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[–] dead@hexbear.net 29 points 9 hours ago

RFK said that he defunded all research into idea that autism is genetically inherited and said that he believes that autism is caused by environmental factors.

The purpose of the 'tylenol causes autism' announcement was basically to defund all government research on Autism.

Also it's not just a RFK thing. Trump is a long time antivaxxer himself. This is weird because Trump celebrated his 'Operation Warp Speed' vaccine, even though his base made up conspiracy theories that Trump's vaccine would kill you. Trump said some things during the announcement the MMR vaccine being bad because it was 3 vaccines in 1 and that babies are being injected with too much liquid.

Something to consider about the right wing worldview is that they often believe in a thing called the 'Just World' fallacy. This way of thinking supposes that the world as it exists is perfectly fair: if good things happen to you then it is because you do the right stuff and if bad things happen to you it is because you did something to deserve it.

Right wingers are predisposed into believing that someone who have autism did something to deserve it.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

The etymology of the word sabotage comes from the french word 'sabot' which means a clog (wooden shoe). Workers would toss a shoe into the machinery to break the machine.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I did not say that Bushnell is cis man. The acebush1 reddit account identified as a cis man in 4 comments and the document mentions this. I said that we do not know. You are presenting a binary, that Bushnell must either be a cis man or a transgender woman. Bushnell could have been gender fluid, nonbinary, or something else. We don't know.

I respect every person's gender identity. I don't think a person's gender is something that should be investigated by other people. I believe that a person's gender is whatever that that person tells me their gender is. I respect whatever someone tells me that their name is.

In the self immolation video, Bushnell says "My name is Aaron Bushnell" at the start of the video.

I respect whatever people tell me that their name is. I don't try to prove that someone is something else.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

You are not making a logical statement. You say that the majority of people who are transgender began as a separate online account. That does not mean that the majority of people who have separate online account with different gender presentation go on to become transgender. The entire reason that transgender people experiment with an online identity is because it is not a commitment. Some people try a thing and decide that they don't want to do it. Some people make fake identities on the internet for no reason at all. Some people make fake identities on the internet for the purpose of deception.

I am not doing erasure. I think it is fine to speculate that Bushnell was experimenting with gender expression. The document says that it is impossible to confirm that Bushnell was committed to being transgender. We do not know. We know that Bushnell used both identities and was seemingly comfortable with both identities.

Bushnell was raised in some kind of weird Christian cult and only came out as an anarchist like a couple years before doing the immolation. I think that Bushnell was probably trying out many new things during the period after leaving the Christian cult.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 15 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

Page 28 of the document you linked says that although Bushnell identified Lilly and used she/her pronouns on some suspected accounts. On other accounts, Bushnell identified as Aaron and was comfortable using he/him pronouns. It is possible that Bushnell was comfortable with both gender identities.

If Bushnell was Lilly, that doesn’t mean she wasn’t Aaron; she could have been both.
Very true. As discussed above, Bushnell may have had a sufficiently expansive gendered self-
concept that both the gender she expressed online and the gender she expressed offline were
fully integrated, fully embraced aspects of who she actually was. She might, for example, have
been bigender or pangender. I did not interpret C1’s remark that she was “gender fluid” as
referring to the specific gender identity, but she could indeed have been literally genderfluid
stricto sensu (insofar as any shared subjective experience can have a strict sense).

The document also says that Bushnell identified as Aaron in documents posted during the act of self immolation. The document also points out that there were entirely separate but both active internet accounts. The account 'acebush1' on reddit was active and used the name Aaron until the time of death. Last activity from acebush was February 24, death on February 25.

The document does not present the case that Bushnell was uncomfortable with using he/him pronouns or the name Aaron. I think it would be fair to say Bushnell used multiple gender expression.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a Bari Weiss propaganda video. The purpose of this video is to frighten geriatric americans into thinking that the US needs to increase military spending even further. CBS is owned by the Ellison family, who is personal friends with Trump and Netanyahu. Bari Weiss was appointed as the head of CBS News in October 2025 to promote the political agendas of Trump and Zionists.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here's a video of the former UN Israel Ambassador Gilad Erdan giving a propaganda speech at John Hagee's Megachurch, 2 weeks after October 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k52896ys_g&t=3658 (official CUFI stream, starts at like 1 hour into the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckFtorjX1ho (someone recorded this from the audience)

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think there is not just only one reason because there are many people involved and each person who is involved has their own reasons.

  • 'The Greater Israel Project' There are Israelis who believe that they Zionists are not only entitled to Palestinian Land but also to the land of other countries in the Region. For example, Golan Heights is a portion of land that Israel annexed from Syria in 1981. One week before US attacks on Iran, Tucker Carlson interviewed the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. In the interview, Tucker asked about expanding Israel and Mike Huckabee said that Israel was entitle to Annex the land of surrounding countries. This upset US ally countries in the region.
  • Christian Zionists believe that this Iran war will make Jesus come back to earth and trigger the rapture, which sends all Christians on earth to heaven and is the end of the earth. A recent example was the reporting from MRFF which alleged that US troops reported that their commanding officers spoke about biblical prophecy in relation to the Iran War. Christian Zionists are maybe the largest backer of Israel in the US. There is a large Christian Zionist lobby group called CUFI. The founder of CUFI is a Pastor named John Hagee who has a megachurch in San Antonio Texas. Israel Government officials have given speechs at his megachurch on multiple occasions to reinforce Israel's political goals.
  • Miriam Adelson - Miriam Adelson is a top donor for Trump. She claimed to have donated $250 million to Trump's recent political campaign. In 2019, Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation that the US recognizes Golan Heights as Israeli owned land. Trump said that he did this on behalf of Miriam Adelson's husband Sheldon.
  • Military Industrial Complex - War makes money for the US weapons companies.
  • White Supremacy / Christian Nationalism - There are a lot of bigoted Americans who just want to kill Muslims.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu is possibly afraid of prosecution for war crimes. The liberal Zionists want to make him into the Sin Eater. There are some Zionists who want to wash Israel of all the crimes committed in Gaza by blaming it only on Bibi. By getting Israel into a new conflict, he won't be open to prosecution.
  • interference with 2026 election - This is one reason that I've read that I'm skeptical of. Trump is also trying to pass the SAVE act, which mandates voter ID. The purpose of Voter ID laws is to suppress voter turn out. It gives polling places an arbitrary reason to reject people who show up. There is some possibility that Trump will say that Iran is interfering with the Election to say that he needs to have the SAVE act passed. There was some extreme speculation that Trump will cancel the 2026 midterm election but I am doubting this.
[–] dead@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I was looking at all the people who went on the same trip. Boy Boy and Ididathing are there as well. KNEECAP (the irish band) is on the same trip. Also Madeline Pendleton. Jeremy Corbyn is on the same trip. There's like over 600 activists who participated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuestra_Am%C3%A9rica_Convoy

https://apnews.com/article/cuba-convoy-international-aid-humanitarian-help-0bafbd3bd16bee8cb77d06efc0f329fb

Here's a video of inside the plane. I think I see BoyBoy, Ryan Grim, Brace and Young Chomsky
https://xcancel.com/codepink/status/2035022385913426082#m

Boyboy on a cuban boat
https://xcancel.com/BoyBoy_Official/status/2035132258781106679#m

Madeline Pendleton in Cuba, in the first photo. I saw this retweeted by the Cuba Embassy
https://xcancel.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/2035077923808346547#m

[–] dead@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

cracking open a cold one with the boys

[–] dead@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Department of War is more accurate to what the department does, but may not be legally correct. Department of Defense is legally correct, but inaccurate to what the department does.

I don't think it's a benefit to him to be called 'Secretary of War'. Honestly it feels like resistance lib shit to think that we're doing something by calling him 'Secretary of Defense'.

I don't think it matters what we call him. Call him whatever you want, call him 'Secretary of Piss' if you choose.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Pete Hegseth was a host on Fox News from 2017 to 2024, before Trump appointed him as Secretary of War.

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A message to the President of the United States: The outcome of war cannot be determined by tweets. The results of war are determined in the field — the very place where you and your forces do not dare to approach. It’s better to name this operation ‘Epic Fear’ instead of ‘Epic Fury.

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033617974603497547#m

https://xcancel.com/PressTV/status/2033588032998179032#m (video mirror)

 

KPA Long-range Artillery Sub-unit in Western Area Conducts Firepower Strike Drill

Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- A long-range artillery sub-unit of the Korean People's Army in the western area conducted a firepower strike drill on March 14.

The drill involved twelve 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers and two artillery companies.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, observed the firepower strike drill on the spot.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated briefly that the drill was aimed at making the army do what it should do.

He said that the drill would expose the forces hostile to the DPRK, the enemies within the 420-km striking range, to uneasiness, making a signaling wave stronger than the aimed, and give them a deep understanding of the destructive power of tactical nuclear weapon.

He affirmed that the drill is a regular one for checking the DPRK's defensive posture and war deterrence and such drill will be frequently conducted in the future, too.

He authorized Full General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration accompanying him, to command the drill, and came out to the launching position to give an instruction on the firing method.

At the central command post, Jang Chang Ha gave an order to open fire.

Making the deafening sound rending the air, multiple rocket companies opened fire in waves.

The launched rockets battered the island target in the East Sea of Korea about 364.4 km away with the accuracy of 100 percent, proving once again the destructive capability of their concentration strike and the system's military value once again.

After overseeing the firing drill, he spoke highly of the soldiers of the artillery sub-unit for being prepared for deftly handling the state-of-the-art multiple rocket launcher system. Then he once again praised the combat performance of the 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers, saying:

"It is indeed a very deadly yet attractive weapon.

Worldwide, there exists no tactical weapon that surpasses the performance of this weapon system.

This will be so in the coming few years.

Certainly, however, we will never mark time till that time, being content with this.

I always hold our defence scientists in respect and appreciate them for developing such a weapon system.

As I have already stated, our powerful attacking capability is, in effect, for defending ourselves.

It is because the most powerful attacking capability precisely means a reliable defence capability.

It is, in the true sense of the word, a means of deterring war.

But in case such deterrents of a defensive nature do not prevent foreign forces from launching an armed >provocation or invading our state to jeopardize the security of its sovereignty, they will immediately be used for their second mission, i.e., as a means of massive, destructive strike.

As I have said several times, if this weapon is used, the opponent's military infrastructure within its striking range can never survive.

Our Party and the government of the Republic will maintain durable peace by means of powerful military capabilities.

Peace is something that should be defended rather than desired."

Kim Jong Un stressed the need for all units of the army at different levels to organize and wage high-intensity practical maneuvers under the simulated conditions of an actual war, true to the Party's policy of bringing about a radical turn in training, and maintain their full response posture to thoroughly frustrate any provocation by the enemies with overwhelmingly strong power. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.03.15.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/22497160a763c2e470e5ddc90af96fac.kcmsf

https://archive.is/Cr4uI

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/north-korean-leader-kim-oversees-test-launch-multiple-rocket-launchers-kcna-2026-03-14/

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