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  • Givesomefucks@kbin.socialtoУкраїна Ukraine@kbin.social•Musk says he didn't turn on Starlink near Crimea due to US sanctions on Russia
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    10 months ago

    Republicans have spent a literal lifetime sabotaging the government at any opportunity so stuff can be privatized…

    That’s already the alternative, we don’t need to find one. We just need to go back to taxing the wealthy, and using that money for public services.

    Internet should be a public utility, and all the money we give to SpaceX should have went to NASA where the government would have gotten a return on investment from parents.

    People laugh at how crazy the predictions of the future from 1960 was, but if we kept funding NASA we might all have hoverboards and flying cars by now. We got a lot of really cool shit from just a decade of NASA in their hey day.

  • Givesomefucks@kbin.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal'
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    11 months ago

    I mean, the war didn’t start because the North wanted to end slavery in the South…

    It started because the federal government wouldn’t force northern states who had abolished slavery to return escaped slaves to Southern states.

    The part about abolishing slavery nationwide didn’t come up until the war was going on, and that was more an economic sanction than anything else.

    So it really did start because of state rights, it’s just it was the northern states fighting for that and the Southern States wanting a federal government that was willing to force states to do stuff.

  • Givesomefucks@kbin.socialtoBrainWorms@lemm.ee•The Relationship Between Europe and Africa
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    11 months ago

    Not to mention they forgot the leaders of those African countries who make deals that give them personal wealth at the expense of their people.

    In some cases 1st world countries have installed those leaders, but that’s not really that common.

    And the citizens can’t overthrow them their selves, and the other countries who are benefitting have no incentive to “spread democracy” even if they actually mean it this time.

  • Givesomefucks@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    11 months ago

    Lupe something.

    And he wasnt convicted, but was going to. The state had a “medical expert” show up and testify that there was no way an adult woman could look like that. Just 100% sure of himself and smug as fuck about it.

    Then the defense called the pornstar to the stand and she was in her late 20s or something and working in the industry for over a decade.

    It was something that never should have made it to trial, and gets used a lot as an example for how shit expert testimony can be. The prosecution doesn’t try to find the person who knows the most, they find whoever can do the best job of convincing a jury that the prosecution is right. So the people who do it (some are professional “expert witnesses”) are just the most overconfident people. Even if they’re not sure, they play it up that there can’t be any doubt.