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The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History. No One Cares About Sudan. It Doesn't Matter How Many Sudanese Are Massacred. We Have Overwhelming Evidence. in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

One of the countries on the list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkNAQIuGZY

Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’ in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Then you'd be pretty wrong. Don't fall for the propaganda, the entire middle east cannot be written off as a perpetually war-torn shithole.

Ted Cruz asks Treasury to approve $200 billion tax cut without Congress in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

The plan pushed by Cruz and Scott has been sought by conservatives for many years. Under current law, an investor who bought $100 worth of stock in 1990 and sold it today for $300 would currently owe capital gains taxes on the full $200 in profit. But the $100 investment in 1990 would be worth roughly $230 in today’s dollars after accounting for inflation. Under the Cruz-Scott proposal, the investor would only owe taxes on that $70, rather than the full $200. That is why the proposal is known as “indexing capital gains for inflation.”

Ah, so the ultra-wealthy who have been holding during the longest bull market in history can get a massive discount for dumping on us peons?

Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’ in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Do you think the entire middle east is just warlords fighting over dunes of sand?

One man's stand against gas cars, and Trump in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

In my state, republicans slapped on much higher EV registration fees but when democrats came into power, they just left them there. This pattern seems to mirror the national strategy.

Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He "Smells" a Similar Crash Coming in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Maybe if those individuals are rich. Everyone else has been getting screwed without the government caring for a long while. It's why so many had foreclosed on their home in 2008 while big banks were bailed out and their execs rewarded themselves with big bonuses.

NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 44 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They should try entering the desktop GPU market.

More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/

Guess that plan didn't work out, huh?

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (28 children)

I thought smart glasses could be kind of neat, but no way in hell would I get a pair from Meta.

Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020, and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (12 children)

So does the national debt matter or does it not?

Trump advisers ‘would prefer if Israel bombs Iran first as the politics are better’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How much democracy did we bring to Iraq?

Trump advisers ‘would prefer if Israel bombs Iran first as the politics are better’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"The people" rising up and making demands. You seem to think dozens of people making a demand should have the backing of foreign intervention. What do you think of thousands making demands? Why support one and not the other?

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Banned for being a "known tankie" (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by hark@lemmy.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I saw this post titled "Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds" (https://lemmy.world/post/33320759)

I commented that "harm reduction" apparently means sending billions in weapons to israel while they commit genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. I said that seemed pretty fascist to me.

Within an instant, they downvoted my post and banned me. Guess it's my fault for posting in a circlejerk community, but I'm still scratching my head on how that makes me a tankie. Something tells me this mod would be calling in the tanks to suppress any dissent if they could.

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!world@lemmy.world mod enforces own opinion by modding opposing opinion as "misinformation" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by hark@lemmy.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn't "state" (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn't say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn't need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were "provided for defense from Iran, full stop." which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I'm not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn't bother making a post here for that because that's just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it's awful to see something like this happening in a community that's supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it's full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!