theparadox @ theparadox @lemmy.world

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in a fair and free world you will have different opinions and both sides need to be respected

This is true when it comes to matters of reasonable opinion. The problem is that opinions are not facts. You cannot tell me that the sky is green and that I need to respect your opinion or the world is not free. In truth, the world can be endangered by your incorrect understanding of reality.

Joe Biden literally leveraged aid money as per US and European policy to have an ineffective guy fired. Do you think the Obama administration and the IMF and many European nations were all pressuring Ukraine to protect Biden's son?

Mike Carpenter, who served as a foreign policy adviser to the then-vice president, told USA TODAY that Shokin "never went after any corrupt individuals at all" and "never prosecuted any high-profile cases of corruption."

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As a result, Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid as "a stick to move Ukraine forward," Kupchan said. "He was acting alongside our European allies. Everybody was of a single mind that this prosecutor was not the right guy for the job." 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/

This explains this one lady I often see dancing along the sidewalk on my commute home. She actually looks remarkably similar to this lady, just with grey/blond hair.

There is at least one person out there still keeping the art alive.

We hear aid is provided, we hear aid is taken away from civilians by Hamas beating people, we hear people selling aid packages to others civilians. We hear all sorts of things.

Which of these potentially terrible things negates what has been done to the people of Gaza? The destruction of their infrastructure - housing, universities, hospitals. The killing of civilians. The living conditions. The starvation.

So there is some, but not nearly enough aid. So some bad actors are taking advantage of the unimaginably fucked up situation there. How does that change the fact that Israel is at best using collective punishment (a war crime) and at worst committing genocide?

But if they just keep posting trending videos they can fire more journalists. Writing more articles means they'd have to hire them and they are expensive.

While I agree with the sentiment... if you are referring to Nathan Wade, my understanding is that it was way more than "going on a date".

More like fucking your boss (the DA, who assigned you this case) on the reg (behind your wife's back), going on trips with your boss and being reimbursed by her for her expenses in cash, and perjuring yourself at your divorce hearing where you lied about when you started fucking your boss on the reg. There's more that I'm sure I don't remember. Lots of drama.

Admittedly not super relevant to the trump case but still enough of a shit show that looks bad and shouldn't be happening. If he didn't resign, I believe the entire office would have been kicked off the case since it's under the DA/boss he'd been fucking. Now some other lawyer needs to take it over.

I expect that, like me, most of the upvoters see that as a joke/mockery of our stereotype... and no, obviously, we can't help but make the joke.

What are you doing to them?

Something most people don't do. It's like how Apple can often hold your hand so hard that you can't leave their preferred path. Windows lets you think it will let you stray without a fight. In niche cases it doesn't.

Because those in power spend a lot of effort distancing themselves from the impact they have and casting blame on everyone else, including on the victims.

A local factory may be poising the locals, paying little in taxes, and exploiting workers on the cheap but they are the biggest employer and its those minorities' fault for some reason and if not that it's the locals' fault for not pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps like their fathers did....

Oh, and look over there, quick! A teacher is trying to groom your kid because he refused to shame that one gay kid in school! Git 'im!

1200/35 for $120 US/month. I also own my own modem and router. Otherwise it would be another $15-$20/month.

Anything cheaper knocks my upload down to 20 and saves me very little. Viewing my options now hides upload rates but I checked a few months ago when my promotional rate expired and the price jumped $40.

1000/20 is $115, 800 is $110, 500 is $105, 300 is $90, 150 is $68

Any competitors don't qualify as broadband anymore. Maybe 35/5? I didn't even bother checking the price.

At least it's fairly stable and "unlimited" but I'm fairly sure they can say that and still cap it at 200GB/month or something. Oh, and I can connect their surveillance device... I mean "free streaming box"... and get Peacock at no extra cost!

'murica?

Same for my "XFinity" (Comcast) service. Literally the only plan with more than 20 up is the most expensive tier with 1200/35. Sadly, it has been that way for several years... but this year they had no choice but to jack up all rates across the board so the most expensive tier is now $30 more expensive ($90 -> $120). No other competition so... that's that.

Absolutely. Dumb TVs going forward. Unfortunate that the best screens like those made by Samsung are ruined by surveillance and hardware that can't run the "smart" OS for more than a few years without eventually running like dog shit.

I'm fairly positive that there are a lot more Democrats in Congress more than willing to destroy and water down any progressive bills. Manchin was just from a conservative enough area that he could safely be vocal about it. I am really curious to see who would be next once he's gone and if the Democrats manage to get majorities again.

Believe me when I say I know very well what systemic racism is.

I believe you may think you know what it is, but I don't think you do. Systemic racism is subtle. We likely don't even recognize a good chunk of it yet. Even if we did, a system that assumes equality of opportunity literally systemically perpetuates the effects of racism.

If a scale has $60 on one side and $100 on the other, you will literally never restore the balance by adding money equally on both sides. The best you can do is obscure the imbalance by adding so much money that the scales start to look balanced from a distance.

Now the value of the money means nothing compared to assets (property, denied to minorities historically through policies like redlining), which will hold their value through inflation. Guess who has all the assets? The side that started with $100... so even that doesn't work.

Ultimately, there is no way to restore the balance without the $100 side's feelings getting hurt before because they aren't getting as much. It's not like white folks are being told to move out of their home so a black family can move in. Speaking as a white dude, we can stand to suck it up for a bit.

Naive and gullible, like I said. Or, alternatively, just a disgusting person willfully attempting to spread disinformation.

Do you know what systemic racism is? Do you believe it exists?

I see people cosplaying as Hamas as Palestine protests. Cosplaying as genocidal maniacs.

I can't take you seriously.

First, Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians for decades. When nobody plays by the rules there is no point in quoting the rules.

Very few people condone killing civilians or taking hostages. Most people support the liberation of the Palestinian people and peace.

Which is why it's only the young and naive that support it.

Only the naive think that the situation is anywhere near as cut and dry as you seem to imply it is. And only the gullible think any fraction of the population worth mentioning are cosplaying as or celebrating the actions of Hamas.

But do you condemn Hamas?®

Most people don't support war crimes.

But, at the moment, it's war crimes vs. bigger war crimes. The question is, is the perpetrator of war crimes willing to stop war crimes when it's the only conceivable leverage to stop bigger war crimes? Big war crimes likely doesn't give a fuuuuuck about the little war crimes though - they literally killed the hostages in several situations. They are just pitching a tent because it's an excuse for them to do even bigger war crimes.

I think he gets a lot of anger directed at him because.

• He's not as progressive as many leftists hoped
• He's done a terrible job of highlighting the progressive stuff he has done (or that progressives have pushed/negotiated with him to get done), like he's afraid that if moderates find out he'll lose their votes
• He's not Bernie

At least, these are the things I hold against him. And Gaza plus some very specific other things.

Does it end? I ended my subscription with Netflix due to the repeated cancellation of shows I would get into.