She is currently irrelevant. Her only function is to be studied as an example of failure. I really don’t care how she feels and will probably never care what she thinks ever again.
The damage is done, she has nothing left to offer me.
They want to punish him harder than the law would allow so they’re charging him with something he clearly didn’t do? Am I understanding that correctly?
There are plenty of weird laws out there, but if the state is going to pull tricks like this, then do the laws mean anything or are they just weapons to be redefined at will?
If using violence to create fear to affect political change makes someone a terrorist, and we wish to apply that definition here, then there must first be examples made of the authority that wishes to impose such judgment. Authority without competence and oversight is just tyranny. The British called the minutemen barbarians, The United States calls its secret police undercover officers or plain clothes detectives. Word games like this start to fall apart when they face any serious scrutiny.
Either that definition of terrorism is overly broad and would include everything from the police in the United States to our “shock and awe” campaigns abroad. Either that or the difference is not that he “used violence to create fear to affect political change” but that his violence did not come as the official order of a government that is allowed to use violence to create fear to affect political change.
If they try this guy like a terrorist then the country should rightfully riot. The appropriate response would be rebellion on a grand scale.
I hope people take to generally withholding human decency from these executives.
This can be an addition to whatever other more invasive measures people might have planned.
Examples:
Instead of holding the door for one of them when you walk through, push the door back into their face and hold it there for a few seconds, Make eye contact like you’re looking at an unruly teenager literally covered in shit. It’s not illegal it’s just rude and upsetting.
Don’t put any condiments or napkins or anything like that into their to-go containers. If possible omit any packaging at all. Make them request each specific plastic fork and napkin, do your best to soil all of it.
If you recognize one of them in public, point and yell, “This person works for a death panel and helps ensure Americans die prematurely.”
Don’t refer to the most HMO CEOs or healthcare CEOs, just call them death panelists, or death panel CEO.
Of course I would never discourage violence against purveyors of human misery, but if you’re too explicitly willing to fight back in the ongoing class war you will be de-platformed and treated as if you are an actual terrorist.
If, on the other hand, you wanted to say that Brian Thompson should have gone on living and been allowed to kill as many people as the law would let him then you’re perfectly okay and standing on solid ground.
Oh I recognize that guy, that’s Attaboy Goodman!
Your brothers and sisters are your siblings, but sibling is not a very affectionate word so I think most folks would say “brothers and sisters”, “compatriots” or “friends”.
The fight ahead is going to be a slog, but hopefully we can find solidarity, build a bigger tent, and unite under a banner of kinship and kindness.
For surely if we do not hang together we will hang separately.
There was a pretty great episode of Stargate that explained why offering a defensive technology like that is still offensive support.
In that circumstance we (earth) were literally just powering a shield and the good guys decided to stop supplying the fuel to power that shield because it turns out it was being used to defend the aggressive Nazi-like-analogs that were actually the instigators of the conflict.
Kahn is the real deal. I hope Harris keeps her and gives her anything she asks for.
Lina Kahn could be the trust buster we need to get America’s shit together and maybe reign in some of these big businesses that seem to be completely above the law.
He asked for kidney beans on toast not kidney on toast!
Is this one of them pokey mans?
Careful, if you get bitten by a radioactive donut it turns you into a Simpson!
It’s even worse than that
If you were chatting with them and you used the proper name “Affordable Care Act” or ACA to describe Obamacare they would immediately think it is a dog whistle for communism and that it was just a way for liberals to rebrand Obamacare. Their entire universe is backwards, inside out, and upside down.
We are lucky we got Tim Walz instead of Newsom. Tim really cares about outcomes but Gavin is all about appearances.
It’s not true and the IDF tortured them.
We should be cutting aid to Israel for war crimes, and their treatment of UNRWA employees is a perfect example of why.
I wish these articles would contain lists of officers and who the lead was who fucked it up so unbelievably badly that it cost their city 3.7 million.
These people should become unemployable pariahs. They should be humiliated by their peers and mocked openly by the public for being monstrous garbage human beings.
The other parents at the PTA meeting should whisper about them with rude looks and faces twisted with disgust. They should be asked not stay away from public activities out of respect for other people who they might make uncomfortable.
They should be treated like the selfish and reckless addicts that they are. We should be able to build a public list of police officers that unapologetically fuck up.
That is when your brain stops really growing and developing, it’s not some threshold of social or intellectual maturity.
If anything, people become less adaptable, less open-minded, and less cooperative after that. It’s not something we get to lord over young people, it’s a mark against us olds for being less capable of growth.
You mean do it manually, like a caveman? No I want to involve servos, circuits and microprocessors in this!
Doesn’t look like anything to me.