ToastedRavioli

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Under the law, the word “reasonable” is not the loophole that it looks like at first blush.

Reasonable suspicion requires some degree of concrete evidence, it just means it doesn’t have to be a smoking gun. For example, reasonable suspicion of stealing would be something like a person being in possession of an inexplicably large number of unopened electronics when there has just been a burglary of an electronics store nearby. They dont have to have you on camera recognizably stealing to arrest you in that circumstance.

Being black and in the vicinity of the robbed electronics store would not be something that “reasonable suspicion” covers under the law. This ruling is no different. It basically says that ICE cant just stop random brown people on the street, or conduct raids on random workplaces. They have to be looking for specific individuals for arguable reasons

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And for Missourians who dont know, we call trashy rural dipshits hoosiers because the original trashy rural dipshits in MO came from Indiana.

Sorry again Indiana. Although modern Indiana is much better now after offloading your trashy dipshits on us back in the day

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No, Im saying you should fuck off because youre too lazy to neutrally asses information, and too pathetic to question your obviously understudied opinion. You made no real argument whatsoever originally other than saying Obama wasnt a neoliberal president, which is just baseless and stupid. You refuse to asses information from an article that well predates the Palestinian Genocide by a longshot and has nothing to do with the conflict whatsoever. Youre just outright ignorant quite frankly

Best of luck living with your head in the sand, Im done responding to someone who doesnt converse in good faith

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Oh fuck off dude, youre pathetic and you know it. Go back to licking neoliberal boots

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Lol dude. If you think my perspective is not sound and that Obama isnt a classic neoliberal politician then you need to study his presidency yourself. The only one here confused about what actually went down is you.

Here, have an article to get you started

Literally the only thing remotely distant from neoliberalism that Obama ever accomplished was Obamacare, and even then that was just a half-assed version of actual progressive policy like single payer healthcare or medicare for all. And the reasoning behind why we never got real progressive policy when they pushed Obamacare is because the DNC is a neoliberal party in sheeps clothing. Just as Obama was. Read a thing or two before you say dumb shit online. The democrats had full control of the government, they could have revolutionized our country just as magats are doing now, instead they barely accomplished anything. They didnt because theyre a bunch of neoliberal fuckers. Its factual, not subjective

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“Anywhere Ive lived” is kind of an unnecessary qualifier when youre talking about 1/2 of what most people will make in their entire lifetime

Clues you in to who they consider “people” and who they consider wage slaves that exist for their benefit

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

The DNC is definitively a neoliberal party. Obama was one of the most neoliberal presidents we have ever had, as far as social attitudes go. He massively carried water for the whole “if I made it, anyone can” and “black people suffer from a culture of poverty” type of nonsense, both of which serve an agenda that is against providing social safety nets and actually helping people improve their lives. Neoliberalism is all about blaming individuals for the failures of government as a means to avoid bolstering social services

“Neoliberals have been run out of the DNC” is absolutely nonsense. Neoliberals running the DNC is 99.9% of the problem with the DNC today. Its the reason why true progressive politics fail so often

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

A state that is captured by the voting power of land over individuals. Missouri state government is completely beholden to the hoosiers in the boonies because there are more rural counties even though there are far less rural people. And then secondarily the rural people are propped up by dumbass McBee-wannabe suburbanites that vote conservative and wear cowboy boots recreationally.

Governor HeeHaw 2.0 is one such dumbass suburbanite who went to Chaminade in St. Louis, grew up rich, and now cosplays as the hoosier’s champion

Missouri at large is far more purple than the state government allows it to appear. It was purple for a long time and its still purple today, but a purple state that gives more voting power to land than people ultimately ends up red. Just look at our federal electoral system, its the same thing

What amazing civil service. Krusty Gnome is truly handling disasters like we have never seen them handled before

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The biden administration was even kind enough to hire the most limp-dicked milquetoast individual in the entire country to lead the DoJ

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43328674

The investigation shows that billionaires have become ‘ludicrously’ wealthier.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.joe.co.uk/news/uks-richest-50-families-have-more-wealth-than-50-of-the-population-494973


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42974027

"People are fed up with billionaires' greed eroding the environment and communities we depend on," said one supporter of the new initiative. "It's time for world leaders to listen and act."

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-wealth-tax-plan


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32316533

Jessica Corbett Jun 26, 2025

"Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday beat disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic NYC mayoral primary—but progressives within and beyond the city don't expect the billionaire class and party establishment that lined up against him to give up so easily. Going into the general election, those who believe in Mamdani's vision are encouraging him and his supporters to maintain the momentum of the movement they've built."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46779711

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40879690

"We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!" Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

"We're just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city."

The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/44292515

Without additional funding from Congress, close to 60,000 households are at risk of losing assistance, undoing years of progress in their lives and possibly increasing homelessness across the country by as much as 10 percent on average, and by even higher rates in some states.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31984374

Head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities, Gennadiy Goldberg, said that the crux of the $37 trillion problem is that no one knows at what level the debt becomes unsustainable. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that the U.S. government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Goldberg agrees with Bessent’s argument but states that the U.S. also does not tax much compared to both the size of the country’s GDP and government outlays. He believes that either taxes have to go up, spending has to come down, or some combination of the two, but warned that it’s very complicated to figure out.

The White House said on June 7 that the GOP tax bill significantly improves the country’s fiscal trajectory by including $1.7 trillion in mandatory savings, while Trump’s tax cuts will spur economic growth. Democrats have pointed to analyses showing the bill’s tax cuts will benefit wealthier Americans far more than low- and middle-income workers while also adding to the national debt.

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