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When the riot squads come... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27474134

Abolish Ice. No Kings. Free Palestine.

Down with monarchists!

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When the riot squads come... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27474134

Abolish Ice. No Kings. Free Palestine.

Down with monarchists!

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When the riot squads come... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Abolish Ice. No Kings. Free Palestine.

Down with monarchists!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The French Revolution took about a century to fully process through. There were several instances of guillotines and piles of heads. We usually know about the first one (and the second one for those who've seen Les Misérables. ) During the post 1789 process there was also a weird cult thing that looked a bit like MAGA, until even the cultists got tired of Robespierre's bullshit.

Marie Antoinette was a perfectly serviceable princess / queen and fielded charities and smiled at the commoners and all the things ambitious feudal ladies are supposed to do. She never said Qu'ils mangent de la brioche but the rumor of it was current, and sped her way to the guillotine. She was also accused of sexual perversities, including The German Vice (lesbianism) most of which had to be explained to her so she could deny having ever done them.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I think falling from a great height is too kind a Disney fate for Charlie Kirk. Perhaps he should be permanently turned into a kitten to suffer the effervescent (grabby, drooling) adulations of small children for all of eternity.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

When I played The Sims 2, the first thing I'd do is create a small public lot where everyone could get all their needs met and buy food and a cell phone (since starting characters didn't have one). There were some oddities, since Sims get dirty quickly, I'd replace sinks with showers, and would make sure coffee was available everywhere.

Eventually, sims could walk from their home, rather than investing in a garage and a car or taking a cab.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Note that Disney and Universal pirate other people's stuff whenever they want.

Note also that all the Generative AI services are very protective of their big cistern of web-crawled data, say when China borrows it for DeepSeek.

Content, content everywhere and not a drop of principle.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Looney Tunes did it first.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I presume the point that you only need one methane source connection for two appliances that use it heavily.

So, an appliance for low-drag homesteads.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.

It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I posted a post-deep-dive take on what gave Trump the presidency here, but I will say that misogyny did did no small amount of heavy lifting.

What we need to figure out before the GOP finds its next cult leader is how to neutralize the massive far-right propaganda machine that is churning out false information and disinforming the public.

We've decided before that ethically we can't trust human beings to make sound decisions in some conditions. Gambling, for example. Sometimes humans get addicted to just giving the house their money when it's coached in a probability game. But then we've just invented loopholes (and lootboxes) to circumvent regulation. So I don't know how we're going to deprogram massive viewerships of media that promotes hate, including misogyny.

If we fail then the ~~ice zombie army~~ climate crisis (and running out of water for agriculture) is going to drive us to extinction.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Some of us have had Cascadia dreams. The problem is that Canada has its own issues and is on the same oozing, shambling drift towards fascist autocracy.

But yeah, the problem is that the US is a big pastiche of purple, and we can't even tell how much of the red side is pressured by peer pressure and the colossal far-right-wing propaganda machine that features the most popular media offerings in the nation. Huge swaths of people are literally being mind controlled, and no-one is addressing this. (On a related note, we keep allowing more loopholes to allow gambling outside Nevada and Georgia, not to mention have failed to criminalize lootboxes)

The US isn't even trying to be democratic and hasn't for decades, which is how seventy seven million people, many of them low-information voters, voted for the guy who campaigned on a fascist autocratic coup d'etat.

That is to say once we finally unseat President Donald J. Trump, we should get ready for a Pete Townshend scream:

Meet the new boss!
Same as the old boss!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

The Heritage Foundation is a society of monarchists. It's supported by oligarchs who want to be king to push the world towards that agenda, and such oligarchs routinely infuse it with capital.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.

To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.

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Is it? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Does a TOS on a suicide prevention line feel a bit coercive to anyone else?

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Release candidate with feedback considered. Release candidate provided no critical problems.

Use! Spread! Teach the world!

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Text:

Musk's salute at Trump's Inauguration (sic) doesn't make him a Nazi

Musk's $250 Million donation to an autocratic usurper Makes (sic) him a Nazi-producing industrialist

Musk is to Nazis what the Hostess board of directors is to Twinkies


Sorry about the additional caps. I may also darken the background for legibility.

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February 2017. Similar sentiments.

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Rule Practice (OC) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Who will rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Another one of my old-man memes.

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Rule of peer pressure (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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EARLY TRAINING
🫳: Sit!
🐶: <hesitates, then sits>
🫳: Good dog!
🐶:

🫳: Sit!
🐶:
🫳: Good dog!
🐶:

LATE TRAINING
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳:
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳:
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳:
🐶: I would like a treat, please.
🫳: Maybe you've had enough treats for now?
🐱: I, too, would like a treat, presented in the usual manner.
🫳: DAMMIT!

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