It’s in reference to the late George Carlin’s masterful bit.

It’s simple. We kill the groundhog.

You don’t have to be a pederast to join the big club, but it helps.

Wait. There was a fundraiser? 😳

The sci-fi we do get is dystopian, for obvious reasons in late-stage caopitalism.

The greatest lie corporate media ever told.

Can’t viable organs only be harvested from living bodies?

No. How long after death they can be usefully harvested for tranpslant very much depends on the organ. Not long, though. Within hours in most cases, and more than a day in some. https://www.blade.com/how-long-are-organs-viable-after-death

The Guardian is hardly better, and it would never platform Gabriel Rockhill, Chris Hedges, Aaron Maté, Caitlin Johnstone, Jonathan Cook, Ben Norton, Kit Klarenberg, etc. Nor would it ever platform three of Lemmy’s own leftists, as it currently does.

From The Guardian’s perspective, the real problem is that they and their peers can no longer control the narrative as well as they used to.

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Curate your own feed, patriot.

Yes, the API allows it, and sometimes I use curl to call it.

“Unscratched” liberals have much more in common with fascists than socialists.

• Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
• Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

We’re not indoctrinated with this theory for no reason. Anti-communist propaganda serves bourgeois interests.

‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common

This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve even considered an invasion to be in any way beneficial

Liberals oppose every war but the current one.

But the Iranians around me are telling me

They’re expats or n generations removed. They’re not in Iran, don’t know what’s really going on there and don’t speak for those who are and do.

Please tell me what you think the international community should be doing?

The international community:

After Russia it’s already the most sanctioned country in the world, and those sanctions have contributed to the discontent that fuels these protests.

Correct, and that’s exactly why the “international community” shouldn’t be imposing illegal sanctions in the first place. They’re not imposing collective punishment on the Iranian people out of the goodness of their hearts. They care about Iranians exactly as much as they care about Palestinians, namely: not a rat’s ass. Despite the bleeding heart rhetoric, the sanctions are for furthering imperialist interests, predominantly those of the US and Israel. They want regime change that vassalizes Iran.

Jeffrey Sachs: Engineering Iran’s Unrest

It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.

You’re not listening to the people. You’re listening to comprador plants.

• Accented Proxies: Imperialist Weaponisation Of Diaspora Voices
• Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of ‘Agency’ Discourse and How Media Chooses Which ‘Voices’ To Center
• The blueprint of regime change operations — How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
• “Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??”

You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran

You misspelled “astroturf.”