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brendansimms@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military firepowerEnglish
2·18 days agoI appreciate your well thought out response to my rashly made comment. Also I looked through some rat park comics and I agree with their and your sentiments. Addiction is complex, and placing all the blame of addiction on the person is not just incorrect, but cruel and unhelpful. The thought process behind my comment was this: if environment, opportunity, and healthcare (also access to resources and just general compassion) are the ways to remedy addiction, than addressing drug problems by killing (alleged) drug traffickers or starting a trade war with china is completely off base. An addict WILL find their fix. I can also empathize with the need to ‘turn off the faucet’ of drugs in order to address the crisis levels of addiction in certain places, but to remove the drugs without also providing massive care\aid\resources is not going to solve the problem.
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World News@lemmy.world•US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military firepowerEnglish
1·19 days agoYou blame everyone except the people who want drugs.
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News@lemmy.world•Texas governor calls for removal of rainbow crosswalks, calling them a safety issue
3·1 month ago✨🌈✨ poof you’re gay now
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News@lemmy.world•Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence
1·1 month agoI’m furloughed so halfway there
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News@lemmy.world•Stephen Miller Yells About American City ‘Bloodbath’ in Unhinged Rant
25·1 month agoAll major news orgs are simply parroting the lies from the fascist administration. People are protesting against ICE kidnapping people and racially profiling and deporting people without due process(and lots of other things, but these protests are the ones the administration treats the worst). Anytime you see something stephen miller says, it is a lie.
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
2·1 month agoBottom of the article: “This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,441 U.S. adults interviewed between October 1-3, 2025. The sample was weighted to be representative of adults nationwide according to gender, age, race, and education, based on the U.S. Census American Community Survey and Current Population Survey, as well as 2024 presidential vote. The margin of error is ±2.3 points.” The methodology from YouGov is at this link: https://today.yougov.com/about/panel-methodology. Not sure how much I trust these kinds of results, and its very difficult to determine their reflection of reality, especially given the various motivating incentives to the respondents including monetary and political incentives to being on their ‘panel’.
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News@lemmy.world•Queer photojournalist charged with hate crime for coverage of NYT vandalism, social media posts
7·1 month agoWho is Kahn? Confusing article.
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News@lemmy.world•Stars protest after AI actress gets agency interest: ‘What about living young women?’
2·1 month agodont forget the sequel, “gggggg”
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News@lemmy.world•Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
7·2 months agoAgreed. No one needs to see any “files” to know that the pres and his buddies are child raping fascists. Even if we did see them, nothing would come from it. The Justice system protects these people. No one is saving us but ourselves - get out there and build your community cause a 100billion$ gestapo force is being built right now.
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News@lemmy.world•Bernie Sanders calls war in Gaza a "genocide"
16·2 months agoNo. One country, backed by all the money and weapons of the west, was given land that was stolen from palestine in 1948, then they proceeded to slowly eradicate and remove the palestinian population. Just look at maps of palestine from 1948 to today, and watch the genocides progression.
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News@lemmy.world•Bernie Sanders calls war in Gaza a "genocide"
44·2 months agoyea its been going on since he was like 7 years old. took long enough to say it out loud.
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World News@lemmy.world•Britain Indulges ‘King Trump’ Fantasy With Made-Up CeremonyEnglish
8·2 months agoFuck melania. first woman of the american reich.
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News@lemmy.world•Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
74·2 months agothey’ll call it a suicide and keep the last acknowledgement in the 80’s.
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News@lemmy.world•Top 10% of Earners Drive a Growing Share of US Consumer Spending
14·2 months agoah yes, increasing inequality.
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News@lemmy.world•Four HBCUs On Lockdown For ‘Terroristic Threats’: Report
16·2 months agoIt is what he would’ve wanted
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News@lemmy.world•U.S. Drugmakers Warn White House of Chaos as Trump Weighs Curbs on China
3·2 months ago"A draft of the executive order sent to billionaire backers and big-name pharmaceutical companies says China “and other hostile actors have exploited gaps in our open scientific and regulatory systems.” … then they dont link the full text of the draft. Great work NYT. Excellent puff piece to try and make big pharma companies the victims.

I remember all the headlines about cloning “Dolly the sheep” years ago, then that was it. Discussion of the tech in the mainstream stopped. So I always assumed that at that point there were sketchy human trials ongoing and its just not advertised.