Words do have meaning. And the meaning of the word “milk” has included plant milk for at least 800 years.
I don’t like when people with 0 understanding of the context or history of something act indignant about something they are so clearly and demonstrably wrong about.
Wow, are you so incredibly far off.
Proscriptive definitions aren’t how language works, and never have been.
This:
The reality is that Trump’s psychos find loopholes, and they have one now.
Directly contradicts this:
We can either deal with the illegal nature of what happened to get innocent people kidnapped to El Salvador in the first place (Boasberg is working on that), or we can deal with the actual political influence of the Democrats, which isn’t much but a whisper and bet at this point.
The fascists aren’t going to bow down and accept defeat just because a judge orders them to or Democrats vote really hard in Congress. They don’t play by the rules. If/when Boasberg finds them in contempt and orders they send someone to El Salvador to bring people back, they’ll ignore him and probably find a way to get him out of office. Democrats have already shown all their political “power” is completely impotent. It’s not that it “isn’t much but a whisper and bet,” it’s non-existent. There is NOTHING we can do to help these people just by sticking to the rules of how politics are normally done.
I am talking about making Bukele feel less safe. You do that by directly challenging the base of his power. The base of his power is fear of getting sent to CECOT. Challenge that. Prove that people can go there and get people out of it. All they’ve been doing so far is political theater.
I want somebody to do something more than a photo op. Yes, Bukele is an authoritarian just like Trump. But Trump relies on a large amount of his base thinking that he’s in the right. I don’t believe he nor Bukele want the optics of concentration camp guards assaulting a bunch of members of the US Congress. And I don’t believe that a bunch of concentration camp guards would be willing to assault them on livestream to the entire world.
Show up with bodyguards. They don’t need to be armed, but be physically intimidating and insist that they’re going to enter and find the Americans who are being wrongfully detained.
All the Democrats, or really anyone in opposition to Trump, have been doing is playing it safe. If nobody is willing to take risks then the fascists will never feel threatened. If they had the balls to try what I suggested, one of two things will happen. They guards could get violent and assault, arrest, or even kill some members of the US Congress. That would spark outrage in the US. The opposition to Trump would grow and there would be even more motivation to stop him from sending people to foreign gulags.
More likely, IMO, the guards would back down and the members of Congress would prove that Bukele and Trump aren’t as all powerful as they want to seem. They’d also get live video inside CECOT to show the world exactly how horrendous it is.
The word ‘milk’ in the English language has been used to describe plant-based milks for at least 800 years. Soy milk and Almond milk as beverages have been around for at least 1000 years.
You’re ahistorical proscriptive definition is just bullshit gatekeeping. You are wrong and should feel bad about yourself over it.
Uh… how exactly are any of them pushing back on anything right now?
I think 14 (ish) of them were actually charged with a crime, although none of them had a trial, let alone were found guilty and sentenced. And even if they were found guilty of something, I’m pretty sure locking someone up indefinitely in a foreign torture prison/slave labor camp qualifies for the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
There is no legal or moral justification for sending even the most hardened convicted criminal there.
They need to stop this 1 at a time thing. Get like 40 members of Congress, Senators and Representatives. Show up at CECOT with cameras live streaming and demand to be admitted. When they refuse, force your way in.
I don’t believe anyone in El Salvador, including Bukele and the goons staffing the prison, want to have a live stream of them assaulting/arresting a bunch of US members of Congress. And if they do, maybe that’ll help wake some Republican voters up to the fascism.
There’d be motherfuckers on TikTok snorting lines of asbestos
It is, in fact, possible to quite smoking. I was a regular smoker for a decade. My fiancee asked me to quit, so I did. Haven’t had a cigarette or vape since. That was over a decade ago.
Yes, it’s difficult, and not everyone is able to quit as easily as I did. But don’t pretend like it’s impossible to quit.
Because second-hand smoke doesn’t exist…
Second hand smoke isn’t a biohazard? It literally causes cancer…
That’s a different situation considering the Irish language was created before there even was a united Ireland. We can trace the history of how English came to America, and it came from the English people. We can’t trace the history of how the Irish language spread across Ireland because it predates history.
Like I said, while semantically imprecise, yes, we did get the English language from the English.
That’s just semantics. Sure, I guess the more proper way to say it is that when the Americans founded the US they continued the practice of race-based chattel slavery which the British had instituted in the colonies prior to the formation of the US. Is that really substantively different than saying the Americans adopted slavery from the British?
Fun fact: Monopoly was originally called “The Landlord’s Game” when it was created and was meant to teach people about the fundamental absurdity and contradictions inherent in the capitalist system of land ownership. It was later co-opted by a family member of the creator who sold it to Parker Brothers. They renamed it Monopoly and turned it into the commercial success it is today.
Sort of to both, but not really.
Slavery has existed for at least as long as states and kingdoms have, yes. But the specific form slavery took in the Americas (not just the US and North America) was unique. That being race-based chattel slavery. That form had not existed anywhere else in the world previously or since. The closest you could claim were the Helots in ancient Sparta, but even that was closer to serfdom than chattel slavery.
So, no, the British did not “invent slavery”, but they (along with the Spanish and French) did pioneer a new form of slavery that was uniquely brutal and inhumane.
And while you’re correct that America as a nation did not adopt slavery from the British after the formation of the US since the colonials had already been practicing race-based chattel slavery before the US existed. But where did those colonials get that slavery? From the British who were their overlords and ancestors, who formed the colonies, and who created the economic system that relied on race-based chattel slavery.
So while you might be technically right, it’s only due to semantics. The Brits absolutely did create virtually everything about the American system of slavery, which we then continued to perpetrate for another ~century after independence.
Don’t get all condescending about something you’re clueless on if you don’t like being called out on it.