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MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Ilhan Omar defeats challenger in Minnesota House primary

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100 , in US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel amid threat of wider Middle East war

can I get an ELI5 why would israel need billions worth of aid to stomp on palestinian civilians and ragtag hamas militia?

WanderingVentra ,

Because our military industrial complex C-suite needs new yachts.

Ensign_Crab , in US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google

I’ll believe it if I ever live to see it.

alvvayson , in US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel amid threat of wider Middle East war

I really want to hear more about Cori Bush’s plan to take down AIPAC.

It’s time to do it.

WanderingVentra ,

Didn’t she just lose her primary because of them? Did she say she is going to dedicate herself to taking them down now, like some sort of Korean revenge flick? Because I am all for this new arc of hers of that’s the case.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t

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caboose2006 , in Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek]

I’m sure they’d LOVE to have him after all the things he’s said about their country

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting

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rusticus , in Americans don't like Project 2025

From the v1 Project 2025 website:

  • End no fault divorce
  • Complete ban on abortions without exceptions
  • Ban contraceptives
  • Ban IVF
  • Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%
  • Higher taxes for the working class
  • Elimination of unions and worker protections
  • Raise the retirement age
  • Cut Social Security
  • Cut Medicare
  • End the Affordable Care Act
  • Raise prescription drug prices
  • Eliminate the Department of Education
  • Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools
  • Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools
  • End free and discounted school lunch programs
  • End civil rights & DEI protections in government
  • Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education
  • Ban books and curriculum about slavery
  • End climate protections
  • Increase Arctic drilling
  • Deregulate big business and the oil industry
  • Promote and expedite capital punishment
  • End marriage equality
  • Condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families”
  • Defund the FBI and Homeland Security
  • Use the military to break up domestic protests
  • Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in “camps”
  • End birth right citizenship
  • Ban Muslims from entering the country
  • Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more
  • Continue to pack the Supreme Court, and lower courts with right-wing judges
  • Denying most veterans VA coverage
  • Privatizing Tricare
  • Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"
  • Banning gender-affirming care
  • Ban all porn
frunch ,

You’re telling me all that is unpopular??! The “Don’t Tread on Me” folks are falling over themselves to have this?

Sounds really non-tready, lol

teamevil ,

This list just reads as “the billionaire list of punishments for the poor that think they’re people” I say we craft the inverse list where literally everything the billionaires enjoy is legislated away, kind of like they want to legislate away our way of life we should legislate away their way of life or I guess legislative way their ability to have billions of dollars.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

lol who downvoted this

Burn_The_Right ,

A conservative. Conservatives are the minions of the billionaires. We cannot regulate/destroy billionaires without first defeating conservatives.

TachyonTele ,

All you need to do is look at the lemee conservative comm to see how absolutely rock bottom stupid conservatives are.

Burn_The_Right ,

Whenever I am feeling dumb, I peek in there and cheer myself right up!

NikkiDimes ,

The temporarily embarrassed billionaires

aesthelete ,

Ban private jets

Ban megayachts

grubbyweasel ,

Classifying transpeople as “pornographic”

??

lolcatnip ,

What’s your question? Have you never seen conservatives scapegoat a minority group before?

anytimesoon ,

I found that confusing too, but I guess it pairs well with

  • Ban all porn
lolcatnip ,

Yep. They want to make it illegal for trans people to exist and don’t seem to understand why that would be a problem.

skyspydude1 ,

I think it’s mostly the association/“logic” being literally incomprehensible to someone with even the slightest capacity for reason. Classifying an entire group of people as “pornographic” is just so insanely nonsensical, it’s difficult to look at and think of it as anything other than some insane word salad.

grubbyweasel ,

What does being classified as a pornographic person entail

lolcatnip ,

It means they will be persecuted in various creative ways. More than they are already, I mean. Could be anything from forbidding them from certain places and occupations to rounding them up and putting them in death camps. They’re intentionally vague about how far they plan to go.

Mirshe ,

The second. DeSantis already is playtesting this in FL by classifying, basically, being LGBT+ in public as “sexual” and making a law where sex offenders against children have the death penalty on the table. Since you’re in public, there’s a good chance CHILDREN could see you, so…well, you can fill in the rest.

snow_bunny ,

Doesn’t have to make sense. Just has to fit a narrative.

M137 ,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

It does make sense though, we’ve seen anti-trans, gay, abortion etc. conservatives be found out to take part in that very thing they’re publicly against so many times, and it’ll keep happening. Them wanting to classify trans as pornographic means they see it as that and they like it and hate themselves and transpeople for it.

jettrscga ,

It blows my mind that anyone can be that wrong on all topics.

It’s like the difference between choosing random answers on a multiple choice test versus knowing the right answers and actively avoiding them to get the worst result. It feels like they’re trying to punish the US for something.

jjjalljs ,

Right? Like I’ve thought about how political decisions would be harder if the Republicans weren’t reliably wrong on everything.

Like, if they were pro-gay-rights but anti-environment, that would be more of a thinker. But they’re just wrong on everything.

Phegan ,

Fascism, baby.

kn0wmad1c ,
@kn0wmad1c@programming.dev avatar

I always laugh when they say “ban contraceptives” because I guarantee that the men in congress voting for it have vasectomies. Are they going to reverse them?

catloaf ,

No, those with the means will still continue to get them, whether that’s knowing a doctor who will perform it illegally, or by traveling somewhere it’s legal. Same as abortion.

skvlp ,

Do the GOP leadership think this is improvement? Do they push this precisely because it’s terrible - for some reason. I don’t understand the madness.

diskmaster23 ,

It’s about maximum profit and control.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

You have the Christofacist nutjobs who want this, the power hungry fucks who want to control others, and the cowards lacking any ethics that don’t want to offend the Christofacist nutjobs.

skvlp ,

The christofacists wants to punish people who are not like them? That’s not in accordance with the teachings of Jesus, is it? I find mild amusement in the fact that according to the beliefs of these people, they themselves are probably going to hell…

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s true of every fascist regime using religion as an excuse. The Taliban isn’t following the teachings of Islam either, just the parts that give them control.

Revan343 ,

Do you know much about the bible? The Republicans are basically the Pharisees from Jesus’ time.

Revelation also predicted that there’d be evil shitheads who claim to be Christian but actually follow the Anti-Christ, but that was an easy prediction, there’s always evil shitheads who claim to be good, in any time and religion

skvlp ,

Not familiar enough to know details like that. Is “Pharisees as obsessed with man-made rules (especially concerning purity) whereas Jesus is more concerned with God’s love; the Pharisees scorn sinners whereas Jesus seeks them out” an ok eli5 and tl;dr summary?

Yeah, I guess man kind is good at evil and shithead, unfortunately.

Revan343 ,

A key thing with the Pharisees was that they were obsessed with the appearance of being pious, rather than actually being so. Much like many modern Christians who are obsessed with appearing faithful and just, but aren’t so concerned with actually following Jesus’ teachings

tburkhol ,

The one time Jesus went HAM, chasing religious leaders around their temple with a whip, and whose temple was it? Zeus? Bacchus? Any of those graven-image, many-gods cults? No - he went after his own Father’s priests for being money-grubbing hypocrites.

I’m guessing that story doesn’t come up often at CPAC or prayer breakfasts.

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

As most have noted, the right has no objective, they are just against whatever the left is for.

rusticus ,

100% agree

OlinOfTheHillPeople ,

They’re pretty consistent about cutting taxes for billionaires.

aquinteros ,

ban IVF? why would they ban a safe and correct use of technology to help couples conceive what the actual fuck, I don’t think there is a single nation on earth that does this, can you get IVF in the middle east? this is just mind-blowingly neardenthal

knight ,

Generally IVF involves fertilizing many eggs and then picking the best performing. Technically this is abortion.

Revan343 ,

Technically this is abortion.

Well no, technically it isn’t. But fundies think it is

LouNeko ,

As an outsider I’m fine with all of this for the US, as long as the US is completely demilitarized and gets rid of every last one if their nukes. Can’t have hyper-religious christian Nazis start nuclear crusades in the name of the only God that matters to them - The Dollar.

TachyonTele ,

It’s fun to disassociate and dream up fantasy scenarios.

LouNeko ,

I know, it’s as likely as me shiting myself a pair of angel wings.

Mwa ,
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  • AbidanYre ,

    I’m ok with telling Homeland Security to fuck off. Everything else is at best terrible and at worst blatantly unconstitutional.

    Mwa ,
    @Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

    agree

    send_me_your_ink ,

    You know what I’m always surprised is missing everytime I see this list? Repealing the 14th amendment. They are so wrong on all of it but somehow they don’t go for that one.

    teamevil ,

    They do everything but repeal it

    send_me_your_ink ,

    But that’s just it. To the megalomaniacal, psychotic, fascist person id assume the dream of having you own personal household slaves, or factory slaves that you can ln explort and abuse you heartless content would be the creme de la creme of goals.

    Professorozone , in Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek]

    Wonder what Venezuela has to say about that.

    Xaphanos , in Elon Musk draws fire for playing down impact of America’s atomic bombing of Japan: ‘Not as scary as people think’

    I only recently learned of this:

    youtu.be/olFmklCCccE?feature=shared

    RagnarokOnline ,

    This and Grave of the Fireflies are the two depictions of Japanese tragedy during WWII that I always think of

    hperrin , in US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google

    Way too rare, if you ask me.

    TheBigBrother , (edited ) in Elon Musk draws fire for playing down impact of America’s atomic bombing of Japan: ‘Not as scary as people think’

    Nuclear bombs are a problem because it’s something just a fucking insane genocide will use. Isn’t about it will do a lot of damage it’s cos it kills everyone in a big radius WO distinguish if they civilians or army.

    morphballganon , in MAGA Official Found Guilty of Tampering with 2020 Voting Machines

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    bradorsomething , in Cancer-Causing Benzene Is Used to Make Store-Brand Cold Relief Medicine

    Major factor in drownings used to make lemonade.

    queermunist , in For these voters, Tim Walz is a reminder of their dad - before they were lost to partisan division
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    The deep longing so many people have for their lost fathers is really heart breaking.

    Like, fuck. He’s not your dad! Please stop trying to fill the hole in your heart with politicians and celebrities. Please go talk to a therapist about how your father abandoned you, or you lost him to right wing conspiracies, or how you miss him now that he’s dead. Don’t replace him with a guy you saw on TV! This isn’t good for you and you’re just going to get hurt.

    littlewonder ,

    I mean, saying someone feels like the dad you could’ve had doesn’t mean there’s anything pathologic going on. They’re just being wistful and pointing out that Walz is giving cool dad vibes.

    I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic by suggesting these women have literally formed a parasocial father-daughter relationship with him in 3 weeks.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    Calling it pathological might be going too far, but it’s heart breaking when someone talks at length about losing their father in the context of saying Walz reminds them of their dad. Whenever people elaborate it becomes clear there’s something wrong.

    There’s a broken and sick society that’s producing all these people who are longing for their lost fathers and it’s just. Heartbreaking.

    sep ,

    It is grief. Perfectly natural in those circumstances. Very similar to people loosing their parents to dementia or ALS.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    What’s unnatural is connecting their grieving process to a guy they see on TV and then wrapping this into their political choices.

    You’ll notice this isn’t only happening among people voting for Harris. Among Trump voters, you know what they do? They slot Trump into that father figure role! People shouldn’t be making politicians into parental figures. Something is wrong.

    Juvyn00b ,

    I mean, can you really call it unnatural overall if people have a desire to connect to and with others - even if it’s not fully logical. Emotions can be far from logical.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    In a natural process, someone might connect with an older man in the community as a father figure in their own life. A mentor or a local leader, perhaps.

    Emotionally connecting to the TV is disrupting a natural and healthy process by inserting a father figure that they can never really connect with.

    Juvyn00b ,

    Again you’re putting logic in an equation where it may not exist. I’m also not disagreeing with you, but people tend to make connections where they don’t/shouldn’t exist.

    wowyoureallysaidthat , (edited )

    I don’t think there is anything wrong about coming to your own conclusions from public figures about the ways in which your personal relationships have been impacted by said public figures. Yes we don’t know these people directly but they impact and shape our lives, sometimes without us even knowing it.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    Public figures aren’t actually people we can connect with, though. It’s a para-social relationship.

    wowyoureallysaidthat ,

    I think “connection” can be very subjective depending on who you’re talking to, and I think this conversation needs a lot more nuance than perhaps is being given to it. I think by not lending credence to how we form connections and bonds with these political figures through emotion, we are trying to act like that it doesn’t exist (or shouldn’t), which isn’t true. The article here seems more to be pointing out that liberal women have lost their fathers to far-right ideology, not so much that they are now attaching that lost relationship to Walz. It seems more as though Walz helped these women come to terms with this fact, or enlightened them to it.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    Except every single one of these women is going to vote for the Harris/Walz ticket, so they’re not just learning from Walz but materially supporting his political career.

    At least they’re not giving him money, but it’s not far off.

    wowyoureallysaidthat ,

    You are describing how the American political process works. So would you rather them not vote or support the candidate that aligns with their policies or values? I’m very unclear on what you’re positioning here.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    I’d prefer we didn’t have a sick society that produces people who replace lost fathers with people on TV.

    dogslayeggs ,

    They aren’t trying to fill the hole with someone else, they are just saying one person reminds them of how someone else used to be. They see how this one famous person acts and remember when their dad used to act that way. They aren’t turning the famous guy into a father figure, but they are mourning the loss of their actual father figure. You are way over-analyzing what is being said here.

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    And then they’re choosing to materially support their new father figure, because he reminds them of their lost father.

    I’ve said it elsewhere, but at least they aren’t giving him money.

    dogslayeggs ,

    Wait, so you think it is bad to see someone who acts like their ideal person and then choose to vote for them?

    queermunist ,
    @queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

    I think it’s bad to see someone who you have never and will never meet as a father figure, and then to materially support them out of a misplaced para-social relationship.

    dogslayeggs ,

    You are either a troll or have serious reading comprehension issues. At no point did anyone, either us posters here or the woman in the story, say she saw him as a father figure. You are literally the only person saying father figure here. There’s a guy in my neighborhood who reminds me of my dad. I don’t see him as a father figure.

    I have to conclude you are posting with an agenda and are trying to shift the focus away from a positive story. There’s no way you can be as stupid as you sound. I’ll be blocking you for clearly not trying to have an honest conversation.

    Zink ,

    I see my father all the time but I still love what Walz is out there doing, because he’s the kind of dad that I try to be.

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