I don’t recommend LW, it’s full of Redditeurs and defederated from instances I like such as hexbear and lemmygrad. But I did start there, because that was the one recommended to me.

But that didn’t stop me from migration when the admins of that server started making choices I didn’t like. That’s what federation is good for, and looking back my experience is now better than before.

Let people join bad instances and then figure out federation later. Getting that foot in the door is what matters most.

Oops, embarrassing. 😅

I have not been convinced lemmy.world being the largest instance is actually a bad thing. It’s bad for federation, I suppose, but they’re all Redditeurs and I appreciate having a containment zone for them.

And yet I’m the one on lemmy.ml and you’re the one on lemmy.world 🤔

They’re saying it’s our job to get them out.

It’s not even bringing Lebanon peace.

They didn’t trust the government because they were rich people and didn’t want a democratic check on their own personal power.

He could pardon people in immigration detention.

He could pardon people with federal marijuana convictions.

He could pardon people on federal death row.

He could pardon Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Leonard Peltier, or any of the feds other miscarriages of justice.

But no.

He just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.

I don’t care

🤡

You say “even they” as if it justifies your beliefs, because they agree with you. Libertarianism grew from their classical liberalism. So what? Their ideas were shit.

I literally gave you books as citations.

But you don’t read books, so I’ll give you Wikipedia.

Jefferson has Black descendents and had a Black “mistress” who was, in actuality, his slave. Her name was Sarah Hemings.

During the Revolution, the Sullivan Expedition was ordered by George Washington to wipe out Iroquois villages that sided with the British. Scalping was widely practiced.

Bathing letting in bad airs is known as miasma theory. It was widely practiced all across Europe, from peasants to merchants to royalty. Tribes like the Wampanoag noted how fucking nasty they all smelled.

No Wikipedia for this one, but https://www.grunge.com/591432/the-staggering-amount-of-alcohol-the-founding-fathers-drank/

Now, how about you learn some history?

It wasn’t that long before you were born that the Black Panthers marched in the streets with guns to confront murderous cops.

Things look bad because people here have had it too good for too long. We won the Cold War, it was the end of history!

But the good times are coming to an end and America’s chickens are coming home to roost.

I wonder how many police stations will burn this time.

They’re currently in the process of exterminating 2.2 million people by turning Gaza into a concentration death camp.

The only difference from the Nazis is the Nazis had a larger starting population to exterminate. Other than the gross total, the methods are similar and the goals are similar. People in Gaza are being starved and butchered on a scale eminently comparable to the Holocaust and I don’t know how you can deny this.

From CNN

Hezbollah on Monday fired two projectiles toward Israeli-occupied territory, responding to repeated Israeli strikes that have hit Lebanon daily since Thursday, the day after the ceasefire came into force.

The projectiles landed in an open area and no one was injured, according to the Israeli military. It did not specify the type of projectile fired.

Hours later, Israel’s military said it began striking “Hezbollah terrorists, dozens of launchers, and terrorist infrastructure throughout Lebanon,” after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate, calling Hezbollah’s attack “a serious violation of the ceasefire.”

Lebanon “attacked” in response to Israel’s attacks, and it fired warning shots into an open field. Then Israel started hitting targets.

Israel is the aggressor, as always.

Do you think average people want that shit?

I can’t help but notice you didn’t deny it.

Do you think that the police need a pretext to become violent?

I’m skeptical of all “outside agitator” narratives that seek to frame uprisings as illegitimate. The fact is, even if he encouraged other people to take direct action, the uprisings were the result of people choosing to take matters into their own hands after that. He didn’t start those fires.

I don’t condone individualistic violence! It doesn’t help and just creates chaos. We should be organized and disciplined, not burning random shit down.

But let’s not pretend the uprising was fake. The purpose of blaming him for all the other protesters taking their own direct action is so people like you are reassured that good USAmericans will never do anything drastic. That’s the actual function of this article.

Things can only get so bad before we hit a breaking point. It will come. Have some revolutionary optimism.

Ah yes, the independent thought and nuance of repeating the propaganda fed to you by your own government. You’re such a free thinker!

I recommend reading Lies My Teacher Told Me. Then, when you finish that, A People’s History of the United States.

But I doubt you’ve ever read even one history book that wasn’t assigned to you by a teacher.

USAmericans burned down a police station last time Trump was president. People got pretty close last time.

Every new little shitty thing only makes it inevitable.

Taking away people’s porn does, in fact, mean taking away some of those creature comforts.

And a lot of people are already pretty uncomfortable.

Where do you think Jefferson’s Black descendents come from? Who do you think paid the bounties for scalps? Germ theory wasn’t invented yet, they didn’t know why beer was safe to drink or why they needed to bathe. Settlers thought it was strange how the natives would strip naked and bathe in rivers - so uncivilized! Unlike Europeans, who would bathe as little as possible as to preserve their modesty.

All of this is easily looked up.

Your idols were evil morons. Read a history book.

They’re going to overreach so hard during this Presidential term, holy shit. There’s also many unpopular things they’ve wanted to do for so long and now is their chance.

I wonder what the breaking point will be.