affinepplan

Leavitt's statement doesn't deserve further scrutiny beyond shallow dismissal.

Some People In The World Sometimes Have The Same Name As Each Other

gotta love how credulous you people are to the most insane statements by this administration, and how skeptical you are of the most unsurprising events in the world.

this just in: agency infamous for fragile egos and abuse of power got their ego bruised and abused their power.

"banal" --- what a word to use !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

> They are not "thugs". They are federal officers.

are they? maybe they should identify themselves as such with names, badge numbers, and warrants?

> They are upholding federal law.

they clearly aren't given the number of court cases the Trump administration is rapidly losing related to its deportation activity.

> This constant manipulation of words is tiring

this constant sanewashing of cruelty is tiring. you should find it horrifying.

but I'm not going to go in circles with you. I hope you eventually look back on this part of your life with shame about your beliefs and who and what you defended.

I've watched the video several times.

> Any average citizen would be arrested and detained.

yes, ICE thugs would probably behave equally lawlessly towards any civilian challenging them for a warrant. that doesn't make what happened less horrifying.

what on earth "other side" could there be to unidentified secret police arresting politicians of the opposite party

it also covers anyone "presumed to be" an us citizen, even if the gov. does not have specific knowledge that they definitively are.

> Why can't we have nice things?

cars.

> That the marching masses entering their neighborhoods were black is completely irrelevant

LOL. sure it was.

they're not the leader for FSD cars. he just claims to be, through a little-known trick called "lying"

unsustainable. and should be unconscionable. almost every pressing social problem can be traced back to the lack of housing supply (of course, some traces are looser than others)

it is not out of context. you are being deceptive that somehow surrounding context of the statement justifies such a horrible proposition from POTUS.

it was not deceptive. the words I wrote were said by Trump verbatim. please watch the video. I didn't remove the word "criminal" from the middle of the sentence.

except it was an honest quotation. what I wrote was said by Trump in the video.

I quoted directly from the video. the quote I wrote was said verbatim

he was also caught on hot mic today telling Bukele

"home-growns are next... you're going to need to build about five more places"

https://bsky.app/profile/coreyryung.bsky.social/post/3lmrygf...

stop normalizing this idiocy. there was no country that wasn't already willing to negotiate trade relations with the US.

so somehow roadways are "basic public services" but railways are not?

this kinda just exposes the depth of car-centric bias. to any competent urban designer, in a place like Manhattan, public transit is the "basic public service" and cars & roadways are a LUXURY.

inb4 claims that congestion pricing is somehow regressive

in fact, it is a progressive tax since reinvestments into public transit are phenomenal for the vast majority of low and middle Americans (and ALL the rest too, but especially those who can't afford a car in NYC)

> I really hate about using terminals: you can't just click to move the cursor quickly!

alt-click?

yeah this sounds like it'll be reliably enforced for sure

uv is worth changing to. it legitimately solves python packaging problems the way no other proposed solution thus far could.

yes, and if you think the _number_ of bad actors on each side are even CLOSE to similar in magnitudes then you are in a bubble that is feeding you bad information

if it's any consolation, decisions like these (normally) have a very long lead time measured in years. now, these are not normal times, but even so I'd be more concerned about NIST decisions coming out nearer to the end of this administration rather than just now at the beginning.

> Depending on which bubble you live in you get bombarded with information going your way.

ok but one of the bubbles lives in reality, and the information bombardment is of things that actually happen.

the other bubble is mostly just hateful delusion

Russia invaded Ukraine in a war of a territorial aggression. calling them "equally corrupt" is propaganda.

> in hindsight both investigations were completely discredited

.... discredited by whom, might I ask? possibly discredited by those it investigated?

> too many things would have to fit perfectly for it to make sense

things like immediately reversing course on military support for the only country at war with Russia? things like torching relationships with our closest allies we've spent decades, if not centuries building?

things like repeatedly and publicly praising Putin? things like both ex-KGB officers and current UK legislators publicly stating the possibility?

things like everything in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...

I don't know why you think it's quite so far fetched. it's not a certainty but at this point I would say the preponderance of evidence calls it "likely"

If you're still on the fence as to whether or not Trump is a Russian agent, ask yourself these hypotheticals:

* is it possible, on principle, for a POTUS to be a Russian agent?

* if yes to above, what actions would such a POTUS take?

* how do Trump's actions differ?