I’m not ready to face the light
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Technology@lemmy.world•UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety BillEnglish
21·3 months agoLabour has already spoken out and said they will make no attempts to ban VPNs.
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Atheist Memes@lemmy.world•R.I.P. And An AI Peek At Ozzy If Heaven Was Real
6·3 months agoOzzy was a devout Christian though. Not sure why people tend to ignore that fact.
Is this where the expression “dying of laughter” comes from?
This is a fully AI generated meme.
Then prove it instead of just speculating.
The proof we do have is that Webb became extremely depressed because of all the media slander, his loss of credibility as a journalist from his peers and the general population and ultimately, the resignation from his position, inability to find a job, and loss of his mortgage and house a week prior to his death.
What we have zero proof of is why the CIA would want to kill someone that didn’t break the significant story in the first place, was already widely discredited and shunned, and EIGHT years after the news had died down.
Also, it is not impossible to have a suicide with two bullets. It happens rarely when the first shot fails to be immediately lethal. Considering the first bullet went through his left cheek, it probably didn’t kill him. It was the second shot that hit an artery.
On top of that, Webb’s own family firmly believe it was a suicide and they would appreciate it if you would treat it as such as they knew him a lot more than you did.
Kiwi Farms is an immensely creepy stalking forum run by manchild Joshua Conner Moon out of his mom’s house (no, literally). The people who are stalked are what are known as “lolcows” to the site’s userbase or “exceptional individuals.”
Due to difficulties with enforcing anti-harmful speech legislation on the internet, there hasn’t been much legal action taken on Kiwi Farms, despite them being responsible for harming many people (directly and indirectly), costing them jobs and partners, exaggerating and spinning rumors, or even mentally abusing their victims to the point of suicide. In fact, the owners maintain that there is nothing illegal about the site, citing technicalities (i.e. “we don’t harass people; our users do!”) and phonebooks also distributing personal information (because “sharing the address of this person we find weird is totally the same as a printed 411!”).
Important clarification:
Webb, an investigative journalist for the San Jose Mercury News, uncovered convincing evidence that proceeds from international cocaine trafficking represented a major source of funding for US-backed right-wing death squads in Nicaragua (known as the Contras) with South Central Los Angeles and other urban African American communities serving as key markets for the drug; and more distressing, that the CIA had become aware of this illicit commerce early on and incorporated it into a broader domestic strategy, allowing the cocaine pipeline to continue and thrive to a massive degree that eventually gave rise to the U.S. “crack epidemic” of the '80s and '90s and the birth of the prison-industrial sector.
Webb DID NOT break the story of America’s crack coming from the Contras with the CIA’s approval. That fact had already been available around the time it occurred. Webb’s contribution was gathering and sharing the details and more evidence. To be fair, Webb never claimed to have any evidence that the CIA engineered the whole thing, only that they knew it was going on, approved of it, and even met with Contra leaders and funders to discuss it.
Webb’s downfall as a journalist is mainly due to his making unsupported claims. If he had had evidence for all of his claims, it would not have made him vulnerable to being discredited. For example, the US Justice Department found that “the allegations contained in the original Mercury News articles were exaggerations of the actual facts,” and that “the claims that Blandón and Meneses were responsible for introducing crack cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and spreading the crack epidemic throughout the country were unsupported.” Even Nick Schou, Webb’s biographer, agreed that, “the story offered no evidence to support such sweeping conclusions, a fatal error that would ultimately destroy Webb, if not his editors.”
On December 10, 2004, Gary Webb took his own life. It is true that there were two bullet wounds in his head, which has raised suspicions that his death might not have been a suicide. However, no evidence has yet been presented contradicting the coroner’s findings, so we have to accept it as such for now.
And yes, Kill the Messenger (2014) is worth watching. It is a surprisingly accurate film starring Jeremy Renner. It portrays how Webb assembled the story and depicts the media’s tomfoolery and its impact on Webb’s life. Even Webb’s own son liked it.
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World News@lemmy.world•Kneecap’s Mo Chara Is on Trial for Opposing Genocide in GazaEnglish
49·5 months agoNot exactly. He is on trial after videos have been revealed showing him calling for upping the Islamic terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and calling on the audience to kill their MP.
Considering in the last five years, two MPs: Jo Cox and David Amess have both been murdered on the job it is not at all surprising he has found himself on trial.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing cost
1·9 months agodeleted by creator
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•From this day in 1933. It's all just a little bit of history repeating..
41·9 months agoAnother comparison that we don’t often talk about is how during the Nazi period there was also opposition to vaccinations.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘The next recession starts here’: Trump team weighs abolishing bank regulators
75·11 months agoWasn’t lack of regulation what caused the 2008 recession?
inkrifle@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Which CEOs are actually worth keeping around?English
2·11 months agoSeconding this, Paul Newman was probably the best person to ever come out of the state of Ohio.
He co-founded Newman’s Own, a food company which donates all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of May 2021, these donations totaled over US$570 million. Newman continued to found charitable organizations such as the SeriousFun Children’s Network in 1988 and the Safe Water Network in 2006.
(Pasted from his Wikipedia page)
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Must be a giant Linux user at this house
2·11 months agoSadly they have a red hat
I still find it insane how racism has become political now.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump campaign quietly distances itself from RFK jnr after new vaccine safety comments
6·1 year agoNow hopefully he drops Elon as well!
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that if Americans live outside of the US for more than 330 days a year, they don't have to pay taxes on $125,000 of their income that year
4·1 year agoI read somewhere that Eritrea (the North Korea of Africa) is the only other country that has this policy.














So sick of the division amongst the left. He is far from perfect, but I’d much rather take a neoliberal over a fascist.