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mashbooq@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•"We Have Lost All Credibility”: Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending U.S. Complicity in Gaza13·9 months agoWhat a compelling rebuttal of their points /s
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!@lemm.ee•North Carolina Democrat Candidate Arrested for Stealing Trump Signs6·9 months agoReal men can’t even steal signs anymore. Because of woke.
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•GOP candidate who called drag queens "pedophiles" caught partying with drag queens16·10 months agoRepublicans never claimed not to be pedophiles, so I think that’s on us for assuming
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Telegram is exposing their users privacy.English352·10 months agoTelegram users have never had privacy. Group chats are completely in the open and private messages are only encrypted if both users turn it on for each conversation—and it’s off by default. I’ve never understood why anyone thinks Telegram is any better than posting anywhere else on the internet.
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!@lemm.ee•Germany will deny citizenship to those who call for Israel’s destruction with statements like 'From the river to the sea'4·10 months agoDoes your changing the subject mean you agree that you don’t support free speech?
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!@lemm.ee•Trump Forced To Cancel Rally After Biden Admin Denies Protection3·10 months agoThat isn’t remotely what happened bucko
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!@lemm.ee•Trump Forced To Cancel Rally After Biden Admin Denies Protection10·10 months agoThere isn’t a single slogan used by Democrats that Republicans don’t find a way to use back, incorrectly
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US to send $375 million in military aid to Ukraine, including medium-range cluster bombsEnglish152·10 months agoCluster munitions are bad when you’re an invading army bc some of the explosives fail to fire, endangering civilians who come across them later. Ukraine, however, is using them on its own territory to combat russia who 1) is already using cluster munitions with a greater fail rate than the ones the US is providing Ukraine, and 2) deliberately mines the areas they invade in a way to kill civilians (e.g. setting up a mine to explode if you try to move the corpse of a beloved family dog). So in this case, using the US’s cluster munitions to get russia out is a net positive.
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!@lemm.ee•Harris-Walz Ticket Gives Fewest Interviews of Any Candidates in History10·10 months agoYeah, how terrible of them to refuse to take interviews where they’re asked to respond to talking points created by the media, just to provide free content to keep the 24/7 news cycle spinning
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Someone fixed this Liberal memeEnglish1410·10 months agoBetter would be the marxists pushing the gas pedal to run over everyone on the red track, hoping that someone else will then rise up to stop the trolley
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Putin Blacklists Greece and Cyprus as Unfriendly to RussiaEnglish10·10 months agoW Greece and Cyprus
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!@lemm.ee•The Reason for the Electoral College152·10 months agoThe framing of that article that the writers of the Constitution established some genius system in the Electoral College is a fantasy at odds with the historical reality. The Electoral College was born of compromise and a simple lack of technology to conduct a national popular vote. The writers themselves saw it as barely justifiable even when they wrote it, and it’s certainly completely unjustifiable today. The only people still fighting for it are those who want to impose tyranny even when they can’t win the majority of the vote.
I have tried–the instructions are woefully inadequate. I tried following them to build Ventoy and had to make numerous modifications just to get the first couple of components to build. At that point I gave up
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto The Onion@midwest.social•'It's like living in a school zone,' Says Rattled Secret Service Agent Protecting TrumpEnglish37·10 months agoAs the cop in South Park said after a kid was killed in town, “Dammit! Outside school is the one place kids are supposed to be safe!”
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months91·10 months agoAfter I saw that issue, I attempted to build Ventoy from source. After making numerous modifications and getting only the first couple components built, I got tired of it and quit. I’ve made some modifications to glim and use that instead, although it’s still not as easy as Ventoy. But I don’t trust Ventoy if I can’t build it myself.
Further, when @vkc@linuxmom.net made some criticisms of Ventoy in one of her YouTube videos, she was subjected to a harassment campaign, and others told her the same happened to them. That pushed me from not trusting Ventoy to actively distrusting it.
mashbooq@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.12·10 months agoThen the likely outcome of your actions is at odds with your stated goal of forcing the two major parties to shift their platforms over time.
Have you had covid recently?
AIPAC is funded by Israel, Republicans, and Democrats, so you can’t draw any strong conclusions about party affiliation from involvement in AIPAC alone. Further, AIPAC isn’t the only, or even the biggest, donor to Biden and Harris, so claiming they’re “bought and paid for” strains credulity.
MAGA isn’t solely characterized by Zionism, and not all Zionists are MAGA, so going from “Zionism” to “MAGA” is an unsubstantiated leap.
Finally, receiving donations from a death cult does not make one part of a death cult. Morally reprehensible? Yes.
I’m guessing you don’t watch South Park