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Kitty Jynx
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I really want to like Lemmy
  • Honestly, enough where I would read an article if it was posted but not interested enough to seek out articles that don't appear on Reuters or the AP's front page. It is depressing to watch my country fall to authoritarianism and it would be interesting to see how a formally democratic society is dealing with authoritarianism being imposed on it. An article on a new cat cafe or a dog parade would also be nice.

  • Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency
  • I thought everyone burns incense to placate the machine spirit every time an application errors out.

  • America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues
  • I love that the genesis of that was an article calling him a "short fingered vulgarian" aka a common thief but he was too uneducated to realize that and instead thought they were making fun of his small hands. He would send the author pictures of himself with his hands circled in gold sharpie trying to prove that his hands were actually of normal size. The internet then picked up the small hands thing and ran with it.

  • I'm from the Y'all zone. Is it offensive to call trans people y'all?
  • Dude is also situationally gender neutral. Saying "Hey dude" to a trans woman is misgendering her but exclaiming "Yo dude check this out!" or "Duuuude no way" is perfectly acceptable.

  • Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.
  • Trump said he'd be dictator on day one and Harris didn't. It's like choosing a surgeon who said they would only rape your unconscious body for only the first ten minutes of the surgery over one who would just perform the operation as usual. The first surgeon my have just claimed to be joking but the statement in itself is disqualifying. In this case voting Dem was literally a vote for democracy while previous elections were cruelty vs the status quo and voting was harm reduction.

  • Trump's New York sentencing still could happen even after election victory
  • They should sentence him to house arrest at the White House. No golf, no rallies, just briefings and state functions.

  • Anon casts a healing spell
  • Also no healing spell requires an attack roll. In 3rd edition there were some spells that were Save (Harmless) that you could choose to try to make a saving throw to resist them. Once I was playing an Athar who would resist any spell granted by a deity but it was me rolling the dice not the caster.

  • Trump posts fan fiction about Biden stealing nomination back from Harris
  • Usually they suck but Meatball Ron was pretty funny.

  • Collapsing Nation Still Somehow Expects Singer to Perform Anthem Sober
  • I mean America Fuck Yeah! is right there and ready to go!

  • Biden Says He’d Consider Dropping Out if a ‘Medical Condition’ Emerged
  • Harris/Duckworth would be great. Tammy Duckworth is a combat wounded vet and seems to be pretty good as far as centrist dems go.

  • Restrictions on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram lifted
  • Hey, it is rude to shit in a urinal!

  • AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
  • Sexual assault victim. Bill Clinton is a rapist and general sex pest.

  • US soldier charged in Okinawa for rape of minor
  • I was stationed at MCAS Futenma on Okinawa. The US shows no mercy when it comes to crimes against the local residents. Usually the Japanese legal system gets them first then after they spend time in Japanese prison they face the military legal system. We get a whole week of classes when we first get to the island about Japanese culture and they make sure to impress upon how fucked you will be if you cause an international incident. Even minor offenses such as underage drinking are dealt with very harshly. There were two Marines from my squadron sent to Corrective Custody Unit for drinking underage at an off limits bar.

  • Hunter Biden convicted of three felony counts in federal gun trial
  • I don't think your examples work. Hillary Clinton was also previously a Senator and Secretary of State, so she had experience in national politics. Joe Biden was Vice President and a Senator so he also had decades of experience.

  • US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel
  • He's a Major with 13 years of service so he has already completed his obligated term of service long ago. Unlike enlisted personnel officers are not on a strict contract and can request to resign their commission at any time after their initial obligation. He requested to resign his commission late last year and the Army accepted his resignation in January so he will be honorably discharged in June. He will miss out on the pension that kicks in after 20 years of service however.

  • recruiting theocracy
  • I saw a Navy chaplain when I was going through some tough times in the Marines. I told him right off the bat that I was an atheist and he didn't push any religious shit on me. He just talked to me and worked with my command to get me seen by a trained therapist. Other Marines I knew had similar experiences. Chaplains are officers outside the normal command structure and are trained to provide services to everyone regardless of their faith or lack there of. Also a lot of military members are at least nominally religious so it makes sense to have someone to coordinate religious activity, especially overseas where there aren't local religious institutions.

  • Vietnam Veterans Throw Medals Back (1971) On this day in 1971, more than 800 veterans collectively tossed their medals, ribbons, discharge papers, and other war mementos on the steps of the U.S....
  • Or they are 18 year old kids trying to get out of a bad situation and gain a chance at class mobility who were raised in a culture that whitewashed and glorified war. The ones I knew who joined for patriotic reasons were few and far between and those guys enlisted just after 9/11. Unfortunately public schools don't tend to teach much about the US's role in destabilizing much of the global south and the middle east. Because of that the propaganda being put out during the start of the Global War on Terror was taken as read by most of my fellow recruits and a lot of them literally thought that Al Qaeda was trying to take over the world. This was also before the modern internet so just being exposed to anything but the news channel propaganda, unless you were already plugged into leftest circles, was very improbable for the high school demographic that military recruiters target.

  • TRIGGER WARNING: We have people self immolating because of genocides happening and because people are losing housing.
  • The article stated it was an assisted care home. The wife had Parkinsons and the 82 year old man may have had medical conditions that needed care. A lot of those facilities charge medicare and take a portion of Social Security so it may not have cost them anything out of pocket. I don't know the full story but it doesn't sound like they were going to a shelter.