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Andy

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  • I'm saying that it's tautological.

    If you try and kill a fascist because you're opposed to fascism, you're a black-bloc antifascist. I suppose it could come out that the shooter was purely delusional and was trying to kill Trump for fame or because of hallucinations, but it seems pretty obvious to me that this was political violence against fascism. That's what antifa means. Am I missing something?

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  • Don't encourage these assholes. Have you considered how good this is for him?

    If anyone else is thinking about doing this, please do not. With all due respect: you are a fucking idiot and you are not doing anyone a favor except the fascists.

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  • It did hit someone behind him. The local medical examiner told the Washington Post that a member of the audience died.

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  • I hate to say this, but ... the shooter IS antifa. That's what antifa means.

    It's not an organization with member rolls. It's a term for people who are prepared to fight fascism by any means necessary, which I think it's clear this person thought they were doing.

    It's a shitty situation to be in if you don't like fascism. But there's no use in getting semantic or trying to polish facts. This is where we're at.

    Personally, I have been saying for YEARS now something that seems consistently unpopular but true: "punching Nazis" is strategically ineffective. Justified? Yeah. Gratifying? Surely. A good strategy if you don't want to live under fascism? Definitively not. It is choosing to embrace a playing field tilted wildly against us. Like it or not, we're now on that field.

    If you're thinking of buying a gun right now, don't. Instead, make sure you know all your neighbors by name. Plant gardens and stock up on canned goods. Put your efforts into putting people in positions of local power who are prepared to defend against either state terrorism or militia terrorism.

    We cannot win with violence. Violence may be necessary defensively, but as an offensive strategy it is a tactical mistake, and we all need to accept that.

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  • I don't think it'll seal it, but I think the whole Democratic dream of doing nothing and hoping that he says unpopular things and Biden can win without going out in public is completely dead.

    We need a healthy, vibrant candidate to run aggressively against him. He can be stopped at the ballot box, but that will need an active, dynamic effort. It won't happen on it's own, which was clearly Biden's campaign's plan A.

    It's time for him to focus on being president and let Harris go out and make the case that she's the right person to manage the four years.

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  • Are you really just going to go fully into "it was a false flag" within minutes of an attempted assassination?

    Staged it as a political stunt? Him getting grazed by a bullet? While he's already AHEAD?

    Jesus. We're in dark times. Please keep your wits about you. The project to avoid falling into fascism does not get easier by having more people break with reality.

  • They're next...... Maybe

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  • This seems like wishcasting.

    Everyone is welcome to their subjective opinion, but I don't think any of these are really suffering that hard.

  • IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captive

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  • Haaretz also reported this about three months ago. But I think there's benefit to seeing more coverage of this.

  • The Lancet points out that a realistic estimate for the number of people killed in Gaza is in the hundreds of thousands now

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  • Damn that's dark.

  • Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour

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  • Fascinating. I think he summarizes the expectations on Starmer in a pretty useful way.

  • My first bookbinding project - a hardcopy of the Fully Automated! TTRPG Rulebook

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  • This is just nuts! I dig DIY guides, but bookbinding really is something special.

    I can't believe how effortless you make it look. It looks like you've done this a bunch of times!

  • What is the functional difference between the President having immunity for “official acts” and the powers granted to the German President under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution?

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  • Let's be clear, though: judicial review has no enforcement. Compliance is voluntarily, and it can't undo assassinations and coups.

    And impeachment functionally doesn't exist. It's been demonstrated that senators will not impeach a president of their party, regardless of whether they agree with the charges.

  • definitely accurate

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  • That's the whole theme song. I don't understand this meme.

  • Russian trans politician forced to detransition or get sent to psychiatric hospital

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  • Well that's dystopian and dark.

  • Your Houseplants Can Think with Zoë Schlanger [Factually podcast with Adam Conover]

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  • That's nuts. I was hoping it might explain how, but nope: they're like, "We've got no idea."

    Remarkable. It's nice to be reminded how much about our world still lies undiscovered.

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  • I really try not to get into litigating each and every instance, but I feel compelled sometimes to point out a few things:

    The claim that Abdallah Aljamal was holding hostages is not credible. This claim was made by the IDF without evidence, and they have a very long history of fabricating post-hoc justifications for killing people they weren't targeting or supposed to target. Examples include the assassination of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 and the killing of medic Rouzan al-Najjar in 2018. In both cases, the IDF was caught lying to justify their murders, and I don't think the claims about Abdallah Aljamal hold up at all. From what I read, he lived in the building one of the hostages was recovered from, but he wasn't known as a target before he was killed. He was characterized as one after he was dead.

    Overall, the concept of "valid targets" is bullshit. It is used to assuage our innate understanding that killing people -- particularly the young, the innocent, the defenseless, the elderly -- is WRONG. Israel has, in this particular war, extended the concept in a way that is clearly genocidal. Their target selection, as covered by 972, was wildly more vicious than their own historical limits on collateral damage. An anonymous Israeli intelligence officer called it "a mass assassination factory".

    I'm glad we agree that all the responsible parties for atrocities deserve to be held accountable. I don't intend the above as a provocation to fight, but I want to make sure anyone reading this comment section is aware of this context.

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  • It's nuts that this is barely even news. Like... another day another atrocity.

    I'm trying not to be numb to it, but it's hard to remain shocked. I'm still disgusted, though.

    I'll say this, too: I think we too often judge wars by the conduct of the participants as though there are good wars and bad ones. And my hunch is that it's more like there are bad ones and terrible ones, and as awful as this sounds, this one is more notable because it's being well documented and it involves a uniquely fucked up context (decades of occupation with the support of the US). I think the way the Israeli right wing discusses it is uniquely brazen, and the degree to which the IDF targets journalists and medics seems high, but I think that this kind of stuff happens so often and is undercovered. I wish Yemen got the kind of coverage this is getting.

    In terms of the atrocities, I think most wars are basically just a bunch of atrocities in a trenchcoat. It doesn't make these any better: I just want this to end, and then all the other wars. Fuck this shit.

    AND I want the people who do this shit dragged in front of the Hague. I'm very glad that Netanyahu and Gallant have had arrest warrants requested, but you know what I call that? A good start.

  • Gen Z are desperate to be eco-friendly but LinkedIn says they’re so underskilled they actually pose a ‘risk’ to climate progress

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  • Oh fuck, that sucks.

  • Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

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  • I think maybe execs and investors might feel it's all the same, but if you're a project manager for cloud infrastructure for enterprise services or you've been working for years on releasing a new component of Bing search that you think is a real gamechanger and some muckity-muck at the top says, 'Oh, don't worry about that anymore: a property manager that's owned by a private equity partner of one of our big investors wants the chatbot that schedules apartment viewings in Huntsville to be more flirty, so go massage the prompts to make it convincingly laugh at bad jokes,' some of those folks are liable to start grumbling that this isn't the role that they were pitched when they took this job.

  • Israel Has “Systematically Violated” Laws Regarding Civilian Harm, UN Finds

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  • I think this article omitted important further context by not describing the target selection approach the IDF was using: they had an AI tool make guesses as to who was part of Hamas, then suggest bombing runs of their homes when they were believed to be inside around meal times or sleeping. They reserved precision weapons for commanders, and used dumb bombs to kill low-ranking suspected combatants.

    This approach is inherently designed to create a pretense to carpet bomb neighborhood full of families based on a process with little to know human oversight it discretion.

    For details, look up "lavender" and "where's Daddy".