Just as a refresher, this is what the 2009 Brookings paper said about using Israel to provoke a war, and how the US required a perceived Iranian "provocation" to wade into the war itself.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
@georgetakei Americans will literally do anything and blame anyone instead of understanding that all of *this* is their own damn fault.
Your leaders and oligarchs have interfered in democratic elections around the world for decades, installed and supported strongman right-wing dictators, built your entire lifestyle and economy on the subjugation of others, and then y'all have the gall to be surprised when they turn and do it to you. That is a beautiful illustration of American exceptionalism.
Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
There have been various posts here in the last days describing how difficult it is for new people to start using Lemmy. In fact they are absolutely correct, it is much easier to get started on Reddit. But what many forget is that Lemmy is not a corporation employing dozens of full-time designers, running A/B-tests and so on. Lemmy is an open source project run by volunteers, with only @dessalines and me working on it full-time. Neither of us is a particularly good designer, and our time is mainly spent working on the backend (database, federation, api), and preparing the upcoming 1.0 release. If you see anything on join-lemmy.org [http://join-lemmy.org] or in the Lemmy UI itself that could be improved, the best option is to make that improvement yourself. Both of them use standard web technologies (nodejs, tailwindcss, inferno etc). The userbase here is quite technical so there are many of you able to contribute. We rarely reject any pull requests as long as they make a real improvement. Though it usually requires a little back and forth to review the changes and then address the review comments. You can find the source code for join-lemmy.org [http://join-lemmy.org] here [https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site] and follow development instructions in the readme. Regarding the default Lemmy UI go here [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui] and read the documentation with development instructions [https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/01-overview.html]. If you are not a developer you can still help, for example by improving the documentation [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/tree/main/src]. Additionally you can make changes to the texts for joinlemmy [https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/blob/main/translations/en.json] and lemmy-ui [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-translations/blob/main/translations/en.json]. All this said, there have also been some suggestions to make onboarding easier by directing new users to a hardcoded default instance. This may sound like a good idea at first but won’t work well in practice. Running such an instance would take significant time for administration and moderation, but we maintainers are already too busy. Besides it would be impossible to reach an agreement who this default instance should federate with or how exactly it should be moderated. So if you want to get nontechnical users to Lemmy, the solution is to link them directly to a specific instance based on their interests.
A man named Matt Nelson self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate in Boston on September 11th, in protest against the Gaza genocide. There are ZERO news articles about it
He is the third person in the United States to have self-immolated outside an Israeli consulate or embassy since October 7th 2023. #freepalestine #Gaza https://x.com/nathan_story/status/1834582521696121307
There is a certain degree of racism inherent in the narrative that Chinese cannot independently produce products comparable to Western standards on their own.
It’s part of an overarching narrative that portrays the West as being a superior civilization that brings enlightenment to “uncivilized” societies.
This concept functions as part of contemporary marketing for colonialism that props up Western hegemony.
Jill Stein- I’m not the one chipping away at Genocide Joe’s support, he does that every time he opens his mouth.
I'm getting votes from the majority of Americans who are already done with the 2-party trap. But you know that, that's why you pay your lawyers to kick me off the ballot, right? Have fun with Boeing and Lockheed Martin. 👍🏼
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