> > > Billie Eilish is the latest high-profile entertainer to back Vice President Harris’s White House bid, urging her fans to “vote like your life depends on it.” > > > > “We are voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they are fighting to protect our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy,” Eilish said in a video posted on social media on Tuesday. > > > > “We can’t let extremists control our lives, our freedoms and our future,” Eilish’s brother and longtime collaborator, Finneas O’Connell, said in the message shared with the “Lunch” singer’s more than 7 million followers on X. > > > > “The choice is clear,” the post said. > >
piefedderatedd 3 days ago • 100%
I’m just saying that saying or thinking things like „Kick them out of the EU. Good riddance!” would only result in an absolute dictatorship and the suffering of almost 10 million people in the long term.
I hate the hungarian government too, but kicking them out from the eu would only affect the people, and the same assholes would be sitting in throne, but instead of having some people at least trying to make them lean in the right direction, they would happily abuse their powers without the fear of losing anything
I see your point. Thanks for elaborating.
Having said that I'd like to add that one of my annoyances about Orban lately is the change regarding
Russians and Belarussians. Which means these people can easily go further into Europe. Unrelated to this Germany picked up border control again (Besides their border control with Czech Republic which they already had). We're living in a troubled world and in very difficult times.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240809085816/https://verfassungsblog.de/could-hungary-be-suspended-from-schengen/
piefedderatedd 3 days ago • 100%
You're maybe suggesting that there's some rigging of the elections going on or some bribe and corruption. It sounds like what happened in Turkey where Erdogan started to use money and goods to get his votes for example by donating food to the very poor each time after these poor people would attend a progressive lecture by the author of this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lose_a_Country
piefedderatedd 3 days ago • 90%
Are you blaming your economical misery completely on me and on the EU and not at all on Orban ?
Reading this I wondered ? I assumed it was only about really large weapons. > > > [Routh](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ryan-routh-trump-shooting-suspect-florida-assassination-attempt-b2613428.html) has a criminal record dating back to at least 2002, when he was convicted in Guilford County, North Carolina, on one felony count of possession of a weapon of mass destruction, according to a review of state court records. > >
piefedderatedd 3 days ago • 80%
Very good that The European Consortium For Political Research blog has a post about this.
My take on it :
- Is Hungary still a democracy ? Maybe not.
- Is Hungary a long time pain in the *ass within EU ? Yes.
Conclusion : Kick them out of the EU. Good riddance!
Meat-eaters put themselves through an extraordinary array of mental contortions to defend their habit. Here's why it's so hard to put down the burger.
> > > New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has issued a lengthy warning in the Washington Post (9/5/24) on the dangers another Donald Trump presidency would pose to a “free and independent press.” > > > > > You might expect this to be a prelude to an announcement that the New York Times would work tirelessly to defend democracy. Instead, Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of “neutrality”—which, in practice, is both-sidesing—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy. > > > > > ACTION ALERT: You can send a message to the New York Times at letters@nytimes.com. Please remember that respectful communication is the most effective. Feel free to leave a copy of your communication in the comments thread. > >
piefedderatedd 4 days ago • 100%
Article shows :
Correction 14 September 2024: An earlier version of this article put a figure on how many Kenyan workers would be allowed into Germany under the deal. The German interior ministry corrected this to state that the deal did not specify a figure.
piefedderatedd 4 days ago • 100%
370 people were arrested.
Article in Dutch with video :
https://nos.nl/artikel/2537112-alle-xr-klimaatdemonstranten-van-a12-gehaald
Here's another no tracking, no CAPTCHA copy of OP posted link :
https://neuters.de/world/europe/climate-protesters-block-dutch-highway-while-police-strike-2024-09-14/
Sanewashing. > > > It’s pretty rare for the Columbia Journalism Review and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to be dishing on the same topic. But media critics touched a nerve this week with accusations that the political press suffers from a “coherence bias,” particularly as it relates to Donald Trump: the tendency of reporters and editors to take his verbal diarrhea and transform it, through the magic of elision and omission, into statesmanship. TNR contributor Parker Molloy has an even better word for this practice: “sanewashing.” > >
Singer’s backing could sway undecided voters in key states, but Tay Tay should beware – political endorsement can backfire
Trump allies in Congress have warned that the former president’s close ties to the far-right provocateur so close to the election could backfire, writes Kelly Rissman
It is important that Kamala Harris continues to define and expose Trump. But it may not be enough to secure a victory
The iconic singer is none too pleased that Trump is speaking at a venue bearing her name.
The Tesla CEO simply couldn’t resist using his own platform to say something sexist, controversial – and downright creepy, writes Ryan Coogan
Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’
piefedderatedd 1 week ago • 100%
It is not about high time to get Ellen Musk behind bars and give all their belongings to the poor ?
> > > Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a “disaster” for the ex-president. > > > > Donald Trump is so feral and narcissistic, so unrestrained and so outside the norm of American politics, that he’s difficult to debate. It’s disorienting. Very few people have been able to stand up to him without being pulled into the muck. In the past, even when he lost debates on points, he dominated his opponents. > > > > But on a Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris cracked the code. > >
Harris may have been light on policy, but she was able to bait an ‘unhinged’ Trump into a number of traps
Trump didn’t want, much less imagine, a debate with Harris. Not so subconsciously he still thinks he’s facing Joe Biden
piefedderatedd 2 weeks ago • 100%
The cat sitter told Knight that Ted had just walked through the catflap. “I didn’t believe it at first,” Knight said. “I had to get her to FaceTime me live so that I could see that Ted was actually alive.”
Knight soon realised she had paid £130 to cremate someone else’s cat. When she later went to collect the ashes, she saw the urn had been labelled “Not Dead Ted”.
piefedderatedd 2 weeks ago • 90%
You’re not paying enough attention if you think Trump winning means “too bad the rest of the world will feel the consequences.” Germany just elected their first far right government since WWII,
There were elections in two states in the east of Germany last weekend. In one of them the far right party AfD gained most votes compared to others. In the other state they finished second largest. There is nothing decisive however. Other parties have been called to set up a firewall "Brandmauer" to prevent the AfD to govern.
France had a massive right wing that is now in the EU council, Austria… well they keep making shitty right wing choices, down into South America Argentina shifted right, and other countries continue to do so as well. We’re not special or alone in this.
Exactly. In the last few decades Austria , Turkey and Hungary were among the first to shift to far right party based governments in Europe. An interesting read is this book by Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran (Who fled the country) which is about Turkey going downhill from democracy to dictatorship. This book also reflects on Trump winning in 2016. At some point also Poland had a far-right government but the damage from that is slowly being repaired by a new government. By now among others Slovakia, Italy and the Netherlands have far-right government coalitions. Outside Europe there was Bolsonaro in Brazil. Still, Trump winning (legally or not) would be bad for the rest of the world, especially for Ukraine.
Trump isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He also did very little for young men during his four years as president
piefedderatedd 2 weeks ago • 100%
Absurd article by NYT.
According to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch#Trial_and_prison it was not really a prison.
He got five years but got out after some eight months. During that time he also dictated his Mein Kampf book to Hess and another of his allies. See also the photo in that article of a "cozy" meeting in the "prison".
The lay judges were fanatically pro-Nazi and had to be dissuaded by the presiding Judge, Georg Neithardt, from acquitting Hitler outright.[42] Hitler and Hess were both sentenced to five years in Festungshaft [de] ('fortress confinement') for treason. Festungshaft was the mildest of the three types of jail sentence available in German law at the time; it excluded forced labour, provided reasonably comfortable cells, and allowed the prisoner to receive visitors almost daily for many hours. This was the customary sentence for those whom the judge believed to have had honourable but misguided motives, and it did not carry the stigma of a sentence of Gefängnis (common prison) or Zuchthaus (disciplinary prison). In the end, Hitler served just over eight months of this sentence before his early release for good behaviour.[43] Prison officials allegedly wanted to give Hitler deaf guards, to prevent him from persuading them to free him.[28]
piefedderatedd 3 weeks ago • 100%
Edited the post and included two archive copies.
piefedderatedd 3 weeks ago • 100%
Edited the post and included two archive copies.
piefedderatedd 3 weeks ago • 100%
Edited the post and included two archive copies.
Mendis, who stayed in Manchester church for two years in 1980s to fight deportation, has died aged 68 in Germany
Archive copies : \- [https://archive.ph/iXOoU](https://archive.ph/iXOoU) \- [https://web.archive.org/web/20240830175216/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/kamala-harris-trump-walz-election-b2604407.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20240830175216/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/kamala-harris-trump-walz-election-b2604407.html)
> > > The potential future president had also told the crowd, "You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true," before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers. > > > > "Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before," he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. "We've never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent." > > > > The online response to Trump's odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, "Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well." > >
Senior ministers set to travel in government-owned aircraft after ‘grossly wasteful’ contract axed
Event in the trip-hop pioneers’ hometown of Bristol is being hailed as the lowest carbon-emissions show of its scale ever staged
piefedderatedd 4 weeks ago • 100%
Aren't all billionaires conservative? I don't think about them for my own sanity's sake, but I cannot imagine a progressive billionaire.
Maybe there's at least one progressive billionaire. :
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/23/austrian-heiress-marlene-engelhorn-who-is-giving-away-90-per-cent-of-her-wealth-im-creating-the-tax-i-would-want-to-pay
While we're at it, please sign the Tax The Rich petition for the EU :
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ Same petition but in Italian for Italians : https://tax-the-rich.it/
For US citizens : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
piefedderatedd 4 weeks ago • 100%
Looks like you need to use "add remote". I've added this the Album Art one and it does Tiled mode by default :
https://piefed.social/c/albumartporn@lemmy.world
Try for yourself with the Film posters one :
Go here : https://piefed.social/communities Then click on Add remote -> https://piefed.social/community/add_remote and then search for !filmpostersporn@lemmy.world and add it.
> > > Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him.” > > > > She continued: “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’” > > > > She repeated a story she has told before: that during the January 6 insurrection, she asked Melania Trump whether she could tweet that there was “no place for lawlessness or violence”, and the first lady gave a one-word reply: “No.” > >
piefedderatedd 1 month ago • 100%
For US citizens there is another petition which you can sign : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
American billionaires are 33% richer than they were at the start of the pandemic, all while inequality has worsened and inflation has soared. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pay a “true tax rate" of just 3% or less while working people around the globe pay far more.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share of taxes.
Just a modest tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s richest individuals could bring in $1.7 trillion in a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
Sign your name and demand that President Biden, Congress, and world leaders address the inequality crisis globally and here at home by making multi-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
piefedderatedd 1 month ago • 100%
For US citizens there is another petition which you can sign : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
American billionaires are 33% richer than they were at the start of the pandemic, all while inequality has worsened and inflation has soared. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pay a “true tax rate" of just 3% or less while working people around the globe pay far more.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share of taxes.
Just a modest tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s richest individuals could bring in $1.7 trillion in a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
Sign your name and demand that President Biden, Congress, and world leaders address the inequality crisis globally and here at home by making multi-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
piefedderatedd 1 month ago • 66%
The French have been really great with this petition, showing the way.
piefedderatedd 1 month ago • 87%
The petition is about getting enough signatures for the EU. France and Germany have already enough votes.
If the petition succeeds this could bring in a lot of money that is otherwise not used for the public.
Please sign for our climate and our future.
piefedderatedd 1 month ago • 100%
I wonder if you have any tips / words of advice regading things that PieFed does and Lemmy doesn't do.
PieFed has Topics which Lemmy doesn't have. So with PieFed you can subscribe to a lot of communities at once. Or you can start a post in PieFed inside a topic and then PieFed will ask you in which community you want to post. PieFed also can let you follow a user, and let you subscribe or un-subscribe from posts or comments.
More here : https://join.piefed.social/features/ -> Differences between Lemmy and PieFed
Some things I like about Lemmy, and what PieFed does not (?) yet have :
- Easy to cross-post to other communities. This is useful to avoid letting others seeing a lot of posts in a row.
- Detection of an earlier post with the same title so one can decide to stop posting a duplicate.
- Auto suggestion when wanting to mention someone with @
Article has a Transcript of the video.
> > > Ex-president quickly broke away from prepared speech to accuse vice-president of being a communist and a fascist > > > > “They’ll say he was rambling. I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy, you know, really smart. I don’t ramble. But the other day, anytime I hit too hard, they say he was rambling, rambling,” he said. > >
Trump unexpectedly closed a gap in the polls to a photo-finish in 2020. History has taught us it is far too soon to celebrate
Donald Trump has watched a video clip of the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally “over and over again,” leading to fears that he may be suffering from PTSD, according to a report. The former president has viewed the “seven-second” clip, in which his right ear was grazed with a bullet, multiple times – an act which has not helped a reported mental spiral brought on by Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 race.
Former PM said ‘that’s not funny’ when remote-controlled banner was unfurled behind her at event in Suffolk Last part of the article with a grain of "nottheonion" vibe : > > > Truss has become vocal on US politics, last month addressing Republican supporters to learn lessons from her brief time in No 10. She insisted: “I’ve learned how powerful the unelected bureaucracy is. You have to win in November … you have to dismantle the leftist state … they are devious, they are ruthless and they are out to get you.” > > > > The former prime minister has previously criticised the Daily Star’s lettuce joke, insisting it was not “particularly funny”, noting in June: “I just think it’s puerile.” > > > > She went on to criticise the British media, claiming it was “known throughout the world for being particularly vociferous” and it is not “particularly deferential to politicians”. > > > > The banner stunt came shortly after Truss voiced her support for Elon Musk, who has claimed the UK has a two-tier policing system. She said on X: “I am appalled by the attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe. We can’t be truly free without free speech. Good for Elon Musk and X for standing up to these bullies.” Musk responded, thanking her for support. > >
Campaigners warn Robinson inflaming tensions while outside country and subject to arrest warrant
A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 57%
Why the down votes ?
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 90%
The deep-pocketed tech industry of Silicon Valley has historically voted for Democrats. But in the last month, a cadre of tech executives has risen up for Donald Trump, both on the grounds that he will be friendlier to the industry and that President Joe Biden was unfit to serve a second term.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Very sad story but let me take this opportunity to comment on part of the article quoted below. Stop using Twitter. After Musk bought it (and forced the silly name of X) moderation of Twitter is severely broken. It would be good if people move away from Twitter and use other platforms. Especially now that Musk is endorsing Donald Trump and sharing fake videos.
From the https://rogerhallam.com/5-years-in-prison story :
The judge began the next morning by bizarrely reading out my Twitter feed, which alerted my followers to the fact I wasn’t allowed to give my whole defence and called for support for a presence outside the court. But then he moved on to gleefully recounting some of the various trolls – why this was any part of a serious trial, no one could fathom. I was ordered to take them down by lunchtime or I’d be in contempt of court. This is a British judge in 2024.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
A clear copy of an article from The Onion right ? Right ?
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Glad to see at least some media in Europe highlighting this.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Saw your post earlier today and thought it was interesting. Let me just share these thoughts for the sake of sharing thoughts like in a brain storm session :
- Wanting a sustainable world, solidarity, and live in peace is normal.
- The more climate crisis denial grows within conservative circles, the more some behavior of opposing people can be called radical by the former conservatives instead of called what it really is : natural.
- The words left and right in politics were maybe useful many years ago but it has lost its true meaning. Perhaps better words are conservative versus progressive.
Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
The Tax The Rich, EU campaign is supported by Millionaires for Humanity, who are more than just a handful of millionaires. I find it uplifting news that some of them are not so selfish : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67935463 Hopefully some change is gonna come.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Oh well, that is demotivating to hear about German government. But the EU is hopefully different, and countries will have to listen to the EU and not the other way around.
This is the story by one of the millionaires who is supporting the Tax The Rich, EU campaign :
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/23/austrian-heiress-marlene-engelhorn-who-is-giving-away-90-per-cent-of-her-wealth-im-creating-the-tax-i-would-want-to-pay
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
I could be wrong and that could be the most legit photo in the world. It just feels very unlikely to me.
Papers in my country reported that a sports photographer said about the photo : "Chance of 1 in a million. Almost impossible". Other articles mentioned the possibility of a small animal flying instead of a bullet.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Right. Not just that, USA is allowed to invade the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Damn pretty and fun.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Majestic.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Cute of you to call the corporate state as a democracy
Thanks for the insightful reminder.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Not yet, no. It's a feature that's been requested somewhere.
Thanks.
It's a bit more tedious, but manually submitting the same link to a bunch of different communities is functionally the same.
Yes, but some people complain when not cross-posting, hence my question.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 66%
The example you are giving about fighting back turned out to be in your favor.
But things could have gone wrong, especially when a whole group would have backed the other guy.
And by that you are sort of advocating a survival of the fittest which is maybe not a good idea
when you are small and timid versus some strong guy.
I believe it is not wrong to involve school personnel when bullying happens.
In Europe anti bullying policies were implemented years ago. I remember reading that in newspapers.
Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf
- Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
- Each individual must be treated with respect
- Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
- Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
- All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
react against all forms of bullying. - All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
supported.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 50%
The US should improve treatment of mental health issues.
The US should recover public confidence in its political system.The things you have suggested are just distractions away from these two points and won't fix anything.
Your point about mental health issues is about the victim being bullied or being avoided by others I guess ?
If I refuse to buy Nike shoes like all others, and if I decide to wear all black clothes with heavy metal shirts and I prefer to read books rather than talk loud and the rest of my class mates avoid me for reasons, does that mean I need to get therapy ?
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Hell, no. Don't put the responsibility on victims to help their bullies/abusers.
I see. In Europe things are different.
Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf
- Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
- Each individual must be treated with respect
- Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
- Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
- All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
react against all forms of bullying. - All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
supported.
Also, it's not always a clear cut bully/victim dynamic. My school had a loner gun-loving asocial student. He probably thought he was bullied. In reality he made people, especially the girls, super uncomfortable and he was avoided. No one really made fun of him, never physically attacked him, never pulled pranks on him, just avoided him. Not inviting his friendship is not bullying. He needed professional help.
Forcing me, for example, to talk to him and pretend to be his friend would have been bad for both of us. He needed counseling/therapy, which I was not and still am not qualified to provide, and I needed safe friends I could trust.
Okay. That is a lone wolf example, it is not about active bullying.
I consider bullying to be violent in general.
Even words can be damaging for some people.
The whole "boys don't cry" is a tragedy in my opinion and has done a lot of emotional damage already.
And reading this today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump#Personal_life I would not be at all
surprised if Donald Trump would benefit from long time therapy.
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 100%
Beautiful
piefedderatedd 2 months ago • 94%
You heard me. They're getting fooled into helping the oil industry and all enemies of nature. They're making the randoms that form the majority hate climate activists, and I think it's deliberate.
How much positive have you heard from people outside of activism about their actions? How much criticism have you heard from withing activist circles?
How much positive have you heard from politicians about the huge climate report that scientists worked on for almost 10 years, delivered March last year ?