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  • A newly welcomed Afrikaner ‘refugee’ tweeted Jews are ‘dangerous and untrustworthy’

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  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns Trump Admin If They ‘Lay a Finger’ on Members of Congress ‘We Are Going To Have a Problem’

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  • They weren't, but they were a hell of a lot stronger than Trump. And Biden for that matter.

    The reality is there's clearly a double standard in how Americans - both male and female - view women as candidates. Look at how they attacked Kamala for having a monogamous relationship with Willie Brown while Trump cheated on 3 spouses and sexually assaulted somewhere between 1 and 25 people.

    Does anyone think there's a chance that a woman who was caught cheating on her spouse could get elected? And it's not just sex stuff, the way opinions and mannerisms are scrutinized is different too. There's 100x as many ways for a woman to be cringe as a man.

  • Is it possible to listen to artists who are terrible people without feeling guilty?

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  • The most politically incorrect truth is this: People are not good or bad, individual people do a variety of good and bad things. Mister Rogers told his gay friend to stay in the closet and marry a woman. Hitler banned animal cruelty. We don't like to talk about these things, but it's a true principle and a useful one to live by.

  • Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

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  • People create content knowing others are going to get filthy rich off it and they'll get nothing in return. Except total loss of privacy.

  • Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

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  • I get where you're coming from, but in the interest of keeping my comment simple I left out that he claimed to be hiking in Dumbarton Oaks Park, which is not far (and downstream) from the picture I posted such that it wouldn't be plausible that it would be that narrow.

    But I'll also point out the level of incredulity my comment is getting on a social media site, vs. RFK Jr.'s, which should strike anyone familiar with Rock Creek as almost certainly wrong. Yet everyone in the whole news media is either willfully ignoring this or just too lazy to look into it. And honestly it pisses me off because this lack of giving a fuck about basic facts from reporters who we falsely imagine as being employed in reporting facts shows how much we're in a post-truth society and why we got a con artist as our president.

  • Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

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  • THIS IS NOT ROCK CREEK FFS

    Everyone including major media sources is parroting what RFK Jr. said in his instagram account as if it's gospel. Go to google maps. Look at Rock Creek. Look how big it is. This is not Rock Creek.

  • The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Suspend Habeas Corpus. Read That Again.

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  • Well you gotta admit though, that's kinda hilarious. I mean just think of it - the most high and mighty nation about protecting rights, and then we just pick Mungo from Queens, who's like "Mungo no like habeas corpus!" And then we just go to the gulag or whatever. And people are running around like "Oh no why did we pick Mungo, what were we thinking." I mean it's at least kinda funny.

  • The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Suspend Habeas Corpus. Read That Again.

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  • It would be hilarious if a reporter asked Trump to explain what habeas corpus is.

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  • I'm plenty open to questioning every part of copyright (has the idea ever actually been proven to be worth the enormous costs? It's like an infinity-percent tariff on anything information related.) but the same copyright should apply to everbody. It sounds like this proposal gives a specific pass to corporations developing AI - anything these corporations can access should be accessible to the general public as well. If you can use a song to train an AI for free, a human artist should also be allowed to use it directly and turn it into a new work.

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    Latina Who Voted for Trump Bursts Into Tears After Learning Her Entire Family is Going to Be Deported

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  • “This is crazy, we voted for Trump, we trusted him, his word, what he promised Latinos,” she said.

    And what promises were those, exactly? What Trump promised latinos was to deport all the other latinos they don't like.

    That's Trump's magic. He tells one group of people and says "I hate the same people you hate." Then he goes to another group of people and says the same thing. Eventually he's convinced everybody he hates everybody, but not themselves.

  • Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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  • Strictly speaking that's not true. For example, business elites almost certainly favored Romney over Obama's second term. But when it's someone as wooden as Romney, it doesn't matter how much money they pour into the race.

    This time around Republicans are probably going to run some Trump stooge who's planning on the third term end-around to put Trump back in office, assuming Trump lasts that long. I think they're going to have a similar problem this time.

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  • Colorado’s Division of Motor Vehicles also tried to explicitly ban them last year, though it later pulled its proposed rule. Some kei vehicle owners, however, say the state is still trying to keep them off the road by refusing to allow them into the emissions testing process.

    As usual it's confusion from news when reporting on public policy. So are they proposing that there be exceptions to emissions rules for these vehicles or not? Because that will make a huge amount of difference in how much I or pretty much anyone else should support this.

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  • Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

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  • Bill Gates deserves a lot of shit for creating the original big tech monopoly. But I'll say this about him: At least he's not hoarding his money to build a secretive compound to hold hundreds of kids he spawned with right wing crazy women for the purpose of creating a future master race.

  • I didn't vote for this

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  • Well he can get an exemption if he pays a $10 million consulting fee to Ballard Partners. I assume he's okay with that, because that's what he voted for.

  • Republicans are already plotting to steal the midterms

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  • There's definitely giant inadequacies in American democracy, but still I fail to see how voting isn't good enough. If people voted for Gore instead of Nader, American history would be very different. We'd have avoided a giant tax cut for the rich l, withdrawing from Kyoto, and a trillion dollar unnecessary war. Wealth inequality wouldn't be as bad, there would definitely be earlier progress against global warming, and we could probably afford real universal health care by now.

    Ideally after voting in the right people, we'd fix all the democracy problems. But still I'd say voting alone would make a huge difference. Anything else meanwhile - protests (BLM, Gaza), violence (Matthew crooks, Luigi) has at best accomplished zero, and in reality seems to have done serious damage to the causes they were seeking. The one exception I'd give is boycotts - like the Tesla boycotts that have destroyed their sales numbers.

  • Republicans are already plotting to steal the midterms

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  • Well yeah, but part of the voter propaganda is telling people both sides are the same. I get that there's pro capitalist media bias which at its root is caused by extreme financial inequality. But fixing that financial inequality requires government action, and that requires voting. For the people who will do the inadequate version over the people who want to make it worse. Incremental change through pressure + time, just like everything else on earth.

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  • Voting caused the problem, it can solve it too. But here's the thing: for voting to solve the problem, you have to actually do it and play the game.

    Every 20-25 years some rightwing psycho wins and inflicts some horror on us because new voters don't remember what happened the last time people said "both sides are the same". You kids know that whole Iraq war and torture thing was avoidable, right? So was Reagan's annihilation of the middle class.

  • Republicans are already plotting to steal the midterms

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  • I mean obviously, they tried in 2020. But they're also very, very dumb. That being said, with the four years in-between, they may have figured out how to book a hotel room by now.