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Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to X in c/news@lemmy.world

GOP is the new American nazi party in c/politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Trump to lift pause on 2,000-pound bomb supply to Israel, Walla News reports in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Trump has achieved a ceasefire in Gaza. Some Palestinians are celebrating it as a victory.

Trump to lift pause on 2,000-pound bomb supply to Israel, Walla News reports in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 hours ago

Trump has delivered a ceasefire that was always clamored for.

Trump to lift pause on 2,000-pound bomb supply to Israel, Walla News reports in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works -5 points 5 hours ago

Trump actually delivered a ceasefire.

Welcome Redditors from the thread earlier today! in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Mods and admins are connected across instances on Lemmy. I have seen someone get banned from their own instance for posting something, that wasn’t even against the rules, on another instance. These power structures are not transparent and can bite you any time.

Welcome Redditors from the thread earlier today! in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Mods can be very ban happy around here as well.

Welcome Redditors from the thread earlier today! in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Agreed. I highly recommend choosing a different instance for your account.

The mods on !worldnews@lemmy.world and other communities routinely ban posters that don’t violate the rules, just because they don’t like their political opinion.

See !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for some discussion around mods‘ abuse of power.

Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to X in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

I doubt there’s a plan behind this.

Social media wasn’t the primary driver behind the Arab spring. The economic issues were the trigger. People couldn’t afford to buy food. Lack of food will topple any government. Media control only gets one so far.

On the Internet the dominant websites can change quickly. Being banned from Twitter enabled Trump‘s Truth Social. Buying Twitter gave Elon Musk a giant soap box. However new soapboxes are constructed all the time and some succeed.

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Asset doesn’t mean Russia has full power over them, only that they’re acting to their advantage

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

I also think this is some crypto bro shenanigans. Ulbricht might even have billions in Bitcoin stashed away somewhere for a juicy payback.

Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

The US was the first large scale modern democracy. Of course it has design flaws.

Parlamentarism, as we know it now, had only been recently established in the UK in the 17rh century.

Contemporary to US early democracy were absolutist monarchies based on aristocracy. Separation of powers envisioned by Montesquieu, Rousseau‘s social contract, were still new political ideas. The federalist papers and later US constitution were cutting edge political theory at the time.

It’s very impressive that the US has lasted so long actually and was able to adapt. The French established their first democratic republic later and were unable to create a stable state.