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  • Netanyahu's government faces possible collapse as opposition moves to dissolve Knesset

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  • The logic is abhorrent, but it makes sense. It's the typical two-tiered hypocrisy often employed by politicians everywhere.

    "As long as we the ruling class are exempt from personal sacrifice, we support this."

  • Vomiting Emoji

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  • California Governor calls out Alabama murder rate after Senator Tuberville says LA is ‘a third world country’

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  • Penis. He would've done better because he has one, and a non-negligible percentage of our voters are sexist.

  • Trump Deploys Marines to a “Manufactured Crisis,” Defense Official Says

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  • You say that like they aren't already trying that crap. The media has been pretty damn happy to take photos and videos of the damage caused by the riot gear-wearing faction and implying it's caused by rioting protesters.

  • Newsom brands Trump a ‘dictator’ after National Guard deployed

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  • The part the most astonishing isn't the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.

    I have heard stupid shit ranging from "he meant votes will be cast automatically" to "he's just trolling" to "good, it's leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020."

    Just maybe... the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?

  • Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officials

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  • we are an apolitical, non-partisan organization

    Sure, and I'm Bob Ross.

  • US man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcare (2011)

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  • I think we should be subsidizing people's poor reading comprehension.

    Why should the poor subsidize their income with our labor?

    the poor ... our = ustheir = the rich

    This commenter was asking for someone to try and justify why we (the working class) should have our labor contribute to the income of people whose existence is based on exploiting others. A perfectly reasonable question.

  • Supreme Court Rules for Straight Woman in Job Discrimination Suit

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  • That's surprising.

    This Supreme Court doing something to support equality and not stifle it instead? Oh, wait—it's probably just a happy accident that them dismissing the idea that discrimination requires privilege lines up with their quest to make sure the "right people" hurt.

  • Where does the internet cable go?

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  • The magic cable typically goes into ISP-owned hardware sitting in a box somewhere down the street. From there, it's either converted into fiber optic signals or repeated until it reaches an ISP-owned building where the data can be exchanged with the wider internet.

    How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?

    It uses multiple channels (frequency ranges) in parallel, bonding (combining) them to increase throughput.

    A surprising amount of bandwidth can be achieved this way. DOCSIS 4.0 can do 10 gigabits per second in download and 6 gigabits per second in upload.

  • Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China

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  • He really doesn't seem to care or understand just how weak his position is. Using tariffs as a threat and bargaining piece is him telling China that "you need us more than we need you," and he's dead wrong about that.

    It takes years to build up a supply chain and production facilities for domestic manufacturing. Not to mention, the production costs and consumer price would be much higher because of the difference in wages and labor. What happens in the meantime? It's not like they simply eschew everything from China and keep trucking along as usual.

    For that reason, I don't think the poker analogy is very accurate. It's really more like a starving guy refusing to buy $1.99 bread because he thinks he can convince his equally-starving friends to cook a 3 course steak dinner using a trashcan bonfire and a promise that tomorrow he'll find a live cow somewhere in the middle of Detroit.

  • Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill

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  • You know, it's not even about hitting the ball. Hitting the ball is great and all, but that's not fair to the other team. What if they weren't ready? This is about sportsmanship! It's about being the bigger person! And most importantly, it's about the players. Chuckie needs a new glove, and nothing inspires other people to buy girl-scout cookies more than knowing they can make a difference to help the runner-up win the next championship tournament.

  • Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? Context was the idea of a government banning meat

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  • Israel's Backers Are Now Advocating The Assassination Of Greta Thunberg

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  • Arrest, not autopsy? That's very optimistic of you.

  • Paranoid Kash Patel polygraphs FBI agents in MAGA purge

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  • They probably do and just don't care.

    I'm sure they have a whole guidebook on how to present them to a judge in such a way that they can be used as evidence for baseless search warrants.

  • Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Biden’s a Clone

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  • It baffles me that pundits, researchers, political leaders and such ponder what's going wrong when they walk to work and see every single human being doomscrolling this trash away, all while the companies hosting it become the richest on Earth.

    One of those is not like the others. As long as lobbying and kickbacks are legal or no worse than a slap on the wrist, politicians are more than happy to be paid to not wonder or care why. Heck, some of them probably welcome it—the algorithms helped them get elected.

  • Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy

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  • One instance? There's at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to get those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.

    Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.

  • 'The American dream is over': Trump's deportation policies are pushing Latin Americans to Spain

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  • It's incredible how quickly our politicians managed to be paid off to fuck that one up.

  • ANALYSIS: America warns EU of election interference in Poland, then backs country’s right-wing candidate

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  • With conservatives, every accusation is a confession.

  • TIL about thought-terminating clichés

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  • Their slogan should be:

    No thought, just parrot what's taught.