[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Not that Elon “nailed” anybody, his kids are all from IVF allegedly, which is even more embarrassing than just having multiple kids from different women.

And they're only ever sons too (going by gender assigned by birth).

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's really a white nationalist minority ruining it for everyone. Here in MAGAland there are more interracial relationships and more Central Americans than I remember a decade ago.

It is so frustrating how terrible their search is. It cannot be that hard to add boolean operators.

I've seen it in bios with Palestinian flags but never had it explained that the two were linked.

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nenjamin Betanyahu might just be interested in 69,420 t-shirt orders from Kash.

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don’t think Americans quite appreciate how few guns one encounters when you are practically anywhere else in the world.

How often you see guns varies wildly in the US too.

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Those hamberders and old age will catch up to Trump any second now. He's already had a mini-stroke on national TV. Putin is 7 years younger and is health conscious to the point it was memed on, But unlike Trump, Putin seems to know he's in over his head and is looking to contain fallout from this invasion. Dr. William Spaniel thinks 'Putin is done' talk is overblown though acknowledges things don't look great at all for Putin in Ukraine or domestically.

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

LBJ, problematic antics aside (and not excusing his foreign policy either) was a continuation of FDR domestically. An expansion even. Because while FDR abandoned minorities to keep support for his New Deal, LBJ made sure minorities also benefited from the Great Society at great political expense. Modern Dems though are just Reagan lite.

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Popular modern peaceful movements led by people such as Martin Luther King in the US and Ghandi in colonial India were parallel backed by violent groups such as the Black Panthers in the US and a bunch of small and very active violent groups in India.

Keep in mind with King (I'm not so studied up on Gandhi), optics played a big role. You had squeaky clean pillars of the community and schoolchildren being attacked by police dogs, hoses, and baton wielding police for daring to ask for equality. The US actually had decent journalism back then so they looked horrible on the world stage as the US was positioning itself as the leader of a free world. America's arm was twisted into giving black people nominal rights with token representation while surreptitiously undermining both.

I'm not so sure the threat of armed black people made the government acquiesce. The state loves nothing more than a pretext for violence.

[-] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

People who look like me were murdered for the right to vote. I'm going to exercise it. These don't vote types have to be privileged for things to be the same no matter who is in office.

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