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  • Why Is This Election Even Close?

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  • Same answer it's been for my whole lifetime: a small number of extremely wealthy individuals pumping a constant stream of money into conservative media with the express purpose of changing public opinion.

    People who've been listening to this stuff their entire lives don't live in the real world. They legitimately don't believe in reality, and after a certain point I'm not sure it's possible to bring them back. Much like climate change, this kind of thing should've been stopped at the source decades ago, and it might just be too late now.

  • Second Washington Post writer quits over failure to back Kamala Harris

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  • The point of a billionaire owning a newspaper isn't to be profitable or maximize readership. It's to leverage the readership you do have into power and control. It doesn't matter if this came out, and it doesn't matter if it loses, say, a quarter of its readership. Bezos still gets to use it on the remaining readership and he successfully converts or kills one of the most significant Democratic-sympathizing papers in the nation.

    Rupert Murdoch bought up the New York Post when it was a failing paper, and it continued to lose money for decades. I believe it's profitable now, but that was never the purpose. It wasn't for Bezos either.

    Edit: a great parallel example of this is Musk/Twitter - huge financial loss, but it doesn't matter, because that wasn't the point. And if the polls are any indicator, it's been incredibly effective and worth every penny.

  • Trump Cancels All His Events in Favor of One of the Worst People Ever

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  • How cool would it be if he takes this opportunity to do the right thing and publicly denounce him to his face?

  • Supplies arrive by plane and by mule in North Carolina as Helene's death toll tops 130

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  • Mules are maybe the most useful freak of nature (sorta) for humans. They're still used surprisingly widely - even the US military still keeps them on hand, for similar cases to this one: the terrain is so fucked that ground vehicles are going to have a hard time getting to certain areas.

  • 'Extremely offensive': Massive naked Trump statue stuns Nevada

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  • offensive marionette, designed intentionally for shock value rather than meaningful dialogue

    This is the most accurate description I've ever heard of the original.

  • Putin’s much-feared ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missile failed 4 out of 5 tests

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  • I signed up on ml because lemmy.world gave me an infinite spinner when I tried to post and ml was the second one I saw and figured it didn't matter. I think living in Russia or China would be awful and think Ukraine is a victim of Russia's terrible aggression. That doesn't mean I can't be anti nuclear war.

  • Putin’s much-feared ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missile failed 4 out of 5 tests

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  • Yeah, this is the wildest headline. "Don't fear it, it only works 20% of the time!" Both the US and Russia have somewhere around 1700 known deployed nuclear warheads able to be launched from air, land, and sea. 20% is still 340 nuclear bombs, all of which are substantially larger than the ones dropped in Japan.

    The fucking audacity to downplay nuclear war.

  • Choice

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  • It pressures the system in those cities or states, which is actual pressure to the system, just not direct pressure on the federal government. History shows you can mount pressure through local and state changes until it gets overwhelming support on a federal level.

    You can make the argument there might be more effective or quicker solutions, but this is unquestionably one path toward it.

  • CIA boss says west should not be intimidated by Russia’s nuclear threats

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  • Then Putin should be very scared of that risk and withdraw immediately!

    He should, but he doesn't appear to be. That puts the ball in everybody else's court, unfair though it is.

    Or the Russian people should be scared of that and force him to withdraw.

    Who am I kidding, the Russian people can’t stand up to President Putin, they’re too busy listening to General Stolichnaya.

    A large number of Russians are trying to protest. They typically get killed or imprisoned. It's hard to fault the remainder for not risking their lives for a probably fruitless attempt at dissent.

  • CIA boss says west should not be intimidated by Russia’s nuclear threats

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  • He will run out of people, at the expense of both Russian human beings and Ukrainian human beings. That's the best case scenario with continued war, assuming it doesn't escalate to directly include other countries.

  • Venezuela: Forces surround embassy sheltering opposition figures

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  • That's not mutually exclusive with what I said.

  • CIA boss says west should not be intimidated by Russia’s nuclear threats

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  • This has the possible side effect of nuclear war.

  • Venezuela: Forces surround embassy sheltering opposition figures

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  • Pretty much everybody's the bad guy here, tbh. Sort of a Lybia-during-Gaddafi situation - he was horrible, but it's not like they've been in a great place since.

  • CIA boss says west should not be intimidated by Russia’s nuclear threats

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  • Agreed, but that's not happening. It's wild that the only possible options anybody sees right now are all-out war or Putin suddenly having a change of heart, and anybody who considers there might be other avenues to pursue is ridiculous.

    Fine, the war goes on, and we'll see hundreds of thousands of people continue to die. Nothing else anybody in the entire world can do, it all rests on Putin changing his mind, and we'll just have to wait it out. Sucks to suck for all of those people, their families, and their descendants who are going to grow up in a country that's going to take generations to rebuild.

  • How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists

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  • How Parking Garages Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists

    How Public Parks Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists

    How the Street Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists

    How Literal Playgrounds Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists

    Maybe if these things are happening everywhere, it's not the app that's the issue. This kind of talk opens us up to bans on Signal and similar apps, and that's just unacceptable. Address the core issues in society, don't try (and typically fail) to bandage it by taking away more and more of people's rights and freedoms.

  • CIA boss says west should not be intimidated by Russia’s nuclear threats

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  • They said the same thing when he was repeatedly lining up troops along Ukraine's border.

    It's not a problem until it is. They need to be making more progress on peace talks. It's unacceptable this war has gone on for this long and killed this many people.

  • Cops lure pedophiles with AI pics of teen girl. Ethical triumph or new disaster?

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  • IANAL, but my understanding is entrapment is when they convince you to do something you might not otherwise have done. So if the cops create an account of a minor and message an adult asking if they want to fuck, and the answer is like "uh no, absolutely not," and then the cops follow up by repeatedly sexting, and the adult blocks their account, but the cops relentlessly keep sexting from burner accounts, and plant people in the adult's work and social environments who keep talking about how normal it is to fuck minors who sext you out of the blue, and then the adult is finally like "oh whatever, fine" - that's entrapment.

    Now, most people still are literally never going to take the minor up on the offer, no matter how relentless they are or how normalized it is in their environment. That's true about most crimes. The question is how many people wouldn't have committed that crime unless this very specific police-created situation came up, and that difference is what falls into entrapment.

    I'd argue this isn't even close to entrapment, because all they did was set up an account much like all the others that exist, and waited for others to find them. It's no different from leaving a bike unlocked, then catching somebody who steals it. There are unlocked bikes everywhere, and people don't suddenly decide to steal the only bike of their life because they happened to find that unlocked bike.

    Of course, they could also be spending this time and money getting to the root of societal issues and fixing the core problems instead of catching a small percentage of active pedophiles and letting the rest of them continue to cause irreparable harm.

  • Why do you care about privacy?

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  • I don't think society on a local, national, or world level is past persecution for stupid reasons, and I fall into a number of categories that certain people might go after me for if they got into power. I want to make that difficult for them.

  • Hunter Biden enters surprise guilty plea to avoid federal tax trial.

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  • He's unquestionably getting pardoned. I disagree that we should feel good about another rich asshole getting off the hook because some other rich asshole wouldn't like it.