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  • Let's add to the list, almost four years of operatives infiltrating their way into the election certification process. Not to get too tinfoil hatty, but the addiction denial strategy almost worked last time, and while the same team that orchestrated it no longer occupied the White house, state officials open to the scheme likely won't make the same mistakes this time.

    It's a different election now with Harris taking the Dem nomination, but 2020 was decided by about 40k votes spread across a few key states. The same polarization that makes polling almost impossible to do accurately also means people's opinions are equally hard to change. Don't try. Instead, focus your efforts on mobilizing voters to turn out. Organize and make a plan to get yourself to the polls and to bring a friend. Check vote.gov and make sure you're still registered and make sure the reasonable people in your life have too! Uncle ivermectin isn't changing his mind about the trans panic, but there's going to be a significant portion of the population that just doesn't have time to vote between working the jobs to stay afloat. Get them a mail in ballot!

    I've checked my registration about 25 times this month after learning I had mysteriously dropped from the rolls in a swing state. Don't let some jackass take your opportunity to vote away. It may be our last change to finally stop hearing about every single stupid thing that comes out of the mouths of the worst people in government. Winning is the only way to fix what's broken in our system.

  • Spoken like someone who's never lived in a Soviet apartment. f'ing lol.

    There's just nothing quite as bleak as that same falling apart brutalist concrete block after block after block after block.

    From first hand experience I can tell you all the romance of communal living goes right out the window when they shut down the centrally heated water for the summer for "maintenance" because if you shut it down in the winter, you're f'ed.

    All that "to every man as he needs" fantasy isn't real life. All my fire escapes had rusted off from the 3rd floor up to the 10th. So good luck with that in an emergency lol (major Russian City center on the Volga in 2009). Two things can be bad at the same time. Just because the US has a massive social safety net dysfunction, doesn't mean the CCCP was kind to its citizens.

    People can suck everywhere.

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  • Another worshipper at the altar of Ukrainian IKEA.

  • “I don’t want them to advertise,” Musk said. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go f*** yourself. Go. F***. Yourself,” he said. “Is that clear? Hey Bob [Iger, CEO of Disney], if you’re in the audience, that’s how I feel."

    • the guy who bought the website for 40+ billion dollars.

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receipts

    wapo.st /4bVHa5A
  • My favorite part of this AEI op-ed (look up the fellows of this august think tank institution if you have a minute) is that the author lists no notes, references, or citations for a single claim in the piece. Now that's how you do it! Start a Hudson Institute it Heritage Foundation and once you've got the banner to put behind a panel of prestigious sounding fellows, bam! You've got the patina of credibility! Back it with a couple hundred million in tax-cheat lobbying endowments and you've got a stew going baby!

  • If you ask a Marine they'll confirm that they're a department of the Navy, but then qualify it as "the men's department" before devolving into a yut-fest

  • That's the joke my friend

  • Hey! Nobody post anything TrickDacy's seen online before! WT actual F guys!? Don't you know he's seen this already!? FFS!

  • Sadly this noble soldier would not survive to see victory in Europe as most records point to the great beast becoming a casualty in the battle of the bulge.

    T-Rex warfare was best suited to the Pacific theater, but strategic priorities resulted in bringing even suboptimal resources and weapon systems to the German offensive.

    RIP sweet prince, RIP.

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Anyone know what happened to open source ecology?

    www.opensourceecology.org
  • Thanos was way more relatable than Elon though.

    More:

  • Oooph, this meme is a heart breaker.

    Clean it up OP. Find Jesus!

  • We're all et al on this glorious day!

  • We all talking about the rapist Matt Gaetz? The Matt Gaetz that notoriously trafficked minors across state lines to have drug-fueled sex with children Matt Gaetz? That child rapist Matt Gaetz?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Election rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Americrule

  • Yep, clearly a loaf. Probably a kids park somewhere. Tons of weird themed places like that in the former bloc

  • News @lemmy.world

    US Supreme Court to decide Trump criminal immunity claim in 2020 election case

    www.reuters.com /legal/us-supreme-court-decide-trump-criminal-immunity-claim-2020-election-case-2024-02-28/
  • This is not accurate. It's a provacative narrative, but the heyday for private military contractors passed a decade ago. Blackwater was such a disaster for the military, they relegated 99% of contractor jobs to BDOC/BOSI (tower guards etc) roles ages ago.

    This move is almost certainly related to transitions from limited counterterrorism structures to great power conflict Army force design. The military has missed it's recruitment goals by massive numbers in the past couple years, and filling obsolete positions is actually impacting Forces Command from meeting their manning strength mandates.

    I fully expect to see more of these changes announced over the next 3-5 years as military procurement and restructuring guidelines catch up with implementation timelines. But this is categorically not evidence of a large scale plan to turn active soldiers into PMC personnel (to work around rules of engagement restrictions). There's manpower shortages as it is, and there's no institutional incentive to make those shortages more drastic than they already are.

  • Guess the asshole part of that depends on whether you're a Kuwaiti or Republican Guard..

    G. W.'s round 2 (electric boogaloo) version was an entirely different exercise in absurdity. Bush 41's war was not really comparable.

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Brain implant improves cognition 15-52% in safety trial for TBI patients

    www.newscientist.com /article/2406255-brain-implant-could-ease-the-effects-of-a-traumatic-injury-years-later/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Forgot about Dr(ul)e

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Do Not Cite the Deep Tiktok to Me, Witch