[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Counting the angels dancing on the head of a pin.

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

The only general limitation on party expenses is the ability to raise funds from private contributors. Due to a supreme court ruling (see below in History), public subsidies to a specific party may not exceed the "self-generated revenue", i.e. the total amount raised from signed-up members and other donors ("relative maximum", "relative Obergrenze"). Thus, a party that is unable to collect enough contributions from private sources will see its public subsidy reduced automatically[15] and be unable to make all the expenditure that it would like to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_finance_in_Germany

This is a really advantageous arrangement for capital. If a party doesn't have significant private funds raised, they are unable to gather public funding.

https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/908924/3ef9d9a4eaeae8a8779ccec3ac464970/mL/2023-04-vermoegensbefragung-data.pdf

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

The sum of money required to win political office continues to increase every cycle, while the minimum wage has continued to decline in real terms over the same period. Inequality of wealth is continuously getting worse as well. The critical thing to consider is the class of the person you are trying to convince. If they still believe they can achieve significant wealth in their lifetime, you have a very slim chance to getting through to them.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

Kars4KillingKids isntrael

Was thinking about a Fiveish emoji, but it just seems too wrong.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 62 points 2 days ago

But whether it's popular or not popular, I have to do it.

Remember when the media tried to say Epstein was a Russian asset.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

I await the decapitation strike on the US govt by a hurricane that floods the WH bunker.

El Niño / La Niña timmy-pray

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cuba has drones they might use against the amerikkka

cheer

in a preemptive strike on Guantanamo or the amerikkka mainland

pinocchio-evil jesse-wtf

So the country under a severe blockade that is likely going to get invaded and/or attacked by amerikkka any minute is going to use limited drone inventory like this? brow

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Think that is Sam Bankman-Fried, not Sam Altman. I'm just realizing how silly these names are when they are together especially.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

:tried-nothing-all-out-of-ideas:

Guess we have to do what Mr. Disney says, Victory Through Air Power!

amerikkka

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago

Relatively weaker regional powers armed with precision missiles, drones, hardened infrastructure, and dispersed launch systems may increasingly be able to blunt portions of American intervention advantages without defeating the United States outright.

We are the only ones with clarity of purpose.

soleimani-amused khomeini

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Found this comment on a post about how China is "doing capitalism better then the west, socialism is achieved through capitalism, etc".

I was expecting some weird takes in the thread, but this was beyond parody.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

yea

When the United States ended its twelve-year nuclear weapon testing program on several of the atolls in the RMI

https://onlyinark.com/culture/marshallese-in-arkansas-from-the-islands-to-the-ozarks/

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most of the instances are offline or admin only login last I checked

https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14815

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"working on my politics-free lemmy experience"

https://lemmy.ml/post/47148371

Thought this was a legit funny shitpost about lemmitors, but OP is really doing the bit in the comments.

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bird-screm-2

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roHFRhhx2Oc

taken from this 60 Minutes report about white nationalists seeking to recruit after natural disasters by "helping"

I was very surprised to see the black sun emblem on the intro graphic.

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bicycle bag brand meme (thelemmy.club)
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trans-heart sicko-biker

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In 2024, a jury convicted Guo of stealing hundreds of millions from his followers. The New Federal State of China, the harbor ceremony, the nonprofits, and the media companies were all part of an elaborate con Guo used to “lock in” those supporters before hitting them up for investments, prosecutors said a sentencing memo last week.

Guo, who has been jailed as a perceived flight risk since his March 2023 arrest, continues to deny guilt. His lawyers argue, in their own sentencing memo, that his conviction was the result of the Chinese government’s “relentless and overwhelmingly powerful targeting of him.” The memo also suggests, without evidence, that Guo’s support for Trump, in particular his role in the publication of explicit pictures of Hunter Biden prior to the 2020 election, contributed to his prosecution.

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Police reported that the latest incident occurred on Saturday at a Target store on Southwest College Road, where a teen drove a lawnmower through the store, damaging a door. Authorities identified Janek Szkaradek as the driver and Luke Charske as the person who recorded the stunt.

Authorities say the video was intended for social media, but the behavior created a dangerous situation for customers and employees inside the store.

The investigation revealed a second incident the night before at a Culver’s on the same road. Police stated Szkaradek went inside the restaurant and used a leaf blower indoors, again as part of a filmed stunt. Authorities said this disrupted business and raised safety issues.

“These actions endangered people and caused property damage. They are crimes, not harmless videos,” police issued a statement urging others to consider carefully before trying similar acts.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Memepact/comments/pxtcs6/the_playertariat_have_nothing_to_lose_but_their/

Found this while randomly searching for "playertariat". I thought maybe I had spontaneously created a new word in a badposting comment, but seem like I'm too late by a few years.

Never played this game, but I think I get the idea of the post more or less.

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... "tankies are always right too early".

Due to the meta-analytical tools of historical and dialectical materialism having strong predictive effects over decade timescales, and the significant delays in analysis precipitated by neoliberal focusing on the present status quo, a factor of asynchronicity spontaneously develops between the future-prescience of "tankies" that is disorienting to the neoliberal constructed present-focused perception.

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