Releasing the grand jury materials was always a strawman.
“Release the materials seized from Epstein”
“Okay okay since I’m completely committed to transparency and definitely my name’s not all over Epstein’s documents in all kinds of incriminating ways I will release the grand jury materials! See? Full transparency. Just like you definitely asked for. Hopefully this brings the matter to a close.”
It’s an artful dodge, moderately effective so far at shifting the conversation.
Sounds about right. A lot of these situations are symptoms of societal rot. Investing in punishing crime after the fact does basically nothing to reduce it, where fixing economic working conditions so that people won’t be put into desperate situations helps to resolve theft and violence because people can just live and be normal and it’s okay. Imagine that.
That said I am deeply skeptical of the idea of abolishing prisons before doing that so that all these broken people can just be loose roaming the streets damaging others in the meantime. But you’re not wrong I think about the uselessness of it as a permanent solution. And making police and prisons more punishing as a solution to invest any type of effort into, because there is still crime because our society is broken, is worse than useless.
Tim Leary’s autobiography has a fascinating part about this, about him organizing a research project inside a prison, trying to use LSD and meditation to bring people to an actual awareness of themselves as humans. It’s fucking fascinating. By far the best part was that because he was actually rehabilitating people and bringing them to a positive solution where they as individuals could be functional members of a working society, people inside the system predicted to him that the project would be shut down because it’s unprofitable to go that way. I don’t know if that was why it got shut down, but it did get shut down. Even though it was bringing great results even within the awful limits of our broken society and system. Exactly as predicted. Go figure.
They do not work for their alleged intended purpose (often just making things worse) and treat people like shit.
I partly agree with this part, definitely as they are implemented in the US. What do you think the solution should be if someone robs a liquor store or rapes their neighbor?
why isn’t the media talking about the murders of the fisherman for drug trafficking being tied to trump pardoning a drug trafficker in the same fucking week
Because they, too, are some bitches.
Hey you know, that’s a really good point. I’m sure that all the Lemmy posters that were super concerned about the plight of the struggling American family trying to put food on the table and that’s why they were concerned about rising prices and inflation before the election and why Biden was responsible for them would have had the maturity to refrained from saying WAAAAAAHHHHH THERE’S INFLATION WAAAAAHHH THERE’S INFLATION and not been bothered by the rail strike’s impact on the American economy and given him credit for sticking to his guns and Kamala Harris would have lost the election less hard because paralyzed rail shipping didn’t become an issue and they didn’t blame her for it. I’m sure that’s how it would have played out.
My own personal politics, I actually in all seriousness do agree with I think the average Lemmy POV that Biden should have let the rail strike happen, and if it hurts the American economy then oh fucking well you should have treated better the people who run the American economy. What he did was the break the strike, then had his refurbished NLRB keep working the issue after no one was paying attention and get the rail workers a lot of what they were asking for anyway, just in a way that didn’t paralyze American shipping. I get why he went at it that way. After all, people blamed the fuck out of him for inflation that wasn’t his fault, so presumably they would have been happy to blame him also for inflation that actually was his fault.
But IDK how you look at that, and all this sudden burst of union activity the last three years and the legal and logistical support that his suddenly functional NLRB was lending to it which the OP article talks about in such glowing terms without examining where any of it came from, and decide that of course Biden hates workers. Why do you think he hates workers? This is some creation science shit.
I seriously was looking for what was the catch, before I saw that it wasn’t him that posted this one lol
Why on earth do people keep writing about KOSA and friends as if they were kids’ safety bills
They are surveillance bills. The kids’ safety stuff (to the extent they even had them) has been disabled from the start or amended out of them at this point. It’s genuinely weird to me that “journalists” are taking seriously the idea that they are kids’ safety bills and putting that in their stories, this isn’t the first one I’ve seen that does that.
Here’s a reminder of how that happened (under Biden, too).
Biden arguably broke the law with how quick he got rid of Trump’s horrendous NLRB pick and replaced him with someone actually good for labor (your link touches on that, search for “in the last 3 years, union petitions have doubled because” and then do the math about what happened a little over 3 years ago that might have led to different leadership at the NLRB). The Republicans fought it tooth and nail, and they kind of had a point, but anyway he made it stick and the NLRB has actually been doing good work for a while.
Anyway, after that happened a whole bunch of leftist voters looked at the choices on offer in the last presidential election and said WAAAAAAHHHHH NOT LEFT ENOUGH NOT LEFT ENOUGH and stayed home, and so a lot of Biden’s improvement-finally on these issues is now being undone and then some. Bernie Sanders is 100% correct as far as the uselessness of most of congress on all of this and the Democrats’ absolute unforced fuck-up / unforced gift to corporate America (either is possible to me, they’re both 100% on brand).
The part that is confused to me is that you guys actually had someone in office who did care about fixing this actual exact specific issue, and did, and you responded by fucking hating him and complaining about him constantly and also blaming his successor for everything he did wrong and now all of a sudden you’re aware of the NLRB and that it is important and upset that the Democrats are dogshit about supporting it. Which… I mean, yes, the NLRB is fucked now, and also the center-right Democrats in congress have their way paved to not have to get any better in order to win elections because everyone hates the Republicans now. Good job. Well done. On that as well as many other things which are ten times worse now. Excellent.
Honestly, Librewolf is pretty functional. It used to break all kinds of stuff, but now it’s just a couple of sites with fingerprint protection issues, and there’s a couple-of-clicks way to disable the strict fingerprint protection on any site you care about where it’s causing problems.
It’s worse now. There are a lot of apartment building facilities management systems on the public internet now with poor security.
Want to make yourself a fob to get into the building, or into someone’s apartment? Want to get a listing of when those people enter and exit the building and when they’re generally not home? Well, now you can. It’s not a real high percentage of buildings that have their management systems exposed that way, but in raw numbers, there are a whole fucking bunch of them.
“The Nazis ate vegetables with their meals.”
“If you sit down at the dinner table, and you eat vegetables – then there is much less separating you from the Nazis than you think.”
Even beyond the bullshitness of the idea that the Nazis were earnestly trying to give social services to people in their in-group, the problem with the Nazis was not that they did want certain services to be provided to certain people. The problem was those other things that they did, that were different from providing services.
“And so then Lemmy said ‘Hey you know what would be a good idea is if we copied that model exactly’” :-(
I absolutely have observed mods on Lemmy engaging in the same shitty behaviors (I am sitting on a post about a little cabal of [email protected] people who seem to be trying to rig the discourse in a particular direction to meet their electoral goals). But the simple fact of it being less centralized and more transparent (and with more of a culture of effective pushback against the mods) makes it a lot harder. They can’t just say “lol get fucked” like the mod from this post did and have that be the end of the story.
Oops, you are 100% correct, I fixed the title.
to stay within the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement
Good to see we’re acknowledging reality finally as far as 1.5 degrees
and avoid catastrophic climate change
If not as far as some other areas 🫤
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball; but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
It doesn’t even have to be that fancy. It could just be that Ossé is kind of an idiot or something, and this specific challenge is unlikely to succeed and likely to produce a bunch of heat and friction while it is failing.
I have no idea. I do kind of agree with the idea that if Mamdani and AOC are both weighing in publicly on this issue, then maybe they know something about it that I don’t, as opposed to the “the ONLY explanation is that they’re both compromised by the DNC and Ossé is obviously wonderful and we already know that and he’s exempt from all the nail biting scrutiny which we aim at certain other socialist politicians” theory.
For the Ossé supporters: Who is this guy? Why do you like him? I don’t like Jeffries either, I think he’s a bum for sure. Primarying him in general sounds great, to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Ossé
Ossé worked for several years in the entertainment industry as a promoter.[5] In May 2020, amid nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd, Ossé became a prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and co-founded the activist collective “Warriors in the Garden”.[6] According to public statements, Ossé joined the Democratic Socialists of America in 2020 but left shortly after as he felt his views and those of the organization’s did not align.[7] Ossé rejoined the New York City chapter in the summer of 2025, following Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary.[8]
Ossé rejected an offer to serve as a delegate for Joe Biden at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, but ultimately elected to attend the event following the withdrawal of Biden, being granted a credential as one of approximately 200 influencers at the DNC.[9]
Ossé filed to run in New York’s 8th congressional district against Hakeem Jeffries in November 2025, but did not win the endorsement of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America.[22][23] Following the result, Ossé stated he would not run.[24]
I am sure he also voted to send interceptor missiles to Israel many times, but if I provide you with evidence of that, would it change your mind?
I feel like we had this exact conversation sometime before. Was that you?
It was. I found it. You said the exact same thing the other time, too (about how I’d just reject the evidence if you did send it, so you don’t have to). Anyway, when did he vote for sending weapons? I feel like there was some other time we talked about this I haven’t dug back up, when I actually found the votes in congress and sent you both AOC’s and Bernie’s “no” votes about the thing you said they voted yes on. Absolutely no impact. No change to your demeanor, the presentation, no acknowledgement that there might be something worth changing your viewpoint about. Just continued lecturing to me about how you are the right one, you’re so right that “you are sure,” and this pro-Palestinian person in congress is actually an anti Palestinian person and we need to not support him and it’s the only way to save Palestine is to knock out their most vocal supporter in the Senate. Wonder why.
And yes, I know you sent me a video lol. I asked you when it was that he voted to send weapons. Want me to send you some votes when he voted against weapons and explained in yelling pounding-the-table detail in the Senate about why he was doing it and why it’s a crime that we’re continuing to arm Israel? I’m happy to do that, I don’t have to fall back on “I’m sure” and refusing to.
Great stuff. So when did Bernie ever vote for weapons for Israel? You definitely said that he did.
This thing is never going to be completed. It’s going to be just as much of an extended failure prone clusterfuck that eventually gets moved on from, with nothing whatsoever to show for it in the end, as his health care plan or anything else.