eldavi

@ eldavi @lemmy.ml

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2h ago

Senators introduce bipartisan bill banning Chinese vehicles and auto parts
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eldavi @lemmy.ml 2h ago
our self propagating propaganda will guarantee that we will only vote for someone who will do this same thing.

2h ago

ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job

the last luigi didn't change anything, nor did the one before him and the one before him, etc.; what make you think that another will make any difference?

11h ago

What is the most confusing misnomer you've seen?

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 11h ago

Clam expert here

how many times have you had to explain when people expressed surprise that clam experts exist? lol

11h ago

All the time LMBO

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 11h ago

i wish i could take credit, but my spell checker now has ai grammer checker and it makes really excellent recommendations sometimes like it did here.

13h ago

URGENT - For the right to boycott Israel and repeal this anti-BDS bill, please follow the steps below!

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 13h ago

oic, i read OPPONENT.

my age is catching up w me. lol

13h ago

We could be Madmaxxing right now...

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 13h ago

that's an incredible catch; you either have really sharp eyes or a great display screen.

14h ago

Ads for Neocities Sites

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 14h ago

i REALLY sometimes miss geocities and love the geocities like aesthetics shown here.

14h ago

URGENT - For the right to boycott Israel and repeal this anti-BDS bill, please follow the steps below!

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 14h ago

House Bill 2723 (HB2723) is a proposed legislation in Illinois that aims to repeal the law penalizing companies that boycott Israel, thereby removing them from a list of restricted companies under the Illinois Investment Policy Board. The bill was introduced by Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid and has faced challenges in gaining traction within the legislature.

wouldn't setting yourself as an opponent mean that you oppose removing the penalization of companies that boycott isreal?

14h ago

Europe opposes aid flotillas to help starving Palestinians

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 14h ago

and at every level.

14h ago

Trump plans long term blockade golf of Hormuz.

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 14h ago

the democrats will keep this blockade going.

15h ago

Bolivia Is Poisoning Indigenous Peoples to Death. Canada Is Signing the Cheques

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

this must be the path that the prime minister of canada said that middle power countries much chart their own course. 🙄

15h ago

Save your dick picks for the gay dudes who actually want them

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

i'm convinced that dick pics are created by men who have a strange obsession with dick size and i'm saying this as a gay man.

15h ago

when you live in the us and you take your gf out to the most expensive place in the city

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

the itemized bill for my lunches at my last hospital stay were absurd; who pays $35 for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?!

15h ago

Another victim of "antisemitism" in Nazi Germany

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

you laugh, but this flimsy pretext works on roughly 36% of americans.

15h ago

Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

this seems like a bad thing to me given anthropic's track record and manifesto.

15h ago

Stupid sexy bears

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

are you tryng to summon the hexbears? because that's how you summon hexbears. lol

15h ago

We could be Madmaxxing right now...

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

what does "e" mean in this context?

15h ago

‘A breath of fresh air’: Experts comment on RT’s Social Well-Being Index

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 15h ago

did you make this?

15h ago

for me, it came down to my liberal indoctrination that made it impossible to understand why there was so much violence and hatred being perpetrated upon the world and done by seemingly perpetually rotating casts of bad actors fueled by authoritarianism and hatred and all of it could only lead to climate change and wealth disparity.

since then, i've learned that the source of that evil is always the same dozen or so bad actors and their goal is always dominance for profit and the world became a lot easier to understand. it helped me realize that a just world not only possible, but has already been enacted in places that my liberal indoctrination had told me were dystopian, authoritarian hellholes.

16h ago

All the time LMBO

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eldavi @lemmy.ml 16h ago

the problem is that today's western systems -- particularly the american one -- claim to embody them while systematically doing the opposite and each individual liberal who enables it.

take consent of the governed and political equality for example. there's overwhelming public support for healthcare, housing, and education as rights, yet those things are commodified for the rich to varying degrees and electoral systems are captured by an epstein oligarchy that keeps driving us into wars, so "consent" becomes choosing between pre-approved options.

also take equality before the law. the us prison industrial complex -- aka mass incarceration, for-profit prisons, racial disparities -- proves that the law applies very differently depending on your wealth and skin color; no one will doubt this, yet liberal societies accept it nonetheless as a "necessary evil". there's also examples outside the united states: france presents itself as a liberal society governed by the rule of law, yet its colonial system uses that very law to enforce low living standards on africans while denying them french citizenship -- laying bare the contradiction between its universalist ideals and its unjust, unequal reality.

and that's all before we consider the fact that international, western-backed genocides and ethnic cleansing continue despite widespread public opposition. That's not consent of the governed; that's ignoring it.

decades of propaganda from the epstein oligarchy and a culture that once rooted itself in those liberal policies have normalized these contradictions. So the issue isn't with liberty or equality as personal ideals -- it's with a political system that uses those words to shield illiberal outcomes; none of which is possible without liberals who still believe that those words are true despite reality being the opposite.