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Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] 17 points 8 months ago*

Shit, Trump's illegal Iran war convinces me pretty strongly that a nuclear weapons program is the only way to keep my fucking apartment secure from the despotic motherfucker. Kick in my door and millions go boom, bitch!

…that sounds ridiculous, and it is! But that's the kind of world this sadistic, brain-rotted buffoon is trying to create. And for some reason Republicans seem to think that's just great! Less than two dozen of them could end this nightmare if they cared. But they don't. How many more are going to die for these bastards?

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    Presidents are selected, not elected - FDR in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    He definitely didn't say no. And I think he'd be a hell of a candidate if he did. He gets it, he's bright enough to do the job, and he's got the connections without the social indebtedness of the average politician. And he'd pick an AOC as a running mate in a heartbeat. Plus, if someone's worried that white men won't elect a brown woman, Jon Stewart is about as white as I am (albino).

    I don't count him as "in the running" because he's not said he's willing to be in the running. But he's also not saying no very loudly.

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    • Presidents are selected, not elected - FDR in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    He's been moving rather leftward. He is anti-gun, which does bother me. But I was once a gun-lovin' libertarian-Republican. I learned a lot about the lies behind the entire right wing … but nobody's convinced me yet that the people owning firearms is a bad thing. If anything, if more left-wing folks owned them, the fascist party would be a little less eager to threaten violence. After all, an armed society is indeed a polite one.

    Yeah I recognize that mass shootings are a problem and that we could be doing a whole hell of a lot more to prevent those from happening. Disarming the population to make a "Republican" fascist coup to be more likely to be successful is not how we should be addressing the problem, though. Maybe I'm crazy there? Oregon is still working to ban private gun owernship in the midst of Trump's literal fascist coup. What The Actual Fuck, Oregon?

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    • 'Beyond Crazy': FBI Summons State Election Officials to Secretive Meeting After Trump Threat to ‘Nationalize’ Midterms | Common Dreams in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    More and more I believe we can and we will. Trump is getting more and more erratic and desperate. Things are falling apart for him. The question now is how many people die before it happens. I think it'll be less than 120M more than if we do it your way. I think the odds of a less bad outcome are higher with my conclusion by a lot. And has a less risky outcome.

    What doesn't exist at this point is a "good" outcome. That shim sailed November 2024. People are already dying. A lot of them. We'll eventually find out how many the concentration camps have killed. No good outcome.

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    • In the circle of piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Presidents are selected, not elected - FDR in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I don't think she can win YET. But as I said, it's early and that may change. She's my pick, certainly of people who are known to be in politics right now. If not now, later. That woman is going to become president. And America will be better off for it.

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    • Fascist paramilitary invaders may use lights to impede recording and legal observation while abducting people with legal status (Oregon - date unknown) in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
    Fascist paramilitary invaders may use lights to impede recording and legal observation while abducting people with legal status (Oregon - date unknown) in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If I see shit like this I'm a lot less opposed to citizens using lights as weapons against these neo-nazi fucks. I go out of my way to oppose illegal and most forms of "legal" violence (reddit bots/employees seem to think otherwise) because down that road lies the US turning into another Somalia and … not only do I not wanna see that many people get dead, I mean, I'd really rather not die that way. (And I would be dead, no doubt, with my medical background…) But lights and sounds can go both ways, y'know?

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    Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not every men's group is a shitty stereotype. It does seem unacceptably common, though. Not every women's group is a safe space, and some are just as toxic and abusive as the far-too-common men's groups. Do we ban them? I don't think we can. Because women's shelters need to exist even if men are domestically abused too and never in my fucking life have I heard anyone suggest a battered men's shelter might even maybe be a good idea. Okay, fine, so violence and safety reasons … Except, shit, not everyone is hetero… A same sex partner can probably find out where women's shelters are. And men are abused to by their partners, men and women, in alarmingly higher rates than anybody seems to take note of. And what do you do with Trans folks? Because their rights are human rights too and why the fuck do we still need to explicitly say that anymore? sigh

    And that doesn't even begin to cover social groups.

    I guess if you're not an asshole, a bigot, an abuser, or whatever … best you can do when you encounter these things (and you will) is ask yourself whether something gendered is reasonable or not. The answer might be yes, or no, or conflicted either way. I'd like to say that it should be okay if we don't agree about the answers. I'd like to say that people should be able to accept that the other person is making a good faith effort to determine the relative "okayness" in an individual case with an individual perspective. Sadly, we humans seem not to be wired to do that. I'm just gonna continue thinking gendered stuff is pretty dumb on the whole with a couple of conflicted views on a couple of specific things because I know I don't live in a perfect world.

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    • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    Its not that donald trump is for sure a pedophile. Its that there are 350 million people in the USA and there is no need to make someone where its even a question president. in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 21 points 9 months ago*

    No, it pretty surely is that he is a pedophile … he said so himself. It was recorded and he knew it was recorded. The fact that this was news in a lot of the country but not on any Republican-serving media source is testament to the lengths they went to in order to protect a disgusting human being.

    What's really sick is that a bunch of Americans would've voted for him if they knew. Probably not enough to win an election even against Hillary Clinton who acted like the presidency was owed to her without campaigning, but enough to illustrate a problem in this country both with where people get their "facts" and how few care what the facts are.

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    Orange County School Board Member Proposes Resolution to Cooperate with ICE Inside Schools in c/news@lemmy.world
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    Portland, Oregon Letter to the Editor: Not paid to protest, just committed (www.oregonlive.com)
     

    Yeah, so this is my letter to the Oregonian after I attended a Labor Against ICE rally in Portland, a couple of blocks from my own apartment actually. Speeches from folks in labor, then we walked down to the ICE building.

    Guy on the PA said expect tear gas so I got ready to move. They usually shoot a few pepperballs and if that doesn't move people they'll drop one or two gas grenades, maybe a flashbang. So I was getting ready to get the hell out of there when they did that. But that ain't what they did though, they gassed the neighborhood like 3 blocks in multiple directions.

    Wasn't there Sunday but they did it again, even worse. Folks at the senior care building six blocks away across from the hospital's clinics were gassed in their apartment. So was I, but I thought I just did a bad job washing everything at the time. Someone who was there both days said they counted 41 tear gas and 18 flashbang grenades total, and who knows how many pepperballs and rubber bullets fired.

    Because a few people trespassed Saturday. And a couple shook the gate Sunday.

    Oh, that gas mask? I'm a legally blind insulin-dependent diabetic albino with asthma and I'm on chemo for my stage 4 melanoma. The medic told me I really should have something called "PAPR" but … that ain't happening. At least a full-face respirator then with 3M 60926 magenta with olive stripe filters or similar NIOSH-approved. Not green or yellow. One person had a mask with a diaphragm to make speech clear through the mask. That and a couple filters is getting on toward $200 which is like 1/5 of my disability before rent, utilities, food, etc.

    But fuck these nazis! If I need this inside my own apartment, I'll be back out there helping people two at a time, because I can.

    Thumbnail from my stream video.. There's timecodes in the description. My Youtube's not big enough for Youtube monetization and I won't anyway. Feel free to crosspost on lemmy or reddit since I'm currently banned there for saying child rape ought to be a capital crime. (No apologies for that, either.)

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    Oregonian Letter to the Editor: Not paid to protest, just committed (www.oregonlive.com)
     

    Yeah, so this is my letter to the Oregonian after I attended a Labor Against ICE rally in Portland, a couple of blocks from my own apartment actually. Speeches from folks in labor, then we walked down to the ICE building.

    Guy on the PA said expect tear gas so I got ready to move. They usually shoot a few pepperballs and if that doesn't move people they'll drop one or two gas grenades, maybe a flashbang. So I was getting ready to get the hell out of there when they did that. But that ain't what they did though, they gassed the neighborhood like 3 blocks in multiple directions.

    Wasn't there Sunday but they did it again, even worse. Folks at the senior care building six blocks away across from the hospital's clinics were gassed in their apartment. So was I, but I thought I just did a bad job washing everything at the time. Someone who was there both days said they counted 41 tear gas and 18 flashbang grenades total, and who knows how many pepperballs and rubber bullets fired.

    Because a few people trespassed Saturday. And a couple shook the gate Sunday.

    Oh, that gas mask? I'm a legally blind insulin-dependent diabetic albino with asthma and I'm on chemo for my stage 4 melanoma. The medic told me I really should have something called "PAPR" but … that ain't happening. At least a full-face respirator then with 3M 60926 magenta with olive stripe filters or similar NIOSH-approved. Not green or yellow. One person had a mask with a diaphragm to make speech clear through the mask. That and a couple filters is getting on toward $200 which is like 1/5 of my disability before rent, utilities, food, etc.

    But fuck these nazis! If I need this inside my own apartment, I'll be back out there helping people two at a time, because I can.

    Thumbnail from my stream video.. There's timecodes in the description. My Youtube's not big enough for Youtube monetization and I won't anyway. Feel free to crosspost on lemmy or reddit since I'm currently banned there for saying child rape ought to be a capital crime. (No apologies for that, either.)

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    Portland, Oregon Letter to the Editor: Not paid to protest, just committed (www.oregonlive.com)
     

    Yeah, so this is my letter to the Oregonian after I attended a Labor Against ICE rally in Portland, a couple of blocks from my own apartment actually. Speeches from folks in labor, then we walked down to the ICE building.

    Guy on the PA said expect tear gas so I got ready to move. They usually shoot a few pepperballs and if that doesn't move people they'll drop one or two gas grenades, maybe a flashbang. So I was getting ready to get the hell out of there when they did that. But that ain't what they did though, they gassed the neighborhood like 3 blocks in multiple directions.

    Wasn't there Sunday but they did it again, even worse. Folks at the senior care building six blocks away across from the hospital's clinics were gassed in their apartment. So was I, but I thought I just did a bad job washing everything at the time. Someone who was there both days said they counted 41 tear gas and 18 flashbang grenades total, and who knows how many pepperballs and rubber bullets fired.

    Because a few people trespassed Saturday. And a couple shook the gate Sunday.

    Oh, that gas mask? I'm a legally blind insulin-dependent diabetic albino with asthma and I'm on chemo for my stage 4 melanoma. The medic told me I really should have something called "PAPR" but … that ain't happening. At least a full-face respirator then with 3M 60926 magenta with olive stripe filters or similar NIOSH-approved. Not green or yellow. One person had a mask with a diaphragm to make speech clear through the mask. That and a couple filters is getting on toward $200 which is like 1/5 of my disability before rent, utilities, food, etc.

    But fuck these nazis! If I need this inside my own apartment, I'll be back out there helping people two at a time, because I can.

    Thumbnail from my stream video.. There's timecodes in the description. My Youtube's not big enough for Youtube monetization and I won't anyway. Feel free to crosspost on lemmy or reddit since I'm currently banned there for saying child rape ought to be a capital crime. (No apologies for that, either.)

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