Can't help wondering how many stone cold rapists and paedophiles are out there pretending to be ICE and kidnapping people.

still consider

It has only two political parties, and a weird system where all votes are not equal and the actual vote majority doesn't always win.

It has frequently had multiple people from the same families running for office, and only wealthy people have a shot. Corporations get to lobby for laws in their favour.

It also spies on its own citizens, holds people indefinitely without trial, has a huge prison population, a militarized police with a high homicide rate, and is the only western nation with the death penalty.

Trump and Musk are laying bare how fragile the veneer of "democracy" really is in that country.

That ambassador is a former high-ranking politician from a party that is not currently in power. This may be more to do with opportunistic score settling than alignment with Trump.

Coverage like this makes me feel sad.

Do people honestly not realise that billionaires always enrich themselves during recessions?

This is all going to plan for oligarchs. People celebrating it are naive unfortunately.

Historically speaking, successful social change for the better, eg revolutions, has almost always come only when certain middle class/privileged people joined with underprivileged people.

Attacking anyone who is richer or whiter than yourself, when they are on the same side as you, is stupid.

It's 2025, the teenagers mostly document their lives on social media. Tent life guy from Gaza got killed but there are others.

When this empire falls and the genocide history is able to be taught then yes I think some of these video records will be studied by children around the world.

Not an American, so I can call out anti-Indigenous politics

Any decent human being can and should call out anti-Indigenous politics, no matter their nationality.

Trump doesn't want to expand the American empire though. He makes noises about it, but words are cheap. Judging by his actions he wants to create chaos so oligarchs can profit.

The ultrawealthy have no national allegience.

How is the US military taking this?

President Imaginary Bone Spurs so eager to be racist that he's openly disrespecting war heroes. Pretty interesting conflict of ideology.

Pity he's a liar and won't actually use one, I like the thought of him being on fire.

Neveetheless slow internet is a viable option for some people when the alternative is fast internet owned by nazis.

Tom from Myspace never treated us like this.

Nope. He did shy from the challenge. "Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" is not a serious attempt to deal with a structural socioeconomic issue.

That isn't earnestness it's lazy thinking. Might as well just pour Brawndo on it.

Thank you.

What the actual fuck.

The killer was pretty obviously insane. He was making a sacrifice to a demon which he thought would allow him to win a lottery. He's also in jail for life.

I can see it could be harder to forgive someone with no real excuse who just violated your dead daughters' privacy for clout.

The US president is literally going around his own Congress to ensure the Israelis are always well stocked with weapons during their genocide.

Remembered for this by the Americans.

I sometimes think they get so fixated on this as some kind of psychogical distraction to avoid remembering their own country spent most of that war sitting on the sidelines making a profit.

I have to admit: I just crossed the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park off my bucket list whilst reading this story.

The police firearm homicides always felt a bit iffy but this clinches it. Definitely not going to try to visit that country. It's not a risk I'm willing to run.

When you thought you were a leopard but you turned out to just be a person with a face.

Many thousands of refugees fleeing persecution are facing discrimination and cruelty too, and have been for years.

Free democracies in wealthy nations need to step up better to look after ALL refugees.