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So I responded to a post by donaldjmusk@lemmy.today on conservative@lemmy.today (yeah yeah I know don't feed the troll, but sometimes you just feel the need to be perverse) where he kept making disingenuous points and for some reason was quoting small sections of my replies back into his.

Too late I realised he is a mod on that community and he had been curating his responses so he could ban me and delete my comments and mischaracterize the conversation. I am guessing that references to the sexual proclivities of his idol hurt his fefes. But still he could try arguing his side rather than do that crap.

So anyway just thought I would put the word out that this is the new fun tactic.

Hehe nice

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48203399

Remember when I said calling them "weaklings" was bound to backfire? Yeah...

Democrats had been pressing for an amendment to cryptocurrency legislation that would have forced the release of information and exhibits itemized in a list of evidence held by the justice department from the 2019 child sex-trafficking case against disgraced financier Epstein.

Democrats had weighed in on the issue, hoping to force a release of the documents. “The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?” California Democratic US House member Ro Khanna, the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios. “Are you on the side of the rich and powerful, or are you on the side of the people?”

But Republicans on the US House rules committee voted down the amendment that would have allowed Congress to vote on whether the evidence – which includes micro cassettes, DVDs, CDs including one labelled “girl pics nude book 4”, computer hard drives and three massage tables in green, beige and brown – should be released.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30380510

The European Union has warned that its trade with the United States could be effectively wiped out if Washington makes good on its threat to slap a 30% tariff on goods imported from the bloc.

A tariff of “30%, or anything above 30%… has more or less the same effect. So, practically it prohibits the trade,” Maroš Šefčovič, the EU’s trade commissioner, said as he arrived ahead of an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels on Monday.

Šefčovič said it will “be almost impossible” for the bloc to continue its current level of trade with America if that new tariff rate is implemented on August 1 – the date stipulated by US President Donald Trump in his letter to the EU on Saturday.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30354639

A Democratic congresswoman has given a scathing review of the Trump administration’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, describing it as an “internment camp” that needs to be “shut the hell down.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility “don’t do it justice” and that detainees were being “packed into cages.”

On Saturday Florida lawmakers from both parties took a state-arranged tour of the new 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland in the Everglades.

Key points: Unanimous supreme court decision makes "reverse discrimination" lawsuits under equal standing.

This overturns a previous precedent by federal courts which requires additional evidence of extreme circumstances for "rare discrimination against the majority".

The opinion from the supreme court makes it clear that was an example of legislating from the bench, as nowhere in Civil Rights Act Title VII does this any language specify a difference in treatment between majority and minority.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Amex v. Ohio Department of Youth Services doesn’t settle Ames’ discrimination claim but only revives it for additional court proceedings.

There's a site called Public Square that is a dog whistle for like minded MAGA Nazis to find businesses that share their fascistic beliefs. I propose everyone find their local Nazi businesses and let folks know on mainstream review sites where their money should go instead. I'm getting some friends in on it too. Obligatory "make a throwaway account with a fake email to do so" notice here.

Link to full article on MSN

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Looks like China is having some difficulty in the trade war after all.

You have no place deciding what is conservative. You joined this community explicitly to post anti conservative content, since it was almost dead as this site has near zero conservative posters. You could be posting that in any of the other communities where it actually belongs.

Pronoun nonsense has been a core tenet of the modern left and US Democratic party. Conservatives are unified around resistance to this. We don't want our old way of speaking changed, which is by definition conservative.

People have been fired from their jobs and received death threats for refusing to go along with arbitrary pronouns and the absolute insistence on "type 1 and type 2" is part of that. The fact that people want to remove your ability to have the game say "male and female" on your OWN COMPUTER is proof of how obsessive they are. The popularity of these mods is proof of how many people think this is stupid.

If you joined this community only to disrupt conservative messages on a site that is already 99% leftist, you really should just go back to reddit where they have cancerous moderation down to a science.

I am assuming you just didn't like that despite the circlejerk this website is, there were a couple posters agreeing that yes, replacing "male and female" with "type 1 and type 2" in a remake

Owners say American customers have cancelled or suspended orders​ Factories in China have begun slowing production and furloughing some workers as the trade war unleashed by US President Donald Trump dries up orders for products ranging from jeans to home appliances.

With most Chinese goods now facing US duties of at least 145 per cent, some factory owners say American customers have cancelled or suspended orders, forcing them to cut production.

About 15 per cent of all Chinese exports last year went to the US. In interviews with the Financial Times and via dozens of social media posts, workers shared pictures of quiet production lines or factory suspension notices, highlighting how the tariffs are starting to bite.

Workers said the trade war had prompted the suspension of production for a week or more at plants making products ranging from shoe soles to jeans, electrical outlets and portable stoves. Some factory owners said they were cutting overtime or weekend work.

Wang Xin, head of the Shenzhen Cross-Border E-Commerce Association, an industry group representing more than 2,000 Chinese merchants, said many of them were “extremely anxious” and had told factories and suppliers to halt or delay deliveries. This had prompted some factories to suspend production for one to two weeks, she said.

Three factory recruiters in Guangdong who work with manufacturers said more factories were cutting overtime and weekend work with only the most heavily dependent on American orders putting the whole factory on leave.

“Our export orders disappeared so we’ve temporarily stopped,” said a 28-year-old plastics factory worker in Fujian province, who asked not to be identified. Production had been halted for a week so far, she said.

Executives at DeHong Electrical Products in Dongguan, Guangdong province, gave workers one month leave on minimum wage and said the factory was under “significant near-term pressure” after clients suspended orders.

“Management is working hard to find solutions, including expanding into new markets and optimising cost structures, so we can resume normal operations as soon as possible,” DeHong said in a notice seen by the Financial Times. The company declined to comment further.

Hangzhou Stellarmed, a company in Zhejiang province that makes endoscopy kits primarily for the US market, told full-time workers they could use the rest of April to find new jobs and provided them with access to a headhunting agency.

“We don’t know how long this will last,” said Shi, the factory owner, who did not want to be identified by her full name. “We can only wait and see, there is nothing we can do.”

Plastic mould maker Dongguan Yuanguan Technology blamed the tariffs for forcing it to cancel all weekend overtime at its factory, according to a company notice and a worker. Yuanguan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A 26-year-old man in Zhejiang said the toy factory he worked at sold mostly to the US, forcing management to give workers about two weeks off. “It’s not easy at the moment,” he said, asking not to be named.

It is unclear how widespread the factory suspensions are, said Han Dongfang, founder of China Labour Bulletin, which closely tracks Chinese manufacturing and labour. “The rearrangement of China’s manufacturing sector will be a long-term process and workers will be sacrificed,” he said.

China’s electronics supply chain also employs tens of thousands of people, and Washington has exempted smartphones along with some other electronics from the steepest tariffs.

Big tech companies and cities with large concentrations of exporters, such as Shenzhen and Dongguan, are rolling out support programmes intended to “stabilise foreign trade”. Shenzhen last week unveiled subsidies for companies to participate in foreign trade shows and said it would expand export insurance to help cover cancelled US orders, among other policies.

A manager at Ningbo Taiyun Electric said they had suspended production on April 12, but had since restarted reduced output of electric hair straighteners and curling irons. “We still have some orders from Europe, we’re trying to get more,” said the manager, who asked not to be named. “Hopefully the US will change its policies.” The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

China, which reported a record trade surplus of nearly $1tn last year, has responded to Washington’s tariffs by imposing an extra 125 per cent levy on imports from the US. While Trump has repeatedly said he wants to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping to resolve trade issues, Beijing appears in no hurry to request a call between the two leaders.

For context, about 3 of the most popular mods on NexusMods for the new Oblivion remaster were basically this, and they've been removed with uploaders banned.

Basically every time someone tries again it shoots to the top of trending (because people want it) before being banned.

Previously TSMC had delayed their expansion plans for US plants, but now has advanced their schedule.

OH BOY, TAX THE RICH!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28105782

Generated Summary below:

Main Topic: The video discusses the US government's new policy of monitoring immigrants' social media for anti-semitism (defined as criticism of Israel) and the implications for free speech. It also highlights a debate between Glenn Greenwald and Megyn Kelly on the issue.

Key Points:

• DHS Social Media Screening: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin screening aliens' social media activity for anti-semitism, potentially denying immigration benefits based on their online expression.
• Definition of Anti-Semitism: The video argues that the government's definition of anti-semitism includes criticism of Israel, effectively policing immigrant applicants' views on Israeli policies.
• Double Standard: The speaker claims a double standard exists, where advocating violence against Palestinians is tolerated, but criticizing Israel is not.
• Glenn Greenwald vs. Megyn Kelly: The video references a debate between Glenn Greenwald and Megyn Kelly, where Greenwald criticized Kelly's mischaracterization of protests related to Israel.
• Free Speech Concerns: The speaker emphasizes that free speech should be defended for everyone, regardless of their views, and that the new policy represents an abandonment of this principle.
• Rise of Anti-Semitism: The speaker suggests that the actions of the Israeli government and the censorship of criticism may contribute to the rise of anti-semitism.
• Chosen People: The speaker claims that the idea of Jews being the "chosen people" is supremacist.
• Narrative Control: The speaker claims that the censorship is about narrative control.

Highlights:

• The speaker strongly criticizes the Trump administration's policy as a form of censorship targeting critics of Israel.
• The speaker questions Megyn Kelly's stance, suggesting she doesn't genuinely believe in her arguments.
• The speaker argues that the policy is counterproductive and may fuel anti-semitism.
• The speaker claims that Israel is a Jewish supremacist state.

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Massive W's on Trump side