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For My Local Town it’s Almost Exactly 55% to 45% cop Funding to Everything Else. What’s Yours?
alphanerd4 5 days ago • 100%
Can you please make a post here or message me with more information? That kind of local knowledge is desperately tricky to write about.
Read the article here: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/newly-declassified-document-reveals-that-us-knew-that-ethel-rosenberg-was-not-a-spy-long-before-her-execution/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0e7b9OQWoFqNEPKPd5uAQ7rfCVH9fYLDWH5Xtilzqf7e6DppNPl_ezB5c_aem_f2LSaKuMoFN41fjU-79Xlg
That does include parking enforcement. Which is done through that half of Townhall. Oh yeah, that’s the other part. They get literally half the real estate of town hall which is delightfully unsubtle. But yeah, remember specifically that freaking the cops taking on all of these duties, or having these duties thrust upon them outside of their control whatever version of this that you buy into,. Having a whole bunch of unrelated social functions being addressed under the regions of the police forces is the criticism, it’s not some separate part. Why, does parking enforcement or local security or non union road crews get organized and paid from the police department instead of the local government?
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Florida is Patient Zero for American Fascism and the Libs Do Not Have an Answer to that Under the Constitution
alphanerd4 1 week ago • 25%
I’ve really come to peace with this. I want to make lots of posts that and touch on many things, shallowly, even. Like. I do write good things and do more than just the barest funnest parts of research and verification, but like. This is the [very occasionally]shitty Anarcho socialist america bad side blog.
I’m fully just calling the “gender affirming care bans” what they are, bans on trans minors, because somebody on the main subReddit pointed out that the child brides in all of these red states do not have restrictions on ‘their’ boob jobs.
The alternative being.., a Mexican or Brazilian style federal system?
>courtesy of Reddit user “NoMoreProphets” This is a wild read. I would recommend reading the entire thing but here are the main snippets. The 17-year-old daughter claims her father, Hawkins, raped her when she was almost six years old and continually molested her throughout her childhood despite her protestations that he stop, according to court documents. The two adopted daughters also claim they were sexually abused, those documents state. The oldest son also told a forensic interviewer he felt like his father tried to drown him in a pool in 2018 in Costa Rica, using police control tactics and holding him under water until he began to black out. The boy said he believed his father was vengeful because the boy woke up one night and confronted his father whose hand he claims he saw down the under garments of his sister. . Though the divorce judge found there was evidence that Hawkins had physically abused the oldest son, the judge said in his ruling that was “one instance that does not involve either of the two children at issue.” . A criminal case alleging child sexual abuse was filed against the father on July 29 in the 18th Judicial District following nearly two years of investigation by the Castle Rock Police Department and a prosecution investigator. Hawkins, 55, was charged with seven felony counts of sexual assault of a child by a person in a position of trust and a single count of misdemeanor child abuse. The alleged incidents extended from 2002 to 2021, according to the charging document. The allegations span Hawkins’ tenure at the Aurora Police Department between 2005 and 2018. The daughter who claimed she was raped when she was of elementary school age told a forensic investigator the rape occurred in 2012. She said it occurred the same year that her father experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after he responded to the 2012 mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater in which 12 people were killed and 70 wounded. Hawkins received national attention in the wake of the Aurora theater attack after he testified about carrying a dying 6-year-old girl out of the theater that night. . In 2017, a woman sued Hawkins and the Aurora Police Department, alleging she was brutalized by Hawkins and three other officers. Video of the incident showed Hawkins stomping on the woman’s head while she was on the ground. The woman claimed in her lawsuit that she was falsely accused of assaulting Hawkins and spent a week in jail, including over Christmas. Her criminal charges were dismissed. Aurora paid $335,000 to settle the lawsuit. Hawkins medically retired from the police department in 2018 after he failed a fit-for-duty exam and was placed on medical leave. . Pickrel-Hawkins denied any manipulation on her part and pointed out that prosecutors in the 18the Judicial District Attorney’s Office believe the allegations. She said she fears the reunification therapy is harming her boys, whom she described as crying uncontrollably, having explosive outbursts and expressing thoughts of self-harm after attending Bassett’s reunification sessions with their father. “They can’t sleep before and after,” Pickrel-Hawkins said. “It causes major anxiety. It exacerbates their PTSD symptoms. It has absolutely been devastating to them.” . She said a domestic violence advocate has filed an allegation of abuse with child-protective services against the therapist, Bassett, for allegedly grabbing and squeezing her 10-year-old son’s arm roughly during one reunification therapy session when he declined to pick up a piece of trash. She said her sons also complained that the therapist won’t give them any water unless the children first provide water to their father during their reunification sessions. She said the therapist also has barred the children from bringing watches so they can monitor how long a therapy session will last. . The reunification therapist, Bassett, is conducting the therapy at Lighthouse Christian Counseling in Fort Collins, which advertises itself on the internet as “integrating faith into the counseling process.” “We believe that, as we push into the hard and painful things surrounding us, God meets us with both grace and truth,” the website for Lighthouse Christian Counseling states. “It is our delight to extend that grace and truth to others, regardless of their faith journey.”
https://ballotpedia.org/Analysis_of_uncontested_elections,_2024 Please consult my comments section for the mainstream explanation for why the US is totally a democracy and ever was. All I have for you in the meantime is communism. Liberal democracies are fake as a rule.
The Sacramento Bee https://www.facebook.com/share/bndN19oNXQb2ecPG/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
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Texas Instruments Monopoly
alphanerd4 3 weeks ago • 20%
My sibling in Christ I do world class research but not for the death-to-america sideblog..,
Read the first thing that popped up on DuckDuckGo for me about it To prove I’m not literally just making the concept up. https://bhsblueprint.org/showcase/2024/02/29/tis-calculator-empire-the-unstoppable-ti-84/ But again the point is still as always that I’m pitching a shift in perspective against always giving the benefit of the doubt to massive corporations literally in every aspect of any argument. What if-hear me out- what if, it actually doesn’t matter how Texas Instruments got their monopoly. That whether or not it was done “illegally” or as a natural result of shrewd business practices is ., in fact, deliberately obfuscating the fact that it is a monopoly, that it did come into existence by leveraging its standing as a weapons manufacturer and government partner to dominate a smaller market. Like that would be the important part or something. Yeah whatever. I loved Lemmy at first and I’m hoping it’s just the election season but gd this is terminally online. And that’s coming from me
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Nothing Will Fundamentally Change
alphanerd4 4 weeks ago • 100%
Damn u rite
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Oh Hey Guys How’s it Going?
alphanerd4 4 weeks ago • 50%
🤷♂️ could be a specific thing they told me n I forgot. Maybe as simple as don’t post lemmy screenshots trying to be funny. Idrc I used to be really into that community and got back into theory about it. I had like 100k karma , maybe less maybe way more , basically every post I’d put on that sub that got really big got taken down over the last year or so. I can’t speak to why mine specifically, but so far as I can tell they straight up Went through with like their definitive rules for posts or whatever and applied it retroactively and purged basically the whole top posts page halfba dozen times over at least. Maybe I’m just last to the party but the vague rumblings about how the main sub remains borked are well founded.
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Oh Hey Guys How’s it Going?
alphanerd4 4 weeks ago • 50%
I mean, they didn’t do anything wrong. I just don’t like the rule(s) that I’m violating.
> What’s up the phrasing on that headline
What’s up the phrasing on that headline
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18437234 > Trigger warning. Video of arrestee having a panic attack after she realizes it’s not the real jail.
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Oh Hey Guys How’s it Going?
alphanerd4 1 month ago • 33%
If it makes you feel any better it’s like 70% just me. Don’t feel too good tho b/c I am here owing to police beatings and being held in solitary confinement. So. Yeah 👍
www.theguardian.com
Update : I am permanently banned from the r/boringdystopia subreddit becaUse TheY wArNEd m MuLtIPlE TiMeS Okay so I would give you a link, but here’s why I’m not: self promotion-always gota be careful with that. 2 there is actually a school of thought that says a few people looking something up is as good if not better than several people clicking a link.-especially considering the not insignificant overlap there is between our communities just by the nature of the thing. M yes and Lemmy links. How do they even work. I don’t know :D — Oh and our spots are #16 and #17 , for Lemmy.World , sorted by monthly activity . Is p cool. On Reddit we may not see eye to eye but on here we do be having tippy toes 😅
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Liberal Democracy and the Duopoly at the Head of the Empire
alphanerd4 1 month ago • 33%
Lemmy Shitpost
The "#Art Block" Tag on Tumblr
alphanerd4 1 month ago • 100%
No, it’s the last place on the internet that is actively curated instead of passively curated. You only see who you pick to follow. Can’t even blame the algorithm because there isn’t one.
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The Cruelty is the Point
alphanerd4 1 month ago • 100%
Def meant to put a point on … exactly how would you actually be able to tell where that line of intentionality is? and more to point, .. does it matter, really, a system is what it does and intention is irrelevant. They meant to do something
Maybe even enough to win :D
that’s the meme. Go do some science. And download Firefox while you’re at it. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18437483 > Click on the link to see how many more articles they have now.
www.tumblr.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14670395 > Ok this one is a bit out there, so stick with me. For the unitiated, tumblr is the depressed gay artists website that yahoo drove into the ground by banning porn [its core content creators] sexy starving artists etc etc. ive been on there like, more than 10 years, and im finally getting around to really scoping the place out. In the course of creating *this* space here on lemmy, the thought occurred: 'hey, these artists are in a rough spot, id love to commission work from them, have a backlog of stuff to do, but also I am in a very similar situation.' ... 'idea, find the artists that don't know what to draw, and just tell them the things id like to commission art of'. so that is how i got to perusing the #Art Block, tag on my favorite microblogging site. 10/10 can recommend. > > **TLDR** what if we, go to the depressed gay artists site, and cheer them up a bit or something. Do you think they will drop art like a side quest? Yes 100% that is exactly how it works anyone can do it. > > ___ > hmm..perhaps just pitching tumblr here a bit. its pretty straightforward. use reblogs like how you would likes and likes how you would bookmarks. talk to people if you want, #you can talk in the tags, #like this. make sure to change your profile picture right away. there is a bot problem. > oh and be liberal with the block button. see aforementioned bot problem.
OK, so granted it’s not necessarily cool. It is just a normal link. But like seriously you know it’s it’s always an option to professionalize the research aspect.
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18437234 > Trigger warning. Video of arrestee having a panic attack after she realizes it’s not the real jail. [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/USAuthoritarianism/s/nO9hhIn7K0)
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The Spectrum of Acceptable Politics USA
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 16%
You realize the common sense ‘meat’ of this ‘gotcha’ is just racism, right? I mean Like, If you approach America from any perspective other than a well off Democratic enclave, or approach China as anything other than an importer..
But yes, precisely. Seriously talking about the ways China is better than the US and how we can learn from them. What a perfect example of how “the right to freedom of speech” in the United States is a rhetorical position not an actual argument.
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Democratic Governance
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 31%
Ooh wow congrats everyone . I think this might be the most downvoted post in this space
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Okay But Seriously. Wait on a List for a Few Years. What Else America? That’s not sounding so bad.
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 0%
But muh Stalin. . Does this mean we’re allowed to say, “but 1930s America” to every single good thing the US ever did if that government ever poops?
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Boomer Math
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 100%
Well yeah, but I’ve yet to meet a boomer that doesn’t just say, “no” when you lay math like that out so
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A heartwarming story about how slaves are growing food for private charities to give to the poor.
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 100%
europor
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The “Democratic” National Convention
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 66%
That’s horse shit the Ohio legislature changed it specifically so the dnc would stop throwing them under the bus
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The “Democratic” National Convention
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 50%
Thanks
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“Stop dreaming that The West will one day wean itself away from colonial Violence”
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 40%
Multilateralism. It’s multilateralism.
Don’t at me >=[
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A heartwarming story about how slaves are growing food for private charities to give to the poor.
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 100%
Okay, so this is actually really interesting. It gets into how in the US, when we talk about slavery, we are specifically talking about chattel slavery as it was practiced in the Americas. And there’s actually a pretty strong argument that American chattel slavery is, if not unique in world history, it is more aberrant than other force labor systems throughout world history.
Absolutely mass incarceration, and the force labor system that goes along with it are incredibly distinct from American style chattel slavery, but this is because they’re arguably more in line with what slavery, distinct from chattel slavery, ‘usually’ meant. Basing a forced labor system off of race is more or less a modern phenomenon . There’s some nuance, but slave codes basically make up the core of available written records on the development of race as a cultural concept. [big ol’ FOR THE WEST label here]
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John Henry was a Convicted Laborer Worked to Death After His “Sentencing” in 1866
alphanerd4 2 months ago • 100%
x.x thank you
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alphanerd4 3 months ago • 100%
Put me in coach
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American Chattel Slavery Might Be Uniquely Cruel in World History
alphanerd4 3 months ago • 52%
Brazil is Americas??
Edit: But, yes, same deal. The racialized element of the forced labor system is what I’m referring to. The social concept of race is modern. sustained, large scale, intercontinental?migrations are required. And it was this forced labor system, mostly in the tropics.. depending how you measure…
The uniquely cruel aspect to chattel slavery in the continental US was the breeding programs.
Incidentally
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The Thin Blue Line and Gadsden Flag Mandalorian Meme
alphanerd4 3 months ago • 100%
I really can’t tell where you fall in any of this, but the 13th amendment is the stated legal justification for the slavery in the United States, right now.
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The Ethnic Cleansing of California and the Midwest
alphanerd4 3 months ago • 100%
You know what, fuck it. Good point, edited for clarity.
Mildly Infuriating
Hey There Neighbor
alphanerd4 3 months ago • 100%
Damn , reading some of these comments is like fanfiction about myself and it’s kind of wild actually. I am everyone until you go and check D:
Game Development
Anyone interested in a book club?
alphanerd4 3 months ago • 100%
Yeah, that sounds interesting.
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Zoot Suit Riots (1943) On this day in 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots began when thousands of white American servicemen in California began indiscriminately attacking people (mostly Latinos) wearing...
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 100%
Thank you so much for sharing this . I’ve spoken with apeoplescalendar in the past. they do amazing work.
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Did You Know? The DNC is the Main Funder of American Fascism
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 50%
Look, I’m not contesting the viability of the strategy. I am reframing the available evidence to you know explain why things are getting worse and it’s the Democrats fault. All right funding. The American fascist movement is not a viable long-term strategy. And it is why the Democrats are as an institution, cable, and in the broader terms completely ready and willing to tuck and roll through the transition from the current authoritarian governance that they make up and the fascist one that they expect under the Republicans
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What are our freedoms doing in Kuwait?
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 84%
IDK man it kind of feels like you’re the one being obtuse, not engaging with the critique of imperialism.
to respond,: Afghanistan. Taliban. Did 911. US invaded over it. …Okay. And then…And uh.then., Lost. Lost, rather badly, as I heard it. Oh and they gave Lockheed Martin and Raytheon 50 trillion dollars.
My issue with Kuwait is like, the US is still there. And it has been the entire time.
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Did You Know? The DNC is the Main Funder of American Fascism
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 30%
I mean,. I didn’t put a lot into communicating the actual point because I anticipated the reception. It’s a bit self-fulfilling, but here we are. It’s a very specific accusation. The main financial driver. Like the main millions of dollars contributing to the absolute worst of the worst the most far right of the far right in American politics,. The American fascists. is the Democratic Party. Because,. So far as I can tell, they genuinely believe their own bullshit about electability.
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Every Place America Has Bombed (and why)
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 50%
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US Authoritarianism - Elder Abuse Testimonial
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 100%
This is true. So much of the “assault on the nuclear family” , it’s really just based in it being incredibly impractical and bad for virtually everyone involved.
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The Progressive Movement as Illustrated by Calvin and Hobbes
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 60%
Idk man. I definitely think it’s a reference to how Calvin views his dad. ‘ go do something you hate being miserable build character’ , and all that.
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Truman’s Domino Theory in a Nutshell
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 70%
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It Do Be Like That
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 94%
Frankly, . Yeah. “War is war” is the phrase i have heard most often. It makes me wonder about what exactly the second invasion of Iraq looked like on the ground.
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No criminal charges for Oral surgeon who guided prison guard through unauthorized extraction of inmate's teeth
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 100%
oh fucks sake i hate it when I do that.
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Americans have now spent all $2.1 trillion of their pandemic savings, San Francisco Fed says
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 85%
That was the fucking point of all this, right ? Like ‘how dare the poors slip through some material change in conditions through gov power’. ‘We’ll show them’ and then they did all of this
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May 13, 1985
alphanerd4 4 months ago • 66%
“But but. The brown people were dirty and out”
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The US isn't authoritarian
alphanerd4 5 months ago • 87%
OK so this is like the central issue. So I think it’s really important that we discuss it and do our best to try and work out some definitions. From my research so far every indication seems to be that the reason why we don’t have solid definitions to go on yet is because you know history isn’t done yet, we’re still working out what exactly words mean and how to use them . And you know consensus is the only arbiter we have there so it needs to be discussed.
Leftismalphanerd4 5 months ago • 0%
Yeah that’s an important thing I have to address. Why do people think that authoritarianism means someone being mean to them?
Edit: I shouldn’t be that sour about it. Definitions are super important part and I’ve seen this coming for months., But there does seem to be like a rather substantive difference between like political science definitions of authoritarianism versus like general use public definitions. Like the general public seems to be really about like on an individual level, and I just don’t think that’s super helpful when you’re talking about governmental structure. there’s a little bit of overlap, but that’s not what the focus of most of the academic writing on the subject is so what pops up on Google when you just google “authoritarian“ is not the definition I’m operating off of, no.
Edit2: But yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah, the US being both a democracy and massively a fan of authoritarian governance is exactly what the memes about and you know trying to talk to anybody about that really seems to be like half of people take it as such a given like your baby for not having gotten over that when you were a kid and the other half like consider it an assault against the soul of America