A(ctually) I(ndians)

It’s the plot of a number of Dickens novels.

Incidentally, when Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father was thrown into prison for debt. Charles was forced to leave school and work ten-hour days at a boot factory in order to help support his family.

Colonial empires love imposing debt bondage on minority communities as a means of justifying wage slavery. Also as a form of collective punishment.

Also incidentally… The United States is stealing Afghanistan’s money.

Specifically, it has sequestered $3.5B of the $7B in the New York Federal Reserve branch owed to the Afghan Central Government, to be paid out to families of the 9/11 attacks. The remaining $3.5B is untouchable by the current government as well. And sanctions prevent Afghans from accessing global credit and trade, blocking them from doing business with neighboring Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbeckistan, and China.

The bankruptcy and trade sanctions mean Afghans can’t import relief aid or supplies for capital improvements. And the article illustrated the end results.

Standard Lemmy.world jerk off session.

One Million Henry Cuellars To Defeat Donald Trump

Banning harmless things because a dictator doesn’t like them

What if they’re banning harmful things?

Sometimes I get the sense that people on this site are crypto-libertarians fully invested in Market Based Social Darwinism.

Okay, but wouldn’t an authoritarian government that prohibited the sale of weapons for genocide be just as bad as one that directly orchestrated the sales?

To quote a wise man:

There is absolutely no difference between good and bad things. You idiot. You imbicile.

These countries can’t collapse fast enough.

It’s a Shepherd’s Tone headline. Taken at face value, I have to assume 110% of the county is illiterate and scores are expected to get twice as bad by the end of the year.

Here’s a jpg of a graph with no citations and a poorly defined X-axis. Please go be Doomers in the comments now. Don’t forget to point at a generational cohort and blame them for everything

Trump has actually been convicted of felonies

What was his sentence for these convictions?

I’ve been hearing “Lock Her Up” from Trumpies for over a decade.

Been hearing plans to arrest Putin for at least as long.

Vladimir Putin will see the inside of a jail cell a week after Hillary Clinton does.

Kamala lost because her policies were fascism light

Okay, but that’s better than fascism, right? So stop criticizing fascism lite! It’s only hurting the opponents of fascism!

Well… okay, maybe the police and prosecutors that Kamala Harris organized during her time as California AG hurt the opponents of fascism a bit more. But that was before we had a dang Cheeto in the White House. So, let bygones be bygones and focus on the future.

I voted blue but completely get why people wouldn’t

I will be very angry at you anyway. If you upset even a single independent voter on the fence about voting for Kamala, you have committed Word Crime against the cause of the Stopping Trump.

lessor of two evils is still evil

That’s exactly what a Russian would say. I’ve outed you as a nefarious FSB superagent here to bring down American Democracy and turn us into a nightmare hellscape of Soviet Style Communism, which is what Russia is right now.

Under Communism the legislature will be an API.

Please, for the love of god, I am begging you. Read Fanshen

Noooooooooo! STOP SAYING THIS! YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS WIN!!!

STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP! THIS IS WHY KAMALA LOST!

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!

I have traced your IP Address and confirmed you are a Russian Bot! MODS! MODS! BAN THIS ACCOUNT!

Russia legs good

China legs bad

A “core” group of European countries should work with allies to boost innovation

The sound of two cheeks farting

Would be an excellent time for more people to learn more about the Philippines.

Episode 443: Crashing in Mindanao

We’re joined by Bernadette from Bayan USA to talk about counter insurgency in Mindanao and the Philippines — and why a U.S. Marine just died in a surveillance plane crash.

Before there was AI slop there was auto-tuned slop.

And it ultimately flopped. The market became saturated with a product that people associated with flat, tinny, overly-electronic music. People scrambled to get away from it, and we got a mini-folk revival with lots of acoustics and more traditional instrumentals as a result.

In the same way, we’re seeing a scramble to get away from AI music saturation. I don’t think it’ll ever go away (any more than auto-tune did). But it creates a demand for something distinctively not-AI as a result.