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Trump reportedly considers White House advisory role for Elon Musk
  • He wants a Hyperloop between Washington and Mar-a-lago.

  • TIL: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Family Originally had the Surname Mileikowsky When They Came to Palestine from Poland in the 1920s
  • He tried to change his name to "Ben Nitay" while living in the US.

  • When some people set their mind to something, there's no stopping them.
  • They should have given him an MRI scan to be completely sure.

  • Every time I hear news from the tech industry lately
  • You certainly won’t have to rehire many of them in a week or two as your operations turn to shit.

  • TIL Richard Simmons has never actually publicly discussed his sexuality
  • I’m not suggesting you’re wrong to be surprised by this—just celebrating Simmons’ decision not to respond to the question.

  • TIL Richard Simmons has never actually publicly discussed his sexuality
  • It isn’t a requirement that anybody discusses their sexuality publicly. Society only expects explanation when someone is suspected of not being heterosexual.

  • The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar meets William Costello
  • Thanks a lot for explaining. I was excited to post this here so I’m glad it was the form and not the content that was the issue.

  • The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar meets William Costello
  • I’m being downvoted for trying to be helpful? I don’t understand this community’s ratioing.

    Did I do something wrong by posting this video?

  • The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar meets William Costello
  • I actually listened to it as a podcast: https://overcast.fm/+B6dehbs4I. I didn’t produce this video so cannot provide a transcript.

  • The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar meets William Costello
  • If it’s an important topic, this is a relevant video.

  • The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar meets William Costello
  • This is a very thoughtful discussion of “incels” and the unique challenges men face today.

    It addresses male loneliness and the colossal changes in society—in terms of economics and sexuality—that have greatly affected men over the last few generations.

    It also highlights many of the ways in which incel identity is misunderstood, presenting the phenomenon in a wider context—allowing space for greater understanding and empathy.

  • The Truth About Incels | Ash Sarkar meets William Costello

    The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that is true?

    Ash Sarkar is joined by William Costello - a researcher whose work focuses on the psychology of incels - to discuss what we get wrong about incels, what incels get wrong about women, and the catastrophe that is modern dating culture.

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    Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich'
  • I look forward to the enlightened and unifying rule of Fürer Trumpf and have never, not once, questioned his mental faculties, business acumen, or bladder strength.

  • Tesla’s chair on Elon Musk: ‘I might wake up to a tweet. I don’t wake up to a strategy shift’
  • She doesn’t wake up to strategy shifts because Tesla’s CEO knows nothing about strategy.

    That’s why Tesla’s cars have looked the same forever and why the Cybertruck and Semi have been a huge flop.

  • Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found | Reuters
  • Are the downvotes because we don’t like the prospect of WWIII? Don’t like Iran? Think this was disinformation rather than just a joke (critiquing the precariousness of the world right now)? Or do we support state-sponsored assignations?

  • Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why?
  • Benjamin Franklin was 70 when he signed the Declaration of Independence, the oldest person to do so.

    If that’s a fact Americans might see as meaningful, the US could cap taking office as President if over 70 on election day (effectively 74 is oldest at end of term), same for the House (oldest 72), Senate (oldest 76), and the Supreme Court… just force retirement at 70 instead of death.

  • Biden’s Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say
    theintercept.com Biden’s Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say

    Biden "is violating Article I of the Constitution by carrying out airstrikes in Yemen,” tweeted Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

    Biden’s Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say

    The U.S. and U.K. led a series of airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday evening, setting off alarms globally about how the attacks play into the smoldering regional risk of conflict — including a stream of questions from Congress about whether Biden was legally authorized to conduct the strikes at all.

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    Left Politicians Are Showing How to Respond to the Horrors in Israel and Palestine
    jacobin.com Left Politicians Are Showing How to Respond to the Horrors in Israel and Palestine

    Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.

    Left Politicians Are Showing How to Respond to the Horrors in Israel and Palestine
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    US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy
    www.politico.eu US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy

    Conservative lawmaker Chuck Grassley likes the look of Rachel Reeves’ tax proposals.

    US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy

    The U.K.'s Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has won plaudits from an unlikely source for taking a tough line on taxation after she pledged that the Labour Party would not introduce a wealth tax if it forms a government following the next British election.

    U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, said in a post on social media on Friday that America's Democratic Party should "wake up and take a cue" from Reeves.

    "She is for wealth creation. She feels u don’t tax ur way out [of economic problems]. U grow ur way out," he wrote, adding that the British opposition's policies are "very Reaganesque."

    In an interview with the Telegraph last weekend, Reeves ruled out introducing a levy on accumulated wealth or owned properties despite calls from some on the left of the party to back more radical solutions to the cost of living crisis.

    She also confirmed a decision to shelve plans to raise the top rate of personal income tax from 45 pence on the pound, as Labour shifts onto a campaign footing ahead of parliamentary elections expected next year.

    The move, which Reeves said she hopes will ensure support from wealthier voters and secure investment from business, has drawn ire from supporters of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Left-wing pressure group Momentum described the policy shift as "shameful" and “a political choice to favour big business and the 1 percent over ordinary people.”

    Grassley, an 89-year-old conservative Republican, has consistently opposed higher taxation in the U.S. and pushed for repealing the estate tax on inherited assets, as well as backed looser gun-control laws and states' rights to ban abortions.

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    ACFM: Surveying the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet
    soundcloud.com ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

    In this bumper Trip, the gang survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet. Nadia, Keir and Jem dredge up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of fre

    ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

    ACFM hosts step back from their screens to survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet, dredging up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of free and open communication was displaced by closed networks of e-commerce and data harvesting.

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    Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor
    www.gofundme.com Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor, organized by JD4Mayor Campaign Fundraiser

    Hi, We hit our £25k target in under 2 hours. Amazing! Thank you… JD4Mayor Campaign Fundraiser needs your support for Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor

    Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor, organized by JD4Mayor Campaign  Fundraiser

    A socialist regional mayor who has been blocked from being Labour’s representative to contest the north-east mayoralty has announced that he is resigning from the party to try to run as an independent candidate.

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    lemmus lemmus @lemmy.world
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