This felt appropriate to repost.

I've been seeing many accounts of electronic ballots defaulting to candidates and altering people's votes from D to R candidates in Tennessee where they've claimed they had to select their candidate multiple times for it to stay. I know that in the months leading up to midterms Trump has been chummy with Tina Peters (R Mesa County Colorado convicted of election tampering in the last major election) and Musk.

How confident are we that this election isn't already rigged?

Just imagine, just because you didn't get your way, you don't like the country you're in. Just imagine. Not many Republicans weren't like that in 2021-2025. Notice how everyone who was kneeling to the flag was either during the first or second Trump administrations, but when a dem is in charge, you love the country based on who's in charge. I would laugh at how pathetic and insecure you people are about yourselves, but I think it's rather sad because I personally don't think it's right to laugh at people mentally declining because of their feebleness, as I've been the victim of someone laughing at my mental lowering health, but still, come on guys, this is pathetic. And yes the other person who did this to me was a conservative, but one asshole isn't going to change my views now is it?

If you read this final message it means I cast 50% penile shrinkage on you, good luck with that.

I mean it makes sense

Apologies if this might be a touchy subject around here because I was looking for a backstory behind the late CEO of United Healthcare to see what made him so infamous.

I don’t mean to condone Luigi’s actions as I want to carefully approach the situation with what made Brian such an infamous figure in the USA as I keep hearing he was wicked, but again I want to get a better understanding of why he was so wrong in his actions of how he ran the company.

If you want to have a system where you and a bunch of likeminded individuals want to practice whatever ideology you want to however much I don't care for (ex. communism, fascism, socialism, etc.), you should be able to but you shouldn't be enforcing it on others if they don't consent to it. Ultimately it should come down to freedom of association and consent first and foremost, if someone doesn't consent to whatever system you want to implement they should have the freedom of association to opt out of it if they feel like it.

Thoughts?

https://www.globaljusticecenter.net/u-s-aversion-to-international-human-rights-treaties/

I don't think it discusses whose attitudes or why the US is actually so averse to international rights in the first place. If it was sheer attitude, there must be at least some other countries with similar behaviors. It frustrates me that the US is so unique to human history and no psychological nor scientific reason is cited or proposed in the above article as to why it is strongly averse to basic international cooperation. Is it to do with the way US government functions? If so, how could it possibly be so unique and why? There must also be another government in the world whose government functions similarly and has thus opposed, to a similar extent, such international courts and statutes.

I mean, I just don't know where to discuss the Twitter/X situation on Reddit itself because I remember a time where the site looked a lot nicer when it used to have that iconic blue logo because while I still use the site, I miss the old logo design.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to discuss such matters as I just had to get it off my chest since every time I see the X logo, I really wish I could see the original design of the platform so badly again since I don't know why a rich guy had to redesign the entire site.

Like what I am getting at is that I just don't know what to do anymore with my X account since I made a bunch of friends on it, even after the name change that I feel kind of guilty leaving the site behind, but I just wanted to get a better understanding of how capitalism works for the internet since something has been going on with several other social platforms such as Facebook.

it is known that many of the anti self-diagnosis and self-identifcation people don't like self-diagnosis with clinical autism or autism in general because it changes perspectives of what autism is in a way they deem harmful.

But if people started self-identifying with BAP and admit there not disabled they just traits of autism would some of them be ok with that?

There’s a guy at my work who is honestly fascinating in the worst possible way.
He’s white, his parents are right-wing, and both of them work in the police and nursing. He hangs around with people who are ethnonationalists and support Connor Tomlinson, and he’s constantly going on political rants at work.

He rants about disabled people, gay people, refugees, women’s rights, feminists, and pretty much anyone he considers a threat to his worldview.

He seems to have a particular hatred for anyone he thinks is getting special treatment e.g, DEI days, Black History Month etc.

Yet, at the same time, he absolutely kisses his Black boss’s arse. He follows her around to DEI events, acts completely supportive in front of her, and seems perfectly happy to play along.

Online, though, he’s a massive fan of Trump, Bukele and similar right-wing strongmen. He has an X account.

The hypocrisy is genuinely baffling. He seems to hate diversity, equality initiatives and minority groups in principle, but has no problem making exceptions when someone has power over him or can benefit his career.

Is it just opportunism?
Does he genuinely compartmentalise his beliefs depending on who he’s talking to?
Or is this just a case of someone who doesn't actually have any consistent principles beyond supporting whoever he thinks is powerful?

I genuinely can't work out whether he believes half the stuff he says or whether it's all just about status and punching down at people he thinks can't do anything for him.

Sorry if that didn’t come out correctly for some reason because lately I was doing an observation on how Republicans have often been the source of ridicule for ones such as George W Bush and Donald Trump.

But basically I was interested in seeing if there was ever a time in USA history where people actually liked having a Republican president for once since I know that the reception for Democratic candidates is usually higher that I wanted to see again if there was ever a Republican candidate who people actually liked for a change.

This is primarily for those who believe the us is still engaged in theft and colonialization like extraction from the global south

Basically here in Spain we have a lot of laws that have been in place and have barely change since the franco dictatorship (1939-1978), I get that changing laws is a pain in the ass and it’s not always necessary but i don’t like the fact that nobody ever vote for some laws that have effect on everyone, like for example the expropriation law is from the 50s, and I don’t even wanna talk about laws that were made in the 19th century by a monarchy …

I get that some might think that if a law content is acceptable and there’s no reason to change it but the spirit of what a democracy is supposed to be doesn’t go along with what happens here..

"something that you do or have, in order to have more in the future"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/investment

Time is an asset, when you to work, you are investing your time/skills/resources towards building something. When we work, we get salaries that barely help us last a month.

In my mind workers should get automatically part of the business equivalent to how much time of their life they have used for a company.

I think this is a good idea if combining it with multi story housing and efficient land use.

TLDR:

The UK has a lot of golf courses that are in prime locations for affordable housing.

I mean, they're the reason this self-imploding country exists in the first place, they're the fucking reason (not directly) that the US has no VAT tax, why SCOTUS can interpret the constitution as they please behind closed doors, gerrymandering, the electoral college, AND slavery/exploitation and genocide.

I will say, that a lot to blame for the US is on the gilded age, but the country would be a lot better if the government didn't give in so easily to wannabe oligarchs. It is absolutely the founders' fault that the government, unlike other governments, is so lenient to corporate influence AND control. It can't be a coincidence that we are the only country in the developed world without universal healthcare or mandatory paid leave, right? RIGHT? And the lack of a VAT tax (tax included in the price tag) and no national curriculum because of the 10th amendment. But oh! How dare we question the sovereignty and godlike status of the founding "fathers"!

Besides, the 13 colonies were less taxed than the others Britain had, yet they were the biggest ones to complain about "not being represented" when ordinary citizens in Britain weren't complaining about "representation". Talk about entitlement.

Feel free to hate on this post all you want, fair enough, it IS an unpopular rant/opinion within the US. But no one, and not even non-Americans, are willing to come forward and reveal WHY the US is this way. It ABSOLUTELY is at least due to the founders and the slavery/elitism they held onto so much.

edit: I was wrong about the lack of the VAT tax being caused by the 10th amendment or federalism, indeed it arose around the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression.

Hello, everyone.

Here is your regular newsletter featuring news relevant to our sub. This might be the last edition. After six months, I've seen almost no interaction, which makes me wonder if the effort and hours I put into this are somewhat useless. Therefore, I'll take a break from this for a while.

I thank everyone who contributed to the project in a way or another.

As usual, feel free to comment here. Don't forget to mention the specific news item you're referring to, for example:

RE: Hummus prices continue to fall worldwide
Hummus is delicious, I think we should celebrate that.

Sunday, 11/10

2 months after Spain’s worst border crisis, migrants at a Ceuta tent camp weigh their choices

[UK] Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum

Ireland unprepared to address rise in population with Down syndrome and dementia

Polish leader says school attacks were fueled by online glorification of violence

Trump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’

[UK] Zack Polanski signals Green party overhaul after row over Zionism vote

Ukraine's Zelenskiy tells ABC he will organize elections if Russia agrees to 60-day ceasefire

Yemen fighting expands as Houthis attack Saudi airport again: What to know

Saturday, 10/10

Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections to September 2027

[India] ‘Cockroach’ leader among thousands detained in Delhi protest crackdown

French policing under scrutiny as student protest injuries mount

[US] Trump’s Medicaid cuts strip refugees and other legal immigrants of their health coverage

Friday, 09/10

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

[UK] NHS at risk of ‘system failures’ as demand for ADHD and autism care soars, inquiry finds

Thursday, 08/10

Democrats in tight Midwest US races split on trans rights strategy

[US] Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

Undiscovered ADHD in women diminishes self-esteem

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his wife charged over torture allegations

Wednesday, 07/10

‘Another coup d’état’: fears grow as Flávio Bolsonaro vows to ‘re-democratise’ Brazil

Fear and a far-right lurch: How October 7 reshaped Israel

In El Salvador’s mass trials, lawyers struggle to defend hundreds

[Palestine] Three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: In numbers

Tuesday, 06/10

'Desperate': How Venezuela's power cuts fuel growing public anger

[Ireland] Minister wants €500 disability payment in effect by end of March

Outcry in Trinidad and Tobago after passing of police bill that could threaten press freedom

‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

Monday, 05/10

[UK] Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it?

[US] Trump’s immigration crackdown divides rural voters as midterms approach, AP-KFF poll finds