spoof a number. Companies would probably stop selling burner phones. Phone companies that make money by providing service to scam call centers would quickly cease to exist. New companies would have to prove that they are managing their customers correctly or they’d never be permitted to connect to the other carriers.

Seems like that’s God’s will then.

And of course, a strike would be seen as a perfect opportunity to shut down the EPA for good.

The failure of the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination.

Johnson believed in white supremacy, and he was lenient towards the southern ruling class to keep them in power so that they would suppress the freed slaves*. Leaving the southern elites in power ruined the only chance the U.S. had to overcome the taint of slavery and racism.

Think of the difference:

The traitors from the first civil war may have actually faced consequences for their attempt to destroy the nation in order to keep people enslaved.

A president actually being removed via impeachment would have made the presidency less secure which may have either discouraged some of the behavior presidents have engaged in, or it may have been more likely to have resulted in them being held accountable (of course, I’m thinking of Nixon, Clinton, and Trump).

I think war would require an armed and active opposition. Without that, it’s not civil war. It’s just oppression.

I’ve read fucking history books, thank you very much, and I’m not the idiot you think I am.

The US has always been a fascist country at it’s core. You can’t get Americans upset about fascism. Not enough care to make a difference.

Child rape may be a crack in their armor. The true fascists I know are pissed about that.

Hammer at what works.

You’re right. Details matter.

It’s not pointless. The point is to get people to forget that the president is a pedophile.