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• Post #4212223

  I can't wait for Syria to start holding elections so these fuckers have to stop their "only democracy in the Middle East" shtick.

• Post #3809552

  I'll probably be downvoted for this—and it is pretty provocative to be fair—but I'd rather have a (potential) rapist than a liberal. Now being a rapist is a pretty handy indicator that someone is a piece of shit, but so is pushing to support Israel. PS: I'm comparing with Janet Mills here because obviously letting Susan Collins win is out of the question.

• Post #3741462

  I mean we live in a world where AI psychosis is a thing, and I don't think r/ChatGPT is selecting for the best and brightest of human society. It's probably satire, but I wouldn't bet money on it.

• Accidentally halal

  Context: In Islam people must be identified by their paternal lineage, meaning one's patronym/last name/however their culture identifies paternal ancestry must tie to their father. This is because the Quran says "call them by the names of their fathers" (Quran 33:5), and while the verse was talking about adoption the principle is unanimously interpreted to apply in general.

• Horny moment

  Explanation: During Muhammed's lifetime, in the early Muslim polity that would later become the Rashidun Caliphate jihad was obligatory for all able (edit: Muslim) men who didn't have a valid excuse. Therefore, people who didn't want to go would make up excuses to get permission to stay home. This is one such story reported in a Hadith: The Messenger of Allah said to Al-Jadd bin Qays from Bani Salimah, "Would you like to fight the yellow ones (Romans) this year?*&quot...

• RIP Zapata

  Explanation: The Mexican Revolution erupted in 1910 when Francisco Madero published the Plan of San Luis Potosi calling for an uprising to overthrow longtime Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz and bring democracy to Mexico. Well this worked out relatively quickly, but while the whole thing almost instantly devolved into a massive clusterfuck one thing remained constant: Agrarian revolutionaries demanding land reform in Morelos, Mexico's second smallest state, would be a near-permanent thorn in...

• You can't make this shit up

  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mie

• You can't make this shit up

  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mier

• You can't make this shit up

  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mie

• You can't make this shit up

  When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. -Former Israeli PM and current gender-neutral public urinal Golda Mier

• Knowledge is force times velocity *dies*

  Not quite original: lemmy.world/post/46448957

• Post #1874410

  Uh... modern young earth creationism is pretty much an American thing, and modern flat earth beliefs only became a thing in the mid-19th century. I know Lemmy likes to dunk on Christians, but this is historically illiterate.

• Post #546076

  Gaza and West Bank two state solution.

• Post #379381

  I mean Chinese and Mexican people have been in America for almost two centuries. I'm usually the first one to shit on Americans, but at this point Chinese-American stuff and Tex-Mex are theirs.

• Post #304373

  Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor). I've seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that's an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.

• Post #304345

  Nah those guys hate AI because it's AI.

• Post #248989

  If this is sarcasm, hats off for pissing off so many people while being right. If it's not, then... uh... I'll refrain from speaking my mind so my comment doesn't get deleted.

• Post #248984

  Cautious bet on number 2 from me.

• Post #180345

  I won't respond to that, because now you're moving the goalposts. That is not what we're talking about here.

• Post #179982

  Not really, no. The US is heavily gerrymandered and there's plenty of disenfranchisement to go around, but fundamentally Republicans don't control general elections the same way Democrats control their primaries, and centrist Democrats have many tools (rhetorical and otherwise) to get primary votes that Republicans don't in general elections. And, as I said, people don't vote in primaries. Besides, this theory has already been tested in practice; according to election polling Ber...

• Post #179102

  Getting leftists on Dem ballots and winning an election against Republicans are completely different affairs, not the least because most people don't vote in primaries (not to mention all the manipulation). If anything why do you think beating centrists in primaries is a prerequisite for being able to beat Republicans in elections? You need to justify that assumption.

• Post #176776

  and that they're going to make a bad decision for the Gazans in the midterms because of their anger. There is no good decision to be made for Palestinians in most American elections. No, not even comparatively. Even Trump did no more or less than Biden already was. That aside, though, Trump would've won even if every single Jill Stein vote went to Harris.

• Post #176754

  That's a non-sequitur.

• Post #133469

  ICE don't care about the law, as evidenced by everything they've done ever.

• Post #133150

  I mean, it has. The history of liberalism is the history of the 1% violencing the bottom 50% into submission.

• Post #133148

  You don't need more than that. Counterpoint: Homes in many places cost more than that. Retirement too. There's a good cutoff for a wealth maximum, but 1 million ain't it.

• Post #132792

  Aren't women's pants (other than leggings) with pockets very rare? How do you even have enough of a sample size to draw conclusions about this? Besides, women who decide (or never got to decide) against getting pants aith pockets wouldn't complain about the pockets, would they?

• Post #132458

  This generally includes anything referencing whatever bullshit Trump is up to, but also includes the megacorps. Essentially if the comic is about how the world today sucks, it doesn't belong here. From their sidebar. Doesn't sound rightwing to me.

• Post #130948

  That's a fair point, I could've said that in a less condescending way, but "customers don't know what they want" is an important piece of the puzzle here.

• Post #130936

  I mean, customers not knowing what they want is a thing. When someone says "I'd like it if this thing had that functionality," they're not necessarily considering all the externalities that might make their preference less desirable. What women have now sucks, but according to a large majority the alternative sucks even more, so the status quo persists.