If elections aren’t banned or rigged it means that Democrats would actually have to do something. It’s easier for liberals to imagine the end of democracy than it is for them to imagine Democrats actually doing something positive.

The DRC-Rwanda deal will also help the US government and American companies gain access to critical minerals like tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper and lithium needed for much of the world’s technology at a time when the US and China are actively competing for influence in Africa.

Ahead of the signing on Friday, US President Donald Trump said, “We’re getting, for the United States, a lot of the mineral rights from the Congo as part of it. They’re so honoured to be here. They never thought they’d be coming.”

Now US tech companies can buy the rare earth minerals they were already buying illegally from Rwanda without the extra legal risk.

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Is antisemtism a real thing?

My bad I didn’t mean to respond to you.

So your argument is that antisemtism shouldn’t be combatted?

His 17-page public safety plan, which was released on Tuesday, does not call for hiring more officers, as several of his rivals have done. Mr. Mamdani, a state assemblyman from Queens, would instead create a city agency called the Department of Community Safety that would focus on expanding violence interrupter programs and mental health teams that respond to 911 calls.

“The police have a critical role to play,” he said in an interview. “Right now, we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net. This department will pioneer evidence-proven approaches that have been successful elsewhere in the country.”

Mr. Mamdani said he also would eliminate the Police Department’s huge overtime budget and a unit known as the Strategic Response Group that responds to protests.

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His proposed Department of Community Safety would have a budget of roughly $1 billion, comprising $600 million for existing programs and $450 million in new funding. It would be run by a commissioner-level position, and Mr. Mamdani would eliminate the deputy mayor for public safety, a role that Mayor Eric Adams revived in 2022.

He would expand programs like the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-Heard, which sends teams of mental health professionals, rather than the police, to the scenes of certain emergencies. He also wants to deploy “mental health navigators” in neighborhoods and outreach teams at 100 subway stations to connect people with services.

https://archive.is/IfGMV

He said he would fight antisemtism by funding a general hate violence prevention program (not one specifically targeted at antisemtism). What exactly was he supposed to say, in your opinion? Antisemtism isn’t real, or that it shouldn’t be combatted?

Would love an explanation as to why you believe he should say he won’t fight antisemtism.

You could map out an entire facility with the sensors on a cell phone between the pedometer, gyroscope, and magnometer. I would hope that Iran would take the cellphones away from the inspectors in the facility, but 1) Mossad seems crazy enough to do something to get around that and 2) I don’t have the greatest faith in Iranian internal security at the moment. This is also assuming they haven’t compromised someone in the facility or with access it’s plans.

These NATO countries are heavily reliant on US weapons manufacturers, so it’s basically just a protection racket.

This is Holocaust denial.

Enjoy the front lines, asshole.

Oh god, JibJab is gonna come back, isn’t it?

Quakers are congregational, so there is no pope. Each church basically has its own “church meeting” where everything is discussed and people get to voice their opinions (there is no voting though). So he would basically have to travel around the country showing his dick at Quaker meetings.

I shouldn’t be opening this can of worms given how busy I am at work, but: if Israel does whatever it wants, and the US never tells it no and never punishes it, is it really a vassal state? I’m not taking a firm side one way or the other (this is more asking the question), but I don’t know anymore if “vassal” is an accurate way to describe Israel’s relationship with the US.

I’m going to be the skeptic in this thread and say that I think there’s more of a possibility that the tail is wagging the dog than people here think. I do of course feel its necessary to point out that I am not a ZOG person, I just also don’t think the relationship operates in one direction. There are lots of Israeli/US zionist officials who have talked about how they have people/procedures in place to make sure anti-zionist voices are sidelined (look at that Pentagon official who got fired recently). Not ruling out kayfabe either, though.

The First Cut is the Deep State

So crazy to me that Iran never had this guy join the space program.

Famous stretch sandals salesman Nick Mullen.