Former President Donald Trump said that Israel needs to “finish what they started”.

Donald Trump has said that Israel should “hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later” in response to an Iranian missile attack on Tuesday.

I’m hoping it was ridiculous enough that a few Fox News viewers will recognize exactly how hard Fox is putting their thumb on the scale.

Huh. I guess my experience was better I remember reading My Side of the Mountain and The Giver, among other things. Usually pretty decent reads though.

Considering half the home schooled kids are kept for indoctrination and/or abuse purposes, I doubt it.

It gets better. It takes her a minute to realize exactly how much of a partisan hack he’s trying to be.

A more modern part of it is that if you Google the phrases they use, you get more of the same. And the YouTube/Twitter algorithms will show you similar content to what you’ve already been shown. Both of these work to appear as multiple, independent sources, even if it’s really just a bunch of right-wing nutjobs repeating the same, completely fabricated talking points.

I kind of wanted Harris to ask in the interview, “How many transgender inmates are there, Brett? Dozens? And how many of them want surgery? One? Three? I’d rather spend our time talking about issues that affect more than three Americans.”

This isn’t an issue that the President should be spending her time on. This isn’t an issue the viewers should be spending their time on. She’ll follow the law, and that’s all that needs to be said on that subject. Unless you want to talk about why it keeps coming up, to be divisive and hateful.

Didn’t he sell all of Wisconsin’s public power plants for pennies on the dollar?

He can’t order anyone to force her until he’s crowned by the Supreme Court.

Then he’ll make it an Official Act.

Can you imagine ml or hexbear adopting this rule though?

Wouldn’t it be great? But yes, it’s antithetical to those instances, which are fully intended as propaganda.

My hope is that the best ideas can handle a little dissent, while the ideas that fully rely on memes and echo chambers get deflated.

I’ve seen what happens when moderation enforces an echo chamber. It’s so much easier to believe a narrative when it’s the only one we hear. It’s the entire premise of reading fiction. We’re primed to believe the story goes as the author says, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction. Timed correctly, it doesn’t take a huge opposing narrative to trigger us to think about it more.

Perfect. Thank you!

I’ve suggested a rule in the past, but we don’t have this rule now.

Community Manipulation

Communities should not be overly moderated in order to enforce a specific narrative. Respectful disagreement should be allowed in a smaller proportion to the established narrative.

i.e. A user should be able to (respectfully, infrequently) post/comment about a study showing marijuana is a gateway drug to !marijuana without moderation tools being used to censor that content.

There are times people wouldn’t like it, but it’d fully solve this !linuxsucks issue.

Any source for this? It wasn’t today’s comic.

The image is hosted on xkcd.com, but I expect there’s some article with it?

There are ways they can promote population growth, if that is something we really want. Better and free school lunches would be a start. Childcare. Pre-K education. Free college. Health-care. And generally a more wealthy middle class.

The biggest reason people are having fewer kids is money.

Fair. I don’t agree with most of your points, but you make a good argument.

I still think we over prioritize decentralization. Federation is important, but’s not a primary feature to be sold to users. It’s not because we need a thousand instances. It’s so that if Gmail gets too enshittified that we have another email option.

World is where the activity is, and you do a reasonable job of balancing that.

Why are you actively against lemmy.world?

On Reddit you list several alternative instances, and you somehow left us out.

Awakening has been my ringtone for years.

You can buy an ARM laptop right now.

They’ve sent enough soldiers and weapons to Ukraine that they’re worried about their southern border being weak.

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It’s nearing the awkwardness of Scott’s Tots.