The Political Thread

[Chris]

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Pope says 'backward' US conservatives replaced faith with ideology

Pope Francis condemned the "very strong, organised, reactionary attitude" in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.

www.euronews.com

Ah man, it's pretty funny when even the Catholic Church in Rome thinks you're a Christian extremist.

 

[Jay-Ashley]

Pope says 'backward' US conservatives replaced faith with ideology

Pope Francis condemned the "very strong, organised, reactionary attitude" in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.

www.euronews.com

Ah man, it's pretty funny when even the Catholic Church in Rome thinks you're a Christian extremist.

I remember hearing something similar from a Father at the local catholic church in my town. He basically said," Using religion as your bases for hate and prejudice and justification of hate and murder is about the same as a nation thinking that if they bomb a country then it makes it safer."

 

[Chris]

Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations

The announcement of the 10 drugs kicks off a Medicare negotiation process that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Doom]

Mississippi Democrat wins primary, set to become the state's first openly gay lawmaker​

MSN

Very happy for him.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years, longest Jan. 6 sentence yet

The former Proud Boys chairman wasn't present at the Capitol attack, but prosecutors said he acted as "a general rather than a soldier."

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Jay-Ashley]

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years, longest Jan. 6 sentence yet

The former Proud Boys chairman wasn't present at the Capitol attack, but prosecutors said he acted as "a general rather than a soldier."

www.nbcnews.com

He also cried like a bitch, complained about the prison system, and is begging trump to free him lmao

 

[Comrade Khan]

praise the sun

 

[Jay-Ashley]

Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

Mexico’s Supreme Court has thrown out all federal criminal penalties for abortion. The sweeping ruling issued Wednesday declared that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights.

apnews.com

Funny how several Catholic Latin countries are allowing abortions, but the one with "freedom" doesn't. World is going crazy I say

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

France reportedly in talks with Niger for possible withdrawal of its troops

Talks under way for the ‘partial withdrawal’ of troops amid frayed ties following July 26 coup, according to reports.

www.google.com

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.

Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12.

A real hero, ya know?

 

[Doom]

This is fucking horrible news.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

California is first US state to pass ban on caste discrimination

Legislators said the measure would remove "invisible shackles", but Hindu activists said it singled out South Asians.

www.bbc.com

 

[Jay-Ashley]

That is more a cultural thing than anything laws or government can really control

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

That is more a cultural thing than anything laws or government can really control

It's generally meant to protect Southeastern Asians for the most part.