I mean, he tried doing it for everyone and the Supreme Court shot it down. He's doing the most he can within his power.
It's also absolute bullshit, obviously. Former U.S. Presidents have instigated coups, thrown people in prison without trial, and assassinated foreign politicians. They have incredible, nearly unchecked power, but only to make things worse and never to make things better, it seems.
Chained to a peloton bike with wires using your pedaling power for electricity
It's darker than most (if not all) of the replies, but to me has always distinctly symbolized the purpose and power of satirical news.
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
I mean, I had to take a picture of this one.
(Ignore the date on the device; that resets every time it loses power.)
But damnit, i'm right there with you. I really want people to just talk to each other and let each other know that together we do have the power to change things for the better. It's just a very complicated and time consuming thing to do. But that's why i'm alive, to live and learn and change.
Yeah, we were just going to make them the old-fashioned way with just the oven but screw that! We have a fun gadget now! Using like ⅓ the power and tried one after it came out and it's just as good.
Good! You should. You have a beautiful, pure heart. That is your superpower. Don’t be fooled by the haters. They don’t want you to realise your true power 🥰❤️
A distinction should be made between "majority" meaning numbers and "majority" meaning the group with more social power
Whites had fewer numbers in apartheid South Africa but exerted control as a social majority
Members of the LGBTQIA+ in 🇺🇸get harassed, assaulted, killed regularly.
People with money & political power in 🇺🇸 are constantly pushing conversion therapy & laws that harm those communities.
Clean your own fucking house & leave Palestinians the fuck alone.
You’re an actually shitty human being.
Wow. Allegations coming out shed light on how industry gatekeepers can exploit their power to harass anyone they want, male or female. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Sean Puffy Weinstein #dudestoo
keep thinking of that American military commander pleading with the Iraqi's whose country he was destroying that they 'WEREN'T here to behave like a colonial power!' and their whole anti-brit oedipal thing where they desperately need to pretend they are still underdogs fighting a bigger empire
In decades to come, these trust fund hamas kids in America will have fused into the right (like how the roots of neoconservatism were in an ideological mixture of left wing/black post-communists & white conservatives) & will launch some sort of anti-colonial imperialist adventure/massacre somewhere
Some grinding has occurred, and Ryu is no longer as flimsy as a soggy piece of toilet paper. So, it's time to finally leave Drogen and head north to begin our quest to restore some semblance of power of the dragon and fight the Black Dragon Clan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSh4...
Some grinding has occurred, and Ryu is no longer as flimsy as a soggy piece of toilet paper. So, it's time to finally leave Drogen and head north to begin o...
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As an enby with an adamantium shell, I derive great personal and spiritual power from the trans lovelies I call my friends on Bsky.
Cis people are incapable of understanding. Not because of a failing on their part, but because they simply can't understand.
Preach it, Chels. ❤️💚🖤😘
Shall we make a list of all the ways Biden's DOJ has failed to use the federal government's power to protect Black & trans people?
But, Biden did use the federal government to go after Israel critics.
Power naps under the desk (any desk) might be needed. Book a meeting in your calendar now. 🙌💜💜
Me too and that the Sam Altmans of the world are finally laughed out of power and fuck off forever
L.K. Booth, ... Loneliest... (***1/2): A tremendous songwriter, Booth offers a cohesive set that taps into a generational disaffect in ways that are insightful, compelling. And about half of it works great with her limited vocal power, while the other songs cry out for a singer w greater presence.
A. DiFranco, Unprecedented Shit (***1/2): The varied, hard-edged production makes for her most sonically adventurous album in ages. Still, this continues her trend of speaking many of her truths-to-power via broad platitudes, when her best work is always her most interior.
The Monica Lewinsky thing was a gross abuse of power by a man who should have known better and whose own ethics code told him not to behave that way. Blaming Monica is reinforcing the patriarchy.
While that has some intuitive appeal actual politics doesn’t work that way. Groups that vote most consistently in general elections and primaries have the most power and influence.
Far from perfect but finally a functional patio is down. I’ll power wash it tomorrow and start the beds around it. I’m using all the soil that came out for this. I also got the sod down but it looks horrendous atm.
In the US, there are regional Independent System Operators (ISOs) which are responsible for making the electricity market work -- these are different from utilities and different from the actual physical power grids
Anyway the ISOs measure CO2 output for their regions
Wonderful thread! Also you look radiant in yours, embrace it and celebrate to the Nth power 🥰
I really like how my M5 has so much power but it’s just dead silent and comfortable normalize sleepers
Weird, i wonder if it was a battery failure that it would not charge and lacked the power to boot anymore or if it was a fuse somewhere. I kinda hate how often times you could literally disassemble one entirely and see no visible sign of what caused it to die off.
Fascinating web site. See the power consumption of your electricity on a real-time or annual basis. app.electricitymaps.com/map
Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.
app.electricitymaps.com"no surprise that Big Tech is refusing to comply with the rules. If EU successfully forces tech to play fair, it'll serve as a starting gun for a global race to the top, in which tech’s ill-gotten gains-of data, power & money-will be returned to users & workers from whom that treasure came."
cis people i love (some of) ya but y'all *do not* understand what incredible emotional power we derive from transition. what is possible that we let ourselves have, and being surprised at every turn that our willful act of allowance gives us so much.
just a couple week ago i look in the mirror and actaully smiled at what i saw. never thought it eould be possible.
I fucking love being trans 🩵🤍🩷
Senior management will also wield the power of not renewing fixed term contracts as a stealth means of redundancy by pushing budget decisions down to the department level.
there is a 100% chance the u.s. would have gone to war if we had suffered the equivalent attack and some foreign power had blown up mark milley with missiles and then loudly took credit for it
I never cared about it or even walking at commencement until I saw faculty in full regalia placing themselves between students and cops at the ucsc wildcat strike in 2020. It changed my stance on symbolic power. Broke and sick, I still bought regalia from a 3rd party company for me and my partner.
Israel wouldn’t have survived if all the US Jews had made Aliyah. They needed the money American Jews sent to Israel and the political power American Jews lobbied for w US pols. Many US Zionists traveled back/forth; returning to US when funds ran low & sending $ back to Israeli kin.
I post about masculinity (injuries from my absolute refusal to read the instructions for power tools because of "first principles") and extremist politics (forcing aldermen to use the shitty skate ramp I built, at gunpoint). This is content and it's important, damn it.
you wield incredible power in that ring
use it wisely (or don't lmao)
I have absolutely no problem with Jews.
I have no problems with Israel or Israelis.
I DO have a BIG problem with Bibi and the Kahanist villains who are in power and who are using their power to murderous ends.
Get him OUT of there.
Bummer, still more criminal procedures and lawsuits should be filed vs #GenocideJoe and his Administration. More power to The People.
In a Democracy no POTUS is above the Law, then again the US isn't a real democracy.
Anyways, it's possible to make Biden's life a living hell.
#FreePalestine
In case anyone wants to know more. It was dismissed in Jan.
ppl naturally line up according to the power hierarchy in whatever environment they r n. They adopt the mindset of those whose favor u have to align with to get ahead,etc in that environment. U see it in companies, political towns, & academia all the time. It happens in small towns & rural areas too
Because when shit hits the fan we already have the infrastructure to deal with a society in collapse. If you rely on the power of the state when the state implodes under its own corrupted weight, you will have nothing.
Biden made consequential decisions executing the withdrawal—the admin badly overrated the Afghan govt’s saying power, especially as the US was publicly predicting their eventual annihilation—but the most consequential was Trump’s deal with the Taliban that cut out AFG and released Taliban fighters.
As for post-election influence, I do think that's the moment with the most potential leeway, but in my experience any criticism of the incoming admin is countered with the same argument: "get in line unless you want the right to take power again." Midterms are right around the corner after all!
Trump doesn’t believe in democracy, and neither do Republicans. The only thing they care about is power.
It's a larger pattern: Rs are declaring this higher fealty to Trump over our institutions on many fronts. Now that Trump has in effect declared the 2024 election will not be legitimate unless he wins, many Rs are using similar language. 3/
(h/t @jbouie.bsky.social)
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love your optimism that if Biden loses, there's a next Dem POTUS under the first Republic, it's sweetly echoing the innocence from when I was young
if Trump is handed the levers of power again, the political consequences of doing good things in policy will not be a problem in my lifetime
The emergence of "financialization" as the main source of profit took away the leverage of consumer power in the economy some time back!
White supremacist who plotted attack on Maryland power grid pleads guilty – #terror #accelerationism #awd #AtomWaffenDivision
Sarah Beth Clendaniel believed the violence was necessary to push for societal collapse by damaging or destroying electrical facilities
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Prosecutors say that Sarah Beth Clendaniel believed the violence was necessary to push for societal collapse. A white supremacist who plotted to destroy the Baltimore power grid, believing doing so…
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