How does the World view America these days?

[ignatius]

10 minutes ago, toaoaoad said:

Weird that they would push the Ten Commandments like this considering that most people on the right (or certainly their representatives) are not abiding by them.

this hypocrisy has been lost on them for all time. "rules for thee but not for me" has been their guiding principle for as long as i can remember.

 

[Nebraska]

one of the co-author's of that bill was on CNN to (attempt to) defend the decision and explain why it wasn't "nonsense" 

 

[Squee]

41 minutes ago, ignatius said:

this hypocrisy has been lost on them for all time. "rules for thee but not for me" has been their guiding principle for as long as i can remember.

 

Oh... OOOH!..............

[zero]

1 hour ago, toaoaoad said:

Weird that they would push the Ten Commandments like this considering that most people on the right (or certainly their representatives) are not abiding by them.

imo this commandments stunt is a 100% troll move as an F U to the left/dems/progressives. it wreaks of bigotry, which y'know sorta goes against what Christianity preaches...but team MAGA loves! an attention grabbing headline like this follows a page directly out of the trump playbook - waste govt resources on some stupid backwards ass agenda no one with a fully functioning brain gives a shit about, and make a big scene when people using common sense start asking why are you doing this... this stunt is not about spreading any sort of good word, it's just more MAGA influenced BS from GOP'ers seeking approval from their snake king donald.

[ignatius]

42 minutes ago, zero said:

imo this commandments stunt is a 100% troll move as an F U to the left/dems/progressives. it wreaks of bigotry, which y'know sorta goes against what Christianity preaches...but team MAGA loves! an attention grabbing headline like this follows a page directly out of the trump playbook - waste govt resources on some stupid backwards ass agenda no one with a fully functioning brain gives a shit about, and make a big scene when people using common sense start asking why are you doing this... this stunt is not about spreading any sort of good word, it's just more MAGA influenced BS from GOP'ers seeking approval from their snake king donald.

conservative religious fucktards do this kind of shit periodically in different states just to see if the supreme court will rule in their favor since they know they will be sued for blurring the line between separation of church and state etc. 

we'll see. 

Edited June 21 by ignatius

[Nebraska]

27 minutes ago, zero said:

imo this commandments stunt is a 100% troll move as an F U to the left/dems/progressives. it wreaks of bigotry, which y'know sorta goes against what Christianity preaches...but team MAGA loves! 

check out the christian coalition's first agenda of business on their website

basically, CC acts as a signifier of why they're against/for something. you can always say you're a christian, and go with the myriad of excuses that explain their reasoning (which point to a text they either haven't read or just mis-interpreted) 

[Rubin Farr]

3 hours ago, Nebraska said:

one of the co-author's of that bill was on CNN to (attempt to) defend the decision and explain why it wasn't "nonsense" 

 

I saw this, she was hilarious 

[decibal cooper]

[Rubin Farr]

[Rubin Farr]

 

[exitonly]

3 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:

 

that driver's top priority is stayin chill

[decibal cooper]

[Nebraska]

Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion that had been guaranteed for nearly five decades under Roe v. Wade, leaving a patchwork of access in states in its wake

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[Nebraska]

A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and newborn deaths, a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found. The law did not include exemptions for congenital anomalies, including conditions that will cause a newborn to die soon after birth.

The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 other states. The data included newborns 28 days or younger and infants up to 12 months old. Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about 2% nationwide.

Babies born with congenital anomalies also increased in Texas, by nearly 23%, but decreased by about 3% nationwide.

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“The specific increase in deaths attributable to congenital anomalies really makes an ironclad link between the change in the law and the terrible outcomes that they’re seeing for infants and families,” said Nan Strauss, senior policy analyst of maternal health at the National Partnership for Women & Families, who was not involved with the research. “The women and families have to suffer through an excruciating later part of pregnancy, knowing that their baby is likely to die in the first weeks of life.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-abortion-ban-linked-rise-infant-newborn-deaths-rcna158375

 

[Nebraska]

check trump, wheelin' and deelin' with chamath palihapitiya, jason calacanis, david sacks & david friedberg

“Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate, or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country.” - the art of the deal 2024 edition

[arti]

34 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

check trump, wheelin' and deelin' with chamath palihapitiya, jason calacanis, david sacks & david friedberg

“Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate, or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country.” - the art of the deal 2024 edition

That sounds awsome, what you're alternative?  Pepertual warfare with the Bidens and Clintons with the Middle East,  Biden has already initiated funding to Israel with upcoming war with Lebanon and HezBollah. Biden is so deep in pocket with China and Ukraine and Russia he dare call it out.  You do know everytime they 'aid' countries with missiles all these fucks working congress make a profit, why stop it.  Keep the money rolling..

 

Most of your posts are soundbyte snips of social media and corporate media, i do not take them that seriously and neither shoud you. Research is key.

[Nebraska]

1 hour ago, arti said:

That sounds awsome, what you're alternative? 

the opposite of what you said

[decibal cooper]

Julian Assange did a plea deal with US dept of justice and will return to his birth country of Australia looks like

 

[ignatius]

46 minutes ago, decibal cooper said:

Julian Assange did a plea deal with US dept of justice and will return to his birth country of Australia looks like

 

good. one less mine field for biden admin to dance through during the election year.  also, assange is kind of a prick so i think it's good he goes elsewhere.. we have enough pricks here in usa. 

Edited June 25 by ignatius

[Rubin Farr]

[ignatius]

3 hours ago, arti said:

Pepertual warfare with the Bidens and Clintons

what do the clintons have to do w/this? are bill and hillary running for office and no one told us??? and it's surprising you don't mention Bush 1 and Bush 2 and cheney etc. I think they did a thing or two in the middle east i kind of remember.   but the scale of the wars is only thing that seems to differ.. USA is always bombing someone or enabling someone else to do some bombing. there's a conflict w/US direct involvement or influence/supply etc just about every year since.. i don't know.. forever? all of modern history certainly... 

there's no debating biden trump except on harm reduction within US borders.. so, in america some people will experience less harm if biden is elected... health insurance, child tax credit, women's health etc etc.. 

you think trump is going to walk netanyahu back to the peace camp with palestine? lol. he moved the fucking embassy. he gives no fucks about anything but himself. 

trump presidency would see further taking apart of USA departments both foreign and domestic. he'll put cronies in everywhere and we and the world will suffer more.  anyone who is "Other" in the usa is going to have a roughed time.

otherwise.. both parties are suck.. but one seems more attached to reality and maybe doing some token things for giving us a shot at doing a handful of things we need to do or pretend to do.. we'll see. 

there are differences.. but it's hard to argue for either one of them and mostly just argue against the one that is obviously worse imo. but america is going to keep doing america things regardless. we're going to use more energy, continue to wreck the ecology.. continue to enable israel etc.. 

 

Edited June 25 by ignatius

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[cichlisuite]

5 hours ago, ignatius said:

good. one less mine field for biden admin to dance through during the election year.  also, assange is kind of a prick so i think it's good he goes elsewhere.. we have enough pricks here in usa. 

why is he a prick?

it's entirely possible he was released for the election points and he probably also had some dirt to trade, or maybe even to forego his wikileaks gig in exchange for freedom, all of which is what really bothers me (aka no one responsible is ever going to face trial)

[ignatius]

14 hours ago, cichlisuite said:

why is he a prick?

it's entirely possible he was released for the election points and he probably also had some dirt to trade, or maybe even to forego his wikileaks gig in exchange for freedom, all of which is what really bothers me (aka no one responsible is ever going to face trial)

i'm all for exposing government bullshit and secrets etc.. and support things like the pentagon papers coming out back in the nixon era.. and i think what happened more than once in recent times with leaking of classified docs is simply a continuation of that type of event. the problems came when that data was shared with the wrong people who didn't treat with respect it needed and shared wrong info at wrong time and exposed people to harm who were either in middle of a war or some kind of clandestine action. lives were put at risk because of the carelessness of assange.  the people around the massive amounts of data did a mostly good job. but there's enough word of mouth type evidence that assange was grandstanding during all this and made some really bad choices that were self serving to his ego and profile. this, to me, makes me think he was the wrong person for this job. the wrong person to be involved in handling the release of this information. so, kind of a prick. 

there's documentaries about this and his interactions with newspapers and journalists etc.. so, if you go back through all that info you can see where he was selfish and went again better judgement of people around him.. like an arrogant prick. 

edit: but i don't think he's enemy number one like some seem to think. a lot of this was blown up to a big story because of US 3 letter agencies being butthurt. 

edit edit: also, who were you expecting to face trial? i didn't think there would be a trial. anything is/was possible  and i guess someone would step up to represent him but w/o snowden also around to play a part it seems like not all the details would come out. 

Edited June 25 by ignatius

[arti]

21 hours ago, Nebraska said:

the opposite of what you said

Stick to what you know, rating dubious hollywood trash movies and c-grade porno flicks. You're political outlook is about the same.