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nickwitha_k (he/him)

@ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • Supreme Court hands Trump major win, limits judges’ ability to block birthright citizenship order nationwide

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  • You can't make up some bullshit that is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and win in court.

    Sadly, this is not exactly accurate. See:

    • civil asset forfeiture (blatantly violated the literal wording and any good faith interpretation of the 4th and 6th Amendments)
    • qualified immunity (was literally invented with no basis in existing law, violates the wording of the law as passed, which was maliciously transcribed to omit a clause explicitly banning immunity, and violates the 7th Amendment right to a jury trial for civil damages exceeding $20)

  • Trump Embarrassingly Humbled in $20 Billion ‘60 Minutes’ War

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  • It's a bribe.

  • Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”

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  • Feel like supporting this statement?

  • Another case of ICE disappearing an American citizen

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  • "Disappearing someone" goes back a ways. It's more than kidnapping or abduction because it is an action taken by authoritarian regimes to not just kidnap someone but, generally make it nearly impossible to locate them, often with torture and/or murder and ensuring that the body isn't found. The goal is to terrorize the populace by making dissidents and others in targeted populations disappear without a trace, effectively erasing them from their communities. This is coupled with tacit refusal of anyone in government that is supposed to help to get involved.

    ICE is openly committing terrorist acts in the exact same way that the gestapo and stasi did.

  • CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting

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  • I see it as likely either:

    1. Wanting to murder wide swaths of the population so that they are less worried about uprisings.
    2. The Evangelical Doomsday Cult wanting to maximize harm to humanity so that they can bring about their Armageddon.

  • Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers

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  • It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it's probably safe to say that your view doesn't need to be changed.

  • American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

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  • You are entirely wrong regarding brexit voters.

    You're a Brexiteer, I take it? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018773964

    Sorry if the reality that a significant number of the Leave voters are just racists upsets you. The fact that Brexiteers made life harder for my family in the occupied counties rather upsets me.

    You are wrong regarding Trump.

    Care to clarify your meaning there and support it with anything?

    it is entirely of course entirely reasonable not to vote for the continuation of the political economic ideology that made Trump inevitable.

    This is very much looking like embracing the fallacy of Denying the Correlative. The choices in the US election were only:

    1. Fascism, or
    2. Not fascism

    There were no other options. It's a two party FPTP system, making claims otherwise factually inaccurate. Refusing to vote against fascism was implicitly supporting fascism because refusing to vote has in recorded electoral history only ever helped the right-wing. It really is that simple.

    Refuse to oppose fascism in the bare minimum fashion (other action is required) and you're intentionally enabling harm to those that fascists hate.

    You have a lot to learn. You will not learn it now.

    I've learned that a lot of people claiming to care about humanity are just myopic egotists and lack basic maths skills. What are you suggesting needs learning?

  • American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

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  • Oh is this a homework assignment I'm required to do? Then Gosh, yes Sir! I am, all the time.

    You might recall that you were making assertions that those of us pissed off at the betrayal are doing nothing.

    It amazes me that you and your ilk are not even bothering to even ask why the dem candidates made a choice to support genocide,

    The dem candidates made the choice to stick with the status quo, which you either knew they were not going to break with or were delusional. This genocide has been happening for nearly 80 years and you lot only started caring about it when millions of right-wing cash poured in to influence people to self-disenfranchise.

    The "tactic" of not-voting if the only non-fascist option didn't do what you wanted was, plainly, stupid. Inaction only helps the oppressor and non-voting has only ever helped the right-wing get elected.

    you are on lemmy whining why didnt everyone else support genocide

    And there's the attemp to deflect responsibility again. You know that your fallacious claims are not based on reality - you have already demonstrated that you can think abstractly through your creative use of invented animal abuse to try to make yourself seem morally superior. Reality is not black and white, as much as you lot try to assert it to be.

    and you see nothing wrong with that, and assign zero blame to the leaders who made a choice to support genocide. You hold them to no account whatsoever.

    Of course, you know well we hold them responsible for their actions and would have them all tried for complicity but that's become even more remote a possibility, thanks in part to you.

    Pathetic

    So, you continue to try to assert superiority over others. Congrats, I guess.

    So, since you're so concerned about people being held to account for genocide, are you going to accep responsibility for your part in making things worse for Gaza as well as the rest of the globe? Or are you just going to hide behind your faux action that explicitly helped get fascists into power?

    How about the global genocide through acceleration of climate change? Are you happy that you helped participate in supporting that? Are you happily accepting responsibility for skiing the part?

    How about the mass deportations? How about the illegal and punitive imprisonment of people supporting a free Palestine? Are you proud of your role in making that happen?

  • American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

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  • You clearly know nothing about the actual motives of brexit voters. but call other people short-sighted.

    I'm well-acquainted with the nativism, financial illiteracy, and people mistaking support for right-wing elites for being in any way anti-establishment but, the motive weren't the topic. The relationship to Brexiteers is their reaction to event negative thing that they were warned about coming to pass and their claims of "nobody said this would happen" and "this isn't what I voted for", as well as numerous other statements to avoid taking any personal responsibility.

    The choice was Trump, or a continuation of the political/economic ideology that made Trump inevitable.

    Trump was only inevitable because of self-fulfilling prophecy. His is a minority party, when support from the populace at large is concerned. Positive changes had been happening, like legalizing homosexual marriage (something that's targeted under this regime for repeal, along with interracial relationships).

    And yet you blame 'non-voters' for all of the ills of fossil-fuel powered neo-liberal capitalism, and then have the cheek to call others short-sighted. Grow up.

    They share the blame, yes. Non-voters are the largest voting bloc and have been for decades. Their myopic refusal to meaningfully engage with the political tools of democracy, desiring only instant gratification and ego stroking instead, is why neo-libs have had any power whatsoever. That they helped usher in fascism is just the cherry on top of the shitty behavior.

    Grow up.

    Don't help fascists.

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  • Ah yes... The moral high-ground of...

    checks notes

    Enabling fascism by helping the guy, who stated that Netanyahu should "finish the job" and publicly discussed turning Gaza into hotels, elected...

    If you were any more in denial, you'd be in danger of crocodile attacks.

  • American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

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  • First, want to respond to my question? Are you actively doing anything meaningful to help change the world in a positive manner? Or are you just congratulating yourself for playing the electoral equivalent of The Royal Sampler?

    Thats not for you to decide or dictate.

    Facts are facts, regardless of how you want to feel about them. I don't decide them any more than you do. Objectively, the world, as well as Palestine, is in a worse place than it would have been under Harris.

    You chose to throw democracy, neurodivergent people, trans people, people of color, sick people, the people of Palestine, the people of Ukraine, and plenty of others under the bus with your intention choice not to oppose fascism.

    You could say that you weren't warned or explicitly told what would happen if you helped a Hitler fanboy get elected but, that would be a lie. If you insist on playing the same game as a Brexiteer, be my guest, but you'll still be called out until you put in the slightest bit of effort to fix the century of progess that you've flushed down the toilet.

    The only real question is whether you were a rube or if you were acting maliciously, like the Acolytes of Accelerationism. That's something only you can answer.

  • American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

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  • I suppose its easier for you to demonize the voters who tried to pressure their party to do what we all know is the right thing than it is to pressure our leaders to run a competent and moral campaign.

    They may have convinced themselves or others that this is what they did, but it was, in fact nothing of the sort. All that they did was open the door to someone who keeps a book of Hitler speeches on his bedside table. Non-voters are just shy of collaborators and absolute traitors to vulnerable people, as well as humanity at large.

    So you're just lazy and unable to effect meaningful change, beyond shouting into a void on an anonymous forum, right.

    I've engaged in protest efforts and volunteering to help people in my community, while non-voters only engaged in performative bullshit that objectively made the genocide that they suddenly started caring about worse and put us on a path to losing the last vestiges of democracy, not to mention what appears likely to be WW3.

    I imagine if we all just mute your complaints you'll kick your dog and blame it for the loss, so I guess we'll just wait for you to whine yourself out. I'm not in favor of dog kicking.

    Wow. You're classy. I hope your animal abuse mention isn't projecting your own real-life behavior onto others.

    You know what would actually be a good way to stop me from making statements like my original one? Take some fucking responsibility for the harms that you have voluntarily contributed to and do something - anything - to actually try to meaningfully make the world a better place.

    What do you do to help people in your community? Anything at all or, is engagement limited to stroking your ego and defending actions that do nothing to improve the human condition but let you tell yourself that you're better than other people because they don't have as myopic of an understanding of the world as you do?

  • American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran

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  • Yup. Thanks, non-voters.

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  • All woodpeckers are just really good at functioning with chronic brain damage.

  • A judge sided with Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination.

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  • If the nation survives, people like this must see prison sentences.

  • Appeals court lets Trump keep control National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles during protests

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  • ICE just followed POTUS's order.

    Wasn't a valid defense in Nuremberg, not a valid defense here. Quit the nazi apologist shit. And further, I'd recommend re-evaluation your life choices, considering for support for the stupidest Hitler-wannabe in modern times.

  • ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits

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  • Thanks. Weird autocorrect.

  • ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits

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  • So, they're announcing themselves to be an even more illegitimate organization.

    All should be arrested and tried for sedition.

  • Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'

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  • Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is

    He's already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.