When you think about it, Cuba is still being punished for being an ally of an empire that hasn’t existed for over three decades.
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two “Kremlin-aligned” groups have in recent weeks spread videos including those showing Harris supporters attacking supporters of former President Donald Trump, and another video that used an actor to pose as Harris in a fictitious hit-and-run incident
One of those things is not like the other. Fake videos with an actress posing as Harris? To fake a video of the Vice President of the United States committing a crime?
WT actual F? Has media literacy dropped so low that garbage like that video is effective? In all the aggressive vetting in all her years as Senator, presidential candidate, and as VPOTUS, no one managed to find the “hit-and-run” tape that some rando (read: Russian intelligence agent) dug up on the internet?
I know critical thinking is at an all-time low, but that’s still absolutely ridiculous.
Yes, this will likely be the primary value of the Kursk offensive. Ukraine has been fighting with one hand tied behind its back because of Putin's numerous red lines. Invading and holding Russian territory with impunity demonstrated that those red lines don't exist. Putin either lacks the will or the internal support to back up his continuous threats of escalation with the West.
The important thing to understand is that groceries are a small part of a much larger system that exists to extract money from everyone and give it to a small number of people.
Those people own everything. Politicians, courts, the news, the police, etc. All the institutions you think of as part of society that exist to serve the people actually serve the interests of this small group of people, the extraction class.
They cause or at least refuse to prevent most of the suffering in the world, including yours. They’re destroying the planet itself with their unbridled, untethered greed. And they try to control opposition to them by owning the media, as well as the digital platforms we use to interact.
The only war is class war.
Tediously fixing botslop all day is another kind of hellscape, but at least we won’t be homeless.
That’s way too much red and orange. Looking at older posts, that seems to be a consistent pattern. This is a serious problem, and it’s bipartisan. Granted, one side takes it much, much farther, but reporting is supposed to be true and verified by reliable sources before being published.
Hardly anyone is playing by the rules anymore.
While pricing recommendations by RealPage were not binding, any rejection of a recommendation was escalated to an employee within RealPage. Afterwards, a “pricing advisor” would reach out to property managers and landlords to push them to take the recommendation.
Maurice Stucke, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of multifamily-building units are priced using RealPage in more than 40 housing markets across the country.
So, that's what's been going on with rent. Now someone do groceries.
Pictured: A very normal and not weird person having a drink of water.
Trump might actually be some kind of demon or hostile alien wearing human skin. Maybe that’s the October Surprise.
"Rearranging the bones took all weekend, but it was worth it to see the looks on all your faces. By the way, I quit."
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You nailed it in the first paragraph. It’s domestic politics. Cuban immigrants have a large voting bloc in a swing state.
American national politics work off of a system designed 250 years ago to maintain a balance of power between rebelling colonies trying to form a nation-state. Any amendment to the Constitution requires the agreement of either a supermajority of Congress or a supermajority of the states themselves. Neither of which are even a slight possibility in the foreseeable future.
It’s deeply ironic that the US is such a young nation, but is crippling itself based on relatively new traditions that were always designed to be changed as needed. Changing with the times was foreseen by the Founding Fathers, who are revered as gods but whose actual views are rarely analyzed in depth.
Instead, the pull toward white Christian nationalism has destroyed all the Enlightenment ideals the country was founded upon, and the freedom for each generation to choose its own path at a fundamental level, which was explicitly the Founding Fathers’ original design, has fallen victim to partisan politics.