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Carl

@ Carl @lemm.ee

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  • The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice

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  • What's wild is that "being Roman" persisted a lot longer than the tax system and patronage networks that had collapsed. It wasn't until a large portion of the people who thought of themselves as "Roman" were invaded by the Eastern Roman Empire that the Roman identity was broken up, to be replaced by the regional identities that people rallied around to defend themselves.

    I feel like if the ERE's leaders had taken a different approach, they could have stitched the Western Empire back together, but they broke it.

  • The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice

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  • In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

    If you were born in the last three weeks it may seem that way, but Joe Biden did the US' reputation abroad no favors, nor did Trump 1. Obama is less bad than those on either side of him, but his admin at best still represents stagnation, as he failed to address Bush's crimes and added to them in places like Libya. And before him was the guy who really got the ball rolling downhill after the high point that was the Clinton administration, Bush Jr.

  • my version is better

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  • It was but they had to change it for Shrek and the G-rated version became the canonical one.

  • hexbear.net comically loses its domain name

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  • hexbear.net comically loses its domain name

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  • That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense on par with the black book of communism. As for the second, I defer to the words of Mark Twain:

    “THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

    Truthfully I support all of those revolutions as historical processes which have brought about necessary change, but the Haitians and the Russians fighting for their freedom from Slavery and Capitalism respectively are much more commendable than the Americans doing so because they didn't want to slow down their westward expansion.

  • hexbear.net is on sale for auction

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  • New update for those of you following this story

    We have established contact with the previously-AWOL owner, and after much discussion, we have determined that while there was an error in the auto-payment initially, the renewal funds were transferred manually to Sav and the auction continues despite that. We are currently appealing to Sav support with our domain credentials. We are also looking into whether an ICANN-compliant grace period was implemented prior to the rescinding and auctioning of the domain.

  • hexbear.net comically loses its domain name

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  • You're right. The Bolsheviks and Haitians didn't own slaves!

  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • Hopefully, if the information gets out and enough people walk away, it would severely limit the ability of those who remain to do awful things.

  • ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online

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  • ICE is America's brownshirts and ICE agents are worse than regular cops (who are, obviously, bastards).

  • Danes launch bid to 'buy California' after Trump's Greenland threats

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  • THAT'S DIFFERENT!

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  • The same thing happened to me on Pop OS.

    Buuuut I've been on Debian for the past year with absolutely no issues. I think that, for 99% of computer users, the whole "rolling release" design for an OS is more trouble than its worth. Give me a stable release that I can get used to for a couple years, then one big update at a time - little updates every day that unexpectedly change and sometimes break things just make the experience of doing things more finnicky and unpredictable.

    That was also the final straw that made me leave Windows, for the record.

  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • According to this document from 2021, most of them are "assistants" and "aides" of various types, although it seems there are a few thousand registered nurses and other licensed healthcare providers and technicians. Maybe they get licensed on a visa and then overstay the visa?

  • Doordash deserves it's fate

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  • I had a friend who did this for a living, he had two phones so he would run Uber Eats and Doordash at the same time in order to try and optimize, and even then he spent a lot of time just sitting around because these apps are extremely inefficient (and later they started cracking down on people trying to increase their pay by doing both, dunno if it's still doable now).

  • Doordash deserves it's fate

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  • Hear hear for living too far away from DD to be tempted by it. I used to waste a lot of money on it back in like 2021/22, but I moved to a town whose only "fast food" is a burger grill that's attached to the gas station and run by exactly one guy and if he's on break when you show up then you can either wait until he's done or leave and go to the grocery store.

  • Something somerule "StOp dIvIDinG ThE leFt"

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  • If it were Kamala she would be doing exactly what Trump is doing. The Democrats have been thouroughly demonstrated by this point to be fascists, their fascist program just rolls a little bit slower and more competently than the Republican one.

    The two-party system is a myth. A sham democracy. More fake that Putin's election numbers. America is ruled by a single political party which has two factions, and every ounce of energy that is spent trying to prop up one faction or the other is energy wasted.

  • Something somerule "StOp dIvIDinG ThE leFt"

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  • I was talking about these extremely cringe anti-tankie memes. There's no equivalent from tankie spaces.

  • Something somerule "StOp dIvIDinG ThE leFt"

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  • just saying, lemm.ee is federated with .ml and even hexbear and i only see this stuff coming from .world.

  • Why aren't all of you as vocal about Trump as you were Biden and Harris?

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  • where did the free Palestine protestors go

    Well a bunch of them got expelled, deported, blacklisted, arrested, and more. Many of their organizations were forcibly disbanded, and the campuses where they were active have been thoroughly militarized.

  • This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.

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  • tfw I've never been warned about nudes in my text messages :(