The United States is the national embodiment of schadenfreude.

Mistakes/failures WILL be mocked and met with cruelty, unless of course you come from enough wealth to be bailed out, in which case you’re “so brave” and “aspirational” for putting yourself out there, trying new things, and learning from failure. Again, ONLY if you’re already wealthy, otherwise you deserve your suffering, and why aren’t you suffering more, you fuck up making bad decisons?! 🇺🇸

We were warned, too.

Lets be fair, Steve Huffman did most of the work to make Lemmy so popular.

Shout out to the old r/jailbait mod for making in happen!

I’m a leftist, not a libertarian, but I always feel compelled to bring up a specific point in Snowden’s defense when he is mentioned to divisive opinions:

He did speak up correctly, using the correct channels, and the proper channels told him to shut the fuck up.

Then he again did what he did the rightest way he could, by giving the data to one of the oldest members of the fourth estate, the press, to decide proper course, ONLY AFTER the primary state failed him spectacularly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate

I can finally start dealing with my internet addiction!

Wait…

If civilians are civilians…

"Amongst Israelis, 69% of those killed were civilians and 31% members of the IDF. The number of Israeli civilians killed, from attacks by Palestinian armed groups or individuals, has declined steadily, peaking in 2002 at an average of 22 deaths per month, and dropping markedly to an average of one civilian per month in 2007. 6/

In contrast to Israeli figures, however, Palestinian civilian fatalities have remained high. Palestinian civilians, killed by Israeli security forces, peaked with an average of 35 deaths per month in 2002, and again in 2004. In 2007 they dropped slightly to an average of ten civilian deaths per month."

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208380/

Both sides kill civilians with abandon, and Israel is markedly better at it. Major media doesn’t seem to care very much about Palestinian civilians though.

Relevant Context:

https://m.thewire.in/article/world/chart-6407-palestinians-and-308-israelis-killed-in-violence-in-last-15-years

Please stop the ride, I want off

“Good News, Everyone!”

-Climate Change

Perfect timing for this Apple propaganda “journalism,” as Apple is releasing another phone and have openly stated they don’t expect it to sell well.

Jesus.

Only because I want to see how Right wing “Christians” would react to being faced with their messiah being a middle-eastern globalist communist that preaches love and acceptance.

USB-C?!

On a phone?!

The Apple Magic🪄 has outdone itself this time. No one has ever seen anything like this before. This is the biggest technological innovation since Apple invented oled screens on phones in 2017.

Mind = blown