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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • AOC is right: Jill Stein’s campaign is not serious

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  • Or people smacking their foreheads that anyone took her seriously after she was revealed to be a Russian plant way back in 2017.

    I didn’t downvote, but I can’t upvote either, because seriously?

  • AOC is right: Jill Stein’s campaign is not serious

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  • <astronaut gun meme>

    It never was.

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  • Kinda brilliant to disguise malware as a captcha, though. I won’t be surprised.

  • Trump rejects second Harris debate

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  • Calling it now:

    Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.

    e: once he gets tired of being reassured, he’ll double-down on the unhinged scale

  • Kamala Harris gives abortion rights advocates the debate answer they've longed for in Philadelphia

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  • With public figures, the bar to meet slander/libel includes that it must have been done with ‘actual malice’ – not anything different about which words were used.

    Private figures must show that the defendant acted "negligently.“

    Public figures must show that the defendant acted with "actual malice."

    The bar for bringing such a case is even higher for public figures than private people, but it’s still not about the word ‘lie’ vs ‘untruth’.

    If you’re aware of a single case where synonyms like that mattered, I’d love to know.

  • Kamala Harris gives abortion rights advocates the debate answer they've longed for in Philadelphia

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  • The law doesn’t make that distinction, though. ‘Untruth’, falsely claimed’, and ‘lied’ are all the same under the law. The only thing those laws care about is whether your words were true. If I call you a liar in a headline and I can prove you actually lied, you have no case.

    Weasel words don’t protect them from lawsuits, it’s just another part of the degradation of journalism and the fact that whitewashing and softening their language gets them more clicks & eyeballs, because it’s less likely to offend people who disagree.

  • Trump Warns Taylor Swift Will 'Pay' For Harris Support

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  • This reeks of IN MINECRAFT, though, and we all know how mentally unstable and trigger-happy some in his cult are. This will almost certainly lead to death threats against her, if not actual plots.

    e: not saying it isn’t clickbait, it totally is

  • 'What’s wrong with Trump?' Onlookers stunned as ex-president smiles at 9/11 memorial event

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  • Uhh…… …He can’t live forever. That’s all I’ve got.

  • Elon Musk breaks debate silence with bizarre offer to impregnate Taylor Swift

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  • Rapey af

  • Kamala Harris gives abortion rights advocates the debate answer they've longed for in Philadelphia

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  • The only legal excuse for this is the slander/libel laws, which only apply in cases where calling someone a liar is untrue. If you’re calling out verifiable lies as lies (e: and you can bring receipts, which they can), that’s not slander.

    They’re just pussies.

  • Kamala Harris gives abortion rights advocates the debate answer they've longed for in Philadelphia

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  • Biden was far from my choice, too, but I’d have voted for his corpse to keep the fascists out of office. Harris is a no-brainer. I hope she keeps bringing up the abortion issue in the personal, relatable way she did in this debate, with specific, verifiable examples of the real human toll the right-wing cruelty has wrought.

    Women and girls unable to get care because hospitals are afraid of litigation, women forced to become walking coffins. She’s right, it’s unconscionable.

  • J.D. Vance Can’t Explain Why Trump Threw Him Under the Bus in Debate

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  • He’s just a volunteer coffee boy.

  • Debate wrap up: No one has ever so thoroughly dominated Donald Trump

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  • That seems like the riskiest click ever. I’d have to thoroughly sterilise my phone.

  • Project 2025 leader confesses deep Trump ties in damning interview

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  • Yes, that’s the minor dent I was referring to. They’d need to find another front-man. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took less than a week to convince Musk to take on the mantle.

    e: the right is plenty enamoured with Musk, so I think the transition would be fairly smooth.

  • J.D. Vance Can’t Explain Why Trump Threw Him Under the Bus in Debate

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  • Let’s not give Pence more credit than he deserves. Pence didn’t decline to support Trump out of a sense of duty or because he cares about Americans, but because Dan Quayle (!) told him he had no choice in the matter:

    Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.

    'Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,' Quayle told him.

    Pence pressed again.

    ‘You don't know the position I'm in,' he said, according to the authors.

    'I do know the position you're in,' Quayle responded. 'I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That's all you do. You have no power.'

    source: How Dan Quayle saved democracy. Yes, really.

  • J.D. Vance Can’t Explain Why Trump Threw Him Under the Bus in Debate

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  • Has he met trump??

  • Trump says Harris debate was 'rigged,' ABC should lose license, but 'we did great'

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  • He just can’t stop tilting at windmills.

  • Project 2025 leader confesses deep Trump ties in damning interview

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  • Wealthy Christian nationalists, specifically. They’re hell-bent on turning the US into a theocracy. They’ve been shedding members at an unprecedented rate (and thus money) as the populace becomes more secular, and since persuasion hasn’t been working, they’ve resolved to take their control back by force.

  • Trump says Harris debate was 'rigged,' ABC should lose license, but 'we did great'

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