‘Appalling’: ICC president says threats, sanctions put court in jeopardy
‘Appalling’: ICC president says threats, sanctions put court in jeopardy
US politicians are threatening to sanction court officials over the arrest warrant against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.Al Jazeera
Pastor trained in MMA fights off ax-wielding burglar who broke into church on Thanksgiving
Pastor trained in MMA fights off ax-wielding burglar who broke into church on Thanksgiving
“If he had come a couple of days earlier, he would have been blessed and get some food and be cared for,” the pastor said.Patrick Reilly (New York Post)
Hezbollah says carried out “warning” attack on “Israel” for ceasefire breaches
Hezbollah said Monday it fired a warning strike in response to repeated “Israeli” violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect last Wednesday.
“The strike targeting the Roueisat Al-Alam military site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba,” the statement by the Lebanese group said.
It added that the “Israeli” violations of the ceasefire included “gunfire on civilians, airstrikes across various parts of Lebanon leading to civilian casualties and injuries, and continuous breaches of Lebanese airspace by Israeli aircraft reaching the capital, Beirut” which prompted this action.
“Despite multiple appeals to relevant authorities to halt these aggressions, no resolution was achieved.”
Black Friday Actions in 30+ Countries Aim to ‘Make Amazon Pay’
Amazon workers and their allies are participating in a series of global actions aimed at holding the online retailer “accountable for labor abuses, environmental degradation, and threats to democracy,” according to the labor group UNI Global Union.
Dubbed “Make Amazon Pay,” the campaign is set to last from November 29 to December 2 and will include strikes and protests across six continents, according to the group—and is timed to disrupt Black Friday (or “Make Amazon Pay Day”) and Cyber Monday, two of the busiest online shopping days of the year.
Black Friday Actions in 30+ Countries Aim to ‘Make Amazon Pay’
“When we announced our intention to protest today, our management attempted to stop us in multiple ways. We want to say to Amazon—you could not stop us today, you cannot stop us in the future…scheerpost.com
the pardon is for tax and gun charges, right? no drug charges?
at this point I don't give a fuck, I just don't want to hear the words "democrat" and "strategist" in the same sentence anymore.
What happened in 2014, Joe?[
LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers and the three-year search for a 'laser'
LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers and the three-year search for a 'laser' in Dalton Knecht - ESPN
For years the Lakers have tried -- and failed -- to find a consistent long-range threat to complement LeBron James and Anthony Davis. In rookie Dalton Knecht, that search might be over.Dave McMenamin (ESPN)
Which Filaments are generally safe for contact with Food? What do you recommend?
As one of my first ever self designed Prints and 3D Models, I wanna do a big organiser for my Kitchen! This is my current progress on that:
One of my friends gave me a word of caution to use the right filament when it comes to storing things like Sugar, Pepper, Salts and Tea Bags with Printed Plastics. So I wanted to ask if any of you have Good Safe Filament Recommendation for this type of thing? I heard PETG is supposedly safe, is that true?
Thanks!
Never change, Clintonian dynasty swamp monsters.
- I still believe Anita Hill.
Joe Biden Expresses Regret to Anita Hill, but She Says ‘I’m Sorry’ Is Not Enough - Why were you paid $1M/year from 2014 to 2019 as a board member of Ukrainian energy company Barisma, Hunter?
How Joe Biden’s Kin Profited Off the Family Name. ‘The Big Guy Is Calling Me.’
Fundamental problems with privately owned social media platforms
We must remember who owns these platforms and whose interests they ultimately represent. These are not neutral and unbiased channels that allow for the free flow of information. The content on these sites is carefully curated. Views and opinions that are unpalatable to the owners of these platforms are often suppressed, and sometimes outright banned. When the content that a user produces does not fit with the interests of the platform it gets removed and communities end up being destroyed.
Another problem is that user data constitutes a significant source of revenue for corporate social media platforms. The information collected about the users can reveal a lot more about the individual than most people realize. It's possible for the owners of the platforms to identify users based on the address of the device they're using, see their location, who they interact with, and so on. This creates a comprehensive profile of the person along with the network of individuals whom they interact with.
This information is shared with the affiliates of the platform as well as government entities. For example, a leak from RCMP shows how this kind of information is used to spy on Canadian citizens.
It's clear that commercial platforms do not respect user privacy, nor are the users in control of their content. While it can be useful to participate on such platforms in order to agitate, educate, and recruit comrades, they should not be seen as open forums.
Open source platforms provide a viable alternative to corporate social media. These platforms are developed on a non-profit basis and are hosted by volunteers across the globe. A growing number of such platforms are available today and millions of people are using them already.
From that perspective I think that open platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon should be the focus. Instead of all users having accounts on the same server, federated platforms have many servers that all talk to each other to create the network. If you have the technical expertise, it's even possible to run your own.
One important aspect of the Fediverse is that it's much harder to censor and manipulate content than it is with centralized networks such as BlueSky. There is no single company deciding what content can go on the network, and servers are hosted by regular people across many different countries and jurisdictions.
Open platforms explicitly avoid tracking users and collecting their data. Not only are these platforms better at respecting user privacy, they also tend to provide a better user experience without annoying ads and popups.
Another interesting aspect of the Fediverse is that it promotes collaboration. Traditional commercial platforms like Facebook or Youtube have no incentive to allow users to move data between them. They directly compete for users in a zero sum game and go out of their way to make it difficult to share content across them. This is the reason we often see screenshots from one site being posted on another.
On the other hand, a federated network that's developed in the open and largely hosted non-profit results in a positive-sum game environment. Users joining any of the platforms on the network help grow the entire network.
Having many different sites hosted by individuals was the way the internet was intended to work in the first place, it's actually quite impressive how corporations took the open network of the internet and managed to turn it into a series of walled gardens.
Marxist theory states that in order to be free, the workers must own the means of production. This idea is directly applicable in the context of social media. Only when we own the platforms that we use will we be free to post our thoughts and ideas without having to worry about them being censored by corporate interests.
No matter how great a commercial platform might be, sooner or later it's going to either disappear or change in a way that doesn't suit you because companies must constantly chase profit in order to survive. This is a bad situation to be in as a user since you have little control over the evolution of a platform.
On the other hand, open source has a very different dynamic. Projects can survive with little or no commercial incentive because they're developed by people who themselves benefit from their work. Projects can also be easily forked and taken in different directions by different groups of users if there is a disagreement regarding the direction of the platform. Even when projects become abandoned, they can be picked up again by new teams as long as there is an interested community of users around them.
It's time for us to get serious about owning our tools and start using communication platforms built by the people and for the people.
Very good points! Ultimately, we’ve got to rid ourselves of corporate social media.
BTW, if you haven’t seen the EFF article on the Fediverse it makes similar arguments.
Lastly, it’s incumbent on all of us to evangelize the fediverse whenever and wherever we can. Most people aren’t aware of the open social web and its myriad benefits.
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Nigerian president Bola Tinubu enforced violent crackdown on hunger protests to satisfy IMF demands
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu enforced violent crackdown on hunger protests to satisfy IMF demands : Peoples Dispatch
Nigerian President and alleged CIA asset Bola Tinubu implemented a nation-wide crackdown on protests against hunger and the cost-of-living crisis, resulting in dozens of deathsPavan Kulkarni (Peoples Dispatch)
Middle East conflict live updates: Syria’s military counterattacks after rebels seize Aleppo
Middle East conflict live updates: Syria’s military counterattacks after rebels seize Aleppo
Follow NBC News live updates for the latest on the fighting between rebels and government forces in Syria and the wider conflict in the Middle East.NBC News
Middle East conflict live updates: Syria’s military counterattacks after rebels seize Aleppo
Middle East conflict live updates: Syria’s military counterattacks after rebels seize Aleppo
Follow NBC News live updates for the latest on the fighting between rebels and government forces in Syria and the wider conflict in the Middle East.NBC News
KRAVEN THE HUNTER - Opening 8 Minutes
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
I'm not watching this because I don't like spoilers but it's gotta be good if they're willing to post clips of it online.
Somehow I'm actually hearing about hype for this movie. I thought I was the only one, knowing about him from his appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon on Disney XD I watched as a kid, but some people seem to know him from a recent videogame that I haven't played yet.
If I'm depressed, A Charlie Brown Christmas. If not, the 1966 special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Mr. Robot S04 is a favorite as well.
I haven't seen many classic Christmas films though so I plan on broadening my horizons. My mom plans on showing my Diehard this year, I plan on watching FX/BBC's rendition of A Christmas Carol, and I likely will see the 2000 Grinch movie with a friend.
Yemenis claim ballistic missile attack on ‘vital target’ in central Israel
Yemen’s Houthis claim ballistic missile attack on ‘vital target’ in central Israel
Yemen’s Houthi group claimed a ballistic missile attack Sunday on a “vital target” in central Israel, Anadolu reports. Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said that his group targeted a vital target...Middle East Monitor
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French PM forces budget bill through parliament, triggering no-confidence vote
French PM forces budget bill through parliament, triggering no-confidence vote
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday used a controversial constitutional tool known as Article 49.3 to force the 2025 social security budget through parliament, leaving him and his government facing a no-confidence vote.FRANCE 24
You don't understand that we don't actually give a fuck about the pardon of Hunter, it is a demonstration of all the shit he could do to help people in his last days in office, just going ham with pardons and executive orders and he did literally nothing, not even student debt relief. Do not talk to me like a child when you yourself come in here not even knowing wtf YOU are talking about.
This condescending bullshit from someone that doesn't even understand what is so infuriating about this move in the absence of helping actually deserving people is what everyone is shitting on him for. I am not even outraged because I am not surprised. What does outrage me are liberals like you that don't even understand what everyone is dunking on.
Not only that, he's never running again, he has literally nothing to lose, and doing this isn't going to affect votes/popularity of whoever runs next.
99% of people in his position would do the same.
Kamala had every chance to appeal to those voters, define herself as a candidate, and provide answers for our economy, which at the end of the day is the one thing that really matters to voters. Instead, she pretended everything was fine, adopted narratives from the right and allowed them to posture like they have all the solutions, so she could look like an incompetent and feckless alternative to Republicans for people that were never going to vote for a Democrat anyways.
As a result, she very predictably failed to mobilize her own base. That is not the fault of the american public, and all of you scratched liberal vote shaming "democracy protectors" were never going outflank such an abysmal national campaign.
The Democrats are okay with bleeding voters and losing elections to fascists if the alternative is to challenge the power of capital, and the time has come to reckon with the fact that they are nothing but another obstacle in the fight for the people of this country.
Yeah it is weird how self righteous liberals react towards being shown over and over that their group is to blame for this shitshow.
But I doubt the US will ever leave NATO without a coup happening in the US. The US would basically lose more than half their geopolitical influence.
It was fun while it lasted - Cheers!
No, it wasn't, it was and still is a fucking genocidal shitshow right from the start to the end which can't come soon enough.
I so ready MTG as Magic the gathering..so i cast one colorless and one blue for time walk...
To Walk Back to Pre Trump era. Lets See whats gonna happen
Not like either side is helping us. Kamala, Democrats, and Joe biden ran the last 4 years quietly and campaigned on no change. They lost the election by not convincing 250k voters in 4 states to not vote for them.
Joe biden pardoning his son is his legacy. Joe said he would be a one term president then tried to run for a second term ruining a primary. Democrats chose Kamala harris and she accepted. This country was founded on old people letting go of power and stepping aside and down. If George Washington wanted to he could have been a king. The old dems are grasping at power and control rather than trusting a populist candidate.
Joe Biden could be abusing his power and fighting for change from the bully pulpit to affect Americans and make an outcry but instead went back in his word twice and pardoned his son abusing his power for selfish gain.
Kamala instead of campaigning to fight hatred and cause change went with joy and changing nothing . She even capituatated to right wing talking points moving Democrats to the right. Even though policy wise leftist policy is good and ppopular policy.
Lastly the democrats ran a Hilary Clinton style campaign being a nerd with stats and defended institutions. Obama won because change Biden won because change.
The time to do this would've been immediately after it was discovered that Trump took classified documents and had them in his home during visits from foreign agents.
The Republicans would've howled about it, but I think it could have been done, at that moment. Like, have the first news about it not be talking about the documents, but simply that former President Trump has been detained and will not be allowed to communicate with anyone but his legal representation, because of suspicion of potential coded communication to enemy agents.
And if the people overthrew Hitler in 1933 would it be because they’re sore losers who lost? He went into power democratically elected. I think hindsight shows us that somebody should of tried to overthrow him to avoid all the horrible deaths caused by him.
Make no mistake. These christofascists will round up people like me. I’m a visibly queer woman and I can’t keep my mouth shut or try to feminize myself more to blend in. They’re gonna give me no choice but to defend myself. After reviewing history, I vote offense rather than defense this time around.
How it looks is beside the point. If it's moral then it's moral, and people who are looking at it need to deal with it. As for what Trump's sycophants will do, they're going to do crazy s*** anyway.
When judges ignore plea deals, they are asking for people to strip them of power. That's what happened here, the judge deserved what they got. If you can't find justice in the courts, then to hell with the courts.
They didn't punch us directly. They paid people for that. That's why they are better than everyone. See how they sit above us?
You really start to get all those older writings about the dangers of upper classes cause they really do get apathetic and assume moral superiority just on existence after a while.
I look forward to watching y’all eat crow as Israel wipes out Palestine
Wow, the liberals are straight up admitting their monstrous racism now?
the US leaves NATO
This would be good for the Global South, which is why Trump won't do it
and western democracy collapses.
The West hasn't had a workable implementation of Democracy to begin with, though if you finally recognize that are you going to sit out or do something about it?
It's not an issue that actually affects them so they only pretend to care when it's easy, then swap back the moment there is no backlash or they get what they want enough to not have to pretend again. That's like the whole shtick of a liberal.
But we got to love them cause they are the superior liberal.
Nah you just don't get it cause everyone else is to much of a ducking stupid imbred moron who didn't get to go to the good school that I went to to realize how I am right about everything in their life and that dumb people don't have a right to complain because they are stupid anyways and it proves they can't be trusted until I educate them better which I don't want to do because I am living a better life than them in every way.
So like it's not the Dems fault and people should just accept what's best for them and be ready to be used as a scapegoat whenever we throw a tantrum for things not going out way and just leave without doing anything cause they don't even deserve kindness anymore even though we have totally been kind the whole time!
/Hard S
But tell them they are talking to people all wrong and suddenly we are all Russian bots, or trolls, or secretly Trumpers cause true friends (good followers) should just accept them as already perfect like they see themselves.
Ugh.
Wait when did Biden abuse his powers to prevent fascism?
Currently he's creating a comfy transition for one to become president.
USA didn't fight against fascism when it fought against Nazi Germany and literally fascist Italy because Laos and NATO
Lmao wat
...That Biden specifically helped put there with his drug and police laws.
Finished that sentence for you.
Hakeem Jeffries is still the main Democrat who directly backed and supported Eric Adams in his bid for NYC Mayor and when asked about the indictment said this:
We need Eric Adams to be successful as mayor because he is the mayor
Jeffries is just another Pelosi and was picked because he doesn't care either. He won't apparently try for better just enough to make sure they keep as much power as they can.
Once trump gets in office, no one will ever be able to remember any of this because the shit will be a full never ending flow into a turbine
Yep. There's literally a massive laundry list of BS trump did in 2016.
Biden honestly can do whatever the hell he wants because it'll be completely buried in three months.
I remind my panicking liberal friends that the US only became a "Superpower" within the past 100 years.
So many countries have caught up.
Let's face it for elites.... They are not American, they are Elites that use America as their playground
... The Biden tanked the Harris campaign out of spite and don't care who gets in as it doesn't really affect them.
These are extremely rich people..... Unless we are in Red China, they have nothing to fear
This is a common statement by those who haven't read theory, especially among the Western Left, but this isn't true in any capacity. Billionaires are regularly executed in the PRC, the fact that the PRC has a private sector doesn't mean it has shifted away from Marxism-Leninism. The entire reason Marx predicted Socialism, ie Public Ownership and Central Planning, to overtake Capitalism is because markets naturally prepare the foundations for Socialism. Competition forces more and more companies to consolidate and grow, develop their own infrastructure for planning, which can be siezed and used by the public.
Question 17 : Will it be possible to abolish private property at one stroke?Answer : No, no more than the existing productive forces can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society. Hence, the proletarian revolution, which in all probability is approaching, will be able gradually to transform existing society and abolish private property only when the necessary means of production have been created in sufficient quantity.
-Engels, The Principles of Communism
Half the economy of the PRC is in the Public Sector, and another almost tenth is in the cooperative sector. The Private Sector covers mostly light industry that depends on Publicly Owned industries like steel and public infrastructure. As Capital consolidates in the Markets, the CPC increases ownership. I recommend reading Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism. Markets are more efficient at lower levels of development, and Public Ownership and Planning is more efficient at higher levels of development.
If you want to learn more about Marxism, I made an introductory Marxist reading list.
I was saying fair point that China today is not that of the 70's
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There is a corrupt rich class in China and the communist party is struggling to "harmonize"
Then again, I would not wish to Be the leader of a billion people.... It's not easy decision for sure....
None taken, however my comment and yours can both be true which is my concern....
From various reports it would seem that President Biden is quite a nasty little thing that, with his wife, have a very overinflated view of themselves.... (what président doesn't I guess) however he has been vindictive for being ousted for the president debste(which was a no brainer...) and honestly I truly believe that he did on purpose to tank Harris.
She has herself to blame for sure however, even Bill Clinton through his speach about the middle eastern conflict stired up the wrong tone....
The democratic party is in need to a cleanup... Then again I would say the same of the republican as well as they are under the leadership of a loon... (thinking of Black Adder with King George III)
Thanks to Trump judges, Presidents have Absolute Immunity.
Joe can absolutely start draining the swamp.
Cheers to that!
I think we need to be done being talked down to by liberals who at the end of the day don't actually care or feel a need to act.
A son or daughter an offspring.
It’s part of America’s foreign policy, which means there’s literally nothing we can do about.
incorrect we did exactly what we needed to do. we fired him for it (among other reasons). unfortunately harris didn't pick up on the message and as a result also wasnt hired as a result. enjoy your fascism.
Pssh. I mean, I voted. I did my part. Millions others though didn't.
I don't why lemmy people find it so hard to not blame the DNC and actually blame the people who either voted for fascism or did nothing to stop it. Maybe because some of them are the very same as the latter.
Cause it's not productive and doesn't do anything.
We can blame the people that voted for it and not for it all we want but they are a manifestation of other issues. There is not a specific person you can blame when the numbers hit the millions. It becomes useless musing.
People don't think like you. Just you. It then becomes on us and those that lead and aim to gather the support of others to figure out why they didn't reach more.
He could still pardon them all, it's not like his hand would cramp from signing too many papers! Go through, one by one, and pardon them all.
And all the people on federal death row, that Trump is going to kill.
And all the people with federal marijuana charges.
And people like Leonard Peltier and Julian Assange while he's at it.
What's stopping him?
I don't disagree with why, I do disagree with the timing. Yes, it was a hardline issue and yes the Dems should have absolutely done whatever they could to deal with it. What I cannot and will never forgive is risking the fucking planet by placing a very likely dictator into the seat of global military superiority. Fucking vote Harris in and then we have four years of dropkicking every politician we see to deal with it.
Now there is every chance that conflict will worsen, or end abruptly.
Four years to work together and make positive change by not constantly bickering. Instead we have several States and governers vouching to protect our rights and your fucking neighbors against the President and his cronies.
Gaza AND Ukraine are important. We should do what we can do. Fucking Trump though and his evil passing posse of terrible twats?? Come the fuck on. That was NOT the correct direction, my dude. Four god damned years and instead you all chose January.
What a disappointment.
By that same logic, should president Truman have been ousted after WWII? Should the Canadian trucker convoy have torched parliament? Should all governments decend into chaos as soon as any group doesn't like them?
I'm not saying this specific turn of events shouldn't be resisted, I'm looking for better logic, a reason why the rules shouldn't apply here. Something like the overt and immediate threat to people's wellbeing and freedom. It doesn't matter how good or bad this administration is going to be according to an individual, it matters that they're going to cause a lot of unnecessary harm to a lot of people. Subjective opinions are how we got here.
Maybe we're past the point of that mattering, perhaps a critical mass of people just want to cause harm and a lot of fucked up shit is inevitable, but I do hope to keep a sense of ethics and justice to rebuild when the fight for existence ends. I don't want to become the uncritical extremists we're fighting against.
Yeah, so many of them just complainung currently that they now have to treat everyone worse because "they just have to now that everyone proved they deserve to be treated worse" as if they weren't just looking for an excuse to not care anymore.
Yeah it's just easier to decide that this is how the world is and join in on making it worse from a liberals perspective and do it all just to make their life a little less responsible.
So many of them happy to join in punching down cause they finally get to do it toi and it's easier than continuing to care and treat people well. All they wanted was an excuse.
I'm sorry but the fact that people are so outraged with Biden for doing this is exactly why Kamala lost.
Trump and the Democrats are held to completely different standards. Trump is willing to fight dirty to win at all costs, and that's why he won. It sucks to hear but it's true.
Democrats are also willing to fight dirty to win at all cost. They just did
You are confused what winning means for them. It is not forgiving student loan or raising minimum wage.
You're absolutely right that they dont fight dirty enough. Hiwever, I'd say that Democrats lost largely because Kamala was too cowardly to distance herself from biden and his awful policies. She lost because she chose to court moderate Republicans (who gave her the finger and voted for the fascist. Big surprise!).
Biden pardoning his loser son does nothing for the most marginalized folks who will have to deal with Trump's fascist regime in the coming year. It's not a good look that the only time Biden "fights dirty" is to serve his own interests.
But tell them they are talking to people all wrong and suddenly we are all Russian bots, or trolls, or secretly Trumpers
This bit is generally in response to the fact that the only time this rhetoric is heard is right before an election. Where was this talk and push for change the last four years? Where were the mass protests when Biden was in office and might have listened to a shutdown? Or at any point when the world wasn't staring down the barrel of a new hitler?
You can want positive change from your own political party while also acknowledging that they are still standing on higher ground than an actual Nazi. Time and a place for each.
We just get ignored cause it isn't a problem for liberals until elections.
I kept protesting, I kept saying the same thing. Lots of other people too! I even tried to get into political positions and worked with others in them to be told no and still constantly ignored.
Just cause you are ignorant to the conversation and the work still going on and only hear about it cause it's an election and you are paying attention does not make it our faults.
No liberals wait until it's the brink of disaster and complain that it's everyone else that didn't do enough to make you stop and pay attention while the whole time liberals constantly tell everyone to pipe down and not make a fuss.
How dare you blame us for not doing more. You want to see the failure of the system look in a mirror and stop blaming those of us screaming to desperately get anything done.
Clearly not, but what's your point? Biden is president. Not saying it's right. But I think it's what any parent would do. Hunter isn't some moral monster. He's just messed up more than anything, in the way a kid in his situation might.
Not justifying it, but executive power is insane. Trump will break the law far more destructively with respect to Hunter then this pardon, or at least that's the fear I imagine Biden has.
He can’t blanket pardon people.
Where did you get that idea? It's been done before. In 1977 for example, President Carter, issued a blanket pardon to everyone who dodged the draft during the Vietnam war.
There are, in fact, very few limitations on the power of the pardon.
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