I have so many questions, but mostly I'm wondering if ye is derivative of Kanye and Yeezy is a derivative of Ye, then how do I pronounce Kayne, Ye, and Yeezy?
I’m going to answer this honestly, because on the internet I can’t tell if you’re being funny or curious. Kanye referred to Jesus as Yeezy. Once he became so grandiose in the music industry, and his mental disorder started to take over, he started calling himself Yeezy. So Yeezy should be pronounced like Jesus, I suppose.
In any case, the man has a God complex.
And this article confirms what we all already knew - he likes fish sticks.
I was serious, thanks for the explanation! I didn't know much about Kanye so just assumed Ye was from Kanye and Yeezy from Ye, but it seems that assumption was wrong.
So in other words, we should show up, swarm over the building, force them to flee for their lives, and spread literal shit on the inside walls, during oral argument. And that would not be "obstruction of an official proceeding".
My opinion regarding the death penalty is that if it needs it exist, then the guillotine is probably the best way to carry it out. It's 100% effective, requires little skill on the executioner's part to use, and causes death extremely quickly with minimal suffering.
Taking someone's life is inherently violent, and it is cowardice to try to hide that fact. People claim that capital punishment exists to scare people into following the law. Well, what's more terrifying than a guillotine?
@NateNate60 I'd rather the few countries that still have it abolished it, but I agree that if they're going to have it, it should be more humane than this.
From the article:
The procedure involves an incision that could be several inches wide and several inches deep. Forceps are used to tear tissue away from a vein that becomes the injection point. “It’s surgery,” said Arin Brenner, a federal public defender and one of the attorneys representing Dorsey. “It would be surgery without anaesthesia.”
The primary argument for why capital punishment is kept around in the US is to terrify people into not committing crimes.
The guillotine is a classic terrifying death machine while still being more humane than other, more modern techniques. It's also difficult to fuck up and cheap to administer.
Even if it was suicide, Boeing should be held responsible. They literally inflicted the emotional damage that ended his life, even if you could somehow prove that they didn't pull the actual trigger.
Considering the facts that everything in politics is stupidly transactional, and that:
The POTUS doesn’t control foreign aid and must rely on congress to agree
The deeply religious House Speaker Johnson, who controls which aid proposals will come to the floor, is fervently in support of Israel
Is it possible that President Biden is throwing a bone to the hard right, in the form of support to Israel, in order to get desperately needed aid to Ukraine ASAP?
I mean, we ALL understand that a US President doesn’t have the unilateral power of a king, and there’s a shit ton of finessing behind what we can see.
Be that as it may. I simply think it is a mockery to provide a little humanitarian aid while at the same time supplying weapons to Israel and continually vetoing a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. This makes the US complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians imo. Pretending that this is not the case by delivering a few relief supplies to the dying people is nothing more than hypocrisy. I find that disgusting.
At this point, seems to me there's literally nothing that Biden could do in this conflict that won't cost him the election. He seems to think that he can thread this needle, but I don't.
The left won't accept anything less than putting his foot down, denouncing Bibi and his administration for the extremists they are, and cutting off all military aid. Even that much would likely be FAR too little for most of the people I've encountered on this issue, and even that is probably more than he can do as an individual.
The right would see ANY movement in this direction as "weakening America" and would use in all their campaign adds along with the border stuff to declare Biden useless for national security. And the even more racist right will double down on all this with Islamophobic nonsense because they really do want the genocide achieved.
With the election as close as it appears to be, the political losses he's suffering between all the "border crisis" trap content and Israel is probably a death sentence. Trump will get re-elected and everything will get a hell of a lot worse, including for Gaza.
And it doesn't even matter. Not really. The only path to a safe and peaceful Palestine almost certainly starts with Israeli democracy putting an end to the ultraconservative ethnocentric monsters that have been allowed to take over their entire government. The violence cements the far right's control over Israel, and the far right maintains the conditions that ensure the violence will never end.
That’s just it! POTUS isn’t a dictator. It’s astonishing to see headlines ignore the fact that the powers of the office of the president are limited. No president has the authority to force Congress to pass any kind of foreign aid legislation or to impose peace on the Middle East.
The horrors occurring in Gaza, Ukraine, and throughout the world elicit deep emotions in us, but they’re beyond the control of one elected official, which is what keeps us from living in true tyranny.
It’s disturbing to see so many smart people lean toward a candidate who seeks chaos and destruction simply because they feel outrage at atrocities that can’t be solved by a POTUS, but could definitely be exacerbated by one.
Honestly, I do think Biden could organize things to effectively cut off -- or at least threaten to cut off -- military aid. And he does have control over the state department. He could prevent the veto of the UN resolution. Maybe he's threatening either of both of these things behind closed doors, but (a) I doubt it and (b) even if we assume he is, behind closed doors won't win him the election; if he doesn't win the election it does not matter what other progress he makes towards lasting peace in the area because Trump has never seen a Muslim he doesn't want dead. And if he did it openly, Trump would still win because failing to support Israel also loses him the election from a different flank -- and again, Trump is pro-genocide of Arabs.
There's no way out here. Even if he somehow pulls off a full victory, manages to diplomatically negotiate peace, and sets the foundations for prosperity in the region -- again, hard to believe that happening -- the damage done is probably already too great.
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