Try taking longer than a few seconds.

paid Rylaarsdam $11,000 to engage in fetish play

Damn … guy must be simping bad. Because that’s way over the going rate, even for fetish-heavy stuff. That’s approximately 4x what I’d expect it to cost…

Why the fuck does one landlord own 5000 apartments in New York?

Maybe Hegseth has a Lemmy account?

People, even politicians should be allowed a level of privacy.

No, not politicians. They should have to sacrifice their privacy in return for power. Because the risk of corruption is too high. Leave nowhere for it to hide, nowhere at all.

The US has a 40 hour workweek already*, but we don’t have anything about after-hours contact or pay cuts.

*Unless you’re salary exempt, an ‘independent contractor’ gig worker, in certain agricultural jobs, or other exceptions.

And the average person would prefer to die, rather than blow Hegseth even once.

Yep. Politicians’ (and candidates’) tax returns should be public … and so should ALL their financial information as well. We should be looking at any politician’s bank statements and stock transactions and credit card transactions and utility bills anytime we want, available instantly, as soon as they happen. They should be required to report how much cash is in their wallet on a daily basis. We should be able to tell whether or not they’re subscribed to Netflix and where they stopped for breakfast this morning. And if you don’t want that huge invasion of privacy: no problem – just don’t run for office.

A cease and desist says stop fucking around or I’ll take legal action.

Take what legal action? The news outlet violated no laws here.

it’d be propaganda

Which is exactly what they want. Make it illegal to publish anything about any GOP politician without their permission.

And doesn’t care.

And actively encourages them by paying them. Because they boost engagement and bring in more ad views.

Small, symbolic victories. Huge, practical defeats. It’s what the “”““left””“” has been accomplishing in the US for decades now.

Those fucks would pay people to attend if they have to, just to keep up appearances.

Plus the ones ‘missing in action’ in Ukraine.

both Ukraine and Russia as stated need to be dissolved an actual democratic worker-led governments take their place

Hey, an actually somewhat decent take.

But still, in the meantime I’m going to be against the invading warmonger more than I’m against the one getting invaded.

and Russia is likely out of resources to continue playing nice

You call what they’ve been doing so far ‘playing nice’?

I would have guessed something more like a manager saying, “Well, all my kitchen employees have gone to the hospital for heat stroke, so I guess we’ll have to close for the day, since they literally can’t work.”

I suppose having the Commander in Chief fully compromised by Israeli intelligence blackmail material is a pretty high espionage threat, yeah.

This libertarian republican is voting straight Democrat this fall.

Hopefully a trend that will continue in the future.

Because this maniac isn’t doing it alone. All the other Republicans (or damn near all of them) are right in there with him, providing cover and blocking any attempts to stop him.

I’m honestly shocked that they didn’t just tell the court to suck a fat one.