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  • Heresy_generator@kbin.socialtoUkraine@sopuli.xyzSlava Ukraine!
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    10 months ago

    It’s meant to be the dumbest, most easily disprovable shit. Like the people that make those “Nigerian Price” e-mail scams the Kremlin is only looking for the absolute dumbest, most credulous suckers. Once you find those people you can weaponize them against anything and they’ll never question it because they lack the wherewithal to do so.


  • As the university presidents were trying to explain to Clown Shoes, sorry, I mean Elise Stefanik: Harassment is conduct that is severe or pervasive enough to create an environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive. A one-time generalized statement calling for genocide not targeted at a specific individual would not usually rise to the level of harassment per se, but can certainly be part of a pattern of harassment. Similarly, actual bullying is a pattern of abusive behavior and cannot be defined by any single act as it is often used colloquially.

    That’s the game Stefanik is playing: She knows these universities’ policies are bound by the actual, legal definitions of “harassment” and “bullying” but she’s counting on her ignorant audience not knowing those definitions and instead thinking the words are defined as what they use them for in their own lives: someone being mean.





  • That is an impressive selective reading of the article. One could be left to wonder how, in good faith, you could have possibly missed all of this:

    Durbin went straight to their votes, saying senators already had two chances to debate their nominations.

    “I understand what you’d like to do, but I’m saying, in fairness, we’ve debated these nominees twice,” Durbin said. “I ask the clerk to call the roll.”

    Through all this, Durbin sat expressionless, waiting for breaks in the attacks to quietly direct the clerk to continue the roll call. He periodically reminded Republicans that they’d already had two chances to debate both nominees in two separate hearings.

    This is the third time they were brought up,” he added of the two nominees at the center of Thursday’s hearing. “That’s the reason the ruling was made by the chair.”

    A committee spokesperson noted that Kennedy spoke on Kasubhai in a Nov. 2 hearing and again in a Nov. 19 hearing, for a total of 12 minutes.

    Graham spoke on both nominees in the Nov. 2 hearing, for about two minutes, too. And Cotton spoke on Kasubhai in the Nov. 9 hearing for about six minutes.








  • U.S. District Judge Alia Moses in Del Rio, Texas, in a written order, criticized the Biden administration for its “utter failure” to prevent unlawful entry into the United States, but said Texas was unlikely to prevail on its claims that a federal policy of removing the fencing was illegal.

    God Republican judges have universally become such clowns. “Fine. I’ll enforce the law and Constitution if I have no other choice but I’m still going to include false far-right talking points in my order!”

    For anyone that cares about the truth, 2022 saw a record number of apprehensions at the border (you know, people being prevented unlawful entry) and 2023 has seen even more.