usa United States | News & Politics Kamala Harris Refused to Meet With Uncommitted About Gaza — and Uncommitted Refused to Endorse Her
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news news US navy gearing up for potential war with China by 2027
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usa United States | News & Politics U.S. ranks last in health care compared with nine other high-income countries, report finds
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    OprahsedCreature
    18 hours ago 100%

    Sooooooo.... Nothing's really changed in the last few decades since these reports first started coming out then?

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  • electoralism electoralism Polls are basically tied between Trunt and Kamala
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    OprahsedCreature
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    The KGB paid me quite a sum to personally convince people that genocide is actually a bad thing

    You MONSTER!

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  • genzedong GenZedong 80% of Brits would choose communism over fascism
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    movies movies Absolutely! 🖖🏼
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    OprahsedCreature
    3 days ago 100%

    Bottom image: Majestic Music

    Top image: 🎶 So no one told you life was gonna be this way <clap, clap> <clap, clap> 🎶

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  • memes Memes The state of the rail system the most reliable measure of how civilized a country really is
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    I'd go with healthcare but either way US gets its ass handed to it. Possibly literally in the case of healthcare.

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  • askchapo askchapo My birthday is coming up. Should I go paintballing or try airsoft?
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    4 days ago 100%

    I might be wrong but isn't airsoft cheaper?

    As to which is more environmentally friendly though I'd assume paintball because of biodegradation. Maybe the pellets are biodegradable too now though.

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  • antifascism Antifascism Anyone in Hamilton county Ohio recognize this truck?
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    It's perhaps a commentary all itself but I don't understand any of this except the "okay" hand gesture which is ambiguous to me because I thought white supremacists tried to co-opt it but I have no idea how successful they actually were.

    Can anyone define all the fascist symbolism here for me?

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  • memes memes Hearing the lawsuit about Alice in Borderlands, I mean Battle Royale.. I mean Squid Games!!!
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    news news The US military is offering a contract for research on "the effects of nuclear weapons on agricultural systems".
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    capitalismindecay Capitalism in Decay ROK(occupied Korea) forcibly sold away thousands of babies in a horrific for-profit adoption scheme FOR DECADES
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    1 week ago 100%

    Which is also quite spectacular considering, you know, the South Korean dictatorship Amerikkka installed

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  • memes Memes Miss me with that doomer shit
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    OprahsedCreature
    1 week ago 100%

    Turns out that just because you begin to stab yourself doesn't mean you can't stop pushing the knife in and staunch the bleeding.

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  • climatecrisis The Climate Crisis Democrats Introduce Federal Bill to Make Climate Polluters Pay
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    usa United States | News & Politics Democrats Introduce Federal Bill to Make Climate Polluters Pay
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    1 week ago 100%

    You'll forgive me if I don't get excited until it actually passes without going through 80 revisions that just turn it into an oil company tax break.

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  • climatecrisis The Climate Crisis Democrats Introduce Federal Bill to Make Climate Polluters Pay
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    1 week ago 100%

    You'll forgive me if I don't get excited until it actually passes without going through 80 revisions that just turn it into an oil company tax break.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Pyongyang at night
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    OprahsedCreature
    1 week ago 100%

    Imagine thinking it's backwards when it's dark at night because people in the country actually get a full night's sleep instead of working 16 hours and then going down to the well-lit neighborhood bar to get buzzed enough to actually fall asleep.

    8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, and 8 hours for WHATEVER THE HELL WE WANT!

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do?
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    memes memes Happy 9/11 to all who celebrate 🥰
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    1 week ago 100%

    Nor should anyone forget how many deaths are enabled daily by the weapons Amerikkka supplies to Israhell

    Nor should anyone forget the famous line from "Chapo Guide to Revolution" (paraphrasing from memory):

    How much better off would the world have been if our response to 9/11 was to do absolutely nothing?

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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse When asked if you are Marxist - Che Guevara
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    I never say I'm a Marxist, but rather that I study Marx and generally like what I've read, because I'm also not sure at what point one becomes a Marxist. Do you ace your Marxism exams to become a Marxist? Now I want to know where I can take Marxism exams.

    Now if you ask me a question purely of beliefs like, "are you a communist", I'd say no, but only because it's usually assholes like Congress that ask that question and you should always lie to Congress.

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  • askchapo askchapo Why do so many businesses prefer phone calls to emails?
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    OprahsedCreature
    1 week ago 100%

    How many dyslexic people in the US would ever even get diagnosed? That would require a semblance of healthcare right?

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  • politics politics Mr. Cheney, welcome to The Resistance!
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    This man is what competent evil looks like. Trump once joked he could get away with shooting someone on fifth avenue. This guy literally shot a guy on a hunting trip and was apologized to by the man who was shot.

    Wikipedia: 'After being released from the hospital, he issued the following statement: "My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this week."'

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Why wasn't this done 😢
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    i love saying that germany should have been turned into israel, but ultimately ethnostates shouldn’t exist.

    While this is true, I can also understand why Jews after WW2 might think "Maybe what we need is our own state with its own military."

    That being said, my limited understanding was that South Germany voted strongly against the Nazis, so a new Israel should have been carved out of Northern Germany, connecting from the Netherlands to Poland, the 2 countries with the highest concentrations of Jews in pre-WW2 Europe. This would have opened things up logistically, culturally, and diplomatically for Jews who wanted to return to places they had been removed from due to the Nazis. Making Germans dependent on this new Israel for access to the sea might also have taught them a valuable lesson in humility.

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    "What is it with all these leftists who won't vote for Biden? If they could just stomach a little genocide then Biden would beat the orange fascist! But noooooooo, they won't even tolerate a little!"

    You know what thread I'm talking about. Edit: Sorry, I saw so many fellow bears there that I assumed everyone knew about it. Since there's been a few requests, here's the [link](https://lemmy.ml/post/7961016).

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    chapotraphouse OprahsedCreature 11 months ago 100%
    All these Palestinians who have died in full view of cameras and reporters are dying very anti-semitically.

    If they want to stop being such anti-semites, they will have to die in private where no one can see them, and not leave a body for cameras and reporters to see. Especially the children: they're the worst anti-semites by far.

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    chapotraphouse OprahsedCreature 12 months ago 100%
    I’m sure that western media will handle this news in a completely rational, reasonable, and non-inflammatory way.

    I’m sure that western media will handle this news in a completely rational, reasonable, and non-inflammatory way.

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    Researchers report dramatic rise in cancer in people under 50 news.harvard.edu

    https://www.wlrn.org/2023-09-15/why-are-cancer-rates-rising-among-young-people https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20230817/cancer-rates-rise-among-people-under-age-50 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/08/nine-things-you-need-to-know-about-cancer-surge-among-under-50s https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-freaking-over-rise-cancer-130500519.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/health/as-cancer-cases-rise-among-younger-adults-some-types-of-the-disease-have-higher-burden-than-others-study-finds/index.html

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    Asklemmy OprahsedCreature 1 year ago 91%
    Does any music genre have a disproportionally high number of highly educated artists?

    Was reading about The Offspring due to this post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/2628198 As I read their Wikipedia page I noticed that Dexter Holland (lead singer) has a PhD in Molecular Biology. Then I remembered that Greg Gaffin (lead singer) of Bad Religion has a PhD in Zoology. Is this a trend in Punk Rock or am I noticing a freak coincidence? If not punk rock, is there any genre that stands out in its number of highly educated artists?

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    Who's the most compelling non-main character on the show to you?

    For me it's Planetina. While the whole episode was as chaotic as any episode, I felt that her arc through the episode was extremely deep for such a brief appearance, rife with symbolism and philosophy.

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    Asklemmy OprahsedCreature 1 year ago 89%
    I feel like /c/memes has taught us a valuable lesson today: Would it make sense to develop a feature to block a comm from our feed for a selectable unit of time (1 hour, 1 day, etc.)?

    Even if we're subscribed to them? Could a temp block exist in conjunction with a subscription? I love c/memes but holy shit no matter which sort I select by they've managed to overwhelm my feed.

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    Asklemmy OprahsedCreature 3 years ago 84%
    Hey Lemmy, what are your favorite ear worms?

    Wikipedia for reference: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

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    Asklemmy OprahsedCreature 3 years ago 95%
    Hey Lemmy, what are some good public domain books?

    I tend to like the volunteer-read audiobooks on librivox and recently was curious about their Sherlock Holmes books (never read or listened to before), but I'm wondering what else is out there and popular in the community.

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    Lemmy OprahsedCreature 3 years ago 100%
    Option for multiple choice polls?

    I know the format here is generally based on Reddit combined with federation à la Mastodon, but I was wondering if in the realm of possible innovation anyone had considered the option of adding multiple choice polls, possibly inclusive of ranked choice voting?

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