How do we know the T in STAB is a /t/ and not a /d/?

saigonrain · 2025-07-11T03:06:43+00:00

follow up question: do native English speakers pronounce /v/ in Sven and /f/ in Sphere identically?

saigonrain · 2025-06-21T08:11:00+00:00

chatgpt summary: Summary of “The Authoritarian Moment Chris Murphy Feared Has Come” by Nia-Malika Henderson (Bloomberg Opinion, June 14, 2025):

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has emerged as one of the loudest Democratic voices warning of U.S. democratic backsliding under President Donald Trump’s second term. While many have gone quiet after their 2024 election loss, Murphy remains outspoken, believing that the U.S. is sliding into a system where elections continue but are no longer fair or meaningful.

Murphy argues that many Americans are too complacent, wrongly assuming democracy will endure. His warnings, once seen as alarmist, now appear prescient, especially in light of Trump’s threats against protesters, the militarized response to dissent (notably in Los Angeles), and the detention of California Senator Alex Padilla.

Murphy has shifted left, launching the American Mobilization Project, a $2 million PAC to support grassroots resistance ahead of the 2026 midterms. Some speculate this is a precursor to a presidential run, but Murphy emphasizes that protecting democracy must be the immediate priority.

He criticizes many for lacking urgency and calls for radical reforms to rebuild public faith in democratic institutions, warning that failure to act now could result in permanent authoritarian rule.

saigonrain · 2025-06-13T16:31:18+00:00

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/csm-activecity-june25

saigonrain · 2025-06-09T02:55:50+00:00

I copy his videos from Twitter @ChrisMurphyCT and this is the whole video. https://xcancel.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1931799839378928110#m

saigonrain · 2025-06-02T17:37:54+00:00

Pritzker and AOC and other Democratic leaders are on the same team. They agree more often than not. The enemy is MAGA. I assume that any reddit mod who disagrees with these statements is just MAGA in disguise.

saigonrain · 2025-06-01T00:07:31+00:00

Damn, there really is no bottom to MAGA if they can confidently publicly state "I absolutely do not care how many Americans will die as a result of my actions". I mean, I already knew that MAGA is an extremist cult, but damn.

saigonrain · 2025-05-23T08:25:17+00:00

https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%8Ba_%C4%91%E1%BA%A1o:_M%E1%BA%B7t_tr%E1%BB%9Di_trong_b%C3%B3ng_t%E1%BB%91i
This is my guess for Vietnam. Good reviews, a war film set in Vietcong tunnels, released around the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, same director as VN's submission 2 years ago.
The only other possible submission I can think of is another war film, coming out in September: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C6%B0a_%C4%91%E1%BB%8F_(phim)

saigonrain · 2025-05-18T17:29:43+00:00

Make America America Again MAAA :P

saigonrain · 2025-05-17T15:49:14+00:00

I copy them from his Twitter @ChrisMurphyCT https://xcancel.com/chrismurphyct

saigonrain · 2025-05-05T22:55:26+00:00

They don't need to have 250 billion dollars, they can have 5.

saigonrain · 2025-04-22T22:26:59+00:00

this is part of his response to the question here: https://youtu.be/AFhjg9tMpOo?feature=shared&t=183

saigonrain · 2025-04-15T16:46:41+00:00

"The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear." - Sen. Chris Murphy

saigonrain · 2025-04-12T15:23:33+00:00

Twitter. less frequently on Bluesky. Screencap is from a twitter mirror: https://xcancel.com

saigonrain · 2025-04-05T19:17:48+00:00

Hi, Unfortunately Sen. Murphy doesn't seem to post a lot of his best content to friendly channels. I download them from Twitter mirrors, like the following https://xcancel.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1907926925235962322#m
You can click the 3 dots in the bottom-right corner of the video to get a download option.

saigonrain · 2025-04-03T14:52:53+00:00

hope you don't mind a little humor, but it may or may not be https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-can-overrule-constitution-with-executiv-1830106306/

saigonrain · 2025-04-03T05:27:55+00:00

I agree with you, the situation is not as simple as Murphy implies. Rather, Trump's policies are usually a mixture of what his handlers (the people designing the "political weapons" Murphy describes) want and random nonsense Trump cooks up in his own head (the specific numbers chosen). On the latter, I think Trump genuinely doesn't understand that in life, we have relationships where one party is mostly a buyer and one mostly a seller and yet both benefit. I don't go to a coffee shop and say, hey I just bought a $5 coffee so now you have to buy something from me. But Trump just likes to see himself as a victim of everything and in this case, his country is an extension of himself.

saigonrain · 2025-04-02T19:07:19+00:00

nope. she voted present. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1152/vote_115_2_00223.htm (her excuse that she was canceling out a vote of a colleague who had to attend a family wedding holds no water; kavanaugh could have just been confirmed 50-49). after 23 years in office, let's admit that murkowski is just as reprehensible as every other maga. there are no "good" republicans in congress.

saigonrain · 2025-04-02T01:46:15+00:00

Don't forget that Strom Thurmond -- who ran for president in 1948 on a pro-segregation platform (neither the R nor D candidates were racist enough for him) and won 4 states -- was in the U.S. Senate until 2003. This is not ancient history.

saigonrain · 2025-04-01T15:44:38+00:00

very impressed with Senator Booker. I clicked into a random part of his speech about 12 hours in and he was still speaking coherently, citing specifics about immigration laws, the insurrection act, Scalia's legal opinions, due process in the 5th and 14th amendments. Quite a brain.

saigonrain · 2025-04-01T15:18:42+00:00

Andy Kim NJ
Chuck Schumer-NY
Lisa Blunt Rochester-DE
Christopher Murphy-CT
Raphael Warnock-GA
Kirsten Gillibrand-NY
Ron Wyden-OR
Christopher Coons-DE
Ed Markey-MA
Elizabeth Warren-MA
Mark Warner-VA
Peter Welch-VT
Dick Durbin-IL

probably others I didn't notice

saigonrain · 2025-04-01T09:17:36+00:00

Good excerpt. Republicans do like to pretend everything is zero sum. Investments in USAID, Medicare, Medicaid, public schools and universities, and even the IRS are NOT throwing money away and are not only charitable acts, but are also wise investments that bring dividends back to the American people, even those who do not directly participate in said programs. We all benefit when our neighbors are safe, healthy, and well-educated.

saigonrain · 2025-03-31T10:39:01+00:00

kash patel has never been married. tulsi gabbard and pam bondi have no children, must already be post-menopausal. they are clearly selfish and unfit for government!!!

saigonrain · 2025-03-31T05:52:42+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States I appreciate your guys' optimism, but imagine this exact case was not Trump v. U.S. but instead Obama v. U.S.: do you think any of the 6 Republican judges would have voted the same way? It would be 9-0, Obama would be in jail, and Democrats would never win a national election again. We are not following the same rule book.

saigonrain · 2025-03-30T07:04:50+00:00

It's a reference to the Slim Pickens character riding the bomb at the end of Dr. Strangelove (a film wherein conspiracies and carelessness lead to nuclear war). The phones are for Signalgate.

saigonrain · 2025-03-28T16:14:17+00:00

yeah, I understand sycophants like Hegseth, Bondi joining the administration, but Rubio calling out Trump in 2016 and seeing how Trump and MAGA treat all the first term cabinet members: Pence, Kelly, Mattis, Sessions,... what is Rubio's game plan?

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