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They just arrested a bunch of students at Yale for protesting against the genocide, so a point for PL on guessing mass incarceration for protesting college students. I wonder if we'll get another Kent State or if it'll "just" be mass arrests of peaceful protestors who oppose our genocidal ...

They'd better watch out, Biden might drop an F bomb next time he calls. While also delivering several thousand real bombs so they can continue their genocide unabated.

I've just started playing Starcraft Remastered (I considered Starcraft II, but Starcraft Remastered is prettier and the gameplay looks better to me) and that has been a blast. I highly recommend it, even though virtually every game I play is me going against somebody with a barcode name who proceeds...

Wait a minute, does DDM think the Hamas attack was on Oct 4th? I assumed he was referencing something else and just not providing a year instead of making a very silly mistake that becomes 1000x funnier because of his behavior in this thread. And when he wrote we should all move to the Philippines w...

We aren't talking about immigration when we're talking about Israel and Palestine, we're talking about settlers who were colonizing land and oppressing (and murdering) the people who inhabited that land! I think that's a very one-sided description of events and is inconsistent with established hist...

I meant as a starting point, but sure, that's a good summation of my previous statement of 'it's complicated'. I think it's a little surprising that people on this very thread are upset about illegal immigration into the Levant from 1916 on, but argue that all immigration into the United States sho...

Is this dead projecting his own lack of knowledge on everyone else, or is it one of those things where he pretends something people understand pretty well is actually very complex and nuanced (when basically every step of the creation of Israel involved white people either not engaging with Palestin...

It seems Trump responded with an actual decent move that panders to his base (and to most liberals too), going to some dead pig's funeral for a photo op.

The AI "revolution" is so goddamn fucking stupid and the perfect technocrat piece of idiocy available. I just got back from a big conference where folks were pushing AI and that shit is riddled with errors. I saw a fucking live presentation where their big special AI product did a horrible...

Banning TikTok would be fucking stupid, but it has some support among various lawmakers in the US because it lets them scream about COMMUNIST CHINA and PROTECTING THE CHILDREN while not doing anything useful. Biden has said he would ban TikTok if a bill doing so goes through Congress, Trump had atte...

Biden said he'll build a pier for the US to send humanitarian aid to Gaza and did not call for a ceasefire during his State of the Union address. Also he called someone an illegal. On the pier thing, it'll take at least a month to build (I saw a projection of 30-60 days) and seems like an incredibly...

I saw the national guard thing, why the fuck did they deploy the national guard to get handsy with folks on the subway? Did something happen in New York subways that I completely missed? We had that psycho who murdered a man on the subway for being poor, but from what I saw the government loved that.

Loved me some Toriyama art, those Chrono Trigger character designs are fucking incredible. The man left a huge mark on culture across the globe, and he was happily working on more projects when he kicked the bucket. It sucks he died, but he lived a long life and did what he loved the whole time. A l...

The IDF gunned down people who were trying to receive food, killed over 100 people and wounded more than 700. IDF claims the deaths were caused by a stampede, but witnesses and doctors are all saying the deaths were caused by bullets. Obviously the IDF is lying and have no evidence for their claims,...

To clear things up, I never said "without x, y isn't safe" is always a threat. I said that "without x, you aren't safe" is a threat. To clarify further, the truth value of a statement does not alter whether or not it's threatening. If you tell somebody "without looking both ...

"If not for X you wouldn't be safe" is a threat. The person saying that is making it clear that without X you are going to be attacked. They aren't personally committing themselves to attacking you, but they are saying somebody will. Somebody could include the person making the threat. Eit...

I just can't figure out why he said I made a math mistake when I explicitly rejected the racist idea that immigrants are somehow different from people who were born here. Maybe he'll elaborate, but it sounds like he thinks immigrants should be treated differently from native-born citizens. If you r...

I just can't figure out why he said I made a math mistake when I explicitly rejected the racist idea that immigrants are somehow different from people who were born here. Maybe he'll elaborate, but it sounds like he thinks immigrants should be treated differently from native-born citizens.

Is DDM's argument that because people are xenophobic we need to respect their xenophobia? That is a shitty argument, xenophobia is bad so we should reject it. Is his argument that Americans want a thing and Democrats need to adopt whatever a majority of Americans want? That is also shitty, not only ...

I guess they're going for "We're actually MORE evil than the Republicans when it comes to immigration," but the Republicans do shit like literally deploy the army (Trump) or national guard (Abbott) to do psycho things like set up razor wire in parks. I don't buy that the Democrats are hars...

What a fucking joke. The Democrats seem to be pursuing every single shitty Neocon policy goal now. The only significant difference between them and the Republicans seems to be social policy towards minority groups. Not that whether or not you're allowed to teach about minorities isn't important, but...

There was a very relevant article that was just published today that I'll summarize. The economy is not doing well and people actually have fairly shakey confidence in it if you don't cherry-pick polls and dates. People are finding it very difficult to afford healthcare, student loan repayments star...

Why would you put Oct 7th attack stuff in a Holocaust museum? Aren't those totally different and unrelated events?

What if we also talked about housing and rent prices? That shit has gone absolutely bananas in the US and, while rent increases are cooling a bit now, rent is up significantly and home prices are just totally out of reach for anyone who isn't wealthy or in the middle of nowhere. People in the US are...

The only good news about the current Israel/Border/Ukraine bill is that it won't go anywhere. If the Republican opposition crumbles and they give themselves what they want (crueler border, more genocide, more money to defense contractors) they are more likely to lose the election, and if the Republi...