100%. Their corruption knows no bounds.

Once the lawsuits rack up they’ll pass immunity laws for ICE.

I bet it will happen within the year, faster if there’s a major incident involving ICE

I’m pretty sure they always have been. IIRC you’ll find op-Ed’s praising Hitler and Germany leading up to WW2.

They also deliberately slandered the guy that broke the (CIA admitting cocaine from Nicaragua into the US to fund right wing militias) story that often gets told as “the CIA introduced crack into black communities”. They effectively discredited the story, which turned out to be true.

The Behind the Bastards episode on it is p good

Yeah, the delusion is only growing. I saw a woman involved in a state Republican Party post that she “saw through Newsmax’s liberal bullshit” and that while her husband still likes them she “knew the truth”.

We’ve far surpassed dangerous levels of delusion.

💯💯💯💯💯

If they were solely a propaganda piece of Oligarchs, I would have imagined they wouldn’t have the US keep dropping on their index of freedom lists and not have all the European nations listed as high: https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2024

I think they believe their own bullshit.

They’re silly libertarians, but even they can see the authoritarianism that’s on the rise.

Khamenei is walking on eggshells and gambling that Trump disrupts trading partnerships enough to open up Iranian markets more. I hope it does not work out well for him.

Bitches can stay mad.

“As someone with no horse in this race, this seems fair to me”

Agreed, but the statement

And so the president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was. Whatever comes next, should the country weather this attempted hijacking, will need to be a fundamental rethinking of what this system is and what we want out of it.

Is very true and libs need to understand that. Decorum is broken.

Imagine calling it a “Defense” budget and going to invade the Middle East, on the near opposite side of the world, twice in 3 years.

My empathy has limits.

Your statement could be true, but the way you’re presenting it sounds like you’re just letting the oppressors win.

I will have to wait for more sources to report on this then for I will be honest with you and say I do not have the time to aggregate the data myself due to other data related work, nor would I know off-the-bat where to look.

I’ll be watching this story closely

Where are they getting the numbers of these bullet votes from? I’m not seeing the source in the article or the dude’s substack

Trump tapped into their anxieties of a frightening world that’s worsening

No reflection on how Trump exponentially makes that worse?

So they’re stupider than we thought. Nice.

Edit: at least the ones that vote

In fact, 6 of the 10 worst places on Earth for gun-related deaths are either U.S. territories or states: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have gun death rates even higherthan in countries the media and people online like to label as violent cesspools. Namely, those three states have more gun-related deaths than Haiti and Mexico. Mississippi has a gun death rate of 28.5 deaths per year per 100,000 people. According to the Commonwealth Fund, that’s almost double the firearm death rate in Haiti, where gang wars push people to starvation.

Yes

IIRC a CCR5 deletion leads to HIV resistance, but the homozygous allele also leads to immune transcription disruptions. I believe there was a Chinese geneticist that deleted CCR5 from twin embryos and got “disappeared” for it, but it remains to be seen what the consequences of that change are (I don’t remember if those embryos were implanted).

I’m of the opinion that we should approach this topic with caution until we know exactly what’s going on and the consequences of said alleles. Hypothetically speaking, imagine being born and chosen by this IQ method only to realize some horrible consequence later like asthma susceptibility in a world with decreasing air quality.

I’d be extremely pissed lmao. I could still find happiness even if I was less intelligent.

There’s another discussion about genetic homogenization that I don’t care to go into atm too.

PRS are useful but not definitive when it comes to phenotype development, as you’ve hinted at, but I take issue with using them for eugenics purposes with the main reason being we do not know the underlying causal mechanism. It is too early to use them with confidence for something like this IMO.

I work with PRS and I am not confident in using them for IVF purposes (that may change when we understand what’s actually going on the proteomics level). I would equate it to something along the line of sports betting with the consequences being eugenics in nature.