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politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance wildly claims Ilhan Omar ‘definitely committed immigration fraud,’ White House will ‘go after’ herEnglish
2·3 hours agoWhy don’t you start with that South African illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa illegally?
Because he’s one of their biggest donors, obviously
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politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance wildly claims Ilhan Omar ‘definitely committed immigration fraud,’ White House will ‘go after’ herEnglish
7·3 hours agoIlhan has been targeted by the entire Washington establishment since she took office.
The US government cannot stomach a Somali community engaging in any form of self governance anywhere on earth
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politics @lemmy.world•Megyn Kelly list MAGA names she says ‘pushed’ Trump to go to war: ‘Those people should be held to account’English
12·15 hours agoThe government belongs to and serves the people
It clearly doesn’t. Any amount of time interacting with a police officer should tell you as much.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Eh, I've heard betterEnglish
13·20 hours agoIsn’t Velocity just the holodeck equivalent of Pong?
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politics @lemmy.world•Megyn Kelly list MAGA names she says ‘pushed’ Trump to go to war: ‘Those people should be held to account’English
511·20 hours agoA traitor to whom? The billionaire class quite literally owns all the property.
By not supporting the reigning despots, it’s liberals and leftists who are definitionally the traitors.
The people ruling the county aren’t on your side. They are your enemies.
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politics @lemmy.world•Megyn Kelly list MAGA names she says ‘pushed’ Trump to go to war: ‘Those people should be held to account’English
41·20 hours agoI’m just holding everyone who voted for trump in 24 responsible
What’s the sentence, your honor?
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the US state of Missouri's governor signed a Mormon extermination order in 1838 which wasn't formally rescinded until 1976English
41·23 hours agoMormonism is the end result of Protestant theology mingling with Capitalist economics.
The same experiment has produced Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology, and dozens of other systems of social exploitation draped in religious clothing. Anywhere people need to believe an end to our industrial age self-flagellation is nigh, but cannot conceive of a society organized outside of theocratic principles, falls back into the same ritual of spiritualized mass marketing.
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News@lemmy.world•ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily LivesEnglish
1·23 hours ago“Only Rich People should be allowed to have kids” is peak American thought.
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News@lemmy.world•ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily LivesEnglish
6·23 hours agoICE literally wouldn’t have a foot in the door with airports right now if they weren’t filling in for empty TSA positions.
ICE agents keep getting a salary. TSA agents don’t.
Might be worth recalling that the original purpose of TSA was to rebuild social confidence in the airline industry for purely private interests. We’d made an enormous investment in airports, airplane manufacturers, and attendant infrastructure going back to the early 1970s, and were suddenly faced with the prospect of half the industry going bankrupt.
Airport security was, in effect, a bailout of a failing business model.
What we’re seeing now is a state level refusal to pay for anything that restores confidence in an economic institution. Terror is the only method they know how to employ. ICE agents are unleashed as a punishment, rather than a security blanket.
You’ll notice that nobody in the private sector seems interested in back filling the TSA jobs privately (a possibility that is legally permitted but more expensive than any public airport or airline wants to assume). Meanwhile, nobody in the legislative or executive level wants to admit this is security theater and dispense with it entirely.
All anyone knows how to do is terrorize you for flying, terrorize you for complying, and terrorize you for questioning these decisions.
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News@lemmy.world•ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily LivesEnglish
5·23 hours agowhat other option are we left with?
“Well, fascism is here, what do we do?”
“Just stop doing anything. Do absolutely nothing. Don’t do things anymore.”
“That sounds like a miserable idea.”

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News@lemmy.world•ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily LivesEnglish
32·23 hours agoAirport Americans are the new African Americans, I guess.
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News@lemmy.world•US Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on new paper currency in first for sitting presidentEnglish
1·1 day agoWell… enjoy your TrumpBux
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Technology@lemmy.world•Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming PatternsEnglish
91·2 days agoI wonder if the headline was written by an AI
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News@lemmy.world•US Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on new paper currency in first for sitting presidentEnglish
2·2 days agoI’ve heard people are selling to buy oil
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News@lemmy.world•US Treasury plans to put Trump's signature on new paper currency in first for sitting presidentEnglish
1·2 days agoMakes me glad I almost never handle cash then.
Was going to say…
Who even carries paper currency on them?
Truth is stranger than fiction
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News@lemmy.world•US sends subpoenas in Warner-Paramount antitrust review as probe picks up steamEnglish
5·2 days agoDoing a superficial investigation and report on the acquisition will cement it against challenge by states and future federal administrations.
Not that any Democratic administration has the balls to invoke Antitrust provisions in a material way (or, at least, a way courts won’t immediately block). But someone in TrumpWorld might be savvy enough to do enough ass-covering to avoid the tail risk.
If you don’t vote for Clinton, Cuomo, and Eric Adams, you’ll get something worse!
looks at the thing that is worse
It’s their biggest donor
It’s crazy how many people love to blot the Clintons (and Larry Summers and the Cuomos and the rest) out of their brains the moment it’s convenient.









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