You may not have noticed but the entire world has lurched to the right. You can’t win an election by wooing voters on the left, you’ll just lose votes on the right.
The American left will just stay home and pay on reddit about how the dems are secretly right wing capitalists anyway.
Oh, wow ok. Boom.
God that’s kinda heavy-handed. You’d think they would have done this the moment they were aware that a book was in the offing.
I imagine they got an advance copy and this is a reaction to the content.
Yeah that was my first thought.
The royal family’s PR team would have been strategising this since forever.
I expect they’ve been monitoring the Epstein situation, as the likelihood of a release increases they’re looking to distance themselves from this turd.
Seems like a real can / should problem to me.
Hard to believe this would entice anyone to purchase where a sexy lady couldn’t.
So, ah … yeah.
I just want to point out the irony of her case.
If a far-left influencer was denied a visa to enter the US, they wouldn’t bother filing with the supreme court because they wouldn’t get a fair hearing.
The legal facility she attempted to access is one that she would withhold from her own people.
They don’t need to complain? They just put you in the van and disappear you.
Easier to identify that they’re ICE but still impossible to make a complaint or hold anyone accountable.
I had to look it up because I didn’t remember. Aparently “the hot chick” from 2002:
SNL might have been first but not being from the US I’ve never watched that.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be an ass. It’s a dumb movie quote. I hope you get some proper answers fam.
You could put your weed in there.
Lets not pretend that they’re refusing on any kind of ideological ground.
Their respective legal teams would have told them not to sign. I’m sure that acknowledging / signing would expose them to additional risk of litigation.
It’s pretty obvious why you’re engaging with this wildly boring echo chamber. Seems pretty unfulfilling to me but you do you I guess.
Well, I’m here for the light entertainment and pleasant discourse with like minded people.
Why are you here?
Lemmy absolutely is an echo chamber, no one will deny that. The question is, why are you here?
IDK why I’ve only just realised this, but does the US not have any concept of a formal “opposition” in government?
Here each of 150 or so regions elects a representative. Whichever of those can get 76 others to line up behind them gets to be Prime Minister and forms the government. All the others form the formal “opposition”.
Whenever the government does something, the opposition explains to everyone how stupid it is. Often times the opposition gets more air time than the actual government.
The PM couldn’t just, you know, make up lies… because the opposition would skewer him.
Do the dems form any kind of cohesive opposition? Does the media just ignore them? Why don’t they have any apparatus with which to reset the narrative?
Turns out there’s a whole thing here that I just didn’t really know about.
I’m in Australia. I’m 43 years old, and cut. I have a 2 year old son who is not cut, and we just never seriously considered getting him cut as an infant.
It’s only in the last few minutes that I’ve learned that people are still doing this? Apparently the best stats we have are that in 2010 between 10 and 20 percent of infant males were circumcised. That’s down from 85% in the 1950s, so maybe call it 10 percent now.
I had honestly thought doctors just wouldn’t do it unless there was a medical reason. Apparently it’s still a thing. There’s an association of doctors who will perform circumcision, so you can look one up in your area.
It’s also interesting that it’s more prevalent in conservative areas of the US.
I think my thinking on it has been effected by a few conversations I’ve seen on reddit and similar. I never thought of my own circumcision as being somehow abusive, but I’ve seen that some other men really do. As a result of thinking about that I guess I just came to the realisation that removing part of someone else’s body for no reason other than my own preference is just weird and wrong.
Reading about it now it seems like the common excuse is that people say “well my dad was cut and I’m cut and I don’t want to have to explain to son-face why his dick looks different”. Of all the dumb things to say. “Yeah kid we removed part of your sex organ so it would look the same as my own deformed sex organ”. Imagine explaining to your kid that you accidentally cut your finger off so you were going to have to cut his finger off so he wouldn’t wonder why he has an extra finger. Of all the dumbassery.
Epic choice of stock photo here CNN people. The tiniest suggestion of visible nips.
Even now?
This was the case here in the 70s but, I guess we’ve moved on in the interceding 50 years.
I dont think you could find a doctor here that would do it.
Anyone who votes for Trump who is not a millionaire is an idiot, but anyone who is not a white male really is fucking stupid.