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    UK changes the law to fire pro-Palestine voices after losing in court multiple times.

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  • Idk, "Britan is an occupied state" sounds like ZOG shit, which is actual antisemitism.

  • Active Duty U.S. Personnel: We Didn't Sign Up To Be 'Political Pawns'

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  • Fragging is always an option :)

  • National(istic) pride

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  • I mean even if Europe just gives them infinite money Ukraine isn't going to become a superpower. Best case it's a minor regional power.

    Which is a good thing, don't want two nazi-run military superpowers.

  • Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

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  • I think it's more just pandering to right-wing chuds because Karp is trying to win them over.

    He may also be lost in the sauce of misogyny.

  • Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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  • Voyeurism.

  • The no-no word

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  • This is actually just americans doing american things. You can call them traitorous if you want, whatever, but Trump et al aren't vassals of Russia or Israel.

    The support for Israel in all things it does is hardly unique to MAGA. Biden, back before he had dementia, once said that if Israel did not exist then America would have to invent an Israel to further US interests in the region.

    As for Russia, if the US was really their vassal then one would expect to see things like the US sanctions currently on Russia being dropped (and likely placed onto Ukraine instead).

  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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  • I agree, in order to remain morally consistent we should remove all the most energy-intensive humans as well. Oh look, it's the billionaires. Well, you guys had a good run, time to get in the pit

  • "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal": U.S. Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows

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  • I think it's about 50/50. I'm still pretty surprised Venezuela ended up working as well as it did, so that's a point in its favor, but that doesn't mean it'll work every time. Obviously public sentiment is against a ground invasion but when has that stopped anything Trump has done in the past? If his supporters can pardon him being a pedophile they certainly won't care about another invasion of some distant country.

    If I had to guess I think most likely is they try to do another kidnapping campaign that then fails and turns into a prolonged invasion.

  • "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal": U.S. Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows

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  • The invasion of Afghanistan began with a wave of bombings/air strikes that killed thousands of civilians and destroyed infrastructure because the Taliban/Al Qaeda were located in areas in which other people lived. Especially the Taliban, as they were the ruling government. A decent analogy is actually 9/11: sure, they targeted the white house and pentagon, but also the WTC which were civilians. Given what we know of US intel, I would actually wager that 2/3 of the hijackerss targets being military installations makes them more precise than the US forces. There are then second-order deaths, such as from starvation and disease, due to disruption of infrastructure, power being cut, factories shutting down, etc.

    Likewise, the "Shock and Awe" phase of the invasion of Iraq was a terror bombing campaign that aimed (and failed) to cause Saddam's government to be overthrown by popular uprising due to mass civilian death and destruction of infrastructure. IIRC Iraq's power grid still hasn't been repaired to pre-war levels over 20 years later.

    We can get semantic about what the phrase "bombing to pieces" means, but come on. The invasions kill over a million people, primarily due to second-order deaths from the initial and ongoing bombing campaigns. Seriously, look at the history of how the US wages war. It always relies on having air superiority and bombing the shit out of the countries it invades and then following up with special forces. Nowadays, that'd be JSOC because that branch of the special forces are directly controlled by the president.

    As far as ground invasion, that depends on what their goals are. If they want to use the playbook from Venezuela and kidnap (or assassinate) all leadership then "no" because while they'll have special forces on the ground they won't be staying long-term. If they want to use the playbook from Iraq and Afghanistan, then yes, they will have to do a ground invasion as strategic terror bombings never actually succeed at causing the popular uprisings (see: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc). The only place it allegedly ever worked was Japan in WWII, but that seems to have been largely incorrect and their surrender was much more due to the soviets declaring war on them.

  • "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal": U.S. Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows

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  • I can remember what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan?

  • [Discussion] What's your Soulslike origin story?

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  • Are the games ever on sale for that cheap these days?

    Nope, not even close. Part of that is due to them delisting the original "Prepare to Die" Edition and only letting you buy the remaster, which IIRC never goes below like $20.

  • [Discussion] What's your Soulslike origin story?

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  • DS1 on the PC was on sale for like $4 a decade ago. The rest is history.

  • We Want Collapse

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  • Walmart or Amazon now a nuclear power is a terrible thought.

    Given that the US government exists to make megacorps like that as powerful as possible, they already effectively are, they're just saved the inconvenience/expense of directly maintaining their own military and nuclear stockpile.

    My bigger concern tbh is a post-balkanization Texas or Utah. Evangelicals and Mormons are a whole lot more likely to let the nukes fly to bring about the end times imo.

  • We Want Collapse

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  • Happened to the USSR and we're still around, but even Yeltsin was more rational than the christofascists running the US so who knows?

  • Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting

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  • The threat of violence that will be carried out in retaliation by the other agents of the state, and the fact that cops (ICE included) are legally allowed to do whatever they want.

  • Head of Amnesty International Agrees Trump-Led US Is ‘Destroying World Order’

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  • I'll believe it when countries start leaving NATO and sanctioning the US. Until then, this is all just meaningless talk from liberals who want 60-70% of the policy goals of Trump but view him as distasteful for being too mask off.

  • Bar owner offering free beers to people who help ICE says he’s getting death threats

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  • Hate America Rally

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  • Nationalism is a dead end, why would anyone be proud of this shithole.

  • ‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?

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  • Something that the article misses imo is that people who are desperate for a place to live would rather engage in non-consensual sex work to get/keep a place than report the landlord to the cops because then they get evicted and have to find another place to live. This could be largely solved by liquidating the landlord class, enacting rent caps, increasing social housing (perhaps confiscate some properties of the royals and convert them), etc, but those are of course all evil communist measures that would infringe on the rights of the landlord to do whatever they want.

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    We Were Forced to Switched to Windows 11 At Work

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    The Games Behind Your Government's Next War

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    People's History of Slavjank - Warlockracy

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    Chainsaw Man Ch 172 Discussion

    www.viz.com /shonenjump/chainsaw-man-chapter-172/chapter/43645
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    Shadows of the Erdtree First Impressions Post

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    Would you still love me if I was a 3,000 year old giant worm with a human face?

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    Death to Real Estate "Developers"

  • Sigmarxism @lemmygrad.ml
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    Actually Played a Game of 40k (Not Clickbait!)

  • Tabletop @hexbear.net
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    Played a game of Twilight Imperium 4e with some friends today!

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    Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People

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    Space Tank

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    Enshittification seems to be happening at record pace