[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Never forget that in 1939 the second biggest Nazi party in the world was in America. Massive rally at Madison Square Garden, etc.

The official line was that John Wayne didn't get sent to Europe to fight because he was more valuable to the war effort boosting morale in the home front. The secret reason was that they weren't quite sure which direction he'd be shooting.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

Yes. This is actually a fairly big step. All of the previous attempts to ban the AfD have been thrown out because of the lack of a ruling like this.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago

Or spray painted a cybertruck...

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 111 points 4 months ago

Harambee was our anchor being. Everything's been fraying at the edges since that day.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

If I can touch em, they're real.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 77 points 7 months ago

Interesting story. Dropkick Murphys (Boston-Irish punk band) got their first national hit by doing a punk version of "Shipping Out to Boston," which was a Woody Guthrie taperoom-floor forgotten song. They also just lost one of their lead singer/songwriters last year.

They were trying to figure out what direction to go in, when Woody Guthrie's granddaughter called them up to say she had found a bunch of other scraps and notes, wondering if they had any interest in putting together an album.

They said "fuck it, sure" and made an album called "This Machine Still Kills Fascists." It's not quite my cup of tea, but it resonated with a lot of people. If you're interested in Guthrie's music it's definitely worth a listen. Modernized medium-talent version of his b-sides, basically.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago

Every republican administration in my lifetime has left office in a recession.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

The only surprising part of any of this is that this asshole apologized to her neighbor.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 76 points 10 months ago

Hillary Clinton had classified emails in a private, password-protected server. Conservatives have spent over a decade frothing at the mouth, calling for her head. The DOJ announced that they would investigate her two weeks before the 2016 election, possibly dooming her campaign.

Donald Trump had classified documents in a box in the shitter at his private residence while a Russian envoy was there, and conservatives think that's all cool.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

No. They just know that Republicans and their cable news sycophants will do the exact thing they did with the Hur report.

Ignore the overall findings, find one sentence in it that spins it negative, soundbite the fuck out of it, and repeat it ad nauseum.

And yes, this is the same thing Trump did. And Obama. And Bush. This has been a standard move for decades. It's just news now because of the regressive morons in congress and their orange dictator-in-waiting.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

Punish him by making him watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 300 times.

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago

Seattle PD is and has always been terrible. For a city with as little violent crime as we are, you would think that we would have a semi-competant police force. We aren't Baltimore or Chicago or Memphis. We don't need a violent, antagonistic, adversarial police force. Yet decade after decade, Seattle PD shows themselves to be the worst of the worst of violent white nationalists.

SPD's training standards are embarrassingly low. SPD's staffing numbers are embarrassing low. Rookie cops make over $100k and the right-wing pundits say it's not enough, while first-year teachers make $55k and the right-wing pundits say it's too much. They blame the BLM riots and say that the city betrayed them, but the average person here had absolutely zero faith in them well before the riots. Most SPD officers don't actually live in Seattle.

Sorry if the second paragraph got a bit into unhinged-rant territory, but shit like this is infuriating. SPD is so clearly shit and needs to be purged.

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