It would even be fine if he was ill, if he was openly communicating with his constituents, arranged for a colleague to vote for him, and had his staff handle routine affairs. It’s definitely not ideal, but it’s been done before and it can work. But this whole thing about just abandoning your job for months, not talking with anyone, and no one knows where you are or what’s going on - no. I don’t care who you are or what your family’s done, you’re gone.
It’s fine to correct the spelling, and sorry for the misspelling! I had to keep fighting autocorrect on a bunch of words, and I screwed up on that one.
You’re fine to share this; thank you for finding it for those who are interested!
You’re absolutely fine to spread it. I’m just happy that people liked it enough to remember and share it :)
Most likely because of the nuclear power plant.
Okay, so I initially read that title as Woman who rescued injured cow, so that was a bit confusing, but it was a cool video regardless of my illiteracy.
Given Trump’s visit to China, the Iran war is likely being used as an excuse. Not that we aren’t low on munitions, but Xi likely convinced Trump that he doesn’t need or want to defend Taiwan.
Medvedev said […] that Europe’s “impotent” leaders should stop expressing outrage over the incident since they were directly participating in a war against Russia.
[…] He said such incidents were particularly likely to continue in places where drones were being made for Ukraine. “After all, European drones, spare parts for them, and other weapons, not to mention intelligence, are used in attacks on our country every day. As a result of their actions, residential buildings are being damaged, in which our civilians are dying,” said Medvedev.
More of Moscow’s entitled bullying behavior: “Ukraine is ours! How dare you help them resist of attacks!” And in the meantime, Moscow has been conducting low level guerilla warfare against Europe and those friendly to the EU for years now - cutting undersea internet cables, arranging cyberattacks, blowing up train lines, jamming gps, violating airspace, arranging plane crashes against those they perceive as enemies of Moscow.
Also, the sheer hypocrisy of Russia invading and occupying multiple territories in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, then playing the victim when one of their victims retaliates in even just a low level way is just incredible.
It’s also worth noting that all of this is at least partially enabled and justified by Moscow’s post-WWII policies of forcibly relocating portions of the population in occupied Iron Curtain countries to be used as slave labor inside Russia; and relocating Russians into those same occupied territories to function as a privileged administrative class not subject to the privations the normal people went through, who then acted as an incredibly vocal pro-Russian movement after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia has used those “independent” voices as a justification for their territorial ambitions.
If only they’d stayed in Russia, they’d likely still be alive.
Faux “News” spent 40 years programming brainwashing their robot army angry viewers to rage at their legislators on command, for whatever the issue of the minute was. If the fascist propaganda machine could be turned off, saner voices could apply pressure cut accountability.
In defense of Trump’s fragile ego, because Iran isn’t giving in.
You missed the transition from “ebola in Africa” in the first part of the paragraph to a parallel distrustful reaction in the US during covid. If it helps, that transition point is the part of the sentence that reads, “Or if you’re in the US”.
I had immunocompromised family members. Back when covid hit, I spent about a year and a half mostly housebound - I couldn’t risk bringing something home. One of the things I did was to obsessively listen to a podcast called This Week In Virology; I even went back and listened to most of the 500+ episodes that they had already produced at the time. They had episodes where they talked about various aspects of ebola - how it’s spread, what the symptoms are, why some people can have such extremely paranoid and (to us) illogical reactions to the people who came in to treat the potentially infected, etc.
I remember someone explaining why some medical people had been murdered because of local distrust of the authorities; it didn’t make much sense to me at the time, but having seen how insane some of my own countrypeople got during covid, I don’t really have room to comment. I can’t point you to a specific episode, and I’m not going to re-listen to try to find it (each episode is 90-120 minutes), but it almost certainly was one of the ones tagged with ebola. I think it was one of the episodes with Alan Dove, though that doesn’t narrow it down much; and I think it probably wasn’t one of the Clinical Update episodes, which is probably more helpful.
Lol, does Iran know about this peace deal? Is it in the room with us now, or does it go to another school and we wouldn’t know them?
So, symptoms of early stage ebola are fever, chills and tiredness - which happen to be the symptoms of much more common issues like malaria and pneumonia. So for the villagers (who, remember, have hundreds of years of generational trauma from both distant “authorities” and white people), someone gets sick, gets medical treatment but still dies - that’s just stuff that happens (many ebola cases don’t have unexplained bleeding or lesions). But a few days after the death, “authority” people in space suits show up, search the village and start forcibly moving anyone who’s sick into tents or other locations. They intrusively question who has had contact with the sick people, and they may get moved into quarantine as well. In a community where families care for the sick, the families and friends are prevented from seeing their loved ones. And then their loved ones just … disappear. They’re told that they died, but also that they can’t see, handle or bury the body.
This version of ebola has “only” about a 50% death rate, so half the people who get it simply disappear, and the people who are returned are weakened (sometimes severely) from their illness. But the people also have memories and rumors of other ebola strains, strains that killed over 90% of the people who got it.
Someone in the village gets sick and dies. Then the “authorities” show up and start kidnapping people, many of whom are never seen again. You can’t visit them, you can’t help them, you can’t even bury them - they’re just gone, taken by strangers, because that’s what strangers sometimes do. They tell you whatever weird things they’re doing are for your own good, but what they’re saying doesn’t make sense to you - and they’ve said that before and many times it hasn’t been.
Your community comes up with a reason for their actions that makes more sense to you, so that’s what you believe. So you attack the space-suited strangers when they try to kidnap more people, you burn down the building where they’re going to disappear people. Or if you’re in the US, you refuse to take a vaccine because it’s going to allow the government to track you, and if you feel sick you swallow bunches of horse paste and you defy orders not to go to church because it’s your town, your church, and you’ll be damned if you let those bastards in Washington break your community with some fake disease like covid.
One thing I like is that the revenue from these taxes go explicitly to the threatened industries. So the more that Canadians stream US works, the more money there is for Canadian tv, movies and radio to compete. Too often, income like this is directed into a general revenue stream, leaving the threatened industries with the same or even less resources to compete with.
She doesn’t have the platform.
No one just gives you a platform - you make it. You show up at whatever opportunity can find or make and say your thing - and she’s not doing it. Hell, I’ve heard five times more anti-Trump / anti-regime stuff from Mark Hamill on Twitter/BlueSky than I have from her, and that’s like one of the most low-effort things you can do, yet she hasn’t made even one anti-whatever tweet a month. Hell, she wouldn’t even have to do it herself, she could hire a part-time college student or something.
She’s not tweeting, she’s not on podcasts advocating for her positions, she’s not on opinion shows or editorial pages saying “what’s happening is wrong and here’s a way to fix it”. It’s been dead silence from her for a year and a half.
If she’s not willing to go out and fight for a job she’s wanted for well over a decade, I can’t trust her to fight for the things _I_ want.
She could be showing up to or even leading protests and marches, writing editorials and opinion columns, appearing on news channels and podcasts. She could be speaking out, rallying people in opposition. She could’ve shown up at any of the big protests this past year, posted comments on social media.
I have seen absolutely nothing from her this past year except a couple of tepid comments about maybe running for office again.
I get it: she had a high-profile job, was thrown into a crushing high-stakes election at the last minute, spent a lot of energy campaigning and got her hopes crushed. But she’s had a year and a half to get over it, and there’s still nothing.
The country needs a leader and a fighter. She’s doing neither. Hard pass.
If she wanted to run, she should be out there fighting facism. I’m not interested in voting for someone who’s just letting all this shit happen.
I’ve done that before, and they’ve reverted my comments. I’ve also overwritten and then deleted my comments, and they’ve reverted them. Sometimes it takes them a while - a few months, once over a year - but somehow my comments always magically appear again.