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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago

So, in the state where it's completely OK to sacrifice an innocent child, because the vaccine has "bad stuff" in it - most likely the people saying that could not list ingredients, of course, while other pregnant women who've lost their pregnancies are regularly suspected of sabotaging, or otherwise finding ways to abort their pregnancies. The same state that's also trying to extradite a doctor from NY over sending abortion medication to a TX resident.

So, the lesson here is to not abort an unwanted pregnancy, but instead, let the child be born, then decide you have an issue with vaccinations, before tossing your child into parks, play dates, and the brick & mortar petri-dish all parents know schools to be? I'm just trying to figure out the rules here....so a fetus is a person, but a child is not? Or maybe women don't get to make choices with their bodies, but parents get to make choices for their children's bodies? Of course parents make choices on their children's behalf every day, but these choices?

Oh, and lets not forget, that meanwhile, Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, a faith-based health care provider, is arguing in a medical malpractice case that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person” for the purpose of calculating damage awards. Gee, what an awfully convenient twist in the rules, when money enters the scene - depending upon how this all plays out.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're trying to get a specific guy fired. Focusing on the bigger picture doesn't accomplish that.

Nothing accomplishes that. We can't even stop them from killing people on our own soil.

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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 31 points 1 week ago (9 children)

There is no viable party that is against the military industrial complex.

If you take a step back and look at the Democrats and Republicans, they agree and overlap on far more many issues than they differ. Indeed, in the context of a lot of foreign governments, both of our parties would be considered dangerously right-wing. Yet, there's no serious opposition in the US, as you say.

The issue has been falsely bifurcated in the USA where looking elsewhere is "throwing your vote away". Yet, without an alternative party, there are many problems in the USA which are just non-starters, like pacifism. Totally unthinkable under either party's operational guidelines.

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (39 children)

“God is the Greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse be upon the Jews. Victory for Islam” -The Houthi Militia Slogan

I agree we need a new opposition party but it cannot be lead by the kinds of clowns who are so poorly educated that they think that the Houthi are the victims here. Those racist assclowns started the civil war that has been killing Yemenis for years now. Even Iran is telling them to stop attacking ships.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (64 children)

Yeah but you know "whatabout ..."

Apparently two things cannot be bad at the same time.

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[–] FrostBlazer@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

For other parties to spring up, we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting. This only requires getting enough signatures for a ballot initiative in about half of the states, for the other half, writing to your representatives and senators can make a difference. It’s not a fruitless effort either as Alaska and Maine both have managed to move away from First Past the Post voting, which is the main limiting factor preventing other political parties from springing up.

Ranked robin voting, STAR voting, score voting, and even Ranked Choice voting are better than First Past the Post for allowing better representation.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

why would they, %90 of democrats also think that Israel is just conducting military operations against terrorists and not mass slaughtering civilians or destroying civil areas as a part of their genocide and ethnic cleansing plan

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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trust me, no other cultures saw those messages and thought about the incompetent opsec. They saw how Americans slay with accompanying emojis and not a single mention of the indiscriminate collateral human lives. Not as if they are concerned even about the optics. Just no mention. Not internal. Not external. Nothing. The human rights considerations are not evaded or even acknowledged. The conventions of war, even what the other nations might say, nothing. Operating anywhere in the world with emoticon decorated executions. It is notable for the rest of the world. This is the extent of the mercy of the few. Those that decide who lives. That the native opposition's persecution and domestic news coverage is exclusively over how it was leaked.. It is not something you can ignore when it can be you at any moment. And soon, Americans themselves will piece by piece learn that it could be them too. That fear means control. To be subject to this arrogance towards life will hopefully get a few of the sofa. God bless her and him that dare, the world is watching you hang in the balance. The well-being of your children and loved ones comes to question and at that point some of us will be forever immortalised, either for feeding or defying the wolves of this eerily completely broadcasted fascist cycle.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

123 Murdered so far...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/us-attacks-on-yemen-killed-123-people-since-mid-march-health-authorities

We need to burn the slaver's constitution and replace it with a modern document if anything.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

are there even any leftists left in shitter?

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