There were ~65000 arson offenses in 2024 with 6% as “other” which I’m interpreting as businesses, warehouses, etc. similar to this one. Which gives a high estimate of ~4000 events similar to his per year.
We are all hearing his story because he ‘flapped his gums’ and we aren’t hearing about the other 3999.
The warehouse was burned down because they weren’t paid enough on the first place.
Either someone with some foresight gets ahead of the problem and starts paying people enough to live, cancelling debts, etc., or there’s now ~1-200 more people with little left to lose and the fires will spread.
I know solidarity is unheard of in the US, but this is something that often builds it out of necessity if nothing else.
The job of the Biden administration was to normalize/cool off the fresh hell that was Trump 2016.
We are currently in the fresh hell that is Trump 2026. 2028 will most likely bring a democrat administration which will simply normalize the current shitshow and slow down enough to allow some social annealing.
we have not been this bad off since Nixon
Are you insane!? By what metric!?
Are you unaware of the pure evil that was Reagan? Clinton’s “third way” which paved the way for modern corporatism? Bush and the patriot act and Iraq wars? Obama selling the country out to corporate interests? Trump 2016?
asking anyone to care about Biden in the face of Trump 2026 is lol
Which is why we’re all doomed to repeat the same fucking cycle over and over again.
hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges
We can though. They’ve all had the full unredacted files since 2019 and have had plenty of partial evidence since 2008.
I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment
You should because until you do everything will continue to get worse.
single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further,
The tail doesn’t wag the dog, Trump is a symptom not the root cause. The issue with your metaphor is that the cancer and bleeding out are unrelated.
he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone
That and so much more! It’s never going to happen though without severe political upheaval because almost anyone who would order that execution has hands which are similarly bloody.
Agreed! However, Biden also could’ve released the files.
Any current senator, or from the past 5 years, could release the full unredacted files but are actively choosing not to.
We’re just gonna pretend the Clintons weren’t part of the pedo files?
Summaries are generally misleading.
Full text for H.R.5917: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5917/text where it outlines the modifications to public law 115-348 which according to Sec. 3.d authorizes usage of the IEEPA to enforce sanctions.
Israel then directly receives defense spending to enforce those sanctions as well as indirectly being funded via any seized assets that are found in violation of those sanctions as “reperations”. Here’s an example of a $500Mil funding source.
H.R.5961 uses essentially the same mechanism but targets Iran specifically redirecting a large chunk of the $6B mentioned towards Israel.
You are correct that H.R.6679 isn’t about funding, but I still felt it was important to include.
“I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,”
She has though: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024128, https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023681, https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202428
It’s a much better track record than pretty much anyone else but this article and post is a pretty blatant attempt at reputation laundering.
Do y’all really fall for this so easily?
I’m going to go make someone’s day better.
You don’t do that by victim blaming and then dogpiling on the person who calls it out.
You’re right, I am extremely cynical. Why do you view that as a negative? It’s not about giving up, it’s about knowing when to walk away.
If you’re looking at, or suggesting others look towards, destruction and genocide for “purpose and direction” you are truly lost.
What do you mean when you use the word praxis? I’m using it in the “actions one takes in order to manifest some change within society”. I do agree with you that voting and riding the bus generally aren’t a form of praxis. However, historically the freedom riders were able to make “riding the bus” a form of praxis and it’s not ancient history where voting was praxis for those wealthy enough.
the most basic form of civil participation
No. The most basic form of civil participation is waving to your neighbors, the next step is small talk and then lending some salt/sugar/tarps/etc. as needed, so on.
Voting is the most basic form of legitimization.
There is a meaningful difference in organizing conditions
Oh I agree, it’s impossible to organize when people insist on the need “to pressure those in power” when the whole point of organizing is to redistribute said power.
Biden and Mamdani serve the same fascist state as Trump and Harrell. Without going to suicidal extremes the amount of pressure all of us can exude will never outweigh that of the capital class. Their power must be recaptured before there is any talk of pressuring anyone into anything.
I’d rather have leaders who are afraid of getting voted out
Those people you’ve listed are primarily figureheads and they will be the first to tell you their actual power is very limited. Why do you insist on following them?
Please go outside.
Again with this thought terminating cliche? What happened to “You have no idea what people are up to.”?
Can’t exactly blame someone for dying in a war when all of the information they have is that it’s (relatively) safe to be a US soldier and they can’t read a demented person’s mind.
No, but you can blame them having a complete lack of moral character and for being completely, and willfully, ignorant of what their job entails.
We managed to elect a socialist mayor in Seattle.
And what has that materially changed?
I know you’ll argue that it’s too early to expect anything, but mark my words that nothing will materially change. SPD’s budget will continue to increase with the deficit taken from public services, homelessness and sweeps will continue to escalate and expect nothing more than apologetics when ICE/BPD starts to escalate in the area.
Your hope and optimism is being weaponised against you.
You have no idea what people are up to.
Quite the change in position from “go touch grass”.
Am I wrong in stating that you view voting as a form of praxis?
If you practiced what you preach you wouldn’t be this patronizing, condescending and dismissive.
Enjoy those public services while you can, so long as voting is your praxis, and you remain proudly ignorant of what that entails, they will continue to be defunded and privatized.
Lol, if you actually read the article it legitimately was the counter-protestors attempting to bomb the white nationalists protesting against “Islam” outside Mamdani’s residence.
The spin here that Mamdani was the target, or in active danger from the “explosives”, is incredible!
The actual target was Jake Lang and the police protecting him and was an attack against NYPD who is actively enabling and supporting said intimidating campaign against Mamdani and does pose an actual risk to his, and his families, health and safety.
I’m positioning myself against “aristocratic selection mechanisms” which y’all insist on calling “voting”.
So yeah, fuck “voting”.
Quit blaming the victims, this is what the result of voting looks like.
Because the full phrase is “those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it”
51% republican, 49% democrat, >1% independent depending on how specifically you count.