As I understand it there should be a great deal of documentary evidence available to demonstrate the veracity of the claim, assuming it is true.

expropriation now

Tone of article suggests this is some sort of friendly gift but friends don’t give friends pagers. Employers give workers pagers. How did Donald Trump accept a gift that seems to symbolize he’s on call? Why hasn’t he tweeted a picture of it dropped in a toilet or something?

And are we thinking either the gold pager or the real pager is a bomb and/or listening device? so weird

insert rfk joke

Exactly.

Despite the power everyone else perceives them as having, doctors live in constant fear of the regulatory apparatuses they work within. Especially the socially-minded ones who you’d think would be the kind of people to engage in any sort of civil disobedience. They have many legal powers granted to them above those of regular people, but unlike other groups who have that (eg cops), they are subject to discipline from various directions. Licensing boards, insurers, practice associations, academic institutions, employers, funding of various sources, social peer pressure etc. Every lib doctor knows at least one story of some MD who got their license taken away for too much SJWing. And their identities are so wrapped up in being being doctors, they can’t imagine any other life. Plus there is all the investment/debt of themselves and their families/communities in their education and practice. They know whatever future good they can do to help people, all that can be taken away from them instantly. So any given risk they think of taking to make a stand in this moment, what hangs in the balance is all the future lives they could save and good they might do in the future.

china invading on the basis of providing medical aid

ALL of them? Not just the “DEI” ones?

Jesus I spend 2 days away from the news it’s like waking up from a 40 years coma what is happening.

Why don’t they just do what normal countries do: stop paying people for years at a time. Plenty have done it and somehow everyone just keeps going to work for ages and services only slowly peel off as people wander away. Rather than being such a drama queen about it.

no I’m pretty sure that guy was in prison during january 6 and he’s been dead for a few weeks.

cops also recently killed the commet pizza shooter

Yikes! IMHO people need to be able to sort out messy personal stuff in some sort of private venue. I’ve never been involved in a divorce proceeding but I know people bring in all sorts of emotional and intimate things. Should it really be subject to public scrutiny?? Just regular every day people with contentious relationships?

Under the old rules, parents who had spoken out about their cases could be found in contempt of court.

So how much of this is about MRAs?

No. Someone was trying to explain to me why Israel was the righteous. They used the hesitancy of neigbouring Arab States to take refugees to justify the violence. “They dont even take care of their own”. I think it had a kind of human shield inflection.

Ya nobody ever said that about Genocide Joe. Total double standard.

Putting a magnet up to your CRT and clippy is getting dragged towards the burning area.

I was watching Star Trek Picard and wondering if the entire show is just marketing for AI?

Of course its picking up on themes Trek has been playing with since the 90s.

The whole thing really made me creeped out. I can’t articulate well, sorry.

ok, i get you are backing down

but shit dude my feelings are of no consequence. adhere to what you said, or have indecision, or change your mind, based on your mind. not on my emotions. who cares of my emotions.

don’t back down to save my feelings.

So did the Palestinians win?

nobody was asking you to cry for anyone.

I don’t cry for almost any articles I read about deaths including those who were great people.

I really have a hard time tho with the idea of “tango down”. That makes it sounds like you are siding with the aggressor in this situation. It isn’t like “comrade cancer” where the adulation is directed towards just some natural process that did the deed against all available human interventions. It was a human being, probably a cis man, probably who had some sort of sexual/romantic relationship (at least in his mind) whose hands (or an object they held) literally hit this woman over and over and over again until she bled to death, or until she had a stroke or an infarction or something.

In the history of class struggle, we rarely conduct assassinations in this manner. We are killed like this routinely. The method of death suggests top-down. Even though she was a banker and probably scum. It is overall I think a bad omen that women even at this level cannot protect themselves from petty men bullshit.

having trouble formulating this thought but

the available information points to the death being femicide / intimate partner violence / abuse

like sometimes we have “critical support” for “comrade cancer” etc. but it’s hard to get behind what is decribed as a fucking woman beating death as some sort of class victory.

whats an informal pink slip?

I think if there were a few prominent news stories about journos working on the FOIAing, even if they have 0 chance of success, some people would think twice.