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ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Just Deported Another U.S. Citizen Child With Cancer20·5 days agoWhat, he couldn’t find an orphanage to demolish?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Judge accused of helping man evade immigration agents is released after arrest85·6 days agoIt’s not murder if it’s self defense.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•FBI arrests Milwaukee judge, alleging she interfered in immigration operation5·6 days agoIt will be pretty hard to prove she intentionally misled police, especially to a degree that constitutes a felony.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How did we get so casual about conspiracy theories?751·6 days agoMKUltra was a secret government program that experimented on people using LSD and torture. The man who became the Unabomber was one of its victims.
COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive. This included feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists in the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement , Chicano and Mexican-American , and independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups).
The Iraq War was predicated on “weapons of mass destruction” which the government knowingly lied about.
The United Fruit Company backed a coup in Honduras.
General Motors conspired to collapse the streetcar industry to gain a monopoly on public transportation.
Cigarette companies suppressed information on the health effects of cigarettes.
Oil companies suppressed information on the environmental effects of fossil fuels.
Purdue Pharma conspired to suppress the risks of Oxycontin and to expand the use of the drug to levels they knew would cause addiction.
My point is, there are true conspiracies all the time. The internet has made it possible for more people to know about it. Unfortunately it has also made it easier for false conspiracy theories to propagate
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen7·6 days agoWhat I would love to see for a pickup like this is a rentable battery slab you could drop into the bed and temporarily boost the mileage for longer trips.
For me, it would have to be at least 80k, otherwise you would effectively be earning less than your daycare provider. You could find one or two kids to watch with your own and effectively be making more money while being there with your child.
How the fuck much are they making that it is still worth it after taking $40k off the top?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto /r/50501 Mirror@50501.chat•Trump targeting law firms with executive orders, then repealing them when they agree to work for him for free is the most corrupt thing I've ever seen. Why isn't anybody talking about it?English12·7 days agoLawyers are definitely talking about it.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto /r/50501 Mirror@50501.chat•Apparently Recommending to protest and March in front of Republican politicians houses inorder to make protest more effective and disruptive is threatening violence. Mmmkay reddit SmGDHEnglish7·9 days agoDisappearing American citizens and legal residents is violence. Even if protests are violence, it is in self defense.
Also throat cancer in men.
Stokely Carmichael
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are three questions you can ask someone new to know if they are friend material or not?16·12 days agoWhat’s your favorite rock?
What is the strangest food you’ve ever tried?
What kind of nerd are you?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•White House puts up 'Lab Leak’ page on COVID origins6·13 days agoLots of mistakes were made by Trump and his administration.
Wisconsin.
Milwaukee is a mid city.
Madison is a mid college town.
The Dells is a mid tourist area.
And there is nothing more quintessentially American than The House on the Rock.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Calls Autism ‘Preventable,’ Drawing Ire From Researchers4·15 days agoI can entirely believe they take the eugenics implications of this and run with it.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump sues Maine over transgender athletes in schools amid funding threats21·15 days agoThat’s the plan. If conservatives get people upset about trans people, they distract from the rest of the shit they are doing.
It’s also a tweet about the apparent increase in autism rates.
It’s sad that I had to clock through to see which mass killing of children they were referring to.