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brucethemoose , in “Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025

What specifically did they find that’s juicy? The text in that forward?

Because TBH those quotes are about what I’d expect.

mathic , in Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma dies at 89

Fuck that asshole.

Zipitydew , in NRA's ex-CFO agreed to 10-year not-for-profit ban, still owes $2M for role in lavish spending scheme

A ban and a fine? Fuck that. Throw the crook in jail. We know the NRA was the front for Russia to finance GOP campaigns. Which this asshole would have been in on.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0eeae339-2173-4ce0-b558-c2885423b814.gif

mozz , in Lawyers for megachurch pastor blame 12-year-old for ‘initiating’ sexual contact
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Dude

What the FUCK

Okay

The people who are pointing out that he's obviously lying have a pretty compelling argument

The people who are pointing out that even if a 12-year-old DOES try to initiate sexual contact with you, you need to tell them no and tell their parents, are correct

But even THAT isn't the full scope of it

BOTH THIS DUDE AND HIS LAWYER ARE CONVINCED THAT THAT'S A GOOD EXPLANATION THAT WILL HELP HIS CASE

What the FUCK is going on in these megachurches that no one including the guy employed to get this guy a good outcome can just tell him to keep his mouth shut because nothing he says is going to help, let alone THAT. Like they are in a professional capacity standing up in real life reality and with apparently fully functioning adult brains modeling it out and expecting people to say OOOOOHH it was the 12 year old's fault, I get it, these things happen, carry on.

WraithGear ,
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The lawyer must know his audience

mozz ,
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🤢

WraithGear ,
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I know buddy it ain’t getting any better.

kerrigan778 , in Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

They think it’s ruining their lives now? Wait till after the election

halferect , in Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma dies at 89

Good

BonesOfTheMoon , in Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

They’re in the sunken place.

Modern_medicine_isnt , in Toddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworks

For everyone focusing on the toddler alone in a hot car part. This was a fireworks stand. So they were probably 10 to 20 feet away. We can hope they opened the windows, which would make it roughly the same temp as where they were. So let’s refocus on the gun please.

2484345508 ,

Let’s focus on how pissed they look in that photo.

On a side note, your user name. What is modern medicine not?

Modern_medicine_isnt ,

Not modern. Still the dark age of poisoning people to make them better. And lots of trial and error.

2484345508 ,

No vaccines for you, eh?

bitwaba ,

Not OP, so can’t comment on the vaccine part but the “modern medicine isn’t modern” is actually a cute analysis. When it comes the healing major woulds, even ones inflicted intentionally like during surgery, we don’t actually know how to heal the body. We know how to clean the wound. We know how to remove malignant tissue. But we don’t actually know how to heal the wound. The best we’ve got is “keep it clean and let the body do it’s thing”. To OPs “poison” point, when it comes to things like antibiotics, those are really just other stuff in nature that we found out kills stuff inside us. It also kills stuff we don’t want to kill inside us, which sounds kind of poisony. Chemotherapy and radiation treatment are similar - just dose this person with this stuff and hope the thing we’re trying to kill dies before the person does.

Surprisingly vaccines are probably the most “modern” example we have of medicine, especially the RNA stuff.

JasonDJ ,

Your acute analysis.

bitwaba ,

You too

stoly ,

This isn’t a vaccine thing. They are certainly talking about things like antidepressants that we can see do work but don’t have really any clue how or why and can’t come up with something that doesn’t have bonkers life changing side effects.

mRNA vaccines are precision engineering and are where the future of medicine is. They do one thing in a targeted way and do it well.

BonesOfTheMoon , in Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma dies at 89

Good riddance.

FlyingSquid , in Columbia removes 3 deans for texts that touched on "antisemitic tropes"
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I’m fairly sensitive to antisemitism because I’ve been on the receiving end so many times in my life, but the only thing I can think that might be antisemitic, and it’s really hard to tell from the context, is:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37a24fe4-dd0a-49df-819b-0c8c694672bf.png

My guess is that it is not associating Jews and money, but if it is, that is the only place there and it seems like you could only argue that one or maybe two of the deans were involved.

Considering it’s Columbia, I think it’s likely just talking about the rich people who go to and are associated with the university, which could be of any ethnicity.

Pronell ,

That was my takeaway too. I can kinda see that one.

The vomit emoji one is particularly egregious though.

Omegamanthethird ,
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It’s hard for me to remember the state of the war on October 24th when that op-ed was written. I also don’t know the context of what the actual anti-Israel protests immediately after the attack. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they considered it to be a gross exaggeration. Especially with some of the assertions the op-ed made.

mozz OP ,
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It seems possible that they're all watching someone who is equating pro-Palestinian protestors with Hamas and condemning them, and all the people texting are fairly disgusted with the university for publicly lying about and betraying their own students in that fashion, and speculating on the motives -- i.e. that in one way or another that person or the university or both will keep the flow of donations going by saying this.

I don't know for sure but that's the feeling I get from it. It doesn't sound anti-Semitic. That's just my take on it without much context.

CaptainSpaceman ,

After reading the texts, i agree with your take.

Seems whoever they were calling a clown didnt like it and is using flimsy pretext to punish these people

mozz OP ,
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I mean, I definitely wouldn’t like it if I were the administrator of the university and those texts came to light.

My dad told me about this type of situation once when I was much younger. I got in an altercation about something and explained it to my dad, and he was like, well what did you think was gonna happen. I said but no, I was right, means I’m justified. He said yeah that makes it 10 times worse. If you call somebody out on something like that, and you’re wrong, it might be a big deal or it might not. If you are right, it’s pretty certain that it’s gonna be a big deal and you should expect some results from what you said.

And lo… I was enlightened.

I mean this is different, that was deliberately in public on my end. When you’re texting your friends you should say whatever the fuck you want to say and if your employer is doing something illegal in service of a genocide and goes through your texts, for some reason, and finds out you don’t like it, I’m not gonna be the one to tell you that’s your fault. But I do understand why the employer is extremely mad about it and saying some trumped-up bullshit reason why it’s officially not okay.

Freefall , in Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma dies at 89

Oh no…anyway

Fedizen , in “Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025

If I ever find these hackers I’m going to treat them to lunch.

SirDerpy ,

They were gay children then professionals and furries. These hackers have been breathing operational security their whole lives. You probably find them when some Morpheus dude in assless chaps offers you two different brands of poppers.

DerisionConsulting ,

We all have VHS that need to be cleaned

partial_accumen , in Ariane-6 first launch: Europe's rocket blasts off for first time

European launch got hit with a double whammy with the delays in Ariane-6 and the forced retirement of Euro-Soyuz after Russia went full mask-off and invaded Ukraine. Vega launch challenges didn’t help.

I’m glad to see Europe having medium and heavy lift capability again even without needed reusability.

PowerPuffKat , in Families urge judge to block law forcing display of ‘Protestant version of the Ten Commandments’ before kids return to public school in Louisiana

Wait, wasn’t one of the main points of Europeans immigrating to America was for freedom of religion?

Evade5415 ,

Yeah all the horrible religious people who became outcasts thought they should bring their nightmare beliefs to a new land.

merc ,

Yes… but no.

It wasn’t just freedom to express their religion, it was also the freedom to form governments where they could be in power, and thus impose their religious beliefs on others.

The British colonies were basically religious fundamentalist zones. For example: Maryland – land of Mary. Was intended to be a Catholic colony. Massachusetts was meant as a Puritan colony, and they strictly enforced that. A woman named Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for the crime of being a Quaker.

peg ,

According to Wikipedia: It is named after Henrietta Maria, the French-born queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the 17th century.

merc ,

Interestingly though, Henrietta Maria was named after her parents (Henry IV and Marie de Médicis / Maria de’ Medici), and it’s likely her mother’s name came from their Catholic faith.

So Maryland was named after Henrietta Maria who was named after Marie de Médicis who was named after the biblical Mary. (Unless she was named after another Mary)

thermal_shock ,

I think it’s named after Queen Mary, not jesus’ mary

merc ,

Fair enough, but Mary is a pretty Catholic name. Even when someone’s named after a relative (in this case her mom was a Mary), the chain generally goes back to the main Mary (who was actually Miryam).

cantw8togo ,

Exactly. My forefathers left the Netherlands because the government was trying to tell them how to worship God. Now many of their descendants are trying to tell people how to worship God.

Veedem , in Lawyers for megachurch pastor blame 12-year-old for ‘initiating’ sexual contact
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That might be one of the most demented defenses they could have come up with.

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