OK. So by that logic, let’s say you are touring Europe and have a heart attack. The paramedics are in the area and available, but refuse to take you to the hospital. You are left to die on the street.
You think you deserve such foul treatment?
When a government is informed that people are dying within its waters, and the gov has the capability to respond but deliberately chooses not to because the victims are “african”, you think that the government bears no responsibity for their deaths?
Is it really so different though? The outcome of both situations is the same. Migrants are dying, through direct action and deliberate inaction.
Mediterranean nations have the opportunity to protect lives, but instead they choose kill / let migrants die.
Or maybe… It is the realization that we exist in such a sad state of affairs, that an absurdist performance is nearly indistinguishable from the legitimate politics of a non-negligible voting bloc.
You are defending willful negligence that leads to the deaths of migrants.
Up to 1 in 13 migrants die in the Mediterranean. Italy as well as Greece have been allowing migrants to die as a part of deterrence-based migration policy. Rescuing the passengers of capsized migrant vessels has been criminalized. There are plenty of articles that confirm these facts. Here is one example.
What do you mean “palestine”?
Do you not recognize the Palestine Authority, but instead believe the entire region has always belonged to israel via biblical predestination?
It was “palestine” before it was ever “israel”, unless you mean the mythical (biblical) “Kingdom of israel”, of which there is no evidence of its existence.
The fact is, Zionists invaded “palestine” and took the land and homes of the then-current native Palestinians for themselves.
But sure, free “palestine” from those who murder civilians and children.
right now
Only just recently?
Line goes up in relation to how successfully the corporation pursues the agenda of those with power (read: money).
Scientifically speaking, many diagnostic laboratories could detect the virus. However, red tape, billing issues, and minimal investment are barriers to quickly ramping up widespread availability of testing.
Yeah, we can do the tests, but we’re not going to unless old Uncle Sam starts sending us truckloads of money. It sure would be a shame if people started getting sick… Also, those new regulations “to ensure the safety and effectiveness of laboratory developed tests” are so lame. You should really do something about them if you want to have these tests done.
Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics, and other major testing companies are in the best position to manage a surge in testing demand because they can process hundreds per day, rather than dozens. But that would require adapting testing processes for their specialized equipment, a process that consumes time and money
Yeah so, we made all this tech that is entirely incompatible with the standard tests, so if you want us to start testing these people, you’ll have to use our proprietary product stack throughout the entire process, start to finish. You know what they say; vertical integration, vertical profits!
There’s only been a handful of H5N1 cases in humans the last few years,” he said, “so it’s hard for them to invest millions when we don’t know the future." The government could provide funding to underwrite its research, or commit to buying tests in bulk
We’re a business. We’re here to make money. No, we’re not prepared for a widespread outbreak. That would cost money. If you really want us to do our jobs, the government should not only pay for our existence, but also for additional bonuses and dividends to our executives and shareholders.
For real though. Corporate execs are once again holding the health of regular people hostage so they can extract ransom payments from the US government.
For-profit healthcare will always be a farce.
Do you think people who speak English, would have read the text in German? No.
The words are slightly different, but they have the same meaning. What do you think he means by it? Or when he calls immigrants criminals, murderers, rapists, animals, and “not human”?
These are fascist statements. Nazis called Jews these things as well, rounded them up, put them in camps, often separating parents from their children. The US is already rounding up migrants, putting them in detention camps, and separating parents from their children. Trump wishes to expand these programs, and Biden refuses to end them.
They are literally doing eugenics at migrant detention camps. “A for-profit ICE detention center forced sterilization procedures on immigrant women”
What about when Trump had dinner with a well-known antisemitic fascist?
Why do you think white supremacist, neo-nazi hate groups choose to support Trump?
Project 2025 lines out a set of actions very similar to those the German Nazi party did to install an authoritarian regime after gaining power.
To say Trump is Hitler would of course be ridiculous. However, their ideologies are similar, and modern day fascists are rallying behind Trump.
It’s gross.
Trump is quoting and agreeing with part of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf, a book entirely dedicated to fascism.
If you read the NBC article I linked above, you can compare the original from the text with Trump’s quote and see how similar they are.
Systematically discriminating against and causing harm to people based on their identity or race is fascism. You would be correct in saying that around the globe, many of the laws and actions around immigration today can be called fascistic.
Criminalizing the rescue of drowning migrants so they die before reaching land is one such policy.
Sure, but “effectiveness” is usually not a binary and is often difficult to measure. Small, but persistent changes should still add up. Eventually.
So long as people recognize that these things are in fact quite toothless, I’m not sure they are entirely detrimental. There’s no reason this couldn’t be used as a starting point for more effective action, now that signatories are in greater contact with the campaign.
I don’t know.
I still think there’s at least some value, even if the only thing it accomplishes is getting people to talk about it. Many people have never even heard of The Internet Archive.
Either way, there isn’t really a reason not to.
Money.
Sure, but it is still better than doing nothing.
the California government didn’t give him money for that
Right, but Las Vegas did and still is. It’s more about how so many people in power were duped into believing it was ever a reasonable method of transportation. It would be dishonest to call it anything other than a publicity stunt / tourist attraction for SV tech bros.
I mean it’s the first system of its kind in the country and it’s being built in a state full of NIMBYs
Acquisitions through eminent domain have been used for far more nefarious purposes in the past.
the ticket cost will be 100 dollars from San Francisco to LA
I would be pleasantly surprised if that comes to be reality, though the cost of the project keeps rising and business school drop outs are going to demand costs be recouped through higher ticket prices.
What?
I am criticizing that the project is 10 years behind schedule and that there are very few comparable initiatives to expand passenger rail.
Instead of prioritizing work on proven solutions, funding is going to fringe science fair projects. Elon Musk literally got government permission and funds to dig a subway tunnel for electric cars.
Even if the CAHSR project is completed, it will likely be expected to run as a for-profit enterprise like Amtrak, making ticket prices unaffordable for many commuters.
Pedantism does not change the fact that the passenger rail system in US is severely underdeveloped when compared to other nations.
So, they’re throwing money at Silicon Valley tech companies that want to sell speculative and unproven tech because they can’t figure out how to build even a single train?
Relevant username?
I’m sorry, but there is no situation where it is permissible to stand idle as someone suffers an untimely and preventable death.
Even soldiers at war, captured in foreign territory without visas, are entitled to lifesaving care.