[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

They're not mad because they lost money, they're terrified because Mamdani is a socialist.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Once you've finished this project, you're only a hop and skip away from this 3D printed Machining Mill. He uses the 3d printed pieces as a mold for reinforced concrete, so that it's heavy enough to resist the vibrations so that you can mill solid metal stock.

The single most impressive 3D printed DIY tool i've ever seen.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

See if you can spot the difference between Bernie's statement and MLK's:

Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.

I don't think it's at all unreasonable to criticize Bernie for leaving that second part unsaid. Not to mention the point Hasan was making, which was picking this moment to talk about nonviolence - at a time when Trump is preemptively painting the protests as violent and insurrectionist - affirms Trump's framing and justifies police escalation.

I'm with Hasan here, this was tone-deaf of Bernie, if not completely hypocritical.

Bonus MLK quote:

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Ms Rachel is the mom we don't deserve

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

It almost doesn't even matter if they did plant the gun on him - as soon as it became a national manhunt because the capital class was panicking, nobody was going to believe them that they didn't somehow fuck up due process.

If this ends in acquittal or mistrial I think the media will go back into full-blown panic

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Doesn't seem like they're supportive of Israel, no

[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

As enraging as this whole story is, I don't think there's any coming back from 'you're a war profiteer'

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

My dog once caught what I thought was a diseased rabbit (because how else could my fluffball catch a rabbit?), but now I'm thinking it was just a hare

Looked like it had just come back from the ethereal plane, its eyes were so wide

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Well they sure as fuck shouldn't be capitulating to the fascists

I would expect that someone who really thinks we're at the end of democracy would be (at the very least) breaking decorum to derail the fascism machine before it picks up steam, not censuring their own colleagues for loudly defending what they all presumably believe in.

"What else could they possibly be doing?!" they cry, as ICE agents are pushing legal permanent residents into black vans and flying them to a prison in El Salvador for exercising their 1st amendment rights.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

For anyone still curious, the ban was lifted already

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Maybe it is? Don't non-binary people have a right to moderate their own space as they like?

If they have a rule against gatekeeping gender identities and pronouns in their own instance, don't they have a right to remove offenders from their servers?

You're all over this topic today, maybe just take a second and listen to what the community is saying. You've more than said your piece.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

I'm completely in favor of this.

Frankly, most of what I see on this comm is BPR and YDI, and most people could probably benefit from taking their bans and touching grass. But having some posts be YDI makes the PTB's more exciting so maybe i'm wrong.

Maybe we should make some penalty for earning a YDI or BPR, so that people who receive them aren't encouraged to re-hash the same conflicts over and over? I'm honestly not sure. Part of the problem is that the same people cross-post the same conflict on similar comms, which makes it feel as if the same issue is being litigated repeatedly.

But complaining about receiving a ban from a protective community with strict conduct policies is certainly not the intent of this community, i don't think.

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