Ho Chi Minh appealed to the United States’ supposed values of freedom and self-determination when he basically straight up asked for the Americans’ help liberating Vietnam from the French. Plenty of alternate histories to go around if the US doesn’t guarantee shooting itself in the foot 100% of the time
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News@lemmy.world•Anti-ICE Protesters Found Guilty in Case That Guts Free Speech Rights
7·5 days agoMost people think the Supreme Court will always act like the Warren Court when in reality, with the exception of those 20 or so years, it’s been nothing but reactionary and conservative at best. Dredd Scott anyone?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict themEnglish
74·9 days agoYou will get nowhere blaming individuals for systemic problems and also you’re alienating your potential allies like a true leftist so maybe chill on the class traitor stuff
In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I’ve ever experienced
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Technology@lemmy.world•'People will buy intelligence from us on a meter': ChatGPT's Sam Altman's AI vision worries criticsEnglish
1·9 days agoNot OP but New England has many also
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’
1·15 days agoMaybe you should spend a trillion dollars a year on a military whose only purpose is to lower that number a few dollars per gallon
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Before he started glazing trump he was an empty suit who did whatever Florida’s sugar lobby wanted. He’s never had anything