My longtime friend got diagnosed with a very aggressive stage 4 cancer 3 weeks ago. Last Thursday, his kidneys and liver began failing. He was hospitalized and doctors didn’t think he would survive the weekend. A dozen friends came on Sunday, and he’s doing a little better now. Still, I know his chances aren’t good.
But your picture gives me hope, and hope is always a good thing.
I’m not a lawyer, but in my view the presidential immunity doesn’t mean the president can do anything he wants. It just means he can’t be personally prosecuted for his actions.
So it didn’t give Biden the right to remove whoever he could: the legal process to impeach a Supreme Court judge would still hold. It just means that if he killed a political enemy, he couldn’t be prosecuted for murder.
Still a shitty ruling though.
I agree, but there is a difference between trying to compromise with an enemy and making enemies of potential allies because you don’t 100% agree with them.
I don’t see Democrats putting LGBTQ+ people in concentration camps, but I think it’s just a question of months before Republicans begin to do so.
Also, Buttigieg saying trans women might have an advantage in sports is very very far from throwing a community to the wolves, like you say.
The US is in its current state because its citizens are more focused on what divides them than on what unites them. Social media is to blame I think, creating an infinity of echo chambers where people get less and less tolerant to contrary opinions, argue less, and insult more. And while the people are fighting among themselves, the ruling class can sleep peacefully.
A lot of people want the US to resist fascism, but this kind of thinking might be the reason fascism will win in the end.
If you can’t put aside your differences to fight a common enemy, you’ll lose.
Tldr: Google gives money to Mozilla so it can be the default search engine in Firefox. Now courts want to stop this kind of deal on the grounds that it’s against antitrust laws. So Mozilla now says that without this money they might die.
Unlike many people on Lemmy, I kinda like what the Mozilla foundation does, but if they let themselves become dependent on Google’s money they should have seen this coming.