Th4tGuyII

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Trump can shove a stick up his backside. When your country is being turned into an active warzone by the army of a dictator, I sincerely doubt elections are the thing on peoples' minds. They want a competent and compassionate leader, and Zelensky is clearly that, no matter Trump's insidious seeding of doubt.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (10 children)

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.

That's exactly what a journalistic organisation is meant to do Jeff, especially now when the world is increasingly being filled with mouthpieces that regurgitate what their owners want them to.

An organisation that puts out only one opinion, or is only allowed to put out one opinion, is nothing more than a mouthpiece.

Its a shame to see the Post becoming just another mouthpiece.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately it's not that easy to pull people out of the "orange fever". People underestimate just how effective how right-wing propaganda is at indoctrinating people towards hatred, and against their own best interests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's almost extinct because those with that particular "backbone" keep dying off to curable diseases.

Though I'm more mad about those they'll take with them as they act as a vector for what were damn near extinct diseases to make a comeback

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Man I need someone to make a shooting stars meme but it's Elon flying into the Sun

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They won't care that Trump hasn't done anything to fix the price of eggs, because they're too busy being reeled along by whatever the next thing is that right-wing media is telling them to be angry about.

It's the Archer method of drinking, but for societal awareness - keep the people fighting over pointless stuff and they'll never have time to reflect on the things they should be angry about.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Exactly. If anyone thinks Russia will stop at Ukraine, they're a fool

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I wouldn't say it's just more important, I'd say it's a moral imperative to support Ukraine's fight for it's sovereign land over keeping buddy-buddy with a government running rampant with corruption and Russian puppetry

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Terrorism, according to the United Nations General Assembly:

Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.

Luigi certainly didn't bring the public into a state of terror, if anything quite the opposite - so I suppose the real question is do we class Health Insurance Executives politically as a group of people to incite terror onto?

I'd argue that a group of people who would happily sign away someone's life if it meant them getting richer don't deserve that kind of recognition, but I'd bet the courts will say yes because their rich friends want an example made of him.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)

So not only was this multi-billion dollar, fortune 100 company too stingy to pay for training data, it was too stingy to reseed the data it pirated!

Either seed or don't torrent. Don't be a leech.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Even if I were being charitable to say what he meant was not being famous is easier, it's still such a backhanded remark to make - I'd rather deal with the problems of fame than the looming threat of the poverty line any day of the week.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

It's the tried and tested Elon Musk method of performance evaluation. Fire all the workers, then be shocked when they don't want their old job back for a lower wage and worse contract terms

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