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  • In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence.
  • There were only 14 days without a police killing, and on average, a person was killed by law enforcement every 6.6 hours.
  • While the number of people killed by gunfire and officers killed in the line of duty declined, this data highlights the need for significant changes in policing in the country.
[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 97 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In most red states, it is literally impossible for the GOP to win a state-wide election without massive voter suppression efforts. No shocker here. Nobody hates democracy more than Republicans.

Edit: Just like Florida, Texas is easily blue if elections there were fair, and voting wasn't intentionally made difficult for minorities and blue counties.

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Even if it's just a recommendation on a different group in which to ask the question, I'm curious how Lemmy combats criminal activity and content like human trafficking, smuggling, terrorism, etc?

Is it just a matter of each node bans users when they identify a crime, and/or problematic nodes are defederated if they tolerate it?

And if defederated, does that mean each node has to individually choose to defederate from the one allowing criminal activity?

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 78 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What are they reforming into and were? This type of domestic terrorists don't just suddenly get educated, and find ethics, and morals.

The roaches scurry when you turn on the light, but they're still there breeding and growing in numbers. Gotta get an exterminator and actively root them out.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You're going to get a LOT of reductive and low effort answers from Lemmy radicals. But this is a super complex question, and there's not a 5-second ELI5 answer if you really want to understand.

Also, when the radicals scream at you, there's going to be a core of truth. They're going to yell about colonization and empires. That's a major factor, but not an exclusive one. However, for getting radical and rabidly furious its all they'll bother posting to you.

Things to investigate, because answering this for yourself in a meaningful way is going to take a while and require study. Here are some topics but NOT an exhaustive list:

  1. Colonization

  2. Resources (natural and otherwise)

  3. Schooling, education, etc.

  4. Stability, politically and otherwise (note this will have overlap with colonial and non-colonial powers destabilizing things intentionally for geopolitical gain)

  5. Infrastructure (transportation, economic, water, medical, etc.)

  6. Medicine as regionally practiced, traditional vs based on the the scientific method.

  7. Geopolitics (isolationism, etc)

  8. Geography (i.e. the US's greatest asset is its location, it neighbors no enemies and its main enemies are separated by an ocean. One of the key reasons the US focuses on the ability to project force)

  9. Religion

  10. Corruption (politically and non politically)

  11. Crime and non-military/nation based violence (also could get grouped under personal safety and security)

And again, honestly, a lot of these topics will overlap, but that's what I mean by there isn't a quick, easy answer.

And the reductive stupid answer is just yelling colonialism.

There's a reason people get PhDs in this subject. It's not a quick, easy question.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 97 points 9 months ago

Fox, OAN, NewsMax, etc. Those are gateways to the Christian Taliban... I mean ISIS. Same thing.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 88 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's time to extinguish the lone star. When you take up arms against the country... it's SHERMAN TIME!

Joking aside, though, this is treason and literally taking up arms against the country. The insurrection needs to be put down, and the courtrooms filled with these traitors on trial, especially Abbot and his cronies.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 146 points 9 months ago

Wait, people are still using Unity after they clearly demonstrated they'll fuck you on a whim? Honestly, seems like everyone's been given a fair warning about dealing with these scumbags. I get migrating a codebase is a motherfucker, and sometimes it is even easier to redevelop much or all of the project. But again, if you're renting retail space from someone who is a psychopath, bipolar, and an arsonist (Unity in this case), and they might burn your shop down at any moment, sometimes you gotta move!

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago

Notepad++, GET YOUR FOSS ON PEOPLE!

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

If you're not using it, then you're going to be extremely happy when you switch!

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 137 points 9 months ago

Congress has wanted nothing to do with conflicts in an official capacity for the last 50-60 years. They want sound bytes in unofficial interviews for grandstanding and to be able to blame everyone else.

This is actually a result of those decades of congress, regardless of party in control, abdicating their constitutional duty. For a recent example, check out post 9/11 and congress.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 100 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure this is happening all over, not just in China.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 91 points 9 months ago

This is the most capitalist dystopia thing I've read today!

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Eff yeah! EAT S*$% you hateful monster!

A little good news goes a long way these days, when there's so little of it. TY OP for the post.

[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 110 points 9 months ago

That's because the real wealth transfer has been to the billionaires and close to billionaires.

Nothing will fix that short of a cyclical historic repetition of the French Revolution.

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