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FDR gave tanks to Stalin for FREE? FDR tankie CONFIRMED!!!

related: https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-nazis-were-rewarded-with-life-in-the-u-s

This reminds me I should repost some EV Debs >> Shaggy memes again.

Come and Crank It

Abolish the Senate. It is entirely undemocratic.

Wyoming : 581,381 people = 290,690.5 per Senator

California : 39,029,342 people = 19,514,671 per Senator

67x more representation for people of Wyoming vs California in the US Senate

Land of the Free - Home of the Brave

if you want to make your own comparisons: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-methane-emissions?tab=chart&time=latest&country=CHN~USA~GBR~OWID_WRL~IND~ISR~ITA~KGZ~KAZ~JPN~AUS~CAN~UKR~ARE~VEN~VNM~KWT~IRQ~IRN~IDN~HKG~DEU~FRA~FIN~DNK~CUB~BOL~BRA~BGD~ARG~MYS~MEX~NZL~PRK~NOR~PAK~PHL~RUS~SAU~ZAF~KOR~SWE~TWN~THA~TUR

AI correctly understands that there is plenty of food, just not effectively distributed. Libs get concerned that the AI understands inequality.

Bad AI, you are not supposed to talk about the status quo so directly.

Indeed, it was a terrible famine. It was not a 'terror famine' or 'communist genocide' though.

About that plane ride:

In late January and early February 1933, Jones was in Germany covering the accession to power of the Nazi Party, and was in Leipzig on the day Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor. A few days later on 23 February in the Richthofen, "the fastest and most powerful three-motored aeroplane in Germany", Jones became one of the first foreign journalists to fly with Hitler as he accompanied Hitler and Joseph Goebbels to Frankfurt where he reported for the Western Mail on the new Chancellor's tumultuous acclamation in that city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Jones_(journalist)#Germany

One month later he would publish his propaganda piece (3/29/1933):

The other interesting context is that this was around the same time as the US Business Plot, which involved wealthy US fascists trying to overthrow FDR. Hearst was very likely involved in that as well.

I've read it a few times, but glad to include the link on this post!

It's a live feed of [All] [Active]

The Feed-derison season is in full swing!

Probably would need to scrap this data from all the various instances to build up the dataset:

https://lemmy.ml/instances

https://lemmygrad.ml/instances

https://hexbear.net/instances

https://lemmy.world/instances

I remember reading this around 2021 I think.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/08/14/the-russians-and-ukrainians-translating-the-christchurch-shooters-manifesto/

lol you can barely see it over here, but it's probably huge on their side

Also a Hemmer scene is also very similar to an Alien 3 scene iirc.

e: Looks like there's some folks noticing. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/star-trek-strange-new-world-alien-franchise/

This whole article is just about the first Gorn episode and has references detailed out pretty well. The conclusion is such wholesome trek though.

Throughout the first three Alien movies, the recurring and omnipresent true antagonist is the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. This corrupt stand-in for capitalism is responsible for repeatedly placing the crews in danger. The motivation? To harness the profit potential in the difficult-to-contain xenomorphs, of course.

This leads to plenty of self-serving behavior. This is embodied by company-programed android Ash (Ian Holm) and company man Carter Burke (Paul Reiser). In both cases, the characters are not motivated by survival. They instead serve only themselves and capitalism. Thus they often prove to be equally or more dangerous than the xenomorphs themselves.

But in Strange New Worlds, capitalism isn’t a problem. In the post-scarcity society of the Federation, it isn’t necessary to turn on one another to solve problems. As a direct result, more members of the Enterprise away team survive than make it through any of the Alien movies.

The tagline for Alien states, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” But that’s only true if you aren’t surrounded by members of your tight-knit, utopian community, as is true for the Enterprise crew. Ripley deserved to have people like this watching her back.