dessalines

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just a few months ago it was impossible to criticize this old segregationist rapist. The two US political parties are worse than cults.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Obama dropped an average of 60 bombs every day on the middle east and north africa during his presidency.

The US isn't a democracy, and it's elections are nothing but theatre. I recommend asking about this on lemmygrad or hexbear also.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Not sure what the source is there. Does seem low, but Israel doesn't seem to be taking any prisoners anyway.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This already exists.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Year-end best of lists. Allmusic, pitchfork, and whatever other sites come out with best of year rankings.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't stress how much the western supremacists are off the rails on this one: agreeing with the standard sanctions policy commonly used by the US, of punishing entire civilian populations based on the actions of their government, regardless of how you feel about that government and its actions.

Code is code, the nationality of the person shouldn't be used to exclude them. ppl know how most of us here feel about Israel but I would never even think of excluding an Israeli contributor to any of the projects I work on.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

However you want to use it.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

I would never. The idea that any person should be disbarred from contributing to FOSS due to the actions of their government, is incredibly exclusionary. Linus is acting as much like a toddler as daddy USA is.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eisenhower was such a political animal / opportunist. At the same time as he's decrying the military industrial complex, he did his best to rev up the cold war, squash anti-colonialist movements, carrying out coups, government overthrows, and terrorist attacks in Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, the Congo, vietnam, and indonesia.

His foreign policy team was the Dulles brothers and Nixon, yet somehow he's convinced future generations that he was a folksy old codger who disliked the military.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I read a bunch of philip k dick books a few months ago, and had a sensation that I'm not actually my current age. I'm actually on my deathbed, dreaming or in a half-wake state, and all my experiences are disjointed half-rememberings of things I might have done. And there's no way to prove any of it either way.

 

Many thanks to @mv-gh for these quick fixes.

 

"I'm unequivocal and unwavering in my commitment to Israel's defense and its ability to defend itself, and that's not gonna change," said Harris, recounting the horrors of the Hamas-led October 7 attack. "Israel had a right, has a right to defend itself."

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 

We're testing some beta's for the upcoming release, and it had some performance issues, so I had to downgrade and restore from a backup.

We do this testing here so other instances don't have to, and so we can find any bugs before a release. Again, this is my bad, I apologize.

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