• @flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    How about a new rule that if you vote for a war, you are automatically enlisted. And if you’re ineligible to enlist you must either abstain or vote no.

  • @Mawks@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    When asked in an interview how drone operators would know if the people being blown to smithereens were actually carrying drugs, he replied: “Same way a police officer would know … Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”

    Holy F, as a mexican that crosses the border often for vacations… this is extreme and scary

  • @masquenox@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    The US has been waging unprovoked war on Latin America since before WW1.

    The only thing new about this is that this irredeemable piece of garbage is stating the quiet part out loud.

  • @Bernie2028@midwest.social
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    02 years ago

    I hate DeSantis as much as the next guy but cmon, this title is misleading. He said he would “drone strikes cartels,” not that he wanted to go to war.

      • @Bernie2028@midwest.social
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        02 years ago

        I’d say YOU guys (Hexbears and Lemmygradians) are bots. In fact, I’m probably talking to one right now.

        The pronoun tags give it away. They’re completely random. My inbox as follows:

        “none/use name” - “she/her” - “ze/hir” - “they/them” - “any” - “comrade/them” - “comrade/them” - “he/him”

        Jfc did Russian propagandists just put the pronouns for these bots…on shuffle? I’m not saying all of you guys are bots but it seems like the majority. Lol I wonder if there’s a script I can use to shut you down.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          02 years ago

          The pronoun tags give it away. They’re completely random.

          Nice transphobia you got there. How are cis people that fucking ignorant of nonbinary people existing?

            • @Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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              02 years ago

              I know it might come as a shock to you, but Hexbear’s not a random sample of the population.

              That’s like saying Lemmygrad can’t be >90% communists because the global population isn’t

              • Krause [he/him]
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                ШHДT DФ ЧФЦ MЭДИ, CФMЯДDЭ? ЭVЭЯЧ ЯЦSSIДИ CITIZЭИ GЭTS HЭXБЭДЯ․ИЭT ДИD LЭMMЧGЯДD․ML ДCCФЦИTS ДT БIЯTH SФ ШЭ CДИ PДЯTICIPДTЭ IИ KЯЭMLIИ TЯФLL FДЯMS TФ SPЯЭДD ФЦЯ PЯФPДGДИDД ФИ LЭMMЧ!

        • glingorfel [he/him]
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          02 years ago

          being a bot is when you have pronouns and the more pronouns you have the more Russian you are

          • @Bernie2028@midwest.social
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            Nope, it would make sense if the pronoun tags were 90% he/him and she/her, but the extent of variation among the tags user choose is completely unrealistic and arbitrary that any community would have.

            Any tankie space would obviously be like 98% he/him neckbeards only.

              • @Bernie2028@midwest.social
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                02 years ago

                Liberal and Soc-Dem spaces are mostly white male neckbeards

                No they aren’t tf. Maybe on reddit but that’s 90% of reddit.

                • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  02 years ago

                  No, that is true, even if it is less directly disqualifying of the specific political tendencies, and the closing of practical horizons of American politics meant that there is a vast demobilization of political action. So, mostly because voting and engagement with mainstream politics is highly correlated with several axes of privilege, white people vote more than non-white, wealthy vote more than poor, etc. So, most mainstream politics and all electoral positions over-represents white middle-to-upper class. There is less of a gender gap on the face of it for parties than one would think because there are a lot of white and women from conservative areas that vote Republican. But there is also a boomerang effect of people that are privileged enough to not suffer ill effects of failure of sabotaged progressive movements such as the Black Panthers and Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition are more likely to vote to the left of the Democratic Party. Because you could get some minor pork-barrel spending if you support the establishment over progressive candidate that will just be crushed by the machine or fizzle out due to internal fractures and more minor sabotage.

                  So, yes they are. Maybe that is 90% of electoral politics, but it is true that Soc-Dems are disproportionately white men. Though that is more of mainstream politics over-representing privilege on many axes. And also if it is divorced from daily struggle and immediate issues (as mainstream politics works to alienate us from), then politics becomes horse-race stuff for nerds.

    • Krause [he/him]
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      Yeah right, and when Trump talked about the “bad hombres” coming over the border and bringing crime with them he was totally just talking about the bad Mexicans. This totally isn’t just another American candidate for the presidency stoking racial hatred to garner votes from people who believe these things.

    • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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      12 years ago

      Posing as a human rights lawyer and illegally aiding in the torture of POWs at Guantanamo is the best way of forming a valid opinion on Iraq!