France is now on the same track as Italy and others now, with birth rates taking a nose dive from 2015 and again another 13% drop just from 2020. Their immigration system is just as much a mess as the U.S. too. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here. Sadly a good bet they move the same directly as Italy, into a population death spiral.

Ukraine would have sent them toward military targets. If they're shot down they hit whatever they come down on. There's a big difference there.

LMAO - You must have $5,000 down votes across postings now. You come across as an angry incel living in your mother's basement, listening to right-wing radio all day. I see you haven't posted in a week, perhaps you are gone, which would be better for everyone.

Should have specified - majority of outdoor cats.

Advocating hatred against LGBTQ people, is bullying which also happens on college campuses and has even regularly spewed by the current speaker of the house. That should also be against the code of conduct on college campuses and especially in Congress. Simple as that.

The problem is that these positions are unconstitutional. The real world doesn't have safe spaces. What's next? Banning books? Morality police?

Now If you had said towel, I would have assumed it was the ultimate Douglas Adams reply, lol.

You ignore the fact that Trump is the one displaying blatantly senile examples. He keeps repeatedly over and over again mixing up Biden with Obama, he gets world leaders wrong, he gets the location he's in wrong, and various other examples. He looks, unwell in general, his health appears to be declining rapidly. If You think he will somehow be out of jail and healthy enough to survive the election gauntlet next year You are wrong. I get let you apparently don't like the DNC, with good reason, but the whole ragging on biting about senility doesn't fit the facts.

Poll in article != definitive

Even my right wing father-in-law is against Israel, and he's the last person I expected to be speaking up about it. I would say the old people that aren't clued in via the internet still support Israel, everyone else that is aware of their terrorism, nope.

I live in a very Jewish area, with the Halocost Museum 20 minutes away, my brother in-law is Jewish, I'm friends with his whole family and a bunch of others. Nobody supports Israel, and it's a common topic of conversation. I don't know anyone either in local politics that supports Israel, and I am active there. Israel IS the problem - their horrible treatment of Palestinians resulted in Hamas rising to power. they're continued unrelenting land grabs and abuse have continue to strengthen Hamas. They want to continue to steal land, and if they make peace they won't be able to. If You total the body count over the last decade there are far far more dead Palestinians than there are Israelis.

Even now, with every civilian they kill in their response, they create four or eight more terrorists. Israel's government is on the fast track to authoritarianism with the anti-democratic movement there that is actually worse than the GOP here. We should not be giving them a dime. We don't owe them anything, and we're broke. We've giving them more than enough.

The Democrats are on the wrong side of history for every day they don't condemn the atrocities Israel is committing.

Israel perpetrates atrocities against Palestinians, creating terrorists, which Israel uses as an excuse to continue stealing land and killing Palestinians, creating more terrorists, which Israel... a few decades of that now. Would be quite happy to end that ancient war with nukes, and put up a monument on the green glowing glass - "This is what religion gets you"

If you think the economy booming in Florida has anything to do with Desantis, you're an idiot. The only thing his policies have done is drive away over a billion dollars of investment from Disney. The hotel and hospitality industry is down 20% just since last year. Things have nose dived this year, but his authoritarian grip on state agencies have them pumping the numbers to keep it down while he runs for President. You can't even get insurance for the hurricanes anymore. My cousin is an agent in high-end real estate out of Miami (>$5mil properties) and he's moving because the market is dropping dramatically - nobody wants to put up with so many hurricanes. Then there's the fact you've got a climate-change denier doing nothing to harden the infrastructure in Florida. It's nuts.

"Omitted from the public debate about DeSantis’s policies is almost any discussion of his actual record of governance—what exactly he has delivered to the citizens of his state, especially those without seven-figure incomes and lush investment portfolios.

Even a cursory dip into the statistics of social and economic well-being reveals that Florida falls short in almost any measure that matters to the lives of its citizens. More than four years into the DeSantis governorship, Florida continues to languish toward the bottom of state rankings assessing the quality of health care, school funding, long-term elder care, and other areas key to a successful society.

Florida may be the place where “woke goes to die”—as DeSantis is fond of saying—but it is also where teachers’ salaries are among the lowest in the nation, unemployment benefits are stingier than in any other state, and wage theft flourishes with little interference from the DeSantis administration. In 2021, DeSantis campaigned against a successful ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage, which had been stuck at $8.65 an hour. Under DeSantis’s watch, the Sunshine State has not exactly been a workers’ paradise.

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DeSantis weaponizes the cultural wars to distract attention from the core missions of his governorship, which is to starve programs geared toward bettering the lives of ordinary citizens so he can maintain low taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Florida is the ideal haven for privileged Americans who don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes. It has no income tax for individuals, and its corporate tax rate of 5.5% is among the lowest in the nation. An investigation by the Orlando Sentinel in late 2019 revealed the startling fact that 99% of Florida’s companies paid no corporate income tax, abetted by tax-avoidance schemes and state officials who gave a low priority to enforcing tax laws."

-Time Magazine, late March 2023

I was there at nearly the beginning with Redhat 1 and kernel series 1.1.x and 1.2.x series. Redhat died when IBM bought them. My company has finally completely moved away - I pushed very strongly to dump RHAT - all Debian and FreeBSD now.