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  • Chicago mayor signs executive order directing city to resist Trump’s immigration raids

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  • I think the goal is state violence. I don't think they will shy away from that. They want a "scary black/foreign gang" to make into a villain. And it won't matter if that's true. I think you underestimate where this is headed. But we will see.

  • First-ever transplant of animal lung in a human works for nine days

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  • What a robotic response to someone trying to explain love and losing a loved one to you.

    I'm not talking to someone that can't understand empathy. Good luck with that.

  • First-ever transplant of animal lung in a human works for nine days

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  • If it does actually happen to you. There will be a thought in your head that that person is still there somewhere and is potentially suffering. Your scientific reasoning and your "good for humanity" will likely not even cross your mind.

    All you'll see is someone you love laying on a bed and not able to function. You won't choose the experimental lung because you want to help humanity. You'll do it because even if the doctors say "it will not bring them back" you are desperate for any hope of talking to them again or just seeing their eyes open so you can say goodbye.

    The family likely ended it to relieve their own emotional suffering with a false sense of hope. Along with the fear that what they were doing was prolonging the suffering of someone they loved very much.

  • My theory both have a aura that makes pictures from a distance blurry.

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  • That's what I was thinking too when I saw his hand out like that. His speech has changed too. Would expect it's even worse now.

    All of this would be sad for some random old man. Shit sucks getting old and having your body fall apart. But Trump can rot it hell where he belongs. Hope they keep him alive for as long as possible so he can suffer some.

  • Chicago mayor signs executive order directing city to resist Trump’s immigration raids

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  • Have you met the our police? Don't expect the racist and xenophobic hogs to be any help.

  • Chicago mayor signs executive order directing city to resist Trump’s immigration raids

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  • I wish I had your positive outlook. But my pessimistic attitude tells me that Fascism doesn't listen to "orders" when the people tasked with physically enforcing those orders are significantly more aligned with the fascist.

    At the end of the day, it's the police on the ground that will choose whether or not to assist ICE. Even if they were at risk of losing their job ICE is offering them a comfortable position the same day.

    I think we will see police departments losing officers as they decide ICE is what they really want to do. I have no faith in the racist and xenophobic police departments of our country to be the "line of defense" against this fascist takeover. And you shouldn't either.

  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • It won't. But they know that; and they know the risks. On the contrary, they know it will likely be worse than last time.

    Short of Yemen (Barak Allah) these are the only direct actions to stop the blockaid on Gaza. An entire world watching as a live streamed genocide occurs.

    Yemen and these flotillas will be written about in history as historians analyze why so little was done to stop a genocide.

  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • Zero coverage on Chris Smalls from the corporate media. Dude was literally tortured by the IOF.

    I respect Greta. Don't get me wrong. It's actually amazing that someone that came from a wealthy family did not just end up being another shitlib telling us to stop using plastic straws to save the planet.

    It's a testament to her moral compass that it lead her to be radicalized.

    If the liberals avoid talking about you and the conservatives hate you then you're doing something right.

    But Smalls has always been ignored by the Liberals (unless they could use him as a winning point after the fact). Greta was meant to be a symbol of the liberals form of climate change inaction (but she didn't play ball and was largely dropped). They can't avoid talking about her as easily because the conservatives hate her.

    Conservatives hate Smalls but they largely just don't know who he is. So the liberals can ignore him more easily.

  • Visitors dropped for a 6th straight month in Las Vegas as head of tourism insists Sin City isn't dead

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  • Have you heard of family? Yeah, sometimes they need help or are sick in a country that doesn't provide healthcare and need taking care of.

    "Not have a choice" means that no reasonable person could leave their loved ones to rot and die. So they take that risk. It's "technically" a choice but no one uses that phrase to mean that.

    Show some empathy.

  • Canada should give the Governor of the Americas an airplane

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  • What's the purpose? Like, in a positive sense. I just see this as more liberal distraction from actual material change. Making people feel like there is a means of resistance within the current system that has become overcome by fascist.

    It gives people the false sense of "something being done". When it gives us no more progress than a new episode of South Park.

  • "Long Weekend Sale"

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  • I think this is almost a "tongue in cheek" way of saying labor day. It's less so a reflection on Target and more so reflection on what this holiday means to the average person.

    They are so dissociated from class conflict. So alienated from their fellow workers (that are literally working on labor day) that no one really thinks of the blood that was spilled to bring them their current labor rights. Rights that have been dismantled for decades as they have been distracted by both political parties to ignore their class solidarity.

    I'm less disappointed in Target than I am in what this type of sign says of the class consciousness in this country.

  • "Long Weekend Sale"

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  • I too am purchasing all my household items at Ben & Jerry's.

    Seriously though. There isn't really a way to "boycott" all of these companies that have links to fascist. The fascist are doing the will of the capitalist/ruling class.

    I can understand the sentiment. I stopped buying Coke products because of BDS. It was a major thing I use to purchase and once it was on the list I stopped. But it's not like Pepsi or Dr. Pepper are some beacon of anti-colonialism. It's just something I can avoid doing; while giving me no delusion that "ethical consumption" exists.

    I guess I don't really disagree with boycotting Target. Maybe it's your "Coca Cola". I just wanted to vent my frustration with the uselessness of personal consumption boycotts.

    I think all it does is make me/you feel like we are avoiding being associated with the system the fucks us over less than it does the rest of the world.

    A system neither of us can avoid participation in.

  • AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

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  • AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

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  • Pretty typical "the answer is no" to a click bait title that asks a question.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • Occam's razor is pretty applicable here.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • I guess you didn't read my last paragraph. My comment wasn't about defending China. My comment was about critizing the "China bad" that comes from people that don't understand the economics and just listen to the xenophobic media narratives.

    All countries our guilty of these types of things. China is just winning at it and the west is pretending it's not losing.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • This is how modern "competition" works in every industry. China is just following the standard model of taking losses in order to monopolize the market. Why do you think so many companies in the US (Uber being the most obvious one) are just taking losses for years and years?

    I feel like people don't understand modern economics and the complete lack of competition. So when our media says "China is bad. Look at them cheating!" people believe it.

    China isn't cheating or "going to crumble because of this" like all the YouTube click bait videos say. This is literally just how the global markets work.

    Is it good? Fuck no. But it's not unique to China at all. And their 5 year planned economic systems are much more prepared for a global collapse than ours are. At least in meeting the material needs of its citizens. The US has all but gutted any of its social safetynets for when this all goes to hell.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • Every country subsidizes it's major industries like that. Also, this is public knowledge. China isn't secretly hiding their state ownership and subsidies.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • I kinda wish Elon was a Chinese agent and Trump was really a Russian agent. It would make more sense at least.

    But instead we have two people making the exact same decisions that a state agent would do to sabotage the US and it's industries but it's all because of their absolute incompetence instead. Which is far less exciting and far more pathetic.