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  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • Choosing to treat anyone who thinks otherwise as too stupid to realise this is exactly why Trump might win. Please stop.

  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • The Democrats do not have a realistic chance of winning against Trump because the Democrats are entirely incapable of challenging power. It's the fundamental contradiction of liberalism. They won't do anything for the people they need to vote for them because if they do the people who fund them will stop funding them.

    Obama and Sanders both excelled at small-dollar donations, of course. Sadly, Obama was a silver-tongued coward and the Clinton Democrats made sure she didn't repeat the mistakes of 2008 in 2016 by not bothering to sign up voters in case they killed her in the primaries again.

    They dig their own grave and they do so willingly because it makes them exceedingly rich.

  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • You know the article has words in it that aren't in the headline?

    And that if you actually care about Biden winning, you need to engage with these arguments or at least have the good sense to STFU for fear of alienating people even further?

  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • Learn to read, comprehend what you read, think about what you read, and then avoid saying stuff that gets you the exact opposite of what you want. FFS

  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • Demanding that people vote for the least worst option without any content other than sneering at them for apparently not realising that one of the options is worse, is doing exactly that.

    It's straw-manning the arguments of people who want (and desperately need) the Democrats to be better and are putting serious thought, time and energy into how that is possible in a world controlled by billionaires who unleash fascism the moment their power is threatened.

    And they're doing it with a lazy, cynical, Bill Maher-wannabe take because apparently they think this is a good look?

    They'll be the death of us all.

  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • Yeah, if you're going to comment you would, ideally:

    1. read the article

    2. comprehend what it is saying

    3. respond to it

    Knee-jerk hand-waving is not useful. It's worse than just a waste of your time and ours, you are actively alienating everyone you desperately need to hold their nose and vote for Biden.

    What are you trying to achieve here?

  • Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

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  • Obediently voting for the least worst option means you eventually run out of good options. <- we are here

    The conundrum is working out how you force those options to get better without accelerationists getting to test out their theories for real (again).

    I would respectifully suggest that "shut the fuck up and vote" does not cut it.

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    Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it | Moira Donegan

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/biden-gaza-2024-election

  • Cyclists sharing a smoke at the Tour de France, 1927

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  • Cigarettes were marketed as actively healthy and good for the lungs. They used doctors to sell them. And wanted everyone to know that the only reason that smokers kept dying of lung diseases is because cigarettes are good for lungs so of course people with bad lungs were smokers. Duh.

    When Cigarette Companies Used Doctors to Push Smoking

  • Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

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  • Indeed. Fascism is power protecting itself. And, even if the specifics vary worldwide, power has needed a great deal of protection since it fucked up and crashed the global economy. Again.

  • Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

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  • I was thinking of Miliband, really. Got the same treatment as Corbyn but it never reached a crescendo because he caved.

    And Labour in general, of course. Since Thatcher, at least, they always end up defaulting to this please-Murdoch-at-any-cost nonsense. Not that they were great before Thatcher (1945-51 excepted) but the media was much less extreme back then.

  • Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

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  • Not just children. The Tories need a kind of generalised hate to keep them in power. "Look! Over there! The poor people have all your money!". Not because a plurality of the electorate actually fall for it but because the billionaires who own the media keep the noise deafening to make sure no one pays any attention to their grift. Which means that the Labour party is too spineless to oppose it, keeping turnout nice and low while the Tories chase the fash to the right.

  • Community

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  • The fact of higher protein content appears to be true (without going back to find and critique all the original studies). Explanations are much harder to 'prove' for questions like this.

    We can't do experiments on the evolution of tears, so all we can do is come up with plausible theories and look at how they fit with the body of evidence. With enough evidence, from enough different angles, we might one day be able to say which proposed explanations fit the facts (and which don't). It's how we (eventually) proved smoking was killing people (another question we cannot do experiments on human beings to prove one way or the other) but not all questions are as important as smoking was and there isn't necessarily a neat, single factor explanation to find even if someone was willing to fund all the necessary research.

    Not my area but, for example, I recently saw a study claim that sniffing women's tears makes men less aggressive. That's an angle that might help build some support for, or knock down, the theory that emotional tears are useful for social communication (ie help get women killed slightly less often). Did those studies use sad stories or onions? Did any study compare sad stories to onions? If we're seeing hints of differences between sad stories and onions, that would tend to support the social communication element of the explanation. Unless we think there's a difference between sad tears and frightened tears, which there probably is, so we should check that too. And the rest of the literature on tears, if it's considered important enough to get the theory right. And we need to remember that sticky tears are not the same thing as smelly tears, so can we do experiments where non-emotional tears are made sticky, and non-sticky tears made to smell frightened?

    Etc etc.

    Explaining things we observe but cannot directly experiment on is a process, a process which typically takes many years and dozens of research groups. And a lot of funding. And decades of exhausting battles, if there is a lot riding on the answer (as it did with Big Tobacco vs Public Health).

  • Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds

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  • Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seen physically assaulting Cassie Ventura in 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN

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  • They get away with it if the people they attack are less powerful than they are, yeah. Power is a thing.

  • University of Georgia pulls out of ‘Cop City’ lawsuit requesting public records

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  • No it doesn't. The dean who made this decision, as with most people in stable positions of power, does not need telling what to do because he will do it anyway.

    Rutledge clerked for Clarence Thomas, and is featured in a painting included in ProPublica’s reporting on Republican donor Harlan Crow’s gifts to the Supreme Court Justice.

  • Patients in England want right to see GPs with 24 hours enshrined in NHS

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  • Obviously, people want that (the actual question asked was about an "urgent" need to see a doctor).

    But this proposal is just a repeat of one of Blair's worst policy failures, without acknowledging how or why it failed.

    When New Labour introduced the 48 hour target to see a GP, the vast majority of GPs 'met' the target by closing down their phonelines as soon as they ran out of appointments. In the process, they turned the 48 hour target into a 24 hour target because otherwise they'd only have been able to open the phoneline every other day.

    It was very bad back then. It's much worse now because the NHS was at least relatively well-funded under Blair.

    Not that they're announcing this because they think the policy will work, obv. Just doing their best to make sure the voters blame everyone but them.

    [The link is to a video of an election Question Time audience haranguing Blair about the foolishness of this target.]

  • The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel

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  • I didn't say you denied the Holocaust. I said you implied that it is the first example of European antisemitism.

  • The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel

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  • I agree with a lot of this but this bit is a non-sequitur:

    One thing many people don’t realize is that the Zionist colonial project was in motion long before WWII, as far back as the late 1800s.

    Political zionism did get started in the late 1800s, as a proposed solution to the centuries of pogroms, expulsions and discrimination against Jews in Europe. Prior to the horrors of WWII, most Jews considered it literal heresy. It was the Holocaust that convinced many that Zionism was their only option, not least because most of the free world closed its borders to Jews fleeing the Holocaust and its aftermath. There was nowhere else to go.

    This is a very useful short piece by a Jewish anti-zionist, pleading with the pro-Palestinian movement to take more care with their understanding of history: Zionism, Antisemitism and the Left Today

    The Palestinians are paying the price for Europe's crimes. The problem cannot be solved by denying that those crimes ever happened.

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    Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University | Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones, and Barbara Ransby

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/columbia-pro-palestinian-protest-south-africa-divestment
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    ‘A better church is possible:’ Methodists celebrate as the church embraces the LGBTQ | CNN

    edition.cnn.com /2024/05/05/us/united-methodist-church-embraces-lgbtq-reaj/index.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Accused rapist who tried to clear his name loses blockbuster defamation trial against TV network | CNN

    edition.cnn.com /2024/04/15/australia/australia-lehrmann-defamation-verdict-intl-hnk/index.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    On Being an Outlier

    www.goethe.de /prj/geg/en/thm/tru/25453339.html
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Political ads could be heading to UK TV screens due to legal loophole

    www.theguardian.com /media/2024/apr/14/political-ads-could-heading-uk-tv-screens-legal-loophole-itv
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    The Thing That's Coming

    www.the-reframe.com /blame-management/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Font sizes on Lemmy: they vary too much?

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Brian Feeney: Forget the smoke and mirrors of the DUP deal – the real change for unionists will be a Sinn Féin First Minister in Michelle O’Neill

    www.irishnews.com /opinion/brian-feeney-forget-the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-the-dup-deal-the-real-change-for-unionists-will-be-a-sinn-fein-first-minister-in-michelle-oneill-C4XHFBI7IFDYREN5D2TSMAO7QY/
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    Fujitsu will never be held accountable for the Post Office scandal. It is too important to this government | Sam Fowles

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2024/jan/19/fujitsu-accountable-post-office-scandal-too-important
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    Origins of a disaster: The Role Of Her Majesty’s Government In Shaping Horizon And The Post Office 1998-2000 | Eleanor Shaikh

    www.jfsa.org.uk /uploads/5/4/3/1/54312921/origins_of_a_disaster_-_summary_-_eleanor_shaikh.pdf
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    Now claw back Vennells’s bonuses from the Post Office. The rules allow it | Nils Pratley

    www.theguardian.com /business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2024/jan/10/now-claw-back-vennellss-bonuses-from-the-post-office-the-rules-allow-it
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    Claudine Gay’s ousting reveals that the messenger is still an easier target than the message | Kenan Malik

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2024/jan/07/tribalism-and-hypocrisy-dog-claudine-gay-furore-neither-tackle-issues-it-raises
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial

    www.benthamsgaze.org /2021/07/15/what-went-wrong-with-horizon-learning-from-the-post-office-trial/
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    Michelle Mone admits involvement with ‘VIP lane’ PPE company

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2023/nov/06/michelle-mone-admits-involvement-with-vip-lane-ppe-company
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    The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History

    lithub.com /the-past-and-present-of-writing-women-out-of-scientific-history/
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Councils in England facing bankruptcy as lack of housing pushes up costs

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  • World Politics @lemmy.ca
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    I Fought for the I.D.F. in Gaza. It Made Me Fight for Peace.

    archive.ph /ZUo4V
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    Western Journalists Have Palestinian Blood on Their Hands

    www.thenation.com /article/world/western-journalists-have-palestinian-blood-on-their-hands/
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    ‘This is political expediency’: how the Tories turned on 15-minute cities

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