You mean how can some people barely survive while others have millions or even, wtf, billions? NBCnews? That's your question?
Boy that's a question right there NBCnews. Yessir a real head-scratcher. Hmm! Boy howdy, the mind reels at what could be the cause of such a huge imbalance in our society. I suppose we'll just never FUCKING KNOW.
Maybe I am not comfortable killing civilians when we could use doctors and humanitarian aid workers as spies to root out hostages then coordinate surgical strikes against Hamas instead of indiscriminately bombing locations with no intel.
Monster! How could you be so bloodthirsty!
We should take away your free speech! Because we stand for that kind of thing now.
You’re lucky. It’s a term used by conservatives (people who oppose the concept of morality unless it’s where they pretend to have morals in order to commit awful acts against others) to belittle people who think morals aren’t “for fags”
Because there was no plan in place after President Cheeto smeared shit on the walls
our global supply chains broke (for years after),
Because they are built on the idea that outsourcing labor for profit is the best plan
prices surged (except gas!),
Because the overlords realized their cheap labor couldn’t work, and they needed to squeeze every penny they could from the goods that had already been manufactured.
mental health issues exploded,
Because people actually had time to realize how fucked things were, instead of being corralled into the office every day like cattle.
the US split even harder apart politically.
That was the plan already, the pandemic was just convenient. As soon as that was over they moved onto women’s rights, and then trans right, ad infinitum.
Because people actually had time to realize how fucked things were, instead of being corralled into the office every day like cattle.
This hits close to home. I took a week off work this summer just to relax and stay home. And ended up having a panic attack by the end of the week. Just because I actually had time to think.
Honestly can’t blame them if they did. Obviously killing Israeli civilians is indefensible but they are ensuring that thousands more will grow up hating all Israelis. The same logic Israelis and Israel supporters are using to kill innocent Palestinians is what Hamas runs off of. Each group blaming the entire “other” group for everything. Exactly like netanyahu wanted all along I imagine.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a challenge to its landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling. Justice Clarence Thomas has some thoughts....
Pretty much. He wants to be able to sue newspapers with impunity for writing about him and even if he doesn’t win he hopes to get the courts to agree to keep them from writing about him long enough it becomes irrelevant. It’s disgusting and disturbing coming from a judge sitting on the highest court. And any currently sitting Supreme Court Justice not speaking out against Thomas and requesting his resignation is complicit in his actions.
Of course Thomas and the corrupt partisan court would seek to silence those who might expose him. Sadly there are only a small handful of actual journalists left who would do so.
coal magnate Don Blankenship, who in 2015 was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to violate safety standards at a Virginia mine where an explosion killed 29 workers
Blankenship then sued NBC Universal, alleging that the news company had defamed him by describing him as a “felon.”
So the federal government wasn’t shut down over the weekend, although we may have to go through this whole drama again in six weeks. Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House, ended up doing the obvious: bringing a funding bill to the floor that could pass only...
No, fighting Soviets does not make you a Nazi, joining the Nazis makes you a Nazi.
We can discuss the nuances of “voluntarily” joining a unit of an occupying army, but the fact is he joined, and I’ve seen about as much evidence of his regret towards that as I have of specific atrocities that he or his unit committed. So, he most definitely is a Nazi, but we don’t know whether or not he’s done anything particularly evil.
The division was formed in 1943. Not even all Ukrainians were allowed in it because only the Galicians were 'Aryan-like' enough.
It was formed after all the ghettos inside Lviv, Galicia's main city, and Ternipol, in this old man's home oblast, were built and had been running for years. It was formed after Jews, who were 44% of Ternipol's population, were dragged from their homes to be publicly shamed, beaten and evicted in the pogroms. It was formed after the Final Solution began. It was formed after mass deportations, slave labour, after the ill, elderly or orphaned were shot in the streets of the place he lived. It was formed after the mass graves of all those victims and more were exhumed and their bodies burned in open-air pits.
This man had functional eyes and ears at the very least, because the Nazis did not like people with disabilities, and he knew what he was signing up for because he was living in the middle of it. Every major town surrounding his birthplace had ghettos and were already sending people by train to the death camps. He didn't choose a charitable hypothetical peaceful Ukrainian autonomy, he and 53,000 other people volunteered to fight for the new unit of an army who were very publicly killing and torturing the majority of the people around him.
And, this wasn't about a Ukrainian group allied to the Nazis to achieve long-term independence for Ukrainians. They were voluntary Nazis under direct Nazi control fighting for greater Nazi control in countries outside of Ukraine. This man could have changed allegiance at any point if he had been naive and somehow swindled into committing atrocities for Nazis instead of Ukrainian Independence. Atrocities like the Huta Pieniacka massacre where his division committed 500 murders of civilians by grenading the town. Where, assuming he was with his unit at the time and not in hospital, he murdered civilians too.
He joined at 18, by choice.
According to Hunka, his reason for enlisting was following the call of the Ukrainian Central Committee to fight for the idea of "Unified Ukraine". - his wiki page
If it was about Ukrainian independence, why were they fighting the Yugoslav Partisans and Slovak Partisans in their countries? People who were actually fighting for independence instead of doing it via Nazis.
Do not give Nazis the benefit of the doubt or the ability to hide behind hypothetical post-rationalised stories. This is how Naziism becomes permitted.
Roseanne is just one of many examples of awful people getting called out for being awful, and then running to the hard right, where not only is their awful behavior ignored, it’s actually embraced.
Elon Musk is the gold standard of this, and of course, Donald Trump practically invented it.
Fascism is an ideology that rewards people for being the worst version of themselves.
Roseanne might have corrected course after her racist tweet had the right wing not embraced her.
This is why MAGA Republicans are a cancer. Their hatred spreads and consumes.
The House Republicans have been promising that the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was going to be filled with fireworks from the word go. We would see evidence of bribery and extortion and payoffs from foreign companies in the tens of millions of dollars, the “Biden Crime Family” would finally be exposed as the...
Ah yes those monuments to a country that lasted 4 years, shot at the north first, got their ass kicked by actual Americans and are often located in states that were never part of the civil war let alone on the confederates’ side. Most of which were put up 100 years after the war as a means of intimidating minorities.
I know a lot of Philadelphians are mad about looters breaking into the Apple and Foot Locker stores and making off with armfuls of iPhones and athletic shoes. They’re sharing videos of police rough-handling rioters as they place them under arrest. They cluck their tongues as they ask, “Where are the parents?” and say,...
What URLs I load and choose not to load should always be my absolute whole discretion. And yes I can pick and choose not to load a whole website.
But don’t use Adblock Plus, use uBlock. Being the gatekeeper of ads to extort money out of advertisers is still a dick move and a middleman that doesn’t need to exist.
I’d also look for signs of trying to influence journalists and silence independent reporting. Such as back in the George W. Bush era, United States, when speaking against the White House was a fast track to getting blackballed out of the press corps. We learned about torture and Blackwater massacres of villages through foreign news agencies.
Before that, it was simply that huge rich companies controlled the few channels that existed (newspapers and the big three, ABC, NBC, CBS. PBS got away with some investigatory journalism due to its small following. Kids watched Sesame Street and that is what kept the PBS budget alive. (Now, Big Bird’s a communist.)
Basing your opinions on socialism on how Russia implemented it makes about as much sense as basing an opinion on Democracy on how Putin has implemented it.
Why Americans are going hungry despite a strong economy (www.nbcnews.com)
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The quality of life (startrek.website)
Mike Johnson urged a religious test for politicians (www.motherjones.com)
Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘death sentence’ for patients, WHO says (www.aljazeera.com)
Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press (www.rollingstone.com)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a challenge to its landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling. Justice Clarence Thomas has some thoughts....
Opinion | Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
So the federal government wasn’t shut down over the weekend, although we may have to go through this whole drama again in six weeks. Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House, ended up doing the obvious: bringing a funding bill to the floor that could pass only...
Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi (www.politico.eu)
Everybody knows that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on....
Roseanne is batshit insane. (www.rightwingwatch.org)
The article is mostly about Kari Lake being on her show, but wow....
House Republicans' biggest plan just blew up in their faces (www.salon.com)
The House Republicans have been promising that the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was going to be filled with fireworks from the word go. We would see evidence of bribery and extortion and payoffs from foreign companies in the tens of millions of dollars, the “Biden Crime Family” would finally be exposed as the...
Don't worry! Slaver monuments are important - as in, 'Important to condemn and take down' (lemmy.world)
Philly looting, riots are wrong. But so is ignoring what is driving the behavior (www.inquirer.com)
I know a lot of Philadelphians are mad about looters breaking into the Apple and Foot Locker stores and making off with armfuls of iPhones and athletic shoes. They’re sharing videos of police rough-handling rioters as they place them under arrest. They cluck their tongues as they ask, “Where are the parents?” and say,...
[Corp Blog] A big win for open Internet: Сourt sides with an ad blocker in a copyright case (adguard.com)
Anti fascist rule (lemmy.world)
Not sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that... (lemmy.ml)