Your omissions and alterations are interesting.

The article doesn’t just mention “a wreck”, it says “In September 2022, Tyler flipped his father’s SUV while driving, leaving his passenger with multiple concussions and sever lacerations, according to reports.” If Tyler was driving recklessly (and he was), then the passenger was the victim and the driver the perpetrator. If you’re interested in hearing the story of the passenger: https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-car-crash/ The tldr: “If I did what he did, I’d still be in jail.”

The “theft ring involving drug use” doesn’t mention drugs in the article. And it being theft, means that there were victims of theft. Including apparently a broke woman with a brain tumor.

And also in the case of child abuse there was a victim (the child in case it isn’t obvious).

I don’t get how you can’t recognize the victims in these stories.

In your example the daughter has committed no crimes and made no victims, and she could even be considered a victim herself. Tyler Boubert has already made many victims and will continue to make new victims because his mother’s political clout is protecting him.

The morally right thing to do, would be to protect the victim(s) and bring the perpetrator(s) to justice. In the example of the daughter, the daughter is a victim and she and her family should get the time and space needed to heal. In Tyler Boebert’s cases, Tyler was never the victim, but always a/the perpetrator, with his mother enabling him. With the Boebert family, the morally right thing to do, is to decrease the odds of Tyler making new victims, which gives journalists a moral imperative to consider every new crime of Tyler, to be news worthy.

If an adult family member of a significant political figure commits a crime, then there’s 2 big reasons why that case deserves extra scrutiny: 1) to check whether or not the family member is treated in a fair manner by the persecution and justice system (which could go both ways, they could escape justice because of their family connections, but they could also be extra persecuted for political reasons). 2) To keep track of whether or not the political figure their integrity remains intact.

If Tyler Boebert’s mother wasn’t a prominent republican politician, would he have escaped a prison sentence for his litany of crimes? Personally, I doubt it. And because he keeps escaping consequences, he keeps doing stupid things.

Well, this does explain a lot.

I was wondering who the people behind Mondoweiss are and if they can be trusted on this subject.

My take of who they are: professional journalists, NY americans, Jewish, progressive liberals and self described anti-zionist. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondoweiss Given all that, I trust their reporting on this.

That looks amazing. Does anyone know how this could have been done? I’m not asking for a friend, I’d just love to know.

The plane had wings that were level with the top of the body + with massive engines below them. Very distinctive feature. In the side drawing the wings are near the bottom + without engines. A lot of other errors could be explained by poor skills, distance, perspective, … But drawing wings near the bottom when they were actually at the top, can’t be explained by any of those practical reasons. And it makes the drawing useless for identifying the plane.

Decades after this drawing, it turned out that the CIA had been collecting loads of double agents in the eastern block, all deliberately feeding misinformation to the CIA.

I’ve done some reading and it turns out that Reform is now sometimes polling at a percentage equal to what Labour last won the elections with (~34%). Labour is polling as low as ~20%, the greens at ~10%. So yes, Reform and Tories are splitting the rightwing vote, but no, the left cannot afford to further split the left vote.

Because of fptp, that 34% result was enough to bring Labour to a 63% majority. Which apart from being ridiculously unrepresentative, also means that Reform could achieve the same result.

As an external observer who would rather not have Reform get in control of the UK, I see 2 possible solutions:

1. Get rid of fptp asap.
2. If that’s not possible for reasons, then coordinate in between moderate parties to let the top moderate candidate run unopposed against Reform, the French way.

The UK still has a fptp election system. Splitting the leftist vote, seems like a good way to move the UK further to the right again.

I thought that internal opposition within the Labour party, would have been the way forward. I had the impression that Starmer was very unpopular with Labour members, so why can’t they get rid of him and his clique from within the party?

HH alone is already a significant dog whistle. It’s basically 88, but already one step closer to it’s intended meaning. As dog whistle messages go, this one is very blatant. I wonder what hidden symbolism they put in that image, there’s bound to be more there. NVM that last bit, it’s a painting about white supremacy, but there probably won’t be hidden fascist messages because the painting is older than fascism as a political movement.

Homeland Security was already sending out the occasional dog whistle during Trump’s first term. Back then there was still doubt as to whether it was accidental or intentional, but now we know that the fascist take over of that organization started back then, which means that those old dog whistle messages were most likely intentional and an invite to other fascists to come join up. Which they did.

Which also explains how it was that ICE could immediately embrace the new status of being Trump’s brown shirts, without any significant protest from inside the organization: unlike other government departments, they didn’t need to do internal purges since the fascist take over was already complete at the start of Trump’s 2nd term. This should be a warning to other countries where politicians are considering of giving fascists even one iota of power.

That 10% is going to be country specific, much higher plastic recycle rates are possible and are already happening in some countries.

In the eu about 40% of plastic packaging waste gets recycled, but with significant differences per country: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20181212STO21610/plastic-waste-and-recycling-in-the-eu-facts-and-figures

Slovakia and Belgium are/were the eu’s best performers in 2022. When looking for more general figures for Belgium, instead of only packaging, I found that 38.6% of plastic waste was recycled and 59.8% was used for energy generation, while the rest ended up in a landfill. https://plasticseurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CircularEconomy_nationalinfographics_2024.pdf

This was new to me so I tried looking it up as well. I found a lot of results right away with startpage, which makes me wonder what search engine you were using?

They (the evangelicals) are apparently calling it “toxic empathy” and they jump through a lot of loops to claim that it’s bad to have empathy with the victims of USA republican policies.

My first result was a long opinion piece criticizing evangelicals for their newfound crusade against empathy: https://churchleaders.com/news/511911-the-scandal-of-evangelical-empathy.html/4

2nd result is an evangelical that does a bit of mind bending to explain why empathy with outgroups is “toxic”: https://unityinchristianity.com/2025/02/03/the-truth-about-toxic-empathy-and-why-its-becoming-a-controversial-topic/.

The 3rd article has a claim that Jesus Himself was not empathic: “Clearly the Lord Jesus Christ can be sympathetic, but He cannot be empathetic in the sense of identifying with our sinful emotions and desires.” https://www.e-n.org.uk/features/2025-03-the-problem-with-empathy/ That article also references a book by an evangelical called “the sin of empathy”.

Modern USA could be summed up by the old Russian adage: “And then, somehow, it got worse.”

They hope to make office staff redundant by replacing them with ai. The managers/consultants that are now pushing for LLM to replace office staff, are the same people that pushed for outsourcing office work to underpaid staff in low wage countries (and the companies that tried that, invariably got what they paid for). With both the resulting quality of work is far worse, but on paper it will save the company money. And if their customers are trapped in the short to middle term as is often the case with software companies, then the worse service won’t even immediately affect the bottom line and the boss will have ample opportunity to jump ship to another cushy position before the bottom line does take a dive.

How they started in 2019:
“In a wide-reaching election manifesto, Ukraine’s Servant of the People party has promised to clamp down on corruption”

How they’re doing in 2025:
“Parliament approved the bill earlier that day with 263 votes in favor, 13 against, and 13 abstaining.”

And what else Zelensky’s government has been doing recently: "Ukraine’s security service (SBU) carried out raids on Monday targeting current and former anti-corruption officials, which have been condemned by civil society and international partners. Nabu said the searches involved 15 employees and were carried out without court warrants.

Separately, it said the SBU had launched an unannounced inspection of how state secrets are handled, raising fears that the agency could gain insight into confidential operations and undermine current investigations, some of which reportedly involve figures close to the presidency."

And why they are probably doing all this: "The raids came after Nabu opened a criminal case against former deputy prime minister Oleksiy Chernyshov, a close ally of the president, who was once thought to be a potential candidate for prime minister. "

The info about the raids is from this article: https://www.ft.com/content/21cf3d32-8cc3-4ed1-bfb2-d2b9de88f19d

I wish that there were extenuating circumstances that would make this make sense as a progressive move, but I can’t find or even think off any. This is Zelensky and his party doing a majorly regressive move, that goes against everything they’ve promised and worked towards in their first year in power, just to protect corrupt individuals in Zelensky’s inner circle.

Blabla, google it, yet you ignore all evidence that was posted to the contrary of your beliefs. As expected you come up empty handed because you have nothing except your own vitriol.

I get that you are a bitter and resentful person, but that is a choice that you are making. I’ll try to explain below and I get that the text will be longer than you are used to, but I do implore you to read it. I’d like to try and help you get some perspective.

You don’t have to make up things and present them as facts. You don’t have to resent other people who try to show you that some beliefs that you hold, have no factual basis. We don’t try to inform people like you out of malice, but it’s to help others to be more informed and to help people in general make more informed decisions.

I suspect that your wilful ignorance has often brought you into useless conflicts where you ended up resenting the other participants because they were dismissive of you and your opinions. But that’s not their fault. You are the one chosing to reject facts and resenting those that do not accept your beliefs over factual evidence. Your resentment and frustration has it’s origin within your own choices, which has one major potential upside for you: you can chose to stop being that bitter resentful person.

Don’t make things up, respect other people’s opinions, be open to the possibility that some of your beliefs might not be true. Do those 3 simple things and you will find that interactions in your life will on average be much more agreeable and positive for you.

Show the proof then. insulting others and making a fool out of yourself doesn’t count as proof, so do try to come up with a proper science based source.

Your willingness to make things up, your doubling down when it becomes obvious to others that you made stuff up and then finally your reaction to jump to hatred of those that demonstrated that you make stuff up … It all makes you come across as unhinged.

I post literal proof that the shit that you made up, is made up. And your answer is to double down and throw insults around, and even now 2 weeks later you’re still at it. Somehow you’re not very convincing.

From everything that I’ve read it in the past, it was the Bush White House that dropped the ball and the CIA agents who were getting increasingly frustrated + desperate to get the white house to listen and act.

I don’t have much time, so I can only link the first article I found that narrates some of those events, there’s probably better/more complete ones. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/11/george-w-bush-s-white-house-ignored-these-extremely-dramatic-pre-9-11-warnings-george-tenet-and-cofer-black-reveal.html

Sorry, I had misread.

This sounds really asinine unless I’m missing something.

You say that you’re not interested in ai content, but you do not block communities that have exclusively content that you are not interested (like ai).

And you down vote posts that you don’t like, so if there is a community that has a type of content that you do not like, you only ever downvote them when something of them appears in your feed.

Which is harmful to that community and the people who do like the content of that community. And you believe that we’re supposed to do this? I can’t believe that we’re supposed to be harming communities that we have no interest in. The kind thing to do, would be to leave them alone.

Just block them and you won’t have to see their posts and their votes won’t be disturbed by you. Different people enjoy different things, live and let live and all that.