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The only conservative policies that aren’t a smokescreen for their desire to oppress others are the conservative policies that openly display their desire to oppress others.

  • Zohran Mamdani leads in fundraising for New York City mayoral contest

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  • I think the concern is that, like in the Bernie 2016 case, forces within the party might ensure the outcome goes a particular way.

  • Democrat reformists finding out that Democrats will only play dirty against the left.

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  • PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids

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  • If there is anyone at all who has not gone to their website at some point to see the things they put out (or image search for them) so you have an awareness, you really must do so.

    It would have been really great if more people knew project 2025 was real before it was too late, and more people need to see this before Trump turns it into the new Dept of Education or something.

    I haven't even clicked the article above yet, and I can tell you from past experience that in my opinion, no matter how sincerely it might try to convey the comic book villany peddled from PragerU, the article in OP will not adequately do so. You need to expose yourself to some of their material to really get it.

    If you were going to choose a curriculum for your brownshirt boarding school, this would be it.

  • Democrat reformists finding out that Democrats will only play dirty against the left.

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  • You’re mad that Cuomo didn’t get the endorsement? Why?

    Um, no. And that feels fairly disingenuous since the progressive/leftist objections to Cuomo are pretty well known, and in particular his attacks on Mamdani and his support from establishment dems, and their corresponding attacks on Mamdani, even up to and including his declaration that it's OK since maga can just get him in.

    So please come back when you'd like to engage in good faith. Thank you now!

  • Democrat reformists finding out that Democrats will only play dirty against the left.

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  • I'm not convinced that's true, but this is hardly the only example of such, in any case, not even the only recent example, and not even the most high profile recent example.

    coughCuomocough

    When it's no longer a pattern, people will stop pointing it out.

  • Donald Trump says people are in Epstein files who ‘don’t deserve to be’: ‘It’s a Democratic hoax’

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  • I feel like there needs to be a word for someone who tries to deflect from their obvious wrongdoings in a way that is almost identical in tone and comedic transparency to a stereotypical, cliche'd anime tsundere.

    Whatever that word is, Trump is the iconic example of it.

  • Democrat reformists finding out that Democrats will only play dirty against the left.

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  • I keep hearing how the new DNC Chair (whose name I only hear when people are telling me this) is doing things differently now and this is going to stop.

    OK new DNC Chair whose name is in the news so rarely I can never remember it, it hardly seems like there could be a more fertile opportunity to stop working against progressives, so any day now.

  • This Motherf*cker

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  • But no. It’s literally fucking, act for act, the exact same shit. I can hardly believe it. It’s so… I don’t even know what the appropriate word for it is

    My personal, non-scholarly opinion: He's known to be intimately familiar with Mein Kampf, and he's clearly broadly overconfident and narcissistic. He probably read it, watched some WWII documentaries, and thought "This guy was ahead of his time. He was a genius, almost like me. I just have to do exactly what he did, but not screw it up."

  • Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be

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  • Yes but that was pre-Maga.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Proton developers are working on Wine code. Their patches go upstream. If you are using Wine, you have benefited (massively) from the sea change that has occurred (directly and indirectly) as a result of the development of Proton.

    I remember the naysayers predicting that Gabe would never in a million years make the required investment because the state of Linux gaming was (in their assessment) that terrible.

    And now we're having argue about whether it actually did anything for us? In the comments about an article about how much it did for us?

    That's not an argument I'm having, I watched it happen.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Do you know what I did last week thanks to Proton? Installed EndeavourOS on my freshly purchased laptop, installed steam, and installed a bunch of Windows games. Then I played them. At no point did I wonder whether they would run.

    Now, you may think being able to do that isn't something that is going to get more people using desktop Linux (or that it hasn't already done so), but as much as I'd love to agree with you, then we'd both be wrong.

    I say this as someone who used to care about convincing other people to use Linux. (Before shifting into "you can lead a horse to water..." mode, and now I just don't give a shit.)

    However, what I gained from that experience is this: In twenty years of being Linux-only on my personal desktop, the number of times I have read the phrase, "I'd love to use Linux, except for [some statement about a game or games]" is astronomical.

    Now, is Proton going to make desktop Linux the best choice for everyone? Clearly not, duh. But it is remarkably disingenuous to suggest that it's not had a massive benefit to the Linux community and ecosystem as a whole, including, and dare I say especially, desktop Linux. It is flat out impossible to imagine that a substantial portion of current and future Linux users aren't people for whom Proton solved what they considered to be a substantial barrier to usage.

  • Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.

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  • I know I'm in super-cynic mode this morning, but my guess is they finished training on all the data to that point already, so it's probably not online anywhere currently, but also probably 100% a part of whatever training they are doing. Again, IMO only, and rampant speculation.

    Though frankly, all that is worrying me a lot less now that I realize Doge took all the info that any identity thief could possibly want about every citizen in the US (and more), plus whatever classified info they have, and Putin is probably months into Russia's analysis and training on every last bit of that data. (or there was a recent dead drop in Alaska 🤔 )

  • Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.

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  • 100% it can, and worse yet, it can be scraped and analyzed like this by Meta, or Reddit, or your nearest fascist dictator.

    But that's also pretty much the entire internet in any forum or social media platform, so although I don't like it, I figure that's more or less just part of using the internet.

    To me it's much like the whole "There's no expectation of privacy in public."

    I hope it doesn't take AI to figure out my attitudes when I regularly proclaim that there are no maga in my life more than required by various pre-existing obligation, Luigi Mangione will be remembered as a folk hero, Trump will one day be shown to be ALL through the Epstein files in all the worst ways (as will many Dems and they should all be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law), and most Democratic leadership is 100% owned by the oligarchy too, as evidenced by things such as their support of Israeli genocide and how much more urgently they are fighting Mamdani than they are Trump in many cases.

  • Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.

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  • I can tell you with near certainty there's a backup somewhere of the pre-exodus database with all those deleted accounts and comments intact.

  • Big Money Is Still Warping US Politics

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  • Issue has been put on the back burner?

    Glaringly obvious issue ignored by those with the most to gain from it. 😁

  • YSK that in the United States you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions.

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  • I was alive in 2020 (and before) I'm well aware how little they often care about the rules.

  • YSK that in the United States you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions.

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  • Hmm this is a good point, but I don't entirely agree.

    I know that I have wondered many times if I can drop a random (or not so random) 'eff you' as I pass, and I'm glad to know I probably can, whether I ever actually do or not. Knowledge is - knowledge.

    Few of us here would align ourselves with the group trying to suppress information right now, so although I recognize this is not always a smart decision in every situation, I'm not really willing to get onboard with the idea that disseminating topical information from reasonable sources is a problem.

  • My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse

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  • Thanks, been reading those words from various commenters, in various contexts, in a browser window on my Linux desktop, for longer than some people at Lemmy have probably been alive. But it's always nice to hear familiar phrases again.

  • This Motherf*cker

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  • Don't worry, Republicans got you covered on that already! It was the life skills!

    New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

    (This was later repealed IIRC, but not before first being approved.)

    Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers' union as a “step backward.”

    The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to a 216-page document about the state’s 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    octopus_ink @slrpnk.net

    A dangerous game the 1% plays. Everyone has their limits.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    octopus_ink @slrpnk.net

    Stand Up!

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    octopus_ink @slrpnk.net

    Call Them. Replace Them.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    octopus_ink @slrpnk.net

    A Tale of Two Greens

  • politics @lemmy.world
    octopus_ink @slrpnk.net

    Plan to skewer US sanctuary city mayors backfires on Republicans

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/mar/05/mayors-sanctuary-city-immigration
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    California farmers backed Trump. Now, his tariffs could hurt them

    www.latimes.com /california/story/2025-03-05/california-farmers-worry-about-impact-of-tariffs
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    octopus_ink @slrpnk.net

    Gonna be a rough(er) ride.