They literally did, for anyone who doesn’t get the reference.

You propose to instill a deep conviction –that the death penalty is unacceptable– in a broad majority of people:

[…] you do this by making the death penalty something the populace opposes.

Then make the idea so repugnant only a minority of a minority of people would be okay with it.

How?

You put it like we haven’t tried. You put it like we can somehow do it. That contradicts current trends: political violence in particular and violence more broadly are becoming more and more acceptable again.

If the fascists take control then feel free to start killing fascists.

By then it will be far too late.

As times are now use the systems in place that will prevent the rise of the AFD. If the fascists take control then feel free to start killing fascists. Be sure to be early, but you do that after the systems failed.

The system and all its guardrails are actively failing before your eyes and have been for over a decade at this point. In fact, the system –capitalism– isn’t really failing, but simply succumbing to its own contradictions and evolving into its next stage: fascism.

It’s basically you should be afraid that those people over there will kill you so you must kill them first.

No. It’s neither fear nor hate. It’s not a tribal proposition either. It’s an instrument of last resort to preserve our chance of building a fair system.

The death penalty, especially for political offenses, always seems nice when its your side in power.

When “our side” is no longer in power, “they” might introduce the death penalty. What’s to stop “them”, once they are in control? Our good faith?

Limits on state power do not reliably prevent bad governments from abusing it, because bad governments can and do weaken and circumvent those limits. Are constitutional limits meaningfully stopping Trump? Did they keep Putin from the presidency?

In my view, this logic is another case of “when they go low, we go high”. The only reliable way to prevent the abuse of state power is to keep those who would abuse state power from attaining it in the first place.

If you reject the states power to execute it’s own citizens and make that idea unacceptable to the people then you take away one of the fascists’ best tools for oppressing the people.

Execution may be unacceptable to some of us, but –crucially– it is acceptable to those who would most abuse it, and they will cheer its reintroduction.

What is or are snecs? Neither an English nor a French language search would reveal anything besides some acronyms.

Maybe France’s Snecma is an option

The company was called “Snecma” until 2016, when the board finally grew tired of repeating they do not manufacture smegma /s.

The article states that:

Eswatini agreed to take 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1m to “build its border and migration management capacity”.

By my account, that amounts to $31.875 per deportee.

Regardless of the sums involved, the United States are outsourcing their human rights abuses and bribing other countries to turn a blind eye by making them complicit. Eswatini and all the other countries that partake in “migration offshoring” schemes, like El Salvador, Albania and Rwanda, will likely not call out the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union for their criminal treatment of people who, by and large, desire to work and live in peace, because they would risk a source of income and diplomatic cover.

Surplus electricity would lower bills for both households, which have been particularly affected by rising prices, and different industries which have also had to contend with AI for capital.

His brother? Spared “no expense” building a state of the art theme park that ended up killing so many people (and almost killing his own grandkids) before it opened that they had to scrap the whole thing. And it was a damn good thing his granddaughter knew Unix systems (and wasn’t eaten first), or it surely would’ve killed more.

You got me at first and I almost went looking for references of David’s evil brother. TIL the actor who played the character of John Hammond in the film Jurassic Park and its sequel was David Attenborough’s elder brother.

I didn’t mean to dispute that. I just checked what you stated and posted what I found for anyone else who, like me, wasn’t up to date on this meeting. I share your assessment.

The AP reported:

The 88-year-old pope offered the Catholic vice president three big chocolate Easter eggs for Vance’s three young children, who did not attend, as well as a Vatican tie and rosaries.

I can’t even believe the trump admin is going after tech giants.

I share the disbelief. I think it is mostly a power play against not just Google, but all tech giants, which must be watching this closely, given most of them operate in a similarly anticompetitive manner: kiss the ring or else. The Trump administration could give Google reprieve in exchange for axing DEI further and helping push their political agenda.

I can’t imagine anything the admin does will be good for society so maybe its safe to assume they will be broken up so elon can buy a chunk?

I think so too: if Google doesn’t satisfy Trump and his administration, parts of it will be forcibly sold as private equity, outside of shareholder scrutiny and beyond the reach of the SEC. Such a private company would be easier to control than a publicly traded one.

I think what @Naich@lemmings.world means is that the recent UK Supreme Court ruling gives some cover to Starmer, allowing him to pin some of the dissatisfaction with his eventual acquiescence to US pressure on the judiciary (even though Labour, being in control of the legislature, could fix the laws instead of washing their hands…).

Is that the average 4chaner?

I for one find “Genocide Don” quite catchy. The problem with this label is that the man himself and most of his supporters will likely just shrug it off as if it weren’t worth denying; it would be like calling a paid assassin a “murderer”.

If Putin’s tables are anything to go by, those Russian couches must be nice and curvy in JD’s eyes.

TIL Epson made laptops. Having had to deal with some of their printers and scanners, I’m not inclined to learn more.

All that big talk about forcing countries to negotiate

Trump indeed touts tariffs as international leverage, but they’re just as much if not more of a domestic power play that forces US businesses to kiss the ring in order to get exemptions. Businesses that pledge allegiance keep their supply chains and survive, whereas those that don’t satisfy the Mango get to pay tariffs and compete with exempted businesses in a weakening consumer market with decreasing purchasing power.

World’s reserve currency. When it inevitably switches to the yuan

That’s neither inevitable nor likely at this point. China’s capital controls, ongoing devaluation of its currency and demonstrated willingness to prioritize the state over investors –at least some of which are positive things I wish we had– make Chinese assets in general and the renminbi in particular not investible to the degree necessary to achieve reserve status. The euro has better chances for now, especially if European debt is unified and becomes more liquid.

I think this is unironically what they are going for everywhere: delegating regulation to industry, as is the case to some extent in aviation. If they get their way, they won’t need approval from the NHTSA or any other agency, because they will self-approve and likely even shape regulation themselves.

/s Meanwhile, in some Signal group: “Should we suicide her or do you guys figure she might have some ICE-worthy tattoos?”