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Which makes this also relevant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORjYMu2iZA
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https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794164051557454041?t=-338ljDLz8Tg1RzXV_IV-A&s=19 That dude's going straight to the regional Donald Trump Center for Unpatriotic Citizens if he wins, though.
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794164051557454041?t=-338ljDLz8Tg1RzXV_IV-A&s=19 I'm the guy shouting "Abort Donald Trump" (I'm not actually that guy)
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794164051557454041?t=-338ljDLz8Tg1RzXV_IV-A&s=19 Libertarians, stopped clocks, right twice a day, etc.
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https://apnews.com/article/congo-americans-arrested-failed-coup-malanga-b4f4797868fbaed4d772d5c935a86d48quote:SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt. Marcel Malanga, the 21-year-old son of eccentric coup leader Christian Malanga, was detained by Congolese forces Sunday morning, along with a former classmate from their hometown of West Jordan, Utah, after his father was killed in a shootout while resisting arrest. His high school football teammate, Tyler Thompson, 21, was one of two other Americans arrested after an ill-fated attack on the presidential palace in Kinshasa. Six people were dead and dozens arrested, including the three Americans, following that attack and another on the residence of a close ally of President Felix Tshisekedi, the Congolese army spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, said. Who among us has not tried to recruit all our old football buddies to join dad's coup attempt?
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golden bubble posted:Who among us has not tried to recruit all our old football buddies to join dad's coup attempt? TR hesitates, then raises hand. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 06:33 on May 25, 2024 |
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Did he just expect to stomp on their HQ and suddenly the rest of the country's buildings turn his color like in advance wars? You need more support than just eliminating a leader to pull off a coup.
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golden bubble posted:https://apnews.com/article/congo-americans-arrested-failed-coup-malanga-b4f4797868fbaed4d772d5c935a86d48 Well we keep talking about wanting to bring back the filibuster...
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Spoggerific posted:Did he just expect to stomp on their HQ and suddenly the rest of the country's buildings turn his color like in advance wars? You need more support than just eliminating a leader to pull off a coup. Are you talking about Congo or Jan 6?
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794164051557454041?t=-338ljDLz8Tg1RzXV_IV-A&s=19 I appreciate Megan McArdle getting publicly humiliated.
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If you're not paying attention to what is happening in Houston public schools, you should be. It's a dress rehearsal for what the GOP wants to do everywhere, and I guess they're starting with blue cities in red states that need to be, y'know, taught a lesson. Tldr - The state government declared Houston ISD to be failing and, under that pretense, appointed an administrator to implement a state takeover of the system. The administrator in question is Mike Miles, a charter school founder, consultancy owner, and lobbyist who was run out of the Dallas school systems a while back for being an absolute disaster of a school administrator. The people of Houston have no say in this. The only way for Miles to be removed is for the schools to be declared "successful" - which Miles is in complete control of, because he now has total power over Houston's public education system. So far, the playbook seems to be finding reasons to fire teachers and administrators and installing unqualified/uncertified replacement teachers and cronies. There were promises of performance bonuses that were, surprise, yanked away like Lucy's football. Principals at nationally ranked schools are being ousted for "poor performance." "Performance" in this case is based around an evaluation matrix that measures conformance to Miles's "system", which is stupid, inflexible, and designed to remove curriculum and lesson planning entirely from teachers' purview. Retaliation for any dissent is swift and severe (often firing). Conservatives are loving it, of course, because Miles is "showing those teachers how the real world works." Oh and as a TOTALLY UNFORSEEN SIDE EFFECT, any parent who can is pulling their kids from public school in favor of private as they watch the disaster unfold. And with Abbot suddenly deciding to go all in on school vouchers and charter schools? Total coincidence, I'm sure. It's great  https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/mike-miles-principals-fired-19476423.php https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/school-protest-houston-isd-miles-19478219.php
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Sounds like a continuation of what they did to New Orleans. It's a loving travesty and a step towards undermining the constitutional rights of children to an equal education.
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Funny, I thought the "I" in ISD stood for Independent, in a state that proports the benevolence of small government.
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Discussion Quorum posted:If you're not paying attention to what is happening in Houston public schools, you should be. It's a dress rehearsal for what the GOP wants to do everywhere, and I guess they're starting with blue cities in red states that need to be, y'know, taught a lesson. This is definitely a playbook and nearly succeeded last year in my rural district in Rhode Island until the equivalent of Miles was removed by the state supreme court. That guy got appointed to an elected position illegally by the town council and despite owning a charter school got to vote on destroying the local public school budget, sending students into his own school. In short this is happening everywhere
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Arrath posted:Funny, I thought the "I" in ISD stood for Independent, in a state that proports the benevolence of small government. When I moved to Texas back in 2012 (left in 2017), I asked a long time friend who was a native Austinite about this very question. He said it was about small government, it was about not letting the federal government telling the state government what to do. Once I knew that, it all made sense. Impose red rural rule on blue cities
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Arrath posted:Funny, I thought the "I" in ISD stood for Independent, in a state that proports the benevolence of small government. 
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I listened to a podcast a while back that mentioned that Texas in particular centralizes a considerable amount of power in the State government, with the cities and counties exercising little control. Kind of flies in the face of conservative critiques of big government. Meanwhile, the deep blue state I used to live in (MD) devolved so much authority to the counties that there weren't even any statewide liquor laws other than the drinking age and one mandating two-tiered distribution (which was finally removed during the pandemic). psydude fucked around with this message at 00:56 on May 26, 2024 |
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https://x.com/KateSullivanDC/status/1794506760402645149?t=YJX3j_pfE_2jRG0Amu-bxw&s=19 E- https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/1792752676830085605?t=_S6PNIkFmO1sRrjTS4dLFA&s=19 CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 26, 2024 |
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To add to CBJ, Donnie showed up at the Libertarian convention with a bunch of MAGA people eating up Libertarian seats and... it didn't help much: https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1794538900368621986 https://www.semafor.com/article/05/25/2024/trump-promises-libertarians-a-cabinet-slot-and-clemency-for-drug-kingpin-ross-ulbricht quote:“Trump sold gold high-tops at SneakerCon; maybe he can sell us gold dildos to f— ourselves with,” said Thomas Knapp, 57, a delegate from Florida.
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facialimpediment posted:To add to CBJ, Donnie showed up at the Libertarian convention with a bunch of MAGA people eating up Libertarian seats and... it didn't help much: The 3% line went over well, I see.
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CBJSprague24 posted:The 3% line went over well, I see. Lol. Almost have to hand it to him for that one.
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It’s heartwarming that both parties can still come together to get things done.
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Platystemon posted:It’s heartwarming that both parties can still come together to get things done. But without Elon we wouldn't have this tweet: 
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mandatory-national-18-olds-tories-231052124.html The Tory platform now is literally Starship Troopers. Sunak promises if you vote for his party he will make service garenetee citizenship in the UK.
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golden bubble posted:https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mandatory-national-18-olds-tories-231052124.html  Oh no, civil service Over in my part of europe this has been sort the case for decades, if you refused military service under conscription, you had* to spend one year doing some sort of civil service. Funnily enough this was abolished 10 years ago by a labour government, and is now being discussed reintroduced by a new labour government. Partially because we now have conscription of all genders, and because of a >60% public support. *Quite few got called in, and even fewer had to actually do civil service, but the possibility were there.
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In theory, this would solve the major manpower issues with the UK armed forces and provide a bunch of young people to assist public services that are hit with staffing shortages. In practice, it's not going to fix the fundamental problems that the Tories caused with a decade of austerity and then exacerbated with Brexit. Nor, in fairness to them, will it fix the underlying structural issues that England in particular faces due to the power the British government has with respect to revenue collection and budgeting. psydude fucked around with this message at 12:08 on May 26, 2024 |
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psydude posted:In theory, this would solve the major manpower issues with the UK armed forces and provide a bunch of young people to assist public services that are hit with staffing shortages. They could invade a smaller country nobody cares about. I heard that use to work.
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golden bubble posted:https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mandatory-national-18-olds-tories-231052124.html literally nothing about gaining citizenship in that link
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Does the UK even have enough of a military to invade the isle of man?
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Does the UK even have enough of a military to invade the isle of man? How big of a man is it?
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Does the UK even have enough of a military to invade the isle of man? The US won't give them permission to invade fire island dude
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https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/25/texas-republican-party-convention-platform/ "Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office"
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/25/texas-republican-party-convention-platform/ Eventually someone needs to call them on their bullshit and just force them to Secede and let them fail, because they will.
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