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It is important that Kamala Harris continues to define and expose Trump. But it may not be enough to secure a victory

 

The iconic singer is none too pleased that Trump is speaking at a venue bearing her name.

 

Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’

 

Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a “disaster” for the ex-president.

Donald Trump is so feral and narcissistic, so unrestrained and so outside the norm of American politics, that he’s difficult to debate. It’s disorienting. Very few people have been able to stand up to him without being pulled into the muck. In the past, even when he lost debates on points, he dominated his opponents.

But on a Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris cracked the code.

 

Harris may have been light on policy, but she was able to bait an ‘unhinged’ Trump into a number of traps

 

Trump didn’t want, much less imagine, a debate with Harris. Not so subconsciously he still thinks he’s facing Joe Biden

 

Trump isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He also did very little for young men during his four years as president

 

Mendis, who stayed in Manchester church for two years in 1980s to fight deportation, has died aged 68 in Germany

 

The potential future president had also told the crowd, "You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true," before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.

"Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before," he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. "We've never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent."

The online response to Trump's odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, "Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well."

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Saw your post earlier today and thought it was interesting. Let me just share these thoughts for the sake of sharing thoughts like in a brain storm session :

  • Wanting a sustainable world, solidarity, and live in peace is normal.
  • The more climate crisis denial grows within conservative circles, the more some behavior of opposing people can be called radical by the former conservatives instead of called what it really is : natural.
  • The words left and right in politics were maybe useful many years ago but it has lost its true meaning. Perhaps better words are conservative versus progressive.
[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

The Tax The Rich, EU campaign is supported by Millionaires for Humanity, who are more than just a handful of millionaires. I find it uplifting news that some of them are not so selfish : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67935463 Hopefully some change is gonna come.

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

I could be wrong and that could be the most legit photo in the world. It just feels very unlikely to me.

Papers in my country reported that a sports photographer said about the photo : "Chance of 1 in a million. Almost impossible". Other articles mentioned the possibility of a small animal flying instead of a bullet.

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right. Not just that, USA is allowed to invade the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

The example you are giving about fighting back turned out to be in your favor.
But things could have gone wrong, especially when a whole group would have backed the other guy.
And by that you are sort of advocating a survival of the fittest which is maybe not a good idea
when you are small and timid versus some strong guy.
I believe it is not wrong to involve school personnel when bullying happens.

In Europe anti bullying policies were implemented years ago. I remember reading that in newspapers.

Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf

  • Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
  • Each individual must be treated with respect
  • Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
  • Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
  • All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
    react against all forms of bullying.
  • All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
    supported.
[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US should improve treatment of mental health issues.
The US should recover public confidence in its political system.

The things you have suggested are just distractions away from these two points and won't fix anything.

Your point about mental health issues is about the victim being bullied or being avoided by others I guess ?
If I refuse to buy Nike shoes like all others, and if I decide to wear all black clothes with heavy metal shirts and I prefer to read books rather than talk loud and the rest of my class mates avoid me for reasons, does that mean I need to get therapy ?

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hell, no. Don't put the responsibility on victims to help their bullies/abusers.

I see. In Europe things are different.
Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf

  • Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
  • Each individual must be treated with respect
  • Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
  • Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
  • All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
    react against all forms of bullying.
  • All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
    supported.

Also, it's not always a clear cut bully/victim dynamic. My school had a loner gun-loving asocial student. He probably thought he was bullied. In reality he made people, especially the girls, super uncomfortable and he was avoided. No one really made fun of him, never physically attacked him, never pulled pranks on him, just avoided him. Not inviting his friendship is not bullying. He needed professional help.

Forcing me, for example, to talk to him and pretend to be his friend would have been bad for both of us. He needed counseling/therapy, which I was not and still am not qualified to provide, and I needed safe friends I could trust.

Okay. That is a lone wolf example, it is not about active bullying.

I consider bullying to be violent in general.
Even words can be damaging for some people.
The whole "boys don't cry" is a tragedy in my opinion and has done a lot of emotional damage already.

And reading this today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump#Personal_life I would not be at all
surprised if Donald Trump would benefit from long time therapy.

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 18 points 3 months ago

You heard me. They're getting fooled into helping the oil industry and all enemies of nature. They're making the randoms that form the majority hate climate activists, and I think it's deliberate.

How much positive have you heard from people outside of activism about their actions? How much criticism have you heard from withing activist circles?

How much positive have you heard from politicians about the huge climate report that scientists worked on for almost 10 years, delivered March last year ?

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 14 points 3 months ago

In these difficult times this is awful and depressing news :(

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The 20-year old suspect involved in yesterday’s shooting at Donald Trump’s rally was reportedly bullied relentlessly, the local Pennsylvania outlet KDKA reports.

[–] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

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