Al-Shawa: Palestinian citizens who went out to receive aid returned to their families as corpses
Al-Shawa: Palestinian citizens who went out to receive aid returned to their families as corpses
Amjad al-Shawa, director of the NGO Network in Gaza, has confirmed that aid distribution centers supervised by the American security company and the enemy army have been transformed into military sites serving the Israeli and American agendas.www.saba.ye
Past Trump has come back to haunt present Trump
Past Trump has come back to haunt present Trump
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Gavin Newsom has shifted his stance on running for president
Gavin Newsom now says he could run president
Newsom has long implied that higher office wasn’t on his mind. Lately, he’s begun publicly acknowledging his presidential ambitions.Alexei Koseff (CalMatters)
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'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar.
Now, some say, following an audacious attack by Ukraine that saw hordes of drones smuggled into Russia and then deployed on June 1 to wipe out dozens of long-range bombers, it has arrived on their doorstep.
In the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, drones struck air bases, shocking Russian authorities and citizens.
"It was a fiery hell," residents of the Irkutsk region told RFE/RL's Siberia Realities.
In Siberia, some 4,000 km away, residents appeared to be shaken.
"Now the war has reached us too," residents told Siberia Realities.
'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar. Now, some say, an audacious attack by Kyiv deep inside Russia means it has arrived on their doorstep.RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities (RFE/RL)
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Reminds me of wildfires.
Australia was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history, and it was said that, while wildfires are inevitable, climate change contributed to the scale of them.
Saw loads of Americans call it alarmism, abd not an issue because it was just Australia.
Then the next year America was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history. Suddenly those same people were wondering if it could be that climate change thing.
Oh totally.
I’m on the us west coast and the national news (think USA today, cnn, fau, etc.) is all “there is smoky weather over there or smthn, anyway here is a monkey dancing” each summer (local news is covering the smoke obviously)
BUT as soon as it started drifting eastward and reached Nyc/DC then the news lit up with it about climate change/hazardous conditions.
Funny how that happens
and now we collaborate quite nicely! we share fire fighting helicopters and fire fighters often fly over to help each other, since our seasons are offset
hopefully that remains and isn’t just seen as “giving things away” and used as a bargaining chip in a perverse game of number go up
Are you implying Ukraine was wrong to pull off this attack?
Because that smells like Russian apologism.
Edit yeah you can see whenever you catch Russians when they're thought they were being "smart". It's honestly ridiculous how low your bar is for that. It's almost like interacting with another species.
Well this attack is to make Russia realise they should stop killing Ukrainians?
Ukraine isn't doing it for fun, you know?
There were dozens of long range bomber destroyed. Bombers which have been dropping bombs on Ukraine, killing people.
So now there's less of that.
So... why the comment about "maybe stop killing people?" That's literally what Ukraine is trying to achieve with this.
Edit you downvote all you want Ruski bots
Oh I do. Lemmy is filled with Russian bots, who the fuck cares about votes? Lol.
So it's a pacifist comment then?
Because either it realises this attack destroyed equipment thats used to kill people, thus leading to less killing (ie on the way to stopping killing) or it's a "Ukraine shouldn't be bombing Russia, everyone should just live in peace" which is just dogwhistling Russian propaganda as there's definitely not any actual Ukrainian pacifists here.
And they're the ones getting bombed. But you're just here for a snarky oneliners, you don't possess the capacity to argue it.
Run along kiddo
Yeah, anyone who isn't a screaming idiot can see it.
I'm a Finnish person, in the Finnish reserves. I gladly kill Russians who break international laws, like the pathetic sack of shit Putin is.
And I can prove that.
I'm not like davel@lemmy.ml who claims to be American while sucking Putler's cock, spreading Russian propaganda.
From the downvotes and still not receiving an explanation to the first comment, yeah, everyone with a basic education from a developed country would know, yes. I assume that grouping doesn't involve, among others, you.
Dare you say any of those things or are you a pussy afraid of getting arrested over writing things online and then "having an accident"?
Yes, the old "mentally ill people have nothing to contribute".
Ever stopped to think about how stupid that fucking argument is, since more intelligence usually means a highers likelyhood of mental disorders?
Some of these leading professors in bipolar diseases take heavy doses if lithium for their personal bipolar diseases.
Disregarding that, the implication you're making is that there aren't Russian trolls on Lemmy, and definitely not a concerted effort of any sort, ever. And if there are Russian troll on Lemmy, they certainly wouldn't lie about being Russian trolls. Like davel@lemmy.ml is always admitting he's a Russian shill.
Oh no wait, he's always pretending to be an American.. How weird, isn't it?
Edit, weird how you stopped accusing me of being a Russian troll? 
There is a ignore button for you to use.
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth. Tells a lot about you, as a person.
So, you don't believe in Russian disinfo?
Why did you stop calling me a Russian troll?
Why can't you answer ANYTHING?
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Whst exactly do you think I've asserted at any point in this thread, except for personal facts about me, like that I'm part of the Finnish Defence Forces?
I've explicitly stated I've not asserted anyone being definitely something. So please, do enlighten me?
Perhaps your English isn't yet on the level where you can distinguish "assert" and "imply"?
You realise you're still avoiding insanely simple questions, right?
Unlike some, no matter what I say here, I don't have to fear physical reprisal. Unlike Russians. In Russia, being a journalist is extremely fucking dangerous, and that's why most Russians are afraid for their lives and would never admit what a small-cock authoritarian Putin is.
Eugh. Such a bore, just vomiting the names of fallacies, not even understanding how one uses them.
Well, make it clear for everyone. You admit that Putin is a war criminal who should be seized and trialed for crimes against humanity, IMMEDIATELY? Right?
Why on Earth would you imply I "think otherwise"? Oh right, your verbal skills aren't enough to answer a single fucking question in English.
I forgot, izvini comrade.
edit just a reminder, this is my personal knife, and it's explicitly for killing Russian war criminals;
Stress on the pronoun "I" there.
I'm manufacturing defense of Putin? Me? A member of the Finnish Defence Force? A Finnish reserve member, trained to kill cyka ruskis?
Me who's saying Putin is a pathetic balding whore afraid to even appear in public because his country hates him so? Putler, who has an ICC warrant ouf for his arrest?
icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukr…
I bet you don't dare to say any of those things.
Please, prove me wrong in that aspect. Please
ps how much military training you have?
No, I didn't misunderstand it at all.
I'm clarifying it.
You don't understand how clever Russian disinfo is. That is a comment that should be read as "Hey, Russia, please stop and Ukraine won't have to keep doing this to you" but it can also be read as "War is always bad, so this too was bad".
The fact there's two options and this is a pro-Ukraine article means it needs clarification. Because Russian disinfo accounts rely on things like that to build credibility to their accounts. If you're not completely sure when checking an account, if it's a little messy to figure out who a person is for and who they're not for, you're more likely to give up. And then that account can continue.
Lemmy is fucking infested with Russians.
And if you think this is cynic or paranoid or whatever, I've a bridge to sell you
Mate, as much as I want to believe you and I think you are right in general terms, in this particular case it is a false positive I have not tagged this account and I've glanced the account and I didn't see anything that would be tankie like.
However yes lemmy is infested with Russian disinfo but this ain't it chief.
I'm definitely not implying the first account is pro-Russian. (I didn't even check the profile)
I'm just pointing out there's an alternative way to see it, and we should be mindful of the sort of language we use and the implications it has.
Ah well, if you trust everyone on the internet, dear stranger, then so do I.
Henceforth I shall never question anything. It's not like bad actors actually exist.
Why bother retaining any sort of suspicion towards anything? It'd just be a waste of energy. Well meaning people have never been taken advantage of as far as I remberer.
I’m clarifying it.
That's the issue. You misunderstood and you try again and again to be right on the internet. It won't work. May I suggest some meditation? meditofoundation.org/ is free.
Medito Foundation - Building a more mindful world
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Youre simplifying it.
Why is it that people online think they're masters of nuance, and other people just don't even understand what the word means?
Do you have any idea how good Russian disinfo is? That's like the only thing I'll ever give them credit for; spycraft and manipulation. They're fucking experts at it. CIA relies on machines and could never manufacture campaigns to shift Russian public opinion on the scale that Russia manufactures opinions in the Anglosphere. Russia uses people, and extremely effectively. Social engineering more than hacking, simply put.
I meditate daily, probably since you were born. If you speak Finnish, I'd suggest listening to Väinö Pertamo "Itserentoutushypnoosi" to learn the basics. Unfortunately even if you find the clip and manage to read the words said in it, I don't think it will work, because it's so much about the timbre of dr Pertamo. Basically more than half the lesson is not about the words.
Anyway, that aside, the point is I genuinely am glad of the downvotes. That will make some people question, why? It is quite the innocent comment. But to say it's obviously the meaning which is more likely, is well, to fall into the trap.
I'm not saying what it is. I'm pointing out that vaguely positively comments on Ukraine communities are something which Russian accounts use at the start to render credibility to their accounts, without having actually said anything that's not in-line with their propaganda.
You can jest and say I misunderstood and am making shit up, or that I'm being paranoid, but again, I simply care more about actually having this argument out there than you mocking me for it. For all I know, (and I underline I do not believe in this at all, but it is possible, if not even plausible), you're part of it. As me making that point would reveal that tactic, rendering it less useful unless it's "thoroughly debunked".
That's what happens with all of it. Once I caught davel@lemmy.ml, we went on for days, him claiming he's American. Now he doesn't even post anywhere else than lemmy.ml, because he knows he can't mod, so he doesn't want to, because he knows I or some other troll-hunter will be on him like stink on a pile of shit for the pretend-American he is.
And he's probably not even paid, just a nationalist moron. The people who actually get paid aren't that stupid.
Because again, Russia is terrifyingly good at manipulating people.
Although a part is ofc the ubiquitous nature of English and somewhat arcane nature of Russian. It's easier for a Russian to pretend to be from the West than the other way around. Except in voice chats. Reminds me of when I caught a Russian on the Irish national discord. He claimed he was Irish, but lucky for me their egos are easy to hurt. Dude didn't even know what a limerick was or where Limerick is. Once I managed him on voice, he had such a strong fucking Russian accent, and the most pathetic attempt at hiding it and trying a cartoonish Irish one.
It was hilarious.
So again, mock me all you want. No such thing as bad pr when it comes to talking about Russian disinformation
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Hate crime against gay people isn’t recognised by law
...it's not recognised in e.g. Germany either? Crime is recognised by law which plenty of states consider plenty. Punching people outside of self-defence is wrong doesn't really matter to many jurisdictions why you're doing it.
Protections against workplace etc. discrimination were introduced in 2014, gay marriage is on society's agenda but as so often the first reading was controversial and now there's a war and the constitution can't be changed, anyway.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland. Ukraine is a post-soviet state so the starting point was "not great, not terrible" (that is, it wasn't literally illegal to be gay but no social acceptance whatsoever), and is moving in the right direction. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Do note that the likes of right sector don't have wider societal backing. Politically, they're very much fringe.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland
Yes, Poland is a reactionary hellhole too. Being compared to Poland in gay policy is fucking dire.
is moving in the right direction
I hope you're right
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It was a fiery hell
No it fucking wasnt, they just destroyed some planes and you watched them burn from a few kilometers away. Victim complex ass people.
After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-06-11)
After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-06-11)caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-deny…
———>> Since May 27, some 160 people have reportedly been killed in massacres at these #GHF sites, which people in Gaza are reportedly beginning to refer to as a “death trap”.
>> But, again, … Israel and its spinmeisters were crying antisemitic blood libel at the very suggestion that #IDF troops would fire upon people trying to obtain food.
>> Even without the CNN report [edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/mid…], Israel’s own actions since June 1 have proved that Israeli forces do indeed deliberately fire upon starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid. Israel lied. Again.
>> … They’ve been caught lying so many times that there is no reason to take any of their denials seriously.
#CaitlinJohnstone #CrimeAgainstHumanity
@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a controversial federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which executive orders or policy initiatives they will help advance.
New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
Trump will continuously monitor all federal workers for “trustworthiness.”…Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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at some point he will require that they have his portrait hanging in their homes
dictators always do
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All the court cases are part of the strategy.
Force the Left to spend money to fight in court, while the taxpayers foot the bill for Donnie's lawyers.
It makes us weary, and drains out wallets.
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Yeah, there's a name for it. But I forget what it is.
"Schlock and aaaauuuuughhhhhhh"?
There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.'…
And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands -- all that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.
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It also requires essays on applicants' commitment to upholding the Constitution, furthering government efficiency, and maintaining a strong work ethic.
As though it's remotely possible to support both Trump and the constitution.
Say the allegiance!
Do I have to?
Yes!
I pledge allegiance to Trump of the United Corporations of the world and to the corporations for which they stand one world nation under Trump with trickle down economics for all.
Britain doubles down on defense boost with new fleet of nuclear submarines
The United Kingdom plans to build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and increase military spending in response to threats from Russia and Trump.
The United Kingdom will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a boost to military spending designed to send a message to Moscow — and Washington.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain “cannot ignore the threat that Russia poses” as he pledged to undertake the most sweeping changes to Britain’s defenses since the end of the Cold War more than three decades ago.
Britain doubles down on defense with new nuclear submarines
The U.K. will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines and create an army ready to fight a war in Europe as part of a boost to military spending.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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And the US will bird dog or sell out your fleet locations at every turn. Morons.
Hang Farage and make some real moves, greedy cowards.
Personally I would instead consider how the recent advances in drone technologies could be applied to underwater operations and/or water-based launch platforms.
Nuclear submarines feel like a relic of the cold war at this point.
**a stealth submarine receives a long wavelength communications about an enemy craft due to enter its area the next day. she changes course towards the kelp forest it passed earlier, knowing the risk of prop entanglement. Nothing her crew can't handle. She notices that she has developed a certain liking to the flavour now, as she begins grazing on the long slimy leaves.
Immediately her internals begins to work at dehydrating, digesting and then producing the derived materials which feed directly to an intricate set of machines that weave back and forth, materializing a small fleet of self guided swim drones that will soon find themselves swimming towards the unsuspecting enemy soon.**
Major companies abandon law firms that signed deals with Trump: report
Major companies in the U.S. have begun shifting legal work away from prominent law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ reported on a legal luncheon at Manhattan's Cipriani restaurant in May, where Brooke Cucinella, a top lawyer at the hedge-fund Citadel, told other lawyers present that they like working with lawyers who don't run from a fight.
Not only are firms that struck deals losing clients, but those actively challenging the Trump administration in court are attracting new corporate business, per the WSJ.
Major Companies Abandon Law Firms That Signed Deals with Trump: Report
Law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration are facing corporate consequences according to reports.Sophie Clark (Newsweek)
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Major companies in the U.S. have begun shifting legal work away from prominent law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
You and I both called this.
Not only are firms that struck deals losing clients, but those actively challenging the Trump administration in court are attracting new corporate business, per the WSJ.
Based.
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It makes sense.
How do the clients know that these law firms aren't sending every bit of confidential information to the Trump administration, attorney/client privilege be damned? Even if they are breaking the law in the process, why would it matter? The Trump administration can just hand-wave that away. Even if the law firms don't want to turn over the information, what do you think they're going to do when Trump says "Hand it over or I've got another EO waiting on my desk to be signed."?
These law firms have been compromised, and no sane client should be retaining them.
Populist Nawrocki’s triumph threatens Poland’s place at Europe’s top table
Victory of radical-right candidate could seriously destabilise the coalition government of pro-EU prime minister Donald Tusk
The victory margin of the nationalist Karol Nawrocki in Poland’s presidential elections may have been wafer-thin, but it marks a huge upheaval in the country’s political landscape whose impact will be felt not just in Warsaw but across the EU.
Backed by the previous ruling conservative Law & Justice (PiS) party and, openly, by Donald Trump’s Maga movement, Nawrocki, a radical-right historian, defeated his liberal rival, the capital’s mayor, Rafał Trzaskowski, by 50.89% to 49.11%.
His win means PiS retains a size-11 boot in the door of Poland’s politics that could seriously destabilise the coalition government of the centre-right prime minister, Donald Tusk, and threaten the country’s newfound place at Europe’s top table.
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Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher's price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.
Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Walmart announced plans to raise prices on some products in May as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs.Marni Rose McFall (Newsweek)
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and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that
I'd love to see this same perspective voiced with equal indignation when Joe Biden campaigns with black people and pledges support for BLM, but then doubles down on militarizing the police once elected. (Among other outright lies.)
Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
Absolutely not. If you want people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for. Despite knowing the deep unpopularity of Biden's presidency and campaign, the Democrats crowned a weak candidate (wait no, two weak candidates really) who promised to change nothing about it. If we're being reasonable here, one has to credit Democrats' outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
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Protest non-voter apologia, excuses, and mental gymnastics
Some day, maybe, they'll take responsibility for their own actions. Today is not that day.
Much like the Democrats who told poor people that they should, you know, just be joyful about it.
Then again, to take responsibility would require some introspection.
You of course can blame whoever you want, deep state, establishment, democratic party (never republicans though, for some reason), but that would be the deflection. Up until recently, US had a shitty but semi-functioning democracy, and whatever is happening is a result of your collective chosing.
one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
They're beholden to the same forces of campaigning and capital in a first-past -the-post system. If they wanted change that matters, their financial backers pull out.
So how's their strategy working out for them?
There are two groups at fault here:
1) The protest voters refusing to take the simplest action to prevent what is now happening.
2) The people who said "we're not going to try to change or improve anything because we're running against a literal dictator so it's not like we have to actually try to improve people's lives. What are they going to do? Let Hitler win?"
So how’s their strategy working out for them?
For the privileged classes, it's working out splendidly. For now anyway.
The fundamental problem with American politics is that you've got a party of callous, narcissistic far-right lunatics slavishly loyal to Capital that only knows how to lie, cheat, and be corrupt as all get out while the news media endlessly runs cover and gaslights the country into believing they're actually quite moderate and reasonable.
And then you've got the Republican Party coming in to replace them and make everything worse.
This isn't a problem of "Critical Thinking". This is a problem of the Bastions of Liberalism electing Gavin Newsom as Governor of the West Coast and Eric Adams as Mayor of the East Coast. And these are your top picks for President in 2028. Meanwhile, the furthest left-wing voices in the party are so utterly buck-broken that they can't admit they've once again kicked several billion dollars towards genocide. The moderate liberals in the purple states are vetoing wildly popular legislation that kinda-sorta prohibits price gouging in rental unit markets. The party leadership fully embraces cryptocurrency as a rich vein of fundraising cash. The conservative wing of the Ds is full on TERF
Think critically about the current state of the American political establishment and what you realize is that you're boxed in. Everyone of note is bought and paid for. The population is fully gaslit by a consent manufacturing machine running on overdrive. The best case scenario for someone of liberal disposition is that the government simply ignores you. The worst case is that gestapo punch through your door and drag you to an overseas prison to be tortured to death.
Republicans are frothing at the mouth for more, more, more. Democrats only know how to shrug, pocket more donor money, and tell you that Biden would have fixed everything if you'd just voted for him.
In states, some Democrats back anti-trans bills
Democrats in conservative districts are choosing to vote against LGBTQ equality groups, and the last Democratic president.David Weigel (www.semafor.com)
That’s why a total Revolution is the only actual solution.
Total Revolution is difficult and requires a very active, committed group of supporters acting both within and outside the administration. Absolutely something you want to aim for, but often the product of generations of struggle.
You could, for instance, argue that the current Trump/DOGE government is a kind of (counter-)revolution that is finally overturning the Progressive Era of liberal democratic government. But this was a project that played out over decades, with each new wave of outsiders agitating and being rebuffed and regrouping to try again, while moderates on the inside cleared more and more space for radicals to infiltrate and overturn the New Deal and the Warren Court.
If the Democrats wanted to try reform they would be acting completely different.
The deeply unsettling and grisly truth is that Democrats are as much a part of the Trump/DOGE government as the Republicans. Liberals demand a return to Clinton-Era governance and Chuck Schumer responds by posting taco memes while complaining about Trump being weak on Iran. They have been as much a force in moving our country towards fascism as the Republicans, through constantly splitting and vilifying the progressive opposition while holding out deceitful promises of reforms they never planned to implement.
Like, we're in the midst of a Revolution. It's just not the kind folks on this site want.
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No, it's not.
It's the fault of the Democrats, who had an abundance of information about the unpopularity of Biden and his presidency, and then made a series of awful decisions about the presidential campaign, not the least of which being nominating a weak candidate who prioritized Biden's ego over appealing to voters.
You also cannot tell voters who've been getting poorer while you've ruled that you won't change anything, and definitely shouldn't tell them to be joyful about it.
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Is it not the voters fault though?It’s the fault of the Democrats
...and...
You also cannot tell voters who’ve been getting poorer while you’ve ruled that you won’t change anything,
The opponent promised all kinds of things to voters who had been getting poorer, most of those promises were straight up fantasy, while others were distorted mistruths.
In your mind, do you think voters are free from have any responsibility for critical thinking? If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
and definitely shouldn’t tell them to be joyful about it.
This is the second time you've used this exact same language. Can you cite the source where you're saying Democrats told people they should be joyful?
If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
If I'm starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says "I will do nothing to help you" while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says "I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life" I'm going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
If I’m starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says “I will do nothing to help you” while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says “I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life” I’m going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
Except its not a "better than a guaranteed nothing". The liar didn't just not shower you with food, he stripped you of what little clothing you had left, and threw you out in the desert to die faster, and he even has a history of that, so its not like you didn't know the liar was capable of it.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
Sure, maybe I starve to death faster, but you give most people a choice between "100% chance you starve to death" and "99% chance you starve to death and 1% chance you don't" and they will take the 1% chance.
At least the lying man admits there's a fucking problem. "Everything is fine and nothing needs to change" was not a good strategy.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
With the lying man, as in my example, you won't starve to death, you'll die from exposure long before you die of starvation. If you're seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I'm not sure what to tell you.
At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem.
He's not admitting there's a problem, he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote. This man stiffed his own employees and contractors on a regular basis. On what evidence in his entire life, did you arrive at the conclusion that rich donald trump wanted to do anything at all to improve the life of people like us? Not words. Actions.
We don't have to speak in theoreticals though. trump won. Are you glad he got voted in? Is your life better now? Or is this now worse than under Biden?
If you’re seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I’m not sure what to tell you.
There's dying, or a 1% chance of not dying. These are in fact not equal.
he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote
Which to someone starving to death is a lot better than someone saying "everything is fine, keep the status quo".
Are you glad he got voted in?
Nope. I was spending time trying to argue with people to do the bare fucking minimum to stop this, and the Democrats did not help with their campaign of "lets change nothing because everything is fine."
Is your life better now?
Not an American. I'll be fine. I can just understand why someone who is desperate (which according to polls is over 50% of your population) could decide to vote for someone who says they want to fucking change things, instead of the people saying everything is fine and they will change nothing.
Donald lied repeatedly
No It Won’tNo it won’t.
It just won’t. None of that will happen.
You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Why would we not blame the voters?
Ignorance is not an excuse. We should not normalize that.
They were told, repeatedly, by everyone, including every economist in existence, that tariff's would be a tax on consumers. They didn't listen, because they're fucking assholes.
This guy has already lied to them many, many, many times over. They didn't learn either because they're unbelievably stupid, or committed to hurting others so much that they chose to turn a blind eye to the lies.
Of course I'm blaming the voters.
I commend these employees for posting the price increases.
Despite TACO Don's lies, really, we all knew this was coming. It's good to have validation, regardless.
As best I can tell from Trump administration statements, their strategy for mitigating their political damage has been to publicly demand that WalMart and other companies just take losses as he increases their input costs.
That's not going to happen, but I suppose that it doesn't matter, if enough people believe that it could.
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Liberal: "Haha, stupid conservatives, now we're all going to drown together, you idiot."
Conservative: "Fucking smug liberals, I'm going to put another big hole in this boat, just to show them."
Leftist: "Shit! Fuck! Guys, please let's not drown. We need to come together as working people and fight to reclaim the boat we've all worked so hard to build."
Liberal/Conservative In Unison: "God damn Tankies. This is all their fault. Let's throw'm overboard."
Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey previously told Newsweek: "As we look ahead, while operating conditions are expected to remain dynamic, our strategy is clear, our top-line momentum is strong, and we are flexing into our advantages to protect margins as we grow."
"Look, lord knows what our fuckwit President will do next, but our plan is clear. While our profits continue to be strong, we'll use our heft to squeeze suppliers and our near monopoly in rural areas to squeeze customers. In any case, we'll protect our bottom line and continue to grow."
Lemmy is big on making fun of "forever growth". But that's how the world has always worked, there is no ideal steady state. We Americans are within a couple of years of slamming into the brick wall of "can't buy shit".
Nothing will save us but straight raping the rich for what they've done to us. And since they've bought and paid for all the mechanisms to claw back even a morsel, too late. There will quickly come a time when they can no longer be their own best customers. We provide the labor, value and purchasing power.
I spent more for groceries than I ever have before last week.
I'm not looking forward to the future.
As a USian that just got back from world travel, the only freedom we have here that’s different from many places is the freedom from nasty-ass tobacco smoke EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. It’s the only freedom we have that’s better at home than elsewhere.
Also the weed and beer are way better here.
I do think it's ironic that a chunk of the places that have universal healthcare still have a massive smoking problem.
I can't help but wonder in a silver-linings-to-shit-stains kind of way if part of the reason smoking was curbed as much as it was in the states (aside from successful votes/lobbying) is because it's too expensive to die from.
(although I am a wimp in the cold).
it's 18°C here, and I'm frozen. No way i'd ever survive in Canadia.
There are only two places on Earth:
- Countries called the US
- Countries the US is planning to invade next
You've got some catching up to do then.
Pink is countries the UK has invaded. Purple is everyone else.
Newsweek has reached out to Walmart outside of regular working hours via an online contact form.
Lol gotta love how Newsweek doesn't even have someone they can reach out to at Walmart. At this point Walmart's PR department is probably an intern with a microsoft copilot account since no matter what shitty thing they do nothing happens to them and people still shop there.
You know where you notice this? As an American buying appliances in Europe. You can buy a front loading washing machine for 300€, including VAT. A refrigerator? 400€. Three years ago I paid 1800 for a fridge in the us, and last year bought a scratch and dent special washing machine for $600
Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.
The oven fan drives me nuts. It allows them to sell stupid shit like air fryers. Put convection in my fucking oven and stop charging up to $1000 extra for the option.
Also the combo washer dryer. I stayed with friends in Belgium for a month over 25 years ago. They had a front load washer/dryer. One appliance. We are now finally seeing these in North America but they suck balls and are really expensive.
Oh I hate them combos, great in theory often poor in practice. They are usually in rental properties here, cheap and cheerful resolution.
The ovens are crazy, no wonder the US have all these appliances. My oven steams and a dude on here would not believe me saying its not practical to have an industrial oven in my house.
To be fair though we have a higher voltage residential supply too so you guys might not be able to as effectively use this shit.
Due ye have dual supply or step up?
To be fair I got what I paid for, I paid shy of two grand for two full size ovens that include a steam and microwave function. We use them all the time. Do you guys have down draft hobs? Best thing I ever bought for the kitchen.
I'm not a typical North American. I have a full kitchen outside my house in an outbuilding that is fully set up as a commercial kitchen on three phase power. Inside my house I have typical shitty North American appliances. The "outdoor" kitchen is all second hand bought at auction commercial restaurant appliances. Gas stove tops. Commercial electric ovens. Vent hoods. The whole thing. It's taken years and years to build up.
We grow, forage and raise a lot of our own food and have a small galley style kitchen in our little house that just isn't practical for large batch stuff like butchering and canning.
HitlerPig's primary campaign promise was to lower prices, which were already under control. Now prices are going up significantly, and the media isn't going after him for it. I have heard him claim in multiple interviews that gas is $2 a gallon, and yet I've never heard a journalist challenge that easily disputable lie. There is not a single place in this country where gas is $2, so why aren't they demanding answers when he says this? Where is it $2?
Every interview should be demanding how he intends to bring down prices, like he promised, and when it will happen.
Well, you see, the people who voted for him weren't actually expecting lower prices, they were expecting racism, because they're racists.
So far he's delivered on schedule.
To be fair, there's a portion of Trump voters that just believe him because they're idiots who don't pay attention to any news and lack even the most basic critical thinking skills. I know from firsthand experience as several of my family members are in this category.
They're not red hat wearers but voted for him because they're poor and he said he'd make things cheaper. They're surprisingly not racist, but their stupidity supports racism.
And most of them are socialists. I sat my reliably republican voting aunt down and had a discussion about policy. Point for point. Healthcare. Immigration. Labor. Even stuff like gay marriage. Point by point I proved to her that she was and always has been a socialist. But the instant the big scary S word left my mouth her pavlovian conditioning kicked in. I was a fool and an idiot. Didn't know what I was talking about. etc.
She shut down the convo.
Always have to clarify for the pedant that can't use context clues...
I thought it was made up organically by internet users as the source, rather than repeated from some peice of media.
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
the US struck a secret agreement with Ishii. In a memo to General Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964), commander of Allied forces in Japan, Washington recognized that although war crimes had been committed, the experiments led by Ishii and his colleagues were "almost incalculable and incredibly valuable to the United States."In exchange for the records of Unit 731's experiments, the US granted Ishii and his assistants immunity. Ishii died, and his collaborators went on to have careers in prestigious universities and private laboratories.
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
Newly uncovered documents confirm Japan's ambition to develop biological weapons during the Pacific War. The infamous Unit 731 of the Imperial Army in Harbin, China, was not the only group to use human test subjects.Philippe Pons (Le Monde)
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
The model works well for the Kremlin because it allows it to easily recruit freelancers, or “disposable agents” as they’re sometimes called.Elisabeth Braw (POLITICO)
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“We anticipate worsening conditions across all directions this summer,” said the senior lieutenant in the Kostyantynivka area. “Personnel are exhausted. There are not enough rotations. Everyone is operating at the edge of their limits.”
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Bitcoin e il rischio crollo del 75%: verità o esagerazione? Il mercato delle criptovalute è costantemente soggetto a cicli di espansion...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was extradited from Lebanon to the UAE in January, with no information disclosed to his family as to his charges and whereabouts.Qaradawi was arrested in Lebanon in January, and extradited to the UAE over a video he posted to social media while visiting Syria, in which he expressed critical views of the Egyptian, Emirati and Saudi authorities.
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In March, a group of United Nations human rights experts raised the alarm over Qaradawi’s continued forced disappearance, and called on the UAE to disclose his whereabouts.
They further expressed concern regarding the legal process of Qaradawi’s extradition, which was triggered by an arrest warrant issued by the little-known security body, the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC), saying that the move was politically motivated and not based on legal criteria.
The extradition process orchestrated by the AIMC, they said, “is being abused by some states to silence criticism, shut down dissent, and pursue activists beyond their borders”.
The Arab Interior Ministers Council: What is it and why are there human rights concerns?
Read More »Qaradawi is one of an increasing number of perceived political dissidents targeted for extradition by the AIMC on seemingly political charges.
The experts also warned that Qaradawi could face further extradition to Egypt, where he faces a three-year prison sentence for “spreading false news”.
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
The family of disappeared Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi have issued a plea to the Emirati government for his release, as he marks 145 days of solitary confinement at an unknown location in the country.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Russia is using its army to try and take more of Ukraine. It's using its passports to control the population
For more than three years, every time 67-year-old Iryna and her husband stepped beyond their front door, the Ukrainian couple feared for their lives.
They could be caught up in shelling or in a drone strike — or end up being interrogated by security agents at gunpoint as they tried to cross a checkpoint in the southern part of Kherson region, an area still under Russian control.
Iryna, who CBC News agreed to identify only by her first name due to her concerns about retribution from Russia, said she and her husband felt they had no choice but to get Russian passports last year. That was when the local stores closed and it became impossible to get groceries without going through a Russian checkpoint.
Like many other Ukrainians, she and her husband accepted Russian citizenship because they feared what would happen if they didn't.
there are people here who believe the english language doesn't only deserve zero respect, it deserves active disrespect. I personally use proper punctuation and grammar when trying to be authoritative, but i also think getting upset about people not following arbitrary formalities is pointless in this context. no capital is involved; no laws either. so long as i am understood, who fucking cares?
if that's not an energy you can get comfortable with, then i really doubt this'll be the only problem you have with lemmy's culture
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
About 320 tons of fin whale meat were unloaded at Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, with some 1.6 tons set to be transported to six markets across the country including Tokyo and Osaka as raw meat.
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of Okhotsk.Japan Today
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There are traditional cultures that hunt whales, like Inuit people. But they take one whale, not 25.
Japan is not hunting in a traditional way nor holding to what their ancestors did.
That's fair. But Japan is harvesting fin whales that are second in size to the blue whale. Those whales are facing a huge proplem with overhunting.
The Faroes hunt is for pilot whales and dolphins which are not facing as an extreme population degradation.
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules - DeSmog
“The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March.Sam Bright (DeSmog)
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Brawny Paper Towels made from Great Smoky Mountains National Park trees
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Hello there! I was using Wayland for quite a while and things are more or less smooth (NVIDIA proprietary driver). I think it’s time for Manjaro to move to Wayland by default for both Plasma session and SDDM.Manjaro Linux Forum
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I'm partly to blame for this.
I have telemetry turned on and recently switched to Wayland. They're looking at the data and decided me switching was the final straw.
My Manjaro desktop already migrated.
I decided to install Plasma next to XFCE to see if I liked it. Then I thought I might as well try Wayland too.
Turns out the combo works great, even with games and Steam, so I'm quite happy with it.
Wayland had/has a couple of missing features. Personally, it's nothing I use so I've been on Wayland for years now, but if you care about those missing features, then they won't work.
Honestly I don't even remember what they were anymore. I think screen capture was a big one though.
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal - DeSmog
The Alberta premier suggested feds could “carve” the northern port out of the legislation, making way for a new oil corridor to the coast.Taylor Noakes (DeSmog)
Manjaro Linux tornará o Wayland ativado por padrão
O Ubuntu não é a única distribuição Linux planejando uma grande mudança, pois o Manjaro KDE Plasma também planeja migrar para o Wayland.
Em uma postagem no fórum do Manjaro, Artem Grinev, responsável pelo KDE, intitulada "Manjaro KDE Plasma planeja migrar para o Wayland", ele afirmou: "Tenho usado o Wayland há um bom tempo, e as coisas estão mais ou menos estáveis (com o driver proprietário da NVIDIA). Acho que é hora do Manjaro migrar para o Wayland por padrão, tanto para a sessão Plasma quanto para o SDDM."
A postagem é curta e direta, com um pequeno FAQ e algumas opções de votação para os membros do fórum do Manjaro relatarem sua experiência atual com o Wayland.
Na imagem: a versão mais recente do Manjaro KDE Plasma
Esperamos que, quando a mudança for realizada, tudo ocorra sem problemas.
Mais detalhes na postagem do fórum.
Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they're going all-in with GNOME on Wayland.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Sweden urged to end international adoptions
A Swedish inquiry exposed systemic abuse in international adoptions, including how children were trafficked and taken without consent.
A Swedish commission on Monday called for an end to international adoptions after uncovering widespread abuse and fraud spanning several decades.
"There have been confirmed cases of child trafficking in every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, primarily in the context of private adoptions," Anna Singer said as she handed her report to Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Gronvall, who said her department would review it.
The investigation found that some children brought to Sweden were adopted without parental consent, falsely declared dead, or handed over by individuals who were not their legal guardians.
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Presidential election outcome a blow to Poland's government
Right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential runoff by a whisker. The result is a bitter blow for Donald Tusk's pro-European government.
Poland's State Election Commission announced on Monday morning that the right-wing conservative historian and euroskeptic Karol Nawrocki had received 50.89% of the vote in Sunday's presidential runoff, putting him marginally ahead of his liberal-conservative, pro-European rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, on 49.11%.
Nawrocki will be inaugurated in August, succeeding President Andrzej Duda, who, after two terms in office, was no longer able to run for president.
Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian from Gdansk, was nominated by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. PiS presented Nawrocki as a non-partisan, independent "citizens' candidate" although his campaign was paid for and organized by the party and his program aligned with that of PiS.
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Nothing changed in Poland, the last president was a dirtbag too.
Slovakia is what it is, but Fico can usually be reasoned with.
Hungary is going to oust its government in less than a year.
I mean, compared to that new guy, Anjey Dupa is a saint.
I've happened earlier upon what Lech Walesa wrote in Facebook (?) about results of these elections, and it's just heartbreaking.
Even Fox News isn’t impressed with Musk dodging question over alleged drug use
Howard Kurtz accused Tesla and X CEO of ‘deflection’ in answers about New York Times reporting
A Fox News host called out Elon Musk’s response to the New York Times report alleging drug use while the billionaire was working as Trump’s senior adviser at DOGE.
The Times report alleged that Musk was frequently using magic mushrooms, ecstasy, Adderall, and ketamine in amounts that caused him bladder issues.
When asked about the report during an Oval Office press briefing on Friday, Musk questioned the newspaper’s credibility.
“Wait, wait, The New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on Russiagate? Is it the same organization?” Musk replied. “Let’s move on.”
On Sunday, Fox News anchor Howard Kurtz called out Musk for refusing to answer the question directly, saying he “decided to talk about something from five years ago involving the Pulitzers because he knew that he did not want to answer that question. That’s my take.”
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He still hasn't figured out he was always gonna be the first fall guy...
They'll blame all the damage on him before midterms to try and trick the rubes that it's not Republican's fault.
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TUBO. Pronounced like tub-oh because he's a fat lard-ass.
Trump
Unilaterally
Blames
Others
Trump Always Censures Others? Chides? Condemn? Criticize? Charges?
Edit: trump always rebuffs onus?
Edit 2: taro was not the goal... I'm a goof
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before midterms
We're not going to wait that long. DOGE cuts are already affecting people and this summer is going to hit some people HARD.
Some of the cuts will be reversed, at great expense, and next summer will hopefully be better. Then Trump will take credit for partially fixing the problem he created and declared victory.
Hopefully people aren't idiots but...
I meant that's when they'll start blaming Musk to try and keep Republicans in office.
Damage is being done right now, but it takes a while for people to feel it.
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And psychs.
But yeah, drugs can't give someone empathy if their brain isn't wired that way. Sociopathy (without any actual evidence to point to this conclusion) is potentially genetic.
It is possible to somewhat overcome this with the though process that "helping others will personally benefit me".
This video is a great eye-opener for this type of mindset:
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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His board of directors is glad to have him back. He has singlehandedly tanked his companies' brand image and sales with his irresponsible ego bender, and there has to be serious talk of a shareholder lawsuit in the works, especially after that last disastrous earnings report. The Board probably convinced them to hold off until the next earnings report, hoping things will improve, but it won't. Once a bubble pops, it doesn't reinflate again.
The only thing holding up the stock at this point is that it is a major holding in many institutional funds. As future earnings report remain poor, or even get worse, those institutional funds will start dumping it, and then it will fully crash. At that point, the lawsuit will go forward.
The Board is just hoping that by forcing him to get back to work, and not tolerating his nonsense any more, they may be able to avoid being named in the lawsuit as well.
Tesla will be bankrupt within two years.
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Even I'm not impressed by Elon Musk's PR team pushing a narrative of him being a victim of drug addiction in order to shift responsibility for his actions and also give him an opportunity to repair his public image by getting clean.
^ the real headline. There isn't an amount of ketamine you can take to make you do a sieg heil on stage
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Seems to be a side effect of being a billionaire, though.
Or maybe being a Nazi is just a prerequisite since you have to exploit a lot of people to get to that point, and the kinds of people who become Nazis are sociopaths who desire power above all else.
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Watch Elon Musk of 2012 vs 2025.
Long term drug use clearly destroyed his brain. He never was very smart but 2012 Musk is a fucking genius in comparison
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A BILL To prohibit the delivery of opioids by means of the dark web, and for other purposes.
Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
Here is the text of a bill introduced to Congress (US), ostensibly to combat the trafficking of opioids over "The Dark Web". There's a nice definition of "The Dark Web" at section 4.
I like the part where it says people are using "The Dark Web" both within the United States and "at the international border".
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1975/text/is?overview=closed&format=xml
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I like the part where it says people are using “The Dark Web” both within the United States and “at the international border”.
Because that would put essentially all computer crimes in ICE jurisdiction.
Trump’s Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On
Trump’s Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On: CNN Data Guru
The president is not happy with his new Wall Street-inspired moniker.Will Neal (The Daily Beast)
The fear of being publicly humiliated can lead a narcissist to stop functioning.
Are you wondering what it takes to stop a confident, high-achieving narcissist from functioning? Here are some situations that make narcissists feel totally inadequate.Elinor Greenberg Ph.D. (Psychology Today)
My culture is a very dominant culture, and it's imposing and it's causing problems. If you don't do something about it, you're going to have taco trucks on every corner.
Tell me you hate your own culture without telling me you hate your own culture.
Ok, ok, so maybe he doesn't like mexican food and doesn't like TACO.
Maybe he would like some Chinese food better? Like maybe Orange Chicken.
A video for Taco Man, parody of Macho Man by The Village People:
I will edit if someone finds a non-youtube link to the video.
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June 14: No Kings Day becomes a national holiday. The national celebratory dish: Tacos.
We can make it a tradition where the person serving the Tacos dresses up like a chicken runs to an Effigy of Trump and the party bawks like a chicken at it for good luck and long health.
Leftist can't do shit. I can't even think of the last good meme any of them kept alive more than a few days. Everyone is passive. It's rare to see them create content or organize this stuff to make it happen. It's a great idea, don't get me wrong. But like fuck will any leftist engage in anything beyond showing up to police approved protests so they can arrest and charge their leadership. Even if you did do this, the leftist mods would ban you from sharing the content until you were regulated to some weird corner that resides within the already smaller corner of the internet. And then most would down vote you. Lefty's are too dumb to plan and action this type of thing.
Bahaha Holy shit, I scrolled down to already see people saying that we shouldn't call him taco. I didn't have to get very far. Love it. Fucking useless
I mean, come on. Can you honestly say I’m wrong?
Tomorrow, you're all going to wake up and do the exact same thing. Check the headlines. React leftily. Complain into the void for a minute. Then log into social media and start dodging, blocking every right-wing group pumping out daily content. Nonstop memes, anti-COVID hot takes, “lefty tears” nonsense, trans jokes, Joe Rogan clips, cancel culture rants, just a constant churn of engagement bait, and it works.
You'll bounce between platforms, curating a safe feed. Facebook’s a mess, Reddit’s fucked, Lemmy’s a small last stand. You read this week’s posts of the moment while barely remembering the four that got quietly dropped last month. You gasp at what the right is getting away with again.
But do nothing. No counter-content. No message discipline. You won't organize, and you won’t create. Meanwhile, the right is expanding their media machine building, posting, podcasting, meme-ing, shaping narratives for millions.
Then it’s off to work, where your coworkers are proudly sharing the same memes you tried to scrub from your timeline this morning. And when it’s all said and done? You’ll go to bed, wake up, and do it again the next day.
You guys can get snippy and down vote or come at me to try to win some dumb online argument. None of it changes that this will continue until you all get lucky again and the Republicans lose because they fuck something up. You'll win from no effort from any of you on the left. It'll be from the right being assholes and going too far.
I have a guy that still hangs banners on the highways overpass. I see at least 5 stickers on bumpers every time I leave the house. It's crazy.
And when you bring this stuff up to people on the left, they're more interested in winning online arguments then addressing these issues and admitting we have a problem of being way behind the times.
The left really does encompass this academic mentality of losers sitting away in towers pouring over books thinking they're the smartest and the best while everyone else is outside getting shit done. I'm just so tired of people on the left telling me how dumb the people on the right are, while the people on the right are winning in almost every arena. I'm so fucking tired of seeing thousands show up to protests while nobody is actually making content online or standing on bridges of whatever the fucking equivalent on our side would be. We're all so ineffective.
You seem pretty confident that he wouldn't do that anyways based on incompetency already.
Like you said : he’s unstable. Cowtowing would only assume his mood is stable enough to commit to any code of honour.
Sorry for waking you up if you’ve been sleeping for the past 9 years:
I implore you that if you haven’t been observing it already that you should observe what he’s done to anyone who’s bent the knee to him. He’s actually attempted to take the life of his last vice president.
Look up what he’s done to his own lawyers in the past who defended him.
Bending the knee is only going to come down on you even worse as you get to live on the wrong side of history by everyone else’s standards and be the biggest target of the biggest narcissist ever. Just look at who he pardons. Do you want to become one of those? A pedophile? A human trafficker? Insurrectionists of democracy? Cuz that’s who he’s dedicated to. That’s who he finds powerful to mimick.
the only people who have had any actual power against him are those who oppose him. EG: the judges who aren’t backing down.
And after you’ve done some studying: i implore you to then gain some dignity and self respect.
It should be over your cold dead body that you ever take a knee beside convicted human trafficker and cowtow to a convicted rapist. A rapist who burried one of his own victims on his golf course so he can tee off on her. And paying off another victim while he sits as a president.
Seriously. Get some back bone. Cuz you really have nothing else to lose at this point.
I think it's more about finding something that clearly gets under his skin.
Weird that name-calling is that thing, but I guess it makes sense given how much time he seems to spend crafting names for other people.
Trump threatens new 'Dark Age' with policy of 'deliberate destruction'
President Donald Trump's administration is pushing a "deliberate destruction of education, science, and history," wrote Adam Serwer in a scathing analysis for The Atlantic published on Tuesday — and it recalls the "Dark Ages" that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
"Every week brings fresh examples," wrote Serwer. For instance, Trump "is threatening colleges and universities with the loss of federal funding if they do not submit to its demands, or even if they do. The engines of American scientific inquiry and ingenuity, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are under sustained attack. Historical institutions such as the Smithsonian and artistic ones like the Kennedy Center are being converted into homes for MAGA ideology rather than historical fact and free expression."
One of the most prominent of these attacks is on Harvard University, which the administration today announced will have all its remaining grants canceled, he said. That matter is currently the focus of legal action as Harvard fights back, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.
This purge is already snuffing out free thought across the country, wrote Serwer: "Libraries are losing funding, government-employed scientists are being dismissed from their jobs, educators are being cowed into silence, and researchers are being warned not to broach forbidden subjects. Entire databases of public-health information collected over decades are at risk of vanishing. Any facts that contradict the gospel of Trumpism are treated as heretical."
The result of all this will be to "undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us," he warned. "Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power."
And the harm done to America's ability to conduct basic research to improve our lives and advance technology is hard for lay people to comprehend, he continued.
While private companies do a lot of innovation themselves, he continued, "the research that leads to that invention tends to be a costly gamble — for this reason, the government often takes on the initial risk that private firms cannot." For instance, "commercial flight, radar, microchips, spaceflight, advanced prosthetics, lactose-free milk, MRI machines — the list of government-supported research triumphs is practically endless." And even when private companies do their own research, it takes a back seat to profit — after all, "Exxon Mobil knew climate change was real decades ago, and nevertheless used its influence to raise doubt about findings it knew were accurate."
As the Trump administration burns down America's capabilities in the pursuit of destroying "forbidden ideas," Serwer concluded, history could be on track for a grim repeat: it "will dramatically impair the ability to solve problems, prevent disease, design policy, inform the public, and make technological advancements. Like the catastrophic loss of knowledge in Western Europe that followed the fall of Rome, it is a self-inflicted calamity. All that matters to Trumpists is that they can reign unchallenged over the ruins."
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I don't think that will be the case. China has been filling the gaps pretty well in the absence of the US.
Instead of military imperialism, China's just going to conquer the world with its wallet.
26 dead after Israeli tanks open fire near Gaza aid centre, rescuers say
At least 26 people have been killed, and scores have been injured, near a US-backed aid distribution site near Gaza's southern city of Rafah, according to medics and residents.
A local Palestinian journalist told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near a humanitarian aid distribution centre when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd.
The incident reportedly took place to the west of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the injured are being treated at one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals in Khan Younis.
Israel denies firing at civilians after Hamas-run ministry says 31 killed in Gaza aid centre attack
The Hamas-run health ministry says more than a hundred people were injured in the attack. The aid distributor said the reports were "false".BBC News
Jees what were the odd of them dying right after that tank opened fire.
Damn terrorists, couldn't you die some other day?
"At least 26 killed amid Israeli tank fire near Gaza aid centre, rescuers say"
is the updated version, which I read as some may have died in the crush to escape or by falling or something during the slaughter and mayhem.
Which is typical media style to avoid expensive lawsuits.
Both the IDF and the "aid agency" claim NOTHING HAPPENED, while the doctors at the hospital say all fatal injuries are gunshots.
I'm not sure if they have any of their own people onsite, given that Israel isn't allowing it and has killed many journalists.
askldjfals;jflsad;
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Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.The Conversation
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
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From the author, a sentiment I fully agree with:
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