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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42800561

Bruncle Musk seeded white bread. Sold in Africa only.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42800561

Bruncle Musk seeded white bread. Sold in Africa only.

YouTuber @WolvesAndFinance shows how Erika Kirk's endorsement of JD Vance at Turning Point USA's America Fest is illegal under IRS tax code which prohibits a 501(c)(3) non-profit from endorsing a political candidate, and how as tax payers we end up subsidizing this. Not a single peep from Democrats though. Why aren't they investigating? Do they have something to hide as well? Here is the timestamp for most relevant info.

My dear German brothers & sisters. The politicians you keep electing are headed backwards through history. They keep acting more... totalitarian. Just as Trump got re-elected in the US, you are making the same mistakes. Many in the party claimed to be fighting fascism while seeking their own version.

I wish we could have learned sooner, and you didn't have to go down this road. The politicians used your people like puppets — insisting you must hate & fear your opponents & neighbors — saying, "if you don't vote for us, you may never get to vote again!"

They demanded you ignore their corruption & said they're morally pure. They argued, "we're more educated & intellectually superior — we have better ideas", while defending genocide.

Many of you pointed fingers. You called those expressing legitimate concerns the problem. You convinced yourselves that those merely questioning were traitors.

Instead of demanding accountability & change from within, you attacked viciously. Now as you lose seats & your party briefly pretends they knew it was a genocide all along, will you let them get away with it? Will you let them keep guilt-tripping you for something you didn't do. Will you keep supporting what they're doing now?

This is one of the best phones I ever owned. You could type nearly as fast on it as a traditional keyboard. It even had a scroll ball as well to act like a mouse. The things I would do for Google to implement something like this in a modern Pixel phone. I hate even trying to respond to people these days from my phone, because of how just how bad touch keyboards are in comparison.

This subject arose because I had been looking for ways to use Microsoft & Google's Family features to manage my kids in a co-parenting arrangement. I have children with my ex that I currently manage. She has other children that she manages.

I quickly learned however that the features are only designed for parents that are still together & that don't have kids outside their relationship.

For example, parents & kids can only be assigned to one family plan. So she, or her partner, can't maintain their own plan while still managing the kids that I share with her.

Now I thought this was poor planning on Microsoft & Google's part to design their products around a traditional family. This might not rise to the levels of discrimination most people are concerned with, but it got me thinking.

For example, if a company learns someone was born out of wedlock if they can refuse to hire them. One of the reasons we have protected classes is to prevent discrimination based on personal characteristics that have been held to be suspect when used as the basis of statutory differentiations. Surprisingly, there are little to no protections when it comes to people born out of wedlock.

Even protections from discrimination by the government for children born out of wedlock is not absolute. While the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution to provide some protection from the government, it has been inconsistent and contains intentional loopholes that allow for the imposition of greater procedural burdens.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S1-8-7-3/ALDE_00000834/

To me this is surprising, considering that individuals cannot control whether their parents were married or stay together, but yet are not protected by the constitution & congress has not made laws to protect individuals in such scenarios. Some states have included limited protections, but those are generally applied to the parents & are specific to things like housing, not when it comes to employment.

A recent event led me to fact check something that I thought must be untrue, which is that Ukraine conscripts people into the military against their will, including making those people that had previously fulfilled their obligations return to the battlefield.

Moreso, when browsing X recently I saw bunch of videos being posted of what claimed were police forcing people into vans to go fight in Ukraine. The police were beating these people in the process. Now, it is possible that some of this content is propaganda, but I did want to find out if Ukraine forces conscription.

It appears that it is true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Ukraine

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/lacking-manpower-ukraine-resorts-to-harsh-means-to-force-draft-dodgers-into-combat

I am very much against conscription. I still support Ukraine's independence, but the fact that they are forcing people to fight through beatings, arrests, etc. is sickening to me and makes me lose respect for Zelensky. According to an estimate by Ukrainian commanders, 50% to 70% of Ukrainian conscripts are killed or wounded in their first few days in combat on some areas of the front.

What are others thoughts on this?

This lawsuit was filed with Plaintiffs being the States' of New Mexico, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont & Washington. It requests both declaratory & injunctive relief.

What needs to happen is if a federal judge makes a ruling & Musk ignores it, then he needs to be held in contempt & jailed until he complies. In which case they will immediately appeal, likely to try to get it to the Supreme Court. If Supreme Court says Musk can do whatever he wants then you know it is time to organize for succession.

Elon Musk was forced to admit that Grok sucks donkey balls today, of which he also has a penchant for the equestrian variety, like the time Musk offered a SpaceX flight attendant a horse that he had been inseminating believing he could create a Centaur.

He expressed to the world he sucks at creating companies, and is only capable of buying them. He made this statement when he said that even for close to 100 billion dollars wouldn't be enough for his team of incels to compete with ChatGPT-AI, led by sister-molester Sam Altman. Recently a Chinese company called DeepSeek was able to match ChatGPT for less than 10 million dollars, and without the need of a sister-molester.