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  • Donor Pulls Scholarships After University of Arkansas Fayetteville Posts Ten Commandments

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  • Nobody is lost. People lead lives that make sense to them. It's not your job or any government's job to impose your beliefs onto others. Because we have different philosophies and beliefs, separation of church and state is a thing.

    Some people follow the Nobel Eightfold Path. Some follow the Ten Precepts of Taoism. Some follow the Seven Tenants of the Satanic Temple. Some follow the 52 Hukams of Guru Gobind Singh. No matter how strongly you feel about your beliefs, nothing makes them any more special than the beliefs of other people. They feel just as strongly about theirs. People having different norths as you call it isn't a bad thing. That's called diversity. There's only a problem when people are bigots that don't accept others for who they are and feel the need to "fix" them. Whether it's militant Christianity or militant atheism, we don't need that. Keep it to yourself. Countless societies have flourished without your 10 commandments.

  • Donor Pulls Scholarships After University of Arkansas Fayetteville Posts Ten Commandments

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  • All of it. The entire thing is complete garbage.

    You already acknowledge that commandments 1-4 are things with which non-Christians in general strongly disagree.

    5 - What if your father was Josef Mengele? The silence of his son is what allowed him to successfully hide in South America. Was that a good thing? Did he deserve any honor?

    6 is written by the state of Texas as "Thou shall not kill." Is killing in self defense wrong? If someone broke into your house with assault rifles and the intention of killing your children, would it be wrong to shoot at them to stop them? If a fighter jet was coming to bomb your city with a nuke, but you were able to intercept it with a missile, killing the pilot in the process, would that be wrong?

    7 - In the context of the Bible, "adultery" can mean not only cheating, but also any sex outside of marriage. Tons of people do not see anything wrong with consensual sex outside of marriage.

    8 - What is considered stealing? Is copying that floppy stealing? If a starving homeless orphan steals a loaf of bread from a billionaire to survive another day, is that wrong? A state may define theft however it wants. Personally, I consider the mere existence of private property as theft.

    9 - If it was WW2 and Nazi officials came to your house asking if you had seen any Jews, would it be morally wrong to lie to them if you knew about some hiding in your attic?

    10 - Is it wrong for workers to desire the means of production?

    Every single one of the 10 commandments throws away the nuance of defining morality through critical thinking. As such, I would argue that it is incredibly immoral to follow any one of them.

  • Trumpcare

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  • Wait, am I reading this correctly? When you say 11299.68, that includes not only the person working, but also their spouse and children??? How much does that cover?

    Right now, I'm lucky to have possibly the best healthcare plan in the US through my wife's job. She was able to add me to her plan for $8580 per year, but it fully covers almost everything with no deductible - something basically unheard of in the US. In comparison, the cheapest marketplace plan I could have gotten would have been something like $8400 per year, with an $8500 deductible, and then it only would have covered 25% of expenses after that. Before I got on her plan, it usually cost me $300 to see a doctor for a regular cold. I'm in my 30s, a normal weight, reasonably fit, and don't have any health problems other than occasional acid reflux. Under my previous plan, the pharmacy was going to charge me $980 to get a 2 month supply of acid reflux medication (40 mg esomeprazole magnesium tablets). So much winning living in the US. 🙄

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • Eesh. Guess the rainbow isn't anywhere in America, huh? I mean, it was at one time, but that was pre-1492. Hopefully some day it will change for the better.

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • While that's true, every state except for Montana has at-will employment. Despite that, unions often negotiate contract requirements that effectively guarantee job security. But if you live in a right to work state, chances are there isn't even an option to join a union at your job, giving you no means of collective bargaining.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • Time is sneaking up on us. It's not even 10 years anymore. It's closer to 20. 💀

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • In a right to work state, they don't need to give a reason. Any rules against firings are pretty much unenforceable, and the company is considered innocent unless proven guilty.

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • The difficult thing is people need to organize it outside of work. If management gets wind of that kind of stuff, they can fire and replace any workers they know are participating long before it actually happens.

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • By all means, people should try. Not saying people shouldn't. The mountain to overcome fascism isn't going to get any smaller as we dive deeper into it. And a strike wouldn't even have to happen in every area or even every state. It just has to happen enough to shut stuff down across the US. I just worry that most things tend to start out small and grow with time. For all of the reasons I stated, this can't start out small. It has to start loud and strong. If it starts out small, it will get crushed in a way that scares people away from trying again.

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • Apparently this just applies to unions and federal workers, though. At least as it was written in the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947. But yeah, the fact that it's illegal for unions to call for general strikes is indeed fucked up beyond belief. Unions are an essential part of organizing strikes.

  • YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.

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  • General strikes are illegal in the US. The people coordinating them could be arrested. Also, jobs can fire workers on the spot for participating in them, even if the workers are part of a union and the union want to participate. There are no protections for this. Not to mention, national guards have been sent in to shut down general strikes in the past. There's a reason they never happen. The likelihood of one ever succeeding is highly unlikely considering the current situation. Doing it multiple days? You realize most people live paycheck to paycheck? Nobody wants to tell their kids they're going to be homeless.

  • Vanilla Ice

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  • This. People were already protesting ICE long before Renée Good got killed. The racists, white supremacists, and nazis are still not protesting today. They don't care if a murdered protestor is white. A Nazi is going to view any white protesters as race traitors. What's happening right now is a dramatic shift in the scope of what ICE is doing. Rather than simply targeting immigrants, it's being deployed against protestors and in crowd control efforts. The extent of people they're targeting and how they're targeting them is dramatically expanding as well.

    In 2025, at least 32 people died in custody after being detained by ICE. This has caused massive protests nationwide.

    But in 2025, there were only 2 people known to have been shot and killed by ICE:

    Silverio Villegas González - September 12 - undocumented immigrant shot and killed by ICE in his car after dropping his kids off at school in Chicago. Video circulated online of his window getting broken out and him getting dragged out of the car after being shot.

    Keith Porter - December 31 - African American father shot and killed in Los Angeles while allegedly setting off fireworks. There are no videos of what happened.

    The first people shot and killed by ICE in 2026 include:

    Renée Good - January 7 - woman shot and killed in her vehicle in Minneapolis. Videos of the incident circulated online. She was not actively protesting.

    Alex Pretti - January 24 - protestor murdered execution style in Minneapolis for attempting to help a woman get safely to a sidewalk.

    That's it. This image includes completely incorrect information. Jaime Alanís Garcia died from breaking his neck after allegedly falling 30 feet from a building while a cannabis farm was being raided by ICE in Ventura County, California. ICE and CBP claims they were not targeting him. There's no video of the incident.

    Stuff is dramatically escalating, and it's presumably about to get much much worse.

  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • A widespread general strike will likely never happen because most people would be fired on the spot if they told their boss they were going on a strike. If you get fired, you don't qualify for unemployment, and most people are only a single paycheck away from being homeless. I guess people from a lot of countries do not understand this concept because they had the privilege of actual workers rights.

    We've been protesting. The frustration you have from thinking we're doing nothing is the same frustration we have with the so called Representatives sitting with their thumbs up their asses. They don't care what we think. They straight up make fun of us for trying. With the exception of Greenland and Canada, the rest of the world does not understand the pure rage, frustration, and fear we're dealing with every single day. If you're somewhere like mainland Europe, you're in a far safer place than we are right now. You don't have to worry about if and when your friends and family will get randomly kidnapped by ICE. You don't have to worry about when you too will get put in a concentration camp simply for having leftist political views. If the US actually goes through with invading Greenland, what do you think that is going to mean for those inside of the US? The country would immediately tear apart. All US bonds would immediately get dumped, and there would be a worldwide economic collapse. The only silver lining would be that the American war machine would also hopefully collapse. It may be large, but it's expensive to run. The entire US would turn into something that looks like the Bosnian War. Due to the US facing an internal collapse, Canada would likely be able to resist occupation, and Greenland would be won back from any kind of conquest. While awful things would happen in mainland Europe, they would pale in comparison to whatever happened in the US. We're dealing with fascists, and there would probably be hundreds of Tiananmen Square type events. This last few months has involved coming to terms that we probably will never have a chance to live a full life because we'll be dead long before old age ever comes.

    We're not a country of soldiers. We're just regular people. Despite whatever you might think, most people do not own guns or know how to use them. Do you expect people to leave their children homeless and without food over a 1 day strike? Do you understand that if a war happens, most of us will probably end up dead simply from being inside of the US? And even if there isn't a war, we may 2 years or less until we get put in a concentration camp simply for being against Trump. I fucking worry every day that my friends could get disappeared at any moment. You see stuff in the news about Minneapolis, but ICE is in every city. Over 1000 miles away, they've been going door to door near some of my closest friends. To suggest we are content is batshit. We are not okay with anything. I'm not going to apologize for the threats of an orange megalomaniac that I continually try to resist.

    If you're outside of the US, you absolutely can do stuff. Stop buying things that feed the monster. Build defenses and deterrents against US aggression. And get the money out of your own politics too. Stay vigilant. You don't want to go down this road, and it's closer than you'd think. If the US goes to war, it won't win. We might all be dead, but maybe the world will reset and fascism will fall.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • At least it's something. I had multiple friends in college 15 years ago that were homeless and lived out of their cars. They went to classes every day, did tutoring, hung out with other people in the student centers, and whatnot like everyone else. Pretty sure it's common for all colleges. People just don't talk about it so a lot of people have no idea.

  • Live Nation’s CEO thinks concert tickets are “underpriced”

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  • Outside of the US, stuff is at least not as bleak. It's a bit harder to destroy things that have been established for so long. Like in New Orleans, things had been established for a long time and it took a natural disaster (Katrina) to destroy the independent venues. But there are no protections against late stage capitalism in the US. Often, taxes alone will destroy independent venues. And yeah, I don't have any hope in the US government doing anything to help. It would sooner call all music a form of terrorism and make it illegal.

  • Live Nation’s CEO thinks concert tickets are “underpriced”

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  • Do you live outside of the United States or something? Or just not go to concerts? Live Nation owns almost all of the small venues too. They've bought nearly everything out, and the few remaining independent venues are on life support. And if you're a local band, good luck. 20 years ago, venues would pay you to play. But now you have to pay them like $200 just for the privilege of playing at a small venue with a 350 person capacity. In my city less than 20 years ago, I remember being able to walk downtown in the music district on any day of the week, and there would be over a dozen venues right next to each other all playing something different. It could be a Tuesday night. Music was everywhere, and tickets were $6-20. But there was also tons of free stuff. But after the venues all got bought out, that all stopped. There's not enough big money in music 7 days every week. A lot of venues now only have shows as little as twice a month. And then they'll want to charge $70+.

    Why shouldn't we be outraged? Music culture is being destroyed. Your "stop going to shows" solution isn't a solution. Nobody is going to concerts several times in a week anymore. What there once was has been destroyed. Live Nation needs to die.

  • Dinner is ready!

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  • Don't forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World's Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.

    But if you're vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.

  • ‘This Isn’t Normal’: Psychologists Sound Alarm on Trump Dozing Off

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  • He's not even necessarily doing it because he's old. He just doesn't care. His handlers will tell him what to sign anyway. Why would he want to waste time listening to people talk? There's not as much power in the presidency as he had hoped for. He can't even get alone in a room with small children anymore now that the secret service is always present. All he's really got left to live for is waiting for whenever he can give more orders to kill brown people.

  • Let's hear it, little lemmings.

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  • To say he was a generally great guy really overlooks how awful he was to women. He was no doubt brilliant, but he had some very serious character flaws. And unfortunately, he had an echo chamber of peers and a rockstar celebrity status that only worked to reinforce his shitty behavior and backwards views. It's not super uncommon for brilliant people to be absolutely nightmares on a personal level. Imagine being an absolutely brilliant scientist that gets married only to be completely forbidden from science and the things you love, and then reduced to being a maid for a madman with tons of insanely particular demands.