“Now I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together,” Trump said. “Because the Libertarians want to vote for me … and it’s very important because we have to get rid of the worst president in history.”...
There at too many words for me to keep track of. Can someone tell me the difference between a libertarian and a conservative? Cuz I’ve always been under the impression that libertarians are just rebranded conservatives, which also makes them mostly blue collar (in my mind). Is that not true? Your comment would make me think it isn’t, which confuses me because (in my mind) that would mean they’re stomping on themselves unless they aren’t blue collar. Or are we not considering blue collar workers a part of the working class?
Genuine questions, I’m not trying to be an asshole I just want to understand.
TL;DR: BLACK LIVES MATTER and the people who rioted after George Floyd’s murder have set civil rights back by decades. Reactionary politics are cancer.
This is what happens when you prop up a career criminal as a martyr.
George Floyd was a bad man. Is anyone actually surprised that nothing good came from the riots following his death?
Breonna Taylor’s murder comes to mind. That woman was an innocent and upstanding member of society. She was a fucking EMT and the reaction to her being murdered by cops blindfiring through her window after a no-knock breach was fucking mute compared to the rabidity that people showed after George Floyd was murdered. This was two and a half months before Floyd’s murder.
Where were the riots following her death? Oh, right, it didn’t happen for another two fucking months because it was largely unnoticed outside of Louisiana until CNN released s story about it. Even then they weren’t as bad as what happened after Floyd’s death.
The wild disparity between the two events can be summed up quite simply - Floyd’s murder was recorded and shown immediately, Breonna’s murder was not.
Reactionary politics are cancerous. Of course things have only gotten worse - the idiots responsible for the riots provided conservatives with all the talking points they needed to make the other side look fucking rabid.
That’s not even mentioning the bad actors who jumped on the event to cause havoc. Yes I’m talking about the white people dressed all in black throwing molotovs and chanting “black lives matter”.
I don’t even know why I’m writing this, I guarantee I’ll get responses that completely ignore the points I’m making and cherrypick. Let’s see.
Edit: what a surprise, reactionaries reacting. Crazy.
There it is again, reading comprehension is a dying concept I swear to god.
In no way did I suggest Floyd should have been killed. I pointed out that the person people rioted over was a genuinely bad person. Anyone who threatens to kill a pregnant woman at gun point is a bad person. Period, I don’t care how hard their lives might have been or what led to that point, that is not a man you should make into a martyr.
I absolutely think that who you’re fighting for matters. Yes, conservatives will spin things however they can. That doesn’t change the fact that the same reactionaries responsible for the riots as a result of George Floyd’s murder were completely unaware of something worse that happened. I remember seeing Breonna Taylor’s murder pop up in my feed within a few days if it happening. It’s not like they didn’t have the same tools to see exactly what I did, and yet the dumb motherfuckers did nothing for two months.
Now there’s the added bonus of the irrefutable fact that George Floyd was a bad person. When you give conservatives something real to use as ammunition it only bolsters their ability to twist the truth and push their racist agenda.
You can be mad at me all you want, I’m right. Was what happened to both of them a perfect display of the festering cancer within police forces across the United States? Not only that, but a display of how wrong minorities are treated by those forces? Absolutely, as I’ve never once stated or believed that Floyd should have been murdered.
I can point to all the ways AI has made my life worse. Google (and YouTube) has gotten worse, any forum where art is posted (that includes lemmy) has gotten worse, and I’ve had to establish a safeword with my mom because of AI scammers.
So, sincerely, pull your head out of your ass. Thank you.
BrainBridge, a neuroscience and biomedical engineering startup from the US, has claimed that they are developing the world’s first head transplant system. According to their website, it is “a groundbreaking device that will represent a landmark achievement in the fields of neuroscience, human engineering, and artificial...
Aren’t typical organ transplants fraught with issues? Like the body rejecting the organ?
How would this work with a head on another body?? I’d imagine it must be more difficult to force the body to accept the new head. I don’t see any mention of this in the article.
I didn’t call it a head transplant… but yes that’s what I was getting at. I would imagine that this needs something beyond immunosuppresants, not to mention how does the nervous system work? It can’t be as simple as plug in and go.
In sharing this video here I’m preaching to the choir, but I do think it indirectly raised a valuable point which probably doesn’t get spoken about enough in privacy communities. That is, in choosing to use even a single product or service that is more privacy-respecting than the equivalent big tech alternative, you are...
I don’t understand them, they want to live here and gain all the advantages of living here whilst doing literally everything they can to not contribute to society.
These motherfuckers should be branded and any money they try to use should be immediately confiscated. I have no problem with someone being outside of civilization, but they should be completely on their own with only other sovcits to take care of them.
Australia reported its first human case of avian influenza on Wednesday in a child who authorities said had been infected in India but made a full recovery, while a different highly contagious strain was found on an egg farm....
School choice programs have been wildly successful under DeSantis. Now public schools might close. (www.politico.com)
Being an adult is so fun
How rude! (lemmy.world)
Donald Trump Pledges to Free Ross Ulbricht (youtube.com)
Privacy respecting link: redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=RaiI3-ontAE
Trump loudly booed at Libertarian convention when he asks attendees to ‘nominate me or at least vote for me’ (www.cnn.com)
“Now I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together,” Trump said. “Because the Libertarians want to vote for me … and it’s very important because we have to get rid of the worst president in history.”...
For a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone. (www.usatoday.com)
Clarence Thomas Just Set Civil Rights Back 70 Years (www.theroot.com)
‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn...
World's first head transplant with robotic surgeons? Startup claims 'revolutionary' procedure (www.hindustantimes.com)
BrainBridge, a neuroscience and biomedical engineering startup from the US, has claimed that they are developing the world’s first head transplant system. According to their website, it is “a groundbreaking device that will represent a landmark achievement in the fields of neuroscience, human engineering, and artificial...
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer (lemmy.world)
Is it impossible to be private online? (yewtu.be)
In sharing this video here I’m preaching to the choir, but I do think it indirectly raised a valuable point which probably doesn’t get spoken about enough in privacy communities. That is, in choosing to use even a single product or service that is more privacy-respecting than the equivalent big tech alternative, you are...
Liberals are not 'the Left'... (lemmy.world)
Punctuation is a Rothschild conspiracy, sovcit. (lemmy.world)
Gen alpha has no fucking clue (lemmy.world)
Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard. (lemmy.world)
Australia reports first human avian flu infection (www.reuters.com)
Australia reported its first human case of avian influenza on Wednesday in a child who authorities said had been infected in India but made a full recovery, while a different highly contagious strain was found on an egg farm....
me_irl (lemmy.world)
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st (arstechnica.com)