It’s not “Islam at large”, look at Iran pre-revolution, or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They had a multitude of problems, but Islamic fundamentalism wasn’t one of them.

Right to speech != Obligation to listen.

He was banned on lemmy.world for excessive Jill Stiein/3rd party spam prior to the election and the discussion at the time was “What will they do after the election?” Well, now you know. Right Wing all along.

Everyone wanted to know how it would go for the “I just want people to support a 3rd party” folks after the election… Well, now you know!

^ This - Plus “nature photography” is a WIDE category. You need a totally different setup for landscape photography than you do for close up macro photography.

This:

vs. This:

Are both “nature photography” but need different gear and settings.

Figure out what you want to do, then figure out where your current technology limits you.

Or the Shakespearian definition:

Comedies end in a wedding.
Tragedies end in a funeral.

Bruce Campbell too! There used to be film festivals here called “Bruce Abuse!”

There is no doubt Hamas committed atrocities during the October 7th attack, but at the same time there has been no compelling evidence of systematic rapes.

That notion comes from purely racist and propagandist sources.

The policy IS more targeted at certain communities who ban people left and right for little reason or no reason at all.

Böömen

It’s weird to me what people tolerate in red states that we absolutely do not here in Oregon.

Random sobriety checkpoints were found to be unconstitutional here. You can’t just decide to close a road and pull everyone over.

Red states apparently love that shit.

https://romanolawpc.com/oregon-dui-checkpoints/

“Before government officials can embark on a search or seizure for evidence to be used for this purpose, they must have individualized suspicion of wrongdoing. Further, unless they can show to a court’s satisfaction, after the fact, that they did not have time to obtain a warrant, the authorities must have judicial authorization, in the form of a warrant, before the search or seizure.

Defendant was seized when his vehicle was stopped. His vehicle is, like other possessions, an “effect” in which he is entitled to be “secure against unreasonable search, or seizure.” Or. Const. Art. I, § 9. His person and documents were searched and the evidence obtained was used to convict him of a crime.

These acts occurred in the absence of any belief that he had committed an offense. The officers did not comply with the constitutional standards for searches and seizures. Or. Const. Art. I, § 9. The evidence must be suppressed.”

“Mark Watney: Space Pirate”

I’m demonstrating the problem. :)

The thing is, what is or is not a “mental illness” isn’t defined by you, or by me, it’s defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, written and published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Homosexuality USED to be defined as a mental illness in the DSM III published in 1980, it was maintained in the DSM III R in 1987, and the DSM IV in 1994 and DSM IV TR in 2000.

It was wholly removed from the DSM V in 2013, and frankly we should be ashamed it took that long.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_DSM

Calling it a mental illness now, in 2025, is at best “quaint”, and at worst materially and factually wrong.

In the World community, I am not shy about removing comments and banning users pushing outright propaganda, such that the Ukrainians are Nazis, Gaza is not undergoing a genocide and Chinas persecution of the Uyghurs is at best just a wacky misunderstanding and at worst Western propaganda against the wise, benevolent CCP.

But when I do that, I cite my sources.

For folks who have missed the Nazi Bar reference, this should be required reading:

https://bsky.app/profile/iamragesparkle.bsky.social/post/3lbidcyu5ic2b

(glad to see he left the Nazi bar X is becoming.)

If you see offensive content, as always, report it, but the default position now is to respond with “No, you’re wrong, here are the supporting documents showing how wrong you are” rather than instant ban and removal.

Discussion about it started before the meta announcement, it just took time to work out the verbiage.

Please note, this is a lemmy.world change and applies to all lemmy.world communities.

50 state elections + D.C.