Paris and Marie-Louise, who both study mental health nursing at the University of Salford, said they felt that being respectful of others’ opinions is key.

Paris said she thought it was important to be able to “express your emotions and feelings without being disrespectful”, and allow others to do so too.

The problem is that, not coincidentally in our current age, the speech we’re expected to respect - all of the examples they gave - are conservative views on race, gender and the like, all of which are pretty much explicitly advocacy for disrespect for some subset of humanity. So the call for mutual respect has already been violated simply by the expression of those views. The exact point of them is that this or that group of people should NOT be accorded respect.

So the whole thing is self-defeating.

Quite simply - if their calls to deny respect and/or rights to some group of people must be treated as legitimate, then our calls to deny respect and/or rights to them must also be treated as legitimate. And if our calls to deny them respect and/or rights are to be disallowed, then their calls to deny others respect and/or rights must also be disallowed.

Then next up is to finish criminalizing homelessness so that those people (and many more) can be converted into slaves to the new generation of robber barons.

Of course, what she actually means is that people have been brainwashed in a somewhat different way than she would’ve preferred, but at least she’s right about the brainwashing part. Since she’s incapable of self-reflection, that’s not going to mean anything to her or change anything for her, but still… for someone as willfully and angrily ignorant as she is, that’s almost sort of impressive.

Living the incel dream.

This illustrates one of the many oddities about Trump.

With any other president, we had policy debates and stated goals and decisions made and implemented.

With Trump, we just have this string of essentially arbitrary threats, promises and rhetoric, and alongside that is a string of essentially arbitrary policies arbitrarily enacted and rescinded and followed and ignored, and there’s no necessary correlations between any of it.

It’s another of the things that I think Trump does simply because he’s a delusional toxic narcissist, a genuinely stupid person, and emotionally a toddler, and another of the things that the would-be autocrats - the billionaires and the CEOs and the religious right and the Republicans and the rest of the greedy and power-hungry scum - take advantage of him doing.

And meanwhile,Trump and the Republicans and the billionaires still aren’t obscenely and destructively rich enough to satisfy their pathological greed, and are explicitly and methodically instituting a system to fuck everyone else over even harder.

Billionaire Buffet (feat. Kasane Teto)

Exactly as intended.

There is literally no scenario in which it could possibly be “necessary” to invade Greenland.

How long are people going to continue to pretend that the US is not being governed by malicious lunatics?

his chances of raising money and looking like a leader

Note that raising money is the first thing mentioned.

And note that winning elections isn’t mentioned at all.

Which neatly sums up what’s wrong with the DNC.

With any luck, it will kill google.

I don’t see how they can even pretend that it will do anything other than steal website traffic, since the exact point is to provide you with the information you would have gotten if you had gone to the website, leaving no reason to actually go to the website.

So painfully obviously, Google intends to steal the websites’ content in order to steal the websites’ traffic.

Which would seem to me to be grounds for class action lawsuits on behalf of the entire internet, which, if judged fairly, should bankrupt even that foul beast of a corporation.

And ironically enough, that would almost certainly “rejuvenate the internet.” As a matter of fact, I can’t think of a single thing that would do more to “rejuvenate the internet” than killing Google.

In the interest of clarity, I don’t think that Johnson quite qualifies as a hypocrite, since a hypocrite has to have something at least resembling principles, and Johnson appears to have nothing of the sort.

He appears to be an essentially complete, full-time toady, ready and willing and even eager to mouth whatever he thinks will please whoever he’s desperate to please at the moment. I don’t think he’s ever had a thought or opinion of his own in his entire life.

Not that that’s any better or anything - just an observation.

Because tyrants have a shared interest in not normalizing the killing of tyrants.

There are a number of conservatives who straddle a line such that I can’t be sure if they’re genuinely stupid or if they’re just cultivating that image.

Tuberville isn’t one of them though.

And just in time to utterly and completely fail the American people in their time of need, the DNC looked up from gorging itself at the corporate soft money trough long enough to make it official that they’re sticking with the losing strategy of stifling progressives in favor of comfortably right-wing, corporate friendly neoliberal hacks.

Popping back in briefly after running through a half dozen or so of her songs just to wonder, how the hell is Meg Smith not a superstar?

This is the most raw talent I’ve seen in one person in… I don’t even know how long. And it’s not even a genre I particularly like. She’s just that good.

Israel is a rogue state.

Yes, it is.

And it’s made just that much more surreal by the fact that the person with primary responsibility for the historical state of affairs is so obviously an emotionally stunted pathological liar and toxic narcissist, so none of it is really based in any sort of concensual reality. Instead, the destruction of everything of any value in the US is being driven by the delusions and lies of someone who is deeply and profoundly mentally ill.

Israel is a rogue state.

But the Trump administration is refusing to reassure them they won’t be subject to retaliation.

That would be because they will be subject to retaliation.

Trump is nothing if not petty and vindictive, and as with all the rest of his many and profound flaws and failures, he’s molding the rest of the government into his gross and detestable image.

And as with the rest of his brazen assaults on legal and ethical standards, nobody with any authority will do a single fucking thing about it.

Funny but no matter where I look, I can’t find a figure for how many people come of age/graduate/finish apprenticeship/get licensed or in some other way enter the workforce in a given month, or for how many people retire/quit/die or in some other way leave the workforce.

Without knowing what those numbers are, this number is meaningless - there’s no way of telling if it outstrips, keeps pace with or even lags behind the likely ongoing growth in the labor pool.