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Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia (www.propublica.org)

Last February, some 20 men and their wives gathered for dinner at an upscale restaurant in Spokane, Washington, for their annual Valentine’s Day celebration. The men weren’t just friends; they did community service work together. They had been featured on local television, in khakis and baseball caps, delivering 1,200 pounds...

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Seddon told everyone to stop acting like cowards. “If it’s not this, it’s the fact that we’re white, that we’re Christian,” he said. The DOJ is “going to come at us no matter what we do,” Seddon continued. “Communism — that’s where this country is leading if we don’t take a stand.”

We’re so far from communism, our country is so far right compared to European democracies, this is outright paranoia and lunacy. They feel persecuted while holding lots of power. Feeling persecuted for being white? They are mentally unwell. That’s the reality of our situation.

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While managers are touted as one of the solutions to bridging the broken contract between companies and employees, they have just as much (if not more) of a case of the doldrums.

Wrong on both counts.

That all means that people who might have struck while the iron was hot just a couple years ago during the Great Resignation are left feeling stagnant, checking into their jobs while checked out. “While these frustrated employees may have left under previous market conditions, declines in hiring and increases in inflation substantially elevate the risk associated with changing jobs,” Wigert added. He called this new era the “Great Detachment.”

Weren’t you all lying to us printing article after article about how the economy was actually doing fine when Biden was still on the ticket? Shameless.

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In a conversation with a friend, I finally touched upon why I no longer think the tech industry is enjoyable. When I got into it, it was filled with people like me. Now, it’s full of people who saw the options to make money: doctor, lawyer, tech. They aren’t nerdy and passionate about tech. They’re just filling a role. I fucking hate that.

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Furthermore, everyone wants to hire trained, experienced workers, but no one wants to do the work in leveling them up.

This times a thousand. When I was looking to get into being a Linux Sysadmin, every entry level position required 3-5y experience. I kept thinking, “how am I supposed to get that when you’re gatekeeping me from starting out.”

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Clear Channel being the big bad is the key.

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The article says they don’t get the info in advance. Disclosure: My quote is not related to this argument.

“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

Sounds terrible.

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Get her!

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Sorry, was I wrong to be a hateful bigot and use my celebrity to spread hate?

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This person is deep in some lore. I find it somewhat interesting in a curious fashion. I hope I never share a space with them.

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The court was not designed to be a political institution but it absolutely has become one. Corrupt and terrible.

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Can someone please summarize in a sentence or two for those of us who don’t like watching videos?

What should I do if my older brother abuses me?

So it all started in 2020 when I moved to other house because he insulted and beat me up, now he comes to that new house which isn’t far away and keeps doing the same thing, he beat me up today because I didn’t want to give him my phone. When I tell it to my mother she says we’re both bad and she will sell the house,...

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I have to agree. I don’t expect many people under 18 on Lemmy, but I might be wrong. For this reason, I will wait to see how the thread develops.

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When I was in college I wanted to make a short film with Jesus as a fuckup: raises Lazarus as a zombie by mistake, needs little kids’ floaty arm things on ankles to walk on water, apostles only hang out with him for the free wine. Never got around to it.

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That’s Catholics.

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I’ve lost interest.

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Sure, but I was pointing out that not all christians, just the ones on that team.

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Really? That’s new information to me! Wow, just when you thought you knew a thing you find out you don’t. Are there any others that do the transubstantiating crackers?

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Lutherans too? Damn, that’s wild. I completely misspoke out of ignorance. I thought it was well-known and established that it was a catholic thing alone.

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Only if Charlie agrees to play Jesus.

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Lived in Kansas. Billboard is accurate. Except the part about heaven. There is no god. You can see why I was miserable in Kansas.

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They took my car when I refused to pay. Please help.

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Totally coherent.

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Yes. It is known and documented (on video) that soldiers are employed to do exactly this. You can find this with a web search.

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Get that horse dick.

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She stole his scarf.

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Haha, you rube. They used helium.

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I think you’ve found a conspiracy.

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The rocks are actually from the moon. They had space flight. Booooom! Head explode.

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She.

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Brilliant.

Starbucks piles whipped cream atop CEO pay problem (www.reuters.com)

Few financial decisions are as vibes-driven as CEO pay. How much is too much is mostly a question of who’s counting and what it’s measured against. Starbucks, for example, is paying new boss Brian Niccol a potential $145 million package that, at first glance, seems like the boardroom equivalent of a venti caramel ribbon...

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No one is so brilliant at the business of coffee to be worth this much.

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Agreed. I just wanted to further highlight the absurdity. But your version is accurate.

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Cool idea.

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Article doesn’t mention how he was determined to be innocent other than saying evidence that would show such had been deliberately hidden.

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There are many bits I’d like to quote from this article, but I’m on my mobile and don’t have a utility to save multiple clipboard entries and I’m not gonna do the work of manually saving all of them.

“Every Democratic candidate in Florida has to campaign under the threat of DeSantis removing them solely because they’re a Democrat, solely for political reasons,” Warren told Bolts.

Fascism.

But also, this dude had a good approach: stop creating more harm, by locking people up, than whatever good is served by enforcing the law. It’s a longview approach that repubs are incapable of understanding. DeSantis is a nazi, so such an approach is impossible.

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Police found “hundreds” of videos of child sexual abuse in Volar’s home, including more than 20 he’d filmed himself. Some of those videos showed Kizer.

Volar was arrested and charged with child enticement and child sexual assault. But the same day, he was released. He remained free for months, and no criminal charges were officially filed.

Why? What made this guy special such that direct evidence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) would be found and no charges were filed? Because for most ordinary people, that would not be the outcome.

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So, to sum up: Jeffares is a pro-Trump Republican who believes that election fraud occurred in 2020. He got his job on the State Election Board thanks to another pro-Trump Republican, Jones, who also believes in election lies, and who allegedly tried to illegally install Trump as president. Jeffares then went on to solicit an administration job from a Trump campaign contact and to work on the State Election Board to implement election-denier policies in Georgia that benefit Trump.

Rick Jeffares (at right, with steepled fingers) at a meeting of the Georgia State Election Board. (Via YouTube) “How the rumor got started that I would join the administration is beyond me,” Jeffares told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday. “It’s all just to make us look like criminals.”

The AJC framed Jeffares’s attempted solicitation of a Trump administration job as not “formal,” as if that somehow negates the apparent conflict of interest.

Open corruption where it used to be at least a little bit hidden. That’s the modern GOP.

What kind of laptop should I get?

So, I’m planning on buying myself a (second-hand) laptop once I get the money. I’m nowhere near tech-savvy so it has to be easy to use, but also I want something that is built to last, as opposed to certain (looking at you, Apple) devices that are desinged to become unusable within a next couple of years....

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People saying Thinkpad are correct. I would also recommend Framework (I have neither, but Framework is built for repairs). Disclosure: I’m an Apple guy.

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Lonnie isn’t capable of delivering anything he promises. This should be clear to everyone by now.

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We’re about five minutes past being able to believe our own eyes ever again.

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Walters, who was elected with strong support from conservative voters, has dismissed the calls for an investigation as a politically motivated attack by moderate Republicans in league with Democrats, the Oklahoma Voice reports.

It’s all those RINOs, right bud? It couldn’t be because you’re massively over-reaching or anything, of course not.

The impact of Walters’ policies and rhetoric has also been reflected in a sharp increase in crisis calls from LGBTQ+ students in Oklahoma. The Rainbow Youth Project USA, a national organization dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ youth, tells The Advocate that since February, the group has received over 1,000 monthly crisis calls from Oklahoma alone, making it the leading state for such calls. This marks a significant increase from the average of 352 monthly calls the organization received from Oklahoma before Walters took office. According to the organization, 63 percent of these callers specifically named Walters as a source of their distress, and 84 percent reported being bullied both in school and through social media. The organization says it is currently providing mental health counseling to 184 LGBTQ+ teens in the state and represents several students in Title IX claims.

Jfc what a piece of shit. This guy needs to go.

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I hope he digs in and keeps it up right through to November.

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RFK is just like your idiot uncle. Big uncle energy. Except weirder and without the necessary consequences. Taking weird photos with dead animals.

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This is the kind of thinking you saw in A Beautiful Mind.

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First out-loud laugh of the day. Awesome response.

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The one on the left is an Israeli shithead. She was born in the USA. Fuck zionists.

How is Lemmy better than Reddit?

I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?

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Others have already nailed some of the best reasons so I’ll just say Welcome.

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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