| To: koan who wrote (354652) | 11/11/2025 8:28:36 PM | | From: i-node | | | | Kindness is the most important value in the world, and I am betting the universe agrees!
And there is no way you can spin that Trump values kindness, he rules with fear, and has said so! Kindness is fine.
You you think “kindness” is equivalent to free money. THAT, is stupid and does nothing but squander essential resources.
Look, I can’t help you unless you can get your IQ above 70. And I don’t see that happening for most of you. |
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| To: i-node who wrote (354666) | 11/11/2025 8:30:46 PM | | From: Wharf Rat | | | | "Look, I can’t help you unless you can get your IQ above 70. And I don’t see that happening for most of you."
That's cuz yours is stuck on 50. |
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| From: Wharf Rat | 11/11/2025 8:43:01 PM | | | | | | U.S. Government Quietly Removes Memorial For Black Soldiers From Dutch Cemetery
Story by Christopher Rhodes
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U.S. Government Quietly Removes Memorial For Black Soldiers From Dutch Cemetery
As the Trump administration continues to implement anti-diversity policies and whitewash American history, it appears that this campaign has spread overseas. One historian on social media has highlighted the administration’s removal of a European monument honoring Black soldiers who fought in World War II.
Plaques honoring Black soldiers removed from American cemetery in the Netherlands Newsweek, referencing coverage from Dutch-language media, reported that plaques honoring Black soldiers who fought for the United States during World War II were removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery, a U.S. military cemetery in Margraten, near the city of Maastricht. Over 8,000 Americans, including 174 Black soldiers, are buried at the site. Two panels commemorating Black soldiers were added to the cemetery in 2024 at the urging of Shefali Razdan Duggal, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands at the time. However, these panels were removed “earlier this summer,” according to the Black Liberators research project. One of the removed panels discussed the segregated conditions under which Black soldiers served during World War II; the other highlighted George H. Pruitt, who died in Germany at age 23 while attempting to rescue another soldier.
Conservative U.S. think tank complaints preceded removalSocial media user @ChrisO_wiki, self-described as an “independent military history author and researcher,” brought attention to the change on social media.
In a series of posts that have gained over 1 million views, ChrisO_wiki noted, “The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.”
Dutch News confirmed that the right-wing Heritage Foundation complained earlier this year that the American Battle Monuments Commission violated President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity orders, and the commemorative plaques were subsequently removed. Most of the 15 political parties in Limburg province, where the cemetery is located, have signed a letter requesting a temporary or permanent replacement for the removed panels.
Trump and the Heritage Foundation push a right-wing agendaThe removal of the panels from the American military cemetery is in line with the policies of the Trump administration. Since returning to the White House, Trump has issued executive orders banning or curtailing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Among other impacts, the orders have been followed by the removal or censorship of information relating to Black history at various parks and museums, as well as the censorship of Black history in the U.S. military. The Heritage Foundation, meanwhile, is the influential conservative think tank that has long impacted Republican policies and is responsible for Project 2025, a massive plan to restructure the U.S. government and society. Despite previously claiming to know nothing about the plan, Trump has since implemented much of Project 2025 after returning to office in January.
Now, it seems that the reach of the Heritage Foundation and the Trump administration’s anti-diversity efforts has extended to Europe. With the administration and its conservative supporters continuing their efforts to whitewash American history, Dutch media and politicians are taking up the cause of remembering Black soldiers who served and died for the United States during World War II.
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| To: Thomas M. who wrote (349476) | 11/11/2025 9:03:59 PM | | From: Thomas M. | | | | When far-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos tried to speak at Berkeley in 2017, Antifa started a riot, burned the campus, maced and beat random Trump supporters, and ultimately got the event canceled due to the violence.
The media deflected the blame away from the left:
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| From: Wharf Rat | 11/11/2025 9:43:21 PM | | | | | | 'Difficult to overstate the damage': Judge's striking rebuke of AG Bondi's DOJ instantly shows up in a bar complaint
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Several days after a U.S. magistrate judge criticized U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's Justice Department for an "indict first, investigate later" mentality in the prosecution of ex-FBI Director James Comey, a bar complaint has been filed against the controversially appointed rookie prosecutor who secured the indictment.
Left-leaning watchdog group Campaign for Accountability's (CfA) bar complaint, filed Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, accused the former defense attorney for President Donald Trump of violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, similar in approach to allegations that New York Attorney General Letitia James' attorneys levied in recent weeks.
The group, which brought a complaint against a different Bondi "special attorney" in August, asserted that Halligan's widely publicized berating of Lawfare's Anna Bower on Signal about the pending James prosecution — and her decision to seek indictments against the NYAG and Comey when career prosecutors believed the evidence against Trump's rivals was insufficient — together warrant the scrutiny of the Florida Bar and the Virginia Bar.
"Once in office, Ms. Halligan reportedly disregarded the conclusions of numerous experienced career prosecutors who had thoroughly investigated [Mr.] Comey's statements and found prosecution unsupportable. She then rushed to indict Mr. Comey in just four days, apparently failing to properly analyze the testimony at issue, the result of which was that she failed to recognize Mr. Comey's statements were literally true or at least not provably false," the complaint said. "Similarly, it has been reported that Ms. Halligan disregarded the conclusions of numerous experienced career prosecutors who had thoroughly investigated Ms. James's mortgage documents and found prosecution unsupportable. She nevertheless rushed to indict Ms. James soon after she was installed as Interim U.S. Attorney, again apparently failing to properly analyze the documents at issue[.]"
Questioning Halligan's competency and candor, while also slamming her extrajudicial statements on Signal, the complaint quoted remarks U.S. Magistrate William Fitzpatrick made from the bench not even a week ago.
"At a November 5, 2025 hearing in the Comey case Federal Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick criticized prosecutors saying, '[r]ight now, we are in a bit of a feeling of indict first, investigate later,'" the complaint said.
Fitzpatrick was not the first jurist to make a statement of the kind. In September, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui criticized the DOJ's "many misfires," reportedly describing the government as taking a "we'll arrest people … then see what happens" approach to law enforcement.
The bar complaint alleged that Halligan did much the same by "proceeding with charges that career prosecutors, as well as, in Mr. Comey's case, a special counsel appointed by President Trump, deemed unsupported by evidence," apparently referring to former special counsel John Durham, who was appointed by ex-AG Bill Barr, not Trump.
Halligan, the complaint continued, "appears to have violated her additional responsibility as a prosecutor to refrain from prosecuting charges not supported by probable cause."
"It is difficult to overstate the damage wrought by Ms. Halligan's actions," CfA said, before placing Halligan at the center of "[w]eaponizing the DOJ to prosecute the president's enemies could destroy the democratic principles at the foundation of our Constitution."
"Her conduct undermines the integrity of the DOJ, appears to have violated multiple provisions of the Virginia and Florida Rules of Professional Conduct, and undoubtedly will erode public trust in the legal system if permitted without consequence," the complaint concluded.
Notably, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as recently as Friday at an annual Federalist Society event for attorneys, responded directly to this very criticism.
"When I read now that we're weaponizing, I feel like I'm being gaslit, because we're doing exactly the opposite," Blanche said, according to Politico. "I take umbrage at the idea that the work that our prosecutors are doing is weaponization, because I have receipts. I know what happened the past couple years. I've lived it."
Blanche, the No. 2 official in the DOJ, like Halligan was a criminal defense attorney for Trump. |
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| From: techtrader73 | 11/12/2025 12:08:23 AM | | | | | | |
Elon likely envisions an AI system with computational scale matching a star's fusion-powered complexity, enabling it to "think" at cosmic levels. This aligns with xAI's quest to understand the universe's fundamental nature, potentially simulating stellar minds or harnessing solar-scale energy for advanced cognition. It's a bold step beyond human limits toward god-like intelligence. |
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| To: Mongo2116 who wrote (354669) | 11/12/2025 1:12:20 AM | | From: i-node | | | | JACKASS While I don't see it the same for most people it is easy to understand why he would: He's a real estate investor and has been for decades.
I've known many in the same business, and while they may be mostly dead by now, I expect most would have agreed with him: A residence is an investment and over time, buying a more expensive home is worthwhile even if it takes longer to pay it off.
I have a pretty good understanding of business math, and see it differently, but these are things rational people can disagree about. |
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