WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president's policy...
The back half of "Blue no matter who" was supposed to be primarying out regressive Democrats. Much like Labour in the UK, the party is doing its best to disenfranchise and disengage with actual progressives, so this is slow going.
It's not impossible, though: Republicans, to their current horror, let the inmates run the asylum and it shifted their political alignment from "capitalist" to "fascist".
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
Mar-Jac Poultry has denied it knowingly hired minors for its Jasper, Alabama, plant, and also argued some workers were doing jobs that are not banned by federal rules....
Maybe this is just me, but aren't payroll taxes a thing? How do you "not know" someone isn't who they say they unless you're already paying people under the table.
they don’t care. Their intent is to use the power of the state to suppress everyone else. They already have an answer for your concern and it’s an awful one.
You just don't realize what the market has solved for. It didn't solve the problem of expensive healthcare, it solved the problem of how to maximize profits for the wealthy.
That's what people don't understand about "the market". What you think it's doing isn't what it's actually doing.
Australians are basically US americans of the south (think food: originally british, cannot be healthy, no good car manufacturers, afraid of foreigners…)
They're really more like Canadians than Americans, although I've heard it said that New Zealand more accurately fills that role
You aren't going to get meaningful progressive change by just asking for it, and certainly not by hoping for it. The powerful need to be afraid that a worse alternative awaits them before they'll acquiesce to sharing what they have.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur
A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....
The rich are scared that this could metastasize into anti-capitalism protests in general.
They know they've gone too far, pushed too much, been too greedy. They know their control is shaken for the first time in almost forty years and they're worried.
In the before times, when corporate and marginal income tax rates were high and stock buybacks were illegal, a business could do two things with its profit:
Reinvest it into the business, as employee compensation, equipment or facilities, and/or
Pay taxes.
In the 1980s, we gave them a third option:
Keep the money
...which for some reason was supposed to not encourage the rich to hoard money and/or engage in non-productive financialization.
The rich, of course, hoarded and engaged in financial engineering pretty much immediately, and everyone else, which meant employees, suffered for it.
Think about how stupid of an idea this is: giving the rich the ability to hoard money and then against all reason, somehow expecting that they won't do the thing you're incentivizing them to do. Even George Bush called it "voodoo economics".
If you look at wages-vs-productivity curves you can see society "break" in the 1980s, with the rich running away with their wealth and everyone else getting stuck in a quagmire of low wages and starved public services.
So that's why high progressive taxation helps employee: it forces the rich to either invest in their businesses or fund the nation.
Huh. I had a Predator monitor that was diagnosed with mysterious "liquid damage" when it stopped working. Considering it's well up and above the desk, that would have taken some work.
The device was not listing as valid serial numbers and such so had to go to support and have them manually create the RMA case after they couldn’t do it
Ah, I had that happen with my monitor from them, too. It took a lot of doing just to get the case created.
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The book was interesting, partly because of how it came to be (it was originally self-published and gained notoriety and support afterwards; quite the opposite of how publishing normally goes).
Outside of Fifty Shades, that's not common, especially in modern mass market literature.
Thousands of Israelis joined a far-right Independence Day march on Tuesday in the south, led by Jewish activists advocating for resettling Gaza and forcing Palestinians to leave the enclave....
I'll put this back to you this way: is Likud also a terrorist organization? Is the IDF? Because they do a lot of the same stuff.
There are definitely terrorists associated with Hamas, and Hamas definitely carries water for them, but they're also the duly elected government in Gaza and if I were Israel I'd be asking why Gazans feel like they were so wronged that the only option seems to be a political movement that's sympathetic to terrorist tactics.
Saying "they're terrorists" without acknowledging how we got here is a lot like calling the ANC in South Africa "terrorist" in the 1980s. It's stupidly reductionist and ignores complexity for the sake of jingoism.
For many Jews, Zionism signifies a connection to Israel. But a large number of student protesters see the violence in Gaza as a logical conclusion of the late 19th century ideology...
Nationalism is almost always bad, why should Israeli Nationalism be any different?
Ask yourself: if it was any other country or ethnicity, would it be "good" nationalism? Would an American or Russian Nationalist worry you? How about a Rwandan or Serbian nationalist?
Chances are the answer is "yes" (unless you're a fascist), so why does Israeli nationalism get a free pass?
This really is a testament to the loss of American soft power.
The US stepping back and prioritizing corporate profits and short-term domestic political gain has really harmed them. George W. Bush's administration did incredible damage, Trump effectively tripled that damage.
Couple that with China's Belts-and-Roads initiatives and Russia's bargain-bin-imperialism in the middle east and north Africa and you can see how we got here.
Marathon, via Aleph One, has been free for at least a two decades at this point, hasn't it? Bungie open sourced it before 2000 and Aleph has been a thing since at least 2004, I think.
Ah, got it. I was confused because Aleph has been a thing for a very long time. I didn't click that it was "...on Steam" that's the important part.
I loved Marathon back in the day; played the hell out of it on an LC475, and it was a key reason why a) I stuck with Macs in my post-Amiga era, b) made me a fan of Bungie in general, c) broke my heart when Halo became an XBox exclusive, and c) resulted in my buying an XBox anyway because Halo is/was basically Marathon 4.
This undercover warranty investigation is a one-year follow-up from our series that investigated ASUS for motherboards incinerating AMD CPUs, at the end of which ASUS promised a number of improvements to its then-anti-consumer warranty processes. Spoiler alert: They're still anti-consumer. We sent our ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme in...
I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn't be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn't anything happened since then? It's like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy's assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
China being authoritarian is a "Dog bites man" story. It's expected.
Same with police misconduct in the US: it's also dog-bites-man.
Trump and his team realized that outrage fatigue is a thing: fuck up daily and with such magnitude that being a corrupt fuckup becomes a non-story and then you can get away with anything.
Steve Bannon even had a term for it: "flood the zone".
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...
The protests, which escalated into riots, saw demonstrators attempting to breach the hotel premises where a group of Israelis were reportedly staying....
Saying this on Reddit or Twitter is a great way to get your account suspended.
'Cause racism, sexism and harassment are a-ok, but suggest that the rich would behave better if they were afraid instead of contemptuous and you're in the penalty box.
YouTube has begun blocking opposition content at the request of the Russian authorities ( www.agents.media )
Indian students in Canadian province take to the streets over tightening immigration rules ( economictimes.indiatimes.com )
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas leaders ( www.abc.net.au )
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Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence ( www.theguardian.com )
Despite polls, Biden aides insist Gaza campus protests will not hurt reelection bid ( www.reuters.com )
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president's policy...
Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention ( www.theguardian.com )
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
Facebook algorithm wont show you anything related to the ongoing Israeli genocide on Palestine, unless you directly follow creators that speak out on the issue ( lemmy.ml )
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Four minors found working at Alabama poultry plant run by firm found responsible for teen's death ( www.nbcnews.com )
Mar-Jac Poultry has denied it knowingly hired minors for its Jasper, Alabama, plant, and also argued some workers were doing jobs that are not banned by federal rules....
Louisiana set to become 1st state requiring 10 Commandments be posted in schools ( www.axios.com )
The market will for sure solve this ( slrpnk.net )
Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR ( theconversation.com )
Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show ( www.washingtonpost.com )
A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....
Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent ( time.com )
Asus just apologized for its outrageous repair costs and RMA process ( www.pcgamesn.com )
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The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff ( www.reuters.com )
May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....
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Netanyahu ministers join Israeli far-right 'march to Gaza,' demand Palestinians' expulsion ( www.haaretz.com )
Thousands of Israelis joined a far-right Independence Day march on Tuesday in the south, led by Jewish activists advocating for resettling Gaza and forcing Palestinians to leave the enclave....
Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again? ( www.nytimes.com )
Donald Trump rally video shows mass "walking out" during speech ( www.newsweek.com )
David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation ( www.theguardian.com )
Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike...
How ‘Zionist’ became a slur on the US left ( www.theguardian.com )
For many Jews, Zionism signifies a connection to Israel. But a large number of student protesters see the violence in Gaza as a logical conclusion of the late 19th century ideology...
A cool guide about which citizens around the world are fighting on Russian side in Ukraine ( i.redd.it )
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Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing ( www.pcgamer.com )
ASUS Scammed Us ( www.youtube.com )
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Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter ( www.businessinsider.com )
I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality?
I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn't be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn't anything happened since then? It's like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy's assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
Israel's far-right lashes out at Biden over Gaza war stance as Netanyahu vows Rafah offensive will happen ( www.cbsnews.com )
Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )
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Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. — ProPublica ( www.propublica.org )
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Anti-Israel mob riots outside Israeli-owned hotel in Athens ( www.i24news.tv )
The protests, which escalated into riots, saw demonstrators attempting to breach the hotel premises where a group of Israelis were reportedly staying....
"You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka ( www.salon.com )
Trump also assured Daniels that he and Melania didn't “even sleep in the same room," she testified...
‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles ( www.theguardian.com )
Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline...
And everyone bathed regularly. ( lemmy.world )