Mirshe

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Nah, he's not that kind of dictator. He doesn't need to feel like he's in the military - he needs to feel like he's above them, on top of them as it were. The big military parade isn't for him to feel like a general - it's so he can copy his authoritarian friends without actually having the military cred himself to back it up. It's cargo cult dictatorship.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The issue is more: will it matter at all?

Genuinely serious. Jackson is Trump's favorite President for a reason: he exposed that under a determined enough man with enough popular support behind him, neither Congress nor the SCOTUS can actually do anything about a President acting in contravention of a court order. If the SCOTUS says "this bill is unconstitutional​", will it stop anyone from actually acting like it's in force?

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You would be incorrect. Many wealthier high schools put a ton of money into their sports facilities and equipment. Several HS in my state operate 10-thousand-plus-seating stadiums that look a lot like collegiate or semiprofessional facilities.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  1. The schools that aren't underfunded have millions of dollars in funds earmarked for sports usually.
[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's where I am. Fuck the other billionaire assholes, but the kid knew shit was fucky and got pressured into getting into that sub.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Hey hey, it's not JUST about that!

It's also because it classifies child marriage as abuse. You can still get married to or marry off your child as young as 12 in some states.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Hitler, also. Remember that one of the only books anyone can recall Trump reading regularly is a collected volume of Hitler's speeches.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

So to expand on these, because a lot of people seem to think "it's because they cared", that's only partially it.

Back before faster travel methods, if you wanted a small bird for any reason and it had to travel any significant distance, you would assume at least a 75% fatality rate from stress, with that increasing to roughly 90% over greater distances.

So canaries and finches were expensive, and unless your mine was close to a port city, you'd be traveling 3-4 days at least. Need 4 canaries? Better buy 40.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't we literally have an episode of DS9 about this? O'Brien tries to kill himself because of it.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh nah, I'm convinced some of them will definitely get got by their own private security forces. Whatever they pay them, it's not enough to stop someone saying "hey if we drop this guy and take his hands for fingerprints, I'm betting we could withdraw an ass load of cash and disappear before anyone knew."

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They don't. They've said they really don't. What it DOES do is increase the instability of the market, and a lot of the people behind Trump stand to profit if they can pick up the pieces after a financial collapse, just like what happened in 08, just like what happened in 2020.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Genocide. The Clinton admin invented the term "ethnic cleansing" to justify the US government disobeying their own laws requiring intervention against genocide (at that point, in Rwanda).

Let's call it what it is.

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