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  • Spoiled rotten like Geoffrey? We'll see.

  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.
  • OR here's a thought — now hear me out — you don't because those charitable donations are a treatment of a symptomatic issue reflective of failed government policy to begin with. So if you really want to address the root cause and actually reshape the party from a top-down approach, then I encourage you follow my strategy.

    Or you know, you can donate to both.

    • The more money that goes to AOC, the greater her voice in the Democratic party.
    • The greater her voice, the greater the progressive shift in the Democratic party.
    • The greater the progressive shift in progressive economic populism, the better outcomes for Women's and LGBTQ+ rights.
  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.
  • I am only donating to AOC until she and her fellow progressives gain a larger voice in the direction of the party. I've unsubbed from a lot of Democratic lists, too.

    I advise all to do the same (as she can allocate these money to elsewhere if she wishes), while also contacting the DNC at https://democrats.org/

  • Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit
  • Haha wait a minute.

    Are you... Are you trying to justify your Uncommitted BoTh SiDeS bullshit?

    • As though drinking the lesser poison is as bad as drinking the greater poison.
    • As though this not only means you're opting for this, but you're contributing to the current that forces others to do the same by enabling the greater poison?
    • As though just because you weren't necessarily the person to rat out Anne Frank, you also didn't lift finger to resist the Nazi oppression that makes one superior? Looking the other way and sitting on the couch?

    Because if this is the case, then yes, there are people like me who utilize logic & ethics to demonstrate that said people are, indeed, a part of the problem and enabling of fascism.

  • Democrats keep helping Trump confirm his abysmal nominees.
    • He walks into his office late January, 2021.
    • They immediately begin what is literally the largest criminal investigation and prosecution in the DOJ's history, going after Jan 6th insurrectionists.
    • They continue getting confessions, plea deals, and building a bottom-up investigation that builds corroborating evidence

    These under the constraints of:

    • Federal judges including SCOTUS stacked with Trump-appointed corrupt judges.
    • Garland going up against an organized crime syndicate with an entire party and propaganda apparatus and effectively unlimited money to put up in defense.
    • A jury pool almost impossible to be untainted while Defense need only convince 1 idiot on the jury.
    • By 2022, the Congressional Jan 6th hearings went all the way through summer and into October. If you're Garland, you observe and gather more evidence because why not? Just keep strengthening the case. You'll need it.
    • Garland hands off to Jack Smith literally the day after Trump formally files to run for President again (again, to avoid technicalities on conflict of interest).
    • As late as 2023, Smith gets massive testimonies from the likes of Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. Valuable enough to grant immunity.

    It seems very obvious to me that this was a classic bottom-up case you see similar to RICO cases in white collar or organized crime syndicates. Garland had to ensure his case was extremely tight given the nature of going after a former President and the courts.

    Let's instead blame:

    • The courts who were ones proven to actually obstruct.
    • The voters who many saw what happened and still chose to sit out or still vote for the felon.

    I'd rather he have done it right and not get a verdict than rush it and Trump gets vindicated by a technicality or a Not Guilty.

    I know a lot of people are frustrated, but using Garland or Smith as the scapegoat makes zero sense. Just because it didn't go as quickly as we as the general public and legal laypersons wished doesn't mean he delayed. There is no actual evidence he delayed anything. In fact I'll go so far as to say Garland did everything perfectly and it was pretty much an impossible feat given the cards stacked against him.

  • Democrats keep helping Trump confirm his abysmal nominees.
  • Bullshit. He didn't delay jack shit.

    I don't know why this myth gets perpetuated by people who clearly were not paying attention.

  • Democrats keep helping Trump confirm his abysmal nominees.
  • I'm only donating to progressives, notably AOC.

    I've unsubbed from most Democratic lists.

  • Reddit shares plunge after Google algorithm change contributes to miss in user numbers
  • Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

  • Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”
  • Tell me for what other reason does a "Green Party" fringe candidate from America fraternize with a round table consisting of the likes of Michael Flynn, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitry Peskov in Moscow? Lmao. Suckers.

    I and many others have been calling out Stein's bullshit for well over a decade.

  • All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
  • "The LAW? Hahaha! What did 'the law' do for Felix. Fuckin. Finch!?"

  • Reddit’s vibe has suddenly changed yet again
  • lol gtfo bootlicking simp. You exemplify why Trump said he loves the poorly educated, bud.

  • Reddit’s vibe has suddenly changed yet again
  • Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can't "force" generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they're tagged as political to begin with.

  • Reddit’s vibe has suddenly changed yet again
  • Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.

    Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people's minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.

    Beggars can't be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.

    Alternatively, don't shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn't happen.

  • Reddit’s vibe has suddenly changed yet again
  • I've noticed:

    • r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

    • r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.

    • r/conservative feels like it's being artificially amplified.

  • How come mosquitoes haven't evolved to not irritate it's victims during the biting process?
  • The mosquito likely evolved to try, but the body evolves to defend just the same. Your irritation is your own body's immune response after all.

  • Happens Sometimes
  • I was just about to make a case by saying, "Hey man I know we define adulthood at 18, but these young adult brains still aren't fully developed yet and they seem like gullible frat bros groomed by the excitement of being a part of something, maybe they'll come to regr—"

    ... Then I saw, Kliger's authored articles include:

    • "Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears.”

    • "The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies.”

    This fucktard is a true believer.

  • Secrecy is becoming a defining characteristic of Elon Musk’s DOGE
  • DOGE is literally an example of government waste and inefficiency through needless duplication.

    The GAO already exists.

  • Do you know any popular websites where people can talk to each other?
  • "Federation"? Wtf is this, star trek!?

  • Why CBS stands at the epicenter of Trump's assault on the media
  • Reminder that the former CEO of CBS doing the bidding of shareholders said following Trump's first election, "Trump may not be good for America, but he's good for CBS. Keep going, Donald."

    They may have changed executives but the sentiment is 100% the same because all these media outlets are profit above all.

  • What are your plans for this weekend?
  • 36 hours of work through the weekend. I'll try to sneak my guitar when it's slow and organize my To-Do list that's a mile long.

    Realistically I'll probably just doomscroll and get into political arguments...

  • For younger generations, what was it like growing up with the internet?

    I guess I'm curious about generations (namely GenZ and Alpha) who didn't live in a pre-Internet time. Like,

    • How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click?
    • Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it's absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant?
    • Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?
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    'I am absolutely voting for Donald Trump': Undecided voters react to Biden's debate performance

    >June 28 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. voters who were unable to choose between Joe Biden and Donald Trump before Thursday's presidential debate delivered their verdicts after the contest and it was almost universally bad news for Biden.

    >Of the 13 "undecideds" who spoke to Reuters, 10 described the 81-year-old Democratic president's performance against Republican candidate Trump collectively as feeble, befuddled, embarrassing and difficult to watch.

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    Undecided voter focus group leans toward Trump after debate

    >All undecided voters in a U.S. swing states focus group hosted by pollster Frank Luntz said President Biden should be replaced as the Democratic nominee after watching his first presidential debate against former President Trump.

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    www.bbc.com UK ban on selling arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas, says Cameron

    Foreign Secretary David Cameron tells the BBC the UK should focus on getting humanitarian aid into Gaza.

    UK ban on selling arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas, says Cameron

    >Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales.

    >He said the UK supplies just 1% of Israel's weapons and warned Israel must do more to protect civilians and allow humanitarian aid through.

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    US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows | Reuters
    www.reuters.com US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows

    U.S. public support for Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

    US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows
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    PSA: You are legally entitled to receive a .zip file of all data related to your account that is stored on Reddit's servers.

    https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

    They must oblige within a certain time frame — even if your account has been suspended and I believe even if you've deleted your account. Curiously, this might be one effective way to protest. Golly I wonder what would happen if many people requested such reports simultaneously. It seems these must be processed manually by admins.

    As a bonus, it's nice because all your comments and messages are searchable.

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    Live For Them @lemmy.world lennybird @lemmy.world
    Aeroflot 593 crashed in 1994 when the pilot let his children control the aircraft. This is the crash animation and audio log.
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