Vance himself was a DEI student at Yale. Hypocrisy doesn't matter.
How long until you retire? If you've still got another thirty to forty years of wage slavery ahead of you then don't worry about it. Just keep contributing and make sure to get all of your employer's match, if any.
What are "end-of-life batteries" in this case? Is the plan to reuse used batteries that are no longer fit for automotive service?
I didn't even consider that, but yes if votes can't be private then it's bad to pretend that they are. It looks like there's been some debate on the topic, but the decision was apparently to keep pretending.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the issue was with the follower approval feature. Apparently on Mastodon, users have the option to review all prospective followers. With this setting enabled, no one is supposed to be able to just follow your account with a click. You have to approve each one. Pixelfed wasn't honoring this setting. I think it's a bad feature that gives anyone who uses it a false sense of security.
The lynching narrative presupposes that the perpetrators are a mob of otherwise normal people driven to take justice into their own hands by extreme ignorance and prejudice that can eventually be overcome by education in tolerance. Is that how you feel about the Israeli settlers? The way I feel about them is that they are not normal yet severely ignorant people. They are invaders who know exactly what they are doing. There is no pretense of justice for them to take into their own hands. They cannot be taught to coexist with the Palestinians they are trying to ethnically cleanse from the West Bank. They need to be driven at gun point back to Long Island or at least Israel 1948. Calling it lynching minimizes the settlers' culpability.
The problem is this case is that 'a lynching' implies that the mob is going against the authorities, which is absolutely not the case when it comes to settler violence. The Israeli soldiers are there to protect and facilitate the settlers in their attacks against Palestinians. Under no circumstances does the IDF deserve the benefit of the doubt and the article makes it clear that they are the ones who abducted Hamdan anyway.
Means, motive, lack of scruples: it's all there.
I wonder if proof of sabotage actually exists, but whoever has it is withholding it from the public for blackmail.
China already gets a lot of (undeserved) bad press. An experiment breaching containment and causing a pandemic is bad for scientific research everywhere.
cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/803056411905791627
Honestly, it's kind of messed up that we call it a *sleeve* of cookies. Sleeve is an incredibly repulsive word on its own, the more I think about it.
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Most of the violence and oppression gets exported, so it's probably best to just sit tight here in the heart of the empire.