He might be a filthy half-measure loving democratic socialist, but he does occasionally do the right thing.

He stole and hid classified documents for potentially years so he could write a book. Oh, he also has a 45 year career of corruption, is one of the most right-wing US presidents in US history, and massively enriched himself even more than you might expect from the crawling pile of corruption that is the typical senator.

mpv exists so if vlc dies there’s just another reason to use linux.

Also dude has been approached and offered millions just for ad placement. I don’t think he’ll sell even if he’s dying or homeless. It’s a Terry Davis level of software development dedication at this point.

starmer expected to resign

Ding dong the genocidal far-right shit is leav-

Andy Burnham

Oh, Labour still hasn’t learned any lessons then. I remember when Labour had different values to UKIP. It really wasn’t that long ago.

I did word each claim in such a way that generally any search engine will provide supporting documentation within the first couple of results if you care to look. But you don’t, because if the information doesn’t come from your IDF approved news source it’s just propaganda.

In jail, you were confined. Usually your sentence was stay in jail. Maybe some literal classroom lessons. You’d be able to have your family visit. You were even in the same area you were arrested in the vast majority of the time, unless you were in a really rural location that simply did not have a jail, in which case you’d be transferred to the nearest village or city with a jail.

In gulags your sentence was hard labor, confinement, and total isolation.

It’s the difference between jail and prison in the US, or even most countries these days.

Oh hey an actual fascist on lemmy.world. I’m so shocked this keeps happening. Reddit is back the way you came, I can promise you weren’t banned for your views.

Dismantling bad ideas through debate, exposing their flaws, and addressing the root psychological and economic causes of extremism isn’t “doing nothing.” It is doing the actual, difficult work required to maintain a democracy.

This hasn’t worked out anywhere it’s been tried.

It is rising because of corporate capture, oligarchy, and the systematic destruction of the working class. When a society’s institutions fail its citizens, and those institutions then attempt to censor and suppress the resulting public anger, desperate people turn to extremists who promise to tear the system down.

This is a result of ‘too much free speech.’

By cheering for censorship and street violence, you aren’t fighting the rise of authoritarianism. You are helping to create the exact polarized and violent environment it needs to thrive.

Polarization is already happening by people more well funded and better educated than you. Expecting to educate a populace vulnerable to that overnight shows your ignorance of history and naivety towards the reality you’re in. The truth is that without consequences, these “polarizing” ideas flourish.

Political change should not be moving fast and breaking things.

It should absolutely 100% be that when the alternative is genocide and fascism.

sending Hamas to attack a music festival

Facts:

Hamas wouldn’t exist if Israel didn’t have a policy of killing children, as all of Hamas’ founding members had child family members killed by Israel.

Hamas did not attack a music Festival, Hamas attacked the homes of Military Officers and had a preplanned route Israeli intelligence knew about, which went through the relatively spontaneous music festival which was allowed to go forward despite Israeli intelligence knowing about the planned attack route.

Most deaths from the music festival were not from Hamas, but Israeli helicopter fire.

Most property damage from the raid was not from Hamas, but from Israeli rocket fire.

Is that what they do in Egypt and Lebanon? In Iraq? Resisting through random death and destruction in the name of their god?

Facts:

This isn’t a religious war. Palestine held more Christians and non-zionist Jews than Israel as of 2014. There are plenty of Christian members of Hamas and other resistance groups.

FUN FACT: More people died from IRGC killing protestors than this war agains the USA.

Facts:

This is misinformation. Disinformation at worst. While the “30k protestors” number, like the 400 gabrazillion dead in holodomor number is popular, it is entirely and totally made up. Most international observers have settled closer to the IRGC’s estimate of less than 3k armed revolutionaries dead, than the ridiculous 30k number.

But even if it were 30k, the US and Israel have killed more people during this war. The genocide of Lebanon has been severely under reported in the west, but current early estimates are at 100k defenseless civilians dead, with entire historic villages fully wiped out.

Iranians might be victims but the perpetrators are the IRGC.

Facts:

The US and Israel unilaterally started this war. This includes planting the revolutionaries in Iran that started the precipitating protests.

The revolutionaries in Iran were directly funded and armed by the US, as admitted by Trump.

Iran has a right to nuclear defense of its people.

Literally any news source. Here’s one. But every one has wrote about how “China has confounded analysts”

If it’s successful it might under cut the claims against Valve but they can just claim the press from the lawsuit helped break the monopoly – and besides the lawsuit was just for PR and to try to get Valve to break financially. It was always a longshot that it’d do anything else. If it’s unsuccessful, however, it can be blamed entirely on Valve and can be used to get the lawsuit to actually do something as “look we implemented everything Steam did and didn’t get any more market share.”

But Epic kinda doesn’t have a choice. They’re bleeding money, Fortnite is waning, they have no popular properties on the horizon, they’re hard into AI for customer service and moderation which is only getting more expensive, and they keep doing the sweetheart deals to devs for their game giveaways which haven’t really brought any paying users to the platform.

It’s either attempt feature parity or start cutting the consumer facing part of the business, and for one of the industry’s oldest and most prominent players that’s really not a choice they want to make.

Best case scenario it alleviates symptoms, worst case they relive the same trip constantly until it wears off which at least from the anecdote appears to have not been a bad trip. Either way that’s a better existence than being a five year old in a 80 year olds body one minute, and acutely lucid and aware of how little you have control of the next.

Sure, Chinese EVs have been popular in Africa, South America, Russia, and South East Asia for the last five years, which covers 75% of humanity.

The Racist Anglosphere and the underdeveloped slave capital of the world India are the ones far behind the curve, but Europe seems to be coming to their senses so that really just leaves India and the other developing country of the US.

Everywhere there’s a strong primary sales market, there’s a strong secondary sales market.

Also it’s not bigoted to point out India’s massive internal failing to develop even close to the same pace as China despite having a twenty year head start and much more western investment. The country in taking after its western masters decided against communism (for the most part) and has obviously suffered greatly for it. But hey, they get to be the underpaid call center workers of the western world, hurting western countries and bringing in so much… oh… oh no… what happened to all the money.

Money, and monopolistic behavior. Samsung, for instance, constantly pushes the “Samsung Account” on all their devices. Constantly. For the first two weeks after getting a new Samsung device you will be spammed with “finish setting up your phone” notifications that just want you to sign up for their tracking, and conveniently, when you’re logged into a Samsung account, their app store is the default. And you will get notifications from their app store to download or buy whatever app they recommend. I can only assume the other stores mentioned do similar things.

Hi, when I’m not in China I’m in the Choctaw Nation which is unfortunately in Oklahoma because Mississippi was just too valuable when they were carving out reservations I guess so I can give a lived experience perspective. You’re forgetting several key facts of this:

A) Voter suppression here in Oklahoma is real. Not only are you not going to be approved for time off to vote, you’ll probably be made fun of, and there will not be many campaigns getting you to try to vote. Also while there’s ‘anti voter manipulation laws’ (aka you can’t give water or food to people in line at a polling station, even if its medically necessary, and you can’t wear “political” shirts) there’s no law and usually no rules stopping you from being armed; so armed people “protect” polling stations.

B) Oklahoma is 50th in education and like 2nd in Churches per capita. This has obvious effects on its population.

C) If you’re somehow able to get past the intimidation and lack of polling places… congrats, you’ve been inundated with propaganda for the entirety of the election cycle. Facebook, which is the most popular social media site in Oklahoma, has had millions of dollars worth of ads pumped into it to spread disinformation on SQ 832. This disinformation campaign was repeated by every major employer, every church, and in every major community center. Which lead to:

D) No one actually supports this in Oklahoma. They believe, genuinely, at best, this will lead to higher prices and just uncap inflation entirely. Oklahoma has been behind the nation in terms of the recent cost of living crisis, but it’s just now really starting to come into effect. 2 years ago rent for a two bedroom in rural oklahoma (which is most of Oklahoma) was $400/month. It’s now up to $800/month. Anywhere near the two cities it was closer to $1k and now it’s up to $1500/month. The propaganda has played on this fact to stoke fear that it’ll just shoot up even higher (even though labor costs are practically nothing for rentals and thus don’t affect rent prices).

So you have a combination of literally financially not being able to afford voting, literally not being allowed to vote, and of course literally not being informed enough to want to vote because of propaganda.

To add to this Democrats and even socialist orgs which should flourish here give absolutely zero attention or resources to the state. Not that dems would help much here, given the only dems that get elected are Southern Democrats which are just Reagan Republicans except even more racist; but the point remains there’s no money countering the big money propaganda being pushed through every available channel.

So this outcome was entirely predictable.

Constantly moving goal posts in order to discredit a true fact because the way it was presented is not precise. This isn’t a scientific debate. This isn’t a paper. It’s a generic social media forum and people generally understand, barring any social development conditions, that exaggeration is acceptable as long as the general idea is true, even hyperbolic exaggeration. Everyone does this constantly in normal every day conversations. Conversations don’t stop and wait for you to look up something that ultimately is at best a minor correction, because it’s not needed and frankly its silly.

One was a river crossing point used by the Frankish tribes, the other was just this dude Frank that built a fort and was so awesome of a guy people just wanted to live around him.

Huh a hit piece attempting to create conflict between China and Africa…

Written by Mustapha Bature Sallama Alumni of the United States Institute of Peace

Oh, it’s literally CIA propaganda.

Yeah I guess India where they’re still working on adopting anything that isn’t either a moped or 2 ton diesel, but pretty much everywhere else you can get a second hand EV. Even in the rural US.