PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au

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4mo ago

Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”
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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago
A new one! What makes you say that he worked in Abu Ghraib? I did a quick search, and all I can find is a YouTube video by "BadEmpanada."

4mo ago

Israeli settlers beat and hospitalise Reuters journalists in West Bank

Yeah, that would have worked great. Do you ask this about people who are getting beat by the cops or abusive husbands? Why not just fight back?

4mo ago

Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Hey, how about Graham Platner's secret Nazi sympathies? We know he has them, because of the tattoo! I haven't heard that one for a while.

4mo ago

Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

They're really trying to figure out reasons to dislike the guy. For some reason, the "leftists" on lemmy.ml hate when a left American politician starts achieving success, and try to tear them down and lie about what a terrible person they are. It's one of their favorite things; they relentlessly criticize AOC and Mamdani in a way they never would froth at the mouth about Chuck Schumer or anybody who is actually doing real damage.

4mo ago

Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

I mean they just elected the dude by a pretty wide margin. It sounds like some of us at least are fine with nuance.

There are a lot of parts of the country that cannot of course

#notallburgers

4mo ago

Entry Stephen King book for a kid?

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

I would second the recommendation for Michael Crichton also. Also, H.P. Lovecraft is excellent without being quite as messed up as some of King's darker horror.

Personally I love short stories, now and as a kid. "The Dunwich Horror," "Night Shift," and "Skeleton Crew" would be my recommendations, in increasing order of scaryness.

4mo ago

Entry Stephen King book for a kid?

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Emphasis on "loosely."

4mo ago

My thoughts on GPL vs. permissive licenses

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

"How dare my neighbor put a fence around his pool! I tell you, ever since he did that, my kids can't swim there and we've had to figure out something else to do."

4mo ago

Meta – FB, Insta, WhatsApp – will read your DMs and AI chats, rolling out from Dec

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

I think that's a pretty safe assumption. Presumably this is just them realizing that they might get in trouble when they inevitably get caught for it, and then deciding it's safer to make an official announcement about it.

4mo ago

Oregon v. Trump Showed How Law Enforcement Officers See Themselves—and the Communities They Police

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

This is a weird article. It doesn't seem to go anywhere.

How do law enforcement officers see themselves? And the communities they police? I read the whole thing, and I still don't know.

It's also alternating talking about National Guard, local cops, the feds, and Trump's lawyers at the trial, without really apparently making any effort to distinguish what are the differences in how any of them see themselves or et cetera. It's just kind of a collection of random anecdotes about things that happened that relate to one or the other of them.

4mo ago

New embryo testing company says it can predict lifespan, height and IQ of potential children

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Techbros have rediscovered what psychics have known for millenia: Just say you have the answer to something that people care a lot about, and sell them some crap about it, and you can retire in your 40s.

4mo ago

🌕 The Moon and The Moron 😣

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Oh, I thought you were calling the owl a moron, I was all set to come in and start defending her honor

4mo ago

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

For the time being, they're just keeping up a general level of chatter about some made-up reasons to not like him. Latest one is that his wife is 6 years younger than him and that's a super concerning age gap and did you know he's Ugandan? Also as a proud American I would never want a Ugandan representing me, how do we even know he's etc etc.

4mo ago

Judge orders Education Department to remove out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Honestly I think it might be doing more harm than good at this point. It is so transparent that I think even Americans can smell that it's bullshit.

4mo ago

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Although 700,000 fewer people voted in the city this November compared to last, Mamdani actually earned more votes than Harris in a few notable areas.

Fuckin' ouch lol

4mo ago

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

the crossing of which, everyone understands, will result in negative coverage and editorial scolding

Not really that. The crossing of which will result in this massive narrative-shaping machine being put to work and simply engineering you out of place like a Twilight Zone episode.

I saw it in action when I ever talked to some of my relatives about Bernie Sanders. These guys are a little on the back foot because of Mamdani's genuine popularity, and his face-to-face approach neutered some of the ways they like to do things, but they're extremely well-funded and they're good at what they do. I am completely sure they will figure something out.

The most obvious possibility is just to talk to a few key people in the city and make sure that things turn into a disaster in ways that are out of his control (or maybe just pick out a couple of real issues and inflate them into massive evidence of what a disaster all this socialism stuff is).

4mo ago

US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

which is quintessential irreparable harm

I thought that was starving children

The fucking money, you guys are drowning in it

4mo ago

Naked Trespasser Killed By 79-Year-Old Coming To Neighbors' Aid: LAPD

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

No, it just reminded me of it. It is indeed a 100% different event yes.

4mo ago

Naked Trespasser Killed By 79-Year-Old Coming To Neighbors' Aid: LAPD

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et2Akz3BkrQ

(Edited: Found an un-molested video)

~~I apologize for the lady yammering on in the foreground. I honestly can't find just the video. It's pretty irritating, fuck the TV news, I can't wait for these guys to fade away and have to get real jobs. ~~

~~Anyway, the dialogue which is being obscured by all their media bullshit is far far superior to the bullshit.~~

It goes:

"I'll kill you. I'll kill you."
"You gonna have to kill me then!"
"Watch this." (gunshot)

Edit: Print media coming through in the clutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et2Akz3BkrQ

I had forgotten about the "I told your dumb ass" while he's trying to apologize while STILL trying to push in towards her after she shoots him twice.

4mo ago

The Left Is About to Take Power. The Stakes Could Not Be Higher

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 4mo ago

Works both ways, but it seems like weird way to spend your time trying to act like you’re a voice of reason in front of an audience you’ve already embarrassed yourself in front of many times.

I still remember when you claimed with a straight face that Israel was using nuclear weapons in Syria, and the only reason I didn't know about it was because I was confused by Western propaganda.

https://lemmy.world/post/23537807/14158168

You're probably right that as far as the present community's viewpoint, I am "embarrassing myself" and you are "pointing out" things and so on. That's because the present community's viewpoint is detached from reality and based on groupthink, confident presentations, and hostility to outsiders and not much else.

You guys are welcome to your "community," I guess. I've made the point and then belabored it a little bit, I don't see the point in a continued back and forth so I won't waste more time.