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HubertManne , in New Bill Would Extend US Military Benefits to Americans Serving in the IDF
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Cosponsored by Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and U.S. Representative Max Miller (R-OH). Don't vote for genocidin biden as the democrats are just as bad as the replublicans and hes not doing enough for palestine etc etc. will do so much better under some imaginary president.

KillerTofu , in The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?

The fuck? Food nutrition labels weren’t REQUIRED until 1993?

theareciboincident ,

The US lives in a weird food bubble where they eat absolute cancer inducing garbage and pretend their Cheetos Asbestos Blasted Quattro Dioxin dinner is somehow better lmao.

The US allows all sorts of fucked up processing steps and ingredients that are straight up banned in Europe.

Every time an American leaves the country they gush about how good the food in (destination) was - but they only ate tourist trash the whole time.

Like they genuinely don’t realize it, it’s incredible.

BrikoX OP Mod , in Gaza: Israel shuts down Associated Press news agency live feed
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Very democratic of them...

Jaysyn , in Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders
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Good. The leaders on both sides need to end the days in a cell in the Hague.

deft ,

Together. Let them solve their issues while the world moves the fuck on

Lmaydev , in Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway

Grounding planes is probably one of the most effective ways a person can cut emissions.

xor ,

nah, this is one of those "shills running the activists" examples.
a. self-mangling is a good way to discourage sympathy or participation.
b. disrupting a bunch of random travelers, and actually endangering them because planes are in the air and need to land... so, not helpful in getting sympathy for the cause... just press coverage... which will be mostly negative.
c. there are a lot more direct ways to cause disruption, and a lot more sympathetic, less self-harming tactics to get press coverage.... and much much much more effective than delaying some flights at one airport for a few hours... this is peak stupidity at worse, but more likely, peak infiltration...
e. did i mention it even fucks up the activists physically!!! it's so fucking stupid and counter productive

Teppichbrand ,

No it's not. If there was a right way to protest everyone would do it. But protest is always messy, some people will hate you, some will applaude you. So choose something and try it. Or sit on the couch and comment on the internet like you are not part of the collapse thats coming.
The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Indifferent to the problem and indifferent to the solutions.

xor ,

i’m talking about how one particular thing is the wrong way to protest, yet you’re pretending like i’m against all possible protest or something

Teppichbrand ,

These people ruin their (financial) lifes to protest for your future. Everything else failed, so they desperately try something more risky and you dare to call them fucking stupid.

xor ,

the action is stupid, not the people, necessary.

and how does posting a wikipedia article to general topics like “ExxonMobil climate change denial” supposedly apply to gluing yourself to an airport runway?
a link that’s just a keyword search to pictures of Earth Day 1970???????
you’re pretending like you’re responding to me with some proof, but you’re just sea lioning.

why not go block an oil refinery, some shipping ports where oil is being loaded onto trucks? DDOS exxon’s backend online? throw feces an exxon ceo’s?

it’s a stupid fucking tactic and don’t you dare pretend like i’m talking about the concept of protesting climate change in general.

i’m talking about people like you tricking people like them into harming themselves.
and you’re awful.

Teppichbrand ,

I was trying to tell a VERY brief story of 50 years of protest that did not change anything, co2 just rises. So people try new stuff.
But I agree, this topic is too complex for a random internet fight not even in my native language. Had to look up sealioning, what are you talking about?! I am not awful, you are the one throwing around insults. Am I debating 17 year olds again?

xor ,

you’re lying, disingenuous, and not trying to tell a story by posting a link to a search result for images of earth day….

but, pretend like you’re genuine:
trying new stuff is FUCKING GREAT.
try to glue yourself to things is FUCKING STUPID.
why harm yourself, when there’s CEO’s with houses and addresses you could….

there’s a lot of waaaay better tactics than hurting yourself to gain sympathy… it’s basically turning munchaousens syndrome into a form of protest….
or, what you are doing, is referred to as munchausen syndrome by proxy
in english, at least….

please fucking stop advocating for SELF-harm

silence7 ,

People have done all the things you propose. Repeatedly. It maybe gets some minor local attention, and a police crackdown, but hasn't changed much of anything. That's why people have resorted to stuff like putting soup on the glass protecting artworks or gluing themselves to runways.

WhatAmLemmy , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds

The "land of the free" has been committing crimes against humanity in the Philippines for over a century. Exerts from Wikipedia:

Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Spanish–American Warrather than acknowledging the Philippines' declaration of independence.

The war resulted in at least 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly from famine and diseases such as cholera.[21][22][23] Some estimates for civilian dead reach up to a million.[8] Atrocities were committed during the conflict by both sides,[24] including torture, mutilation, and executions. In retaliation for Filipino guerrilla warfare tactics, the U.S. carried out reprisals and scorched earthcampaigns and forcibly relocated many civilians to concentration camps, where thousands died.

The U.S. annexation and war sparked political backlash from anti-imperialists in the U.S. Senate, who argued that the war was a definite example of U.S. imperialism, and that it was an inherent contradiction of the founding principles of the United States contained in the Declaration of Independence.

Skua , in Spain, Ireland poised to back Palestinian state

Spain is a particularly interesting one. They're not normally too keen on recognising any sort of breakaway region so as not to legitimise the Catalan independence movement. Take a look at a map of recognition of Kosovo for an example. Not that I'm complaining by any means; it's a welcome surprise

Beaver , in Spain, Ireland poised to back Palestinian state
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Smart countries

Beaver , in Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC?
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No-one should be immune to justice that includes western officials

BaroqueInMind , in California is imposing a new tax on guns. Will it impact sales?

All this does is allow the state to further discriminate against low income people.

Increasing the tax to make purchasing weapons become cost prohibitive does not affect wealthy people buying guns. It also does not affect gun crime rates.

apfelwoiSchoppen , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
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Almost as if there is a longstanding theme to US geopolitical influence.

cerement , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
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Rapidcreek OP , in London court rules WikiLeaks founder Assange can appeal against an extradition order to the US

And the beat goes on...

gAlienLifeform , (edited ) in German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors
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“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.

So, there's a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don't know the context here, but just taking this article's description at face value,

[Paraphrasing], "Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it's my job, no really)" seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it

e; I should have kept reading the article,

For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm. “It’s true that Andrea is very careful and respectful, but it would have been great sometimes if there was a bit more trust – and I think that’s a cultural thing,” Rogowski told the industry journal Variety this weekend. “We are so scared nowadays to expose our kids to maybe a swear word – which is ridiculous, because we allow them to use social media and YouTube.”

Ok, yeah, so maybe spoilers for the movie Bird (I haven't seen it but I've read a few things about it now), but it seems like this actor plays an abusive father figure type, and I could kind of imagine how doing that work would have you running into these regulations a lot and they might get kind of annoying, but a) they are there for a really good reason b) if I was your publicist I'd be writing a profanity filled resignation email right now, because you just created a PR headache for yourself

That all said, I think this guy is more dumbass than creep at this point

card797 , in German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors

I don't see the problem. Protect the children. I suppose this fellow is fine with child abuse. It seems to be rampant in acting and entertainment.

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