From a post on Senator Warren's FB page: No President should have unilateral power to use nuclear weapons"

Trump’s terrifying last weeks in office were a wake-up call that a dangerous President should not have unilateral control over our nuclear weapons. Read my new op-ed with former Secretary of Defense William Perry on how we can fix our nuclear ( Read more... )

Okay so there's this bill being considered by congress, called "for the people act" which has the following points:

1. Limit the influence of big money in politics by empowering small donors.

2. Make voting easier and more secure.

3. End partisan gerrymandering.

4. Require more transparency about who is lobbying our government.

OMG, this bill is so ( Read more... )

TW again for cynical talk about Biden.

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Today I learned about something called minarchy. A minarchist wants as small a government as will work.

Minarchy sounds cool on the surface. But then the US tried the same thing in the early years, where the federal government existed almost entirely to mediate disputes between the states. Then the North and ( Read more... )

(Trigger warning for... I dunno how to word this... for talk about me having no faith in the system? Apparently my attitude about Biden was triggering some friends of mine.)

Hope is great and all but it's useless if it's not directed properly. Anyone who still has faith in the system is deluded at this point. If we don't all come to recognize how ( Read more... )

Basically, Trump brutally murdered democracy, chopped its body into a hundred pieces, and mailed the pieces to random spots around the world. And now here comes Joe Biden, who is basically a Republican himself, and all the neoliberals are wetting themselves thinking he’s the second coming of the goddess Isis, here to collect the pieces of Osiris, ( Read more... )

So, people who have seen the news: is Trump in prison yet or is Biden going to pull the "unity" bullshit and leave us having to deal with this shit all over again in 2024? This was cross-posted from https://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/332602.html
You can comment either ( Read more... )

On someone's FB, they made the comment "the entitled generation" in response to the fascist shit-stain from the Capitol invasion who was wearing a "Viking" hat. I was like "Ok boomer" and they got pissy about that, so I responded:

Don't conflate this dickwaffle's cuntistry for some generational thing. "Entitled generation," LOL. It's boomers who are ( Read more... )

The kind of people who cry about mistreating Nazis are generally the same people who have no problem calling for the execution of child molesters, as well as being vehemently opposed to letting such people talk about their proclivities online. So it's clear they understand the concept that some things people do and say are not protected by the ( Read more... )

This is from his FB:

Ok.....let me just put out a personal statement.....
ACAB is imo, a bad moniker for the problem that exists.
I will not condone a statement of absolute.
Yes, there is a very serious flaw in the foundation of our law enforcement agencies.
Please don’t start spitting fire and media splashes that hyperfocus on specific points ( Read more... )

The Trump Twitter ban is great and all, but they only banned him after he'd been voted out, as a token gesture to save face for giving him a platform for the last 4 years or more. An utterly meaningless gesture on their part. If they really gave a shit about opposing fascism, they would ban Rowling and her little terf gang too. Twitter has proven ( Read more... )