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nulluser , in Georgia lawmaker charged with driving under influence after hitting bicycle in bike lane

Seabaugh, a Republican, was elected to the Georgia House in a special election in the summer of 2021, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. His district includes parts of western Cobb County and portions of Marietta and Kennesaw.

Seabaugh faces Democrat challenger Karl Gallegos in the Nov. 5 general election.

xiao , in Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular
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That true, actually where I grew up there were few orange people, but lately I noticed some people elected one !

Btw I am an antiracist so I will not descriminate but please dear U.S.A. citizens do not vote for this orange guy.

Linkerbaan OP , (edited ) in Sweden Drops Case Against Dutch Eurovision Contestant
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Now you might be thinking “how is israel to blame for this one”? Let me explain

The head sponsor of Eurovision is

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a9c6a8f8-02d8-4118-afcc-0782f8dcc37c.png

Moroccan right? Wrong. “Moroccanoil is an Israeli cosmetics company headquartered in New York City

So what does Joost Klein have to do with israel being the main sponsor of Eurovision?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ec0b76ef-0ba6-467e-983f-9c5e1d620af4.png

During the Eurovision songfestival Joost Klein was seated next to israel for interviews, where he wrapped himself in the Dutch flag. A journalist asked Eden Golan if she felt she was endangering other contestants by being there. Her sidekick said she did not have to answer that question to which Joost suddenly said “Why not”.

Afterwards Joost was harrassed by israeli journalists

unexposedhazard ,

I mean anyone with two braincells intuitively knew that this was about israel. Doesnt take a genius to figure that one out…

AmidFuror , (edited )

Is it better because this is all OP ever posts about?

Edit: word fixed

Linkerbaan OP ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s better that you show up in all my posts about israel to pretend it’s the only thing I post about.

AmidFuror ,

Sorry, I meant "because" but mistyped, and it was autocorrected to "better."

Linkerbaan OP ,
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It’s because you show up in all my posts about israel to pretend it’s the only thing I post about.

AmidFuror ,
  1. I don't comment in the majority of your posts on Israel / Gaza.
  2. I only come across Israel / Gaza posts from you. It's possible you post about other things in magazines (communities) I don't subscribe to. I just looked at a couple of your meme posts. They were also about Israel.
PugJesus , in Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular

John Brown didn’t get to kill enough slavers, that’s why we’re all here. We gave the racists a little rope, and now they’re trying to hang us with it. Been that way ever since Reconstruction ended.

Opposition to racism must be enduring. It must be absolute. It can brook no compromise, because compromise is tacit agreement to the validity (however small or marginal) of the opposition’s point, and racism is based on an absurdity. And when a society starts validating absurdities… well, look at Trump.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

and the fact the confederacy was allowed to “live in on” in memory as heritage, and allowed statues honouring traitors to the United States

If you allow confederate statues to honour enemies of the country, why are there no statues honouring the british red coats from the war of independence? Where are the statues honouring soviet spies executed for espionage?

PugJesus ,

Constructed largely after the cowards were all dead, in the civil rights era. And yet some people still insist that it’s ‘history’ to leave them standing instead of a blatant attempt to cement the United States as a ‘White Man’s’ polity.

Fuck them.

If you allow confederate statues to honour enemies of the country, why are there no statues honouring the british red coats from the war of independence? Where are the statues honouring soviet spies executed for espionage?

Let’s make some 9/11 memorials to commemorate those brave hijackers too.

It’s fucking absurd, and while I know HOW it got started, I don’t know how it got started. You know what I mean? Like, I understand the conditions that led to the rise of Lost Causer nonsense, but I just can’t wrap my fucking head around the idea that everyone just fucking normalized it. Like, even if you are a racist (as most 19th century Americans were to at least some degree), what the fuck kind of lunatic country commemorates the ‘heroism’ of literal traitors and secessionists who killed hundreds of thousands of our countrymen?

Sherman didn’t burn enough.

thesohoriots ,

Sherman should’ve done a victory lap juuuuust to make sure

PugJesus ,

40 acres and a mule would’ve gone a long way. Shame Andrew Johnson was a piece of shit.

Stern ,
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Fun fact: There is a statue in honor of famous traitor Benedict Arnold… kinda.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Monument

girlfreddy OP ,
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I mean there should at least be a statue commemorating when we future Canadians had most of DC burning, including the White House and Capitol.

:p

TSG_Asmodeus ,
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TransplantedSconie , in Biden dropped out because “the most important thing” is “we must defeat Trump”: CBS News

Thanks for your service, Diamond Joe. You did the world a service in beating Trump in 2020. Harris/Walz will finish him off, and we can get back to righting the ship the Republicans keep drilling holes in.

LovableBastard , in Horses are smart enough to plan and strategise, new study shows

previous theories that equine brains respond only to immediate stimuli and are not complex enough to strategise

Who held those theories? And have they ever been around horses?

Just this weekend my spouse and I had to move our mare and almost 4 month old colt. She’s quite used to riding in a small horse trailer, but the little guy was terrified of getting into it. When his mom realized it, she started getting on and off the trailer several times to show him it was fine. Then she went behind him and kept nudging him towards the trailer. Seemed pretty obvious to me that she knew what was going on and was trying her best to help the little guy understand it was all ok.

I’ve certainly met some horses that could have made me question the species’ intelligence if they were the only ones I knew. But there are plenty of intelligent horses out there. I’m really surprised that the prevailing theory was that they only respond to immediate stimuli.

Apytele ,

Honestly I would’ve guessed that on size alone. Its generally a characteristic of anything bigger than a fruit fly, and especially mammals and birds.

shalafi ,

Mammals and birds, yeah, but reptiles and fish are dehydrated rock-hard stupid. They just don’t have the brain structures.

AlecSadler ,

I sent this article to my wife who trains / rides horses daily and she was just like, “Duh.”

She says anyone who has spent any time with horses knows this.

I guess a formal study proving something has some clout though?

some_guy ,

The arrogance of our species is quite astonishing. Look at the morons who get offended at the idea that we’re evolved apes.

Obviously, nothing could have any amount of actual thought if it wasn’t human! /s

GreyEyedGhost ,

We had a stallion that could jump the 6-foot fences of his corral. My dad would yell at him and he would jump back in. He was a bit of a jerk (stallion), but he definitely wasn’t stupid.

We had a Shetland mare, and she wasn’t stupid, either. Pure evil, as is the Shetland way, but not stupid.

Our Welsh was neither stupid nor evil.

Our thoroughbred might have been stupid, or could have come from an environment as unstimulating as a rat cage with nothing but food and a single wheel.

count_dongulus ,

Yeah some horses are super smart. I had one that learned to open doorknobs with his mouth after seeing it used up close for a long time. Very annoying, had to start locking that barn door.

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girlfreddy OP , in Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular
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They fear becoming a minority.

They/we were often the minority but still held all the power.

We’re simply terrified that in becoming the minority now, Black and Brown people would start treating us like we’ve treated them for hundreds of years.

FlyingSquid ,
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We’re simply terrified that in becoming the minority now, Black and Brown people would start treating us like we’ve treated them for hundreds of years.

That is definitely a huge part of it. And it’s total projection like so much else they believe. “They’ll get revenge because we would get revenge.”

billiam0202 ,

And at what point does that become a self-fulfilling prophecy? The longer minorities in this country are treated as second-class citizens, the more likely it becomes for them to treat whites the exact same way when they’re the minority.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

If there wasn’t a purge when most of the black population of the country was released from slavery, I don’t think a purge is coming.

Tower ,
TheDemonBuer , in Biden dropped out because “the most important thing” is “we must defeat Trump”: CBS News
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All politicians must learn this lesson. You are a public servant. It’s not about your ego or your legacy, it’s about what is best for the country and its people.

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boatsnhos615 , in For these voters, Tim Walz is a reminder of their dad - before they were lost to partisan division

Daddy issues, gets em everytime

Breezy ,

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Breezy ,

Oh shit Daddy Timmy is so much better!

Fullyloadedsnowflake ,

Timmy me timbers

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Voroxpete , in Biden dropped out because “the most important thing” is “we must defeat Trump”: CBS News

Win or lose, Biden will have my respect for this. No matter where you live, it’s a rare thing to see a leader truly placing their nation’s good before their own pride. I hope others will learn by his example.

Corkyskog ,

I agree… I was shocked when it was announced. But then again, the DNC establishment basically dragged him out of retirement to beat Bernie.

Voroxpete ,

It’s deeply ironic to me that a) they almost certainly wouldn’t have been in this situation if Bernie had been the nominee last time, and b) as a direct result of that choice their nominee now is formerly the senator with the closest voting record to Bernie’s, running with the VP pick that Bernie suggested.

They tried to cut him off at the knees, but in the end, Sanders kind of ended up calling the shots.

Grandwolf319 ,

Your commit fills me with hope, not just because I’m a Bernie fan, but because it shows that sometimes the better voice does win eventually.

xmunk , in US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling

We have an irresponsible and illegitimate Supreme Court and this is what we get.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

there are also humans at the top of the 'air force' that made this decision not to clean up. its two sets of irresponsible...no... negligent humans at play.

NJSpradlin ,

Playing by the rules and showing those that made them their flaws, is also a legitimate strategy to force corrections.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

exactly, lets purposefully poison lots of people so we can force those regulations written in blood!

IsThisAnAI ,

And playing with lives over to respond or not with unclear rules over the next 50 years is better? Folks will get sick either way. I’d prefer to force a decision sooner rather than later.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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Well… Just poison the right watering holes that the people who have the power to act care about, and suddenly they’ll care about the EPA and water quality regulations.

gAlienLifeform ,
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You think the drinking water of Supreme Court justices is going to be contaminated as a result of this? They’re not being punished for making a mistake, a bunch of innocent powerless plebs will be.

catloaf ,

I’m sure Clarence Thomas’s RVs have a water filter.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

So you’re saying contaminate their water. I like the idea.

catloaf ,

That would be the Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall.

Also, he is appointed by, and reports directly to, the president. Biden could easily call this guy up and tell him to unfuck himself.

andrewta ,

That’s exactly what I was thinking

frezik ,

“Do you know the chain of command? It’s the chain I use to beat you if you don’t cleanup the gorram PFAS.”

Biggles ,

Biden is commander in chief. He can just order them to clean it up.

thefartographer ,

I can’t tell if this is a genuine attempt to dodge cleanup or an attempt to test a Supreme Court ruling before companies can get out of hand during the next administration.

But maybe I’m reading too much into the context.

index ,

They also made the decision to pollute in the first place. Let’s not divert the attention off the cause of the pollution.

Maggoty ,

To be fair, much of this pollution was done decades ago. The people responsible for the bulk of it are retired by now.

SGGeorwell ,

We have a *criminal, irresponsible, and illegitimate Supreme Court.

CaptainSpaceman ,

Gorsuch was an eternity ago, but thats where it started

Yawweee877h444 ,

We have a nation of people who voted for the people who selected the extreme far right conservatives into the court.

Voters deserve much of the blame too.

Blackbeard ,
@Blackbeard@lemmy.world avatar

…and who vote for a Congress that refuses to pass laws to address these problems.

grue ,

What are you talking about? Congress did pass a law to address this: it’s called the Clean Water Act. The issue is that an illegitimate SCOTUS packed by traitors basically invalidated it.

Blackbeard ,
@Blackbeard@lemmy.world avatar

The article spells out what I’m talking about pretty clearly. I work with the CWA literally on a daily basis. Congress hasn’t made the CWA more clear or specific since the Water Quality Act of 1987. Congress could literally fix this dispute between federal agencies tomorrow, but we elected Republicans to control the House, which means it has a snowball’s chance in hell of ever happening.

grue ,

The CWA as of 1987 is plenty clear under any reasonable standard. The relevant problem here is that SCOTUS has ordained an unreasonable standard. Yes, Democratic control of both houses of Congress could “fix” that issue, but the point is it shouldn’t need to because the EPA should be allowed to do its job (which, contrary to the illegitimate tyrannical stooges’ diseased opinions, does include interpreting the law!).

Blackbeard ,
@Blackbeard@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, Democratic control of both houses of Congress could “fix” that issue

Glad we agree.

originalucifer ,
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id argue non-voters are equally to blame, and a larger block

xmunk ,

Erm, all Americans who could vote share the blame but Mitch McConnel gets a big heaping serving of it.

capital ,

The consequences of people staying home and/or general apathy in regards to voting.

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Aceticon , (edited ) in Young Jewish man stabbed in NYC by attacker yelling ‘Free Palestine’

For fucks sake!

Israel is not at all the same as the Jewish Religion no matter what the ethno-Fascists Zionists and the child-mass-murder-loving politicians in the Anglo-Saxon World and Germany say.

Bloody useful idiots.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

More Jews live outside of Israel than live Inside. And while Jews do have the right to claim Israeli citizenship if they can prove their heritage, it’s become very uncommon as even the children of Holocaust survivors are dying out. Their kids don’t feel unsafe in other countries like the previous generations were given reason to.

Aceticon ,

Shit man, there are even Jews who are against the very existence of Israel for religious reasons.

I mean, only a fucking ignorant racist idiot would believe the bollocks about Israel and the Jewish Religion being the same thing and I apply that to both the the morons passing laws that make demonstrating against the Israeli Genocide be treated as anti-semitism and to the morons attacking Jews because of the actions of Israel.

Mind you, in many places Neoliberalism so normalized “benevolent” racism (the kind that says “people from this ethnic group are good” or that “this nation represents this ethnicity”) that it made it easy for many to flip from that into “malevolent” racism (i.e. “people of this ethnicity are bad”) when the “representatives” of the ethnicity do evil shit.

This is not to justify the racism morons: I’m just pointing out that when you constantly plow and fertilize the moral ideas field with Prejudice (“people should be judged by their ethnicity”), don’t be surprised when it’s just as fertile to grow “people of this ethnicity are good and deserve special treatment” ideas as “people of this ethnicity are evil and deserve ‘special’ treatment” ones.

(Sorry for the blow up: I really detest the slimy manipulative racism of Neoliberalist Modern Politics that adjusted the tribalism, prejudice and racism of the old days into a “fashionable” format to keep using it to manipulate the masses, rather than genuinelly be “liberal” - i.e. all people are the same and should be judged by their own beliefs and actions - in the moral sense)

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t disagree with you at all that Israel has definitely fanned the flames of antisemitism, but having been on the receiving end from people who even like Israel (many evangelicals Christians want people like me forcibly exiled to Israel so Jesus can come back), it’s not just Israel.

People hate Jews for all sorts of reasons. A lot of evangelicals hate me because my ancestors apparently killed Jesus, even though it was the Romans, and that’s my fault. People like Elon Musk and his ilk hate me because I apparently control the banks and Hollywood. People like Nick Fuentes hate me because Hitler hated people like me and he loves Hitler. I’m sure some people hate me just because I’m slightly different from them.

And I don’t mean to restrict this to just Jews. What I saw happen to my Muslim brothers and sisters after 9/11 was disgusting, and even these days you have people essentially claiming all Muslims are terrorists. And both Jews and Muslims in America are essentially considered foreigners in our own country. I’m from Indiana, but that doesn’t matter even though I guarantee you that I have more in common with a Palestinian American born in Montana than either of us have with a Jew in Israel or a Muslim in Palestine.

There is so much hate in this world.

Barbarian ,
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

A lot of evangelicals hate me because my ancestors apparently killed Jesus

That was the official catholic church doctrine until 1965 as well.

I’ve found it funny that historically Christians hate Jews so much. They worship one, after all.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That, and- didn’t Jesus have to die for everyone’s sins?

Shouldn’t they be thanking me for my service?

Aceticon ,

It’s not surprising and kinda dovetails with the point I was making: prejudice kept being cultivated throught the XX and XXI century in a different form, making the field just as fertile for traditional racism as it was making it for the (supposedly) “benevolent” racism fashionable in this era.

Whenever somebody says “ethnicity are victims” and “we should do this special thing for them we do not do for other people”, what’s being passed right besides the supposedly benevolent message is another, far less nice, message: “people of ethnicity are different from other people and should be treated differently from people of other ethnicities”.

It didn’t help that (not just in terms of ethnicity) many with the “right” “ism” went far beyond the (rightful and totally just) fight for Equality Of Treatment and took advantage of the “benevolent” prejudice for Personal Gain whilst hiding behind the group, which indirectly caused discomfort in others who saw it as unfair.

So both the supposedly anti-Racists and the Racists kept the Architecture Of Prejudice going not just in speech but even in action, and it seems to me that Jews are suffering the most from it now because the traditional anti-semites kept being assholes, and now, because of the actions of Israel, many of the people who previously believed the “positive” kind of message about Jews I listed above (which can only be believed by believing the Principles of Prejudice underlying it) flipped from a “positive” predesposition towards the ethnicity to a “negative” predesposition, whilst continuing to believe the foundation of Prejudice - i.e. they turned from being what we were told by poiticians was anti-Racism into traditional Racists.

Not only is there, as you say, so much hate in this World, but the sleazy slimy disgusting manipulation in this domain of the masses for personal gain by politicians and just greedy people hiding behind “the group” that pushed “positive” discrimination, made it immenselly easy to turn favourable opinions of group held by simpletions into unfavourable opinions of group, turning them into people unfairly hating an entire group of people for the hateful actions of a few people in that group, i.e. into traditional racists.

The real opposite of Racism is the thinking that people should only be judged on their actual actions and character and that thinking that a person’s ethnicity (gender, sexual orientation or so on) makes them be in a special group and dictates their character is as moronic as thinking that the color of their eyes or the size of their feet makes them be in a special group and dictates their character.

(This is actually the kind of thinking I’ve had since long before all that’s happenning now and going back to learning from the Dutch their posture when it comes to things like homosexuallity which is pretty much “it’s all normal so I’m not going to judge people for it” - as much as possible I try to apply that to any form of prejudice on things people were born with)

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

[They] don’t feel unsafe in other countries like the previous generations were given reason to.

While that may be true in some places, it’s not true everywhere:

In Wake Of Increasing Anti-Semitic Attacks, More Jews Flee France (2016, and it has only increased since)

2,600 people have moved to Israel since Hamas invaded. New arrivals cite incidents of being spat on, bullied, and general rise in antisemitism

FlyingSquid , (edited )
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t call 2600 people out of over 15 million especially significant.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Really? Over 2 1/2 months? In the middle of a war?

It’s been over 250k in the past decade, although I don’t have any information on how much of that has been due to antisemitism.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m just saying this is not mass migration we’re talking about in terms of the population as a whole. I think we will continue to see population parity between the entire Jewish population in Israel and New York City for quite some time. In fact, New York City’s Jewish population is slightly higher. 7.5 million vs. 7.2 million for all of Israel.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

I only meant to draw your attention to the fact that antisemitism is driving a growing portion of Jewish migration (largely to Israel). France, for example, has seen 7% of the Jews leave in the past decade alone (over 15% since 1990 - from 530k-446k).

This is not a trend seen in other groups in France - just Jews.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sure, I won’t argue that. I think we’re making two different points, to be honest.

gedaliyah OP ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t disagree with you at all. Just adding some context about how seriously antisemitism is impacting Jews in the West.

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