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  • Americans are gonna be here for a while...

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  • If you say "capitalism sucks", you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.

    Extending your metaphor, this is what your average American's brain looks like. There is a lot of propaganda and social conditioning working against you here.

  • Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

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  • I'm half expecting Peter Thiel to say "maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we're at it" in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.

  • One of these is an authoritarian imperialist empire, the other is China

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  • These are soft power projection projects. You would recognize them as such if it were the US doing it (which we used to before Trump decided it was woke), so why do you stick to the Chinese state narrative here?

  • "capitalism is human nature"

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  • There is no alternative to capitalism (which has only really been the dominant economic model for a few hundred years at most) and if you dare suggest alternatives I'll just dismiss them out of hand using propaganda I have burned into my skull and act like it refutes every argument you could possibly make.

    • You

    How's capitalism working out for the US right now, btw? Guess it depends who you ask, and if you ask the billionaires it's doing great. Yay!

  • Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards ["Izanami"]

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  • "I'm not that kind of fascist, I'm this other kind of fascist!"

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  • Can one man look more cucked?

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  • She's not "trying to get her country back." For one, it doesn't belong to her but to all Venezuelans, the majority of which do not like her. In addition, she has spoken publicly at economic conferences about her plans to sell the rights to Venezuela's oil and other natural resources to US oil companies. She's playing a game here, but it's at the expense of Venezuelans, not for their benefit.

  • Black Panthers in Philly...listen up

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  • It looks like they might have lost the domain? I know there was something there about a month ago.

  • Black Panthers in Philly...listen up

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  • They have this on their website.

  • Black Panthers in Philly...listen up

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  • They have this on their website.

  • Look what you've made me do!

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  • The live action was made for folks like you. It's a great adaptation, loved by one piece fans and newcomers alike, and it has a much quicker pace.

  • As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly

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  • Yale Posting It's Ls

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  • Aside from being reductive, yes, I'm an anarchist. I'm not opposed to writing down some rules, but I am opposed to the coercive use of force to impose them on others. It is possible to organize a system of preventative and restorative justice without the use of a hierarchy.

    This video is a good introduction to how justice can work in an anarchist society.

  • Yale Posting It's Ls

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  • And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with "lizard people are controlling the government".

    It's not about the intent of each individual cog involved in the creation and application of the law, but the intent for which the system of laws and hierarchies were created. Plenty of reform-minded people or naive pro-establishment folks participate in the legal system with good intentions, and sometimes find success reducing the harm that it causes, but that doesn't change that the system continues to uphold class society and was created for that purpose. The effect of our system of laws and hierarchical institutions is the preservation of a system of division between distinct classes, and since I have yet to see a legal system that does not do this in some form I have concluded that this is the fundamental nature of laws.

  • Yale Posting It's Ls

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  • All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.

    The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.

  • Yale Posting It's Ls

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  • The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are "other defence options, such as moving out of the way".

    When the people tasked with upholding the law consistently disregard it in particular circumstances - as they do when it comes to abuse of power by law enforcement - that law only exists in the circumstances in which it is consistently applied. Things like qualified immunity have effectively nullified any law that ostensibly holds law enforcement accountable. The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country without binding them, while binding the subjugated socioeconomic group without protecting them. Who is in which group is dynamic and always subject to change, but this rule almost always holds except in cases where very skilled lawyers are able to argue in court that someone in the latter group actually belongs to the former in some specific circumstance. That is the law being used for something that it was not designed to do, a bit like an exploit in a video game soon to be patched.

  • things would be different for sure

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  • Progressives are consistently more popular in red states than centrist Democrats. I'm living in a deep red state in a rural area and have all my life. I talk to mouth-foaming reactionaries on a regular basis. The difference in our conversations about people like Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris versus people like Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, and AOC is extremely stark. They never have anything good to say about the former, but always preface their disapproval of the latter with "I agree with some of the stuff they say about [insert progressive policy proposal here], but I don't think it's realistic / I don't agree on their 'woke' stuff."

    The centrist strategy of abandoning one's own values to reach across the aisle to them comes across to conservatives as dishonest and shady (and they're not wrong). They begrudgingly respect the progressive left for being uncompromising in their worldview, even if they disagree with it, and once you have someone's respect they are more likely to meaningfully engage with your arguments. That's how you change minds, and I've watched it happen on multiple occasions.

  • 90's

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  • Noem is unique in that she killed her own dog instead of someone else's, and then bragged that it spoke to her leadership skills.

  • Yale Posting It's Ls

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  • Oh you misunderstand, he knows the law well. He just knows how to use it as a tool to protect the elites from accountability and as a bludgeon to punish the people for non-compliance, as well as how to make sure that never gets flipped.

  • UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive”

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  • Psychopaths are human beings still, and humans believe in things / have values and principles. In psychopaths those beliefs and values are not informed by feelings of empathy or compassion, but by consequences and understanding, and that tends to make a selfish worldview more likely but not inevitable. It is possible - even if unlikely - for a psychopath to come to the conclusion that values of altruism and cooperation are in their interest because they like living in the kind of world that results from these values being practiced and want to perpetuate it.

  • UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive”

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  • Even if you can't feel empathy on an intuitive level, you can still learn it on an intellectual level and abide by a moral code. You don't have to feel that something is wrong to know that it is wrong.

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    Beautiful Indigo Milk Cap

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    Pantheon Season 1 is Coming to Netflix Tomorrow

    www.whats-on-netflix.com /news/critically-acclaimed-amc-series-pantheon-joining-netflix-us/
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    Pantheon S1 (but not S2) is Coming to Netflix Tomorrow

    www.whats-on-netflix.com /news/critically-acclaimed-amc-series-pantheon-joining-netflix-us/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Question: Can anyone recommend open source map-making / site design software?

  • Mycology @mander.xyz
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    ID Request: Pestle Puffballs (I think)

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    ID Help - Red-Pored Bolete Found in West KY

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    (Solved) Need Help With My Self-Hosted Media Server

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    (Solved) Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu Server