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  • The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay

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  • Cuba objects based on the Vienna Convention treaty on treaties from the Carter era, but that explicitly states it doesn't apply retroactively. Cuba doesn't like it, it's likely unethical, and it would be illegal if it went into effect today, but as it stands it's not illegal under international law.

    The same would also apply to Puerto Rico and other islands won from Spain.

    That original treaty with Cuba was renegotiated later (to be more in Cuba's favor) and in any event requires that both sides agree or the US vacate the area in order to annul the treaty. Obama tried to close down the prison (one of the best things he tried to do as president), but Congress stopped him.

  • The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay

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  • Illegal, no. Unethical, most likely yes. And it's certainly being used in an unethical way.

  • Trump Admin Admits It Could Game Court System Without Nationwide Injunctions

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  • It seems based on questioning from the female justices that they're highly skeptical of any scheme to invalidate nationwide injunctions. It's hard to make a case for it. I wouldn't be surprised if it were ruled 7-2 against.

  • DNC panel recommends redo of vote that elevated David Hogg to vice chair after procedural concerns

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  • Is he only supporting gun control candidates to primary incumbents? I don't know and am just looking to be informed.

  • DNC panel recommends redo of vote that elevated David Hogg to vice chair after procedural concerns

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  • What don't you agree with Hogg about? Just curious.

  • Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says

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  • In a pre-Roberts court, fine. But you are aware I'm sure that this court routinely ignores precedent, and it's not good enough to just say, well, your judges ignored precedent and made a number of terrible rulings against the spirit of the Constitution, but we're gonna follow tradition and decorum and keep with those rulings because we're going to follow the rules.

    A successor court (whatever form that takes) must reverse the worst decisions, and then Congress needs to step in and enact laws in support of the new rulings.

  • GOP Senator introduces bill to make all porn a federal crime, following Project 2025 playbook

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  • Perhaps you missed the news where Trump explicitly encouraged immigrants of European descent to come to the US and made expedited arrangements for white Afrikaner "refugees" recently.

    Or in his first term during the Unite the Right rally, when racists marched in Charlottesville and chanted "You will not replace us," meaning Jews and non-white minorities, and Trump responded by saying there were "very fine people on both sides."

    I think you'd have a pretty steep uphill argument to say that this administration is not a white supremacist (and misogynist) movement at its core.

    Again, I don't believe this myself, but what they mean by "white culture" or "European Anglo-Saxon values" or whatever is simply a homogenous culture centered around white supremacy.

  • GOP Senator introduces bill to make all porn a federal crime, following Project 2025 playbook

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  • I mean, obviously. I'm not saying I believe it or that it's viable.

  • Americans putting life on hold amid economic anxiety under Trump, poll shows

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  • Boomer telling younger generations they must suffer for the future while refusing to sacrifice anything at all themselves is a very Boomer take.

  • GOP Senator introduces bill to make all porn a federal crime, following Project 2025 playbook

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  • Edit for drive-by down voters: I'm saying this is what they believe, not that it's true or I believe it. I mean, all I'm talking about is the "Great Replacement" theory that people like Stephen Miller fully adhere to.

    It's pretty simple: the white population is losing ground relative to non-white populations. Yes, other populations will increase, but there's a practical ceiling. They likely believe that the white population gains will more than offset any gains by other ethnicities.

    For black populations specifically, I'd have to do some simple analysis on this data, but it doesn't look particularly disproportionate in absolute numbers.

    But really, I don't believe the black population is the principal target. See the graph. Consider the immigration policy.

    https://www.brookings.edu/articles/all-recent-us-population-growth-comes-from-people-of-color-new-census-estimates-show/

  • House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts in Trump's big bill

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  • This must be terrifying. I disagree with this new requirement to appear in person every few months for reasons just like this, and I'd like to share cases like yours when I talk to Trump voters. Would you be willing to share the condition that keeps you homebound and prevents you from traveling in person?

  • GOP Senator introduces bill to make all porn a federal crime, following Project 2025 playbook

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  • Most of what they do is in service to white supremacy, including this.

    • Abortion restrictions: more white babies
    • Pornography restrictions: more white babies
    • Immigration restrictions: fewer brown babies

    Make America Great Again literally just means "restoring" the "supremacy" of the white race and culture over all others.

  • GOP Senator introduces bill to make all porn a federal crime, following Project 2025 playbook

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  • Yeah I'm sure they'll get right on that

  • US students enter seventh day of hunger strike for Gaza

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  • They're drinking water with electrolytes and having their vitals checked twice a day. If their vitals start to become weak or erratic, I'm sure they'll a taken to a hospital.

    But if they actually intend to see it through, they can go for quite a while. If they also take vitamins and a potassium supplement for heart function, they could survive without food for over a year. (The actual length depends on many factors, of course, particularly starting weight.)

    Without supplements or electrolytes, a person can survive for around two months. (Again, depending on starting weight and other factors.)

  • Why many Americans are unaware of the massive event in Gaza BEFORE October 7th

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  • That's right, each state has its own educational standards. For example, Colorado's educational system is very, very different from West Virginia, like it's a different country.

    I made the comparison of Lisbon to Helsinki solely because of the distances involved; it's roughly the same distance as Seattle to DC.

    If it helps to imagine it, the US is basically an unhappy married couple forced to live in the same house.

  • Trump claims ‘total reset’ in US-China trade relations after tariff talks in Geneva

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  • As soon as shelves start going bare, everyone will start panicking, including Republican politicians and everyone in the administration who doesn't spend most of their time on camera at airport tarmacs. At that point they'll pull back. They'll do permanent damage to the country and leave us in a worse position, but I don't believe they'll sit idly by while an economic depression kicks off.

  • ‘Dealmaker’ Trump frustrated by inability to strike deals

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  • Yes, Donald, to make a deal you need something called leverage.

    You have no leverage with Russia because we're not helping Ukraine defend against an invasion anymore and you've repeated Russian propaganda.

    You have no leverage with Israel because you continue to supply them with weapons of war, deport protestors, publicly give them a pass on all war crimes, and promote the forced exile of Palestinians from Gaza.

    The simple fact is you may be too intellectually challenged to "achomlish" this. Everyone at the negotiating table—every single person, including the aides and wait staff—is smarter than you.

  • Why many Americans are unaware of the massive event in Gaza BEFORE October 7th

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  • I don't disagree, but for what it's worth, I don't think most Europeans could either. As a comparison, I can certainly tell you that most Europeans can't identify US states on a map outside of maybe one or two, and have no concept about the size of the US generally. That's why Americans constantly hear about how we should be "protesting in DC," as if people in Lisbon would ever protest in Helsinki. I don't think ignorance and provincialism is a localized phenomenon.

  • Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say

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  • I see it everywhere, constantly:

    • At work in stupid images for meetings and unhelpful and inaccurate AI summaries designed to make us more productive. I love Ghibli, but with all the Ghibli profile images I see there it's making me hate seeing the art style.
    • On meetup event descriptions, where the photos are either cartoons or deceptive, photorealistic representations of a meetup in action instead of a less glamorous real photo.
    • Reviews, product descriptions, news articles, SEO farms in search results, paid bot comments on practically every single video in order to manipulate engagement stats...

    I'm just so tired of the slop, the lack of care, everywhere I look. It's exhausting.