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Milk_Sheikh

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  • San Diego Navy doctor fired after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media

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  • What’s actually funny is how yall swallow this performative jackassery whole, as if it’s actually improving military readiness or ‘lethality’, instead of demanding accountability from government. Super glad that they’ve clearly solved all the big issues like the PFAS contamination on multiple bases poisoning soldiers and their families, or the entirety of the VA dumpster fire, or the Pentagon not being able to pass an audit for decades.

    But nah, let’s fire a 21 year careerist because some terminally online losers got triggered by pronouns and her billet. I’m sure those considering re-enlisting won't mind the risk of losing their pension overnight because Twitter demanded a blood sacrifice.

  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • Leftist gun enjoyer reporting in - 250 yards is achievable for most people if you practice, depending on your setup. Even a mid grade rifle’s mechanical accuracy can ‘group’ a 9” circle at that range, throw a zoom optical scope on top and done.

    Mid to long range shooting is a trifecta of shooter skill, knowledge of environment conditions, and quality of equipment. The further the distance, the more of each you need. That kind of range and precision was viable with basically every bolt action deer gun in America, and most hunters using them tbh.

  • Ben Shapiro event at Reagan library in Simi Valley is canceled in aftermath of Charlie Kirk shooting

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  • I do not want to normalize murder as a trump card in political discourse - not any further than the right has already mind you.

    But I am enjoying seeing these hate mongers feel some of that turned back their way, in a very public manner. Having the outside world ‘cancelled’ for themselves for fear of assassins and high powered rifles. Always having to travel with security, constantly worried if their next organic street encounter will be with a genuine fan, or ‘a fan’ with a vendetta.

    Tolerance paradox aside, I still condemn this though - because political assassination does not bode well in the immediate term, nor the long term if this kind of activity keeps repeating… it ultimately only leaves the most hardline and ideological voices on the soapbox.

  • Trump: 'A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We'd Like a Dictator'

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  • Different Ghandi

    As prime minister, [Indira] Gandhi was known for her uncompromising political stances and centralization of power within the executive branch.… Responding to separatist tendencies and a call for revolution, she instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977, during which she ruled by decree and basic civil liberties were suspended. More than 100,000 political opponents, journalists and dissenters were imprisoned. She faced the growing Sikh separatism movement throughout her fourth premiership; in response, she ordered Operation Blue Star, which involved military action in the Golden Temple and killed hundreds of Sikhs. On 31 October 1984, she was assassinated by two of her bodyguards, both of whom were Sikh nationalists seeking retribution for the events at the temple.

  • Democrat reformists finding out that Democrats will only play dirty against the left.

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  • The left needs to get its fart-huffing head out of its collective ass and stop trying to bicker and shame each other performatively.

    So as one of those terminally online, over-educated, ‘dreamer’ leftists, I’m pretty tired of being vote-cucked in cycle after cycle by Democrat faithful and the DNC with “…but have you seen the Republican candidate?” messaging. I’m mad about the policy platform, but recognize the electoral games. You can convince me of the ‘lesser harm’ arguments, but that increasingly does not work with regular voters.

    Voting is transactional, not aspirational. Reward voter’s loyalty with policies and governance that actually improves their lives, instead of protecting the Dow and NASDAQ. Someone who is struggling to pay for shelter and healthcare doesn’t give a flying fart about ‘muh institutions’ or ‘procedural issues’ they want results. They’ve been chided and goaded in past elections and didn’t see demonstrable improvements, but instead a widening wealth gap and decreased purchasing power amid windfall corporate profits.

    right now, because everyone has been swayed or turned apathetic

    Because this what the “vote blue no matter who” modality brings. Cynically wielding the right to ensure electoral compliance doesn’t work. Offering no real concrete policies or cross-party priorities like they used to doesn’t make people want to vote for you.

    The party has shown its ass multiple times, and the electorate isn’t as stupid as the beltway folks think they are. Look at the ballot affiliation reports and see how cooked the party is, 4.5 million people said ‘nah they dgaf about me’

    He said his worry is that all of these different kinds of voters feel like the Democratic Party left them. They “all shared the broader fact that they are working class and not feeling like we were talking to them or actually going to help them, so that needs to be fixed,” he said.

  • Millennial therapy

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  • you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better

    Which is why I avoided saying “full potential” like it’s a life panacea and any failure to achieve 100% is your personal failure instead of the program’s.

    Yes please only go to board certified professionals for mental health and/or therapy, and please please puhhlease don’t make an LLM or authority figure like a priest your therapist…

  • Millennial therapy

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  • Sure, compared to food or shelter it’s in the ‘nice to have’ category. But for me at least it’s shown a lot of things that I would never have understood or probed deeply enough to address. Better relationships, more understanding of self/finding your actual self, handle adversity better, etc etc

    You don’t have to sign up for endless sessions, you can quite viably do a few introductory sessions and ask for takeaway homework/tools to use. Return as needed or when you’ve found a new topic that you feel needs work.

  • Millennial therapy

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  • It’s the days you rawdog life and go home without music. Thems the days.

    Go to therapy y’all. Even if you had a perfect upbringing and zero trauma or adversity, you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better. Even an imperfect outlet like a NA group setting like is better than white knuckling it.

  • Charging to tour rental properties...

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  • Ding ding ding

    The same is done with commercial property too. Holding out (or more correctly, withholding a property entirely) vacant for X months is more profitable overall as it keeps the supply low for office/light industrial space, driving the same demand to fewer units until ✨ a newly renovated unit ✨ is available on the market.

    Until X months inoccupancy exceeds the profit of Y units generating Z extracted profit each, they come out ahead. And not even ‘we covered the mortgage and local tax’ ahead of break even, but the potential earnings if all were listed and rented.

    They literally make more money keeping housing vacant. And that needs to change.

  • Charging to tour rental properties...

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  • I’ve had decent luck with CL in the past for rentals, but understand that it’s generally: an illegal listing (eg no windows or the like for fire egress), sex traffickers targeting desperate women, or scammers - and you need to be able to jump on the legit leads ASAP.

    But yes as a renter, sifting through Craigslist was vastly preferable to paying whatever some private equity firm decided “market rates” are (we are the market, teehee 🤭) for a hovel in a 1+5 complex, or dealing with the myriad of cutouts that paywall listings or communications like the OP.

  • Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites

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  • Yes. For a non space-tier power. Their utility for space/LEO comms are valuable, but peripheral. Never going fully high tech, keeps the legacy systems in use and in current practice. Whereas a power like the US doesn’t do shit without a LINK net established and maintained, because we’ve forgotten/are unwilling to use the old methods.

    It’s the Ukraine-Russo problem in the Black Sea, but applied to space. Denial is easier than presence, and even easier than dominance. If you can’t compete, why let them use it they way they want, or at all?

  • Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas. They all seem to hate it.

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  • Grew up in SoCal, been back many times to visit family over the years, I don’t see why anyone moves there who isn’t aspiring artist of some kind - and even then… good luck!

    High cost of food and supplies, excessive housing costs, droughts, wildfires, car-centric everything yet questionable civic planning, smog haze basically daily, termites eat your house every few years, and the sprawl… Jesus. Knew an old hat Boeing engineer who built his dream home way outside the city, and over the decades his commute went from 45 mins to three hours. Before he took early retirement he found a carpool buddy to trade off days driving so at least one of them got to use the time effectively.

    But hey! It’s right by the ocean, and the weather is perfect - if you love cloudless sunshine and hate season.

  • Art of the deal!

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  • It’s still a losing proposition, even if you don’t already have a factory in [insert country]. Steel is cheap yes, the value add comes from labor and capex payback yes, but there’s more than just metal that makes a car go vroom .

    25% tariff on car parts

    Ca parts could be anything from plastic fan ducting or the infotainment screen, or major components like engines and drivetrains. The majority of which is plastics/polymers and aluminum. The engine has steel sure, but the aluminum block is the most expensive part, while steel con-rods, crankshafts, and gears aren’t exactly an easy thing to set up a new factory in order to duck tariffs - tariffs that have been proven to come and go over social media beef.

    So while it’s impossible to truly know the full BoM cost without seeing each component category’s HTS codes and how each maker sources their parts, I’d still wager that the 15% is the better pathway. Especially if you already have a factory, a known and trained labor pool, established transit and vendor links, etc

    What it’ll definitely have more impact upon is expensive or luxury brands, because the material cost doesn’t scale with the sticker price the consumer sees.

  • Bob Vylan calls out the media spin

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  • As opposed to a fantasy, yes.

    Ah yes. Nothing is possible, we should accept the scraps that our rulers and industry leaders allow us and be grateful. “The orphan crushing machine is quite tolerable today, thank ye sire for only taking three children”.

    If Biden truly wanted to, he could have curbed Israel in 2023. And not even anything as bold as an immediate and complete arms embargo; there was a lot of US soft power that he and Harris refused to wield, and what was done was largely token optics like sanctioning settlers whilst shipping arms contrary to US regulations, or ‘pausing’ delivery of 2,000lb bombs whilst keeping the 500lb & 1,000lb bombs and artillery shells flowing.

  • Israeli soldiers arrested in Belgium after war crimes complaint by rights groups

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  • No. Nobody deserves a genocide.

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    For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse,

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  • I understood your first comment perfectly - you felt ‘online righteousness’ was the most worthy thing to bring up for discussion. Not:

    • Wow, how could the Dems not have defused this wedge issue, dumb politicians
    • How awful that the people of Gaza are facing their current existence
    • What a blunder of a party platform to ignore the people’s dissent re: arming Israel
    • Screw the right for bad-faith messaging, Trump has been worse
    • etc

    You saw a preventable death of a child suffering under apartheid and genocide, and felt that ‘online morons’ who didn’t vote/voted 3rd party deserved more attention.

    And no, English is my first language.

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    For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse,

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  • No, I can recognize the politicians are shit and still realize the loss was primarily due to racist dumbasses.

    If so, why open with this comment then?

    People with "moral righteousness" here on Lemmy helped to elect someone who made it far, far worse.

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    For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse,

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  • The politicians. Is this a hard concept, or are you bad faith trolling?

    They’re not stupid, they had access to better polling data than you and I, they knew there was a massive anti-incumbent sentiment, that while the S&P 500 was performing well, the people were struggling, and that Israel was increasing a vote loser across all political stripes - the politicians saw all that, and they still ran the campaign they ran.

    They decided that, whilst choking out all grassroots challengers and criticism, and you’ve swallowed whole the “disloyal lefty” narrative that exonerates their failure completely. “We didn’t lose, it’s those disloyal fifth columnist double flagged operatives”

    I’m disappointed in the broad electorate for not seeing through Trump, but I understand that economic desperation is rocket fuel for fascism and it doesn’t go away if faced with more of the status quo that brought us to this point. The Dems needed to pivot, and refused to change with the times.

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    For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse,

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  • If your reaction is basically…

    But what about meeeee? I have to deal with orange man in the office now

    … when confronted with a genocide, maybe just don’t comment?

    And besides, it’s a massive cope to blame the loss on ‘online moral righteousness’ when we all saw the campaigns play out. “We beat Medicare” should have never been allowed to happen, and Kamala should have had some firm policy stances instead of “I wouldn’t have done anything different”.