#fuck citizens united

[destielmemenews]

"The Haitian Bridge Alliance made the move after inaction by the local prosecutor, said their attorney, Subodh Chandra of the Cleveland-based Chandra Law Firm."

"Trump and Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, are charged with disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, aggravated menacing and complicity. The filing asks the Clark County Municipal Court to affirm that there is probable cause and issue arrest warrants against Trump and Vance."

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[cinemaocd]

Fun fact: Amazon, UPS and Fedex have donated heavily to Trump and MAGA campaigns, despite taking a public pledge not to do so after J6...

Support the USPS a delivery service which treats its workers much better and DOES not support MAGA election denier bullshit.

[monorayjak]

Recount

A lot of people, myself included, are advocating for a recount and an investigation into the 2024 election. I just want to make something very fucking clear – we are not the same as the MAGA idiots who fucking stormed the capital. It is our right as American citizens to want a recount and investigation, especially when so many small issues seem to have been piling up during the election – such as…

[silvermizuki]

I’m sick of American health/dental care because what the fuck.

They’re charging me $145 dollars for STICKING THEIR FINGER IN MY MOUTH. I’m not over exaggerating that, there is a hard lesion in my mouth they needed to do X-rays on, which is what was supposed to be done, so they just ran a finger on the inside of my gums to feel for it before the X-ray 😃 WHY IS THAT AN EXTRA FEE

AND MY INSURANCE DIDNT COVER IT. WHAT GOOD IS HAVING INSURANCE IF YOURE NOT GOING TO COVER THAT SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

[blizardstar]

“USAmerican” is the most performative, shallow, dog shit trend I have ever seen. You literally can’t even commit to your own point.

The idea that “American” would technically refer to all residents of the Americas and shouldn’t just be used to refer to residents of the United States is like. A point you can make. That’s a solid stance to take. Especially if other nations in the America’s and people from them are in support of reclaiming this for the wider use, trying to tell the United State’s colonozing history to suck a dick.

But the fact that you can’t stop calling United States residents/citizens “Americans” even in your DELIBERATE MOVEMENT TO STOP CALLING THEM “AMERICANS” means your point was dead from the fucking start. You’re doing literally nothing. It’s performative, shallow, bullshit.

[rewritingcanon]

noooo way we gotta throw the whole security council away this shit is not working no more 💀

[unnonexistence]

an important writing question to ask yourself is "how much time and effort do i want to put into figuring out what this character's legal documents would look like"

[vicontheinternet]

What the fuck is the US and the UK doing the capital of Yemen that dropped a bomb on the capital of Yemen

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[hotcupoteckla]

All these political fundraising ads are not helping themselves.

"DONATE by Midnight tonight to have your donation matched up to 600%!!!!"

Fuck you, NO

Y'all got millionaires or billionaires in your pockets? Have them donate first.

Or just and only ask me for the 5$ I can spare.

You want more rant, click below.

Don't tell me how you have people waiting in the wings to get even more money. Ask them for what they can give.

This whole setup REEKS of privileged people saying "Oh, we're only going to give Anything if you can prove you can actually win and have xx dollars fundraiser. Whatever you can raise on your own, we'll match"

Fuck that terrorist ransom bullshit, No.

I ain't playing that game. I'm not clicking on your text, I'm blocking your stinky ass number. I know what I give, you clearly don't.

Yes, I'm still donating to your party. No, I don't want Trump. But you can fuck all the way off on this Matching Donations Scam.

[refklikans]

Such a good article about how absolutely fucked Citizens United is, and how it destroyed all hope of America ever being able to pass laws, or elect politicians, that are for the people.

[justvibingwhilecrying]

Im at my schools home football game and they did the pledge of allegiance and I just

I don't get how anyone could love this country unconditionally. I fucking hate Joe Biden and the only reason he supports Israel and not palestine is because this country was built on the stolen land of indigenous Americans.

Hamas isn't even a terrorist group, they're fighting to get rid of their colonists. Decolonization will always be violent I don't understand how that's such a hard concept to grasp. Tax payers money is actively being used to support Israel isn't that so fucking disgusting.

We can afford a genocide but not housing for everyone. We can afford a genocide but not student loan forgiveness. This country is such a fucking joke. Genuinely I wish I stayed in Mexico, this country has done jack shit for me.

My entire life has been spent in poverty. And what does the government do to help the impoverished and homeless? It supports a fucking genocide. I stopped standing for the pledge of allegiance in 4th grade because I was petty and hated being told what to do.

Now though I sit during the pledge because of the genocide of indigenous Americans, I sit because of the millions of people without a place to live, I sit for all the innocent afghani children and civilians who died because of George Bush's lies, I sit for my mom who went to college but when immigrating here the government said her college and highschool diplomas don't count and now she has to wprk minimum wage jobs, I sit for the thousands of Palestinians that have died

This country is a fucking joke and I will never ever stand for the pledge. I will never look away at genocides we fund. Every politician, journalist, and UN official who remained silent/or spread propaganda has over 6000 Palestinians blood in their hands.

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free

[ciderman2k]

Sharing another EU initiative.

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

[bentofaxmachine]

COMPANIES ARE NOT PEOPLE. NO MATTER WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA OR THE US SUPREME COURT SAYS

[greenguys-stuff]

Let’s not forget the REAL problem we face with the abuses of capitalism. This election isn’t about republicans vs Democrats. It never has been. It’s an issue that goes back to the beginning of humanity. The have and the have nots. I just want to help balance the scales with my vote. How about you?

[theweeklyshowwithjonstewart]

Democracy Under Threat

Despite what cable news may have you believe, Fuckface von Clownstick is not the sole threat to our democracy. This week, we’re peeling back the rhetoric and taking a look at where the vulnerabilities in our institutions lie. In conversation with Jane Mayer, chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine and Noah Bookbinder, President of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Jon explores the roots of our democratic dysfunction. From ever-multiplying dark money to shark tanking ideas for tax transparency, this episode has it all. Plus, hear from producers of the pod and get a taste for what you can expect in episodes to come! Fact Check: Jane Mayer mentions that Jon said the FEC is about as useless as male nipples. It was, in fact, Jordan Klepper who said this.

Jon Stewart on Who Writes Legislation and Passing the PACT Act

Jon Stewart recalls an experience where a bipartisan group of congresspeople agreed on his proposal to support veterans suffering from toxic exposures but asked him to write the legislation! This leads Jon, Jane Mayer, and Noah Bookbinder to dive into the vulnerabilities in our democracy.

[lolottes]

Don't worry, we have the same thing here. If you want to be outraged or just learn examples from outside the United States, I advise you to look at the history of French motorways / autoroute, or more recently; the "privatization" of electricity, but especially the sale of electricity.

As the vast majority of our electricity is nuclear, that makes it even more absurd (we can NOT privatize nuclear power, so we make a law that forces us to sell a % of our production to private parties at a reduced price because ???? Otherwise it's unfair competition? Why would we need competition?). And last winter (or the one before I'm not sure) we had an increase in prices to "follow" European prices??? (largely due to the problem with Russia and its gas) while we produce more than we consume?!?

Results: Schools, hospitals or offices under heating, more sick people, elderly people isolated dead and found months later, increase in the price of certain things like bread to be basic. Increase in scams targeting the desperate and the debts and suicide that go with it.

When people admit that they purposely get arrested or even put in prison so they can sleep warm and not die (we're not just talking about homeless people here) you know it's really not going well

All this for:

holy commercial competition~

you have blood on your hands

All useful things turn to shit when you privatize them.