In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
After watching the USA-NED match, the argument that hijabs are not safe (why the 1st is in 2023) is laughable. There was so. much. hair pulling.
11:31 AM - Jul 31, 2023
In response to Angie is Supercalifragilistic….
The fact he thought this was a a good time to put this out into the world, when his company is a) well-known for b) catastrophic failures due to c) cutting corners is alone to disqualify it from serious consideration forever.
11:13 PM - Jul 28, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
Legal and moral culpability is not a pie -- if one person has more legal culpability, another must have less.
They both expand to encompass all of the actors and their wrongdoings.
Sure, there are mitigating circumstances, but buying into propaganda as a functioning adult is not one.
They both expand to encompass all of the actors and their wrongdoings.
Sure, there are mitigating circumstances, but buying into propaganda as a functioning adult is not one.
01:55 PM - Jun 15, 2023
In response to Marilu Dempsey.
No, they are not less legally culpable because they fell for propaganda.
This is settled international and US law. Nazi soldiers tried the defense that they were "just following orders" and the world said, "doesn't matter."
This is settled international and US law. Nazi soldiers tried the defense that they were "just following orders" and the world said, "doesn't matter."
01:52 PM - Jun 15, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
But there are other, equally virulent, equally extreme, and dangerous sects of fundamentalist xtianity that do want to steal people's children and raise them up "right." Amy Coney Barrett is one, though apparently, this genocide was a step too far for her.
01:51 PM - Jun 15, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
Let alone being culpable for taking independent action that pretty fucking clearly both violates their oath and is really illegal.
THEY KNOW THIS.
THEY KNOW THIS.
02:07 PM - Jun 14, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
Specifically, adults who affirmatively took an oath to the constitution and have supposedly received training that includes things like they are responsible for knowing what is a legal and illegal order and according to law, are culpable for following illegal orders from their chain of command.
02:06 PM - Jun 14, 2023
In response to Marilu Dempsey.
Multiple things can be true at them same time:
- Higher-ups in the military are responsible for allowing a propaganda outlet be the default on base
- Everyone at Fox is culpable for the propaganda
AND
- Service members are responsible for their own actions because they are adults
- Higher-ups in the military are responsible for allowing a propaganda outlet be the default on base
- Everyone at Fox is culpable for the propaganda
AND
- Service members are responsible for their own actions because they are adults
02:04 PM - Jun 14, 2023
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In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
B) The bar is so much lower than quid pro quo: "A judge should neither lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others nor convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the judge"
2/3
2/3
06:03 PM - May 12, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
I went through about a million emotions and was thinking through a leave of absence etc in that 1st sentence.
The news is still devastating but it isn't MY mom.
The news is still devastating but it isn't MY mom.
02:10 PM - May 05, 2023
In response to JZGurl73.
Don't forget Kavanaugh... also a sexual predator and while he hasn't been *documented* as bought-and-paid for, he has a significant lack of documentation about debt that conveniently *poof* disappeared.
12:36 PM - May 05, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
Tech/tech-business journalists swallow *everything* these tech bros tell them. Like, all the stuff that has come to the surface about Elon now? He's been in the public eye for 2 decades. Why were you all not being *significantly* more critical during the 1st scam or two that he pulled?
08:19 PM - May 04, 2023
In response to Salma Typhii.
It is flat-out embarrassing how much credibility they ever had.
I just heard a teaser about some AI reporting how good it was because it "impressed even a tech reporter". And my very first thought is tech/tech business reporting is as bad if not worse than political reporting.
I just heard a teaser about some AI reporting how good it was because it "impressed even a tech reporter". And my very first thought is tech/tech business reporting is as bad if not worse than political reporting.
08:18 PM - May 04, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
C) 17% have personally witnessed someone being shot. Shot at. A fight broke out in front of my home and someone pulled a gun, waved it around, and shot in someone's general direction but did not hit them.
04:51 PM - May 04, 2023
In response to Pam Sourelis.
I am confident many of the parents who opt for it are controlling and emotionally inadequate parents. But I think it is also possible for parents to not realize what they are getting into & be too trusting that these outfits follow pretty standard health & safety protocols & they definitely do not.
09:30 PM - Apr 22, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
And that their parents were told to expect the kids to lie to them abt how bad their experience was.
10:59 AM - Apr 22, 2023
In response to Pam Sourelis.
I've seen a couple of graduates of troubled teen industry talk abt their experience. It would be completely unsurprising if she had no unedited contact with her parents during this time. The graduates talk abt being forced to write certain things and having no access to phone or internet
10:59 AM - Apr 22, 2023
In response to C. E..
Yeah, I think this is mostly about Pharma freaking out.
07:05 PM - Apr 21, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
For real though, the weakest point in any security system is the human element.
White men in particular are a threat to national security.
White men in particular are a threat to national security.
02:36 AM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
And I have hard many a family member and former neighbor sneer abt how we, now that we live on a city, are just asking for violence.
We are objectively safer where we live now than where I grew up. We were objectively safer when we lived in a city that topped the most dangerous lists.
We are objectively safer where we live now than where I grew up. We were objectively safer when we lived in a city that topped the most dangerous lists.
03:24 PM - Apr 11, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
I grieve for the families of those who died and were injured or traumatized.
But the narrative that rural people are more American or even more people and therefore more deserving of sympathy, feel the trauma more deeply that people who live in cities is so insidious.
But the narrative that rural people are more American or even more people and therefore more deserving of sympathy, feel the trauma more deeply that people who live in cities is so insidious.
03:21 PM - Apr 11, 2023
In response to Ken Robert.
God, I hope not. And I definitely get the sense that Dominion has always been in this to teach a lesson if not to drive Fox out of business altogether.
07:34 PM - Apr 10, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
There are an alarming number of people who have experience more than 1 mass shooting and even more of us who are connected, however tenuously, to more than 1.
I just can't wrap my mind around why that isn't enough...
I just can't wrap my mind around why that isn't enough...
02:01 PM - Mar 30, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
I don't say that to be an a$$hole but in recognition of how *quickly* "gun culture" has changed
When I was a kid, the NRA was still pretty serious about gun safety. My uncles left cousins, all of who would now pose in such a ludicrous display, out of hunting trips for minor gun safety infraction
When I was a kid, the NRA was still pretty serious about gun safety. My uncles left cousins, all of who would now pose in such a ludicrous display, out of hunting trips for minor gun safety infraction
03:12 PM - Mar 27, 2023
In response to Claudia D.
I find it pretty jarring and I am from (no longer live) in the rural midwest.
03:01 PM - Mar 27, 2023
In response to dmark.
And the investigation into the end of that standoff indicated that the fire that killed people at Waco was probably set by the Branch Davidians themselves. ATF & FBI did not have clean hand for sure but survivors had accelerants in their clothing and the fire broke out in 3 places.
05:55 PM - Mar 26, 2023
In response to Dave Plus Coffee (he/him).
Okay, this may be an extraordinarily dumb question, but how is the *not using his legal name* on legal documents, like filing for the election or FEC filings, not an automatic disqualification (& prosecution for fraud).
09:45 AM - Mar 17, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
Don't get me wrong. They probably have earned it.
I just don't want to deal with the mess.
And I remember he killed the dragon even though she was undoubtedly not the actual villain (all the old European fairy tales are about conditioning girls to fear the strong women who would protect the
I just don't want to deal with the mess.
And I remember he killed the dragon even though she was undoubtedly not the actual villain (all the old European fairy tales are about conditioning girls to fear the strong women who would protect the
05:52 PM - Mar 14, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
I do not say that to make any sort of equivalence between the harm done to people who are not getting their very basic needs met and those who have jobs and a living wage.
I just want to also address how corrosive this is on multiple levels and ways.
I just want to also address how corrosive this is on multiple levels and ways.
07:25 PM - Mar 13, 2023
In response to Kat Among Pigeons.
The pandemic has made me think a lot about the moral harm done to the people on the frontline who cannot provide the help they know people need so desperately simply because some decision-makers' sphere of empathy is so small you can carry it in your pocket.
07:23 PM - Mar 13, 2023
