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  • Ultra Marines and Valhallan allies

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  • The old school IG heavy weapons were so sick without the bases.

  • [Video] Polizei pigs playing in the mud

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  • Internet is too slow for video for me right now. Is this the one with the guy in the wizard robe?

  • Garage workshop conversion almost done

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  • Any kind of ventillation or airflow?

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    Precatory

    en.wiktionary.org /wiki/precatory

  • Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

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  • I’ve said this elsewhere but I know somebody who used to work for a startup that would automatically reject any job applicant with Palantir in their resume. Wish it was standard practice.

  • Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.

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  • I love how in only one of the thumbnails Alaska is part of the US.

  • [Discussion] Why are cops such bastards?

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  • I think there’s a few forces at work here on more personal levels.

    1. A lot cops are veterans which means their background is focused on the use of force to rapidly end situations, which also means a lot of encounters are escalated quickly rather than de-escalated or prolonged via non-resolving techniques (i.e., conversation rather than just cuffing the person). Especially in countries that participated in the so-called GWOT they’re background is counter-insurgency so they’re trained to approach every environment being one that could immediately turn into a firefight and approach all situations like that.
    2. A lot of cops are armed. Something about how if you have a hammer everything’s a nail…
    3. They’re often true believers. Capital does deserve to be protected. Property deserves to be protected. Men with long hair are lazy hippies, and minorities (whoever that is in the context) are dehumanized outsiders. Cops are often personally reactionary: politically conservative, actively religious people who simply believe in the existing order.
    4. Some just don’t give a shit and want the perks. Cops get their metaphorical dick sucked on a daily basis by basically everybody in politics and public life. They get sweet perks. They’re literally immune in same jurisdictions. That’s got to feel good.
    5. Some of them are just bastards, but in a different way from points 3 or 4. Think of the Pinkertons shooting strikers: some were covered as true believers or like the other perks, but some just specifically like killing. How many Kyle Rittenhouses’s have become cops just to seek violence?

    But fundamentally, they’re bastards even because if they aren’t true believers, it’s their job to blindly enforce laws. They’re literally paid to dissociate from any personal moral compass they may claim to have and just be an impersonal jackboot for the state. The job description of a cop is to follow orders, no questions asked. That’ll make anybody act the bastard.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

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  • Don’t even need them to be fully illegal to have black market demand. Eric Garner was selling loose (untaxed) cigarettes when the state executed him on the street in 2014. There’ll be demand for any black market no matter how apparently trivial the prohibition or unappealing the product, especially if the product is addictive.

  • MAGA lawmaker proposes MAMDANI law to deport any citizen who ‘advocates for socialism and communism’

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  • This is literally the opening line of that one fucking poem, “First they came for the Communist”

  • I very slightly, meaninglessly outdid the Oxford English Dictionary today

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  • Very cool snd not particularly dull. Thanks for sharing.

  • Enshittiflation

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  • Absolutely. I’m admittedly a bit of a clothes horse and it really used to be that, within reason, there were brand names that used to be a reasonable proxy for quality. But now I’m looking at shirts from the same place I bought them from years ago and the fabric is thin to the point where it’s actually sheer.

  • If Democrats appoint Lina Khan to the FTC will she then break up major corporations?

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  • Probably will try to. Will also probably be stopped by the courts. We need to purge the judiciary (and I’ll vote for anybody in the presidential primary who promises to do that).

  • Enshittiflation

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  • I’ve started throwing out socks I bought 4-5 months ago for developing holes. Same brand I’ve been buying for 15+ years and used to be able to go 18-24 months before needing replacements.

    Contemporary fascism can’t even make the proverbial trains run on time.

  • Agricultural economics are wild

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  • Well, he was Mormon and you have to remember that according to that cult god didn’t give souls to Black people until 1978.

  • SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists

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  • Road wear is ~n^4 where n is vehicle weight. Of course it’s because of SUVs.

  • Finally, Waluigi! (Rule)

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  • “When did property ever listen to reason except when cowed by violence.” C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins

  • Corporatism - ‘political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups … come together and negotiate contracts or policy’

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  • I mostly see it as an attempt to co-opt labor/reform movements by institutionalizing them and, while ostensibly legitimizing them, ultimately setting boundaries that view real material changes as too radical and ends up just supporting the interests of capital in an effort to manufacture the appearance of some kind of social harmony.

    The only case I’ve specifically read deeply into is Austria where there’s a rich debate about whether they were “fascist” and what that means and what they were. It was several years ago and I can’t recall any names but in my initial post “austro-fascism” is a research term that’s going to get you right into the debate. Wikipedia is a reasonable place to start—iirc they were called the Fatherland Front?

    Beyond that, my encounters have been more through histories that cover these periods and regimes but aren’t necessarily focus on the specific question of corporatism. Priest, Politician, Collaborator looks at Tiso, the puppet in Slovakia. Hugh Thomas’ The Spanish Civil War isn’t “about” corporatism but does discuss the ideological underpinnings of Franco and I just had a similar experience with Lisbon by Neill Lochery looking at Salazar’s corporatist beliefs weighed against the fear of invasion as a small state by its larger, nominal ideological neighbor in Spain.

    The early phase of Italian fascism is worth looking into, too. The fascist manifesto was written by some modern artists and Italy remain in some ways weirdly constitutional as is synthesized Mussolini’s politics into and on top of existing political structures.

  • Corporatism - ‘political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups … come together and negotiate contracts or policy’

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  • It has its origins, per the image leading the preview, in medieval guild systems. While this is a broad statement involving putting modern labels om historical insititions, there were explicit historical sources of inspiration for those who articulated modern corporatism, including in two Papal encyclicals, as a way to address labor relations and head off communism/left-wing solutions and create economic accord within a traditionalist/paternalist/Catholic framework.

    Corporatism became an explicit ideological component of many fascist (or at least reactionary authoritarian) movements largely attributable to copying Mussolini: it heavily influenced the pre-Anschluss Austria government (“Austro-fascism”), Falangism in Spain, the Estado Novo in Portugal—and other countries where it was less centrally articulated but still an influencing concept under “Clerical-fascism” such as Nazi-controlled Slovakia which was led by a priest who was thrilled to lick Hitler’s boots.

    Worth the read and worth looking into more beyond Wikipedia! It’s important to understand the ideological underpinning’s of ones enemies—especially when they’re (marginally) more intellectually articulated than “minorities bad.”

  • The speed of light

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  • One Planck Length per Planck Second.

  • Finally got rid of it

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  • Zuck Fark Muckerberg.

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    Monopsony

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  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    solved

    What is this movie: teen heroin dealer

  • Antiwork @lemmy.world
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    Duolingo gets it

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    Polysyndeton

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    Obsidional

    en.wiktionary.org /wiki/obsidional
  • Poetry @lemmy.world
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    bill bissett, “i dreemd i livd with keanu reeves”

  • What is this thing? @lemmy.world
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    Weird box with icicle attached to power lines?

  • Massachusetts @lemmy.world
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    Where is the cheapest marriage license in Mass?