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America’s wildfire risk data quietly puts millions of homes in danger
The federal government is using blunt tools to map wildfire risk. Homes are paying the price.Umair Irfan (Vox)
At least 4 Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers
At least 4 Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers - WPR
Massive data center proposals are often developed in secret. Wisconsin has now joined several states with legislative proposals to make the process more transparent.alyssa.allemand (Wisconsin Public Radio)
Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot
Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot | TechCrunch
With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
The Netherlands consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not sufficiently protecting children
ACM launches investigation into Roblox in connection with risks that minors are facing
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) launches an investigation into online game platform Roblox in connection with possible risks that minors in the EU face on the platform.ACM
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A bloody season: the olive harvest in the West Bank
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A bloody season: the olive harvest in the West Bank
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2377…
Journalists Rafaela Cortez and Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro embedded with Palestinians during the 2025 West Bank olive harvest. They witnessed terrible violence and oppression, including the killing of a 13-year-old boy, but also inspiring resistance.
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A bloody season: the olive harvest in the West Bank
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A bloody season: the olive harvest in the West Bank
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7496489
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2377…
Journalists Rafaela Cortez and Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro embedded with Palestinians during the 2025 West Bank olive harvest. They witnessed terrible violence and oppression, including the killing of a 13-year-old boy, but also inspiring resistance.
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A bloody season: the olive harvest in the West Bank
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2377…From Mondoweiss via This RSS Feed.
'The Intent of Genocide': 2,700 Gaza Families Entirely Wiped Out by Israeli Attacks
An analysis of Gaza's civil registry by Al Jazeera detailed Monday how thousands of US-backed Israeli military's attacks on the exclave become stories not only of individual casualties but of "lineage, heritage, and identity disappearing in an instant"—with 2,700 families entirely wiped out since October 2023.
In 6,000 families, Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City, just "a single sole survivor" has been left behind.
Mahmoud reported on an attack that killed a recent high school graduate, whose family had lived in Khan Younis for generations, as well as his father, sister, and 22 members of his extended family.
"Sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins—so many branches gone," said Mahmoud.
Ismail Al-Thwabta of the Gaza Government Media Office told Al Jazeera that the erasure of more than 2,700 families accounts for more than 8,000 deaths. More than 71,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began attacking the exclave in 2023 in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack, and hundreds have been killed since this past October when a "ceasefire" agreement was reached.
"Forty thousand families were targeted, which means more than four deaths in each family," Al-Thwabta told Al Jazeera.
Lebanese commentator Sarah Abdallah said the death toll of entire families exemplifies "the intent of genocide."
"This is not war," said Abdallah. "This is annihilation."
— (@)
Irish Palestinian rights advocate Daniel Lambert of the Bohemiam Football Club emphasized that thousands of families have been wiped out or left with just one surviving member with the enablement of the European Union, UK, and US.
Al Jazeera's report came days after Trump administration officials unveiled a "master plan" for a "New Gaza"—one including luxury apartments, data centers, and a "New Rafah" built over the rubble of the southern city that was razed by the Israel Defense Forces last year, forcing the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Palestinian political analyst Nour Odeh also explained on Al Jazeera Monday how the thousands of babies born in Gaza since October 2023 have not been added to the Population Registry, which is controlled by Israel.
.@nour_odeh explains that if Israel opens the Rafah crossing to allow Palestinians to leave, the risk is they won't be allowed to return. Nour also points out that babies born in Gaza since 2023 haven't been registered so Israel doesn't recognise them & this has consequences too. pic.twitter.com/WPaWuiW8fF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 26, 2026
"That leaves their legal status unresolved," repoted Drop Site News. "Without registration, it is unclear how these children would leave Gaza, under what documents, or whether Israel would allow them to return if they do."
From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
'New Gaza' Plan by Far-Right Zionist Jared Kushner Decried as 'Ethnic Extermination'
"Not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
'The Intent of Genocide': 2,700 Gaza Families Entirely Wiped Out by Israeli Attacks | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2311…
An analysis of Gaza's civil registry by Al Jazeera detailed Monday how thousands of US-backed Israeli military's attacks on the exclave become stories not only of individual casualties but of "lineage, heritage, and identity disappearing in an instant"—with 2,700 families entirely wiped out since October 2023.
In 6,000 families, Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City, just "a single sole survivor" has been left behind.
Mahmoud reported on an attack that killed a recent high school graduate, whose family had lived in Khan Younis for generations, as well as his father, sister, and 22 members of his extended family.
"Sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins—so many branches gone," said Mahmoud.
Ismail Al-Thwabta of the Gaza Government Media Office told Al Jazeera that the erasure of more than 2,700 families accounts for more than 8,000 deaths. More than 71,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began attacking the exclave in 2023 in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack, and hundreds have been killed since this past October when a "ceasefire" agreement was reached.
"Forty thousand families were targeted, which means more than four deaths in each family," Al-Thwabta told Al Jazeera.
Lebanese commentator Sarah Abdallah said the death toll of entire families exemplifies "the intent of genocide."
"This is not war," said Abdallah. "This is annihilation."
— (@)Irish Palestinian rights advocate Daniel Lambert of the Bohemiam Football Club emphasized that thousands of families have been wiped out or left with just one surviving member with the enablement of the European Union, UK, and US.
Al Jazeera's report came days after Trump administration officials unveiled a "master plan" for a "New Gaza"—one including luxury apartments, data centers, and a "New Rafah" built over the rubble of the southern city that was razed by the Israel Defense Forces last year, forcing the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Palestinian political analyst Nour Odeh also explained on Al Jazeera Monday how the thousands of babies born in Gaza since October 2023 have not been added to the Population Registry, which is controlled by Israel.
.@nour_odeh explains that if Israel opens the Rafah crossing to allow Palestinians to leave, the risk is they won't be allowed to return. Nour also points out that babies born in Gaza since 2023 haven't been registered so Israel doesn't recognise them & this has consequences too. pic.twitter.com/WPaWuiW8fF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 26, 2026"That leaves their legal status unresolved," repoted Drop Site News. "Without registration, it is unclear how these children would leave Gaza, under what documents, or whether Israel would allow them to return if they do."
From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
'The Intent of Genocide': 2,700 Gaza Families Entirely Wiped Out by Israeli Attacks
An analysis of Gaza's civil registry by Al Jazeera detailed Monday how thousands of US-backed Israeli military's attacks on the exclave become stories not only of individual casualties but of "lineage, heritage, and identity disappearing in an instant"—with 2,700 families entirely wiped out since October 2023.
In 6,000 families, Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City, just "a single sole survivor" has been left behind.
Mahmoud reported on an attack that killed a recent high school graduate, whose family had lived in Khan Younis for generations, as well as his father, sister, and 22 members of his extended family.
"Sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins—so many branches gone," said Mahmoud.
Ismail Al-Thwabta of the Gaza Government Media Office told Al Jazeera that the erasure of more than 2,700 families accounts for more than 8,000 deaths. More than 71,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began attacking the exclave in 2023 in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack, and hundreds have been killed since this past October when a "ceasefire" agreement was reached.
"Forty thousand families were targeted, which means more than four deaths in each family," Al-Thwabta told Al Jazeera.
Lebanese commentator Sarah Abdallah said the death toll of entire families exemplifies "the intent of genocide."
"This is not war," said Abdallah. "This is annihilation."
— (@)
Irish Palestinian rights advocate Daniel Lambert of the Bohemiam Football Club emphasized that thousands of families have been wiped out or left with just one surviving member with the enablement of the European Union, UK, and US.Al Jazeera's report came days after Trump administration officials unveiled a "master plan" for a "New Gaza"—one including luxury apartments, data centers, and a "New Rafah" built over the rubble of the southern city that was razed by the Israel Defense Forces last year, forcing the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Palestinian political analyst Nour Odeh also explained on Al Jazeera Monday how the thousands of babies born in Gaza since October 2023 have not been added to the Population Registry, which is controlled by Israel.
.@nour_odeh explains that if Israel opens the Rafah crossing to allow Palestinians to leave, the risk is they won't be allowed to return. Nour also points out that babies born in Gaza since 2023 haven't been registered so Israel doesn't recognise them & this has consequences too. pic.twitter.com/WPaWuiW8fF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 26, 2026
"That leaves their legal status unresolved," repoted Drop Site News. "Without registration, it is unclear how these children would leave Gaza, under what documents, or whether Israel would allow them to return if they do."From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
'New Gaza' Plan by Far-Right Zionist Jared Kushner Decried as 'Ethnic Extermination'
"Not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
'The Intent of Genocide': 2,700 Gaza Families Entirely Wiped Out by Israeli Attacks | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7478411
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2311…
An analysis of Gaza's civil registry by Al Jazeera detailed Monday how thousands of US-backed Israeli military's attacks on the exclave become stories not only of individual casualties but of "lineage, heritage, and identity disappearing in an instant"—with 2,700 families entirely wiped out since October 2023.
In 6,000 families, Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City, just "a single sole survivor" has been left behind.
Mahmoud reported on an attack that killed a recent high school graduate, whose family had lived in Khan Younis for generations, as well as his father, sister, and 22 members of his extended family.
"Sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins—so many branches gone," said Mahmoud.
Ismail Al-Thwabta of the Gaza Government Media Office told Al Jazeera that the erasure of more than 2,700 families accounts for more than 8,000 deaths. More than 71,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began attacking the exclave in 2023 in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack, and hundreds have been killed since this past October when a "ceasefire" agreement was reached.
"Forty thousand families were targeted, which means more than four deaths in each family," Al-Thwabta told Al Jazeera.
Lebanese commentator Sarah Abdallah said the death toll of entire families exemplifies "the intent of genocide."
"This is not war," said Abdallah. "This is annihilation."
— (@)Irish Palestinian rights advocate Daniel Lambert of the Bohemiam Football Club emphasized that thousands of families have been wiped out or left with just one surviving member with the enablement of the European Union, UK, and US.
Al Jazeera's report came days after Trump administration officials unveiled a "master plan" for a "New Gaza"—one including luxury apartments, data centers, and a "New Rafah" built over the rubble of the southern city that was razed by the Israel Defense Forces last year, forcing the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Palestinian political analyst Nour Odeh also explained on Al Jazeera Monday how the thousands of babies born in Gaza since October 2023 have not been added to the Population Registry, which is controlled by Israel.
.@nour_odeh explains that if Israel opens the Rafah crossing to allow Palestinians to leave, the risk is they won't be allowed to return. Nour also points out that babies born in Gaza since 2023 haven't been registered so Israel doesn't recognise them & this has consequences too. pic.twitter.com/WPaWuiW8fF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 26, 2026"That leaves their legal status unresolved," repoted Drop Site News. "Without registration, it is unclear how these children would leave Gaza, under what documents, or whether Israel would allow them to return if they do."
From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
'The Intent of Genocide': 2,700 Gaza Families Entirely Wiped Out by Israeli Attacks | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2311…An analysis of Gaza's civil registry by Al Jazeera detailed Monday how thousands of US-backed Israeli military's attacks on the exclave become stories not only of individual casualties but of "lineage, heritage, and identity disappearing in an instant"—with 2,700 families entirely wiped out since October 2023.
In 6,000 families, Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City, just "a single sole survivor" has been left behind.
Mahmoud reported on an attack that killed a recent high school graduate, whose family had lived in Khan Younis for generations, as well as his father, sister, and 22 members of his extended family.
"Sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins—so many branches gone," said Mahmoud.
Ismail Al-Thwabta of the Gaza Government Media Office told Al Jazeera that the erasure of more than 2,700 families accounts for more than 8,000 deaths. More than 71,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began attacking the exclave in 2023 in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack, and hundreds have been killed since this past October when a "ceasefire" agreement was reached.
"Forty thousand families were targeted, which means more than four deaths in each family," Al-Thwabta told Al Jazeera.
Lebanese commentator Sarah Abdallah said the death toll of entire families exemplifies "the intent of genocide."
"This is not war," said Abdallah. "This is annihilation."
— (@)Irish Palestinian rights advocate Daniel Lambert of the Bohemiam Football Club emphasized that thousands of families have been wiped out or left with just one surviving member with the enablement of the European Union, UK, and US.
Al Jazeera's report came days after Trump administration officials unveiled a "master plan" for a "New Gaza"—one including luxury apartments, data centers, and a "New Rafah" built over the rubble of the southern city that was razed by the Israel Defense Forces last year, forcing the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Palestinian political analyst Nour Odeh also explained on Al Jazeera Monday how the thousands of babies born in Gaza since October 2023 have not been added to the Population Registry, which is controlled by Israel.
.@nour_odeh explains that if Israel opens the Rafah crossing to allow Palestinians to leave, the risk is they won't be allowed to return. Nour also points out that babies born in Gaza since 2023 haven't been registered so Israel doesn't recognise them & this has consequences too. pic.twitter.com/WPaWuiW8fF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 26, 2026"That leaves their legal status unresolved," repoted Drop Site News. "Without registration, it is unclear how these children would leave Gaza, under what documents, or whether Israel would allow them to return if they do."
From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
'New Gaza' Plan by Far-Right Zionist Jared Kushner Decried as 'Ethnic Extermination'
"Not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Some potentially interesting data: horses per capita in the U.S. and China
I know this is a rough metaphor, but I doubt the tycoons shaping the future would be any gentler in practice.
In the United States, after the post-war rise, the trend shows a long, gradual decline. This is followed by a sharp rebound around the early 2000s, and then another drop. As horses disappeared from productive labor, they briefly found a second life as leisure and entertainment. That phase, however, did not last very long either.
The picture is even worse in China, where the decline has been almost continuous since the mid-1970s.
These are just two representative countries, but I suspect the broader pattern elsewhere is not fundamentally different.
Guys, try to make yourselves entertaining — it may be the only thing that secures your future health insurance.
Horse population data are from FAOSTAT (the US rebound may partly reflect methodological changes, but the broad pattern remains), and human population data are from the World Bank.The figure was generated by the author using Python.
Iran to label EU member states’ armed forces as ‘terrorists’ in response to move against IRGC
Iran plans to designate the armed forces of European Union countries that have blacklisted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as “terrorists”, according to a post by top Iranian security official Ali Larijani on X.
“Therefore, the consequences will fall on the European countries that undertook such an action,” said the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC).
LIVE: Iran warns retaliation to US attack will not be limited
Numerous US military assets in the Gulf region are ‘within the range of our medium-range missiles’, Iran warns.Usaid Siddiqui (Al Jazeera)
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster. In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%. But does this increased productivity come with trade-offs? Other research shows that when people use AI assistance, they become less engaged with their work and reduce the effort they put into doing it—in other words, they offload their thinking to AI.It’s unclear whether this cognitive offloading can prevent people from growing their skills on the job, or—in the case of coding—understanding the systems they’re building. Our latest study, a randomized controlled trial with software developers as participants, investigates this potential downside of using AI at work.
This question has broad implications—for how to design AI products that facilitate learning, for how workplaces should approach AI policies, and for broader societal resilience, among others. We focused on coding, a field where AI tools have rapidly become standard. Here, AI creates a potential tension: as coding grows more automated and speeds up work, humans will still need the skills to catch errors, guide output, and ultimately provide oversight for AI deployed in high-stakes environments. Does AI provide a shortcut to both skill development and increased efficiency? Or do productivity increases from AI assistance undermine skill development?
In a randomized controlled trial, we examined 1) how quickly software developers picked up a new skill (in this case, a Python library) with and without AI assistance; and 2) whether using AI made them less likely to understand the code they’d just written.
We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.
Importantly, using AI assistance didn’t guarantee a lower score. How someone used AI influenced how much information they retained. The participants who showed stronger mastery used AI assistance not just to produce code but to build comprehension while doing so—whether by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions while coding independently.
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
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I tend to like the fact the US has a military strong enough to discourage anyone from invading/killing/raping everyone.
High probability of the people who wants to do that is seeking revenge, so it's the military fault anyway.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026
Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)
When all the worst things come together: ransomware probably vibe-coded, discards private key, data never recoverable
During execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key.Halcyon assesses with moderate confidence that the developers may have used AI-assisted tooling, which could have contributed to this implementation error.
Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)
Starting to get a bit worried people are reinventing stuff like qanon and great evil man theory for Epstein atm. (Not a dig at the people here, but on social media I saw people go act like Epstein created /pol/, lootboxes, gamergate, destroyed gawker (did everyone forget that was Thiel? Mad about how they outed him?) etc. Like only Epstein has agency).
The lesson should be the mega rich are class conscious, dumb as hell, and team up to work on each others interests and dont care about who gets hurt (see how being a pedo sex trafficker wasnt a deal breaker for any of them).
Sorry for the unrelated rant (related: they also got money from Epstein, wonder if that was before or after the sparkling elites article, which was written a few months after Epsteins conviction, june vs sept (not saying those are related btw, just that the article is a nice example of brown-nosing)), but this was annoying me, and posting something like this on bsky while everyone is getting a bit manic about the contents of the files (which seems to not contain a lot of Trump references suddenly) would prob get me some backlash. (That the faked elon rejection email keeps being spread also doesnt help).
I am however also reminded of the Panama papers. (And the unfounded rumors around Marc Dutroux how he was protected by a secret pedophile cult in government, this prob makes me a bit more biasses against those sorts of things).
Sorry had to get it off my chest, but yes it is all very stupid, and I wish there were more consequences for all the people who didnt think his conviction was a deal breaker. (Et tu Chomsky?).
E: note im not saying Yud didnt do sex crimes/sexual abuse. Im complaining about the 'everything is Epstein' conspiracy I see forming.
For an example why this might be a problem: bsky.app/profile/joestieb.bsky… Joy Gray is ahead of the conspiracy curve here (as all conspiracy theories eventually lead to one thing).
The lesson should be the mega rich are class conscious, dumb as hell, and team up to work on each others interests and dont care about who gets hurt
Yeah this. It would be nice if people could manage to neither dismiss the extent to which the mega rich work together nor fall into insane conspiracy theories about it.
Years ago (before Epstein, before the GFC, etc) I used to jokingly talk about my pet conspiracy theory, that the world was ruled by the P7: the Pale Patriarchal Plutocratic Protestant Penis-People of Power.
Turns out I was right.
I didn't want to be right …
In an effort to gain ~~votes from moderates and republicans~~ campaign contributions from billionaires
(Not even a dig, just the economic reality of modern campaign finance. What do you do, as a progressive running against a fascist, if you’re offered a chance to 10x your reach, and “all you have to do” is downplay your most controversial positions?)
(Edit: Quotes around “all you have to do”)
Oh yeah, the rest of the meme still 100% applies.
You know the four most ~~expensive~~ dangerous words in the English language, right? “This time it’s different”.
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Joe Biden changed nothing.
really? Joe Biden continued disregarding the CDC with regards to COVID and a zillion other things he did different to trump?
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Joe Biden continued disregarding the CDC with regards to COVID
His administration repeatedly said that the pandemic was over, you don't need to wear masks anymore, you can go back to work, and then Omicron happened. None of that was at any point ever true. Biden himself caught COVID during the very press release he gave to say COVID was over in September of 2022! COVID/Long COVID are still billable conditions in hospitals; doesn't sound very "over" to me! Everyone is always sick. They sell 4-in-1 swab tests OTC at pharmacies now. Is it really over? "Back to normal" happened with his administration's blessings in 2022, and that playbook was primed as early as the second year of the pandemic in 2021, under Biden. Now no one cares about the most communicable disease in history that shows no evidence of ever being cleared, has no cure, and is still spreading and mutating to be vaccine-avoidant like a wildfire, not just the anti-vaccination crowd. Tons of opportunistic viruses re-emerge with new outbreaks of one terrible thing or another spreading every year because people are wrecking their immune systems catching COVID over and over and over, even while vaccinated. All of that happened during the Biden years. All of that continues to happen because the good blue man said we could go to the movies again. He is culpable.
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what are your current daily covid prevention steps?
EDIT : And are you sure you want to claim that Biden's covid plan is as bad as "shove lightbulbs up your ass, wash down horse de-wormer with bleach"?
"I say let things fall fast"
You must not be in the crosshairs of the Trump regime... yet.
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shut your gringo ass up you ballotmunching Uncle Tom freak
demanding that the opposition not trail the right-wing on every single talking point and give a single fuck about the lives that the so-called US would continue to destroy beyond its borders is not accelerationism or 'whiteness'.
when non-'United' SStateSSians have to listen to you about your fucking 'damage control' instead of actually doing anything you sound like two SS officers bickering over how painful our torment should be. we don't fucking care about your comfort you imperial hog.
the collapse of US soft power institutions under Trump has been a fucking godsend for the rest of us trying to actually improve our nations.
stop running DARVO for your abuser and find a healthier relationship with politics.
Ok but the US has a first past the post system so regardless of how you feel about it, abstaining or voting third party in any general election is a vote for the republican candidate. That's the reality. So unless you're voting for the Dem candidate you are tacitly condoning the republican candidate. That's the reality, full stop. So unless you've voted Dem, you have explicitly voted for this. It doesn't really matter what you think about it, that's how it actually fucking works.
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They can protest(more freely) to demand change.
Yes, like those Palestine protests in 2024 that were so gladly welcomed by the liberal establishment. Those protesters were absolutely not decried as useful idiots, Russian trolls or both. Stop kidding yourself. Regarding imperialism specifically like 80% (random guess) of the US gargles fucking MIC balls when it's democrats at the helm.
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As long as you realize that radical action means changing the top brass among the democrats.
Nope, it means creating parallel workers' organizations that don't rely on bourgeois political systems. Expecting lasting change from bourgeois politics is a fool's errand no matter who is in charge.
The meme mentions this like it's a Democrat issue, but Republicans do the same thing.
For example, Trump disavowed Project 2025 policies as too extreme, but then obviously followed them very closely.
The issue is election winners are almost always the one with >50% popular support. So candidates are incentivized to align their policies with those of the median voter. This persists across different voting systems, so rebuilding it for that reason may not help.
But you can still elect a progressive by voting for them in the primary election (where they can be more authentic) or if the median voter becomes more progressive (more progressives vote).
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he didn't stop trum from getting elected to a second term
edit: somehow responded to the wrong comment. whoops
So candidates are incentivized to align their policies with those of the median voter.
*The median donor. The median voter is way to the left of your average Dem politician.
I understand the spoiler effect, but since neither party represents me in any capacity, there's nothing to spoil. PSL represents me. I also understand that it's impossible for a working class party to win, currently, so I actually organize politically in real life, year-round, not just voting once in a while and talking online. MAGA took power because the US Empire is declining, and the DNC is incapable of representing the working classes, so there has been a rightward shift.
Even if every single third-party voter voted Harris in every state, she still would have lost. Nothing you claimed is true in any capacity.
abstaining or voting third party in any general election is a vote for the republican candidate.
oh i was told by one of your 'republicans' that it's actually a vote for 'democrat'.
three votes for the price of one? third-parties sound pretty powerful.
fake ass electoral system.
Voting vs other actions isn't a dichotomy - you can vote for the lesser evil to buy time, AND do the things that will make a real and lasting impact.
In our current system though, red team vs blue IS a dichotomy - using your vote you can nudge the counter a tiny bit closer to one side or the other; or opt out / vote third, which both equate to doing nothing and letting you're countrymen choose for you, but the potential results are the same: red or blue.
So, you can use your vote however you want, but I'd recommend pitching that nudge away from the more blatant Nazis. ...but also build those guillotines for use against hostile actors regardless of party.
What folks 100% should NOT do though is vote and then consider their 'civic duty' satisfied, which is ofc the sentiment OP is aimed at.
Voting for a different party of genocidal imperialists doesn't actually buy time to organize, though. Both parties fund ICE, both wage war on the global south, both are actively against worker organization that stands to threaten the system they both stand for.
I personally do not care if someone votes, as long as they are also organizing. If someone is only engaged with politics via voting, then they have no leg to stand on when others advocate for voting third party and organizing in real life. If someone organizes and happens to vote DNC, I really could not care less, they can do that as long as they actually participate in party building.
Why let the lesser evil win when we could have the bbeg? Commit to servitude on the most evil!
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Man, that's some overtly defeatists stance. There still is time to stop them. There are people out there willing to die, to stop the worse from happening.
At the very least give them some support.
Seriously, what's with democrats and their "well I told you so, my work ends here, see ya" position?
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Survey analysis reveals China as the 'most valued bilateral partner' for small island states; Chinese expert says appeal lies in reliability against global uncertainties
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