hark

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

How much democracy did we bring to Iraq?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

so I became a liberal so I can help defeat the republicans.

You mean like the democrats who are in full control of their primary process and who pushed liberal sweethearts hillary, then biden, and then harris down our throats? Those are the liberals helping to defeat republicans?

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

There were literally thousands of Americans who stormed the capitol on January 6, 2021. Do you think their will to overturn the election should have been carried out?

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

You're the one assuming there must be always be a hitler.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The solution to hitler is not hitler-lite.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The amount of aid technically increased but was not nearly enough and would've been much more easily and quickly satisfied by simply telling israel to let aid through on-ground instead of this ridiculous workaround.

This is the strategy that democrats always use to justify carrying out heinous acts, just like how biden was instrumental in creating the student loan crisis and then decades later forgiving a tiny fraction of that debt so that supporters can point to that and proudly proclaim "see, he's doing something!"

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Biden didn't push for a ceasefire at all. He continuously shipped weapons to israel and even bypassed congress to ship weapons to them. He temporarily paused a single shipment of 2,000 pound bombs, said he was "frustrated" with netanyahu while still doing everything he wanted, and he had a floating pier built that let limited amounts of aid through instead of telling israel to let aid through on-ground. This was apparently enough to fool people like you into thinking biden was serious about helping the Palestinians. If he was serious about stopping the genocide, he could've simply stopped all shipments of weapons to israel (you know, the ones carrying out the genocide). This is so basic and obvious that I'm surprised you try to argue otherwise.

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

Why don't you stop and think for a second why the democrats would decide it's better to risk votes than to stop genocide? Clearly you had to leave practically all online leftist spaces because you're not actually a leftist. So stop cosplaying by saying "we" are all stupid. We're not stupid enough to think a party that refuses votes just so they can continue supporting genocide is willing to help at all.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The morons running the democratic party thought it was more important to support a genocide than to gain votes. Somehow you think those same morons would protect us from fascism or make anything better.

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

True, but maybe a good compromise would be having the fuzzy date in parentheses/brackets if there's enough space.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I absolutely hate fuzzy dates, not only because of the problem you mentioned, but also because they can get wildly inaccurate. For example, on youtube I often see something counted as posted a year ago, but if I look at the absolute timestamp, it was actually 1 year and 10 months. That's too big of a difference to truncate.

 

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.

 

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!

 

Not entirely sure what this is, but it was revealed during the Jackbox collab on Calli's channel. Reveal on June 18th 8:00PM PDT apparently!

Edit: Here's the reveal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3GiWDqoR3s

 

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So much power, and not even sponsored!

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