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fedi moonbat
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anarcho whatever
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@Taweret this actually called 'quantum mysticism" basically when people take shrodingers cat too literally
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uspol trivia how did i not know that lady from Curb Your Enthusiasm is RFK Jr.';s wife.

Psyop confirmed.
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@av70 @gavi those arbitrary spelling conventions are used to instill feelings of insecurity and indadaquacies into children, that serve to reproduce authority maintain social heirarchies (class, race etc. )
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@LALegault @healyn @happymilk@mastodon.social

Those universities that are difusing protests with promised votes or other concessions are more in line with modern forms of counter-insurgency, now that the struggle is in the hands of the bureaucracy they can shuffle it around and control the narrative / stretch out the issue for eternity while the student movement fractures unless those students are able to maintain momentum and adapt to the new situation. Whereas student protests that didn't agree to any compromise still have the initiative.

What's most important is maintaining connections / correspondents between different schools to maintain the intensity, rather than letting the movement be crushed by pen or baton, one school at a time.
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@whitequark

And this is after years of democrats going on and on about protecting 'the rule of law' from trump
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@downey

smart TV's are an absolute scam and most of them aren't even supported after 3-5 years. Sceptre makes pretty good non smart TV's also
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@0x4d6165 @riley I think that's Aristotle's definition of The Good Life
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What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes? - The Guardian The Israeli government believes that the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague is about to file war crimes charges against Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. We can’t know for sure – the ICC has kept its plans close to the vest – but the Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him.

The ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s most likely target is Netanyahu’s starvation strategy for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Because the Israeli government has refused to let ICC staff enter Gaza, it will take time for Khan to complete the detailed investigation required to demonstrate other possible Israeli war crimes, such as indiscriminately bombing civilian areas and firing on military targets with foreseeably disproportionate civilian consequences. But the facts surrounding Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian aid are readily available.

During his two recent visits to the region, Khan stressed that, as international humanitarian law requires, Palestinian civilians in Gaza “must have access to basic food, water and desperately needed medical supplies, without further delay, and at pace and at scale”. He warned the Israeli government: “If you do not do so, do not complain when my Office is required to act.” The standard he cited is endorsed by virtually every government in the world including Israel, Britain, the United States, and, as a United Nations observer state, Palestine.

For much of the war Israel has allowed just enough food into Gaza to avoid widespread death, but not enough to prevent pervasive hunger and, in some parts of Gaza according to the USAid administrator, Samantha Power, “famine”. Oxfam calculated that hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza were receiving on average only 245 calories a day, about one-tenth of normal requirements. At least 28 children younger than 12 were reported to have died of malnutrition as of 17 April.

Israeli authorities have been blaming anyone but themselves for this deprivation, but the evidence points primarily to Netanyahu’s government.

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Items rejected include anesthetics, cardiac catheters, chemical water quality testing kits, crutches, maternity kits, oxygen cylinders, surgical tools, ultrasound equipment, wheelchairs and X-ray machines. When the UN secretary general, António Guterres, visited the Egyptian side of the Gaza border in March, he saw “long lines of blocked relief trucks waiting to be let into Gaza”. Israel has allowed much-publicized airdrops and sea delivery of food, but they provide only a tiny fraction of what land transport could deliver. }

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/netanyahu-icc-war-crimes
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tiktok ban i really hope china doesn't sell and is like 'block me if you can. That will be fun.

I expect the courts will probably throw out the tiktok ban at some point anyway, because it would save the US gov from embarassment
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@eblu no this is a fuckin banger, they need to put this in the new scooby doo movie
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@nyx cat vs void
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the Hague is preparing charges and bibi is freaking out, so could happen
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@Outersider @argumento

I mean the Premise sounds interesting, right? that's why it got greenlit, that's why we're talking about it. In the hands of a writer/director who actually had something to say, who has their finger on the pulse of the nation as it were, it might be a very interesting movie. If they went by the first season of Robert Evens It Could Happen Here or modeled the characters after Unicorn Riot, for example.

But it's not that. It's a psuedo social film, it's a tribute to this liberal idea of the heroic journalist, who is somehow apolitical and doesn't take sides. That's where the Ngo connection comes in, that's his whole grift. Appearing to be a journalist with all the gear and the affectation of objectivity, while also just serving the ruling class loyally, consciously or not.
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vaguepost kinda angry i feel bad for going off on the lady but repeating the untruth that "Trump wasn't allowed to govern, all he did was tweet" is just irresponsible.

Trump led a massive war in Iraq in Syria, Trump radically transformed US immigration policy by strong arming "Third Countries" like Guatemala to impose stricter immigration policies.

No, it's just the white edgelord urge for trump to win to own the libs. And fuck the libs, but don't tell me absolute bullshit like "Trump wasn't allowed to govern" fucking rediculous, oh so because of media controversy, trump wasn't allowed to be the commander in cheif of the US military and indescriminately slaughter civlians, in iraq, syria, yemen and elsewhere?

Oh you didn't think about that, because you don't know, because you weren't paying any fucking attention for four years, kinda goes against the whole premise that 'people were more aware during trump / biden gets away with things trump would never get away with" No, trump got away with everywhere most of the shit not even covered by the media.
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Civil War used AI to generate the movie posters, LMAO, what is the point is having a movie poster at all, if you can just generate it with a prompt?

This will be the demise of A24
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@Outersider @argumento

so yeah maybe he is just such a disphit liberal, he's so unbiased that he can't even tell that Ngo is a fascist freak
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@Outersider @argumento

didn't hear about that, it doesn't surprise me the director would try to distance themself from controversy, but it seems at the very least the director is deeply confused ideologically, or in fact sympathetic to the far right

apparently a lot of the stock footage in the movie was shot by Ngo, the credits also thanks Helen Lewis, who's a notorious transphobe apparrently screenrant.com/civil-war-movie-controversies-explained/
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@Outersider @argumento

At the end of the movie I believe there's a thank you to Andy Ngo, which tells you what kind of "journalists" the filmakers had in mind.
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Breaking Bad vs Better Call Saul Breaking Bad is better than Better Call Saul

I understand if you didn't think Breaking Bad didn't have enough Cliff hangers and Flanderization and self indulgent sub plots, , but that doesn't mean Saul is better, it means you're a fucking freak and don't know what's good in life.
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@mudkip
shitty operating systems because its trendy
Windows? MacOS?