I’m not convinced they realize the world is a real place

Really interesting article about him, thanks for sharing. Apparently he was an actor, painter, and three-time prison escapee with multiple aliases.

The Guardian article mentions some more stuff about his past:

[Filmmaker Heath Davis] and authors including Mark Dapin had already uncovered stories of Karlson’s prison escapes that are said to include picking the lock cuffing him to a sleeping officer and leaping from a moving train and swimming off a prison island before being rescued by a benevolent fisher.

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“He was some sort of trained actor, he learned that in prison, but he was also a natural showman,” Watt said. “He bluffed his way out of a court in Sydney, said he was a detective, and to do that he must have been a very confident showman … and a bit of a conman as well”.

by “turnaround” he meant the dems regaining the lead over trump after ditching biden. They’ll want to keep that momentum going and avoid bad press, so they might be more willing than usual to meet some demands of pro-Palestine protesters

Depends on how you define “America.” After you change the government, economic system, culture, and name, it starts to be a Ship of Theseus thing.

The only question left is the borders, but “in a communist world” borders are less important. We might even have overlapping voting regions and sub-regions like a big complicated Venn diagram, depending on the issue at hand. Maybe everyone in the Rio Grande watershed votes on Rio Grande-related issues. If your farming community straddles the watershed divide, maybe half your neighbors vote on Rio Grande-related issues and the other half don’t.

I don’t see a reason to keep the current borders of America, but also, I’m not sure what the borders will even mean.

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they are referencing the 1985 MOVE bombing to make the point that we can’t rely on racist police to prevent racist violence

There are more bonafide Nazi scum than not.

I always heard (or thought I heard) the nazis were only a dominant minority, leading an unresisting but non ideologically committed majority, but I’m realizing I don’t actually know that and I just absorbed that impression ambiently. It’s been a year at least since I followed the situation.

Chauvin was not arrested until May 29. Protesters burned down the Minneapolis third police precinct on May 28.

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The station nightclub fire footage is the worst thing I have ever seen.

…and the guy responsible only did four years. He was remorseful and it was an accident, but still. This McDonalds employee got a harsher sentence than the station nightclub fire guy.

true, but a lemmy user unfamiliar with our takes is not going to infer that’s what we mean. They go off back to lemmy and repeat our take secondhand to other people, those people will tear into it because they also won’t infer what we mean or give us the benefit of the doubt, and then the person starts to lose confidence in what we have to say.

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Nazis in Ukraine are almost a state-within-a-state. Not everyone in the Ukrainian government or military is a Nazi, but the Nazis are a dominant force.

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To talk about this argument we need to know where the numbers are from.

This author appears to have gotten them from a screenshot someone sent him

P.S. I haven’t checked any of these numbers myself. I’m assuming the screenshots that Zambrano sent are the real thing. If he’s scamming me here I’m gonna be really angry!

We need to see that screenshot and investigate where its numbers are from

In the meantime, there is a possible benign explanation, but it’s only speculation:

P.P.S. Commenter Ryan points out that you could also explain this data pattern as a result of sloppy post-processing, if votes were counted correctly, then reported to the nearest percentage point, and then some intermediary mistakenly multiplied the (rounded) percentages by the total vote and reported that. I have no idea; you’d want to know where those particular numbers were coming from.

I’m suspicious because I haven’t seen many people talking about this. You’d think there would be a feeding frenzy… or maybe there is and I’m just out of the loop

Can you link to the argument?

that should be an automatic loss

just the US being the largest “state sponsor of terrorism” on the planet

I don’t remember this many news stories about bigotry and poor sportsmanship in past olympics, is it just me?

anyone have a link? I don’t think reverse image search would turn up anything useful, the image is too widespread