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davel , 3 months ago to memes in I'm the worm in the apple car.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Gay

Reporter, please show us in the Lemmy Code of Conduct where being gay is a reportable offense. And anyway, the gays don’t have a monopoly on having things driven up their asses.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone

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davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone

https://lemmy.ml/comment/8913172

davel , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone

I’m not sure I would consider this world news. Maybe !mediacriticism or !social_media or !facebook or !antifacebook?

The Substack article in question: How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS

Edit to add: The military-industrial complex has its eye on the fediverse now as well: Collective Security In a Federated World

ETA II: Looks like Klarenberg’s piece has been published in several places, including:

• Monthly Review Online
• Al Mayadeen
• Orinoco Tribune

davel , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Did the year zero never exist ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

The year of Jesus’ supposed birth was counted as year 1 AD/CE. The year before that is considered year 1 BC/BCE. It’s worth noting that the concept of zero didn’t yet exist back then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#History

davel , 3 months ago to memes in American hypocrisy, oh, let me count the ways

!nonpolitical_memes

davel , 3 months ago to memes in Always has been

Inflation isn’t just price gouging, though we seem to be in a spate of it lately.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Biden vows G7 response, ‘ironclad’ US support for Israel after Iran attacks

Parenti broke up with Sanders over it.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in US Set to Ring Alarm Bells Over Chinese Industry on World Stage

Not so much the world stage as the walled garden stage.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Young Hong Kongers who defied Xi are now partying in China

The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere

Whether a bourgeois democracy has two parties or a thousand, it’s still a democracy of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.

BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.

So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.

This is not news, you say.

Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here’s how they explain it:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Young Hong Kongers who defied Xi are now partying in China

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, gusanos.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Young Hong Kongers who defied Xi are now partying in China

The UK’s 99 year imperialist lease was up, thus marking the end of the century of humiliation for the people of Hong Kong. Just yesterday I explained six ways to Sunday how misguided it is to call China autocratic/authoritarian/totalitarian, and why our governments and corporate media consistently tell us that it is that lemmy.ml/post/14407407

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in U.S. military has shot down Iranian drones

List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The truth about organic milk: cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms

Some people just shoot the messenger, downvoting things they’d prefer to not be true 🤷

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Young Hong Kongers who defied Xi are now partying in China

Evil authoritarian […checks notes…] democracy! Stick it to the will of the people, fellow kids!