Pretty depressing that this is still relevant today. Just swap out Saddam.
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_chris@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•President Trump says he found a group of 'very wealthy people' to buy TikTokEnglish10·6 days agoNarrator: “he didn’t”
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With IranEnglish22·14 days agoOh. This’ll be the death blow? We’ve had so many now.
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His StaffEnglish65·24 days ago“I voted for the racism, not for it to affect me personally!”
_chris@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face “Serious Legal Consequences”English24·2 months agoThen just add them to a signal chat, that’s acceptable.
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•'We're all dead': GOP senator reacts to Trump tariffsEnglish63·3 months agoI was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the disappearing of citizens and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighboring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he’s giving Wall Street the jitters, so I’m not so sure about this guy any more.
credit to https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/114275545356485888
My wife says thank you to Alexa all the time. Occasionally she responds in song.
_chris@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Kansas reports measles outbreak with 23 cases as infections rise across U.S.English4·3 months agoIf only there was some way to have prevented this!
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Republican Senator Admits Trump’s Tariffs Are ‘A Tax and It Will Be Passed on To Consumers’English3·4 months agoI am pretty confident I know what his accent is like just by reading his name.
_chris@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprisesEnglish61·4 months agoMy datacenter is 80% nvme at this point. Just naturally. It’s crazy.
_chris@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Measles warnings issued in San Antonio and San Marcos as Texas outbreak spreadsEnglish79·4 months agoGood.
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•New York Got $80 Million for Migrants. The White House Took It Back.English3·5 months agoIt’s theft. Brazen, straight up theft. Imagine what’s happening where we can’t see.
The text of the EO actually only orders renaming of the portion of the gulf that is shown as the American EEZ on that map.
But, much like with everything else in society, the companies who bent over backwards renaming as fast as possible were too dumb to read the actual assignment and / or instead just wanted to gargle the ring.
_chris@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Dems reportedly angry that progressives are pushing them to act like an opposition partyEnglish33·5 months agoThe Democrat party needs to end. We can’t fight fascist activism by being nice to them. We also can’t fight fascist billionaires with “nice guy” billionaires who ultimately benefit just as much, but just don’t approve publicly of the methods.
The Democrat party needs to end.
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance claims judges 'aren't allowed' to overrule President Trump on executive ordersEnglish9·5 months agoThe media is owned by the same billionaires that own the politicians.
This isn’t a left versus right thing anymore. It’s a have vs the have-nots.
And there’s a lot more of us have-nots.
_chris@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-offEnglish121·5 months agoEducation doesn’t make a tech CEO ridiculously wealthy, so there’s no draw for said CEOs to promote the shit out of education.
Plus educated people tend to ask for more salary. Can’t do that and become a billionaire!
I’m more and more convinced that the plan is for anyone who isn’t a billionaire to just die, and they’ll figure out how to replace us with AI
_chris@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts sayEnglish19·6 months agoThere is a post-disaster price-gouging law in California preventing just this from happening. Rent is included.
https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#8C1
"Violations of the price gouging statute are subject to criminal prosecution that can result in one-year imprisonment in county jail and/or a fine of up to $10,000. Violations are also subject to civil enforcement actions including civil penalties of up to $2,500 per violation, injunctive relief and mandatory restitution.
The Attorney General, local district attorneys, and private individuals can bring actions for violations of the statute."
_chris@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Biden announces $2.5 billion in Ukraine defense assistanceEnglish23·6 months agoAmerican leaders aren’t in it for the citizens any longer.
Aha. So that’s why they don’t care if everyone but the billionaires die.