If the choice was between someone whose policy views align with mine perfectly, but wants to just move on -- vs someone whose views I don't like, but will demand justice -- I would be in a tough position.
That's a much lower level of malfeasance. But, I'm not hopeful -- but as Ken Jennings says -- I will support whomever commits to go after theses bastards.
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
Orwell never said it, but what's more Orwellian than attributing quotes to ppl who would never make them to defend the state behaving badly? So, in a way, he did say it.
That's Noem, Lewandowski, and Bovino out.
Wannabe fascists, perhaps, but you are not living in a fascist country. Public pressure, embarassment, legislative opposition - all of them helped to turf these folks. That's what I mean by "the levers of democracy still work and you should use them."
And ... the accountability is through the election process. The ICC is a joke. I just hope that when the Ds take back control they don't pull a Merrick Garland and don't take pursuing accountability seriously. I think they will wimp out, but the public can't let them.
The media will report other ppl calling them war crimes, but that is the sort of determination that they don't like to make. Same with Trump and lying. They don't say he lied bc it requires them to make judgments they don't like.
I just don't see Obama blowing up weddings on purpose, and yet, they did it. I agree this admin is malign, but I tend to think that they are more often inept. Yes, they committed war crimes on the VZ boats -- that was a diff level of malignance.
Given that these mistakes happen under every President -- I'd have to be convinced that they had an unusually high number of mistaken targets to think it was intentional. I suspect this is just run of the mill incompetence.
In general, every generation has been better than the prior one, but maybe Gen Z will be the first one that is solidly worse.
Ppl will make dark jokes about striking a school, and that is really, really bad -- but we should remember that human's picking targets hit weddings, etc. Mistakes in war ... er police actions ... are terrible. Which again, is why you should avoid entering wars whenever possible.
High value applications in AI. *sigh*
If the Ds in ME don't care about a Nazi symbol tattoo, the Republicans definitely won't.
I'm sure this joke has been made a million times, but ...
In a way, Martin Luther was the world's very first poster.
Billy Corgan seems to do OK.
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Those benefits have been cut in a lot of states. Still better than most employees as defined benefit pensions are mostly preserved for public employees -- but poor management and wild overcommitment has lead to a lot of them being chopped.
and for ppl earning top 3% of income if you live in NYC and post about your woes online.
My parents were teachers in VT in the 80s and 90s. Money was tight, but over time it loosened given the rate of pay increases -- and some of their peers ended fairly well off bc they rode real estate prices up. Also, money being tight is not uncommon in the middle class ...
My god. Mike Pesca's The Gist's Not Even Mad segment on immigration where the two ppl who should respectfully disagree mostly agree (and are allowed to spew a lot of BS) really shows how weak the segment can be. Of course they aren't Not Even Mad, they have the same bad opinions (as the host?)
Given that the admin refuses to call any armed conflict we engage in a war, maybe DoD shouldn't be DoW, but DoNWO .. Department of Non-War Operations.
License to Kill: God.
It's frankly pathetic how many people left of center will happily tolerate bald-faced liars if they think the liars are directionally supportive of their politics. Lying is bad, haven't we learned that? We will not win a political contest built around consequence-free lying.
Yes. There is a campaign from parents of certain social classes or backgrounds to ruin their kids (and everyone else's) lives to have their kid eventually rejected by an Ivy.
I'm not debating that. Just pointing out that wage compression explains a lot of the "comparable by education" and that if you look at PPP which looks just at compensation, America is not an outlier. "Teachers wages are too low" != "other ppls wages are too high"
If you instead just look at a comparison by PPP, Americans do fine compared to Euros.
The educational attainment modifier is weird. If you live in a country with a lot of wage compression, then it makes sense that the salaries would be more comparable. If you live in one without it -- you do worse.
It's interesting that Canada has about a 10-year min-max salary progression, while the US has 25 years. I wonder about how that affects retention.
"If you just adopt one of these other systems, you get to pick schools that match your views -- even if the actual scholarship isn't better, and frequently much worse!"
That sort of pressure has always existed, but I think a lot more parents view schools as extensions of their will instead of as broad based public services that don't target any particular family's needs -- so it is much worse now. Possibly bc of the rise of charter schools and voucher appeals.
