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  • Tucker Carlson Says Trump Has ‘Diminished American Power’ in ‘Unimaginable’ Ways

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  • Idk lol i think a lot of people imagined this. And warned the rest of the people very loudly & frequently.

    "Hey don't shoot that loaded gun at your foot. If you shoot yourself in the foot, it'll hurt a lot and make walking difficult"

    shoots self in foot "OW MY FOOT ^take ^that ^libtards"

    "Yeah it was a bad idea, right?"

    shoots self in foot again "I HAVE DIMINISHED MY FOOT IN UNIMAGINABLE WAYS"

  • Gurll

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  • Damn. Thats a fisher price ass watch.

  • Gurll

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  • Is that what's happening? I thought the person in the image was just holding up their left hand to show their watch (blood pressure monitor?) for some reason

  • Banane logic

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  • Also those bad boys ripen faster when they are laying flat vs hanging. Getting a little hook to hang the bunch of bananas on makes them ripen more slowly

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  • "Oh, I mean, in Minecraft obviously"

  • 72% of Americans say there is too much money in politics

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  • I always get the General Tso's, can't go wrong with that folks, some people, silly people, get the noodles but I say "nuh-uh" "no way", only the best for me and my son Barron.

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  • Yeah he did. It was inane as per usual, but was part of a generic statement about how China has globalized and exported its culture to the US.

    “As allies in World War II President Franklin Roosevelt’s mentions of the brave people of China, that’s what they were, drew loud cheers in his speeches in the United States, everybody loved what he had to say,” Trump said.

    He then added, “Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States, all combined.”

    “That's a pretty big statement,” Trump remarked.

    https://people.com/trump-boasts-of-us-chinese-restaurants-beijing-banquet-11974827

  • AOC surges to lead in 2028 primary for first time

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  • Sure they will be. They'll look at the poll results, throw them in the garbage, and run Newsom like they were already planning to

  • What's all this other stuff?

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  • I felt this way about seeing the mona lisa. It's like 50cm wide, and behind glass, and not that interesting... but there were probably 200 people crowded in front of it all looking at it through their phones.

    It's almost like performance art or something.

  • Always take credit for the good work that you do

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  • Dogs "smiling" is typically a stress/fear response. Pitties kind of look like that a lot of the time, just because they have tight skin on their face/lips. But, this is more than that as far as I can tell here. You can see the wrinkling and tension at the corners of the mouth. This expression is also called a "fear grimace" or "submissive smile" and can also involve showing teeth, but not always.

    Given the context, that it just destroyed a toy (something it may have been punished/scolded for in the past), I would bet it is nervous/scared. It could also just make weird faces - not all dogs are the same.

  • Dugin watched Euphoria and started crashing out at white people (CW: reactionary brainworms, under the framework of anti-western hegemony)

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  • DESPITE THEIR INFERIORITÉ GENETIQUE, THE HAM SANDWICH RACE HAS MANAGED TO INSTALL LE MORALISME AND LE CAPITALISME THROUGH COWARDLY DECEIT. EVEN IN THEIR OWN LANDS. SUBJUGATING THEIR OWN RACE. UNE INVENTION SUICIDAIRE. THE WORST PERVERSION OF LA TRADITION RACIALE. THEIR DEGENERACY WILL BRING THEIR DESTRUCTION.

  • Dugin watched Euphoria and started crashing out at white people (CW: reactionary brainworms, under the framework of anti-western hegemony)

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  • THE HAM SANDWICH RACE IS NOT THE PEOPLE. THEY ARE STUPID. SLAVES TO THE CABAL OF CANNIBALISTIC, ÉLITES PÉDOPHILES. THEIR DEFICIENT BRAINS ARE RAVAGED BY AL'GUL. IT IS WHY THEY WATCH TELEVISION DRAMES SEXUALISÉS OF CHILDREN. THEIRS IS A CIVILISATION OF PERVERTS. A CIVILISATION DÉGÔUTANT WITH NO REASON TO EXIST. ITS DESTRUCTION WOULD BE AN ACT OF MERCY.

  • Need a AI update

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  • I doubt the vibrations would do anything to make it cut better, but to make things not stick you could also just put little dimples on the side like those of a santoku knife. So goofy.

  • Stand Up Comedian makes joke about Israel, gets heckled [2:35]

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • Yeah, not good faith afterall. Learn to read, I guess.

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • Assuming you're good faith, I really just don't think it's that simple. There's also no whataboutism. If you had read and engaged with the OP and my comment, you'd see OP was directly comparing these countries to the West, which notably does include the US. My comment does the same, because I am engaging with the OP.

    I'd recommend looking into the history of fascism if you want to learn what makes a country fascist. There's many different viewpoints, and some do define fascism in a way that would capture what you're saying and exclude the US. I don't think those are very good definitions - they usually say "fascism is when dictatorship", basically.

    Others use definitions that explicitly tie fascism to particular ideological views (specifically views held by fascist Italy and Germany) like anti-semitism or anti-communism. That's probably too prescriptive and excludes basically any government that is not Italy or Germany in the 20s-40s.

    You can see a good summary in the wikipedia article caleld "definitions of fascism". You'll see there are many definitions of varying quality and historical accuracy. The best definitions, in my opinion, focus on traits that capture the governmental structure of fascist states that make them different from non-fascist states. That includes economic and structural points.

    I think we can use a tighter definition of fascism. Fascist governments have these traits:

    1. privatization of public goods/services (that's a hallmark of fascism, they literally invented privatization in Germany in the 30s, and maybe actually Italy in the 20s)

    2. some sort of in-group supremacy dynamic (racial in the case of Germany & Italy)

    3. extreme nationalism & militarism

    4. suppression of democratic groups (e.g. trade unions)

    5. a government characterized by state-directed autarky, with production organized into government-sponsored cartels. (This is why privitization is important: that's what makes this possible)

    So, does the USSR have some of these characteristics? Sure. Of course. Modern day China, too. And the US & Russia. But to be fascist, a government needs to do these things at once - it needs to have the economic and structural factors that distinguish fascism from other forms of government.

  • Glasses

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  • Surprisingly, maybe, I've been seeing this since before the advent of slop

  • "Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ? "

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  • 🫡 glad to be of service, comrade.

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • I think the trouble is that "freedom of speech", "freedom of expression", etc. can be and are weaponized by colonial/hegemonic forces.

    But, that said, that's why I am not 100% supportive of this view. Possibly naïvely on my end, I think those sorts of freedoms are important not only for individuals but also as a check on state power. That said, I see how manipulative the US state department can be - and for that matter how manipulative foreign govts have been to the US - especially in recent election cycles... so I think it is a double edged sword.

    That's part of the reason I am also not a full blown anarchist/libertarian socialist. I can see the value in centralized state power when it comes to defending the state and people