Meh. I think not giving your friend a standing ovation or defending him after he's been convicted of rape is a good start.
Hyperreality
joined 2 years ago
Not suspected:
... a judge in New York, Lewis A Kaplan, said that when Carroll repeated her allegation that Trump raped her, her words were “substantially true”. Kaplan also set out in detail why it may be said that Trump raped Carroll. ... “The jury … was instructed that it could find that Mr Trump ‘raped’ Ms Carroll only if it found that he forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s vagina with his penis. “It could not find that he ‘raped’ her if it determined that Mr Trump forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s private sexual parts with his fingers – which commonly is considered ‘rape’ in other contexts – because the New York penal law definition of rape is limited to penile penetration.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll
Trump denied the allegations, prompting Carroll to sue him for defamation in November 2019 ... A verdict in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll ... Judge Kaplan clarified that the jury had found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word. .... In September 2023, Kaplan issued a partial summary judgment regarding Carroll I, finding Trump liable for defamation via his 2019 statements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump
Yeah.
This is why I bought myself some blink cameras. Obviously, privacy is shit (and I've factored this) and you're affectively forced to pay for use their cloud service, but at least the (initial) purchase price is cheap.
But I've 'bought' cameras for far more, only for them to hobble functionality a few years down the line. And they've had vulnerabilities or whatever.
For the sensitive stuff, I have a camera with an SD card, but obviously phone notifications is a big selling point of systems like this.
There's a small part of me that hopes this election will actually be less close than the media are portraying it to be, because they have a motive to keep people watching and less people will watch if they think it isn't close, and because their coverage suggests it'll be close this will hopefully ensure high turnout among anti-Trump voters.
Although the polling doesn't look great. (And I say this as someone who knows about confidence intervals, margins of error, and weighting)
You are quite right to raise this point.
Relevant wikipedia article for those who are unaware:
Public opinion in Britain throughout the 1930s was frightened by the prospect of German terror bombing of British cities, which had started during the First World War. The media emphasised the dangers, and the general consensus was that defence was impossible and, as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had said in 1932, "The bomber will always get through". However, the Royal Air Force had two major weapons systems in the works: better interceptors (Hurricanes and Spitfires) and especially radar. They promised to counter the German bombing offensive but were not yet ready and so appeasement was necessary to cause a delay. Specifically, regarding the fighters, the RAF warned the government in October 1938 that the German Luftwaffe bombers would probably get through: "the situation... will be definitely unsatisfactory throughout the next twelve months"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
The whole article is worth a read. TLDR: Chamberlain's legacy and foreign policy has been (partially) re-evaluated.
he’s trying to take a small sliver of Ukraine which voted to secede from Ukraine
He just wants access to the port in Sevastopol, he just wants Crimea, he just wants a bit of Eastern Ukraine...
Peace in our time!
I always find it interesting how being stressed or unhappy because of something like high medical debt is framed as a mental health issue, rather than as a normal reaction to living in a sick hyper-capitalist society.
But hey, I suppose medicating the symptoms is more profitable than tackling the causes.
It's sad that you have to add the /s
Relevant wikipedia article:
Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art. ... Nordau developed from this premise a critique of modern art, explained as the work of those so corrupted and enfeebled by modern life that they have lost the self-control needed to produce coherent works. ... his theory of artistic degeneracy would be seized upon by German Nazis during the Weimar Republic as a rallying point for their antisemitic and racist demand for Aryan purity in art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
Related dog whistle is 'cultural marxism'. The idea that '''intellectual elites''' are attempting to undermine traditional Christian values and replace them with degenerate values:
The term "Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents the Frankfurt School as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the Christian values of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally liberal values. ... A contemporary revival of the Nazi propaganda term "Cultural Bolshevism", the contemporary version of the conspiracy theory originated in the United States during the 1990s. Originally found only on the far-right political fringe, the term began to enter mainstream discourse in the 2010s and is now found globally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
You're not wrong. It's something experts are worried about. For example:
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/npt-review-conference-will-it-rise-to-the-proliferation-challenges/