From the article:
“Maybe he didn’t know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means,” Platner’s former political director Genevieve L. McDonald, who quit the campaign last week, said in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Man in a Nazi uniform asks the question "Are we the baddies?"
"Are We the Baddies?" is one of the most famous skits of all time and is literally about how the death's head is a symbol of the Nazis. It has been memed incessantly. Platner has been on Reddit since 2013 (which dear lord is a whole other topic), do you *really* think he never heard about it?
Platner says that he got the tattoo when we was drunk one night in the Marines. Ok sure maybe, people make poor decisions while they're drunk all the time. But that was almost 20 years ago! What about all the time since then?
I'm sorry, but this hypocrisy is ridiculous. Democrats are going off about Trump etc. being Nazis and fascists, meanwhile one of their own candidates has a literal SS tattoo. He's "an excellent candidate" says Bernie Sanders. What a farce, I expected more from you Bernie.
"Troops then bulldozed over the bodies along with their mangled vehicles, burying them in a mass grave."
A clear war crime by the IDF.
Don't believe the Big Marmalade propaganda, it isn't nearly as good as Paddington would have you think.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in or opposition to it."
"But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate."
Going back to On Liberty, Chapter 2 is a real banger:
"Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice."
Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.
Mill worked for the British East India Company for thirty-five years of his life, and judging from this quote it seems unlikely he saw a contradiction in doing so. "Freedom for me," I suppose, "but not for thee."
To wit: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end."
Incredibly though, he then immediately qualifies in the next paragraph that this doesn't apply to those in the "backward states of society".
"That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. [...] Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
In the Introduction to his essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill makes a full-throated defense for the liberty of the individual.
Democracy must be actively defended against tyranny.
Meanwhile, Trump's replacement pick never served in key assignments that are required by law for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This isn't about "meritocracy." It's just old-fashioned racism.
“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.
Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.
Not sure I agree with his opinion though that "I don’t think the party’s changed." Trump has completely remade the party and its top leadership in his own image, and essentially all Republicans in congress are towing the new line. Subservience to authority has trumped (ha) adherence to principle.
“Do you think that the way to raise the minimum standards of the people who serve us is to lower the standards of the Secretary of Defense?”
Diagram of military deaths in World War II
In WWII the Axis suffered over 6x more casualties on the Eastern Front than the Western. It was the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 (who at that point was allied with Germany) that set them on a path to defeat.
Also, the bank isn't simply playing a shell game where they are just lending you money from other depositors. In practice, banks lend out much more money than they have deposited. Of course, this can lead to problems if everyone goes to withdraw their money at once (a "bank run").
Been tempted to do this recently but I heard the L2 announcements in cilium can be a bit flaky, have you had any problems?
"In Russian literature there is always someone who suffers: either the characters, the author, or the reader."
Nice recording of the Symphonic Dances (including one of the rare sax solos in classical music)
In a mathematical setting the second is more common.
