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That thread was genuinely hilarious and also a good reminder (to me) that liberals will refuse to engage with supporting sources (even from their own preferred media outlets) if it’s in contradiction with their vibes-analysis of something. The bad faith accusation against you after you effort-post replied multiple times in a non-combative and sourced way was pathetic even for that instance.
Godspeed to you continuing to try to help the few salvageable world members.
Extremely mediocre game. LP2 is getting patched on steam soon though to restore multiplayer functionality though!
US just announced additional troop deployment to the middle east
(just taking the first link to source it)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/23/nation/us-troops-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-middle-east/
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Ping a site admin they can probably lift it
Can you make this into a video essay? Thanks
When they release their first Modern Warfare equivalent a few years down the line the western internet is gonna explode and it’s gonna be glorious
They don’t know what he sacrificed for us
This is what I will now be telling people whenever they ask me more about Linux on Sony consoles
Someone get Estonia on Lemmy.world they love preemptive last resort actions
Then when the state’s violence, which has already demonstrated its capacity for genocide to your own acknowledgement, inevitably turns on you or your loved ones (maybe thats 5 years, maybe it’s 50) don’t be surprised and understand that your potential allies will have already been destroyed. The people you didn’t stand in solidarity with before you are gone and the ones next on the list take the same inaction you espouse right now.
So we’re at the point where it seems you acknowledge the horror of the US empire in basically being directly responsible (it could stop the money faucet at any moment if it viewed stopping the genocide as being in its own interests) for what I personally can only imagine as the worst crime against humanity possible to be committed by a state actor.
Tactically the only real electoral power you have as an individual is the threat to withhold your vote, and to deploy that tactic most effectively you’d give a very explicit reason for that withholding in order to apply pressure to the party who ostensibly does want to win an election. Infinitely better than individually voicing this tactic is creating a large bloc of people who exist within the critical states where 10-20k people will potentially determine an election. Getting the number of people in this bloc higher is the only real electoral strategy at forcing Kamala’s campaign to acquiesce to electorate demands and bring forth a better outcome for Palestine because if she doesn’t she will, explicitly, know she will lose. This provably works because the democratic party has already proven that in the face of an electoral impossibility (Joe Biden winning re-election) they will try to preserve power.
Even if you’re a “there are other issues more important to me than attempting to stop my nation’s genocide voter” (and if you are one of these people I really recommend a lot of introspection about yourself, your morals, and your convictions)- recognize that the violence being financed, supported, and enacted abroad WILL INEVITABLY COME HOME at some point if it is not rejected by the electorate. I don’t know your most vulnerable issue and where it would rank on democrats deciding genociding or interring you would be politically expedient for them, but it sure seems that at least attempting this tactic even if it’s just you falsely signaling to them that you won’t vote for democrats over their financing and arms supplying of this genocide is in your long term interests so that you hopefully stop or at least delay the empire turning its violence on you.
Just looking for a quick clarification on two points before further responses:
Rules-reformism is the final stage of liberal cognitive dissonance to the horrors-of-the-empire bargaining stage in my experience.
They either recognize that these reforms are intentional structural impossibilities then logically actually move towards some form of anticapitalist thought or disengage entirely if they’re privileged enough to shrug it off. I’ve struggled helping friends at this point make the final step. It’s extremely difficult to achieve in the imperial core which can be incredibly disheartening.
Always press these people on what aspects of culture and within 3 replies you’ll have them showing their entire ass.
Yellow dog Linux and anyone could run Folding (no Linux required).
The reason was likely a tax dodge to get the device taxed as a computer and not toy similar to why the PS2 also had this functionality for that same tax dodge.
Secondary reason was probably the US military PS3 supercomputer back in the day.
I think there is a holy grail MGS4 PS3 special edition that retained hardware backwards compatibility (all models after went to software) and was 80gb of storage if I’m remembering correctly.
I think I’m gonna run for democraric governor of Texas. It seems like the easiest way to soak up millions of dollars with no expectations of anything happening.
Actually I take that back the person running against McConnell for his senate seat in Kentucky who absorbed millions of brunch dollars probably takes the cake. Amy something I think?
The only states where polling actually matters are:
Any analysis/polling done by the media that isn’t solely focused on those states are busywork/useless neoliberal job programs for their fail-offspring.
Any top level comment that isn’t a news article or in some way an effort post (doesnt have to be expansive but shouldn’t just be a short, personal reaction about an event) should be removed. Totally fine as replies to a higher level comment, but having the top level comments retain higher quality would be incredibly nice.
It’s court case related. The battle over the SAVE plan has been going on for months now with kinda no end in sight (awaiting an 8th district ruling that will be appealed up to the SCOTUS which can be partially addressed and sent back down then appealed up again etc. etc.). All SAVE plans are currently in an interest free forbearance period awaiting all of the legal challenges to resolve themselves (which will still probably be months of litigation). There has been no additional advisement from loan processors or the DoE about the state of this period.
The critique I’ve seen on the admin side is they used a less fool-proof vehicle to institute the plan than what they could have (same critique has been levied for the outright forgiveness plan).
I can’t really assess the critique because it’s really in the weeds legal battles/administrative tools between a lot of competing interests. If someone else has deeper insight I’d love to hear it.