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[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 186 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (16 children)

Please take them. Please, please, please take them all.

What they don't know is that they'll immediately be sent to Ukraine. One-way ticket probably.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has seemingly invited conservatives chafing under "neoliberal ideals" in their home countries to move to Russia, where he claimed "traditional values reign supreme," and Alex Jones suggested he might take him up on the offer.

The Russian president signed a decree offering assistance to foreigners seeking temporary residence in his country and expanding the quota approved by the nation's government and setting aside a requirement for knowing the Russian language, history and basic laws, and Jones urged his followers to consider sanctuary there.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Now do the rest of the world.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Logan Act violation? Again? In front of my 34 convictions?

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm betting on a script kiddie parked down the street from Swamp-a-Lago. Wouldn't be surprised if their wifi password was "money".

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Unlike Imperial Storm Troopers, they sometimes hit their target.

Judging by Musk's previous styling choices, may I offer this?

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Ross — a 23-year-old streamer with a mostly young male audience of more than 1.4 million Kick followers and 4.4 million YouTube subscribers — fawned over the former president during a 90-minute stream and gave him a Rolex and a Tesla Cybertruck wrapped in images of the former president.

A dumpster for a dumpster fire.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm sure it won't have any of the defects of the cyberdumpster.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's dangerous to declare your opponents are not really human. A long time ago a term was coined, "outlaw". It meant somebody had committed crimes that placed them outside the law. They not only no longer had the protections the law placed gave all others, but the responsibilities as well. The y could be killed out of hand, but they could also kill without further repercussions.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of that Iraqi official who, during Desert Storm, kept saying victory was imminent right up the moment the allied tanks came rolling up the street.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Good talking head. No thought behind some of those points, so a perfect GQP hopeful.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for the reference. Having read most of it so far, I came across this passage:

Having disqualified Sue’s argument, Cabanis turns to Sömmerring’s thesis on the post-decapitation persistence of an active, conscious sensorium commune. Several facts argue against this. What is commonly known as a “rabbit punch” shows that a violent blow to the neck leads to an immediate loss of consciousness. Furthermore, a rapid hemorrhage deprives the brain of the blood it needs to function. Each of the individual circumstances brought together by the guillotine is enough to produce a true syncope. Cabanis concludes from this that the head and body of a man who has been guillotined endure no suffering and that death is as fast as the stroke of the blade.

 

Yes, the essay is 2 years old, but its relevancy should overcome that factor.

It is not a coincidence that women’s equality is being rolled back at the same time that authoritarianism is on the rise. Political scientists have long noted that women’s civil rights and democracy go hand in hand, but they have been slower to recognize that the former is a precondition for the latter. Aspiring autocrats and patriarchal authoritarians have good reason to fear women’s political participation: when women participate in mass movements, those movements are both more likely to succeed and more likely to lead to more egalitarian democracy. In other words, fully free, politically active women are a threat to authoritarian and authoritarian-leaning leaders—and so those leaders have a strategic reason to be sexist.

 

“I don't care how, but you have to get out and vote,” Trump told the crowd at Turning Point Action’s Believer’s Summit. “Christians get out and vote. Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore.”

“In four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” Trump added during his 70-minute long speech. “We'll have it fixed so good. You're not going to have to vote.”

 

"They censor us, but it doesn't change the truth," he said before telling a whopper of a lie about his mama in a new ad. "Joe Biden's open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this country.

"This issue is personal," he added. "I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across our border. No child should grow up an orphan. I'm J.D. Vance, and I approve this message because whatever they call us, we will put America first."

The only problem here is that he lied. As a nurse, JD Vance's mother stole prescribed medications from her patients, and that was not because of undocumented immigrants. Vance got the community note routine on Xitter.

 

A coalition of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley voters pledged their support for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid on Sunday, hours after President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the race.

 

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sitting Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his supervision and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without permission.

Thomas was indicted in May in Gibson and Davidson counties on 22 charges, including official misconduct, theft, forgery and computer crimes involving jail inmates in his custody.

 

A York County judge has sentenced a former volunteer at a Red Lion youth center to prison in a sexual abuse case.

Ian M. Ryan, 30, of the 500 block of South Main Street in Red Lion pleaded guilty in April to sexual assault by volunteer of a nonprofit, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault of a person less than 16 years old and photographing, videotaping, depicting on computer or filming sexual acts involving a child.

 

Tuesday morning in a courtroom in Virginia Beach, VBPD officer Sean Fearon retained an attorney but did not appear in court himself.

Fearon is accused of sexual penetration with an object, abduction and destruction of evidence for an incident that allegedly happened last month while he was on duty.

 

South High Community School educator Shawn Baillargeon, 54, was charged with aggravated child rape, child rape and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 on Monday, Rutland police said previously. Little information has been released about the allegations against him, but court documents indicate that the alleged assaults happened sometime between 2016 and 17, and police said that more than one complaint was made against Baillargeon.

 

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sexual assaults on two children in Surrey.

Surrey Police said Jamie Howlett, 33, formerly of Horley, has been charged with six counts of sexual assault by touching of a child under 13.

 

A doctor accused of sexually assaulting two women has been charged with the rape of a third patient.

Ahmed Al-Sudani was arrested at a medical centre at Arncliffe, in Sydney's south, last Friday after police received reports of sexual assaults involving two patients.

 

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been found guilty of attempted online enticement of a minor after traveling to Othello, expecting to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Koby Don Williams, 49, of Ellensburg., told his wife in a recorded jailhouse call after he was arrested in July 2022 that he had been working on a human trafficking investigation based on a Drug Enforcement Administration tip.

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