Georgia’s Republican Attorney General Chris Carr clarified in a statement that the state’s law doesn’t compel medical professionals to maintain life support for a woman declared brain dead.

“Removing life support is not an action ‘with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy,’” Carr explained.

Even if he’s not straight up lying, it’s not the AG’s call to make. If some local prosecutor wants to go full hog and bring charges against a hospital, it’ll be the courts that determine the purpose of the action and who knows what they’ll decide.

Installing an out of touch expat in power after destabilizing a country in the Middle East, when has that ever gone wrong?

It depends what kind of war. Drone warfare is great if the opposition is a non-state actor or a weak state where obliterating them at a distance and letting someone else deal with the clean up is on the table. Against a state on relatively equal footing that has the capacity to deal with drones and would require a proper occupation in order to defeat, it’s not that useful.

That’s what happened in Ukraine, a lot of the weaponry the U.S. sent over that was good at taking out ISIS didn’t fare so well against the proper Russian army.

Just in time for postal worker shorts season

How do “progressive” radlibs find themselves in spaces like NCD where they’re making light of genocide, ironically, while the dude next to them is doing it straight faced?

I think it’s the “more perfect union” mindset. Radlibs might desire some progressive/left outcomes, but they see it as part of this reform narrative where the reactionary elements of the American project keep falling off over time (emancipation, women’s suffrage, end of Jim Crow, gay marriage, etc). So imperialism and genocide can be treated lightheartedly because they see it as a temporary embarrassment that progress and reform will eventually eradicate. Whereas the neolibs are lighthearted about it because they fundamentally don’t see it as a problem.

This has always been the problem with think pieces on “the youth these days”, they always reflect the youth that the urban writers either have within their professional circles or youth they can easily get a hold of within their sphere of contacts. Which means it skews towards youth with media or business degrees in the northeast trying to get work in those industries.

The nationalistic/jingoistic Pavlovian response in the American chud is not activated by seeing soldiers in service uniforms, it’s activated by seeing them in fatigues. If you look at the propaganda, it’s almost always troops in combat uniforms, very rarely will they be in service uniforms.

I think it goes back to the mythos of Washington’s army being this ragtag of volunteers in plainclothes beating the royal military in their bright red uniforms. It creates an expectation in the minds of Amerikkkans that the military should look a little dumpy.

Bernie didn’t get massive crowds because he was just so good at campaigning, he got massive crowds because he was promising good things instead of bad things.

See, from my perspective “offering good things” is good campaigning. That the DNC doesn’t see that just speaks to how much the consultant class that wants to make everything about crafting the perfect (and expensive) TV ad have taken over the party.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “we all eat out of the trash can” is a great turn of phrase and clearly outlines the problem with the liberal ideal of “non-ideology.” But clever quips do not a Marxist intellectual make.

Those pesky interest groups are getting in the way of the Democrats tailoring their policy to their 10 richest donors.

On one hand, fuck the New York Crimes. On the other hand, I can’t imagine this is appealing to anyone who wasn’t already in the bag for Cuomo and if anything, could drive out more anti-establishment votes for Mamdani.

Which is so fucking rich given how many times, prior to ranked choice, that an establishment dem won their primary with 40-something percent of the vote and the various progressive/left/antiestablishment candidates split 50-something percent of the vote.

Collectivist

Immediately not taking what this person has to say seriously.

This is why liberals are so impotent against Trump because ultimately they don’t want to destroy him, they want to be friends with him. They want him to have an about face, come to Jesus moment and starts having steak dinners with Schumer and Jeffries.

One thing I’ve noticed is that back when I was a kid, before the term STEM was in use, when people talked about science and engineering it was all about what they produced. An engineer was great because they figured out how to make the more efficient, more reliable widget that would make our lives easier and more productive. It was all about the use value. Sure, they’d make a decent living doing so, but that was secondary to what they produced or discovered. This was the tail end of the Cold War, when capital propaganda was putting an emphasis on claiming quality of life was better under capitalism than state socialism.

In the post-Cold War era though, without that existential question looming over the political economy, it’s shifted to STEM as great because the graduates will make a lot of money. It doesn’t matter if the engineering graduate will just go work for Wall Street figuring out new ways to shift piles of money around while skimming off the top every time and isn’t making anything with use value. Capitalism doesn’t need to prove itself anymore so it just focuses on maximizing profit extraction.

So in this context, philosophy is devalued as it is both seen as not leading to big incomes, but also because it’s treated as asking a question that’s already been settled. It’s the liberal “End of History” mentality, if the big debate of society and political economy has been settled, then what good is philosophy except for navel gazing and intellectual parlor games?

So yeah, I think the dearth of philosophical understanding among STEM majors contributes to the lack of serious scientific progress (aside: if you want to tilt a STEMlord, point out that science is just empirical philosophy applied), but I think it’s a reflection of a general attitude that true progress isn’t necessary. Oh sure, there’s lip service to surface level social progress and having a slightly faster iPhone every two years, but not transformative progress. Liberalism doesn’t want another industrial revolution because that would be another reordering of the class structure and hierarchy.

Haha, getting the worksite for the gas chambers on OSHA and buy-America provision violations will surely stop the fascism!

I went to high school in a small rural town, and when I was there were a handful of kids that were in a “gang.” Which meant a few dorky white boys sitting around listening to gangsta rap.

In an attempt to get “cred,” they started a rumor that they had pissed off some gang from a city with a reputation for violent gangs, and that as retribution this gang was going to drive to the high school and shoot it up during lunchtime, so noon. The city in question, though, was a six hour drive away. So there was both the aspect of, how did these dorky white boys from the sticks even get into the same sphere as this hardened urban street gang, as well as the six hour drive meant the gang would have to roll out around 5-6am. Gang members aren’t exactly notorious for getting an early start.

Nevertheless, the parents freaked out and only like a 1/3 of the school showed up that day.

Honestly, I could see that working in a rural red district that’s more light rust belt than redneck cosplayer kulaks. A combination of God, guns, and NASCAR, but matched with that old school coal miner union economics, would go over quite well in a lot of parts of flyover country.

Most of those chain emails from the 90’s had reactionary and racist undertones (the Mexican rat-dog one is especially relevant to the current moment).