I was permabanned from /r/politics for saying “pretty soon it’s not just going to be red hats talking about second amendment solutions” in response to the police walking down the streets of Minneapolis shooting at houses during the George Floyd protests.

Permanently banned from politics, reason: advocating violence

Tried to appeal by pointing at a number of other comments that talk about second amendment solutions and was just sent a copy of the rules from the sidebar in a direct message from a mod.

It’s a Sterling engine. It uses the difference between the heat on the stove and the cool air to create a flow of thermal energy that literally drives the motor.

It doesn’t give the US control, it gives a specific cohort of misanthropic scumbags leverage to accomplish their misanthropic scumbag agenda.

There is no good reason to redact this information. Giving extra ammunition to the class of people that has been fighting to the nail to cover this all up is in no way a benefit.

I don’t think they would have been called the Epstein files though. It probably would have been called the Franklin files. All of this stuff seems like Ben Franklin’s jam.

No I don’t think Ben Franklin would have done it for espionage or spying purposes I think he would have just done it for the love of the game.

Oh mom, I promise I’m gonna be large Some day I’ma stop trying to borrow your car Gonna go far, with charisma and skill Until they put my face on a million dollar bill ~Slug

You’re just not thinking about all of the car companies that would benefit from having so many more cars to sell!

They’re not being trained to be elite troops the way that people mythologize the IDF who somehow managed to miss all of the warnings about October the 7th and can’t tell the difference between a baby and a bomb.

They’re being trained to be the enforcers of apartheid. Racistly motivated government shock troops don’t have to be competent or capable they just have to be cruel and follow orders.

Celebrities didn’t stop talking about the things that are important to them. The media doesn’t want to show people talking about that kind of stuff so it has largelystopped asking them and stopped amplifying their messages.

It’s not that they’re any more or less preachy than anyone else, it’s how their words are framed and presented to the audience that makes it so easy to resent it. They’re just people who generally get an outsized amount of airtime compared to the man on the street sharing his own opinion to the interviewer.

With commercial media, all scheduling is strategy. There is no such thing as a slow news day on planet earth, but if the news it outside the scope of the topics the channel exists to promote, they don’t cover it.

If the news doesn’t fit the narrative and it can be ignored, it will be. If it does fit the narrative they will shop around until they find a person who can speak charismatically on the subject and in the right way. If the news is too big to ignore and is hostile to the narrative then they will impanel a group of experts to tear it down. If they can dress a celebrity up like an expert and stick them on the panel all the merrier for manufacturing consent.

The same media that will fawn over their personal lives doesn’t have the attention span for much of their political opinions when they can’t use them to sell something.

Celebrity culture is a tool of capitalism just as the commercially driven media is. The owners don’t like to encourage or enable celebrities to express opinions that undermine the work, consume, consent gameplay loop they have going on.

It encourages foreign divestment which is good if you are in the crowd that thinks that trade is bad.

It also leads directly to rapid inflation as those dollars once used for trade are now sitting idle in the money pool. Rapid inflation is good if you own monopolies on essential goods like housing, fuel, groceries, and medical care as it provides cover for you to raise prices and decrease quality.

Also, with rapid inflation it becomes easier to hide graft and extortion in the government and maybe go after people like Powell for cost overruns on projects that could never have predicted that you would tank the economy.

They would fall in line as they always have and do as they are told as they always do and then seek our sympathy when they are betrayed as they always are.

You’d think that governments would at least honor their soldiers but time and time again we see soldiers having to organized together and march on the government to get the government to treat them with the bare minimum dignity that the law entitles them.

We’re going through another phase where soldiers are going to have to learn that. They seem to forget it every so often.

You know that’s a novel and insightful musing that no one’s ever thought to share before.

It’s brave of you to go on Lemmy and suggest the solution to a Windows problem is to uninstall it.

Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.

Our media isn’t making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can’t have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.