[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 64 points 1 month ago

“If I wasn’t a Libertarian before, I sure as hell am a Libertarian now.”

If Libertarian-ism was 180 degrees and a mile in the opposite direction. Dictators notoriously go after the liberals and libertarians first.

I wouldn't use the government to jail people, I just wouldn't do that

No. You'd send in the national guard to shoot them for merely expressing their discontent.

Maybe you don't want to win. Keep getting your 3% every 4 years.

Win what? With Trump?

  • Loss of abortion access?
  • Loss of child tax credits?
  • Loss of freedom of expression?
  • Loss of library books?
  • Loss of civil liberties?
  • Loss of climate action?
  • Loss of accountability to rapist and fraudsters?

If Trump is the win for the libertarian party, then I would prefer to lose.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 61 points 1 month ago

This is happening at a time when Russian armor and infantry are being stalled at the north, south, and eastern fronts.

This is also happening at a time when American munitions are about to be loaded into Ukraine. (June-July.)

This is also happening as Ukraine is asking the US if they can use these Munitions inside Russia.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 58 points 1 month ago

"I bet your target is missing a pride section," is going to be a low-key burn to some folks.

I bet $100 to donuts that conservatives will still drive out of town to other targets to make it a big deal anyway.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 72 points 2 months ago

Strange .. I don't remember storming a capital building trying to subvert our democratic process....

All I suggested is that not everyone in Gaza is Hamas. That 6 year old girls are way to young to understand what a Nazi even is.

And that Israel's tactics for a hostage situation is deplorable. Considering they used more Bombs in a week then the USA dropped in Afghanistan in a year.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 59 points 7 months ago

The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.

Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint.

“I utterly refute that the scenario is imaginary,” the analyst wrote in the email exchanges. The Hamas training exercise, she said, fully matched “the content of Jericho Wall.”

So they did know. They even knew the plan of attack and still did nothing.

At best case, the officials in intelligence that made that call should be fired for incompetence. At worst case, for letting it happen.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 68 points 7 months ago

Prosecutors said Taylor, a Vietnam native, approached numerous voters of Vietnamese heritage with limited English comprehension and filled out and signed election forms and ballots on behalf of them and their English-speaking children.

Keep in mind he still lost his election.

While it’s incredibly rare for fraud to affect more than a handful of votes, the frequency with which Republicans do it isn’t a coincidence. It’s a direct result of a party that is undermining democracy at every turn and—importantly—telling its voters that the other side is going to cheat anyway.

It's more of the "I am able to cheat, so everyone must be cheating" Logic that gets people into trouble. Then they realize that they are the only ones cheating

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That is some seriously bad situational awareness combined with some terribly bad luck for those thieves.

One of the agents opened fire, but no one was struck by the gunfire, the Secret Service said in a statement. The three people were seen fleeing in a red car

Then there is the fortune that they were allowed to flee the scene.... unharmed....

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 71 points 8 months ago

I sure do care about Ukrainians right now, and we do need to get that funding back on track.

However....

That's a pretty big slap in the face for anyone hoping for student debt relief, universal healthcare, or parental leave. And told constantly it would bankrupt us. Suddenly we find 100 billion in between the couch cushions when there is even a wiff of war.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 59 points 8 months ago

Dodge Ram has about half of its production in Mexico and their sales volume has not been impacted.

To a certain degree. But I just want to give you a size of scope and realize it isn't just labor that effects where a company is located, but also the tax rate, the ability to get resources in and out, also the cost of extracting materials and having them shipped, and cooperation with local government(s).

But biggest problem a CEO has to face when moving to a new country is how the hell all that equipment gets there. You aren't talking about moving computer equipment, you are talking about hundreds of Press Wielding machines that are measured in tons and acres.

What you are talking about, moving hundreds of miles of electrical wiring, hundreds of tons of pinpoint accurate equipment, thousands of computer networking systems with their own unique operating system, and we haven't even gotten to power regulations, and labor yet.

TL:DR
If these companies could save money by moving to Mexico, they would have already tried.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photographs released online, you can see several paraded through the city’s streets, blood gushing from between their legs.

I thought I had seen the worst of what humanity has to offer.

This war will have no winners, only losers.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To the question: Do you have any evidence of wrongdoing by the president of the United states.

All 4 republican witnesses all said, they don't have evidence of wrongdoing.

If this was a real court case, with average individuals, the case would have been thrown out.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 68 points 9 months ago

Even though I am a stanch proponent of eliminating CEOs as a ruling class.

If you cheer on the killer before getting the whole picture, then you and me ain't friends.

The Suspect pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense charge in 2015, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison with all but 14 years suspended. Denied parole, he was released in October 2022 on good-time credits, according to parole commission Chairman David R. Blumberg. According to court records, The Suspect previously pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in December 2009 and second-degree assault in June 2011

he was released on Oct. 5, 2022 and is listed as “non-compliant,” though it was unclear why.

“This individual will kill and he will rape,”

Only reason this is getting attention is because the person killed was a CEO. Though, this is also another case of the law letting a dangerous criminal out early for good behavior, when he was clearly not being his best self.

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