rivermonster 7mo ago • 83%
Game changer for people who can't stand controllers, and for all the great non controller designed games on games pass. Can't wait!
rivermonster 7mo ago • 96%
Is there a law that's been broke here, even if it's just defamation or something? I'd love to see this asshole prosecuted.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 42%
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rivermonster 9mo ago • 92%
They send plenty of shit down here, too, sadly. The Qanon disease started there and is still strong.
At one point, I had hoped to escape to Canada till I found out it was as sick and dying as the US.
There're strong elements even working to dismantle their healthcare, just like in the UK. There's nowhere to run from the dirty capitalists, sadly.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 50%
The helpless dems excuse has been used by apologists for the past 50+ years of failure to do anything!
rivermonster 9mo ago • 50%
rivermonster 9mo ago • 50%
The worst crackdown in recent memory on welfare happened under Clinton and the neolibs. I think both of these groups have examples of doing the things you've listed.
I appreciate your insights but respectfully disagree as there are examples of your listed priorities across party lines.
The end part is right. The same billionaires and companies pay both sides campaign bills. Which is why they're basically the same economically.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 40%
Biden is performing theater about doing that. When was the last time dems actually managed a significant wealth tax? LOL
It is pure theater. If anything like that ever got close to passing, and the paid actors Sinema snd Mansion weren't enough, then they'd just pick another actor or two so the dems could pretend they really wanted to but no matter how much power they have its not possible to actually DO something.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 83%
There are no liberal counterparts. The billionaires are all capitalists. That's all there is to it. Any other political theater they perform for you playing left and right is just theater.
Dems and Republicans are identical parties on economic policy (note I said economic, not all policies).
rivermonster 9mo ago • 83%
Burn it down, no reconstruction this time. That was one of the biggest mistakes post-civil war.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 93%
Sherman them all again.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 100%
Works the same on the federal level, too. Here is an oldie but goodie from 2013:
rivermonster 9mo ago • 50%
- Spend EVERY day having a press announcement on it and bashing the GOP with the latgest bully pulpit on the planet
- Expand and pack the court
- Push a court case that it was their duty.
- Push a case that it threatened national security based on issues it was holding up.
- Move to just put someone in the seat regardless and let it get argued in the courts meanwhile the seat is filled.
- withhold all federal funds to any state who's senator was blocking it
- Any number of creative parliamentary maneuvers that let the GOP decide everything even when they're in the minority
- BREAK ALL NORMS, just like the GOP did in stealing th pick. But Dems roll over and play victim. It's all they EVER do, even when they control Hoise, Senate and POTUS at the same time.
There's a ton of other shit too, but you get the point. Obama was quiet most days and played victim, bc the billionaires who owned him and who he bailed out of the financial crisis told him to ge a good boy and he did.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 66%
Upvoted for FACT.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 75%
In my lifetime, a dem only ever once gave me something to vote FOR, and I actively campaigned for him-Obama. And the first thing he did was give up on universal care and then even on public option. But he's making millions by leveraging his presidency, so he's a good little capitalist.
And the banks still appreciate him vailing them out while ficking us all and all our municipalities, etc.
rivermonster 9mo ago • 50%
And they have helped over and over to disable democracy and reduce the ability of citizens to affect change over monied interests who buy Thomas his motor home and other "gifts" (spelled bribes). And Scalia, and the others...
rivermonster 9mo ago • 50%
But theyre not recycled much--YET.
Agree and excitedly look forward to growth in that market (or even having a market for it). They will eventually become a profitable recycling opportunity. Unless one of the other battery techs (tons of them) in development just completely supplanted them. Either way the impact should diminish over time. Main questions are how fast and long will they continue to be an environmental negative.
Rechargeable nickel–cadmium (Ni-Cd), nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH), lithium-ion (Li-ion) and nickel–zinc (Ni-Zn), can also be recycled. Disposable alkaline batteries make up the vast majority of consumer battery use, but there is currently no cost-neutral recycling option.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling
EDIT: You can read further down how close some of these companies are to an actual recycling center. They're getting there!
rivermonster 9mo ago • 66%
After the upcoming Civil War. I'm not advocating for it, but I definitely think it's inevitable.
thehill.com
- In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence. - There were only 14 days without a police killing, and on average, a person was killed by law enforcement every 6.6 hours. - While the number of people killed by gunfire and officers killed in the line of duty declined, this data highlights the need for significant changes in policing in the country.
thehill.com
- In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence. - There were only 14 days without a police killing, and on average, a person was killed by law enforcement every 6.6 hours. - While the number of people killed by gunfire and officers killed in the line of duty declined, this data highlights the need for significant changes in policing in the country.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/times-of-israel/ >Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: Israel MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MODERATE FREEDOM Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: **HIGH CREDIBILITY** Summary: Jul 7, 2022 UNRWA textbooks still include hate, antisemitism despite ... violence against Israel and hatred of Jews, despite promises to remove such content. - An Israeli watchdog group called IMPACT-se has found that UNRWA textbooks still contain incitement against Israel and Jews, despite promises to remove such content. - Specifically, the textbooks encourage jihad, violence, martyrdom and promote anti-Semitism. - UNRWA has removed the problematic content from its public education portal but not from actual classrooms. - Exercises in the textbooks teach about sacrificing blood to liberate Jerusalem and resisting the enemy courageously. - A poem teaches that dying as a martyr by killing Israelis is a hobby. - Islamic education material depicts Jews as inherently treacherous and hostile to Islam. - Israel is described as an imperialist conspiracy to divide the Arab world and Israeli cities are labeled as Palestinian. - IMPACT-se says the textbooks do not align with UN values of neutrality, human rights and non-discrimination. - US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield called the textbook content a "red line." - Similar criticisms have been made of Palestinian Authority textbooks, but Palestinians reject the claims of incitement.
EDIT: - Main link changed to actual study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full - Removed previous link: https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/china-cloned-covid-like-virus-to-test-on-mice-acknowledges-spillover-risk-to-humans-coronavirus-pandemic-ccp-beijing-gain-of-function-wuhan-lab-testing-corona-covid-19-asia-health-fauci-bio? This is all over a lot of BULLSHIT right-wing sites. The link I provided is the only high-factuality source I could find. Can anyone confirm this story, or is it made up right-wing nutter bait? I'm hoping even if correct, that it's still extremely misconstrued or misrepresented. Requesting assistance if someone sees a decent source on this one.
Even if it's just a recommendation on a different group in which to ask the question, I'm curious how Lemmy combats criminal activity and content like human trafficking, smuggling, terrorism, etc? Is it just a matter of each node bans users when they identify a crime, and/or problematic nodes are defederated if they tolerate it? And if defederated, does that mean each node has to individually choose to defederate from the one allowing criminal activity?
nationalpost.com
These Make Hamas Great Again (MHGA) people are already WAY down the slope to committing violent terrorist attacks. They all need to be on watch lists.
abcnews.go.com
The federal government needs to, **BY FORCE** put down Texas' armed insurrection. This bullshit reminds me of that Bundy ranch where the fucking feds backed down and said, wait you're going to point guns at us? Okay we'll let you break the law. When Texas started using armed forces to prevent federal officers from accessing their jurisdiction, especially when they prevented those officers from attempting to rescue drowning victims that Texas murdered--that became an armed insurrection and treason. And for ordering it, Abbot ought to be rendered to GITMO to await trial, and prosecuted for his crimes against humanity, treason, etc.
abcnews.go.com
It's important to destroy terrorists, including these Hamas allies. Plus sending a message to Iran as their proxies get decimated.
www.bbc.com
Normal, everyday terrorist attack which the alt-left MHGA kids think Israel should ignore and tolerate.
www.devdiscourse.com
I'm sure there's some twisted way that the MHGA alt-left kids can celebrate and justify the infant hostage of Gaza's government who has majority support of its residents.
www.laprensalatina.com
100 delivery systems for war-crimes by Hamas removed from service, a victory against terrorism! Que the pro-terrorist, Hamas recruits, down vote circle-jerk!
Granted, he's still running things in Gaza, but it's good to recognize that the government in charge there ARE terrorists all the way up to the top.
Every day they get bolder and more dangerous. If we keep tolerating these terrorist recruits and radicalized extremists then soon we're going to be awash in violence. MAGA storms the capitol, MHGA storms the white house. Same nuts, same radicalism, just different sides of political extremism!
Because the alt-left MHGA recruits would disregard or ban this list on any of their echo chambers, I'll post it here for the intellectually curious. It is a biased source, but filled with starting points if you want to investigate, and filled with FACTS. You can research individual attacks accounted for here, which is a better list than can be found in most places, with more initial details for your research. It's a rough resource for people peddling a false narrative of innocent, defenseless, oppressed Palestinians. But sometimes facts ARE rough. THIS DOES NOT EXCUSE ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES, and doesn't mean there's not a HUGE list of those either. The point is, those you will always find celebrated in the MHGA echo chambers, whereas this would get instantly removed by the Hamas in training.
ground.news
These are who the alt-left MHGA kids align with and sympathize with as they're radicalized and indoctrinated. Be careful, tolerating it too much will lead to them becoming actual terrorists.
Starting in 1948, the Arab and Muslim world had stolen the land and exiled around 900,000 Jews. The reason you NEVER heard this discussed at the same time as Palestinian land being stolen or right of return is exclusively the fact that the MHGA crowd has no principled argument. While they cry about the Palestinian Arabs they will never mention what happened to the Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world A REALLY fascinating aspect of this, is if you applied the same unique (and bullshit) UNRWA definition of refugee to these Jews, then there would be millions of them who these alt-left should be calling for their "right of return" across the arab and muslim world. Funny how that's NEVER happened.