It’s likely not quite the case that treason has no consequences now.

Actual treason, no matter how egregious, has and will have no consequences if it benefits Trump.

But at the same time, it’s pretty much certain that the definition of “treason” is going to just be shifted a bit so that it only applies to opposition to Trump, but will include everything all the way down to just saying mean things about him. And that will very definitely have consequences, and quite often fatal ones.

The psychopaths in power are afraid that Israelis might come to see Palestinians as actual human beings, which would complicate their genocidal goals.

“Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”

Wow.

It’s astonishing sometimes how deep the delusional evil runs in the Israeli right.

He starts that statement off trying to claim that the Gazans are “an animalistic society,” and then without missing a beat shifts to doing nothing but vividly demonstrating that in fact he and his allies are the actual animals.

They truly are among the most foul and loathsome and vile abominations to have ever crawled across the face of the Earth.

They aren’t buying cryptocurrency - they’re buying influence. The cryptocurrency is just a front.

Oh gee look - Netanyahu is sabotaging the deal.

Who didn’t see that coming?

It’s not so much what Trump will let them get away with, but what Putin will let Trump let them get away with.

Just left to his own devices, Trump, strongman sycophant that he is, would let Netanyahu get away with anything. But there isn’t enough Israeli support for continuing to just grind away at murdering Gazans, which is why Netanyahu tried to expand it out to a regional war. And the problem with that is that any regional war is going to draw Iran in, and Iran is allied with Russia, so Putin isn’t going to stand for that. And Trump is Putin’s lapdog.

Well, so apparently the first possibility I noted is not the case, and the early reports weren’t just yet again blowing smoke.

So we’re down to two alternatives - it’s a legitimate deal that cedes at least some significant Palestinian autonomy, in which case Netanyahu will, as he already has in the past, sabotage it, or it’s just a long term con job that will leave enough of an Israeli presence that they can shift to West Bank style incremental conquest.

If Trump was anywhere close to as strong and admirable as he claims to believe himself to be, he’d freely offer respect and honor to Carter, secure in the knowledge he had plenty to spare.

But instead he’s a pathetic, weak, frightened child, terrified at the thought that someone else might get some respect when he so desperately needs it himself.

So, presuming that the accusations about TikTok and the Chinese government are true, does this mean that they recognize Musk as a kindred spirit? As someone who shares their goal of undermining the US with misinformation?

Much though that cynically amuses me, I think it’s more likely that they just see him as a fool.

And he’s 100% right.

They’re all lining up to kiss Trump’s stinky ass because they expect him to provide them with an unprecedented opportunity to thoroughly and completely fuck us all, and there’s nothing they want more in the world.

As if the oligarchs give a shit about international law enforcement…

Huh… that’s disappointing.

It was entirely predictable from Vichy Twitter and Meta, but I didn’t expect lemmy - even .world - to kowtow.

Oh gee, would you look at that - the country that’s so eager to torture Palestinians that they actually had riots when someone dared to say that their soldiers should not be allowed to rape prisoners, and that has been criticized for consistently targeting and destroying hospitals and thereby guaranteeing the deaths of that many more Palestinians, has suddenly trotted out some prisoner to try to make the case targeting hospitals is justified.

How… convenient.

This is one of the most disturbing and discouraging things about our current era.

Clearly, the solution to the problem of people distrusting institutions because the officials in them are corrupt is to eliminate the corruption.

But this is far from the first time recently that I’ve seen an official express the idea that the problem is not that they in fact are corrupt, but that people point out their corruption - as if we’re supposed to merely accept their corruption and grant them respect anyway, and somehow we’re to blame for the problem because we won’t do that.

It’s astonishingly amoral. They’re not merely, as is all too common amongst the ruling class, acting as if they’re above the law, but overtly stating that they are, and faulting us for daring to treat them otherwise.

There’s a mistake in this headline.

It should read:

“Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s, therefore deems them too dangerous for parole.”

If the United States was a family, Missouri would be the creepy bachelor uncle who drives a pickup with flags, won’t set foot out of the house without a gun and has a computer with a Don’t Tread on Me wallpaper and a D drive full of bondage porn.

Meta: The whole tone of this article is weird.

It’s as if it’s written explicitly by and for some entirely separate social group that’s sort of condescendingly viewing the quaint folkways of members of a “primitive tribe.”

Which is likely pretty close to the truth, in a way.

No war but class war.

Ah, the irony.

Saying the quiet part out loud again.

They believe that us not being forced to do what they want simply because they want it is a “privilege,” and one that they can and will just arbitrarily decree to be null and void.

That says pretty much everything you meed to know about what they really think about everyone other than themselves.

And ironically enough, what they think is that they themselves are privileged.

Yeah - that’s what happens when you elect somebody who’s painfully obviously profoundly mentally ill - they make insane proposals to do insane shit.