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There are some instances where Reddit is still a great source of information just due to the sheer size of the community. But there’s a lot more shit to wade through after the exodus a couple years back. I haven’t signed back in for years.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territoryEnglish
3·11 months agoYou know what? You’re right, I’m sorry. Taking out my frustrations with the current regime on the wrong target.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territoryEnglish
7·11 months agoHey you’re cool with the current regime and like genocide! What’s it like being a genocide apologist?Edit: Taking potshots at people who I agree with and don’t deserve it is bad form.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territoryEnglish
26·11 months agoNow with U.S.-approved ethnic cleansing.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump rolls back trans and gender-identity rights and takes aim at DEI
16·11 months agoThey’re a tankie, mate. Not much use arguing, they’re starting from a bad faith position.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump Inauguration: Elon Musk Offers MAGA Rally Nazi-Like Salute, CNN Calls It “Odd Looking”
10·11 months agoMaybe stick with the Green Ranger going forward.
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politics @lemmy.world•Miller tells Republican leaders Trump will strip protections from career civil servants.
17·11 months agoSo I’m not sure where you’re from, but the feds don’t run local governments in the US, with some exceptions in DC.
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politics @lemmy.world•House Republican threatens to withhold disaster aid from California amid deadly wildfires
7·11 months agoNever mind that California probably has more conservatives than most conservative states…
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News@lemmy.world•What is jury nullification and what does it mean for Luigi Mangione’s defense? | CNN
2·11 months agoAs much as most people on the left want juries to nullify in cases of unfair or unjust laws, the reality is it mostly results in murderous cops going free and corporations getting free passes. Like I said in another comment, while jury nullification could be used to tackle unfair laws, the reality is you mostly end up with actual racists and actively harmful corporations not being held accountable. Jury nullification is itself not good or bad, but it’s mostly used for bad. Frankly, I don’t really love the jury system but that’s a while bigger issue.
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News@lemmy.world•What is jury nullification and what does it mean for Luigi Mangione’s defense? | CNN
2·11 months agoNo, juries are the triers of fact. Juries do not exist to make a determination as to whether the law is fair or not and are (usually) explicitly told this. They have to listen to the facts, decide what actually happened, and then whether the facts match the elements of whatever crime is being charged.
I agree that getting a jury of twelve randomish peers is actually not the greatest system, but it’s what we’re working with. So in this paradigm, jury nullification is a huge problem because it’s twelve random people just deciding not to enforce a law the rest of society (sort of) has said needs to be enforced. This in turn leads to white supremacists getting acquitted by juries after prosecutors proved beyond a doubt that the defendants committed the crime and the same happening with police that abuse their powers.
It could end up working to protect civil liberties. But the reality is it mostly results in the status quo being upheld and/or actual criminals that need some kind of punishment being acquitted.
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News@lemmy.world•What is jury nullification and what does it mean for Luigi Mangione’s defense? | CNN
36·11 months agoJury nullification is also why cops who murder people and klansmen get acquitted. It’s not necessarily a good thing, just a quirk of the system.
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Technology@lemmy.world•US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companiesEnglish
4·11 months agoWhile China is considered part of the global south, its economy is so massive and it is so influential globally it really shouldn’t be.
Edit: Also in China’s case, that was the UK, not the US.
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World News@lemmy.world•Russia: Man accused of organizing LGBTQ+ tours dies in jailEnglish
11·1 year agoAny coagulation of power is a structure for corruption to take place.
If that’s the case, why are you participating in this moderated forum controlled by other people? Surely you’re just feeding their inevitable corruption.
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World News@lemmy.world•Russia says it's using bitcoin to evade sanctionsEnglish
15·1 year agoYeah hilariously, cash is actually more untraceable. Anything digital can eventually be tracked. It’s not easy, but it’s doable.
Well, it’s just Jul, so we could all just go back to calling it Yule. Literally nothing changes and the Christians can still do whatever they want.
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News@lemmy.world•Biden has officially appointed more judges than Trump
4·1 year agoPrecedent is set by every court. The Supreme Court considers what 9 judges think are the most important cases but a lot of times they aren’t. They regularly punt on difficult decisions. District courts don’t really have as much ability to do that so a lot of law is created at the local level. Also, the judges define the culture of the court.
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News@lemmy.world•Biden has officially appointed more judges than Trump
4·1 year agoThe appellate courts do not hear anywhere near the volume of cases that district judges go through.


















Mate, it’s a cheese quesadilla. It’s two tortillas, cheese, and heat…
Joking aside, there are a few out there. A lot of people are surprisingly into figuring out copycatting popular fast food.