lots of people who phonebanked for Bernie […] were […] Russians
read between the lines, lemmy users.
I go by “test” on live.hexbear.net, or “tset” or “tst” or some other variant when I’m not logged in.
We watch movies on the weekends and sometimes also hang out during the week, you should drop by.
lots of people who phonebanked for Bernie […] were […] Russians
read between the lines, lemmy users.
The president walked right up to them and talked them down with a show of confidence and legitimacy, with a crowd of supporters surrounding the building. Stunning
The US also waged a secret antivax campaign in the Philippines to vilify China’s vaccines, according to this Reuters article
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
Death to the colonizers
biden is not the president, he’s the figurehead of the machine behind him
My dad doesn’t understand why it bothers me so much and I have to dance around it saying things like “it just doesn’t suit me” which is like sitcom-tier
I’m NB, and starting to lose my hair is what has given me dysphoria enough to notice. I still look good so far, which made me realize looking good is not the main issue. Looking too masc is the issue. Being a handsome young guy was almost like presenting NB, I had that sort of feminine-coded feeling of being pursued rather than pursuing. I feel like aging and losing my hair is shunting me into a more masculine role that feels wrong.
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the other day, @[email protected] pointed out that Just Stop Oil are likely doing this to attract investment for various companies they run
https://hexbear.net/comment/5030428
Just Stop Oil is an advertisement for investors.
Their process is attention grabbing high exposure protest that is then used as a form of advertising and “this is our impact” to philanthropy investors. It’s essentially a business. Some notes I took in a chat when doing research with a friend:
Trevor Neilson, alongside Rory Kennedy and Aileen Getty are founders of the CEF (Climate Emergency Fund)
Trevor Neilson is a director of Wastefuels limited with Aileen Getty and Nick Hurd mp
Trevor Neilson is a co-founder of I (x) Net zero, Nick Hurd is a chairman of the board
It’s basically a net zero hedge fund.
Trevor Neilson has also worked for the Bill & Melinda gates foundation and Princes Charitable trust, so he’s got real experience in the Philanthrocapitalism industry
Wastefuels ltd is a Berkshire Hathaway startup that’s partnered with Maersk shipping to develop waste to fuel energy
In short. They fund the protest action as a form of investment that generates interest in their zero carbon companies. Advertisement. They then get investment in their zero carbon companies and have a financial incentive to generate the most buzzy hypey protest stuff possible, not because it’s effective but because it has the highest advertising impact for them - providing something that attracts and sells to investors about how effective they are at generating attention.
tl;dr - they’re profiting off of climate activism
Who knows, maybe something useful will come from their startups, but they are not spraying cornstarch on Stonehenge because they think it will persuade anyone
To clear up some confusion, the soldiers and police who were burned and lynched at Muxidi were unarmed. The government responded on June 3-4 with an armed crackdown. The armed crackdown also encountered firebombs, but @[email protected] was referring to the earlier attacks at Muxidi.
I would be careful with this particular point (emphasis mine):
The article does not say where the “half” figure comes from or give evidence for soldier deaths being that high. The estimate is only mentioned briefly in passing.
Some calculations have up to half the dead being PLA soldiers trapped in their armored personnel carriers, buses and tanks as the vehicles were torched.
Worth adding, to clear up a point of possible confusion — There is no evidence for deaths in the square itself. There were deaths elsewhere in the city that night, but these were violent clashes in which soldiers also died, and the death toll was in the low hundreds, not thousands. This is what we’re all saying in this thread.
Artist is Richard Pace https://bsky.app/profile/rpace.bsky.social/post/3kuq5uim2fz2h
So… food and medicine are blocked, with the exception of NGO aid?
I also have this question
“this hole was made for me” but it’s elon pointing at a ditch
this symbol lol 💱
also wow it’s barely visible on hexbear mobile
assign the engineers bodyguards and keep them off commercial flights lol
(once it’s actually close to being viable)
Her husband overthrew the government of Libya after cooking up a false “Iraqi WMDs”-style justification, and now Libya is a failed state with literal open air slave markets