I was military before my first civilian job.

We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.

We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.

For some people, it still didn’t take.

All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.

They are indeed. But Palestinians are brown, so they don’t count.

We know that brown people don’t count because of how Israel has treated Ethiopian Jews.

The thing is, the exclusion zone isn’t uniformly radioactive. The hottest spots are not areas that wild life would normally spend a lot of time near.

Then there’s the fact that the way we’re all taught about radiation and cancer is just flat out wrong. The Linear No Threshold model that most people know was actually created by the Rockefeller Foundation in an attempt to slow the adoption of nuclear power.

Combine those two factors, and you get stories like this, where researchers are shocked that higher than average radiation exposure doesn’t equate to a simple linear increase in cancer rate.

Not that these wolves haven’t developed an increased resistance to radiation. But it’s not a new thing. Every living creature on this planet has mechanisms to repair DNA from radiation exposure. These wolves are simply better at it now than generations past.

We stood up to these assholes in the 30s

But did we really? I read my history, and if not for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the US would have either not joined WW2, or would have joined on the side of Germany.

The first CIA director (Before the CIA was formed) was doing spy shit in Europe before the US joined the war, and was very friendly with Hitler’s government. He reportedly cried actual tears when the US joined the was against Germany.

There were Nazi marches in the US in the 30s, but they weren’t popular for one reason only. The US population didn’t like that the Nazi ideology was German. The Homegrown Fascists were more popular. Especially the America First movement.

That’s the most common, but there are weird pasta types out there made with beans or cauliflower or such…

The majority of those are vegan by design, but I’ve seen a few that were just gluten-free, and still used egg as a binder.

Usually sold as egg noodles, yes.

Most Italian died pasta is going to be made with just flour and water, but again, there are exceptions.

There are vegan sauces that are quite nice, sure, they’re just not Worcestershire sauce.

Hell, I’ll go further and say that if it’s not made by Lea and Perrins, it’s not Worcestershire sauce.

Dry pasta is. Any other noodle will not be. Eggs are used in a lot of places.

All Worcestershire sauce. It’s fermented anchovy sauce with some spices.

Anything that doesn’t have the anchovy, isn’t Worcestershire sauce.

There are issues with Mixed Member Proportional, but the biggest for the US is that it would require a full constitutional amendment.

Also, most implementations of MMP use some sort of Ordinal voting system as a base. This is less than ideal.

STAR is not an Ordinal system. STAR is a Cardinal system. There are also proportional versions of Score (the voting system that STAR is based on)

Anyway, for the US, changing the voting method is far easier than changing to a proportional system.

Fun fact for proportional systems, if you have a 5 member district, you need more than 80% of the population to actively vote against an incumbent to get rid of them.

Third parties (in any form) under First Past the Post voting are actively harmful to the interests of the voters who support them.

The way to actually have viable third parties is to switch voting systems. The option that seems like the stand-out best for encouraging the growth of third parties is STAR

The legal way to enter the US is to immediately present themselves to Federal custody so that they can start the process of claiming asylum. That’s how this works.

The vast majority of migrants follow this simple procedure.

Step A; set foot on US soil via any means.

Step 2; locate the nearest border patrol agent and hope they aren’t feeling abusive and or murderous.

Step #; claim asylum.

That’s it. That’s the legal process.

Now, one a migrant has claimed asylum, that doesn’t mean that they get to stay. No, that starts the investigation and Asylum Hearings.

Conservatives absolutely hate brown people coming to the country, so have massively cut funding for investigations and hearings. This means that migrants seeking asylum end up sitting in federal custody (that they willingly turned themselves into) for months, or even years.

Meanwhile, the number one source of “illegal” immigration is, and always has been, visa overstays. Someone will get a visa to visit the US, and then just not go home when it ends.

Fun fact, the people who cross the border without then claiming asylum? They’re instantly deported.

It’s only the desperate who claim asylum, and often because their lives are so bad in their home country that taking the risk of dying on the way to the US border is the better choice. It’s often so bad in their home country because of US intervention over the years… We’ve done more evil in the name of making some rich asshole slightly richer than any other country, save England and the Dutch.

The CIA literally sent agents to South America to teach dictators how to more brutally torture newspaper publishers and elementary school teachers. And people were tortured.

The scars of that sort of shit, both figurative and literal, are part of those countries, even after the right wing dictators were ousted from power.

We owe these people, and yet racist jackasses keep cheering when we abuse them even more, claiming they deserve it for coming here illegally. They’ve followed procedure, and we’ve fucked them over yet again.

These jackasses have been caught lying before, and yet they’re still around peddling their obvious lies.

It’s getting much harder for him to do that. Mostly because the last time he tanked the stock price, it (justifiably) never recovered.

I even left out this bit.

Kaplan worked as a policy advisor on George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign, during which he was a participant in the Brooks Brothers riot on November 22, 2000.[11]

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

Not a single person involved in the riot went to jail over it, and most got jobs with Bush’s White House.

Joel Kaplan.

In May 2011 Facebook hired Kaplan as its vice president of U.S. public policy, as part of a Facebook’s effort to “strengthen” the company’s ties to Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.[16][17] In October 2014, Kaplan succeeded Marne Levine as Facebook’s vice president of global public policy.[18]

Within the company, Kaplan advocated against restrictions on racially incendiary speech.[19] He played an important role in crafting an exception for newsworthy political discourse when deciding on whether content violated the community guidelines.[19] During the 2016 election, Kaplan advocated against closing down Facebook groups which allegedly peddled fake news.[19] Kaplan argued that getting rid of the groups would have disproportionately targeted conservatives.[19][3] During and after the 2016 US presidential election, Kaplan argued against Facebook publicly disclosing the extent of Russian influence operations on the platform.[20]

In 2017, after Facebook had implemented changes to its algorithm to expose users to more content by family and friends and less by publishers who were determined by Facebook to engage in misinformation, Kaplan questioned whether the algorithm disproportionately hurt conservative publishers and successfully advocated for Facebook to change the algorithm again.[19]

He pushed against a proposed Facebook project that was intended to make Facebook users of different political views engage with each other in less hostile ways. Kaplan argued that this feature would lead conservatives to accuse Facebook of bias.[7][5] Kaplan also reportedly advocated on behalf of Breitbart News and the Daily Caller within Facebook.[5][6] Kaplan has helped to place conservatives in key positions in the leadership of Facebook.[3]

In 2018, he advocated strongly for the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.[21] Kaplan sat behind Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings.[21]

During Donald Trump’s presidency, Kaplan was on friendly terms with the administration.[20] At one point, the administration considered nominating him as head of the Office of Management and Budget.[20]

That something was that they were bought out by a right wing billionaire.

Weird Al doesn’t do mean spirited parody. Let me clarify, he doesn’t use his music to tear someone else down.

However, there are plenty of other artists who would be happy to make such a song.

Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.

Superman does have a look that can kill. His heat vision.