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From what I'm seeing in Europe, the real game changer here isn't really the Trump admin itself, but how quickly American elites - political, corporate, institutional and academic - just failed to respond and resist in any meaningful way.
US prestige culture, as seen from abroad, just evaporated.
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The social Darwinian world the Republicans are building around us is explicitly eugenics driven, and necro capitalistic, it’s fascism but it’s also explicitly using natural and systemic means to carry out mass murder and accelerationist policies
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This will almost certainly kill people.
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We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."
- Archbishop Óscar Romero
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It seems relevant that Roberts, Thomas, and Alito all agreed with the Scalia dissent in Boumediene, which argued that "[t]he writ of habeas corpus does not, and never has, run in favor of aliens abroad."
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Turnips are harder, cheaper, and I just got a bunch. I'll throw turnips back at them while you gather up the tomatoes!
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No, the quote is from the 4th circuit. The SC just greenlighted the administration's snatching.
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Damn, FloMo! Might actually be proud of y'all for once.
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Honestly might be the most nakedly anti-democratic move to invalidate a free and fair election in NC since the Wilmington Race Massacre of 1898
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This is some “men do some stupid shit because they think the oracle told them too”
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A friend sent this to me but holy shit it isn't even VAT it's just the percentage of the trade imbalance they're measuring as a tariff