nekandro

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[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only 10 US states have banned child marriage.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago (15 children)

ITS HER TURN

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love justifying racism too don't worry

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Netanyahu is fine...

The ICC is and has always been the judicial arm of the West used to put down the Global South. Fuck them.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People really underestimate the impact of sonar on marine life. Hell, people really underestimate the impact of sonar, period. Active sonar operates at 300dB. For reference, 85dB can damage human hearing, and 300dB is 21 orders of magnitude greater than that.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So when are you booking your flight to Kyiv?

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Calling all Black people monkeys isn't ok, but calling all Chinese person slaves is?

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Chinese spyware... Hosted in the US. With communications going to US data centers.

Odd that you'd call it Chinese spyware, when the more fair assessment is that it's American spyware that happens to run a content recommendation algorithm from a Chinese company...

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Republicans accept a post-truth society where everything is someone's propaganda, that the federal government is out to get them and that the union would be better served as a union of state-level republics. Democrats still believe in the existence of a ground truth and want a union with centralized control (i.e., they are Federalists). Like the Federalists, the Democrats are backed by wealthy financial states (New York, California) as opposed to more rural/working-class states (Alabama, Ohio) and support heavy industrial subsidies (Biden's IRA, CHIPS) as well as weak state governments.

This is a fundamental difference that explains a lot, actually. The role of government has always been to convince populations to pursue the policy goals of the elite. The foundations of representative democracy involve choosing which elites' policy goals to follow. The Republicans want to follow state elites (to borrow a Chinese proverb, the mountains are high and the President is far away). The Democrats want to follow federal elites.

Here's the real problem. The US gets to choose between a career politician and a career businessman (swindler, by definition). Who represents the working class? Who represents the people who actually built America's economy?

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Is your principal not elected by the school board (a municipal government)? A superintendent?

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