Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
That and someone wanting to fuck monsters.
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The official vote, and thus the will of the British people
Yeah, because that particular referendum isn't notorious for SPECTACULAR amounts of disinformation from far right groups both domestic and foreign! Everyone had all important information available to them, none of it buried in a mountain of deliberately fraudulent garbage!
To say that’s wrong because people didn’t understand what their vote meant or weren’t shown how they should register really speaks more to how poorly the remain campaigns communicated the seriousness of the referendum and what it would mean to cast a leave vote or to not vote at all.
Wow, way to victim blame!
Yes, the Remain campaign dropped the ball, but to put the blame entirely on the voters and the ones trying inexpertly to avoid disaster and none on all the crooks successfully gaslighting the public is fucking asinine if not deliberately obtuse.
But official elections are the source of truth in the democratic processes we have and to claim the results are false is dangerous whether it’s for brexit in the UK or for a president in the US.
With apologies to Matthew Perry, could you BE any more of a "never doubt the system, the system is flawless or nothing matters" neoliberal?! 🤦
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
Racism and holding on to white privilege that's how. White women voted Trump in droves in both 16 and 20
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
Patricia Yang, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology who specializes in bodily fluids
I want Alie Ward to interview her for an Ologies episode, pronto!
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
*Fossil gas
Natural gas is a term the industry invented to make it sound harmless.
Viking_Hippie Now • 81%
It's not just a cordial politician.
It's the (by far) least awful prospective president giving thanks for crimes against humanity to a war criminal via his daughter who defends all his actions to this day.
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
Ooh, looks exciting! Thanks!
Viking_Hippie Now • 89%
Gee, I wonder why the hobby of a conservative Zionist masquerading as a fact and bias checker would be opposed to a source from Iran.. 🙄
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
...maybe? 🤷
Viking_Hippie Now • 58%
Oh no! Will he do a Susan Collins frown and then keep supplying the very weapons he KNOWS will be used to do it again? He's so MEAN to the fascist apartheid regime! 😭
Viking_Hippie Now • 83%
I think you'll find that actual experts, including the UN and Nobel peace prize laureate and Apartheid survivor Desmond Tutu disagree(d) with whether or not Israel is an Apartheid state and whether voting rights was the main problem in Apartheid South Africa 🤦
Israel is an Apartheid state because it by law gives full rights to Ashkenazi Jews while treating Mizrahim and the Palestinians in the occupied territories (which are effectively under Israeli control) as second class citizens and nonhumans, respectively.
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
English. I have ADHD and reading the same words that I'm hearing helps me not get distracted and miss stuff, whereas even small mistranslations into another language I understand is itself a distraction..
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
That's your answer to everything!
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
That's an actor in the show, not me 😄
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
Isn't it enough that you swindle the people of Czechia, you have to individually mock them? 😉
Viking_Hippie Now • 100%
Speaking as someone culturally obligated to make fun of Sweden and Swedes? Sure!
Speaking in any other capacity, though? Not quite 😄
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20276590
[Source](https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/586593920239215493/)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23428679 > > Pope Francis has taken the unusual decision to expel 10 people from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican investigation uncovered “sadistic” abuses of power, authority and spirituality. > > Archived version: https://archive.ph/Po1LR > > SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fpope-abuse-peru-sodalicio-068c8f57dfc37aa86f14198ad08f9157
[Full comic](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5397)
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19794487 > ***Anthony Odiong is accused of sexual assault by at least eight women whom the priest had been counseling*** > > The criminal case that authorities are building against a [Roman Catholic priest accused of preying on women](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/19/texas-priest-sexual-assault-anthony-odiong) whom he met while working in south-east Louisiana and Texas is progressing, with a grand jury in the latter state indicting him on three felony sexual assault charges. > > Anthony Odiong, 55, faces two counts of second-degree sexual assault as well as one of first-degree sexual assault in the charges handed up against him recently in the McLennan county, Texas, state court. > > The charges against Odiong – who was first arrested in July – involve two women. He could receive up to life imprisonment if convicted of the first-degree charge, a stiffer penalty that stems from the fact that the alleged victim in the case was a woman whom Odiong was prohibited from “marrying or purporting to marry” under Texas law. The second-degree counts each carry up to 20 years in prison in what is one of only about a dozen states with a law that criminalizes sexual activity between clergymen and adults who emotionally depend on their spiritual advice.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28466921 > The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency announced Friday, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022. > > Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel traveled to Austin, Texas, to tour an IRS campus and announce the latest milestone in tax collections as Republicans warn of big future budget cuts for the tax agency if they take over the White House and Congress. > > Yellen said in a speech in Austin that in 2019, the top one percent of wealthy Americans owed more than one-fifth of all unpaid taxes, “leaving ordinary Americans to shoulder the burden.”
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28090788 > In June 2023, Paul Skye Lehrman and his partner Linnea Sage were driving near their home in New York City, listening to a podcast about the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect the industry. > > The episode was of interest because the couple are voice-over performers and - like many other creatives - fear that human-sounding voice generators could soon be used to replace them. > > This particular podcast had a unique hook – they interviewed an AI-powered chat bot, equipped with text-to-speech software, to ask how it thought the use of AI would affect jobs in Hollywood. > > But, when it spoke, it sounded just like Mr Lehrman. > > That night they spent hours online, searching for clues until they came across the site of text-to-speech platform Lovo. Once there, Ms Sage said she found a copy of her voice as well. > > They have now filed a lawsuit against Lovo. The firm has not yet responded to that or the BBC's requests for comment.
