Headline translated: in the US state of Minnesota, police are on the hunt for the 57 year old shooter who shot 2 Democratic politicians and their spouse in their homes. Two victims have died. The attacs seem politically motivated. A list of names of politicians was found in the suspects car.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/06/14/twee-democratische-politici-doodgeschoten-in-amerikaanse-staat-m/

This is from a national news site. I haven’t seen their television news of today yet but usually their television news and the site story are identical.

I’m not saying the news reporting here is not colored a bit, but it tends to be non sensationalist so there is that.

I don’t think he hates Illinois Nazi’s though.

A blues brother?

It’s on the news in Belgium.

Luckily, there is a lot of vaccine research and production outside of the US so once you pay the tariffs you will have vaccines despite your government, as long as you don’t get a disease endemic to the US.

What if they got into a monetary union with Canada and linked Calidollar with the Canadollar with the same value and entirely interchangeable the way the Belgian and Luxemburg franc used to work?

No, the private funding of politicians, which nowhere in the world happens as thoroughly or blatantly as in the US, is another issue to solve. It’s companies pushing for privatization of services that they sabotage first to show that the government doesn’t do well with them. It’s like the postal service headed by that Trump appointee that was a big cheese in a transport firma. I forgot his name.

You think the state of NASA isn’t caused by privately funded politicians?

Doesn’t it feel like he is orchestrating the whole thing to give the IDF excuses to shoot people?

Israel practically organized Hamas to have an opponent easily disliked by western nations. They funded and molded it to the exclusion of more secular and leftist organisations like PLO. Hamas is not a problem for Israel, it’s a tool to allow them unlimited brutality on the Palestinian population. I know people on lemmy don’t want to hear this but when you look at what happened since the days when people like Rabin and Arafat were making headway in peaceful solutions that might have ultimately led to freedom, safety and dignity for everyone in the region.

The agreements they made werent perfect, they were stepping stones in the way to a better situation, and they were what could be eeked out in the existing situation. Of course Zionist extremists could not live with that. Never forget who killed Rabin.

They both do, it’s what narcism does.

If there was one funny thing Trump could do was weaponize the doj against Musk and get his companies seized in civil forfeiture. It certainly would be a win for the US, so he is not going to.

Indeed, while Israel is indeed a Jewish country, it does not represent all Jews, nor do all Jews agree with the way the Israeli behave. Condemning Israel is justified, hating all Jews because of Israel is not.

What? Somebody thought he would stop his habit after taking office? Also when in Rome, get high with the Romans… I don’t think Trump even switches on without the right substances.

For those who wish to know more about the origin and spread of PFAS

https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

Aside from hurting Trans people, these things hurt women both those afab or not, and given the numbers of each group they end up hurting way, way, way more cisgender women. So every opportunity, every interview with Rowling, every comment on a tweet to her should be “What happened that made you hate women this much?”.

I mean it’s sad that she can’t love the trans, but if that was just a prrsonal dislike, ok everyone has barely rational likes and dislikes, can’t be helped. But to make that public, and then to go to these lengths, to sacrifice the safety of all women on the altar of that hate and fear, that is truly sick and sickening.

So the question is “JO, WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN???”

Because because of her hate mongering, women are getting in trouble and often beat up for going to the bathroom, get humiliated by having to “prove” they’re “real” women to pushy agressive bigots. I fully expect one day to lose my job and end up in jail for beating up some such asshole who thinks they should humiliate my wife or daughters that way.

Oh come on, that is “the quest for the holy Grail” and you know it!

Don’t worry about it, you will be able to get vaccines developped in Europe, Asia or Africa. The tarriffs will no doubt be minimal. Besides if you don’t test for it you don’t have any known deaths from that.

Absolutely,valid protest is valid. But it’s not the act of protesting that makes someone right. I understand the farmers in that they get a tool taken from them that saved them a lot of time, and they probably have long term contracts with the companies selling that stuff. However they are objectively wrong to push for a product that is this harmful.

No a lot of the old resistance weren’t tools, but they (Israël) have learned from that. So they have cultivated resistance that is shaped to look like the kind of thing the West fears (wether you call it Islamophobia or not, it works) . Secular, leftist groups easily got sympaty abroad while religiously inspired fanatics get easily classified with groups like ISIS or Boko Haram. And I’m not saying they are like thise groups just that they have properties that allow people to classify them in the same range, and that is by Israeli design.

If you want help in your war, get an enemy that other people don’t like as well. Make them strong enough that they can really hurt, but not strong enough that they have a chance of winning and let them attack civilians and minor military targets but never the real policy makers. That is absolutely what Israel has done.

That last sentence describes you perfectly. Damn it’s sad.