TurtleJoe @ TurtleJoe @lemmy.world

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I don't know that I agree that it was bait. They were working on that bill long before it became apparent that it wouldn't pass.

Even if it was bait, it was a tacit agreement that the racist fearmongering from the right was true.

I do think it was good political strategy in the end, but it still advanced and legitimized the alarming eliminationist rhetoric coming from the maga camp

You're right, but he doesn't care about any of that. He doesn't care that some christians are cool with gay people and others aren't. He thinks that all christians have a constitutionally protected right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, and that any governmental action that prevents that discrimination is infringing on a christian's religious freedom.

This is, of course, based on his personal feelings as a Catholic fundamentalist. I wonder if he'd extend the same religious freedoms to somebody who believes their God wants them to discriminate against old white men

Sandy Hook families holding about $1.5 billion in defamation judgments [...] a competing plan submitted by Jones that would allow him to reorganize by preserving parts of his media empire and paying the group at least $5.5 million a year over 10 years

Why did you omit the part where they didn't accept that plan? Those ellipses did some heavy lifting.

It's certainly not helping.

We're already dealing with the problem of half the (US) population only believing things when they align with their political views and now on can't even Google something and be sure that the entire first page of results isn't SEO AI hallucinated misinformation.

It has always been this way.

The government has funded SpaceX, not musk.

I bartend. Bad neighborhood, no security. When I work, it's just me behind the bar. Same with my coworkers. There have been plenty of times over the years when shitheads have come into the bar looking to start problems, plus the usual nonsense that happens with a room fun of drunk people. I've never shot anybody over it. Neither have any of my coworkers.

This guy essentially founded modern "rationalism." He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this "philosophy." It's all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.

Back in the day, before streaming was a thing, there were lots of people saying that they'd gladly pay for content if it was served to them in a convenient way.

It wasn't just people saying that, it was backed up by studies.

No, the Indian government can't do anything to a website that isn't based in Indian territory.

A good example is a recent giant investigation by Reuters into an Indian hacker-for-hire company, and the man who founded (and made hundreds of millions of dollars off of) it. The man sued Reuters over it, and an Indian court found the article "indicative of defamation." I believe Reuters is appealing, or there is something ongoing. In the meantime, they took the article down worldwide. Why? Because they have offices in India, and employees there, and the Indian government could punish those branches if the article stayed online in other parts of the world.

In this case, they've deployed similar tactics to pressure international companies to block the website.

Meanwhile, the New Yorker and The Daily Beast have large articles up based on the Reuters investigation, because they have no branches in India, and thus give no fucks about what their courts say. The original Reuters expose is also still available on the Internet archive.

It is a word coined to describe a specific capitalistic process, yes.

It's just as likely to make some shit up as it is to be any kind of helpful.

Yeah, there's usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.

There's always an element of racism running as an undercurrent, so you can pick your Boogeyman du jour, be it Muslims/Arabs (they don't differentiate,) central/south American immigrants, black lives matter, CRT, DEI, etc.

Then you can add some kind baseless moral outrage on top. Trans people existing, gay people wanting to get married, satanic panic, etc.

It's really like a fear cake, I guess.

Putin is not in any way a communist. He's a mobbed up, fascist dictator.

Non-native lawns are a huge reason for the native bird decline across NA in the last 3 decades.

It's mostly an embedded clip from MSNBC; clicking the linked article can be informative!

I'm also not sure what bias you are accusing Meidas Touch of in the headline (since we know you didn't get any further than that)? Is it the part about the maga convoy being confused? We know they are easily led from one moral outrage to another without really understanding the issues.

The part about there not being an invasion at the border? It's obvious there isn't anything of the sort happening, because the people that are claiming it's happening are the same ones who just said that they refuse to do anything about it for a year, until (they hope) Trump is president.

There have always been sports fans who think that when their team loses, it's because the ref is on the take. Now you have legalized sports gambling everywhere, with non-stop ads, and official NFL partnerships. Combine that with dozens of hyper slo-mo cameras covering every angle when a ref misses a call, and the conspiracy that the NFL is rigged has become more common the last two years.

Without getting into how absolutely stupid that is, it's only a few more leaps in logic to get to where they seem to be: they keep showing Swift during games, because her fans tune in to see her, ergo, they'll want her to be on screen during the biggest have of the year! The NFL wants the Chiefs to go to the super bowl. (I bartend, and I've had non-maga people saying this to me.) Add in the paranoia that comes with facism, and boom, a new MAGA grand conspiracy is born.

I think KOSA is a terrible bill. I've written both my senators about it. It only takes a couple minutes.

I understand the point you're making, but it's still a massive waste of money to police a made up crisis.

It would make way more sense to document these people and give them a tax ID number to allow them to work legally. This would force employers to pay them at least minimum wage, provide worker protection measures, and pay payroll tax, and would allow citizens to compete with immigrants on their own merits. I suspect that immigrants would continue doing the exact same kinds of jobs they currently do, because they're mostly jobs Americans don't want, but without the level of exploitation.

As I said, this "crisis" is a made up one, one that's composed entirely of racism. If it was a real crisis, and not political theater, the Rs wouldn't want to wait nearly a full year to address it.