So people in Chongqing are the New Yorkers of China?

The reason the flag was at half stalf before the executive order is because Biden chose to lower them because Carter died a week or two ago.

FLYING THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES AT FULL-STAFF ON INAUGURATION DAY

the fuck Jimmy Carter executive order lol

I am very happy he’s not in prison, but also upset he did not recieve the full pardon, more happy than upset, but classic to means test doing something cool, so it’s only something mostly cool.

Kind of amazing they are still clinging to the idea that he did that shit with quite literally no evidence, I’m glad he did something at least, I heard Deb Haaland* spoke to him directly about this throughout his term, so if she couldn’t convince him no one could, I also heard Leonard has diabetes and a few other health problems and wasn’t getting proper medical treatment so I hope he gets that at least, even though he is still not free in home confinement.

Natalie Bara, the president of the FBI Agents Association, which advocates for active and retired agents, said it is “outraged” by Biden’s reprieve for Peltier.

“This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability,” Bara said in a statement. “It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement.”

Get fucked Natalie and by association all other feds.

I don’t want to be too much of a pedant, but it is different, it’s not likely any of these people did anything besides Hunter. Unless it comes out these people actually did anything, comparing Hunter to Kushner is a fair comparison, but preemptively pardoning your family because you think they are gonna get persecuted because they are related to you is pretty unprecedented. I don’t really fault sleepy for this, what’s the alternative letting Trump groundlessly put your family in courts and make a media spectacle out of it.

Me; trying; to; use; semicolons; after seeing a user saying one of the biggest problems with Hexbear was users writing sentences with too many commas.

It seems like the makeshift new 196 from blahaj called c/onehundredninetysix has completely won out from the original one that migrated to lemmy.world; there are 10x as many posts on the new blahaj one than the migrated one. Hopefully the behaviour associated with the problematic mod that was behind the migration has migrated with that mod. But cool to see users not being okay with going to an objectively worse instance.

My dad legitimately thinks that TikTok is a national security problem and “it must be really scary if 80% of congress voted to ban it.”

It’s a national security problem in the sense that any closed source app that connects to the internet on a VIP is a national security problem, it just happens to be owned by a country that Amerikkka wants to beef with, there is just as much danger in a closed source US owned app like Facebook getting hacked by a foreign actor and leaking sensitive information, the op-sec of most governments and a lot of businesses are generally horrendous, anyone doing anything important enough to be worth targeting should have nothing that isn’t strictly needed on their phones, you think they would take it more seriously, but they do not.

John Oliver: This is why we have to ban TrumpTok, I mean DrumpfDrok

Got a podcast ad from one of those ones that just puts in whatever and it was about the libs trying to take away your credit card, don’t you as an Amerikkan love paying with your credit card. Can not figure out what it is about, obviously ism, but I don’t even know what it was going for or referencing.

I fear for the people that continue to watch after the desktop slip up. He’s still cranking out 100k view YouTube videos so I’m gonna guess he’s doing just fine unfortunately.

Hexbear bit account name idea Langley571 or Langley703 (571/703 I think are the area codes for Langley) in reference to how BayArea415 made their username the place that they are from and their area code, posting in the style of BayArea415 as a CIA agent. Also making your username the place you live with your area code while wearing a ski mask, sunglasses, gloves and doing voice modulation might be the greatest opsec blunder of all time.

Yeah you’re not gonna get any recognition or compensation if you don’t have a state, that has been made abundantly clear post WW2 for numerous conflicts, I volunteer to give the Roma and Sinti though. They don’t really deserve to have the one they do now to begin with. It took a similar amount of time or even longer for them to recognize the genocide they carried out in Namibia in the colonial era.

Johann Wilhelm “Rukeli” Trollmann (27 December 1907 – April 1944) was a German Sinti boxer.[2]

Trollmann became famous in the late 1920s.[3] On 9 June 1933, he fought for the German light-heavyweight title and although he clearly led by points over his opponent Adolf Witt, the fight was judged “no result”.[3] The audience rebelled, and the Nazi officials were forced to acknowledge Trollmann as the victor. However, six days later he was stripped of the title. A new fight was scheduled for 21 July, with Gustav Eder as Trollmann’s opponent. Trollmann was threatened that he had to change his “dancing” style or lose his licence. Trollmann arrived the day of the match with his hair dyed blonde and his face whitened with flour, the caricature of an Aryan. He took the blows of his opponent as he was asked for five rounds before he collapsed.[4]

From wikipedia, some people are just unimaginably cool.

Learned about him in this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8NXfFQ3r_g I posted earlier in the videos community.

Even if she wasn’t exposing herself as a bigot, it’s also just really sad to be so old and so rich, yet spent so much time on social media, she was born before the end of WW2 for the love of god go sit on a warm beach and enjoy life or something.

literally if this is to be believed from Jeremy Scahill

But what happened was that Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East is not someone like an Antony Blinken or a Henry Kissinger. Instead, it’s kind of, you know, like a scene from The Godfather, where Tom Hagan gets sent as the consigliere to sort of do the bidding of the don. He sends another billionaire real estate tycoon, Steve Witkoff, to the region, and Witkoff then is in the room with CIA Director Bill Burns, with Brett McGurk, the current envoy, with all of these mediators. And we understand from Israeli media coverage that last Friday Witkoff is in Doha. He calls Netanyahu’s people and says, “I’m coming tomorrow to Israel, and I expect Netanyahu to be there.” And they say, “Oh, well, no, it’s Shabbat. He’s not going to be able to meet with you.” And Witkoff, who himself is Jewish, was like, “I don’t care what day it is.” He arrives there and, by all accounts, sort of said, “This deal is going to happen before President-elect Trump takes office.”

A couple of mine made the cut, cool

In Amerikka you have to go to the fancy grocery store to get pill capsules that don’t have bone juice in them.