USA, Russia, and China all do this in every election.

Why wouldn’t they?

The mods do whatever they want, many break their own posted rules with regularity.

In my experience, in Lemmy they are more apt to delete a comment then ban, so that is nice.

There’s no logic to it. I’ve said “The nation ___________ says this, their motto is ___________ … (and then repeat their own slogan from their own officials).”

Delete. 100% true, easily verifiable everywhere, public information pertaining to the discussion, deleted.

So, if you’re censored or banned, that just means that you’re a thinking person with reasonable opinions who bases your conclusions on the factual information available to you.

It’s a good thing. Thank God.

If they agree with you, please get help immediately. Time is short.

Geneva convenience says I’m a “zio” because I say HAMAs commits war crimes.

Dude, they take pride in it. You can watch it… more videos than you could ever watch all of

(Yes, Israel commits war crimes and breaks the Geneva convention, too).

Why does this infuriate me? Seriously, it makes my skin crawl I can’t stand it. Mods please erase, this is harassment and rage bait and humanophobic.

He murdered 13 people, I’m okay with this. I’m generally against the death penalty, but these mass murderers are caught red-handed, there’s no question that he’s guilty.

If I was in charge, I wouldn’t televise it, but he would have been executed a long time ago. Not a decade after the crime.

I’m old, not staring death in the face, but old

1. Don’t be an employee. It’s better to own your own business picking up dog shit than to work for somebody else. They steal so much money from you, and pay you pennies. They’re not a family, they hate you.
2. Don’t believe anything the government, press, or religious authorities tell you. They’re usually lying, they’re twisting the truth at best.
3. Don’t trust anybody that flatters you regularly. They are manipulating you for their own purposes.
4. Consider any money that you loan out to be lost. It’s a great way to get rid of people that you find tiresome. Give them a loan, and they disappear. It’s like magic!
5. Don’t try to pick up heavy things, back pain is forever.

capitalism and colonialism are both human.

It’s all human. Even if capitalism and colonialism were off the table, every person alive consumes so much food a day, and every square foot devoted to their life is unavailable for wildlife.

So, most p*rties

Take the subway in New York City.

You will also see penis

There’s already a civil war right next door in Syria, with Turkey, USA, Russia, Israel, Kurds, too many to list fighting. Hundreds of thousands of people dead, years upon years of war.

SUPER WAR

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and Democrats! that would be great

The Bible didn’t invent anything.

Son of God, return from the dead, Heaven and Hell, Garden of Eden, Noah’s ark, nothing

1. If you are just a basic prole who wants to use a forum and discuss today’s issues, Lemmy seems to be a smaller version Reddit. How does it stand out?

2. The name is awful. Twitter grew regardless of the name, so maybe this point is dumb. Also, avatar looks like a rat.

3. Rainbow. If you want more users, expand your market. Rainbow in USA means Democrat LGB. Would you like more Christians and Muslims to join? Hindu?

4. I’m a moron, not a programmer… but wouldn’t a lot more users destroy Lemmy? From my reading of what other smarter people have said, too much growth would lead to exponential costs and isn’t really feasible. I am not well read on this topic, so apologies.

I would guess that the founders made these design decisions to exclude normies, maybe that’s also why they picked the name and selected the rat icon. In which case, everything is working as designed and all is well.

“I believe there’s about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems"

Good

That’s not even the half of it.

More than a dozen different countries and orgs are fighting in Syria right now, hundreds of thousands dead, it could be much more, we have no way of knowing

Including Russia, Iran, Turkey, Islamic State, et al

Why is the US press reporting heavily on Israel/Palestine, so much more than Syria? (This is my opinion, tell me if I’m wrong I can’t read all of the news)

I think it’s to deflect away from Syria, a much larger conflict that seems like a World War to me. It includes USA, Middle East including Israel, Russia, Turkey, how many nations to qualify for WW?

This sounds like “leverage” to me.

I disagree, please look at Trump’s son in law Kushner’s business dealings in Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere in middle east). The many billions of dollars are “officially” in his private equity firm (and accompanying shell companies).

Russian oligarchs are small change and have nothing near as much influence (due to less money)

Saudi Arabia can’t beat Israel for influence, but you know, we formed Israel and they’re like our colony/military base in the middle east; so I don’t think any nation can match that influence, we’re connected as allies, Israel could not exist without the USA.

I am not saying that Trump doesn’t accept money from Russia or anybody else, though, and exert influence for them. He’ll take money from everywhere and make “deals” with anyone who has billions of dollars.

I know it’s stupid, but I’m relieved for the girl. 74 lashes seems a little much. and of course other people have died over this and other “Islamic law”, if she had said “I’m atheist” or “I’m gay” she’d be long dead.

To me, it’s so horrible that I can’t research Iran et al for long without having to tap out

Recommend Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) by Pollack

There are many reasons; one of them is that Arab forces often lie to their commanders so that they have very poor situational awareness, leading to a cascade of further poor decisions in war.

This is because you can and will be executed for failure.

Unfortunately, you can also be executed for being too competent, which can be seen as threatening to your superiors.

Also, maintenance. And sand. I hate sand.

There are many other factors and exceptions, depending on when and where.