ChonkyOwlbear @ ChonkyOwlbear @lemmy.world

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Literally the first federal immigration law in the US was the Asian Exclusion Act which explicitly was written to keep Chinese immigrants from challenging white dominance.

It would be hilarious if doctors denied care to everybody who voted for this.

Time to get to work Satanic Temple.

I heard something recently that really resonated. For fascists, the government is just a tool they can use to reach their goal.

They don't recognize the rights outlined in the Constitution, the duty inmate to holding office, or the importance of the rule of law. It is just a weapon to wield against their enemies and can be discarded when no longer useful.

It's sad that I had to clock through to see which mass killing of children they were referring to.

What, he couldn't find an orphanage to demolish?

It's not murder if it's self defense.

MKUltra was a secret government program that experimented on people using LSD and torture. The man who became the Unabomber was one of its victims.

COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive. This included feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists in the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement , Chicano and Mexican-American , and independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups).

The Iraq War was predicated on "weapons of mass destruction" which the government knowingly lied about.

The United Fruit Company backed a coup in Honduras.

General Motors conspired to collapse the streetcar industry to gain a monopoly on public transportation.

Cigarette companies suppressed information on the health effects of cigarettes.

Oil companies suppressed information on the environmental effects of fossil fuels.

Purdue Pharma conspired to suppress the risks of Oxycontin and to expand the use of the drug to levels they knew would cause addiction.

My point is, there are true conspiracies all the time. The internet has made it possible for more people to know about it. Unfortunately it has also made it easier for false conspiracy theories to propagate

What I would love to see for a pickup like this is a rentable battery slab you could drop into the bed and temporarily boost the mileage for longer trips.

What's your favorite rock?

What is the strangest food you've ever tried?

What kind of nerd are you?

Lots of mistakes were made by Trump and his administration.

I can entirely believe they take the eugenics implications of this and run with it.

That's the plan. If conservatives get people upset about trans people, they distract from the rest of the shit they are doing.

Time to start disbarring the federal lawyers who do this shit.

The problem with this concept is idiots often take other people out with them. No amount of genius or evolutionary superiority is going to protect you from a drunken idiot crashing into you driving 120mph.

Hypersonic missiles could destroy every major city in the US in 20 minutes. Just have to put a nuclear warhead in them. The US is deploying hypersonic missiles too. This doesn't change anything except that in the case of Armageddon we will have half as much time to find someone to bang before we die.

It isn't simply wanting to destroy that which excludes you. They want to destroy what they fear. They fear exclusion. They fear those different from them. They fear having to change. They fear losing what they have.

Conservative media and politicians stole these fears and create new ones. Migrant caravans, CRT, FEMA camps, Antifa. These people will run to anyone who indulges their fear and says they can fix it.

About 163 million out of 340 million people work. The rest are subsidized.

It passed 220-208, so no it wouldn't have changed anything.

“I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble.”

• Richard Nixon 1974

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this-week-in-jewish-history--united-states-president-richard-nixon-becomes-first-american-president-to-visit-israel

"In the Middle East, in particular, a strong, credible America remains the best guarantor of Israel's integrity and survival as a free nation."

Ronald Reagan 1982

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/quotes/a-strong-credible-america-remains-the-best-guarantor