I'm not sure whether this story counts as either of those. Mods?
Technically, the charges against X don't sound "political" as such:
The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal investigation into the platform. In the official filing, X stands accused of the “alteration of the functioning of an automated data processing system by an organized group” as well as the "fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.”
According to French newspaper Le Monde, these are considered “major computer hacking offenses,” which can carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison and a €300,000 (roughly $350,000) fine under French law.
However, the purpose of X gaming the algorithm is almost certainly at least partially for political benefit. I think you could technically upvote this because you find it uplifting that sketchy big tech practices are facing pushback without enjoying it as schadenfreude, but personally this story doesn't really feel "uplifting" to me.
These seem like arbitrary rules. Most random accidents don't reliably kill people and are also painful. You're comparing a tiny subset of random accidents to all intentional suicide methods as if they are or should be somehow similar.
Sorry if I'm misreading, but I wonder if you're mixing up Steve Bannon (71) and Barron Trump (19). The Tweet says "Bannon" and is probably meant to imply the former. Steve Bannon is probably too old to have ever been victimized by Jeffrey Epstein; they are/were the same age.
You should read her words rather than just the intro to the article quoted in the OP.
'I made that choice. And now I'm watching my dad suffer because of it,' she responded.
She has admitted it. That's not a free pass to make bad decisions, but most of the quotes in the article are about her trying to change and do better.
'I'm learning everything I unlearned,' she said. 'And I'm going to fight for people who don't have a voice.'
'The guilt I carry is heavy, but I won't stay silent anymore,' she added.
'We all make choices,' she said. 'But we can make better ones next.'
I definitely have conflicted feelings about this: it's like when some former white supremacist changes their mind, gets the swastika tattoos removed and speaks out in support of anti-racism. They don't deserve a medal for saying "Whoops, I fucked up" after fucking up extremely hard, but is telling them to fuck off serving the greater good, or just giving us an opportunity to feel superior?
The "stone" with the words in it has a suspiciously uniform appearance. I wonder whether it might be concrete and the letters pressed into it while wet, in which case basically none of it is true.
Also he was primarying Andrew Cuomo, who previously resigned in disgrace over a slew of sexual misconduct allegations and an impeachment. There's plenty of reasons to vote against Cuomo that are completely unrelated to Israel.
Yeah, he was reportedly conceived in a casual encounter. His parents weren't in an ongoing relationship and the father didn't remain very involved in either of their lives.
That is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I'm not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is "a child born to parents who are not married to each other." He matches that definition because his parents were never married.
Affairs don't come into it, it's just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are "supposed" to be born into.
I don't think he's anywhere in the line of succession regardless. He's the son of the Crown Princess (by marriage) but not of the Crown Prince. i.e. His mother had him as a result of a prior relationship, then married the Crown Prince, making him the stepson of the man who will one day be king, but not really anything on his own account. Besides a rapist.
Did you all hear the recent announcement that they're making a Spaceballs 2? It's scheduled for 2027. Bill Pullman (Lone Starr), Daphne Zuniga (Vespa), Rick Moranis (Dark Helmet) and Mel Brooks (Yogurt) are all returning, alongside new characters played by Lewis Pullman (Bill's real son), Josh Gad and Keke Palmer. I'm not even joking.
There was a poll last month asking if politics and schadenfreude posts should be banned: https://lemmings.world/post/26744357
The result was overwhelmingly yes: https://lemmy.world/post/30918729
I'm not sure whether this story counts as either of those. Mods?
Technically, the charges against X don't sound "political" as such:
However, the purpose of X gaming the algorithm is almost certainly at least partially for political benefit. I think you could technically upvote this because you find it uplifting that sketchy big tech practices are facing pushback without enjoying it as schadenfreude, but personally this story doesn't really feel "uplifting" to me.