Refurbished Refurbisher @ refurbishedrefurbisher @lemmy.sdf.org

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No, but viral infections spread most effectively from human to human, and Native Americans (with some exceptions) did not form large cities.

Stuff like STDs probably existed, for instance, and those are viral infections for the most part, but STDs do not spread nearly as well as something like smallpox does.

The big difference here is that smallpox can be transmitted through airbourne droplets from coughing or sneezing, or through physical contact. I am not saying it was intentional by the Europeans (I couldn't find much evidence for the smallpox blankets existing), but it was very effective in eradicating the Native American population.

I was specifically referring to the smallpox, actually. Native Americans did not have viral infections, so they did not know how to fight it. I believe the Azteks came up with antibiotics at this point already, as bacterial disease was common.

Also the Trail of Tears, but that was later.

This is what true bravery looks like. All Democrats in power should take note.

Idk, sounds pretty metal

Don't forget the suffering and genocide of the Native American population as well.

But yeah. Black people basically invented American culture as a whole. Hell, other than electronic music, I can't think of any music genre in the past 150 years that black people did not create.

https://www.army.mil/values/oath.html

Never forget

The controller is almost certainly an HID compatible controller that will work with any application that supports controllers.

As for a stand, I recommend a pop socket-style thing, as it permenantly attaches to the phone.

Maybe colonialism is the word I'm thinking of?

The one that involves forcibly taking land and mass murder, like what the settlers of America did to the Native American population.

The closest examples I can think of in recent history is the Vietnam war or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But yeah, American style imperialism is what I equate this to.

Netanyahu might as well be Dick Cheney.

There are third party, open source tools to view encrypted Signal backups if you have the key to decrypt them.

This is closer to just standard imperialism, which Hitler also did. Evil? Yes, but a different kind of evil.

Also I think Israel literally has a concentration camp, so if you want to make that comparison, it's right there.

Imperialism is horribly evil and it deserves to be called out by name. A part of the imperialist process is genocide, which is what we're seeing here.

Fascism tends to last about 10-15 years on average. The thing about fascism is that it is unsustainable by its very nature.

Economic policy is always about global isolationism without any actual though process behind those policies, leading to hyperinflation.

Fascism also depends on having an in-group and an out-group. Now, the "out-group" are immigrants with brown skin and trans people. This will expand to more groups after a while, then even more groups until it becomes massively clear that a genocide is happening. Soon after, they start to turn on themselves and they implode from the inside.

He's lying. He's stupid, but he's not literally that stupid.

Has Trump ever been known to admit that he was wrong about literally anything in his life? No, he bends reality to suit his will.

Part of the fascist playbook is to never admit you're wrong.

No he doesn't. He knows it's fake, but he's lying on purpose so that he can further his agenda to deport anyone he doesn't like to a concentration/death camp.

If he admits that he is wrong about anything, then his entire fascist empire crumbles before his very eyes, so he doesn't.

Fascism relies on an overly confident leader who is perceived as infallible. Admitting wrongness opens the door to people in his cult realizing that Trump can be wrong about things in general.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321231-Archiving-or-unarchiving-chats

Am I just being dense or does stock Signal already have this feature?

You can also export the entirety of your Signal chats and decrypt them on a computer with an open source tool.

I also thought they were using Signal specifically to avoid FOIA, which requires government officials to archive their messages.

So it is possible government officials are using disappearing messages in Signal (which is illegal for multiple reasons), which will give a reason to use a third party app, not that this specific app should be trusted in any way.

I doubt it's even a real Big Mac (as in using the original, unaltered recipe)

If anyone wants the recipe, all of the old school McDonald's recipies are here: https://archive.org/details/mcmenu

Since when did the Republicans give two shits about some bullshit "senate rules?" They just change that shit whenever it suits them.

So do the same.

Well it's a sure thing that nothing will happen if they don't try.

The Republicans broke the record for obstruction under Obama. We need that to happen right now under Trump.

We need a left Tea Party.

What did Mitch McConnell do when the Democrats had a supermajority under Obama, sit with his thumb up his ass?