SwampYankee

That or all out war between Israel and Lebanon.

Did people start cheering and weeping tears of joy when they heard your accent?

I’m sure there’s good Italian food in the North End, but no local would go there to find it. You pay a premium because it’s the North End and you and every other tourist had the same idea.

You may have better luck in Cambridge, Allston or Brookline for food in general. Easier to park and get a table, too.

Yes, have fun. Worcester’s great. Check out Kelly Square.

As a Masshole, yes, please don’t drive when you come here. You will be in someone’s way and catch a glimpse of the state bird:

Now, granted, the OP didn’t say anything about corporatism, which was originally developed as a comprehensive ideology under Italian fascism. However, it’s not as simple as in the OP - “corporate power protected” and “labor power suppressed”. In fascism, both corporate and labor power are subservient to the state, and fascist corporatism involved the input of both private industrial interests and labor interests. Ultimately it was the state making the decisions, though. I suppose it’s important to remember that fascism arose as a response to class conflict in the aftermath of the industrial revolution - a third way between bourgeois liberalism and communism. In this sense, the point was to establish an equilibrium between capital and labor. Corporatism was the means to that end. In fascism, in practice, this often meant that capital simply colluded with the state, and left-radicalism in labor was violently stamped out so the workers could be brought to heel. Workers were then treated quite well, assuming they didn’t run afoul of the state because they belonged to one of the many groups that fascists considered enemies.

Many European nations still practice forms of corporatism, although today the state is more like an equal partner to the other parties. So I guess my point is that corporatism is not distinctly fascist, despite developing under fascism.

Fair enough. I only made the comment about calling the texts fake because some people seem to be making that claim, usually alongside the idea that a 20-something wouldn’t text like that - the “my love” in particular. Your typical 20-something also wouldn’t do an assassination, so it’s a spurious line of reasoning.

We have text messages between the shooter and the roommate. If you want to call those fake, that’s your right, but that’s going to be a major piece of evidence in the trial.

In the texts from the indictment, the shooter says:

I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.

The shooter also calls the roommate “my love”. There are some friends, neighbors, acquaintances corroborating that they were in a relationship.

The roommate’s gender identity isn’t 100% clear. There seems to be some evidence from social media accounts that they’re trans.

I don’t think you can call this shooter “far right”. Not clear that he’s a groyper in my opinion. The Discord messages are pretty milquetoast. I certainly wouldn’t call him a leftist either. Seems he was (more than) okay with LGBTQ folks, but that doesn’t tell you much about his broader views.

Frankly, I’ve always pronounced his last name “booty judge” because why not.

All my homies hate homophobes.

… By which time the kid may have been gone, or at least far enough away that he would have been hard to hit.

Or, you know, this violent, impulsive sack of shit may have had 10 extra seconds to think about what he was doing and be like “oh yeah, I don’t want to go to prison”.

You know, I thought I had seen enough on the internet that nothing would surprise me…

Wait, expressive activity includes expressive conduct? Who would have guessed?

The national intelligence director said she was referring Obama administration officials, including ex-FBI director James Comey, to the Justice Department for prosecution over allegations they had “manufactured” intelligence to substantiate the idea that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump beat Obama’s former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

James Comey, huh? The guy who dropped the email scandal in October 2015 and handed the election to Trump? That James Comey?

Chinese organized crime is huge in illegal grow operations, but obviously that doesn’t make it right to point to people’s race as a determining factor in the decision to investigate “unusual” electricity usage.

Vladimir, STOP! :'(

I’ll have you know my lawn is a crop and it yields social status.

Hmmm… maybe time for the left to appropriate the 30 to 50 feral hogs meme.

Well, Newsom is suing which is… fine. I think he should deploy his remaining 20k troops to kick the (4700 and counting) feds out, but that’s playing with fire. Going forward, as I suggested, states need to make sure they control their Guard deployments. This could take the form of legislation or executive orders at the state level, or, since it’s already federal law that the orders go through the governor, a simple memo informing the Guard that anyone from command down to rank & file will be immediately arrested for following illegal orders.

And on your other comment, yes, by the letter of the law that was illegal, although it was a slightly more complicated situation because as the article states:

Eisenhower and Faubus agreed that the Arkansas National Guard would remain at the school to maintain order, so the black students could attend.

… then Faubus reneged on the agreement.

Whatever. Right now, in the time that we are currently living through, during which an unhinged aspiring dictator is deploying military forces on US soil for immoral reasons, is not the time to equivocate about legality.