Not a stupid question. If you steal sabra hummus (as an example) from a grocery store, are you stealing from Sabra or from the grocery store? I don’t know how big grocer accounting works but I’m sure someone knows.

I’m not touching this because what can I say at this point but caught this line:

There’s irony in Putin’s Ukraine war. If the dictator wasn’t so intent on pointlessly expanding Russia’s 11-time-zone border…

China stay winning.

Anything bad or “bad” that happened in the last 8 years will be remembered as Trump’s fault. Remember when he botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and student loan forgiveness and the final round of Covid checks that we never got.

more dollarisation is never going to overturn the current system and world order. Only de-dollarisation can do that.

If you can’t beat em, join em is stage 1 Dengism. (Or how to win at capitalism.) Will we / When will we see stage 2?

In a proximate tier of liberal smugness, Sam Harris and Bill Maher have done damage.

When anyone mentions (Trump) tariffs irl I’m like, I already couldn’t buy a Chinese EV under Biden.

Good for you. That is huge. That’s cool you are keeping doing things. That was and is a hard one for me but I would feel a lot better than not doing things. Substances work until they don’t. Not sustainable IME.

Me being conspiracy brained. He’s moving out of the strike zone as he crosses Putin’s red line.

But when Russia and North Korea do it it’s bad. /s I realize it’s not comparable - this is actually disgustingly horrible and won’t make even make it the it into what passes for US news slop.

He is the second happiest person. Now I’m wondering who she voted for.

Yeah that was terrible. She was getting crap in HB too.

We can and should do better. I was surprised by the lack of Cuba news during the big outage, but I miss a lot, so maybe I missed comments/posts about it.

I’m sorry to say I do appreciate the Trump posts too - or some of them anyway - I learned about most of the appointments in this news thread.

Okay yeah. After you put it in my head it really looked like it in the vid. Plus I’m on my phone.

Thanks for the laughs. This line cracked me up. I read it in Hexbear editor voice.

Trump is suffering from dementia, and will likely be removed by Vance at some point.

I need that on a t-shirt.

I think you’re correct generally and specifically in this case. Journos are also entranced by / beholden to polite society narrative and the going narrative is that Trump feels kinship with strong (lol in Zely’s case) world leaders. Admittedly it’s backwards here because Z is (was?) the lib darling but I guess that’s why it’s begrudging, lol.

Generally speaking, there is the public show and what actually happens.

Everyone involved at a certain level knows what’s up.

Yeah I’m with the sovereign citizens on this.

Just from memory, US citizens in the US are supposed to have free movement (no papers) according to the constitution unless it’s within 100 miles of a border, and like 75 percent of the population lives within this “exception” zone.

I’ll add to this that those mass immigration raids - like in meat packaging business etc - are (technically) illegal because they catch up and detain US citizens unlawfully, without a warrant (see 4th amendment). But no-one with any power gives a shit.

When I was young and dumb and a lib, I thought the liberals and the civil libertarians should align on this issue.

edit 15 seconds after posting: changed one word and also want to clarify part of my point here is you cannot tell a documented person from an undocumented and it’s illegal to request proof, except the state (country) has made its own loopholes and even changed the law in places (ie Texas’ “show me your papers” law)

Biden is competing with Obama for deporter-in-chief status.

Imagine if California wasn’t communist?

Expand affordable housing

Increase minimum wage

Rent control?

Okay, end slavery then?

Bring back harsher prison sentences (for primarily “poor people crimes”)?

They did encode gay marrriage in the constitution (prop 3).