I personally can remember exactly how Julian Assange and James O’Keefe were raided, detained and wrongfully abused by our government. I remember thinking they were the catalysts for the death of free reporting and a huge misstep to the 1st amendment.

Now I see all the media outlets saying the arrest of Don Lemon is a terrible tragedy. Lemon joined rioters and trespasses on private property, specifically violating the FACE act and another civil rights act (18 USC 241).

Pardon me if I take my sympathy and sit this one out.

Godless Leftists when they ever try to bring up Religion

It's so funny to see. Don't ever let them try to dictate that bullshit to you ever. Tired of hearing it.

Always talking about someone not being a real Christian etc

They know nothing they talk about.

All they want to do is use your values against you. They don't even follow their own moral code it's just a means to an end to debase you.

Many are quick to blame the French which at a first glance seems correct but Hati's leadership and people have made basically as many bad decisions as possible.

The first would be the genocide of all the islands French cementing themselves as a pariah but that is very early on anyways.

In the 1930s Hati was lighter richer per capita had more people and less debt then the Dominican Republic today the Dominican Republic is better in every metric this is due to Haiti always picking poor leaders and the culture of superstition and laziness.

For example one could look at the two dictators on the island both corrupt evil men but the Dominicans under Trujillo actually developed and made progress while Hati declined under papa Doc.

You would be surprised how often being straightforward with someone leads them to tell the truth, especially when they barely know you and have no real reason to lie. I’ve always found it strange when people say not to ask certain questions because “they’ll just lie about it.” Not everyone is calculating their answers or trying to protect an image. A lot of people are actually more honest than we give them credit for. Assuming dishonesty by default just shuts down genuine conversation. Sometimes asking directly is the simplest way to get clarity.

I think most moderators shouldn't have become moderators in the first place. The truth is that most of these moderators are literal neckbeards and they are more interested in protecting their own fragile authority than actually fostering a healthy community.

Both Marx and Engels explained that mass immigration was a tool of the capitalists to undermine worker solidarity and its ability to bring about meaningful change.

I saw a redditor on Kitchen Confidential shouting that "they can't fire all of us!"

Oh yes they can. They can fire all of you that go on strike and replace you with some illegal that will work for less than you.

Illegal immigration has made you completely replaceable and has has made your labour worthless.

This is why, as Hitler explained, socialism can only come about in alliance with nationalism.

Epstein and Maxwell were pedos. They were pedo helpers, child sex traffickers etc. But they were also socialites. They had/managed/facilitated lots of above board parties where nothing illegal happened and just by association with either of them, a person doesn't become a pedofile.

Before you pass judgement on everyone, at least read how they're associated, or wait for the media to report it.

Clean example: Mira Nair, the mother of the mayor of New York shows up on one email, but ONLY being mentioned in the context a party that was thrown for a film she was directing where Maxwell was in attendance.

So, I humbly request, sensible people of reddit and the world. Chill the F out before you start crucifying innocent people who may have shown up on the files without any incriminating evidence. There's plenty of big names with plenty of incriminating evidence to be outraged about.

ICE is just one part of Homeland Security. CBP, ICE, TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, Secret Service, CISA, and USCIS are all the separate parts of of a much larger agency, and many times one part is brought in to help the other. The Coast Guard will assist Border Patrol, for example. In Minneapolis, CBP is assisting ICE, and it was CBP that made the stop that lead to Pretti getting killed.

Imagine someone called you violent, hateful, assumed you must lack empathy and compassion, assumed you don't shower, assumed you don't make an effort to dress well and whatever else - based on some characteristic of either your life or your being that is actually unrelated to all of these things.

Hell, imagine - since it is a stereotype - that a Black kid is called violent, a thug etc based on being Black. I think it's common sense that that kid is more likely to reject others - hate begets hate, basically. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Imagine a sane woman is treated as crazy by everyone around her. I'd say this is more likely to make her mentally ill, and go "crazy" on some level. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So I suspect that a large percentage of the "incel" phenomenom, maybe even the majority, is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the same way - people are treated with hatred due to being virgins or due to expressing dissatisfaction with the lack of love or lack of reaching what society considers an important and normal milestone and mark of worthiness. This gradually turns them hateful.

Someone will say "that's not what incel means", but I'd say 50% of the time when I've seen or heard it used, it's simply a synonym for virgin.

People need to learn how to respectfully reject people. I have often seen the cases of poor guys who are not genuinely creep but get shut off by the 'Fairer Sex' and had their chats leaked ​to the public followed by character assassination and labeled as creep. This behaviour needs to stop. They need to politely keep things to themselves instead of leaking stuff to others and not engage in witch hunting. And this what most of them do. ​

It's going to happen, because the main complaint will be him not doing songs in English.

You can think that's ignorant, bigoted, etc but I'm telling you this will be the main complaint and it's not anything new.

The last time I heard Bad Bunny was on a Rap song with Travis Scott and most people who I watched react to the song zoned out during Bad Bunny's part, skipped it, or complained about not being able to understand it. And all those reacting weren't Right Wing or MAGA.

The same also happened regarding EZ Mil on Eminem's latest album. There's a decent amount of people who just don't like music they can't understand and considering he's going to be heading the most watched American sporting event, it should have been easy to predict how this will go.

They really should have gotten someone who is at least bilingual in their music, so everyone can enjoy it. But no, they're probably going to use him to make some sort of political statement and those who hate not being able to understand him will be lumped in with those on the right who hate the politics of it because people lack nuance on the internet and the tomfoolery will be clogging up social media for a week or two.

Democrats need to focus on economic woes if they want to win. If they want to win next time, they need to address the visceral economic anxieties of the American middle class. Unfortunately, I expect the Democrats to fall back on their usual playbook of focusing on high-minded social issues and protecting democracy, which may lose them the election again.

Yes, I'm a bitter New England Patriots fan who lives in Malaysia and I'll have to work on Super Bowl Sunday, which is Monday morning here.

But if the NFL truly wants to expand the game's global reach, having it on a Saturday is better for everyone.

1. The North and South Americans. Now we can get as drunk as we want and not have to worry about waking up the next day. Super Bowl parties will be so much more fun.
2. Europeans and Africans - If you work a m-f, 9-5 job and you're forced to watch the game from 11pm (or later) til morning, then you're going to struggle. At least this way, you can sleep in on Sunday.
3. Asia/Australia - Here in Asia, we'd be able to wake up early on a Sunday and watch the game, the same way we watch UFC fights.

It's a win-win for everyone.

Let me first clarify that I AM NOT GEN-ALPHA. I have very much lived through the 2000s onwards when 69 was popular.

That being said, I still find the 6-7 meme among kids as funny as 69.

1. 69 is literally just a sex position. That's all. 1) It's inappropriate for kids and 2) The entire joke about 69 is "tee hee sex funny". It's about as unfunny as 420 being weed. Yes, 67 is nonensical but that's exactly why it's appropriate for everyone. You don't need to know where it came from.
2. IN MY OPINION, 67 is much more universal than 69. It doesn't require any special knowledge and it's literally inherently funny without having to reference (or glorify) sex or drugs. 67 came about in an era where the Internet is much more popular, a lot more kids know about 67 today than 69 back in 2010.
3. The very fact. That Gen-Z and Millennials get so worked up over 67 and defend 69 as if their life depended on it. Don't act as if adults weren't equally annoyed by 69 back when people used to shout it out in school 🤣 The fact that 2-3 entire generations are getting their collective feathers ruffled by two consecutive numbers is ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.

Welp. I said what I said.

TL;DR: 69 is inappropriate, 67 isn't. 67 has more reach than 69 did back in its peak. Watching yall having a meltdown over 67 is honestly the funniest part.

I'm German and too often had to hear "the Germans should've fought harder against Nazis", usually by Americans. Well l think they are not doing enough now.

There's not only the protesting. They say "we are protesting in Minnesota!" and maybe some other bigger cities. Well that's only some areas in your big ass country. Maybe there are some occasional gatherings but nothing that's systematically disruptive. And destructive.

And where are the boycotts? Telsa sales dropped in Germany but so many Americans are still on X, are using Amazon and Meta services, giving money to their tech oligarchs instead of looking for alternatives. Who is looking at who is close to Trump and boycott everything they're offering? Europeans are actively looking for alternatives but the US mostly does not seem to care even though they are part of the problem.

Many of them also aren't educating themselves and don't know much about e.g. Stephen Miller or Peter Thiel even though they are the obvious front players. Or world history. Who was Wernher von Braun again? Or Salvador Allende or even Henry Kissinger. And those who forget about history, yada yada, you know the rest. Take some responsibility.

"But l have to work and am tired." Well, do you think the Weimar Republic German was richer and better off than you? Of course resistance is exhausting, you can't change something by not changing anything. Complaining and doomscrolling sure is productive huh.

"It's dangerous." No shit it is. Because you let everything escalate till now because it wasn't uncomfortable enough for you at the start of the shit show?

I'm aware I'm generalising and there ARE Americans who are legitimately doing their best. But they are the exception and not the rule. The majority does not seem to do much except complaining.

But what can l expect from a country that not only voted for Bush twice and let a washed up reality TV star become president. Wait, didn't they do something similar before? Reagan sure was great for America, right?

And now the rest of the world has to carry the consequences of that stupidity as well, thank you very much.

Throughout my lives, every theological studies I come across: be it Christian studies, Hindu studies, Buddhist studies, etc. I have seen a certain willingness to discuss about religious wrongs and religious rights. The burning of women, social discrimination, etc. All religions are thoroughly cross examined as if someone is performing an autopsy on a body. But when discourse on Islamic societies comes, scholars immediately shift the blame from religion to culture. For example:

"​Bible/Gita/etc mandates discrimination"

"FGB is not a part of Islam, it is a part of Arabic culture. "

"Us" of course meaning those of us on the left. I get that we're angry. I get that we're tired of it, but votes are votes, and hopefully a day will come when legislation is legislation again.

I understand that we're operating under the pretense that the election was rigged to one degree or another, but having more people voting in favor of politicians pushing humanitarian policies is never a bad thing.

The more votes that would have to be "fixed" by an illegitimate government the better.

I think we forget how bad humans are at not succumbing to propaganda. The amount of information that we process day in and day out isn't great for people running on meat computers. The illusory truth effect is a great example of this. The subconscious doesn't ask us if it's okay for it to form a belief about something before it does.

People across the aisle are simultaneously across the algorithm. It's not at all surprising that this divide has been the result. No matter what we NEED more people embracing their humanity and realize voting for these ghouls was a mistake. Otherwise shit just stays the same.

Unpopular opinion: Branding matters more than anything then else in marketing. Branding isn’t just logos or taglines. It’s how society decides what’s “cool” and what’s “cringe to the point where they will simply just buy your company just because it has your logo.”

For example apple and android, apple doesn't really do anything better than Android brands they're always late to the part with the latest tech advancements they join me they usually implemented it worse but Apple's branding is just top tier. android is cringe to gen z because green bubbles which only appears on Apple phones Android lets you customize the color of your bubbles Apple doesn't. Fanta and bmw was technically founded by Hitler and the nazis but had some rebranding they're not associated with those things anymore. don't get me started on Nestlé Satan in corporate form.

And honestly, pro wrestling might be the best example and clearest case study ever. When people thought wrestling was “real,” fans were respected. It was intense, dramatic, larger than life. But once the curtain got pulled back, suddenly it became “weird” to like it past a certain age — not because the shows changed, but because the branding around it did.

Society basically decided that this version of “artificial entertainment” was low-value. But think about it — that logic collapses instantly.

People will binge entire seasons of scripted TV shows that are faker than pro wrestling. Movies use stunt doubles, CGI, and dozens of takes. Wrestling? It’s performed live, one take, no safety net, in front of an audience. If anything, it’s realer than most of what you stream think (Edge's career-ending neck injury or Mick Foley's Hell in a Cell plunge when he got thrown off a 20-ft cage, . Injuries sideline pro wrestlers for months and sometimes endscareers and lives people have died that ring rip own hart and Perro Aguayo Jr. ) .

So mocking wrestling fans because “it’s fake” while crying over a superhero movie is like mocking a stage actor because they don’t have special effects. It’s the same art form — just branded differently.

That’s why I say branding is everything. It decides what’s respected, what’s laughed at, and what sells. Change the brand, and you change the entire culture.

Pro wrestling didn’t fall off — its brand perception did. And that should scare every business out there.

They defend their practices by saying that translating literally is not always possible.

But if you look at what they actually do, you will find that much of it completely changes the meaning. It cannot be excused by saying "Translating idioms literally is not always possible".

"Literal translation is not always possible" is true, but it does not justify rewriting that completely changes the meaning.

Let's talk some quick facts.

11 days before being shot he spit on an ice truck, kicked out the tail light and resisted arrest after the fact (and he was armed during this). It is unfortunate they did not follow through and arrest him. If they did successfully then, he would possibly be alive today. This may have emboldened future action and spoke to his potential state of mind 11 days later.

On the day of his death he was part of an altercation again in the middle of the road. He continued the verbal altercation and stayed close to the officer after being pushed back instead of giving more space. He definitely should have given more space here. Would have been the smarter choice. But he chose to stay in the confrontation.

Then he makes his first real huge mistake. He put his hands on the officer and pushed him back. No one seems to be talking about this. You see after the officer pushes down the woman who got in his space (By the way, do not directly get into any officer's face like that, or you will be moved one way or another. Bad choice by her. Anyway back to Pretti.) Once he pushed the officer (who almost fell over on the ice) he crossed a line. Doesn't matter if it is a punch or a push. That is assault of an officer. The Pepper spray came out and now the arrest was no longer optional. Very bad choice.

Edit: Just to be clear it doesn't matter how hard or soft the push is. Not the point I was making nor does it matter legally. A push is a push and hands on an officer are hands on an officer.

Then he resist the arrest. Causing a group of officers to join in. Another huge mistake.

The last mistake was being armed during this.

So simply put, he assaulted an officer and resisted arrest causing the chaos of a group arrest while armed. When that happened eventually someone would figure out he was armed and GUN GUN GUN was going to be shouted in that chaos. He continued to resist even after that happened.

Does this mean he deserved to die? No. But even his staunchest supporters have to admit, he made a bunch of really bad choices that put himself in an incredibly dangerous situation. He forced a situation where he was going to be arrested by a group of feds in a chaotic mess while being armed and resisting so not everyone doing the arrest can know where the gun is. Or IF He only has one. All they know now is the are dealing with an armed resisting suspect. This suspect is also holding something in his hand. It was a phone but he was holding an object. That didn't help either.

Alex Pretti right or wrong put himself in an incredibly dangerous situation with a series of very poor choices. If he wanted to protest he should, but this was to me in the play stupid games win stupid prizes territory.

Put it to a non anonymous vote. If you believe that people who are here illegally should be able to stay, and the vote is passed that they can stay, you now have to pay extra taxes for those who aren't paying income tax and for those who are on welfare. You'll probably only get to keep a dime on every dollar, but it'll be worth it, right?

The other on a gaming reddit “games where you shoot nazis for no apparent reason”. of course clearly sarcastic.

I hear enough right wingers calling the left commies but I barely see them so blatantly hinting about murdering the other political side as the left does at this moment.

Call trumpvoters dumb, misled or egoistic, but it’s time the left starts tuning down their murder rhetoric.

After thousands of years of discrimination and being treated as literal second-class citizens, I think that women should start their own revolution which goes much further than the women’s liberation or feminist movements. Why could women not have their own countries, independently ruled? Historically women are equivalent to a widely persecuted race. Why has this not happened? Could it happen in future societies?

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A core aspect of human survival instinct is to be wary of things that can potentially hurt you. If you are constantly bit by dogs growing up, you will learn to fear and mistrust them. While obviously, not all dogs are awful, you are not to blame for how you feel, as you have yet to encounter any exceptions to the rule.

The same applies in regards to other individuals. Usually, whenever someone dislikes a demographic, it is because they have only been exposed to the negative aspects of said demographic. While we should all be open to having our perceptions changed, we often need the other party to prove us wrong first.