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  • [Sephko] ZORORO

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  • this is the source of a lot of my existential dread. I can't logically refute it, at most I can acknowledge it's pointless for me to worry about, but I can't stop myself from worrying about maltheism.

  • Pope Leo's First US Bishop Calls on Priests to Escort Asylum Seekers to Court: 'People of Faith Stand with Immigrants'

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  • another day, another maximalist Lemmy take.

  • A Long Island man driving to work gets handcuffed by ICE — despite being U.S. citizen

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  • but with no EZIC.

  • Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us. — Queer Majority

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  • TERF term for trans woman. It stands for "trans-identified male." Presumably TERFs felt clever having the acronym be a man's name.

  • BREAKING: ABC News Axes Terry Moran Over Deleted Tweet Bashing Stephen Miller as a ‘World Class Hater’

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  • my sibling in Christ, we're on Lemmy.

  • Newsom brands Trump a ‘dictator’ after National Guard deployed

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  • dictators are distressingly popular. nobody likes checks and balances when they're holding your guy back from giving the bad guys a well-deserved beating.

  • First troops arrive in LA after Trump sends National Guard to curb immigration protests

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  • there used to be platforms that would show livestreamers on a map, so you could get angles on protests as they were happening. I remember using it during the George Floyd protests in 2020. terrible for privacy, but it was incredibly useful to get an unfiltered view from the ground.

    do any of those still exist? or did they shut them all down?

  • Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event

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  • channel your inner Simon Wiesenthal!

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    Michigan Arab community, a majority of who voted for Trump in 2024, are outraged that the man who instituted a Muslim travel ban in his first term, has done so again in his second

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  • (for the record, I voted for Harris. obviously.)

    specifically on Gaza, I'm not convinced Trump is worse than Biden II would have been.

    Trump (and the RNC in general) have been exploiting American Jews as a pawn in their efforts to destroy academic institutions and purge leftist intellectuals, the way Democrats exploited trans people (until we stopped being politically convenient, then they folded like a house of cards, and predictably abandoned us.) that's horrible, of course, and the narrative of Gaza is tied up in it, but it's not actually focused on Gaza - the effects are domestic.

    aside from Trump's inflammatory bluster on Gaza (building casinos and beachfront resorts for billionaires), what has he actually done? he's negotiated with Hamas directly, and cut Netenyahu out of the loop. Trump has a huge ego, and he doesn't play well with other world leaders with huge egos, like Netenyahu (or recently, Musk.) so when Netenyahu tried to push him around he told him to pound sand. and - for better or worse - with "America First" foreign policy, it's increasingly hard to justify giving Israel billions of dollars to prosecute their genocide. I think Biden would have 100% been a pushover.

    meanwhile, they wouldn't even address Gaza during the DNC convention. they were initially going to have a Palestinian-American person speak, but decided "nah" and cut them at the last minute. the DNC smugly decided that us minorities were "in the bag," and told us shut up, while they pandered to the Neocons. now they've lost, and the DNC is toast, and if we ever get a shot at democracy again, whatever rises from the DNC's ashes will have to actually be Progressive.

  • Ex Biden press secretary Jean-Pierre switches from Democrat to independent

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  • correct. it doesn't address the core issue. however, sometimes enemies have to live next to each other. a military solution cannot end Hamas. anything short of full-scale ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza cannot end Hamas. that is the unfortunate reality. the human cost is too great.

    Hamas murdered 1,195 people on 10/7. Israel has killed ~57,000 in Gaza, and razed it to rubble. Israel has had its retribution, killing 50 Gazans for each dead Israeli. enough.

  • Ex Biden press secretary Jean-Pierre switches from Democrat to independent

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  • I’d genuinely like to hear what Israel should be doing instead in response to Hamas.

    negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the remaining hostages. reign in the West Bank settlers, to focus the conflict on Gaza specifically rather than the conquest of the Palestinian territories. as part of the ceasefire,

    1. remove IDF troops from Gaza.
    2. freely allow all medical, food, construction and infrastructure aid, along with foreign aid workers. still check all shipments and persons entering for weapons and other contraband. maintain a naval blockade and checkpoints to implement the screening.
    3. rather than having IDF implement the screening, propose a joint peacekeeping force, staffed by Israelis, Egyptians, Jordanians and UN peacekeepers.
    4. offer a pathway towards increased autonomy, easing of travel restrictions, potentially even Palestinian statehood contingent upon the peaceful transition of power from Hamas.
    5. encourage Arab foreign nationals and other non-Israelis to volunteer or do business in Gaza, rebuilding, running aid clinics, teaching school, etc. establish economic prospects for collaboration between Gazans and the rest of the world.
    6. remove Netenyahu from power and investigate him for corruption and his dealings with Hamas. remove Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezazel Smotrich from the Knesset, and ban Otzma Yehudit the way Kahan's Kach party was outlawed.

    sound fair?

  • Ex Biden press secretary Jean-Pierre switches from Democrat to independent

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  • hawking*, unless they're chucking it at you.

  • ICE detained a trans migrant at her asylum hearing. Her lawyers still can't contact her

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  • feels increasingly like fleeing Russia for Germany after a pogrom against your shtetl.

  • Ukraine strikes bridge connecting Russia to Crimea with underwater explosives

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  • Switzerland used to have all their bridges wired to blow. They should probably get back on that :/

  • Supreme Court allows AR-15 ban in Maryland

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  • handguns are much more common in homicides in general, but I think rifles are the weapon of choice in school shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism. they have more potential to kill a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time from a greater distance. in particular I'm thinking about the Las Vegas shooter who infamously used bump stocks to rain bullets on a crowd.

    incidentally, we almost banned handguns decades ago. it's my understanding that that attempt at a ban - saved by last minute edits - are responsible for outlawing short-barreled rifles (they were trying to prevent people from making their rifles into handguns.)

    They're not JUST for killing people and/or sport. Every reason you could legitimately need a gun for, the broad category "semi auto rifle" covers, so banning them has a disproportionate impact to people who use them legally and as tools vs banning handguns.

    but do those purposes need semi-auto? can you not afford the extra second to charge the weapon between shots? the only situation I can envision is needing to protect yourself from criminals with semi-autos, which is a legitimate concern.

  • Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines

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  • read up a bit. there's an interesting concurrence(!) from Kavanaugh, which basically said they're too busy, come back later.

  • Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines

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  • it's wild to me that the Court struck down the ban on bump stocks in Cargill, which are obviously unusual devices without a history of use for self-defense (and strained to misinterpret the "by a single function of the trigger" language of the NFA) yet they decline to overturn this decision.

    where's the internal consistency? you'd think they'd at least follow precedent they themselves set.

  • Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines

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  • get the man some reading glasses already!

  • Supreme Court allows AR-15 ban in Maryland

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  • "assault weapons" are a nebulous concept. that law sounds like it was closely tailored to match the AR-15 and its clones, since that's the closest definition anyone can agree on. but it's not like thumb position, stock design etc. make the AR-15 more lethal than other rifles.

    why don't they just ban semi-auto rifles? for home defense you can use a handgun, for hunting you can use a bolt action rifle of a pump action shotgun. you eliminate the bump stock loophole and it becomes harder to mow down a crowd.