madeinthebackseat @ madeinthebackseat @lemmy.world

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Now imagine if the IDF had shown up and murdered a bunch of people at the graduation ceremony.

What scale of asshole would that be?

It's not binary, but I agree with your general sentiment.

However, the American citizen has been propagandized and groomed to be corporate bootlickers. To our own demise, we accept the gross negligence of both parties to create reasonable regulation to maintain the balance needed for capitalism to function fairly.

I'm thinking you don't know the definition of "neoliberal."

And you somehow think voting for Trump, or giving him an advantage, will help in Gaza?

He will put zero pressure on Netanyahu. He'll likely openly support the effort and say something like "the Palestinians are just like the illegals crossing our border."

Voting isn't picking someone you like, voting is choosing the person with the best chance of winning and creating policies aligned with your values and ideals. If you vote for somebody with zero chance of winning, you're giving an advantage to the candidate who undermines your values being implemented in the long term.

If we had ranked choice voting, or if the alternative candidate wasn't openly threatening democracy, the rationale would be very different.

The smart people tried to explain to the voters that Brexit would be an enormous failure, but the voters let their emotions get in the way of being rational, and now they're suffering and wished they had voted differently.

We have the potential for something much worse with Trump. Much worse. If you can't see through your emotions to understand that if Trump is elected your vote may never matter again, I'm not sure you have the rationale capacity to be worth the time I spent typing this response.

No! Lets say everything is binary, and use anecdotes as our primary means of logic!

They'll eventually say it was a mistake, and then immediately go back to doing their normal BS.

Welcome to the outcome of poorly regulated capitalism - corporate benefit outweighs societal benefit.

If you have the evidence against Biden, present it.

Here's some for Trump:

On October 25, 2016, allegations were made by two men stating that Trump had attended and partaken in sex parties filled with underage minor females as young as 15 years old who were induced with promises of career advancement.[151] Illegal drugs were also alleged to have been provided to the minors.[152]

One man was identified as model and actor Andy Lucchesi, while the other was identified as a fashion photographer who spoke on condition of anonymity. Both men claim to have been acquaintances of Trump during that decade, which one described as his "Trump days".[151]

Lucchesi, for his part, claimed that he saw Trump engage in sexual activity with the girls but did not witness him taking illicit drugs. In regards to the age of the girls, Lucchesi said he himself never specifically asked about their ages, only remarking of the attendees "a lot of girls, [aged] 14, look 24."[153]

Copied from this link of you'd like the references:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations

Group policy settings are your friend...and Windows still messes with those too.

Maybe the community should tag paywalled articles, such that those posts can be wholly filtered by users not wanting to see them?

An even more unpopular opinion: we should pay for good journalism.

The content is good, so I support the content.

If all we ever do is hold purity contests over secondary and tertiary concerns, like the platform, we'll never accomplish anything.

The anti-trust pressure has increased with this administration. Lina Kahn has been effective at the FTC in bringing a number of cases forward.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/ is a very well executed newsletter with more detailed information regarding anti-trust if you're interested.

Often difficult to do when the Israeli government intentionally conflates Jews with Israel. That's on top of making Scientology looks like child's play when it comes to handling dissent.

We will eventually scientifically determine the neurological impact of social media is both damaging long term and requires health treatment.

This isn't about the content itself, it's the addictive nature of how it's delivered and the ability to rapidly manipulate people.

Liberals, huh?

What political affiliation is Netanyahu?

Let's see, in the 80s we rapidly moved much of our technology manufacturing to China, and now we're shocked that China has this knowledge?

For me, the dog has a cartoonish look. The eyes seem too large, the head seems too large, and something seems a little too perfect in general.

Is this AI generated?

Local motorsports in the US.

It's a whack-a-mole of services which restream content, but the piracy services are also subscription based.

What about the small, local services that are just trying to pay the broadcast production bills and make a little cash to become viable businesses?

Fuck those people too?

Because these piracy services also affect them. These services restream the content taking away revenue from the small streaming services. In many cases we're talking about volumes less than 100. So these restream services pop up, illegally use trademarks and copyrighted materials to advertise, and can reduce volumes enough that they are no longer viable.

Sometimes these things affect regular people trying to make life work too. Not just billionaire assholes who legitimately deserve the criticism.