I understand why he’s a threat to them, I just don’t understand their battle strategy. Everything they do to attack him elevates his profile and makes actual Democrats suspicious of the oligarchs.

Sure, but again, he’s the mayor. He can’t set financial policy for the banks of the world. NYC has a huge administrative budget, but it ends at the five boroughs. He can’t be like “All UN delegates have to end all wars.” He has authority over city administrative issues, and it looks like Trump is going to go after him personally.

Important things happen in his city, and that makes him the most powerful mayor in the country. But that’s like being the tallest elementary school student. And the job is a career killer. The last NYC mayor to be elected to higher office was in 1869.

So some airlines gave Trump enough money to get special treatment.

Age verification software that doesn’t, and cannot, work.

So much god-damned attention on a fucking mayoral race. Sure, it’s NYC, but he’s still just the mayor. Like they could have just ignored him and sapped the energy from his win, and then primaried him when his term was up.

It’s just further evidence that the Democratic leadership is entirely inept.

Very interesting history lesson there. The Communist Party of Greece had been banned in 1936, but these revolutionaries played a significant role in the Greek resistance to Nazi occupation. The guerillas stymied the invasion forces, and it’s a source of civic pride among Greeks that even though Athens fell to invasion, Greece contributed to the Allied victory by making it a pyrrhic victory.

However, immediately after the war, the same guerillas were prosecuted as criminals, leading (among other things) to a Greek civil war which ended in victory for the monarchy. The same heroes were demonized by the government they helped restore to power.

Of course, there’s way more to the story, and there are far more shades of gray than I’ve described here. But photos like this should serve as a reminder that history is truly written by the survivors, and then edited by the victors.

Me, looking backwards at the gates to the entrance to an age of unreason, which seems like a very long time ago.

Alternative theory, the people pulling the strings are already in control, and Trump is the useful idiot who can be the bully/lightning rod for international ire.

I never understood people who hate on the RAW. Like, it’s an open concept. Make it your own. Any changes can be done at the first session, and if you have an adjustment that’s better, everyone will agree and it will catch on.

This has always been the far right endgame. They don’t want people to rely on government, so they make government unreliable. Citizens become more exploitable, and thus more profitable.

You already did this AMA

1 hotdog a day would suggest a diet that is unbalanced and prioritizing cost and convenience. I would bet money that the comorbidities include sedentary lifestyle, poverty, limited access to fresh produce, poverty, limited education, and poverty.

I could see that. Like salt on the rim of a margarita. And if you don’t move the cup too much, the sugar above the handle probably won’t melt.

Are you willing to do what is necessary to stand up for the downtrodden? Or does your plan end at pitying and then forgiving the fascist Christians?

To be Democrats.

We disagree on many things even within denominations, but we are all trying to follow the same God.

… might actually lead to the change we wish to see.

I think the problem is that the difference in interpretations of what it means to follow the same God leads to diametrically opposed concepts of what change you wish to see. Some Christians want to kill, imprison, or subjugate people who aren’t white Christian men. How can you meet that with anything less than animosity?

Someday, that old planter will become a fountain.

This is a good idea even if you don’t think they will do it. When they don’t do it, you can negotiate money back from the purchase to cover the cost of hiring a junk removal team. Then you can pocket the cash and do it yourself or you can pay someone else to do it.

Have you considered that the people “appeasing” Trump are actually on his side pretending not to be? Not that “both sides same” bullshit, but that conservatives have been really good at pretending to not be.

This is funny whether it’s a pet or an actual boss.