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@randahl@mastodon.social New anti-AfD idea: convince Vance to visit Germany and campaign for the AfD.

@mrbadger42@mastodon.world "listen YES extrajudicial murder IS a bad precedent but also, schadenfreude" sums up my stance on the United Healthcare shooting too!

@kim_harding@mastodon.scot oh dear my hand accidentally slipped and I boosted this! alas! woe is palantir! I am so ashamed of myself!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Okay I looked into this and for the record in FY2025 the _US NAVY_ spent _$7 BILLION_ on _BUYING NEW COMBAT AIRCRAFT_. this is not a budget problem this is a "our military has too damn much money" problem. Here are some of the highlights of what could be funded with that (based on the amounts that were proposed to be cut: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2vldpd1do $7 billion figure from digging into https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2025) (1/a lot)

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social We cut $3 billion for USAID. We cut $200 million for weather satellites, $80 million for renewable energy programs, and after all of that there is still $134 million left over, and it is insane how some of the best, most efficient government programs operate on shoestring budgets while the military almost literally burns money. USAID saves 4-5 million lives annually (see https://ourworldindata.org/us-foreign-aid-saved-millions) We saved lives for $750 each on average. That is INSANE. (3/many)

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Put another way: If the military cut one (1) Tomahawk missile from their budget, and instead gave that money to USAID, that could save over 2,600 lives. Just the one. And instead of saying "let's stop making tomahawk missiles they're really expensive" we said "let's cut USAID budgets". we said, "let's cut the budget of the IRS which FUCKING MAKES THE GOVERNMENT MONEY". (4/many)

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social we said "let's up the budget for ICE insanely because as everyone knows the biggest threat to the US isn't late stage capitalism or dictatorship or climate change it is ten year old mateo from el salvador". because USAID doesn't make the uber-wealthy money because they have to operate on shoestring budgets so they can't waste money so companies need to. you know. make good stuff. cheaply. insane I know. ...god I hate elon musk. (5/5 I have to Do Stuff now and can't rant anymore)

@davey_cakes so all the AI-loving hypercapitalist liars will go somewhere else? heck yeah I'd like to get left behind.

@Yuvalne@433.world well you see what if facebook's leaders could only afford TWO new yachts a year? the world would implode!

@xirin2u@mastodon.social later, i'm using me right now. wait until I die, okay?

@janetlogan @CharlotteEowyn dunno but I've heard he was an antisemitic asshole who only changed when they started going after HIM so there's that

@QasimRashid I don't hope he rots in hell. I hope that after his death, he has to live through this--the rapes, the trial, the "justice" -- again, as the girl, with no way of changing anything. I hope he relives that again and again and again and again.

@augieray@mastodon.social also, going after the jews. anyway recommending everyone reads umberto eco's "ur-fascism", i think it's freely available online. it's a good but terrifying essay.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social In the budget request, among others, AmeriCorps, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS/NPR), IMLS, Inter-American Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, NEH, US African Development Foundation, US Agency for Global Media (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, etc), US Institute of Peace, US Interagency Council on Homelessness, Woodrow Wilson Center, Presidio Trust were lumped in. They cost $3.586 billion. Put together. With other things also. (2/ a lot)

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ...by conjuring a dumpster?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @sy@mastodon.nz I'm an introvert but that vision sounds absolutely miserable! Also the design makes me think of a black hole sucking in the person's friends. And it's also hilarious that they're running on "consistent" when AI is both a cash burning machine and a prime example of enshittification (despite already being shit).

@Amoshias @janetlogan I spoke out because I'm Jewish and it may start with trans people but it'll always end with Jews.

@benroyce@mastodon.social shame it's only sleeves, I'd like to read the stuff on the inside.

@ada@beige.party never realized how much I do this until it gets annoying (do you want to share this on twitter? no, no I do not I just want to be able to highlight peacefully please)

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I submitted 'Denialism' instead of 'Bigoil'.

@BlakeHamiltonCA you want a better world? start with not destroying the good stuff that we have.

@ed_hawkins the climate has changed before, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I thought when it changed at this rate it was associated with mass extinctions.

@dgar@aus.social this is the kind of stuff that in 1600s europe would've gotten you burned at the stake for witchcraft.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social When two people calling and saying they're from Microsoft tech support love each other very much...

@stux@mstdn.social His website is still up at https://aaronsw.com Among other things, he co-authored RSS at 14, cocreated Open Library and Reddit, was influential in Creative Commons, and founded Demand Progress. All of this in his too-short twenty-six years on this planet. Aaron Hillel Swartz, may his memory be for a blessing.

@crazyeddie @Amoshias @janetlogan or queer people or romani or irish or native americans or..., but Jews are dying at some step of the process, assuming there are reasonable numbers of Jews there.

@janetlogan @crazyeddie @Amoshias pretty much. I think it's true of any state with a large apparatus that has been trained to view killing people as normal and good; you don't want to be next, so you redirect their anger, always redirect it. But eventually all the people you're directing your anger at flee or die, so you turn your anger to another group.

@kakape@mas.to and THIS, folks, is how actual scientists address concerns about vaccine safety. (also, cool!)

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io it is, in fact, quite evitable, but it would possibly make us money

@DrPsyBuffy if your 'liberation' comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, it's a way to support mass murder that's socially acceptable.

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social can't decide if the US government is currently being more or less ridiculous than the Romans appointing a horse to the Senate

@jhavok@mstdn.party @augieray@mastodon.social It appears to be an extract from the essay I mentioned, cut down to the "here is what fascism is" stuff.

@brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net could have solved a lot of shit...a world that can produce an Elon Musk should not have anyone dying of malaria, or hunger, or whatnot.

@fj@mastodon.social "illegal protests"? it has been affirmed that there is a right for Nazis--open Nazis--to march through a town with a bunch of Holocaust survivors, and if that shouldn't be illegal, I don't know WHAT protest should be.

@brianbilston@mastodon.online and not just because I turned off the news.

@randahl @everton137 I am not a citizen of, nor do I live in a, EU state; do you know if I can sign it?

@anildash@me.dm It's a good video, but I don't totally get the data on Trump-won neighborhoods. He won the *Democratic primary* -- not the overall vote -- yet from what I can tell he's sort of assuming the Trump voters contributed, when they presumably didn't vote in the Democratic primary. Is there more detail on this or something I'm missing?

@aj "There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below." ~ William Jennings Bryan, in his "cross of gold" speech, July 9, 1896.

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca So this is what it feels like to watch your country slide--well, these days more careen -- into autocracy.

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Also: 0. Go after the people who have been gone after for ~2,000 years (Jews) or ~800 years (Roma).

@dangoodin@infosec.exchange browsing explore and the first two things are, in order, signal and then you

@cstross@wandering.shop so what we'll get is "professionals" will suggest people go to nurses, social workers and therapists who'll make the problem worse, and then when that fails the professional will go to a speech pathologist and direct the person to an audiologist to see if perhaps the professional misspoke or the person misheard. then they'll try OT & PT, but nothing more as the building will fall down because the engineer who built it wasn't taught by a qualified person. Sounds wonderful...