But the only reason he was being prosecuted was because of his connection to Biden. An average working class person would never have been charged with this crime in the first place.

Damn. I actually thought he might turn things around back when he was brought in. Their engineers have let them down, how did they fall so far behind after being so far ahead just 15 years ago?

It’s called Virginia, not East Virginia.

But in all seriousness it’s because the state was divided during the Civil War and the original Virginia kept on being Virginia. And West Virginia was evidently the most satisfactory name they could come up with for the new state. Could have also gone with North Virginia, but with the context of the civil war (north vs south) they may have avoided that one.

I concur. Good explanation.

Thanks boss. Looking and running good

It’s remarkable how effective that strategy has been.

Reagan/Bush run up the deficit by 300%+ due to tax cuts and massive military spending, foreign wars

Clinton pays off the deficit, gets the economy booming, scales back military spending and foreign entanglements

GWB campaigns on a platform of tax cuts and increased military spending, along with denying climate change, barely wins

deficit skyrockets due to tax cuts, multi trillion dollar wars, lack of financial regulation collapses global economy

Obama has to save the economy again, extricate us from foreign entanglements again, while fighting against a republican establishment that refuses to pass any legislation

Trump administration completely fails to deal with COVID pandemic and tanks the economy yet again

Biden has to clean up that mess, and the resultant inflation is blamed on the Democrats

How many times are people going to fall for this shit?

Ok I still think it’s wrong to criticize nonviolent resistance but I appreciate the data and links. It is true that I didn’t read the linked article at first.

I’m extremely confused. The civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s, led by MLK, had massive, sweeping success. Brown v. BOE, Loving v. Virginia, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Fair Housing Act of 1968, etc. The non-violent strategy succeded in striking down segregation, Jim crow laws, and nearly all forms of legal racial discrimination within a couple decades.

Securing legal rights for minority groups to be treated equally under the law and courts is a losing strategy? What exactly is your objective if you see the civil rights movement as a loss?

I understand that you’re probably not American so you may not have an extensive knowledge of American history. But this is pretty important stuff, and acting like MLK failed because of his non-violent strategy is 1,000,000% wrong. Literally could not be further from the truth.

What did the Black Panthers accomplish with their violent strategy? They committed a few terrorist acts and all ended up dead or in jail. They didn’t secure any major, permanent victories for future generations.

Saying that MLK failed because of his non-violent approach is like saying Julius Caesar failed because he was an ineffective military commander. It’s so incredibly incorrect that I don’t understand how you could ever come to think that.

I’m sure 80% of them are lovely people

Guess again, young one 😂

The toxicity you see when they raid other instances is just the tip of the iceberg. They have created an incubator for hatred in that server and any lovely people were driven away long ago. Would lovely people consistently support and upvote calls for indiscriminate violence, glorifying murderers, denying crimes against humanity, etc? I should hope not.

It’s very sad because initially they probably came with good intentions as leftists. But the hexbear echo chamber warps their perspective and convinces them to adopt positions that run counter to common human decency. Any purportedly leftist space that actively and ruthlessly suppresses healthy intellectual debate should be viewed with extreme suspicion.

It’s quite plausible that they have been co-opted by foreign agents wishing to destabilize western democracies. It would explain their pathological obsession with the Palestinian conflict, the Russian invasion, idolizing the CCP, and trying to convince people not to vote for Kamala. Basically every position that they take is counterproductive in the extreme, and it’s unclear whether they do so simply because they’re myopic idiots or if there is also some direct foreign influence at play.

Well I mostly was already familiar with “if and only if” terminology from some math class many years ago. So once you said iff stands for “if and only if” I didn’t really look too close at the rest of your comment because I felt like I already understood.

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Cool, TIL

I agree with you on that.

But alternatively: humans can only see a portion of the whole reality of a given situation, and that specific angle can often be misleading.

Are “Iffs” a thing? I’ve been missing out.

You had a lot of really good comments in this thread. And also in general. Thank you for being here 🫡

It also has less users than sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. And way less compared to lemmy.world but I guess they aren’t linked on the joinlemmy site for some reason

Yeah that’s what I meant, very true. But the setting is much easier to optimize.

Rule 1 of tripping. The setting dictates everything.

I think you owe me an apology. It took me a while to copy paste all that senseless vitriol and you won’t even acknowledge your mistake. Disappointing.

It’s a timeless classic