Good on him, who doesn’t?

Oh absolutely, no argument there.

Is it oniony because he’s a rapper and if so, what in all boomer hell kind of a take is that? Yikes

No, my intention there was more like " healthcare is such an unbelievably bad scam in this country We had to get a random celebrity that you haven’t thought about for several years on the problem." Like, I figured the service level seeming randomness of the headline would be a good hook to draw people into reading about a real problem (hospital prices being completely unpredictable ) and a good person trying to do something about it, but after reading your comment I can see how that might not have come through.

Looks like mądry Polak po szkodzie isn’t always the case

Doesn’t matter, just wash you hands when you’re done

Gerrymandered Congress, no campaign finance laws, bought and paid for judiciary - Allow us to introduce ourselves

And the US government is going to hold a vote on a plan to make it harder for people to migrate today

Huh, well this is one of those things I’m going to see everywhere now

Melvin Conway and Hannah Arendt probably could have had a really fascinating with each other comparing ideas in computer and political sciences

I’m going to echo everyone else recommending this podcast, it’s absolutely incredible non-fiction story telling and it will really deepen your understanding of how we all got to this point in history.

To answer your question, I actually think season 8 (all about the French Commune in 1871 and how external pressures can end up causing liberals and socialists to go to war with each other) is the best one for explaining it, but it will be really confusing if you don’t listen to season 7 first (which is all about 1848, when France revolted against a liberal monarchy and most of western Europe went “hey, we should do that too, but differently”), which will be really confusing if you don’t listen to season 6 first (all about France 1830, when the liberal monarchy who would be overthrown in 1848 overthrew the absolutist monarchy that came before them) and all its supplemental episodes (all about different western European leaders who would see rebellions in 1848).

Season 3 (all about the French revolution everyone knows about in the 1790s) will help understand a few things going on in 6 and 7, and is also worth listening to just to understand why and how liberalism got going, but I don’t think it’s strictly necessary to get seasons 6-8, and 3 is ridiculously long season because the French revolution is just an insane series of back and forth plot twists that doesn’t let up.

That all said, if you’re prepared for something ridiculously long, the final season (all about the Russian revolutions, 1905 and 1917) is an incredibly informative and interesting listen too, and kind of completes the series (this is extremely reductive, but season 1-3 are sort of the “liberalism was a big improvement over what came before it” seasons, 6-8 are sort of the “but liberalism had its problems, which socialism tried to answer” seasons, and 10 is the “but socialism has its problems too” season).

Lastly, it doesn’t really touch on the liberalism vs socialism thing, but season 4 (a history of the Haitian revolution that highlights how incredibly destructive racism and colonialism are) is probably the one season I would make everyone in the world listen to if I could.

They’re very good at identifying talented developers /s

Yeah, I’m skeptical of this story to begin with, but even if it is true it doesn’t make any real difference

Maybe they will try to take control of the courts first

Also, the UK isn’t a republic

Nobody places less value on Russian life than Russian leadership, from the Tsars onward

Some possible misinformation that’s going around related to this story, Bloomberg says Dubai’s cloud seeding program is to blame, Wired says Bloomberg is wrong about that. The Wired article sounds better informed and more persuasive imo.

now makes it hard for allies to rein in support

Which they were totally doing before now /s

I honestly kind of wonder if these Biden super fans are a reverse psychology operation. Like, I log on to Lemmy thinking “Eh, Biden’s not great but I do have to vote for him,” read a bunch of dumbass posts like this one and walk away thinking “I want nothing more in this world than to see neoliberal moderates crash and burn in the most humiliating fashion imaginable.”

I don’t know nearly enough about the different sides here, but a quick skim of the Wikipedia page for the Karen National Union and the National Unity Consultative Council that they’re members of makes it sound like they’re pro-democratic and anti-racist, so, yeah - keep kicking military dictatorship ass!

Credible Defense was a page where people could talk about the militaries of different countries, noncredible was the circle jerk/shitpost/meme page offshoot they made for it, which ended up becoming a bigger deal than the original page.

But yeah, you’re missing out on some great Ukrainian memes, but also a lot of unironic stanning for weapons manufacturers and intelligence agencies, so it’s a real mixed bag. Like, they’re super pro-queer but I kinda think that’s only because Putin is a homophobic transphobic piece of shit and if the situation were reversed I’m not sure how they’d be.

As to why you got banned - I’m totally speculating, but I’m pretty sure they’ve been hit by lots of trolls and spam and whatnot because of the controversial nature of what they meme about, so if they think for even half a second that you’re a sealion or some other kind of troll they’ll ban you because they see that a lot.

This is certainly a phenomenon that is exclusive to Lemmy. No other social media networks have this issue.

/s

For whatever one random lemming’s opinion is worth, I think your blanket statement is right but I think OP is actually one of those 5%ers

e; I’m going to clarify, I don’t think they’re transphobic. I’m not taking any position on anything else.

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