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  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • This is all bullshit.

    Who fucking cares about these definitions? All y'all have the same damn enemy. Worry about the enemy first. Iron out disagreements over terminology once the fascists are gone.

    It's so weird that people spend so much time debating this pointless garbage.

  • Supreme Court lets Trump administration resume deportations of immigrants to countries other than their own

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  • Yes, I also hope it doesn't blow up in their faces and a crazy Minecraft player doesn't decapitate the justices who voted in favor of this.

  • Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

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  • It's an Ivy League school.

    Years ago, an ex-girlfriend was proctoring a course at an Ivy League. She had a billionaire's daughter, a legacy admission, in one of her classes. The billionaire's daughter never showed up to class. My ex-gf failed her. Later, when she looked at the recorded grades, the billionaire's daughter who never showed up for class had a 'C.'

    George W. Bush graduated from Yale with a C average.

    Ivy League schools educate many people. But they often just give degrees to the legacy admissions, to the wealthy, and to the politically connected.

  • Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

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  • The weird part is that there really aren't more than a handful of universities that are actually 'liberal.' Since Conservatives see the world in black and white, all an organization has to do to be seen as 'liberal' is just not be Conservative.

    That's it. Either you lick Trump's stank butthole, or you're a 'liberal.' There is no such thing as non-partisan in their world. You either repeat the Conservative talking points, restate Conservative beliefs, loudly proclaim the party's talking points, or you're 'liberal.'

  • Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender

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  • Again.

  • Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene

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  • Absolutely. Between Ticketmaster and LiveNation, almost every performing venue in the United States is completely dominated.

    We desperately, desperately need legitimate anti-trust actions in the United States; we need something that will reintroduce some actual competition into the market.

    The first failure of the federal government that led to this path was in the 1990s and the Microsoft Antitrust Trials. That was the point at which there really could have been another way--but the billionaires, at that point, had all the inroads to government that the Reagan Administration made possible. Because Microsoft could buy politicians, the vast majority of people on the planet have never used any operating system other than Windows, and the Microsoft company gets billions upon billions of dollars from state/federal/municipal contracts.

    Google and Apple, then, just followed the path that Microsoft bought and paved through government regulations. And that made it easy for other billion dollar companies like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to do the same thing in other realms--simply buy the laws, buy the politicians, buy the system that's supposed to regulate them, and then use that system to remove all competition.

  • Fearful of Trump, some Americans look to make a life in Europe

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  • As time moves forward, I think more and more frequently about trying to get out of this shithole counry.

  • Mike Waltz accidentally reveals obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages

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  • Yes.

    The answer is that this is all a bunch of stupid bullshit and that the Trumplicans truly don't give a damn about laws that no one can force them to follow.

    At this point, there's really no point in trying to look for consistency or rational justification for anything these people do.

  • Mike Waltz accidentally reveals obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages

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  • The article makes me wonder if Waltz is intentionally countering the counter-revolution.

    Either that, or he's just stupid as fuck.

    Maybe both.

  • Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year

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  • All the apps that collect user data that has nothing to do with the actual function or purpose of the app.

    Like--why does this solo word puzzle game need access to my contact list, camera, and location?

  • Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)

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  • Article littered with affiliate links.

    And it also doesn't make sense.

  • Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games

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  • Maybe they're trying to get potential players of Elder Scrolls VI so hyped that they'll still play the new game even if it's sold 'games as a service' style

    in which case, fuck that

  • Only The Best People

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  • I'm not 100% sure, but I think this picture was AI generated.

  • Many Americans say Trump has gone too far on immigration but remains his strongest issue, AP-NORC poll finds

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  • I don't trust any of these polls.

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  • Things aren't bad for him yet, and that's the only way he knows if things are bad.

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  • Investigators were alerted to his accounts after finding an unusually high number of log-ins and failed log-ins from an unfamiliar devices, locations, or networks. That information is tracked by Google, per the affidavit. Other unusual activity was traced through Payne's VPN or network provider.

    So, Google stopped him, and his VPN provider. I'd like to know who his VPN provider was.

  • Court blocks DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Social Security Administration

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  • They're openly rejecting court order and legal precedent.

    Unless someone starts enforcing these court orders, they're just going to keep doing things.

    They're running the Nazi playbook. Word for word, step by step, just updated with newer propaganda.

  • Veneer of Normalcy

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  • Thank you!

  • A concretesaurus

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  • Also making giant rebar craps all over

  • General Discussion @lemmy.world
    clonedhuman @lemmy.world

    “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently" -- David Graeber (The Utopia of Rules, 2015)

    davidgraeber.org /articles/introduction-to-the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world-by-nika-dubrovsky/