Change takes time and they’ve been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.

What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was “too liberal” and “just saying woke things because that’s what young people like nowadays” and those are both endorsements to my ears.

Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God’s PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.

Definitely the ‘least bad’ pope of my lifetime. Let’s hope the next one continues the progressive stance he adopted on many aspects of life.

The USA is alone in the entire world in that it has a mass shooting almost every day of every year, and yet when faced with modest controla you’re like, “if I, a citizen with no gun dealer licensr can’t just sell whatever guns whenever I like to neighbours and friends then any changes are unacceptable”.

You say pro gun-control candidates will cost the Democrats votes, well I think I just found a single issue voter.

This doomer shit is worse than useless - it encourages apathy and inaction.

Gun control means: mandatory background checks, waiting periods, bans on previously convicted violent criminals owning guns, potentially magazine limits or limits on fully automatic licenses to specific users (like you may need to demonstrate you have proficiency and be a member of a gun club). None of this goes against “the right to bear arms”.

It does not mean nobody can buy guns or that guns are taken away - this is the fearmongering always pushed by the very conservative, very pro-Trump NRA.

April 23rd will be the first day that his administrations charges for obstruction of justice are delayed / postponed because [made up reason so the judge doesn’t have to do their job].

Just like happened last time.

And the time before.

And the time before.

First, they came for the “terrorists”, and I said nothing, because I am not a terrorist.

Then, they came for the “illegal immigrants”…

While this is definitely an escalation, and a dangerous one that should be called out and fought. I want to point out that American citizens have had NO due process and NO rights on Guantanamo Bay ever since Bush Jr started disappearing people and flying them over there under the guise of terrorism accusations.

These are US citizens who were abducted, taken out of country, and not even allowed a lawyer or told what their charges are, beaten and tortured - that the courts decided that was all more or less acceptable for, and further that it was also acceptable to be detained indefinitely.

Trump is a symptom, he is not the disease.

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/court-rules-guantanamo-detainees-are-not-entitled-due-process

I agree. I mean he’s lied about delivering so many things over the years, why don’t they just point out that it’s another failure.

Instead they twist it into something he didn’t say - and lose credibility. Stupid.

The narcissist in cheif will just blame the Chinese, and they’ll agree because it’s less painful than facing that they did it to themselves.

It takes a lot of daily reinforcement to deprogram/unbrainwash people, so I don’t think it’ll happen fast unfortunately.

Nah, he’s run out of feet to shoot - next shot is aimed for the groin.

I do wish we could fast forward to the part where he Hitlers himself in a bunker.

Most importantly - the time and people = money.

My last job had a dev, UAT, and prod environments because they knew it was important enough to the business to pay for them.

I dont pay me anything for running my home environment - so, there is only production. And lots of backups.

Yeah, even in my excessively long reply to a one sentence comment I was skipping over a lot of information for brevity, and I’m not a historian. My point was only to illuminate that the US stance pre-WW2 involvement was not dissimilar to today’s - broadly the govt doesnt care that people suffer even to the point of genocide now nor then, as long as national interests (basically business and economy) are unimpeded.

Thanks for the added info.

I lay the blame at the IDF and their far-right Likud government who has openly said they will protect any IDF soldiers accused of war crimes.

I don’t wish to tar a whole country with the same brush.

USA was profiting quite nicely off Nazi Germany in World War 2 right up until the USA entered the war in 1941. Some historians argue there is nothing wrong with that. I think many would disagree.

The US government at the time was lobbied heavily by business and private citizens (including the Nazi Party of America) to stay neutral in the war, so they largely did just that right up until Pearl Harbour made it so they could not turn away. There were exceptions, eg: oil and metals used for creating ammunition were agreed not to be sold as part of the Allied Agreement with the UK (and others) and boats coming in and out were blockaded. But even that didn’t stop big fans of fascism, such as the Texaco CEO at the time whom supplied oil to the Nazis up until late 1940.

So, honestly I don’t think a lot has changed.

I guess the US government wasn’t directly funding WW2, but they also didn’t care one bit until it affected them directly - it was making their donors money. Paralleled today the US govt at large doesn’t care, and primarily funds Israel for two reasons: protecting their oil interests in the middle east (business donors and strategic benefits), and every dollar provided in the budget is actually a voucher to go buy some weapons or military equipment from a US firm - so again, its to cynically drive military-industrial investment (strategic) and protect their business donors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torkild_Rieber

People from Denmark also all learn English during school and have done since at least the 60s, which is why you found that only 15% of them can’t speak English. Over 50% of Danes correspond in English for their work and are confident they can read English news according to 2013 survey. The proportion of US Americans that can’t read AP News stories is honestly probably higher, with the US now at 21% illiteracy.

AP News may be primarily US-focused news source, but they are a global news organization. They sell their stories via syndication to hundreds of other news organizations and newspapers worldwide, in multiple languages, and have done for a very long time. To decide that all their articles are automatically for US audiences is just wrong.

Gaslighting is repeatedly presenting information that’s untrue to convince someone of an alternate reality. Literally not possible to do in a single message, and nothing I wrote is not factual.

I only tried to let you see how Americentrist your response to OOP was, and your subsequent response is to weaponise victimhood to dismiss any introspection. I will not waste further time.

This is a news article published in the ‘world news’ community of a worldwide Internet forum, from one of the oldest and most respected not-for-profit news agencies in the world, whom themselves published the article in their ‘world news’ section. It discusses Danish people’s overwhelmingly negative responses to the American president’s tariffs.

And you somehow make this into “ugh why to the liberal elite always only care about what the rest of the world thinks”.

Maybe, just maybe, this article wasn’t written nor shared solely for the demographic of USA voters?

Nope sorry, corporations can only be ‘people’ legally if it endows all of the benefits but none of the risks.

I’m told this is a cornerstone of capitalism.

Far right wing government, a president (PM in their case) that has multiple credible cases of corruption against him and is holding onto power desperately to try to avoid prosecution.

Sound familiar?

They owned it ever since Elon bought it, why do you think Elon was hanging out at the soccer world cup with Kushner and a bunch of high profile Saudi royals shortly before the purchase. They’re backers.

He just announced four days ago that they’re going to launch Tesla dealerships and have a big launch party April 10th in Saudi for the first time ever. Not because SA need or want them (they buy very few EVs as their domestic petrol prices are very cheap), but because they’re stepping up to help his company during its current global dire sales downturn.

They’ve been close allies with Elon for a long time.

I see the usual classy comments on such news stories from the Israeli public, calling the Gazans “Gazanimals” etc, and each comment 90%+ upvoted on the site.

The history books will have a wealth of material to work with.