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style99 , in Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little
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A vote for Trump is the same as spitting in the face of Ronald Reagan. Then again, Reagan's face should be spat in. I'm kind of conflicted, to be honest.

In a just world, Trump would be swinging at the end of a noose already.

breadsmasher , in Nato chief says Trump remarks may put US and EU lives at risk
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NATO article states, in effect, “An attack on one member is an attack on all members”

trump, ex president of usa, calls on russia to attack NATO member, which is thus an attack on the usa.

Tell me again how trump isn’t a traitor?

style99 ,
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Trump is very loyal to the notion of being a scumbag who does nothing but commit fraud for a living.

Anticorp , in A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

At the moment, no outlets seem to have reported a motive for the attack.

I feel that anyone who writes a line like this hasn't spent any time at all with people who walk around on the streets of San Francisco. They don't need a motive, man! The destruction is the motive.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer , in Thousands of migrants scramble to find homes and work as mass evictions from Chicago shelters loom

This is feeling like a big failure from the Biden administration. Not because too many migrants were let in but because it appears they were given no Federal assistance in finding long-term shelter or work. There's probably plenty of both in the US but it's not all in Chicago. Immigration could've easily made staying within their "designated state" a condition of asylum and therefore making busing them out of state a federal offense.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Too many migrants

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HubertManne ,
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The big problem is they have no real status. He actually should have just made a central location with dorms and a court house and send people there and they stay until their status gets worked out.

WHARRGARBL , in Thousands of migrants scramble to find homes and work as mass evictions from Chicago shelters loom

This crisis is caused by every adult Texan who didn't vote against - or who voted for - Governor Greg the sadistic psychopath Abbott, who proudly values the protection of toxic waste more than human life.

The state of Illinois should place these 13,200 people in hotels with complimentary room service, and bill it ALL to the great state of Texas. I’m sure those taxpaying patriots are happy to put their money where their vote is.

HubertManne ,
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honestly the most annoying part is he purposely times the busses to arrive in the middle of the night on weekends wherever. The city and state have asked that they just work with them to send them to designated locations at designated times. The other annoying thing is they want the feds to allow them to work as that will solve a lot of the issues.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer , in A city of 710,000 struggles to cope with 40,000 migrant arrivals

If Biden loses the election this is why. Trump is a total fascist dictator but you can't ignore problems right outside your front door and that's where some of these migrants could end up sleeping soon.

WHARRGARBL ,

I was talking to this old man from South Dakota last week. He stated “we’re being invaded because our president won’t do anything.”

When I explained that a President can’t run around making laws - Congress is supposed to make the laws, but they haven't, he snapped “Well, he should MAKE them!”

Isn’t it frightening that adults believe a POTUS is directly and personally responsible for state and local decisions? Like he has the authority to break any law and force all elected officials in the USA to bow to his tyrannical will? And that when he doesn’t do this, everything is his fault, so he shouldn’t be re-elected?

Isn’t that terrifyingly absurd to you?

p03locke , in On Immigration, Trumpism Is Now Democratic Common Sense
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The past week saw Democrats take up Trump’s hard-right immigration policy as their own for campaign fodder, with the liberal press’s assent. The very xenophobia that Democrats decried as “fascism” has become their policy agenda.

Just from the word "go", this article smells of alarmist and hyperbolic bullshit.

admiralteal , in Hawaii Is Bailing Out Its Wildfire-Causing Energy Company

It just makes no sense to have privately run utilities, and pretty much all US energy infrastructure problems can be traced back to it.

For people who don't understand, fundamentally how these work is they are guaranteed a certain rate of return on expenditures. The utilities are told that if they spend a dollar on approved activities, the public will give them back slightly more than a dollar as thanks.

The entire incentive structure is to just do big capital projects while minimizing any unpinned costs - which often includes things like labor and maintenance although I don't know about the specific case of Hawaii.

So there's no incentive to do serious maintenance. There's no incentive to save ratepayer cost.

There are frequent incentives for reliability in the form of penalties, all stick and no carrot, but if you think about this side of things at all you realize that it's not good enough because many of these utilities aren't reliable and that the entire principle of reliability penalties is admitting that market incentives aren't going to do the job so why are we using this entire market based approach in the first place.

Natural monopolies should not be private businesses, they should be democratically operated public institutions. End of story.

But of course all of these various utilities have grown so ponderous and huge that basically none of the states can afford to acquire them back into the government. We've all been damned by previous generations who didn't think things through.

shroomaroomboom ,

Not just utilities. Add to the list private ambulances, private hospitals, private prisons, etc.

Thier incentives are purely for profit. Not for the care of the people they are meant to cater to.

Lmaydev , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings

Firstly this seems pretty stupid and risky.

Second you should 100% be able to opt out without current threats against you.

Given how hard victims of stalkers have to fight to get action taken by authorities this seems like it would be so easy to abuse.

givesomefucks , in Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little

Don't worry, if this sounds like someone you can't support, we have an even older white guy who's actively circumventing congress to fund a genocide!

For bonus points, they both agree the rich don't need taxed, none of us really need healthcare, and cannabis is too dangerous because jazz musicians smoke that stuff.

You can pick any president you want, as long as it's one of those two fuckheads.

rdyoung ,

Wow. How did all of that fit up your ass? The only thing that you got right was Biden is 4, yes a whopping 4 years older than trump. Why is everyone focused on Bidens age and it's never brought up about orange menace?

givesomefucks ,

Because some people have higher standards than trump?

My dog would be a better president than trump, but I'm not voting for him because that would be ridiculous

mibo80 ,

This doesn't sound like someone anyone should support. We already had 4 years of this fat fuck and he couldn't even keep himself from getting COVID . Why the fuck would I trust him over the president who saw one of the largest economic investments in this country in decades. Meanwhile now everyone is feeling the trump tax effect this year and all that inflation from those shit Chinese tariffs and non-existent pandemic policies. Yeah thanks for clearing that up for us.

RootBeerGuy , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings
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I am sorry for cursing but what the shit? The availability of people's addresses online has led to these bombings? Is this an AI-written article?

The obvious issue at hand isn't that you can lookup someones address online, its that you can go there and fucking bomb the place somehow. The issue is that people get hold of explosives real fucking easy somehow instead of knifing or shooting people (well they do that too but its the explosives that are fucked up). What the fuck does it matter to know that a dude you want dead is living in the first or second story of a house when you just plant a fucking bomb. Finding out addresses is laborious, yeah right, just follow people home as if not publishing those addresses would prevent 90% of those killings.

Unbelievable. Anything to not have to talk about the real issues.

FMT99 , in Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife

Conservative while he was in charge, turned progressive after he left office.

catarina , in Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife

That's so nice, hope they were full of love and peace in the end 💟

snooggums , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings

Digital phone books sure are scary!

snooggums , in Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife

That is awesome, since it has a thorough review process to ensure it only applies to couples who are in the same end of life situation and let's them go out together.

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