| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Some background, as memes inevitably lack details:
During the Reagan administration an Islamist military group called Hezbollah took some Americans hostage in Lebanon. Oliver North was one of a group of Reagan staffers who came up with a plan to sell arms to Iran in exchange for help persuading Hezbollah to free these hostages. North's contribution to the scheme was to use money from the arms sale to fund the Contras - an unrelated US-backed group of rebels in Nicaragua (freedom-fighters or terrorists, depending on your POV). It was all negotiated in secret because the President didn't have the authority to conduct such deals.
When the plot leaked out there was a congressional investigation, in which many documents disappeared, and North was the fall guy. I remember him testifying at length on television, sitting stonefaced and ramrod straight in uniform, a caricature of the perfect soldier loyal to his chain of command. There were diagrams of the office showing the locations of desks, phones, the shredder, etc... An office underling named Fawn Hall was also interviewed extensively on TV because she had shredded/hidden documents and was also extremely hot.
North ended up doing prison time for his part in the whole thing. Hall pursued a brief modeling career, dated Rob Lowe, married the fomer manager of *The Doors*, and according to Wikipedia was last known to be working in a Hollywood bookstore. by  Lovable Sidekickreason: islamophobia |
| 20 days ago | mod | Removed Comment [@HiddenLayer555](https://lemmy.ml/u/HiddenLayer555) [@IndustryStandard](https://lemmy.world/u/IndustryStandard)
Hello text my Zangi num 1014309973 by  Angel Kendallreason: spam |
| 21 days ago | mod | Removed Comment What a profoundly fucking stupid thing to say.
>Because there are alternatives
>It proves your argument about the environment is a deceptive lie you're using cynically
Selfish spoiled little baby 'I want to do whatever I want no matter what it costs the world outside of me' because I'm the only thing in the universe that matters me me me me by  @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mlreason: rude |
| 25 days ago | mod | Removed Comment The right wingers want to anally rape every liberal/left-leaning individual, organization and institution, to death. If we ever get the upper hand, well…I’m beginning to think about why Lenin and Stalin had to be heavies against the reactionaries in Russia. by @PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml reason: inappropriate language |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Illegal migrants flooding across the border was no lie. Mayors of cities overwhelmed by migrants were pleading with Biden for help. by @direwolf@lemmy.ml reason: misinformation |
| 1 month ago | mod | Banned @Manmoth@lemmy.ml from the community reason: Rule 1, 2 expires: 27 days ago |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment California isn't the place to be if you are looking for an affordable lifestyle. If you want that you're better off literally anywhere else in the country. Mississippi, Missouri, West Virginia etc. California/Oregon have so many homeless not because locals are somehow priced out but because both states famously attract vagrants. You can do pretty much whatever you want with no consequences and get handouts. by @Manmoth@lemmy.ml reason: Rule 1, 2 |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Well that is the cost of subsidizing and creating an entirely novel legal framework for vagrancy, shoplifting etc [More people leave California than any other state in the country every year.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_net_migration) In other words, California sucks. It's covered in human excrement and is riddled with crime by @Manmoth@lemmy.ml reason: Rule 1 |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment No, Democrats are liberal and Republicans conservative. Take immigration. Biden let in a flood of illegal migrants. In contrast, Trump has closed the southern border and is deporting all illegal migrants in the US. The US needs a centrist candidate. by @direwolf@lemmy.ml reason: misinformation |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment For example, immigration. Biden allowed a flood of illegal migrants to enter the country. A centrist view would make it tougher to seek asylum and permit illegal migrants already in the country to stay if they meet certain criteria and apply for a green card. by @direwolf@lemmy.ml reason: misinformation |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Trump is a clown and a puppet. He takes his orders from Russia and Russia wants the USA to destroy itself from the inside.
You lost. by @chatroom@lemm.ee reason: misinformation |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment No, for example, immigrates. Biden let in a flood of illegal migrants. In contrast, Trump closed the border and is deporting all illegal migrants. A centrist view would be to make it tougher to seek asylum and allow illegal migrants who meet specific criteria to stay in the US and apply to stay. by @direwolf@lemmy.ml reason: Misinfo |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment No, Palestinians would be happy to move to land adjacent to their fellow Palestinians in the West Bank. by @direwolf@lemmy.ml reason: advocating ethnic cleansing |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment This should be the centrist position. Egypt will be given the West Bank enlarged by land equivalent to the Gaza Strip. In return, Israel will be given the Gaza Strip and land at least 3 times larger than the West Bank in the Sinai Peninsula. Some of the land will be adjacent to water so Israel can build desalination plants. The Sinai is inhospitable, and Egypt doesn’t have the technology to develop it but Israel does. With its new land, Egypt can give it to the Palestinians, make it a state within Egypt, or whatever it wants.
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| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment For anyone wondering @BrainInABox is a concern troll that wants to shoot down anything that will help the Palestinian cause. It appears that they are trying to suppress would be pro-Palestine voters and movements from showing up and organizing. The effect is to help even bigger warmongers gaining power and finish the genocide being waged on Palestine.
That is what I have gathered from their posts and they refuses to elaborate on what their position even is. by @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world reason: personal attacks |
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| 2 months ago | mod | Removed Comment > You got literal nazis sending people to concentration camps talking about how they’re going to force “mentally ill” people to work farms
Oh yeah. Heard about that. I could focus on that, how the reserve army of labor is to be replaced by neurodivergent people
> you want to imagine up some bullshit to be mad at one of the few democrats that’s been effective lol touch grass
effective how?
[ weren't one of y'all yapping for 25 hours with no material effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker%27s_marathon_speech). They should touch grass
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| 3 months ago | mod | Removed Comment Thank you Rashida Tlaib, Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant. You have stopped the genocide all by yourselves. Thank you voters of Michigan who abstained from voting so that you could stop genocide Kamala. by @AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml reason: Rule 2 |
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| 3 months ago | mod | Removed Comment October of 2023? Golly gee, you mean shortly after the attacks when little information was known he made statements in support Israel? My god, he's just as bad as *checks notes* oh yea EVERYONE AND THEIR FUCKING MOMS!
Holy shit you people are fucking cooked. How do you not wake up every day embarrassed as fuck for your dog shit, perfection-or-nothing takes on the world? by @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world reason: trolling |
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| 3 months ago | mod | Removed Comment Trump Gaza #1 by @Lucky_777@lemmy.world reason: joking about ethnic cleansing |
| 3 months ago | mod | Removed Comment I would actually say its much worse under a Republican administration, since Trump wants Gaza to be the home of a new golf course.
Do I support him in terms of Gaza and his support of Zionism? Not even remotely.
Do I support him standing up to Trump? Yes, definitely.
That doesn't make me forgive what he's done. I am just recognizing one thing being good. If I held back all support for any action based on another action I didnt agree with, or in this case loathed, then I'd be pulling support from pretty much any representative throughout all of history.
You're welcome to your opinion of course, but I think mine is pretty clear for what exactly I am supporting here. by @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com reason: genocide trivialization |
| 3 months ago | mod | Removed Comment So besides the terrible genocide that is and has unfortunaly been happening, that yall like to blame entirely on Biden as if it's not a decedes old conflict that is now lolking worse, what else have the democrates majorly fumbled that justifies the current administration detaining LEGAL immigrants for speaking up against genocide? by  @UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.worksreason: trolling |
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| 10 months ago | mod | Removed Post If you consider yourself a Democrat, I consider you a Nazi. (disgust and mockery by DNC attendees towards Palestinian protesters reading off the names of dead children) reason: lemmy.ml rules 1 and 2 |
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| 11 months ago | mod | Restored Post 'It is time for this war to end,' Harris tells Netanyahu; 'I will not be silent' on Palestinian suffering |
| 11 months ago | mod | Removed Post 'It is time for this war to end,' Harris tells Netanyahu; 'I will not be silent' on Palestinian suffering reason: Genocide denying source |
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