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8·2 days agoFor what possible reason? The only reason any modicum of justice may be served is because of public pressure.
Ammon McNeff is that you?
Well, let’s do as much as we can to pressure legislators and the courts to hold parties accountable. The only reason anything is happening is because of the transparency and public response.
It clearly demonstrates how our justice system, our laws, are set up to benefit and protect capital and property over human life and wellbeing. And I think that’s what so many of us see more clearly.
An example, even if we assume that Tyler Shaw sues the American Fork PD and wins, it won’t be the officers involved, the chief of police, the DA, nor the judges who signed flippant warrants without any proper vetting, it will be the taxpayers who make them whole. The people suffer. At most, perhaps some of the officers involved may lose their jobs, which their corruption and/or ineptitude is a danger to the public in its own right.
While Ben can’t speak about this, the public certainly still can and hold pressure to those involved to keep things moving. The main goal of all of this is the corporation wants to sweep this under the rug as quickly as possible. Very similar to the Epstein files, just on a smaller scale.
I’ll add coffee to this big ole list when they come out. Just added the 2nd legal eagle video 👍
While potentially true, that doesn’t excuse any of the actions taken by the franchise owners, corporate, and especially the american fork police.
Ben might’ve done some antagonistic things, but it’s overall good to bring light to all of this. So, so, SO many other people and families are taken advantage by corporate America like this.
Biggest things are Ben and his friends are young and I think they trusted the police way too much. Did they do some things that could be considered antagonistic? Absolutely. And the whole claiming to flee to Mexico…ugghhh lol.
They have not caused physical or mental harm to anyone as far as we’re aware.
They may have instigated financial loss. However, that can also be easily argued that the initial action here was the company deciding not to make a family whole in any way.
And that, herein, is what we all see. Property and capital receiving preferential treatment over human life.
You’re welcome, I was updating my original post from a while back as videos came out. Reuploaded it given the latest update (the main link of the post) which is just outright censorship.
1·2 days agoBoth sides declares all positions equivalent. The stethoscope explicitly doesn’t as it identifies authoritarianism as a shared mechanism while maintaining that ideological content and material outcomes differ by adding an additional axis.
No true Scotsman excludes inconvenient examples by redefining categories. The model explicitly includes authoritarian leftists as an additional category.
You’ve named two fallacies without demonstrating either one. Reading comprehension would help more than parroting pattern recognition without understanding. That’s even worse than AI reasoning.
Polly want a cracker?
Centrists and authoritarian leftists are scary man. We’ve got terrorist rape-ublicans to deal with already.
https://lemmy.ml/post/48239454
https://mander.xyz/post/53015076
Meanwhile, they really didn’t like that I’ve actually read Marx and Lenin and used it against them
https://lemmy.zip/comment/26868546
And this feels like the best image to describe it so far.
13·2 days agoMaybe hold the parents accountable. Betya then they’ll start caring about what their children are doing. Because yes, while there are adult perpetrators, there are also children themselves selling media they create on things like roblox servers. It’s a rabbit hole.
Bonus: you don’t have to invalidate everyone’s right to fucking privacy.
Extra credit: you can still tax the fuck out of these trillion dollar corporations that are ruining the world.
The NIF’s work is genuinely impressive. Achieving ignition ten times with a record yield of 8.6 MJ in April 2025 is real scientific progress and is amazing. American scientists are not the problem, nor did I say that they were.
But notice what you just linked me. NIF is a Department of Energy federal research facility. Publicly funded. Government science. The same category of institution the current administration is actively dismantling.
While there were past achievements, at the same time the Trump administration proposed 40% cuts to NIH and 55% cuts to NSF in 2026. By November 2025, $2.3 billion in NIH grants and $700 million in NSF grants had been frozen or terminated across nearly 4,000 projects. NSF awards dropped 50% in 2025 compared to recent years. Over 25,000 science agency employees left, many voluntarily through resignation incentive programs, many at early career stages. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship halved the number of fellowships awarded in 2025. Universities across the country froze hiring and cut research spending in response.
The fusion breakthroughs you’re pointing to were built on decades of sustained public investment and institutional infrastructure that is currently being systematically defunded. The scientists who achieved those results are the same ones that are now being told their grants are frozen, their fellowships are cut, and their agencies are being restructured around defense priorities.
So yes, the US has done remarkable fusion research. Past tense is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The comment was about where we’re headed, being present tense. And where we’re headed is a country that just told its early career researchers their scientific purpose has been knocked off course by illegal funding cuts while other countries continue to make advance after advance with no signs of stopping, even further, being fueled by the exodus of researchers.
So, yes, the US is sitting in the corner having, at present, taken a very anti-science and anti-education stance through funding cuts and deregulation.
Reading comprehension gets them every time 🤔
Budget cuts:
https://cen.acs.org/policy/nih-nsf-ostp-science-research-funding-cuts/103/web/2025/12
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nih-nsf-cuts-2025-data
https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/federal-research-cuts-threaten-us-innovation-and-leadership
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html
Proposed cuts:
https://cen.acs.org/policy/trump-budget-fy2027-science-nsf-epa-nih-fda/104/web/2026/04
Researcher exodus/brain drain:
https://medium.com/scitech-forefront/science-funding-cuts-break-the-research-pipeline-ce02c7073253
Articles backfired, voters don’t believe it.
Also, where are the articles on Collins’ insider trading? Her voting record on the war and her defense contractor lobbyist husband? Her alleged infidelity with a man that she then married while he divorced his former wife while she was dying of cancer?
Nah, instead “Platner has bad vibes ya know, though unsubstantied” is totally more worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ7PS26zGKY
Also, Scott Pelley on the inside of CBS and zionist, conservative control
Gobble up that republican propaganda.
How could you suggest such? Have you no decorum!? Focus on Platner’s tattoos voter cattle. Besides, it’s not like Murdoch or Ellison, etc would ever pay us for journalistic integrity, c’mon now.
Most of these people who are still stuck on the tattoo can’t believe that you aren’t born with the knowledge innately of what Nazi iconography is.
I, as someone from a rural red distruct, can honestly say we did not spend much time on WW2 in school. Nazis were bad, atom bomb was bad, einstein was super smart. That was about it.
We didn’t go over what brain drain is or why it would happen (it’s happening now)
We didn’t go over that during the era of WW2 that segregation was written into and being written into law (Jim Crow), and that the Nazis themselves learned from how we Americans wrote our cruelty into law, sometimes even being abhored at our level of cruelty.
And I haven’t watched many movies. Everyone points to the “are we the baddies” meme, and to someone who is not aware, it could just be a symbol that was used in place of a swastika. I, personally, didn’t know it was a totenkopf, or that word, until this controversy. To someone who doesn’t have that knowledge, it’s the equivalent of a decepticon symbol. Are the people that put that on their cars actually secret cybertronians?
People who are still hanging onto this don’t believe people can change nor do they understand that what might be considered common knowledge online is certainly not known by every person. And most of these people seem to be authoritarian supporters, left, center, and right.
Where’s the Times article about Collins’ infidelity and then marrying a dude as his current wife is dying?
https://x.com/nathanTbernard/status/2061909075286270102
Since, ya know, unsubstantiated claims are totally fine to be run, right?
Meanwhile, the US sits in the corner playing with their feces
Don’t let .ml see this.
They were yelling at me to not vote Platner, to start a single man revolution.
I’m ready for one, I hate our system, the democratic establishment is aiding fascism as much as the terrorist republicans. But not voting for the guy advocating for policy to help working class people, that calls out both democrats and republicans, that both parties are spending against…
That’s just shooting ourselves in the foot at that point. People will die if a republican wins. Healthcare will be pulled back further. Etc etc.
You would think the people yelling at you to read theory would understand it themselves.
From Marx: dialectical thinking, I can work with 3rd party advocacy while recognizing the material and concrete situations as the exist currently and make strategic decisions.
From Lenin: being a single individual starting a revolution would do nothing buy get myself killed and harm the building of a revolution. The first person who dies would not be a billionaire in such an ill conceived violent revolution without mass support and parallel alternative systems to capitalism to support revolutionaries.
This image I’ve been resonating with as, of course, I’ve been attacked by the right, but now I’ve been fending off the authoritarian left and I think this is where the whole “horseshoe theory” really comes from. It’s just authoritarianism.
Just said the same thing to this dude.
Cases in point I’ve recently learned:
And that discredits the argument for aiding someone taken advantage of by a corporation, the argument that there exists rampant police ineptitude and/or corruption how?
The existence of a GoFundMe to at least attempt to make a family whole does a lot more than the company doing nothing for years and threatening lawfare until they finally get some negative publicity.
Is Ben making money off of this? Yes. Can his actions still be morally correct? Yes.
We live under capitalism. We’ve tied our very survival to making money. How does that discredit what he’s attempting as you’re implying?
Joshua Johnson? Brandon Best? That you?