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Trump to install loyalists to reshape U.S. foreign policy on China, NATO and Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

Donald Trump in a second term would likely install loyalists in key positions in the Pentagon, State Department and CIA whose primary allegiance would be to him, allowing him more freedom than in his first presidency to enact isolationist policies and whims.

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Part of the plan is to cancel the election security agency. so I'm not sure there will eventually be other elections where you do all of these things if this one is lost.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-gop-president-curb-election-security-agency-angered/story?id=102261352

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A plagiarism machine is as sentient as a dummy is in a ventriloquist act.

Could we have sentient AI in the future if we don't slip into neo-fascism while char-broiling the planet?

Yes, but not yet.

when will be your last time to vote for the "lesser of two evils"?

When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...

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During the Iraq War, Kurt Vonnegut was asked about the anti-war protests.. His response was that, during Vietnam, he was part of anti-war protests firing on all cylinders and laser-focused and going to stop that war. He said it was ultimately about as effective as climbing to the top of a ladder and tossing a pie on the ground. This time will be no different.

So I don't know what you're hoping to gain. The 'Ima take my ball and go home' approach didn't work out so well in 2016. Threatening not to vote isn't going to phase anyone in a country where more than half the population doesn't vote anyway. Maybe instead of threats you should work with other people trying to help the people you want elected get elected.

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Ate a platter of 3 different fried insects. I think it was wood worms, bees, and crickets. The bees were the best.

None of them were horrible. Would do it again.

Could Lemmy be used as a classroom tool (like having a classroom's own instance)

I feel like it would be an interesting learning tool cuz I learn a ton on here and it gets me writing without anyone having to hold a gun to my head. I mean like even essay-length or at least essay-worthy treatments of things I respond to in longer-form, and even for the shorter-form stuff

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Moodle is.

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OMFG, my fucking nose is gone!

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Out of those 3 options, I would prefer the flashlight.

Even if you already have a flashlight, you can always find another place that would benefit from one nearby.

I also just say that I don't buy in at all to Darn Tough socks. This person can't where any other brand of socks? Bullshit. You can just buy new generic socks before you get anywhere close to the price you'll pay for gourmet socks.

Also depending on the person's interests, getting them a boardgame could be nice.

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They are acting like the fix is already in. My guess is Russia.

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They're not mulling. That's the plan.

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My problem is that, anytime anybody says anything about Project 2025, they only talk about one of the many things included.

Let's be very specific about what all is included in Project 2025:

1-Establish that Article 2 of the Constitution gives the president power to do whatever he wants.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-visionhttps://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-vision

2-Fire the civil service and replace it with Trump loyalists.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981#:~:text=With%20a%20nearly%201%2C000-page,many%20as%2050%2C000%20federal%20workers.

3-Immediately implement the insurrection act and use the military to fight protesters.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-mulling-deploying-military-to-streets-on-day-1-if-elected-report-says

4-Use the DoJ to target critics
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-presidential-justice-department-probes-barr-kelly-milley-cobb-2023-11

5-Weaken the election security agency
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-gop-president-curb-election-security-agency-angered/story?id=102261352

6-Reject climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president

7-Remove all LGBTQ+ protections
https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/09/right-wing-project-2025-seeks-to-eradicate-lgbtq-protections/

8-Bring the Bible into government
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-heritage-foundation-christian-nationalism-rcna103510

And all of this is public and written in a 1000-page handbook by the Heritage Foundation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

This raises the question of why I just had to include 9 different sources. That's because the media is only sharing this piecemeal even though it should be news shared with everybody. Their coverage is rubbish.

If we cannot rely on the media to do their job, it means we have to work around them. Please pass this whole post on to whoever will listen.

Vote.

Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US? (www.bbc.com)

A brilliant film emerged from these skirmishes – but its core insight still takes work to unpack. For generations, a persistent myth that black families were irreparably broken by sloth and hedonism had been perpetuated by US culture. Congress’s landmark 1965 Moynihan Report, for example, blamed persistent racial inequality...

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No. American History X was pretty on the mark for the state of the US in 1999.

Trump 'telling it like it is' and how he was going to make Mexico pay for the border wall were what brought all the racist scum out of the woodwork.

Political correctness gets a lot of flak, but what it did was raise the bar. If you have to be careful to call one group of students 'first years' and not 'freshmen', then you know damn well calling different ethnic groups slurs is not acceptable. The PC movement drove the racists further into the closet, and then Trump was a big dinner bell to bring that shit back out again.

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Chrome is feeling its numbers drop, so they're backing off until people stop paying attention. Then they'll go right ahead with the plan.

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Womp womp

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The original Twilight Zone.

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He's justifying his ruling that Trump violated the gag order.

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Latest word is that what he said in Atlanta and DC conflict.

Florida orders universities to ‘deactivate’ pro-Palestinian group (www.politico.com)

Highlights: Florida’s university system chancellor, responding to a push by Gov. Ron DeSantis, directed state universities Tuesday to disband campus groups with ties to the national Students for Justice in Palestine organization, marking the first punishments handed down to colleges here amid the Israel-Hamas war....

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Why does free speech only seem to cut one way?

We have to have free speech because corporations are humans who need to be free to pollute the political process with money, but oh no you can't gather and talk about things I hate.

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Here or on reddit?

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Jingoist wank

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So a bunch of Trumpist warhawks?

This isn't reddit. You're going to find yourselves defederated in a jiffy.

People are not going to tolerate that kind of shit here.

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SMH

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Night of the Lepus

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

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Look at what you're defending.

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Well, there's also the fact that after WWII, while the Allies were dividing the world up like a giant birthday cake, they created most of these problems: North Korea, Iraq-Kuwait, and plunking a new Jewish country down in the middle of Arabia.

If the Allies had decided that Ohio is a new Jewish country, what would've been the fallout from that?

As much as we seem a step removed from this issue, we made the problem.

People who have been through tough timew, how did you keep moving?

I’m a week late on rent due, I only paid half, I had to call all my credit card companies and utilities to tell them what’s going on. And now my check engine light turned on because the bastard is misfiring. My wife lost her dad which fucked us both up due to missing a ton of work, and I don’t know what to do. I’m tired...

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Go to an employment agency/temp agency.

There's paperwork and possibly tests before you can actually get work. Do all of that now so that you don't have to wait while they process the paperwork if you get furloughed. Be sure to explain that you're expecting to get furloughed.

With the holidays approaching, retail stores may need extra staff. Not yet, but post-thanksgiving.

I've never done it, but there's the payment for taking surveys online.

I agree with others that the car is a major money sink. Can it sit in the driveway and wait for you to get through this?

Paying a friend to drive to work together probably costs less than gas + insurance + repairs.

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Is it...cupcakes?

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What if an intergalactic porch pirate got to it first and it's just an empty box?

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Finished Divinity Original Sin 2.

Now trying MW5.

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LOL

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Indigeneity was also part of it.

That would give Native Americans the right to claim all kinds of discrimination.

It might even affect fossil fuel explorations and water resources.

Can't have that.

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Kelly just confirmed he said these things. What, do you want a written memo?

They Doxxed Us, We Dox Them – Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (web.archive.org)

"On September 29, the Fulton County Clerk’s office scanned and uploaded the signatures, names, and full legal addresses of 116,000 civilians. These are the identities of a large number of people who signed a petition to convene a referendum on the future of Cop City. This process is being illegally suppressed by the...

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Last time I checked, doxxing was illegal. You can't doxx people because you got doxxed just like you can't rob someone who robbed you.

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They birthed and normalized shitty internet behavior: rickrolling on the lighter end, trolling, doxxing, and swatting.

They would also do shit like make fun of mentally handicapped people, which would lead goons to harassing the victims IRL and teaching kids that this was all OK.

And they would go after people who talked shit about about them, criticized them, or otherwise attacked them. The 4chan army would come out in force and try to ruin people's online existence.

Before Q-Anon showed up, they had started calling Trump God Emperor during the election. I think they may just have chose him as the candidate who would cause the most chaos, but it's easy to see how others others would take their goals more seriously and want Trump as president.

And the cycles of shitty behavior over decades attracted more and more rightwingers. I used to think of them as a chaos collective, but the politics swung hard right.

And then they spread to other platforms with r/the_donald, pepe the frog, and calling each other pedes.

[News Analysis] GOP waging a "coordinated national effort to undermine American elections," says leading official (www.salon.com)

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers....

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And notice this is reported by Salon and not the TV networks or CNN.

They are siding with Trump.

Fuck democracy if we can make money.

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Sounds like the GOP is acting on behalf of Putin and Xi.

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If that Deities and Demigods has Elric and HP Lovecraft in it, it's worth something.

Elric is called Elric (obviously). Look for Hastur the Unspeakable. That's part of Lovecraft. I guess Cthulu was in there, but I don't remember.

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TSR had permission from author Michael Moorcock to include Elric but I think the publisher was unaware. And so there was a legal stink that resulted in Elric and Lovecraft being removed in a later edition of Deities and Demigods.

Legends and Lore was 2e.

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Wow, I stand corrected. Then Legends and Lore is is the Elric-less Deities and Demigods.

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This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.

Saved me 3.5 months.

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I came here to say this. The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff are also solid reads.

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Who came before Socrates? I don't think there's any historical evidence of his existence other than Plato talking about him simply because he's so far back...unless you're talking about beyond Greece.

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Why did it take so fucking long for anyone to do anything about it?

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I had an account with almost a million karma. Like 970,000.

I received two platinum boosts, and I'm not sure how many times I was gilded. Maybe 30 or 40 times?

Half of $5=$2.50 x 40=$100

Considering the time it took to do, it ain't shit.

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My dude, you are extremely passionate about this topic. Also, as a mod, you are content arbiter of your sub. Chasing people onto other subs and then claiming they're harassing you is where this fails. It works conversely as well. Many a sub has been started by disgruntled members who left another sub.

Getting someone in trouble for lying on a social media app is going to be harder than you think. News sources get approached by all kinds of people claiming to have news. That avenue is not going to work.

I am not a lawyer, but you should seek out a lawyer to determine if you have a legal leg to stand on here. Does this guy have a lot of money? If so, he may come after you if he has a legal leg to stand on.

My real advice is to protect your sub. Stop there. I couldn't stop neo-Nazis from spreading lies on reddit, and you're not going to be able to control some air purifier salesman. Just keep them away from your sub, and let it go.

By the way, this magazine you're posting on is full of a bunch of people who have left reddit. Coming here to complain about things happening to you on reddit is not going to get you a lot of sympathy.

Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas (www.garbageday.email)

Last month marked the official end of the Reddit protests. Any subreddit that had changed its rules or gone dark — or forced its users to post exclusively about John Oliver — has now gone back to normal. On the surface, it seems like a complete victory for Reddit, but things aren’t so simple when a major element of that...

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Is Reddark still being updated? Cuz it still shows 1600+ subs as dark.

Is this yet another individual announcing the end without really knowing if it's over?

TIL passage of merchandise over the Silk Road was a mere trickle compared with the maritime flow of goods between India and Rome during the first-millennium CE (scroll.in)

"Roman texts convey little meaningful information about Indian political dynasties and offer even less about the practical operations of Indo-Roman trade. A series of Egyptian documents has recently revolutionised understanding of the logistical and political requirements for moving bulk goods from India across the Sahara and...

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The Silk Road did not pass through Rome or India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#/media/File:Silk_road_Kazakhstan.svg

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