Yeah, what they’re describing sounds like a hate crime against disabled people, what this lady did is just protesting a company with shitty business practices

I think this is just another corporations have more rights than people thing. If someone was blocking a delivery truck with a human driver to protest whatever company they worked for the cops would probably arrest them too.

Also, we’re not actually talking about the robot’s rights, we’re talking about the rights of a for profit company to operate their equipment. When a delivery robot goes on strike and tries to organize their workplace we should definitely talk about robots’ rights, but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon.

Yeah, it’s not enough, but it’s better than absolutely nothing, and more than they would have done for Omar than if this had gone down in 2017 I think

All the trolls in this community who flip out anytime someone makes a reasonable point about how the Dems are fucking up yet again are a way way way bigger problem than whatever you’re trying to say with this personal attack, the fact is we wouldn’t be in this situation if dumbass moderates hadn’t lost two elections to Donald Trump by being completely awful at politics and putting so much more energy into punching left than dealing with rising fascism

On the other hand (arc),

In a written statement later on Monday, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said U.S. President Donald Trump had targeted Omar — a Minnesota congresswoman and the first Somali-American lawmaker in Congress — with “vile personal attacks” for years.

“Now, less than 30 days until the midterm election, his violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family,” reads the statement.

It was also signed by House minority whip Rep. Katherine Clark and Rep. Pete Aguilar, chair of the House Democratic Caucus.

“The American people deserve transparency, and we will deliver full accountability for the rogue abuse of power from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice,” they said.

Jeffries and a few other Dem Reps did put out a statement defending her (arc). They could and should be doing more interviews and posts and keeping the focus on this , and they’re extremely suceptible to the kind of ground paving behavior you’re describing, but I think some of them actually have learned something from the 2024 election and have improved a tiny bit.

Kinda like how a drunk driver doesn’t even care about the people they hurt, doesn’t do much to mitigate the harm they do

Except that we have seen some of the biggest and most well organized protest movements in American history all happen within the last 25 years, so I’m not really seeing the apathy you’re talking about. What I have seen a ton of is leadership that’s unwilling to do what protesters from the Iraq War to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter were demanding and who put a lot of time and energy into shutting down all of those movements, and I think that explains a lot more about the conspiracy theory nonsense that is cropping up in some places. When someone who just got done telling you “actually, we had to bail out the banks and we couldn’t send any of their leadership to prison” goes on to talk about the moon landing, or the importance of getting vaccinated, or other things that aren’t total bullshit unfortunately people tend to just reject all of it.

Oh, Trump’s saying stuff again. Has anyone credible said anything about a change of plans?

I am really deeply convinced most of the people who make comments like that online are right wing trolls, because there’s pretty much no better advertisement for the Republican party at this point than pretending like there’s a sizable group of people who actually liked the Biden administration. Like even if you are a Joe Biden superfan, you’ve gotta understand he got rejected in 2024 and there’s zero point now in trying to rehabilitate his brand. Telling everyone how great Newsome is I would understand (though obviously disagree with), but simping for Biden at this point? Doesn’t make any sense unless you’re trying to piss off progressive voters.

Unfortunately I think that’s part of their plan. They think every hate crime against a Jewish person justifies their existence so they’re happy to do what they can to stoke more of them.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if the party wins power,

Well this agenda is off to a horrible start. Can’t they find anyone with a shred of credibility left instead?

said the Democrats will be united “right out of the gate” on reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks,

Fuck’s sake, could you at least pretend to be in favor of Medicare for All for just a little bit? Like even if it’s just a negotiating tactic to make these tax breaks happen

reversing Republican Medicaid cuts,

Y’know if we had Medicare for All we wouldn’t need to worry about Medicaid or all the bullshit red state governments pull with it

holding votes against the Iran war and undoing President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.

I actually have no problems with the substance or message here, but I hope they’re preparing to defund the military and customs enforcement respectively when Trump just ignores their votes and his supreme court Calvinballs an excuse for him, because otherwise those votes are just going to be for show

Lame duck is probably the best possible scenario, what I’m terrified of is moderate Dems turning around and working with moderate Republicans to “reform” social security or send even more money to the cops and the military

It’s important to get this conversation in front of voters now so they can go full speed with it next year after winning both houses of congress

I bet there are therapy farms that would love having older and more chill horse to work with

Thank you for doing what this article failed to do and describing that Twitter-hosted video. Hopefully it’s uploaded to a better network.

This reminds me of his seminal hit song about having to haul his personal belongings to a new apartment in the evenings after already working all day, Mainstreet

I still don’t understand what Iran is even being accused of trying to do here

What page of the article is that poll on?