BeautifulMind

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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Have to admit its a smart play from the orks

Rhetorically it's clever, sure, but effectively it amounts to demanding unconditional surrender or else they'll continue to lose until demands are met

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm old enough to remember when the term 'homeland security' was too fashy-sounding to be taken seriously. We were fine without ICE, and weirdly enough, creating it hasn't solved anything- if anything, the lies they tell to justify doing it more and harder have gotten more and more absurd.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Probably capsaicin

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

They don't have to. They just interfere in our politics

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Not only do we not respect it, we hate it with the heat of a thousand suns

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep. When the 'resistance' grand plans are to adopt the fascist framing (e.g. that 'woke is weak' and should be surrendered) what's the point in having an opposition party?

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually an area that's developing quite quickly. In 2023, California managed to put almost 14mw worth of storage on the grid; if they keep building out at that rate, peaky/transient power sources like wind and solar will have someplace to park until someone needs that energy. Almost 12mw of that was utility storage; it's like the utilities have the chance to get out of the business of producing power themselves and into the role of renting storage (or buying surplus energy then selling it later when it's needed)

Granted, 14mw isn't a lot in the scale of California, but the rate of growth in grid-storage over time is humongous

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's as if they all think that they'll be rewarded for their loyalty to him.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yeah I still can't get over how a couple of days later his right ear didn't have a mark on it. At his age, even with the best of plastic surgery, he wouldn't have clean skin on an ear for at least a week if he'd actually had a bullet pass through any part of it. I don't believe things he has to say about his health- he has a pretty solid track record when it comes to not telling the truth about his height, weight, bone spurs, being a stable genius, etc

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, the "continental shelf" toilet

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Assault? Felony assault? For glitter?

Oh, yeah, glitter is a pain to clean up and the inconvenience involved can for sure be considered when weighing the liabilities involved, but the idea that he was in danger of any real harm is going to be a high bar to meet in court- almost certainly the charge is trumped-up to produce a chilling effect.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Also, those that want to ban the teaching of actual history are for sure the people that want us all to repeat it

 
 

It's probably helpful to note that it's quite common in right-wing rhetoric, particularly as pertains to Likud politics, to conflate criticism of Netanyahu's politics with antisemitism. It's an effective way to call his critics anti-semites for an audience that doesn't understand the difference between Judaism and Likud party politics- sort of like how MAGA republicans call themselves patriots and then claim that their critics are therefore unpatriotic.

Musk has famously re-platformed far-right, nazi-coddling accounts and laid off basically everyone responsible for moderating content. Yes, it's a complete mystery as to why Twitter has a nazi problem

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