Is it about perception or making people forget? I don’t think it makes sense to have it both ways, the perception created by a death trial keeps this in people’s minds and runs contrary to making people forget.

If they wanted to memory-hole him they should have just shot for a long sentence, like 40 years or something. Life ruining but ultimately uninteresting for the average voter. By sending a message they force people to remember; “Oh yeah, a CEO got murdered on the street. Wasn’t that cool?”

Okay, but they could accomplish that by not attempting to seek the death penalty. If they simply tried to imprison him for 40 years the exact same effect would be achieved, but without grabbing headlines.

We’re going to see an exodus of foreign born students and it’s going to hit college towns hard.

You aren’t wrong, but can you really say they wouldn’t do this to socialists if they didn’t do it to Le Pen first? The concept of “precedent” seems very nebulous and liberal to me. In many countries the first targets are socialists.

Seems to me like they can go after anyone they want and they always could. Going after Le Pen doesn’t change this.

“”“typos”“”

Saying “You don’t seem like you have good intentions” is, itself, extremely subjective in a very combative way.

Okay, but Fox does exist and it’s not going to be outlawed any time soon. Not having a response to Fox is liberal idealism.

It’s one of the reasons we’re in this situation.

Do you prefer Democrats being unable to fight back because any attempt to do so would be smeared by the media? It’s not like corporate media is unbiased, they just aren’t biased towards Democrats.

One of the Democrats’ greater failures is the lack of a Party media infrastructure that they could use to control the narrative. Republicans have Fox and the right-wing media ecosystem, but Democrats never bothered to capture their own media to push their own message and agenda.

There are definitely friendly media groups, but they’re not loyal. They just happen to agree with Democrats more than Republicans. If the government shut down they’d turn on Democrats.

Only one party has media control and so only one party controls the message. I have no doubt that Democrats would have failed to defend themselves if they voted against Republicans - but that speaks to their failure to make their own media more than the vote itself.

It’s like they want jury nullification.

Elon Musk is the one running things.

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If it’s lose/lose, why didn’t they choose to lose with dignity instead of lose like cowards?

Different administration controlled by a different party and before they reformulated the Hannibal Directive in 2016.

That said, Hamas probably did make a strategic mistake by thinking Israel would give a shit about its people, but in so doing they also achieved another strategic objective - the heightening of contradictions within Israeli society by showing Israeli citizens how little their government cares about them and how willing it is to kill them for a strategic advantage. They also managed to show the world that Israel is a rogue state and it has become more isolated than ever before as a direct result.

We’ll see how this works out in the long run, but don’t discount Oct 7th as a failure just yet.

Labor organizing. We run this country and we can shut it down.

That’s all right, but don’t discount the possibility of extinction. There are forces beyond their control that they are unleashing (disease, climate, nuclear war) and they really could kill most of humans on Earth. I suppose a few unfortunate souls will be able to survive in the thawed Antarctica archipelago, but they could accidentally kill literally everyone else.

Yeah, this framing is all wrong. It portrays Trump’s regime as incompetent, but the reality is that they’re just lying. “Oops, soo sorry, it’s out of our hands!”

For me, plant based seafood is basically just a vehicle to consume lemon juice and blackened seasoning. 😩 🙌

Israel doesn’t give a fuck about any of its people, whether they’re civilians or soldiers. There’d be no difference if the kidnapped were all soldiers.

Also the thing about international law is it has to apply to everyone or it doesn’t exist. Israel, by not following internatonal law, has forfeited its protections. Hamas simply followed the same rules of war that Israel does. Israel brought this on themselves.

Well it could also be global extinction, don’t discount capitalism’s ability to kill us all.

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