Opinion | Medicare For All will abolish all class struggle

@Ash i was reading it using the voice Homer used when trying to impersonate JFK

maybe with less yelling

y'all ready to instantly die

scotus Season Finale in about 15 minutes

Initiative 77 is probably going to be repealed by DC council

Congratulations pro business Dems again

Wait, the wage one?

...

@Unionhawk i thought it passed

yes but haha fuck the working class

@GodEmperorDune it did

then wtf

I think the current narrative is that it confuses customers when tipping

which makes no sense but

figured

they were all fuct choices so

that's not the worst possible outcome, actually

another boring white man who will make horrific decisions

jeez this guy wrote the starr report?

I just mean he could have nominated someone much more flagrantly anti-abortion

@quartata he dissented in the case of the teenager in immigration detention who wanted an abortion and said she should have to wait until her release

(which is kinda moderate i guess in that he didn't say she had NO right to an abortion at all)

Yeah, meanwhile Coney would almost certain overturn Roe if given the chance

Kavanaugh is like the third worst

apparently he also wrote that presidents should be exempt from civil lawsuits and criminal investigations while in office

Oh I'm sure that made him a real winner in Trump's book

too bad the dems can't do a damn thing about it

He won't get to act on that

I'm not saying he's not in the top 100 list of worst people in the universe, but,,,

@quartata still seems fuct

particularly when he said

> Congress should give back to the President the full power to act when he believes that a particular independent counsel is out to get him.

pretty sure Trump thinks anyone who says no to him or disagrees with him is out to get him

actually had the wrong room this time

but if I posted it in the Bridge it would probably be considered too much like news so instead I'm just going to eat another tangerine

He picked Kavanaugh? Bleh :|

prosecutor is from San Bernardino which is a little surprising but

Kethledge at least seemingly thought asset forfeiture was theft. Sigh

lol @ the "Aren't you happy now #NeverTrumpers?" takes as if Trump's unhinged sociooathy on top of the usual Republican agenda was somehow a necessity for beating Clinton and Kennedy deciding to retire

Ah yes sounding like a sleeper cell is totally not insane

@TimStone something something you just activated my trap card

@TimStone lol rekt

@quartata nah thats kinda a racist hotbed

also i believe that prosecutor is getting disciplined now

@GodEmperorDune last I checked it was swing?

i dunno everything is messed up now

I haven't really ever been there so

I see NYT already had a spicy take

Love too be a former teacher of the nominee and "liberal" Federalist Society-adjacent writing about how liberals should give this guy a chance!

lmao

@TimStone as in dave reuben liberal then?

which is to say conservative

@quartata dems can be racist too

@Unionhawk I gift it unto you:

@TimStone dafuq

@TimStone but he can't be conservative because he voted for hillary

Look if I taught someone at raises pinky Yale law school and they became SCOTUS nominee I'd probably take credit too

@TimStone It turns out tracking down the new source of those CFCs was actually not that hard, whoops

@TimStone wat

Yep

@TimStone lol who tf is this guy

> So I propose that the Democrats offer the following compromise: Each Senate Democrat will pledge either to vote yes for Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation — or, if voting no, to first publicly name at least two clearly better candidates whom a Republican president might realistically have nominated instead (not an easy task). In exchange for this act of good will, Democrats will insist that Judge Kavanaugh answer all fair questions at his confirmation hearing.

so many weasel words

Nominate the ghost of eugene debs

Oh fuckin uhh

Helldude for scotus

lmfao

@GodEmperorDune nycsouthpaw for SCOTUS

that's 1 out of 2

truly hiring the "best"

@Memor-X don't make him sound cooler than he is

oh fuckin neat

there's a bill to assign up to 15 years for "injuring, oppressing, threatening, or intimidating" any person while in disguise

15 years for yelling at nazis

Fuck off

@Unionhawk to be honest, why are you yelling at them in disguise. unless the "while in disguise" part is really made to be broad to target anyone

but if that's the case Nazi's could just get 15 years for being nazis then

@Memor-X so the fascists and cops can't identify you in states where masking is legal

(notably excluding the commonwealth of Virginia for example)

Yeah I wouldn't trust Nazis to not hunt me down afterwards

It's literally specifically targeted against anti-fascist and anti-racist activists

Because the free speech of racists is more important than the free speech of non-racists

This shit is going to pass by a supermajority and I fucking hate it

You fuckers are going to get someone killed

Is it a state specific law or country wide?

Federal

Figured

yeah that'll pass

The president is going to sign that shit on August 12 because we live in hell

Portland basically has monthly street brawls sponsored by Patriot prayer just actively attacking people but good forbid somebody yell while wearing a mask

Fuck

Speaking of the right ruining everything, the next Canadians election is late next year

I'm hoping the PC don't win, but I'm getting concerned, considering the current state of everything

The left vote splitting is always the biggest concern

I mean obviously the PC winning wouldn't create the literal hell on earth you guys are going through, but certainly not a thing I'd want

Current leaders policies are mostly fine economic wise, but socially well, yeah

PC leader that is

But but, glorious pc gaming master race? Oooh different PC

Oh hey, amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike today. They're asking people to avoid Amazon.com, .ca etc, Twitch.tv, and other Amazon subsidiaries today in solidarity

@Unionhawk at some point does that mean don't use Netflix because of aws?

hmm

@RedRiderX avoiding all sites that use AWS would be quite the task

hmm I'll disable the code that uses our s3 buckets for today

(it is only for grafana alerts anyways)

@Nzall woo!

Okay, I was looking at a Reddit post on the Thai cave rescue and one of the sidebar ads was for a local natural cavern formation.

:/

@Unionhawk Um... all of our stuff at work is on AWS

@Yuuki Yeah trying to make ads relevant to the content you're viewing can definitely result in some really awkward ad placements

Especially when it's all user generated content

Yeah, I know why it happened and I know writing code for targeted ads must be a nightmare. But it's still pretty funny when things like this happen.

@Wipqozn I remember seeing advertisements for a theme park around the time of the Brussels bombings, labeled "you'll have a blast"

or those might have been from any of the other terrorist attacks in the past 2 or so decades

@Nzall yay

@Nzall Thank goodness

@SaintWacko Us too, I guess this means if anyone asks why we aren't working we get to blame @Unionhawk

@TimStone Ooh, I like that plan

"hey, can you do this thing by 3" "absolutely not. Solidarity with the international working class"

#praxis

I should probably do work instead of questing at my desk

lol that asshole

I thought he'd get too distracted to go through with that but no, here we are

rubs temples

@TimStone so all this rose bullshit for a thing already decided months ago? i really hope kavanaugh gets stomped in the senate from the bush era email trove

Well even worse

Nothing is decided until Trump actually does it

@GodEmperorDune I regret to inform you that this will not happen

So, you know, gotta make sure not to rock the boat

@Unionhawk they're not going to release the emails or kavanaugh's going to go through anyway?

he's going to get 53 vote rubber stamped

100%

with Jones and Manchin

Ah I see we're just skipping the formalities of not holding him accountable through the system now

"ThE pOlIcY aLlOwS tReAtInG pEoPlE cRuElY"

> "Who is accountable? I am," she said. "I am accountable as a mayor — for existing policies procedures training hiring practices and more. It’s on me."

So... they're running for unelection?

It's just absurd that we're pretending the officer is too dumb to use good judgment unless the policy specifically requires it but also responsible enough to hold a weapon and be able to arrest people

@TimStone and also i get when you're gonna tase someone coming after you but "he didn't stick his legs out so i tased him" is wtf

Beginning to think perhaps John Kelly's judgment is flawed

@TimStone he agreed to work in this administration, so...

also why it is a good practice to believe victims

RIP @fredley

NFL PA is a pretty weak union

Doesn't do much of note

Besides get their members taken to the woodshed

Yeah, kind of crazy how that ended up being the case :/

His inability to just...not...is just urgh :|

it gets better

Wait is he saying he wasn't called a billionaire until he was, in fact, a billionaire?

Unethical media smh

i told y'all he's hank scorpio

@TimStone Musk seems to have a pathological inability to understand the Streisand effect.

I would have never heard about this and nor would I have really cared if everything just stopped with the provincial governor's comments.

It's just further proof that having a lot of money breaks your brain

@GodEmperorDune Also the video makes it clear he seemed to be trying, but was confused by the command

You see him shift his legs around a few times in response to the requests

@Unionhawk He has a massive saviour complex.

I mean, he will run for President one day. I'm certain of it.

@Wipqozn He was apparently arrested for public drunkenness, so being a bit slow to follow commands should have been expected.

@fredley i really hope not but you're probably right

@fredley I wouldn't be surprised if he ran in 2020 tbh

President billionaire 2: electric boogaloo

he'd probably run as a libertarian or something though

can't see him picking a party like a normal person

the fuckin greens will nominate him lmao

oh shit

you're totally right

genius

Our official AOC membership bump is at least 8 btw

congrats

8 what we could call active members

who forwarded reciepts

(we'll find out about paper members from national in about a month)

@Wipqozn Now Zuck's out, Musk is definitely #1 Tech Billionaire White House Candidate

rubs temples more

@TimStone yeah this is standard shit

sign this piece of paper and we'll let you out of jail

btw now that it's signed this piece of paper was you agreeing to be subject to immediate deportation without trial

@Unionhawk Doesn't that, at a very very basic legal level, make whatever you signed invalid?

lol

I mean, laws, amirite?

Unless you have like an attorney or something with you

@KevinvanderVelden But who can afford one of those!

12-dimensional chess getting real

@TimStone oh i read this as cheese pieces and was confused

I mean to be entirely fair that there were giant chess pieces on the roof does not really clear anything up

Today is entirely too stupid / it's definitely going to just be Hannity with a voice modulator

@TimStone I could see some rooftop bar deal having giant chess

@TimStone "Let's see, should we spend our resources fixing the security flaws in our voting machines or preventing people from uncovering the security flaws?"

@Unionhawk It's just an apartment building but yeah, it's not completely unexpected just like, lol wat

The video tells me we can see the chess set on the roof from Google Maps and sure enough there it is

> FBI agent who accidentally shot man while doing backflip allowed to carry gun again

The order was amended to state that he may use his gun solely in accordance with FBI policy which uhhhh him violating I think was the whole problem to begin with?

So you know, very logical

@TimStone So before he was allowed to use it however he wanted?

Hmm

I mean I feel it still kind of matters whether Kennedy was concerned Trump might go rogue and nominate Pirro or something stupid?

🤷

So who knows what to believe

Trade Wars!

Yay!

@TimStone He's just... so bad at pretending he's not in Putin's pocket

@TimStone ah of course some $4,000 a month rent DC apartment or some shit

that makes sense

Oh. I see

🤔

good country

@TimStone What the fuck

So children were separated from their parents because of a thin "human trafficking" guise. Can we just separate everyone from ICE because they're actually trafficking people?

ICE treating real citizens like trash is not news sadly

Been going on for ages...

Did we do this yet?

oh shit hah it might do that incidentally lol

tl;dr yelling while wearing a mask or costume = 15 year sentence

if you act in an intimidating fashion in a costume yeah that sounds like it would qualify

amazing

Yep, and it's federal so

It's already illegal to mask up in certain states, it depends on the context

So I should put out an anti-Trump sign on my lawn and hand out a mask to anyone who starts yelling at me?

Ohio is "it is illegal to commit a crime while wearing a disguise"

I don't know what that means practically

it is illegal to commit a crime, folks

Commonwealth of VA is stronger I think

@Unionhawk They really only needed the first seven words.

@quartata Yeah but if you make the police work for it, that's just cruel!

animal cruelty

@TimStone I assume that's so they can construe PPE to be a disguise if it isn't the cops

BONUS ROUND:

:thinking:

UNFORTUNATELY no there is a "this does not apply to law enforcement" paragraph

awh

that would be pretty good but no

@Unionhawk Upholding Antifa Law tbh

this shit is going to pass with a supermajority in both chambers

it's bad

everything is bad

do you really think

The president is going to sign this into law on August 12

I think the implications for Halloween will cause some lobbying by Party City

Is how bad everything is

Joining new businesses while on trial as one does

These fuckers are going to force even more organizers to flee the country out of fear for their lives with this shit

...Ah

The policy probably didn't specify that "fire fighter" means you fight fires not fight with fire

@TimStone there was apparently some cernovich advertized rally for him that one guy showed up to

and this one guy literally spends all his time showing up to random right wing rallies across the country

@TimStone I think there was a study somewhere that showed firefighters have a higher predisposition towards pyromania and arson than the general population.

@Unionhawk Oh maybe he's the guy who called in instead then

> It has been reported that roughly 100 U.S. firefighters are convicted of arson each year.

@SaintWacko ICE has been rounding up brown citizens too

Oh, going back to Elon Musk and the Yellow Submarine. Apparently, the sub was deemed "not practical for this case", not that it was not practical at all.

@Yuuki it was too big for the cave and entirely untested

and unlike a human diver, there was a danger it would get stuck and trap everyone else in the cave

@GodEmperorDune That and the weather conditions didn't really make the sub necessary.

IIRC, it hasn't rained that much in recent days despite being monsoon season (and why it was considered a dire situation) and so the water levels weren't high enough to need the sub.

anyway i wonder who is writing a book about this and how soon it will be made into a movie

they already did it's called 20,000 leagues under the sea

think about it, elon has 4 letters, nemo has 4 letters, they're basically the same person

i meant the real rescue, the one that didn't involve a rich white boy butting in where he was not requested

oh

@GodEmperorDune Per Twitter, as soon as Scarlett Johansson is available to play every member of the soccer team

I think still the wildest dive rescue I've seen was divers on a recent (but not too recent, within some weeks) shipwreck; I think they were on a recovery mission, but a survivor grabbed at a diver from an air pocket

@TimStone hue, i saw a thing about billy dee williams being cast in star wars IX and the first reply was that scarjo was 'devastated"

@Unionhawk holyshit

like they didn't think there were survivors at all?

@GodEmperorDune I mean someone should just tell him he can devise a new way to dig up pipes, call it a hyperdigger, and then we're off

Sorry, not weeks, 3 days, but still: huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/…

@TimStone so we want your "hyperloops" but to transport water instead of people

12 souls aboard, 1 survivor

@Unionhawk jfc I would want to be dead from the sound of that

> Even worse, the salt water started to take the skin off his body and tongue.

This happened right as I was about to leave for my divemaster

@GodEmperorDune Wait, why are we shit-talking Scarlett Johansson?

That person will have aquaphobia for the rest of their life for sure

@Yuuki she's cast as a trans man in an upcoming film iirc

@Unionhawk Is that a woman transitioning to a man or vice-versa?

@Yuuki taking roles from a trans man and then effectively saying "fuck off" to the trans community when they complained

@Yuuki person assigned female at birth

@Yuuki always the former

Isn't this the same thing as Eddie Redmayne being cast for The Danish Girl?

What makes it really suck is that this character's real world counterpart has been basically erased and constantly misgendered

Maybe my memory's terrible, but I recall reactions being different.

@Yuuki yes, and the trans community complained about that too

@Yuuki part of it is that the whitewashing of ghost in the shell is so recent

She was also the voice of Kaa in The Jungle Book remake for some reason

so the meme is now "scarjo wants to play everyone that isn't a white woman"

@GodEmperorDune Honestly, the Ghost in the Shell movie was a completely different movie.

Would've done fine if it was under a different name, imo.

@TimStone I thought she was actually good in that.

(Also, it's Kaa)

Shh

@Yuuki its not about whether she's good or not, it's that there are so few roles cast as trans people, so a biopic of an actual trans person would be an excellent role to actually give to a trans person

@GodEmperorDune That's not what I was saying.

I said that I thought she was good in The Jungle Book.

ah my misunderstanding

It's a hard tightrope to walk, imo. On the one hand, you want authenticity and also to expand diversity in Hollywood. On the other hand, if you want to raise attention to an issue through a movie, having star power is pretty much the easiest and probably most guaranteed way to do it.

Granted, star power isn't really a thing these days.

@Yuuki right, the argument for this is to make scarjo play a different character instead of the trans man

Would it be more or less bad to have a cis man play that role?

Okay so this straws nonsense needs to stop, however as absurd as the article is The Hill's image person has swayed me with this creepy floating baby doll:

@murgatroid99 from what i've read, slightly less bad in that at least they get the gender correct

@GodEmperorDune I am 100% not saying this was the case, but I would hate to be the PR for the movie that tried to do it this way but couldn't find a competent actor.

@GodEmperorDune So pardon my complete ignorance, but that implies that the gender that a trans person is transitioning to is their correct gender?

@Yuuki yes

@GodEmperorDune Okay, noted.

Without touching on the extremely problematic situation that is diversity in Hollywood, acting itself is a thorny issue simply because the entirety of the job is pretending or, from some viewpoints, becoming someone else.

@Yuuki sure, but from what i've read, a lot of the anger in the trans community is that they are not being portrayed accurately because it is other people coming in and trying to do a shallow approximation without understanding the nuances of actually being trans

cursed thought: casting Jared Leto in such things (I'm sorry)

On a somewhat related note, A Quiet Place directed by John Krasinski (yes, of The Office fame) stars a deaf actress playing a deaf character.

And he really pushed hard for her to be cast in the part.

> Krasinski said he sought a deaf actress, "... for many reasons, I didn't want a non-deaf actress pretending to be deaf. Most importantly though, because a deaf actress would help my knowledge and my understanding of the situations tenfold. I wanted someone who lives it and who could teach me about it on set."

@Yuuki yeah this is an example of doing things much better