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timswan

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renwillis, to TikTok
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Thoughts on a possible TikTok ban?

timswan,
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@renwillis Could not care less.

timswan, to random
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Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, Elon Musk, Charlie Cook, etc. believe that the truth doesn’t matter if the lie is so outrageous that it gets you coverage. People remember the big splashy lie, not the mundane truth.

This has been true forever, see “The ends justify the means” (Machiavelli paraphrase) and “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” (Mark Twain), but lies are amplified to a far greater extent than before the internet.

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Researching how law and the courts enabled the nazi regime to destroy German democracy has some scary parallels to today. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/law-and-justice-in-the-third-reich

timswan, to random
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I tend to be an institutionalist, but this Supreme Court is beyond the pale. They should have 0% public trust.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson is the Neville Chamberlain of our time.

cra1g, to random
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Welcome to the new Theocracy.

NPR : Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are 'children' under state law

FTA: "Chief Justice Tom Parker issued a concurring opinion in which he quoted the Bible in discussing the meaning of the phrase 'the sanctity of unborn life' in the Alabama Constitution."

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232815486/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos

timswan,
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@cra1g Huh, seems like there's a Chief Justice that hasn't read the Constitution.

timswan, to random
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"Obama's signature quality was youth, and Biden's is age. Frankly, I'm less than a year younger than Joe Biden, so I believe utterly in his competence, his brilliance, his worldview. I really do. You have to live to be 80 to find this out: Anybody under 50 feels they're in a position to condescend to you. You get boxed into this position where people who deal with you are making assumptions about your intellect. It's very disturbing." (1/2) 🧵

timswan,
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"Most people my age are just fine. What can I say? It's a kind of good fortune that America is categorically incapable of accepting: that someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work, who was habituated to their appropriate functioning is president. I consider him a gift of God. All 81 years of him."
-- Marilynne Robinson
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/18/magazine/marilynne-robinson-interview.html (2/2) 🧵

Green_Footballs, to random
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LOL!

Trump suggests he would consider a tariff upward of 60% on all Chinese imports if reelected

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/politics/china-trump-tariffs-taiwan/index.html

Also…

China spent over $5.5 million at Trump properties while he was in office, documents show

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/politics/trump-properties-china-foreign-payments/index.html

timswan,
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@Green_Footballs Does he still just assume that the American people don’t know that they, and not China, will pay for the tariffs?

craigmod, to random
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strange technical Q: is there an easy way to paste richtext and have it appear as the raw html of that which it is composed?

So, copy richtext with links, and when you paste it it appears as "some text with <a href="">links</a>" etc etc

timswan,
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@craigmod Ulysees has a “Paste from Raw” command that I believe does exactly what you’re looking for. It also has paste from HTML and paste from Markdown.

RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

timswan,
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@RickiTarr Only if I could do it with the brain-clarity, fitness, and energy that I had when I was 32.

actualham, to random
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"The story of the Moderna vaccine isn't one of a company taking huge gambles with shareholder dollars. It's the story of the US government giving billions and billions of dollars to a private firm, which will now charge the US government – and the American people – a 4,460% markup on the resulting medicine." https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

timswan,
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@actualham Many people are taking the wrong message from this post, mainly something along the lines of “look how stupid and ineffective the government is.” The flip side is that hundreds of thousands of people were dying from a new disease and the government wasn’t making long-term profit and loss decisions about the funding for new life-saving vaccines. Blame the drug companies and our for-profit healthcare system before you blame the government.

timswan,
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@KarunaX @actualham No, it isn’t.

timswan,
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@KarunaX @actualham Capitalism, through the insurance industry. And people who don't want to pay taxes.

talia_christine, to random
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I just heard a Republican saying he voted for Trump because he wants his descendants to enjoy the same freedoms he had...
I guess he only means his male descendants.

timswan,
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@talia_christine and if you asked him which freedoms he means, they will all be things that Trump will take away, if he can even name them. Pathetic.

timswan, to Batteries
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If the EU has mandated that all (with a few exceptions) must use USB-C for charging, why is every single digital camera battery a custom design. Why isn’t there a standard that all camera manufacturers have to adhere to.

For instance, there’s no technical difference between a $300 Leica SL battery and the average $30 Sony knock-off.

Batteries are the limiting factor in the lifetime of a digital camera.

stevesilberman, to random
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Tell me again how concerns about MAGA fascism are overblown when a police officer is burstihg into a classroom to confiscate a book about LGBTQ+ people. https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/great-barrington-gender-queer-book-police-ban-classroom-du-bois-middle-school-aclu-rights/article_14ba4abc-9eb9-11ee-83c9-0b3ff1c1b9dd.html

timswan,
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@Paulos_the_fog @stevesilberman That’s ridiculous. Yes, there is a faction of Americans that are very far to the right and yes they make a lot of noise, but America is nowhere near the most right wing country the world has ever seen. Hyperbole just makes people stop listening.

stevesilberman, to random
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"My only regret is that I shot myself before I could sign a copy of this thrilling book for Herr Trump's bedside table." - Adolf Hitler

Jacket copy for the special "Never Surrender!" MAGA edition of "Mein Kampf."

timswan,
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@stevesilberman When I heard the rumor, years ago, that Trump kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand I thought it was just someone’s over-active imagination, but now that he’s quoting Hitler I’m revising my opinion.

timswan,
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@JamesPadraicR @stevesilberman Was that Ivana or Ivanka’s memoir? Pretty damning either way.

crooksandliars, to random
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Nikki Haley Squirms To Dodge Question On Trump's 'Absolute Immunity'

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/12/nikki-haley-squirms-dodge-question-trumps?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_content=82846

timswan,
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@crooksandliars @Green_Footballs Artickes like this that are largely just a way to push ads and get clicks are the more annoying the part of the web. Good social message buried under a truly shitty experience.

timswan, (edited ) to random
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“Move fast and break things” may be why social media appears to have broken the world.

JoParkerBear, to random

Literally had to get up to turn the heat down. …“to eliminate books about racism at slave plantation sites is like doing an Auschwitz tour and never mentioning antisemitism.”

Books on Slavery Were Removed From Texas Plantation Gift Shops
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-historical-commission-book-removal/

timswan,
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@JoParkerBear On the one hand Conservatives think liberals are snowflakes; on the other they are banning books about the darkness in our past because they might hurt some fragile white folks feelings. I’m dying of the irony (or hypocrisy) every single day.

timswan, to random
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Been visiting Threads to see how it’s going, and it just seems to be going downhill fast. So much shit-posting, so many trolls, resulting in a largely negative experience. I like about 25% of the photo-related posts, but the political stuff seems more brain-dead than xitter. And the algorithm just keeps pushing that shit. Not good.

timswan, to random
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It’s sad to see so many liberal friends suddenly acting so anti-Semitic. Supporting Hamas is indefensible.

QasimRashid, to random
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BREAKING: Israel & Hamas agree to temporary ceasefire:
•4 day ceasefire
•Hamas to release 42 hostages — 30 children & 12 women
•Israel to release 150 Palestinian prisoners (Human rights orgs estimate ~1000 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons)

A good step. We need a permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages, an end to military occupation of Palestine, an end to all illegal settlements, & an end to illegal blockade of Gaza.

That ensures sustainable peace for Jewish & Palestinian civilians

timswan,
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@QasimRashid First, my argument is not in bad faith. Second, while the 2017 covenant, written by Khaled Meshaal, tones down the explicit language about killing Jews, it also doesn’t deviate from its claim that only intifada can free Palestine, never negotiation. Hamas is the problem, not the Palestinian people, and as long as Hamas is in power the Palestinian people will be caught in the middle.

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