[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 97 points 6 months ago

if anyone thinks this is acceptable behavior in any house of legislation, substitute what is happening here with an islamic call to prayer and prayer session.

did your opinion change? why is it okay that christians can do this and no one else?

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 52 points 6 months ago

who else but a genius would buy a social media company, remove the things that made it functional and useful, reintegrate and allow to overpopulate elements that made it worse, and destroy a multi-billion dollar icon and name render useless a word that the thing you bought created and is universally understood because he thinks calling stuff X is cool?

not only a genius but ta soooper genius.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 60 points 6 months ago

free speech gym.

companies have the right to advertise wherever they choose to advertise. platforms for advertising are not guaranteed advertisers.

not unless you want to force them to advertise on platforms they don't want to be on. but that would no longer be capitalism, what would that be? I can't think of it it's right at the tip of my tongue...

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 43 points 7 months ago

where has this guy been?

it's been that way since fox news went on air. every media outlet was terrified that the fear of missing out on a story because if one major outlet is reporting a story the others aren't and it blows up, those other places lose credibility.

right wing media thrives on OUTRAGE and that outrage brings the revenue. the only reason why other media doesn't do it is that either the market won't tolerate that kind of thing and would turn it off or there are still a few (a very few) people still in the works who have the journalistic ethics to not cover news in that fashion.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 44 points 7 months ago

fuck him. he should resign from the senate completely.

sincerely, lifetime kentucky resident

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 43 points 7 months ago

🎵🎶every sperm is sacred🎵🎶

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submitted 7 months ago by ctkatz@lemmy.ml to c/news@lemmy.world

this whole investigation was a textbook definition of a witch hunt. and now it's come to light that the entire basis of investigating hunter was from an fbi informant with close ties to russian counterintel. the same people who talked with rudy and the laptop.

hunter has a real good shot at winning a defamation suit against smirnov and rudy imo but I'm not a law talkin guy.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 53 points 7 months ago

wow, they're really got the pulse of black america by focusing on the hot button issues like checks notes the price of menthol cigarettes.

say nothing about improving education, making going to the doctor more affordable, and the overwhelming targeting by police in black areas.

cigarettes.

are they going to do something about making malt liquor more available?

tell me you don't have a clue about black america issues without telling me you don't have a clue about black america issues.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 65 points 7 months ago

so that's nearly a HALF BILLION DOLLARS in fines owed to multiple entities by the (alleged) billionaire who is also the leading candidate to one political party.

now would be a real good time for that party to remove themselves from trump. because if they stay hitched to that wagon, they ain't winning shit. but the hilarious thing is that if they get behind haley right now they'll have an even shot at winning but she's so unappealing to the base they'll never do it.

it's great. 🤣😆🤣😆

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 59 points 7 months ago

so what's going to be their punishment? this is the only question that matters. because if the sanction isn't significant, there's nothing stopping this group or similar groups from doing the same thing.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 107 points 8 months ago

nope. sorry taylor. if your plane's tracking information is public knowledge it's allowed. if it's good for elon it's good for you too.

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... in other words gaetz and company are admitting (knowingly or unwittingly) that

  • trump is an insurrecionist
  • trump is very likely to lose at the supreme court in his colorado 14th amendment appeal hearing
  • that the plain text reading of section 3 of the 14th amendment says congress can waive the condition (but only if 2/3 of both houses agree to waive the condition)

the funny thing is how when this passes the house, it won't be anywhere close to the 290 they need but they'll try to act as though it's binding. and they're doing this before the hearing, where the plaintiff's attorney and/or the colorado solicitor general can point out that since the house and senate have initiated resolutions declaring trump not an insurrectionist that the colorado supreme court ruling should hold since the congress has started the process of returning trump to the ballot.

and if I a non law talkin guy could see this and figure it out then so should the supreme court. especially if someone points that out to them.

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does this mean I have to end my messages with #blessed now?

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 66 points 8 months ago

it's disgusting that those in charge in israel are using what was done to their people in the 30s and 40s as a universal shield for when they commit atrocities. you can't tell any israeli they're doing bad or else you get accused of being antisemitic. you can't negotiate anything that way unless israel gets everything they want.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 94 points 8 months ago

not surprising. the american right is specifically catered to address male grievances.

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I've actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.

  1. I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it's not working. I've used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it's not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?

  2. I've also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?

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