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  • The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War

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  • No no no, you've got it backwards. It's .ml users who'd get mad at you for comparing China and the US. "It's a false equivalency!"

    Like I had happen to me just the other day when I compared the US regime's invasion to the invasion of Ukraine and the lack of any real response from world leaders.

  • When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping.

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  • Yes, he did. Something along the lines of "Elon's very good with computers. He fixed that right up for us."

  • When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping.

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  • There was, we call it Pinkerton, among others. At least now you can organize out in the open.

    No, you can't. The US is so anti-union that there is a real risk of you getting reported to your boss for mentioning unionizing to your coworkers. They can't openly fire you for trying to unionize, but most of the US is "at will employment," which means that they can fire you at any time and don't need to say why.

    This is a real sign

    Check out this article: Trump is the biggest union-buster in U.S. history

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • Netanyahu actually would've been another good comparison.

    My comment wasn't a "Russia = bad" deflection, but a comment about world leaders' response to the invasion of Ukraine and what I expect their response to the continuing aggression of the Trump regime to be: strongly worded letters and not much else.

    Also, let's get our facts straight on the genocide in Palestine. The US hasn't put any boots on the ground yet, despite Trump's promises from earlier in the year. As of the time that I'm writing this, the US is enabling the genocide but not an active participant. That could change tomorrow or may have already changed, but we don't need to make things up about the government when there's already so many evils to point at. They're already war criminals, we wouldn't want them to get off on account of making false accusations.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • I haven't watched the Simpsons in over a decade so I don't get the reference, but my point was the similarity between the world's response to the invasion of Ukraine and the likely response to continuing US aggression.

    A lot of strongly worded letters and not much else is what I expect.

  • When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping.

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  • Because the votes are not at all a representation of the country. The country is actively hostile to voters, particularly leftists. This means that a disproportionate number of votes are from conservatives, because the stats say that they would never win again if voting was actually fairly accessible to everybody. Combine that disenfranchisement with the disillusionment in both the system and the Democratic party, and it's easier to make sense of how Trump won this last election despite getting less votes than he did the last time that he won.

    I would say that your second point is more or less correct. Trump got less votes than his last term, but the Dems lost even more votes for various reasons. From running an unpopular candidate to running on a platform that largely consists of leaning more and more conservative year after year to gagging their actually popular candidates, leftists are fed up with the Dems.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • What's it going to take to truly stop Russia?

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • Don't forget about the Sword of Damocles that is the lack of social safety nets. Also, political ignorance is a feature, not a bug in our political system. A quarter of the American population would kill the rest because they think the regime is "hurting the right kind of people" and not anybody that they care about. This also includes the minorities who will soon learn that being "one of the good ones" just means that they go to the showers later rather than sooner.

  • When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping.

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  • Trump actually got less votes the second time than he did the first time. Voter turnout in the US is miniscule, with less than half the population voting for a variety of reasons (gerrymandering, voting day is not a federal holiday so people still have to work, the lack of politicians who do what they promise, etc.).

    So roughly a quarter of the country voted for him, and some of them voted for him because he isn't a Democrat. There's a great story about how a trans person who ran on a defund the police campaign got elected county sheriff in Vermont because she ran as the Republican candidate. Enough people showed up and voted for whoever had the R next to their name without ever listening to any of the candidates to know what their stances were that she won by a landslide.

  • When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping.

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  • Except that the US government and corporations have spent the years since convincing the people that there's a right way to protest, and that it's by holding signs on a street corner - preferably out of view. This is why MLK was seen as a violent thug during the Civil Rights Movement and is seen as a hero today. Their struggle has been whitewashed to remove what actually happened and turned into an example of changing things the "right way" - by gently asking your oppressors to stop oppressing you. The US is one of the most propagandized populations on the planet. Our children pledge their undying loyalty every morning to the flag that hangs in every classroom. The only other countries on Earth to have done that are North Korea and the Hitler's Youth program in Nazi Germany.

    They've also gutted any form of support network for the same reason. The US populace is staunchly anti-union because companies have convinced us that worker's rights are bad. They've made everybody dependent on keeping their job to keep food on the table and a roof over their head, of course, but also to see a doctor if you have a fever. And God forbid it's anything worse than that. It's bread and circuses with a dash of the Sword of Damocles.

    So not only do we have to convince people to risk their lives to fight a fascist regime and their police force that is armed as well as many countries military, we have to convince the pearl clutchers that snarky taglines on signs aren't going to solve things, and reconstruct support networks that haven't existed for over half a century, and prevent the 45% of the population who support the fascists from voluntarily drafting themselves to root out any resistance, if not start shooting them in the streets. The FBI spends half their time putting down white supremacist militias. All they'd have to do is stop doing that and let the Trump regime do the rest by tweeting from the toilet at 3am. Those most likely to take up arms against the system are the same people who support the current system.

    The average person isn't brave enough to risk their life. If they were, we'd see Canadians coming down to burn down the White House again. We'd see Mexicans crossing the southern border. We'd see aid networks forming from other countries to provide support for anybody willing to resist. But we don't and we won't. And I don't mean that in a "other countries should solve American problems" way, but that people in other countries are just as likely to say, "Not my fight, not my problem. Somebody else should deal with it" as Americans are. It's human nature. If it wasn't, we'd see more people taking out healthcare CEOs. More people would've supported the IRA. We'd have far more examples instead of Blair Mountain and the Haymarket Affair.

    It's easy for the armchair generals of the world to say that Americans should just arm themselves and go to war against the largest military on the planet when it isn't their necks on the line.

  • DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship

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  • At least in Massachusetts, they've been pushing back making it mandatory since it rolled out. Every time it gets close to the deadline for when it's supposed to go into effect, they push it back another couple of years.

  • sleeprule cell

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  • El Cargo and maybe Displaced are my two favorites from the album, and El Cargo is the more... listenable of the two, so odds were good that that's what I was going to think of when I read Splinter Cell and music (it also helps that I don't remember the music from any of the other games, Chaos Theory is just that iconic).

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • I've seen one of these talked about before, and the mechanism seemed to be in that one that there's a gene in our DNA that triggers us to grow new teeth (that's how we replace our baby teeth with adult teeth), but that that gene turns off after we grow in our set of adult teeth. It's apparently the same gene that allows sharks to grow new teeth. What the drug does is it turns that gene back on, allowing us to grow new teeth to replace lost ones.

    This might not be the same study though, as I've also seen one previously years ago that was about a drug that turned on a gene in our teeth to allow them to repair the enamel in them and fill in cavities by putting biodegradable gauze soaked in the drug inside a cavity and letting the tooth do the rest.

  • sleeprule cell

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  • It's like how anime and Metal Gear have a better grasp of American politics than Americans do. We've seen it from the outside and have a clearer picture of the absurdity of the whole.

    Gender can be summed up as a bunch of rules we made up to simplify the human condition into a few boxes because our brains don't like it when stuff is complicated. And then the Christians came in and told everybody that they can't have more choices than two boxes because anything more is wrong and ignore the fact that the man in the sky is actually non-binary and likes nonbinary people more because they're more like him. And one box is better than the other because nature says so don't question it.

    Tldr: gender is a performance, so you might as well set yours to Rules of Nature

  • sleeprule cell

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  • How did I know what song that was going to be before I clicked the link.

  • Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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  • I don't know of any studies, but I have heard anecdotes from trans men that say the same thing.

    I once read a very well put together comment by a trans man on the subject of their experience with this before and after transitioning, and basically, because men are never supposed to show emotion, their relationships lack a level of emotional intimacy at a fundamental level. They said that their relationships with other men felt hollow and largely superficial.

    It's also why men seemingly mistake friendship from women as flirting so frequently - because women can have a true emotional connection in their friendships with other women, but men can only get that same level of connection in romantic relationships or life or death scenarios such as war. Women also often treat men more coldly than they do other women as a result of this to avoid being mistaken for flirting with every man that they talk to (or because they view men as dangerous).

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • It's probably a 50/50 shot on the pain scale, as some people have it worse than others when it comes to laser, and I think the worst part of laser is the sunburn effect the day after. And you can always use a numbing cream beforehand if you're concerned about how painful it might be. I think the biggest difference between the two is how long it takes. Laser covers large areas at a time while electrolysis takes something like 15 seconds per hair, but you know immediately whether or not you killed a hair because you will be able to pull it out with basically no effort and it works with any hair color while laser is dependent on the melanin in your hair to heat it up, making it dramatically less effective on blonde hair vs brown or black hair.

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • Meanwhile, Bazzite be like:

  • Rule of the planet Omicron Persei 8

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  • Saying "don't tell people questioning their gender whether they're trans or not, they should decide for themselves whether or not they're trans" every time is a lot more effort than simply saying "obey the egg rule/prime directive/whatever." Though I personally prefer "don't break any eggs."

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    Elon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems

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    Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency

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    Elon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems

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