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Open Thread - Thurs 16 Jan 2025 - Placone Says It Perfectly

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 01/16/2025 - 5:00am

Placone Says It Perfectly

Ron Placone recently posted a farewell letter to Joe Biden. He says most everything I've been thinking perfectly, so I thought I'd post it here and let others have a read. He first writes about the good things Biden (or ByeDone Smile ) did: appointing Lina Khan, for instance, and finally delivering a net neutrality FCC after a 3 year wait. And that's about it... Ohh yea, there's the drilling ban he just instituted, which Trump'll overturn immediately. So that's another good thing! Right? And yet it's really just another fake positive act in our country's political theater; an act which means nothing in reality, no matter which 'side' does it.


Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, 5 Dec 2024, from www.chappatte.com, for the Boston Globe.

Hey Elon, I see what you did there

Submitted by bondibox on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 7:11pm

I think it was about 6 months ago that Twitter–I mean X–announced it would discontinue to display a user's history of liked posts. There are a few good privacy related reasons to do this and I thought they provided a pretty good explanation for the decision.

But then I noticed the "hot babe profile bot" had been upgraded to 2.0

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The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 01/12/2025 - 6:53am

Accepting Defeat?

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In the first clip below the fold, Pepe discusses a French intellectual's new book. The writer suggest Trump's job in the first two years will be to help America (NATOstan) accept that Russia defeated us in Ukraine. Somehow I can't see Trump selling that notion. This week Alex Krainer asks (below) 'will the US continue it's bullying posture or act like a polite guest at the world table of equal nations?' I simply don't see that happening given US arrogance and false sense of superiority. In fact it seems just the opposite in the new found neo-colonial attitude of Trump to acquire Panama, Greenland, Canada, and the "Gulf of America". My guess is he will first target Venezuela and Nicaragua because their leadership continues to serve their peoples needs and not US corporate interests. All that and much more below the fold.

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