Leftist leaders have to expect this. It’s a very old trick to discredit/blackmail people. South America knows all too well about political interference.

Go hard for limp noodles.

Ah the Honeypot. An oldie, but a goody.

Cast iron makes a great pizza crust.

One tip I like, is to sprinkle corn meal on the pan to lift the dough ever so slightly. It makes the crust just that bit more crispy on the bottom and chewy on top.

Ask them, not me.

Funny.

Perhaps a community of survivors and or allies has dialogue and insight they want to share publicly. “I wish the public were more aware about x”. Dispelling common myths for example. Sharing public information from outside sources.

For example, I heard Darun Khalel’s story (trigger warning) It was a powerful example of how even someone who did all the right things before during and after has to fight a system stacked against them. I came home and told my wife and daughter about this immediately and had another discussion about safety, trusting your instincts and what to do.

Edit: also the public forum could serve as a proving ground for vetting allies before inviting them to the next tier.

May I suggest considering what the community is supposed to be?

For example, an invite only safe space for survivors. Sharing is difficult, sharing trauma publicly perhaps more so. Should be private and invite only for survivors. Also make a mod team with governance that respects the community, up front, in writing.

If going for a forum where allies are allowed, consider the will of survivors. It’s their forum. Let them decide who and what is or isn’t shared, and whether open, invite or survivor invite only.

You can build 3 related communities if they choose. One for survivors, one for survivors and allies and one for survivors, allies and the public with different contributions and interactions.

This is at least as disturbing as it is reassuring.

Slavery was not a crime, until it was. The death penalty was condemned widely by civilized nations, Amnesty International, a breach of human rights under international law. Your definition of crime is blind.

And they did that because of loads of funding from those who understood the geopolitical power that comes from these tools and a willingness to accept massive spending and financial losses for decades, that normal investors wouldn’t touch, e.g. The US government. DARPA, NSF, DOD… funding

E.g. The Internet, Google, Apple, Tesla etc…

A surprising number of naive optimists.

Enshittification is SOP. Its open now because they want to lure market diversity into their ecosystem. You have a point.

Judging by the downvotes, it seems we never learn.

Accessory to murder. But hey, its ok when governments do it.

What would you call it if it were done to you? Terrorism.

The Carter doctrine was just an expansion and intensification of militarily defending their “national interests” in other people’s countries. More US imperialism.

Arming and training the Afghanis against Russia, who would later become the Taliban. Because the shaw of Iran’s CIA operations blowback didn’t teach anyone any lessons.

Arming the North Yemeni against the Marxist south during the south Yemeni war.

The Camp David Accords that settled the fighting between Egypt and Israel by settling palestinian lands without involving the Palestinians. It was condemned by the UN for not involving the palestinians and for egypt acting on behalf of the arab league without their agreement. It divided the arab league. Denied palestine statehood and avoided international consensus. Look where this lead us today.

There is more, but I have errands to run.

Seminole War.

He oversaw 30 “treaties” with natives as part of America’s systematic removal of people from his lands.

History writes him as being an advocate who fought for voluntary removal, not the forced relocations, but he was still responsible for stolen native land and colonialism. Bit of a whitewash here as colonialism is colonialism, and he only differed in degree, not principle.

He signed the Treaty of Indian Springs and later admitted the natives were under duress and it was not in good faith. Later treaties added compensation, but was a pittance of the lands true value and Quincy did not believe in Native property rights to begin with, or understand the native concept of land stewardship.

Do doctors do seasonal prescriptions? Titration takes time to ramp up and down.

That used to be true with the tecnological limitations of analogue and early digital systems. Now these functions are processed digitally. You can get excellent microphones that do not need to appear on camera at all.

It’s mostly for show and the popularity of the medium has built a market who want to look the part of serious people and wanting to evoke the image of the trusted old timers on the news, for one example, is part of the image.

Dat gap.

To be an American President, is to be a criminal. Every last one of them.

Edit: Ok downvoters, lets play a game. You name the president and I will name their crimes. Anyone is free to join. By crime, I mean where the rule of law was bent and ignored, thus neither blind nor just, and only tolerated legally due to the corruption and double-standards of the powerful at the time.