In theory that kid was alive because his parents were fucking morons.

But they have a little less than 60% of the total US gold reserves.

Do you want the government to give you some gold?

That’s called the genetic fallacy.

I think a society that is afraid to talk about sex is even more afraid to argue about what is actually a reasonable age of consent and assume whatever is the current answer is the right answer. That’s generally the purpose of making people afraid to talk about a topic. Blind acceptance of a current answer.

Well that party will always make exceptions for Israel, which is relevant because of Epstein’s and Ghislaine’s ties.

Maxwell’s father had experience in distributing spyware for Israel’s CYBINT, having infected nuclear sites like Oakridge. Basically what Epstein and Ghislaine ran falls under HUMINT, which is the development of human assests (often semi-willing) in foreign countries. Everybody they managed to blackmail is a form of Israeli asset.

They aren’t going to burn Israel’s HUMINT assets in the country. This is who they released the documents to: https://img.gvid.tv/i/2XBnn6G6.jpg

Good luck getting them to give us all the names. Israel is all but caught running an underage trafficking ring targeting the US. All but caught is a lie because they are caught. But no one in the media, congress or government will say it. Just like Israel can commit mass genocide in open day light and we pretend like those who are alarmed by this are unreasonable.

I think he’s talking about how Ukraine was the first to bomb civilians. That was the pretext Russia used for invading.

Found the animal.

But think about it. Even small companies will self-censor in fear that the government will act against them. Every company exists in hope of being big enough that they could have a target on their back. Yes lemmy operates at a scale that it can be considered a personal project and will likely stay at that scale. But that’s not the majority of social media. Maybe it was a bit of a joke on my part to say Lemmy would be targeted. But I don’t think it’s ridiculous that American business owners should think woah the government will intentionally wreck me and try to sell me off to their friends if there is some 100% legal and reasonable conversation on my platform they don’t like.

Either there are principles to protect you or there aren’t. The fact that we have a politician openly saying we attack companies to buy them cheap or ask for half should be pretty fucking scary to anyone who owns a business.

The Eastern European countries for a long time were said to lack economic development precisely because of corruption. This is exactly the kind of interaction with government that caused that. The idea that it doesn’t matter because they are big and I am not doesn’t work. In the long run small businesses will be more vulnerable if the principle doesn’t stand that the government can’t attack you and sell you off to their friends. If that principle is gone then it’s gone.

And Donald Trump saying “We destroyed your business so we should get half of it” is a very scary precedent. You know that’s what the Israeli settlements do. The will burn the olive groves of neighboring land owners and then say, your land is worthless, sell it to us for a quarter of it’s original value. You are now in ruin you will need the cash. They will often do it in the night, but I saw video evidence once of an altercation where they were openly burning a farmer’s field in the day time right in front of him. But there was an IDF soldier ready to shoot the farmer if he tried to defend his fields physically. An entire family’s future going up in smoke because someone else wants a deal on buying land not by producing anything of value themselves but by destroying things.

In a lot of ways TikTok is an American company. To operate here it has to be structured and registered in the US. It just has foreign investment. If they can do it to TikTok (single out a company) they can do it to American companies. They just have to find some secondary reason to dislike you. Is Lemmy next if we say Free Palestine on here? All so that Israel can have their Labensraum.

And also a reminder that Switzerland flirted with actual nazism. Remember that whole “neutral” during WWII thing. That was really finlandization of Switzerland from western powers. They operated inside the German economic block.

So telling a swiss company that Trump is a nazi and association with anything even 0.0000001% a nazi would be outside of what you’d expect for a Swiss is kind of funny.

The only thing Nazi-like about Trump is his support of Israel committing a genocide against people who are in the way of Israel’s Lebensraum.

Shouldn’t it be tens of thousands of dollars? So it’s like $2,000 dollars and $40 bucks?

Are you saying something is going to be uncovered?

The problem is female and women aren’t grammatically equivalent, so you can’t just drop one in place of the other anytime you want. It bugs me when people say woman president. Imagine electing a man president. The correct word in that case is male. You’d be electing a male president. I don’t care about anyone’s politics. I’m just getting tired of people in suits on tv using poor language and being asked to be taken seriously. And I’m not singling out democrats. Republicans adopted that language too. There are people on tv who wouldn’t pass kindergarten telling us what they think will affect GDP.

So if I make a better car using customer feedback is the rights to the car really theirs because it was their opinions that went partially into the end product?

IP is a joke anyway. If you put information out into the world you don’t own it. Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. You can simultaneously support torrenting movies (I do, and I assume you do too), while also claiming you own your comments on the internet and no one can “pirate” them.

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Did people on the ground at the time see things? Then maybe they know what they’re talking about.

Do we disregard evidence just because the conclusion it could help draw would be uncomfortable? Then we cement our biases. “There is no evidence that.” “I mean no evidence that I haven’t dismissed for violating the conclusion I want.”

Maybe we can put the state on trial. They always want to talk about how much of a pro or an amateur he is. It’s a strange obsession. The only amateurs I see are “experts”, cops, media. Of course I don’t want them to be better. They can just fock off.

If you are loosing an argument just mention the Nazis.

I’m disappointed that he looks nothing like the guy in the hotel and it seems to be only the right that is catching on, even though the left has every reason to. Look, we have images of him both before and after his arrest. In both cases he has massive eyebrows, a highly structured face, a broad nose, and a face with a 50:50 aspect ratio.

In the hotel, no bushy eyebrows, that’s the most clear thing to spot. But everything else is wrong too. These two guys look nothing alike, at all. How are people not seeing this? Both could be described as “hot.” People are making a point of mentioning that. To the internet do all hot guys look identical?

Look at the guy in the hotel. Tell me he doesn’t have a narrow nose. Because he does.

Maybe it’s a good reason to reduce public spending in general. People act like public spending is a way to even things out, but in practice as the post evidences, the more we tax and the more the government spends the more wealth has actually been concentrated.

I think adults should be able to sign whatever contract they want.