Spotted this in the Hong Kong one 😄

The most tepid action of disapproval for a genocidal apartheid state possible, but we’ll take it!

This kind of shit is why the CFPB was and very much IS needed!

And also a classic case of regulatory capture, of course.

Nah, most of the customers are still alive, powerful, and litigious.

CNN ain’t gonna risk a lawsuit for something so anti-establishment as speaking truth to power.

It’s not like they’re trying to do JOURNALISM or anything like that!

That’s the REAL test: will the cult be willing and able to elevate another to Supreme Leader after the Mango Mussolini finally croaks?

He’s very unlikely to give up (or be forced to give up) power as long as he lives, and if they manage to build up a successor, the country will be lost to fascism for decades at least.

If there even WILL be a next president

US next presidents

If there are any. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to run in 2028, rig that election so thoroughly that he literally can’t lose, and establish hereditary rule afterwards.

Even when/if the dictatorship is eventually overthrown and it’s still called the US, they might wisely scrap the extremely outdated Constitution and establish a parliamentary system without a powerful president in order to prevent a repeat of that whole debacle…

The dearth of detail highlights the editorial stance of the publication; the term that comes to mind is cowardice.

Yeah, AP has a reputation for trustworthiness through a lack of bias, but in reality their dogmatic insistence on ABSOLUTE neutrality in the face of objective reality is both cowardly and a tremendous bias itself that renders them less trustworthy than those partisan sources that don’t hide their bias.

HOW were they allowed to, though?

Weren’t they already convicted and serving prison sentences?

Or is the Romanian government as corrupt as the US one and just set them free for bribes and/or political reasons?

DeSantis and/or Trump (depending on whether the charges are in state court, federal court, or both) pardon incoming in 3…2…1…

I hope I’m wrong, but both of them would do that shit with little to no bribes or political pressure needed 😮‍💨🤬

Winning a popularity competition against maliciously incompetent and obviously corrupt fascists isn’t the win for China that the tankie instances will undoubtedly claim it is.

I haven’t missed a vote in the 25 years I’ve been old enough to be eligible.

I also don’t blame the ideologically (and oftentimes practically) disenfranchised tens of millions to the left of Reagan for the failure of the neoliberal adversary to rein in the (usually much) worse fascist adversary.

To keep insisting in spite of several DECADES of overwhelming evidence to the contrary that the establishment Democrats are the only alternative to the fascists rather than enablers of the fascists IS enabling the fascists. Including the pedophile ones.

Sure, the best defense is to just surrender to them, and then act smug at your superiority

That’s what the Dem leadership is effectively doing.

I’m saying that they don’t deserve your loyalty since they have none to you and don’t do the things you and they say they do.

The Predators thank you for your service to their Money.

Maybe not (always) the same KIND of predators, but that fits your devotion to the fraudulent and profiteering Reaganites leading the Democratic party.

I, on the other hand, have done no such service to either them or the fascists they’re completely failing to protect anyone from.

Right back at you, enabler of enablers.

Lets have the same fascists with congressional approval, a side of rape, erosion of domestic rights, frderal violence against citizens, personal enrichment and 21000 (and counting) personal stock market transactions! Now with bonus 3 more wars, a leaky pool and added dementia!

That’s exactly what the people you’re caping for failed to prevent.

They’re not the alternative to fascism. They’re inept bystanders at best, if not enablers who support and are themselves guilty of some of the very things you claim they’re the only alternative to.

How’s that “bend over backwards to defend establishment Democrats who have utterly failed the task of substantially resisting fascists” thing going, victim blamer?

Such a joyous occasion.

New season, new podcast, or new revolution?

You have the right of it otherwise, but one player usually can’t carry a whole team on his own. Not even a phenomenon like Haaland.

Granted, they have a few other good players like Ødegaard too, but that’s still not necessarily enough to beat a well-managed team and Pochettino managed a few of the biggest clubs in the world before taking the US gig.

Still, even if nothing else looks suspicious, the first withdrawn red card since 1962 at the request of the despot in charge of a host country is in itself enough to warrant an asterisk.