That is very unfair - to Neanderthals :)

Neanderthals were no more violent than Homo Sapiens - in fact, we more likely hunted them than vice versa.

Guiffre refused to say she had made a mistake, because she knew Dershowitz was as guilty as sin.

Pretty clear cut when you believe the victims

Dershowitz sexually abused Victoria Guiffre 6 times when she was a minor.

There is an email to Guiffre's lawyer in Epstein Files to persuade her to say she may have made an identification mistake in exchange for Dershowitz dropping a defamation lawsuit.

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

Opinion: Remembering Charles Feeney, a life richly lived NPR's Scott Simon remembers Charles Feeney, the philanthropist who quietly gave away $8 billion before his death this week.

Maybe Chuck Feeney?

www.npr.org/2023/10/14/1...

You're not wrong, but you're not right either.

It's complicated.

The Democratic Party resists the transition to fascism but in moments of crisis unwittingly enables it. The Dems resist the transition to socialism but, in moments of crisis, resist socialism even more strongly.

He has no immunity for rape, crypto corruption, etc.

Trump's immunity comes from being a billionaire in a pay-for-justice US system, not from the extensive, but still limited, immunity granted by SCOTUS.

Yes, but the US never ratified the Rome Statute, so the ICC has no jurisdiction over a US citizen unless it is referred by the UN Security Council or occurs within a member state.

Also Trump's immunity in US is limited to actions that occur on the outer penumbra of the President's responsibilities.

:)

Because spacetime is expanding faster than light, the Fermi Paradox now applies only to our galaxy as other galaxies are moving away too fast for aliens to contact here

That reduces solutions to Drake Equation by factor of 2 trillion so Fermi Paradox is 2 trillion times less concerning to me :)

I doubt it - there's too much truth in that statement :)

The US is being run like a criminal cartel

We're clearly trying to get protection money out of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and NATO

Give us your oil reserves or else

I'm sure it's a coincidence that Venezuela is #1 in oil reserves and Iran is #3

Saudi Arabia is #2 and already paying the crypto bribes

damage and evil things like supporting guns over kids along the way.

But there are still the ongoing battles between the selfish and caring, the rich and the poor, conservatives and liberals etc. that have characterized USA since start.

The US is deeply divided, slightly more good than bad, but with the bad propagandizing their way to periodically do lots of

Just another symptom?

The US was built on genocide of Native Americans and chattel slavery with rhetoric that pretended otherwise

The moral arc had mainly bent slowly towards justice since then and is seeing a ruthless attempt to roll back 70 years of progress under Trump's authoritarianism.

be prosecuted but that's as much to do with being a billionaire in a pay for justice system than President.

It is somewhat of a Trump and bSKY myth that Trump has full immunity for anything.

He has presumptive immunity for official acts on the outer perimeter of his official responsibilities.

This doesn't cover him for raping children or many of the billions in bribes he's received in crypto.

He won't

ridiculous, dark things and why people on bSKY thinking rationally are bemused how anyone can be like that and assume it must mean they are evil (some are) rather than manipulated by propaganda (most)

It relies on how humans are wired to overvalue first impressions from our fast, intuitive, lizard brain, type 1 thinking amygdala and how much effort needs to be expended by our slow rational type 2 thinking cortex to override it.

Trump knows this as a salesman. It's how MAGA can believe so many

The moral arc was bending slowly towards justice in how minorities were treated in US - I'd argue from experience it was mostly more progressive than Europe, where treatment of poor is better, but diversity is much less than in US.

Even though this post is nearly all true, I'm going to dispute the "always." The Democratic half of US is similar to Western Europe - flawed social democracy. The other half of the US is as bad or worse than this post

I spent first half of my life in Europe, 2nd half in US.

Magneto

But just as the Nazis came for Black people soon after, so will the Trump regime.

And by then, there will be less people left to fight for non-immigrant BIPOC.

Angela Davis isn't sitting this one out.

As a BIPOC, I understand your opinion. I respectfully disagree.

When the moral universe is bending towards injustice and neo-fascism, now is the worst possible time to sit on sidelines and air our legitimate grievances.

The Trump regime is targeting immigrants first and Nazis targeted Jews first

You're right but South Korea is 1/98th the size of US.

Coordinating same action in US is at least 100 times as hard by land area.

By population it's 43 times as hard (6.6 squared)

Slavery reparations: What does the UN vote mean? African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why is No Kings not called No Dictators or No Pedophile Rapist Racist Sexist Traitor Felons or No KKK Nazi Fascists or No Trump?

Just wondering.

He's too insane and narcissistic to be scared.

His "fear" is that he won't get to be supreme leader of the all-powerful White US, but he will try all out for the Christisn Nationalist techno takeover.

The American justice system based on buying the best defense gives billionaires nothing to fear

He isn't worried about being impeached because he will never be convicted.

No way 2/3rd of Senate will vote to remove him.

He is worried that if the Dems control the House, they can introduce stalemate and stop the neo-fascist trend so he is most dangerous now in order to stop a fair election.

It's getting worse, but it was never a democracy

In 1789, only White male landowners could vote

It wasn't until 1971 when people over 18 of all colors, genders could vote.

Even then, senate and electoral college are designed to give power to conservative rural areas over city populations

Christian Nationalists are anti-Christ-ians