Ye Olde Americans: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Contemptorary Americans: Voting will fix everything despite every election for many decades seeing us slide further to the right regardless of who wins.
So you’re saying for nearly 200,000 years people sat around feeling zero sense of responsibility for their group and never acted?
How much of the bystander effect is in part because we are disenfranchised from managing ourselves and our communities? “Oh that’s not my job, I’ll sit here being useless because the cops/&tc will come along and manage it for me”.
Commission data show that the D.C. court’s sentences for Jan. 6 defendants who assaulted police is below the national average.
Since Jan. 6 cases began, the average sentence imposed by D.C. federal judges in the Capitol attack under guidelines for serious assaults climbed to 46 months from 41 months but is still below the nationwide average of 51 months in 2022.
Democrat Dakota Adams is mounting an uphill battle for a seat in the Montana Legislature in a deep red corner of the state. But even if his campaign fails, he expects a lifelong future in politics—drawing a stark divergence from his father, who founded the far-right Oath Keepers and is serving an 18-year sentence for...
Calling her “an inherent danger to the community,” prosecutors on Friday asked a Miami judge to throw a 51-year-old mother back into jail for posting news articles on Facebook recounting her arrest on charges of stalking a Miami-Dade police officer who had shot and killed her mentally ill son. Prosecutors say Gamaly Hollis...
Because people who want to target the weak and innocent over the greedy and abusive are the biggest enablers of the world’s problems.
Considering despite having access to the Internet and all the resources that entails, they still spout such nonsense means they can’t be convinced otherwise through reasoning.
In other words, for a better world they need to go. They chose the hard way and I’m sick of catering to them as people suffer.
The better question to ask is will you radicalise before the world is dead?
Hey don’t be unfair, they’ve also spent months telling us Biden couldn’t do anything because he’s only the President of the United States of America, while telling us Biden was doing so much and he’d make a pier to a ceasefire by next Tuesday as was overheard on a hot mic moment.
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
This sounds like right wing propaganda, “don’t complain about how thing are In this country, things are worse elsewhere” but using mild inconveniences in place of serious issues.
Live updates: Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel has begun (www.nbcnews.com)
Second flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters displayed outside house owned by Justice Alito, report says (apnews.com)
Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law (www.nytimes.com)
Oh no, Anarchists! (slrpnk.net)
'The Pressure Is Working': Biden Weighs Climate Emergency Declaration (www.commondreams.org)
Democratic senators demand Biden halt military aid to Israel (thehill.com)
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate (www.theonion.com)
Biden budget proposal excludes UNRWA funds, renews $14 billion request for Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
Biden administration signals it will support push to hit ICC with sanctions (www.ft.com)
Stewart Rhodes’ Son Running for Office—as a Democrat (www.thedailybeast.com)
Democrat Dakota Adams is mounting an uphill battle for a seat in the Montana Legislature in a deep red corner of the state. But even if his campaign fails, he expects a lifelong future in politics—drawing a stark divergence from his father, who founded the far-right Oath Keepers and is serving an 18-year sentence for...
Man charged after bringing nail gun to demonstration in Thornhill, Ont.: police (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
A pro-Israel man attacked peaceful protesters by shooting a nail gun at them.
Prosecutors seek to jail Miami mom for posting news stories about cop who shot son (www.miamiherald.com)
Calling her “an inherent danger to the community,” prosecutors on Friday asked a Miami judge to throw a 51-year-old mother back into jail for posting news articles on Facebook recounting her arrest on charges of stalking a Miami-Dade police officer who had shot and killed her mentally ill son. Prosecutors say Gamaly Hollis...
Message to my enemies (slrpnk.net)
Oldie but goodie....
Israeli academics slammed for signing letter accusing Israel of ‘plausible genocide’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Academics on the right side of history once again....
The Sims 5 Pre-Release PC Build Has Been Leaked Online (www.dsogaming.com)
‘Butcher of Gaza’: Blinken faces grilling about Biden’s Israel policy from protesters and Senators (uk.news.yahoo.com)
clarification 🇵🇸 (lemmy.cafe)
The old-guard (lemmy.sdf.org)
dall-e 3; prompt: “Photorealistic. A futuristic alien stands before you holding a spear-like weapon in a non-threatening manner.”
Hugh Grant eviscerates new iPad Pro ad for promoting the ‘destruction of the human experience’ | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
Biden condemns ‘antisemitic protests’ — and absence of Palestinian empathy, too (www.politico.com)
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed” (wedistribute.org)
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Israel sharpens its tone to Spain: "The Inquisition is over. Those who harm us, we will harm them" (www.elnacional.cat)
Former Blizzard President Thinks Tipping Game Creators Is Great Idea (80.lv)
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
XXX (midwest.social)