[-] dhork@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago

This is actually the way the law is written. Anyone who aids in any abortion, from the clinic performing it to the Uber driver taking her there -- is now subject to being sued by random tattletales. The women themselves are not subject to the same thing.

They did it this way on purpose. They didn't want the optics of the State going after these people so they specifically made it so that the State AG would not be involved in all. It would just be a bunch of private busybodies looking to get all into other people's business.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago

Sigh. The man was elected President twice and people still feel compelled to tell him to watch his tone....

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Looking at Reddit in particular, it's the comments that are the most outlandish or "popular" and often having little or nothing to do with the story they're commenting on that are risen to the top.

Reddit is infested with bots, especially on the larger subs. If things are at the top, it's because someone paid for bots to get it there.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Except they were careful and never actually said "we will give you money to vote for Harris/against Trump". Paying you to call him a human toilet isn't against that law.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He did it when he won in 2016. When people pointed out that Hillary won the popular vote, he complained it was only because of the "illegals" voting.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 332 points 1 month ago

Because too many people treat politics like a sporting event. You root for your team no matter what, and against the other team. You have to do it this way, because if the other side wins that means your side loses.

So there are too many people who view Trump as "Their Guy", and are "rooting" for him. Anything they hear that might portray Trump in a negative light (like a criminal trial, for instance) must be the Other Side trying to cheat to win unfairly.

I remind people that Roger Ailes was Nixon's media consultant, and the lesson he learned from Watergate was that Nixon could have gotten away with it if the media was more sympathetic. He then went on to be the CEO of Fox News. That's no accident. There is a direct line from Nixon to Trump, and Roger Ailes drew it.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 219 points 2 months ago

Their only investment assets appear to be via state pensions, including teacher pensions.

He also retired from the Army, and likely has a pension from that too.

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Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 201 points 3 months ago

"Temu is designed to make this expansive access undetected, even by sophisticated users," Griffin's complaint said. "Once installed, Temu can recompile itself and change properties, including overriding the data privacy settings users believe they have in place."

That's just nuts

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The phrase “TRUMP TOO SMALL” stems from a memorable moment in the 2016 Republican presidential debates, during which Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made a crude joke about the size of Trump’s hands.

“And you know what they say about guys with small hands,” Rubio quipped.

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Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about providing his own transportation.

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 223 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wonder what kind of jobs these chuckleheads have that they can just skip work for a week-long LARP. No wonder they are afraid of immigrants, immigrants work harder than these losers.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 224 points 10 months ago

"We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said. "We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."

He said this in 2015, folks. And we still elected him. We're fucked.

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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) scolded Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Thursday, telling the Florida Republican to sit down when he tried to interrupt McCarthy’s remarks.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 203 points 1 year ago

It's not about the money, though. If it was, they would have just said "third-party API access now requires Reddit Gold", and a bunch of us would still have stayed there, giving them more money (and content) than they are making now.

Instead, it's about fundamentally remaking the site to actively drive conversations toward things people pay to hype, and not have those conversations spring up organically. Steering traffic is much harder to do when it can be accessed through third parties.

They don't want users creating content around what interests them. They want to charge users to interact with content that advertisers pay to host.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 304 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Clarence Thomas is still a corrupt asshole.


The original article had a shitload of words, my summary only has seven. I'm an actual human, I swear!

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