You can have a fair and equitable court system, or you can have a fast one; rarely if ever both. True justice tends to be slow and steady and helps to account for public witch-hunts and reduce risk of someone innocent being wrongfully convicted. People always say, “Yeah well this one is obvious!” but that’s not how justice works. It must be absolute. It must be there for the lowest of hanging fruit if it is to be there for the more nuanced cases just the same.

On the other hand, sadly, a slow and unfair one are not mutually-exclusive.

No good comes from this. This is the equivalent threatening or intending for violence.

And yet, I’m told by another user, a free speech absolutist, that this is absolutely normal and should be protected.

It’s like The Office meme; “They’re the same picture.”

Also, more importantly, what do Meta, Google, and Apple have to do with picking tariff wars with Canada and fighting over Greenland with Denmark? Like I’m all for shitting on corporations and their pathological pursuit of profit, but I’m not yet seeing the connection.

Did you read Putin’s own essay on his imperial fantasies? The Foundations of geopolitics; Surkov theater? Let’s not pull the Glenn Greenwald blind-eye RussiaGate nonsense and pretend that russia is innocent in all this. There is an absurd amount of evidence that this is the exact goal of Putin for many, many years — particularly the fragmentation of NATO, and why he was hinging on Trump’s reelection ideally to invade Ukraine in the first place. The one piece of puzzle that luckily failed and likely led to Ukraine being able to mount an effective defense against his main invasion.

Moreover it has also been very obvious that the Republican administration, and that includes think-tanks like Heritage, have been infiltrated. There’s a reason Trump is Agent Krasnov. There’s a reason former Trump officials were literally imprisoned before they were pardoned for essentially spying on behalf of russia. There is a reason Putin spent a lot of time and resources seeking Trump’s winning every election. There is a reason Trump is picking fights with Denmark over Greenland and right out of the gate picked a fight with our closest ally both literally and figuratively, Canada. There is no better explanation than to divide and fracture the west and to give Putin his return on his investment.

You can even look to Hungary (and again the obsession with right-wing domestic media interest) as a proving-ground for Putin.

Never said it was. I said it would be wise for them to do so and ultimately in their own interest to do so, though.

They would be wise to caveat the security risk being only when Republicans are in power as it currently stands.

This is much of Putin’s plan to fracture long held western alliances. He sees these headlines and sees his return on investment.

From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I’ll take it.

Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?

Whew, I was worried! But that’s an easy list to boycott. Never listened to any of them because they all sucked as comedians anyway.

C-list, tops.

The template of destabilizing democracy made in Russia was applied to Hungary and now is in the process in the US.

Poland said it on the world stage at the UN assembly in fact lmao

Key now is getting back to tying Trump to Epstein and Maxwell and call for the unaltered release of the Epstein files which was HIS OWN BROKEN PROMISE.

Keep pushing this message as it is one of the only messages that has induced a modicum of doubt in his core base, let alone swing-voters.

His approval-ratings have now fallen to Jimmy Carter levels, and we can get lower.

I appreciate Kimmel but I’m partial to Stewart taking that Zelenskyy title in terms of his actual capacity to lead and depth of knowledge. He pretty much singlehandedly bullied Republicans of Congress to pass legislation for first responders and veterans.

Anyone remember the Rally to Restore Sanity with Colbert / Stewart?

lol none of this changes what I already wrote whatsoever. I can rest my case here if nothing substantive to add. Blood on your hands as you dream of this magical fairy-tale land of a 3rd viable option.

Like Nougat, I have enough respect and logic to be able to distinguish the Greater from the Lesser Poison for Palestinians in what was a binary choice.

More frankly: Anyone who espoused couch-sitting and MUh boTH sIdEz false equivalence fallacies are complicit in Israel’s genocide because any rational person could see Israel would be more constrained by Democrats, while Bibi and AIPAC obviously preferred Trump and Republicans winning.

Also, this isn’t to mention they’re complicit in worsening Russia’s attempted genocide in Ukraine.

Edit: Very stable folks replying, lol.

This is neither sustainable for Russia nor does anything but further galvanize Ukrainians against the Russian terrorist invader.

They clearly learned nothing from London stoicism.

I assume embarrassment on the world stage helped move this along given the Olympics?

Fair points! In my mind I guess I was thinking cyber truck vs. Rivian truck.

Rivian seems better in literally every way, isn’t it?

Never once did I say that solely being against war with Iran meant someone was Putin’s puppet. Never. Either work on your reading comprehension or get your eyes checked.

What I did say is that those specific Republican members who are known Kremlin parrots conveniently oppose the war for ulterior motives. This much is clear.

To the contrary, I am conflating the fact that the alleged “anti-war” person (your words) suddenly wasn’t “anti-war” when Russia invaded Ukraine as being a Putin puppet; that, and the fact that US intelligence reports found that Russia was promoting Tulsi as the Democratic primaries candidate in 2020, among other things.

Bystanders take note how this individual is trying really hard to separate Tulsi Gabbard from the Kremlin. Like, really hard. Deflections and all.