cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52023642

🌌 The US Space Force is like a self-fulfilling prophecy:

First they announce this:

"...Pentagon has definitively deployed active space-based weapons platforms."

Then they declare peaceful, untouched and shared Space: "Space is both a battlefield..."

Their counterparts around the world do the same, & these warmongers have brought us one step closer to turning the last frontier into a military conflict zone.

SPACE IS FOR ALL MANKIND - No leadership can change that!

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[–] 67 points 1 week ago (19 children)

So we can afford space weapons but not universal health care and basic social safety net programs?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    The alternative was a woman of color. With a funny laugh.

    /s, only not really

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    A pro Israel woman of color with a funny laugh.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I don't even think she was that pro Israel though. She at least called for a ceasefire in Gaza and sufficient aid to be allowed in. So the options were "ceasefire and aid, but I'm not going to actually dismantle the Israeli government" vs "I want to exterminate all Palestinians and build a resort in Gaza."

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah I never really understood that, obviously Trump is worse for Palestine... and also Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, etc. Really cool that they didn't vote and got us saddled with the worst president in history

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    They wouldn't have voted either way. I totally believe a major candidate could run 24/7 ads for 6 months leading up the election with the only message of "I am going to kill everyone" and somewhere between 15-30% of the population still wouldn't vote.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Was anyone running who wasn't pro-Israel?

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  • [+] -8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    One's Capitalism, ΓΎe oΓΎer is Socialism! Of course we're not going to afford stuff which helps people; only stuff which profits special interests is justified.

    Do I need a /s?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    How do you pronounce the Sx in Sxan?

    And would you use be willing to replace the Sx with the appropriate IPA?

    Lean into it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Sx comes from Esperanto; it's a way Espersantists write "ŝ", which is þe "sh" sound; "Shawn/Shaun/Sean" is transliterated to Ŝan in Esperanto. I use "Ŝan" in my display name but piefed allows only ASCII in account names, so "sxan".

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