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A right leaning group suing the right administration so the right governor can settle with the right leaning org for what both the governor and org and their base all want to do, only now it's "forced" upon them via kabuki lawfare, is far too complex a political operation for the modern right to do.
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Yet it’s a tactic the left has done for decades. Affirmative Action isn’t even a law but rather a consent decree signed in the lame duck period of Carter’s administration.
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Ordinarily I agree. But at this point I question whether in a game this rigged it is worth continuing to play instead of leading to replacing the game. Of course the reality of this metaphor is that "replacing the game" is widespread civil unrest but honestly, keeping calm and carrying on until all possibility of active resistance is finally extinguished doesn't seem good either. Hopefully TPTB realise that vast swathes of people staying home and not voting isn't a win for them, but more like the way the tide recedes before the tsunami hits.
Hmmm. They're doing damage control. Firstly trying to focus on the fuck-ups in prosecution as a way to suggest that if the case fails its due to those rather than the charges being bogus in the first place. Then they go on to some more absurdist stuff to turn it all into one big joke.
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I'm pretty sure all of those things have happened in recent cases, possibly the Fani Willis one.
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You know that gay judge in Fulton County should be offering his verdict about Fani Willis this week, but I guess writing 50 pages about why it's totally ok to hire your lover and spend taxpayer money on vacations must take a lot out of you.
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The House has passed the TikTok divestment bill by a vote of 352-65-1.
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1. The American government will spy on you instead of the Chinese.
2. An American corporation will spy on you instead of a Chinese one
3. The videos you watch will be more openly pornographic.
Everything else will remain the same once you switch to reels.
What will change:
1. The American government will spy on you instead of the Chinese.
2. An American corporation will spy on you instead of a Chinese one
3. The videos you watch will be more openly pornographic.
Everything else will remain the same once you switch to reels.
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He isn’t wrong. The wording is vague and doesn’t just directly go for TikTok. If they get their way they can use it to shut down access any website not hosted in the United States.
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I think someone said the law allows them to force any company to sell their social media service if they disagree with how it's managed, like X or Truth Social or possibly Kiwifarms.
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You forgot:
4. Millions of zoomers with brains addled by scrolling through Chink propaganda nonstop will cry about their dopamine feed being cut off
Worth it tbh.
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1 and 2 are already happening if you use any site from alphabet or meta. I'm not saying its right, because it isn't. But its nothing new.
If you have to use youtube, use invidious, freetube, newpipe, etc. Reddit has redlib and teddit. Elon killed nitter sadly.
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The Pentagon has confirmed it is urgently deploying an elite counter-terror task force to bolster the American embassy in Haiti after armed gangs have taken over much of the capital of Port-au-Prince and the long-simmering situation is now boiling over, with violence spreading, also in the wake of embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry's resignation Tuesday. Further there's a threat of a "mass migration" wave potentially inundating US coastal communities in places like Florida as a result.
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Wednesday that at the request of the State Department the elite Marine Fleet-Anti-terrorism Security Team (FAST) has been deployed to the destabilized country to assist in embassy security.
Already for months there has been rising concern for US citizens still in the country, who have been urged by the embassy to immediately depart the Caribbean island-nation, as an utter state of lawlessness reins overseen by criminal warlords. The past years have witnessed a handful of kidnappings targeting Americans, including aid workers, and other foreign citizens.
"U.S. Southern Command is prepared with a wide range of contingency plans to ensure the safety and security of U.S. Citizens in Haiti," SOUTHCOM said in its statement. Not only will the FAST team assist the Marine embassy guard already in place to better secure the embassy in a scenario where it could come under attack, but it will reportedly help in the evacuation of non-essential American personnel.
The US military statement continued, "This week, the Department of Defense doubled our funding for the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, and we are working with Haitian, Kenyan, and other partners to expedite its deployment to support the Haitian National Police and to restore security in Haiti."
The Haitian government recently approved the deployment of Kenyan peacekeeping troops as part of a UN-sponsored mission, but there are reports the plan is still stalled. This has been a long time in coming after the US and other countries refused to spearhead such an operation, given this have not gone well for US-led peacekeeping missions in Haiti in the recent past.
The FAST team deployment is typically the next logical step when an embassy comes under potential threat due to destabilizing and chaotic factors within a country. Warlords and rival gangs are not only fighting the police, but often each other as well, resulting in dangerous city 'no go zones' for the civilian population.
Interestingly, the State Department urgent request for the elite group comes immediately on the heels of a tense Congressional hearing wherein Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida grilled SOUTHCOM chief Gen, Laura Richardson yesterday.BREAKING: HAITI ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE
After thousands broke out of prison, the capital of Haiti has fallen into lawlessness.
The prime minister declared a state of emergency and imposed curfews, but this has not stemmed the rising chaos.
Source: The Independent, AP pic.twitter.com/V4syIjBPcB
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 9, 2024
Gaetz had asked Richardson whether the US government should "activate the authorities, anticipating a mass migration." She responded: "I think that we need to be postured appropriately for that. I have put in a request for increase capability to do exactly that. And we are ready if we need to deal with a mass migration."
However, if mass migratory throngs are unleashed and all hell breaks loose even further, the US government is going to need much more than a small detachment of security Marines to do the job.
Conditions in Haiti have been becoming increasingly dire in recent months due to widespread gang violence and civil unrest. Armed gangs now reportedly control around 80% of Port-au-Prince, and likely this is now growing by the day.U.S. WARNS: MASS HAITIAN MIGRATION COMING SOON
DoD officials reportedly are on high alert for a significant maritime movement of Haitians heading toward the U.S.
UN warns Haiti is on the brink, as violence and lack of essential services push the population to desperation.… pic.twitter.com/mjQCeHnEza
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 13, 2024
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Deploying Marines to protect the Ambassy is a pretty genius move- years of eating crayons probably made them pretty unpalatable
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Bold solution: hand Haiti to the Dominicans. Let them purge the local populace as needed.
Watching Hispaniola suddenly careen to the forefront of Caribbean countries would be pretty funny.
Watching Hispaniola suddenly careen to the forefront of Caribbean countries would be pretty funny.
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We got cannibals. Zombies are redundant.
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The world would cry about it.
Just wall it off and make it the ultimate lawless pirate zone. Then after a few years see which warlord comes out on top, then kill him with a drone strike for funny’s.
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I guarantee there are folk who unironically think that. Just like there are people who still think the Pee Tapes are real and honest.
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