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  • Video contradicts Trump administration account of Minneapolis killing of Alex Pretti

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  • If a rabid pit bull was out in the streets attacking the elderly and children, ripping their faces off, you'd be telling everyone to just stay back and make soothing sounds, or offer it a treat, rather than trying to stop it before it does more damage. Self-reflect a little bit and do better next time.

  • When you feel sad about Laika, remember that these dogmonauts survived

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  • Please, there's gotta be photos of one of these dogmonauts wearing this. I am already overdosing on cuteness but I NEED it.

  • Evergreen meme

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  • Mark Carney essentially said that the liberal rules based world order was a convenient lie everyone went along with because American hegemony opened up markets and sea lanes for them.

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  • "values-based"

    I guess unlimited greed at the expense of non-whites is a "value". He deserves a little credit for saying it openly now, but still.

  • Theres probs no such thing as an honest lib, because honest libs turn into MLs 😁

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  • Instead of: Of course they're going to say they like their government, otherwise they'll be punished

    Say: I am a western chauvinist who thinks people in the global south lack agency

  • Winner

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  • He is a beast on the tennis courts, makes sense.

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  • Never forget why they lie

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  • This article is so heartbreaking, but people should definitely read it. I am not very well-informed on what the Nakba involved, so this was eye-opening. Like wtf, it's as if the Zionists just took the genocidal baton from the Nazis and said 'thank you, we got it from here'. I appreciate you linking it, as much as it hurt to read.

  • Migrant who died in ICE custody was 'choked to death'

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  • This poor man and his family. They just straight up murdered him.

    USian liberals clinging to the hope that the 'rule of law' will prevail need to wake the fuck up. Just because it protected your (likely lily-white) ass in the past, that time is over. They're coming for EVERYONE that opposes this shit, not just indigenous, black, and brown folk. We were never protected by the system in the first place, so this is unfortunately nothing new to us.

  • Protestation

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  • Hell yeah, that badass on the left could be mi bisabuela. Very cool.

  • Washing machines is close enough to a SI now right?

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  • looks more like the size of about 32 air fryers

  • White House announces Gaza ‘board of peace’ with Tony Blair, Jared Kushner and Marco Rubio | US foreign policy | The Guardian

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  • genocide as an investment strategy. I am beyond disgusted by these ghouls.

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    This is not Reddit

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  • Most definitely, I didn't mean to imply that this was itself an instance focused on socialism. Just that it tends to avoid the pitfalls of US-centric Reddit culture in a way I find welcoming and easy to adhere to as it matches my values, which happen to underpin my Marxism. As a (mostly) lurker with limited time, browsing local and reading comments is pretty great for me after a hard day of work.

    For context, I naively joined Lemmy.world when making my initial Lemmy account. Moved here within a month or two, lol, cause it was too much like Reddit.

    Another thing I like about Lemmy.ml - being a general purpose instance it has a lot going on in terms of topics, and stays federated with instances that I may want to engage with for the purposes of casual conversation or to occasionally discuss politics when I have the time (like today, while recovering from an illness). I appreciate you and all the other admins and community mods here for keeping it this way.

  • AuThOriTarIan the CIA madeup word that keeps on givin!

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  • "but they (AES states) don't have elections"

    You show them the rich political structures of Cuba, Vietnam, China, etc. that have multiple legislative and executive organs with elected representatives (e.g., in Cuba, members of the municipal, provincial, and national assemblies, are all elected directly by the people last I checked) with large groups of citizens such as workers councils and trade unions helping craft policy and nominate delegates. Just because they don't always directly elect the president or head of state doesn't negate their robust democratic processes...

    "but they're only allowed to vote for one party"

    You show them the other parties in AES countries that have representatives in the aforementioned assemblies, but which must align with the principles of the socialist state based on their constitutions, as well as the counter example of the US and other western liberal states where any party with power only serves capital and not the people...

    "but they can't criticize their government"

    You show them plenty of examples of citizens criticizing their government without reprisal, as well as statistics on their overall satisfaction with the job their government is doing, and how they only crack down on people trying to commit fraud, foment violence against the government, or otherwise exploit others...

    "ahah, see, they ARE authoritarian because they didn't let them do that and executed/imprisoned them, they're political prisoners!!!"

    No, dipshit, they're just protecting everyone else from the asshole bourgeoisie in their country. Isn't that supposed to be what you're all about?

    (just an example of some of the conversations I've had with my 'leftist' friends here in the good old USA, one of whom was actually Cuban American, lol)

  • How to reload an AK as a wolf

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  • And this is why the Kalashnikov is the superior 20th century all-purpose assault rifle.

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    This is not Reddit

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  • Thank you for this, it's a breath of fresh air. The rest of Lemmy (minus the explicitly socialist instances) has basically been Reddit-lite ever since June 2023, and it's getting worse in some ways. I didn't want to be a part of that even though I was also leaving Reddit at that time (but had been highly disillusioned with the platform and barely posted at that point), and found a good home here. I love it.

  • How the times have changed

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  • It is funny, in a very macabre way, just how terrible these people are.

    But...

    It amazes me how people can hear the shit that comes out of any right winger's mouth and give it even a second of consideration. They're liars. They never sincerely apologize for lying or try to make up for any of the damage they caused, they just continue to lie and act like utter assholes. They lie to themselves so that they don't feel like liars, but they are fucking liars.

    At this point I just assume they are lying when they open their mouths, so I can save myself some time, and go about my life working and building community with people that have some integrity. I am so over other people pointing out their hypocrisy, although I know it has to be done for others who haven't come to this same conclusion yet. But fuck man, we really need to disempower these assholes, for real this time (no more stopping at Berlin!), and do whatever we can to make their selfish ideology extinct.

    /end rant

  • Minneapolis mayor: ‘I don’t support abolishing ICE’

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  • There he goes, being a Democrat.

  • Black Panthers in Philly...listen up

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  • Much love to my ML comrades in the BPP. Will be interesting to see if the YLO, AIM, or other groups from the Rainbow Coalition experience a similar revival or are simply reincarnated in spiritual successor groups. Either way, now's the time.

  • White to Mate in 2 - Composition by Сергей Юрьевич Румянцев

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  • You're right, it would.

    The interactive board chose b2 but Bc1 would force a different play from white. I guess then I would go Qa6 to take the rook and still get checkmate.