“Maybe the representation isn’t perfect, but it’s politics,” he said. “You’re able to kind of look past it.”

Isn’t one of Trump’s appeals is that he is not a politician? The side is able to look past or because he does not give a shit about his neighbors.

Compared to Russia, Ukraine is a free and fair democracy. They are much higher on the democracy index compared to Russia. The parts under the Russian regime are currently far from it though.

Ukrainians were winning the war with US support?

Considering Russia is having to use third rate mercenaries and troops from around the world, clearly Putin knows that the Russian populace does not have the appetite to keep losing 1-2k every day. He is hard up enough to have to get a week’s worth of casualties from North Korea. They may be making territorial gains but that is at a massive cost.

Hell, just yesterday the Texas Supreme Court overruled bipartisan legislators overturning an innocent man’s execution.

This is Texas so I would not count on it being overturned.

That and the fact that he thought it was a good idea to throw an ax at a small target that had people behind. And his white supremacist tattoo. And the dude does not wash his hands after he shits. It’d be a shame if he and RFK Jr got cholera and/or hep C.

You do realize those territories are not just land, right? There are millions of Ukrainians that live on that land that will now be under a dictator.

Zelenskiyy almost certainly realizes that without American support, which will almost certainly be ending, it’s a lost war. But at least you seem to recognize that Putin does not care about the 2000 Russian casualties that happen every day and would prefer to put millions of Ukrainians under his thumb.

Wow. That is a pretty shitty defense.

Thank you! I looked it up before and the only thing I found was that the default setting had changed.

Default after Pixel 5 is to bring up Google Assistant with a long press of the power button.

And to get the reboot option on Pixels, long press Power and Volume Up. Infinitely more annoying than just long pressing the power button.

You hear that, @frandrescher? Head over to Bluesky and/or Mastodon and take your minions with you!

Note: I have no idea how to Twitter.

There is a slight learning curve to Mastodon. Is there a method for verifying accounts? Honest question there. I signed up for Mastodon years ago but I used it as often as I used Twitter which is to say never.

SAG making a push for union members to leave it would definitely help.

Even bipartisan efforts cannot stop Texas’ execution boner.

Wikipedia says the village is not even that big and only had a population of 223 in 2020. It is basically two highways coming together with a couple other streets.

The officers likely were not one of the people in town. A town like that is too small to have dedicated police. The country sheriff’s department has people patrol and respond to specific areas of the county.

I doubt the kid was stealing. They picked him up by the cemetery. Not much to steal there. He was probably just dicking around like pretty much every 11 year old in a small town does because there is not shit to do.

When they did this at my wife’s work back on 2017, the guy they took wasn’t deported because he paid a couple thousand dollar fine. The employer who illegally hired him paid nothing.

You don’t want a government in direct control of the money supply. There is a very high negative correlation between central bank independence and inflation. Countries without independent central banks have much higher inflation. In conclusion, Lee is a fucking idiot.

Rape jokes still are not funny.

Graft

the acquisition of gain (such as money) in dishonest or questionable ways

A grift would be them getting the money illegally through something like a con. Graft is technically legal but clearly dishonest.

The university president gets an absurd income of over $1 million per year. Almost $1500/year of a student’s tuition simply goes to paying the president. University of Washington’s president (references because I went there) also makes over a million but the school also has 51k students so each student gives the president a $20 per year.

The school also got hundreds of millions of government funds to revamp the school. DeSantis replaced the board with his friends, most of whom have no background in education. This whole thing is basically one giant graft.