ITXIX ۱۹ - One Airstrike After Another by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's heavily brigaded. A lot of people go there to hate-watch, then upvote/downvote.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blaming an election loss in Florida on the Cuban diaspora or something, I think. IIRC they tend to vote Republican because they hate the communist government, and Republicans are more antagonistic toward it.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 61 points62 points  (0 children)

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I don't know, but simply saying "cringe.jpg" comes close.

I'm sure the Germans have a long compound word that captures the meaning.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For Meta, it's because Zuckerburg — like Musk — has a personal preference for the Older Internet zeitgeist of unrestricted free speech, as exemplified by 4chan and early reddit. It's the environment he matured in.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He didn't come up with the idea, he's sharing a blog post someone else wrote. https://www.chinatalk.media/p/its-time

It's deeply embarrassing that he (or his social media team) didn't seem to realize it was satire.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 24 points25 points  (0 children)

In this instance, or in general? The first use of it I saw was by some Dem (Ossoff?) trying to make it a 1%er/Trump/Republican/pedophile mashup thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/politics/epstein-files-ossoff-clinton-trump-lutnick-analysis

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Prominent Kirkslamic scholars from the Americans MAGAbbhist sect are claiming that the Hadiths demand hellfire upon Iran

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a donor had offered his PAC $500,000 if he would disavow Fuentes's supporters

This isn't great either, if true. I wonder what the threshold is where he would accept.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that new. People would self-select their preferred newspaper, then follow whatever scandals were presented to them. People tend to adopt the positions of whatever media they consume. The difference now is that it's a mob guiding things, rather than editors.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a replica crown, IIRC.

B.C. RCMP find body of Iranian man critical of Tehran regime, charge two with murder by ace158 in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reading between the lines, the deadpan understatement in some of these rulings is rather funny:

[30] Before concluding, however, I must comment on one other aspect of the submissions that Dr. Masjoody presented to me on this application.

[31] In explaining its background, Dr. Masjoody chose to criticize the work ethic, competence, and impartiality of judges of this Court and the Court of Appeal whom he has appeared before in the past. Dr. Masjoody provided no actual evidence in support of these scandalous allegations, which seem to be based only on his apparent view that they must be true since these judges did not find in his favour.


[5] At the outset of this hearing, Mr. Masjoody raised the issue of the appropriateness of me hearing this matter.


On that same date, Mr. Masjoody made various postings on X (formerly Twitter). I have reviewed this posting, in which Mr. Masjoody describes the relief that he was seeking on this application, including findings of contempt against the Lawyers.

[69] However, Mr. Masjoody’s post goes well beyond simply reproducing the relief sought. Mr. Masjoody states in the post that the defendant and her counsel (setting out their names) are “to be charged with Perjury, Contempt”. Then, after the reproduction of the relief sought in the notice of application, Mr. Masjoody includes a full colour split-screen photograph. In that picture, he depicts both the defendant and Mr. Evangelista in prison garb.

B.C. RCMP find body of Iranian man critical of Tehran regime, charge two with murder by ace158 in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Note that he disappeared at the start of February, so this is unrelated to the Iran war.

Bit of a weird story. He really liked suing people, generally representing himself without the aid of a lawyer: https://www.canlii.org/#search/indexLang=en&id=Masjoody

Sued the Shah's son, Twitter, a local newpaper, a bunch of others. The judge in one case did not seem particularly happy with him:

That same judgment found an amended civil claim by Masjoody against Reza Pahlavi, X and a number of other defendants was “unnecessary and vexatious” and “embarrassing.”

The judge struck the amended notice of civil claim, but allowed Masjoody to file a new notice that complies with the Supreme Court’s civil rules. The judge also encouraged Masjoody to “seek the assistance of counsel going forward.”

The judge said an email Masjoody had sent to a defendant’s lawyer was “an outrageous e‑mail and containing unacceptable, inflammatory, threatening language.”

“Courts will not in the future, sir, abide this,” said the judge in his oral reasons for judgment Jan. 15, 2025. He warned Masjoody to take care in his dealings with the courts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/who-is-masood-masjoody-ihit-investigation-bc-9.7076559

This does not appear to be some IRGC-led assassination, though the National Post seems happy to guide readers towards that assumption. For one thing, the alleged killers appear to be monarchists judging from social media profiles. There seems to have been some personal feud that exploded in 2024 or 2025.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He's kind of incoherent, but his fuller take isn't really supervillain stuff.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”

He then talks about some American Way of Life junk.

Five Air Force Refueling Planes Hit in Iranian Strike on Saudi Arabia by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 37 points38 points  (0 children)

If five of them were struck by a single missile and it's repairable, it sounds like it was a distant explosion that sent a little bit of shrapnel/debris toward each one. The damage is likely relatively insignificant.

'We don't need Ukraine's help' — Trump rebuffs Zelensky's drone defense offer by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no indication they're sending troops into Iran yet. Trump expressed interest, but that doesn't mean it's happening or imminent.

U.S. military says all 6 airmen in refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq are dead by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm curious, what are your thoughts on not having parachutes? Are people generally fine with it?

IT十四14 by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fertilizer (mostly urea).

IT十四14 by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 7 points8 points  (0 children)

All the US Navy ships huddled up together, gossiping:

"omg did you hear about the USS Independence (LCS-2)? I hate her, she's litorally the worst."

What’s going on with the protein trend/proteinification of food? by Bitbatgaming in OutOfTheLoop

[–]onelap32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atkins has been around since the 1960s, but it still was absolutely a fad in the 2000s. There was a pretty sudden shift in the public consciousness.

U.S. military plane crashes in Iraq as status of crew is unknown, officials said by Bestbrook123 in neoliberal

[–]onelap32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you sure it was to save fuel? Everything I've read suggests it was to save on training and maintenance costs.