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  • Lauchs@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldBorders shift, bro.
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    Edit: Well, as horrifying as it is to see how shallow folks understanding of history is, no one is paying me to be online and screaming against tiktok or whatever isn’t that much fun. G’night y’all!

    Unpopular opinion but do folks honestly not understand how those borders shifted? Mostly because a bunch of countries tried to murder the Jews and yeah, Israel took part of their land in the counter offensives.

    If Ukraine kept Kursk, I can’t imagine we’d really be complaining?

    Basically, if you launch a surprise war I think you forfeit the right to be surprised or angry when your land gets taken.

    Edit: Jesus, are the downvoters confused like the response below and think this is talking about Oct 7 as opposed to say, the repeated wars that actually changed the borders? Does TikTok not cover modern history or what?





  • According to that, there is no better defender of women’s rights than Donald trump, as he himself has declared.

    Inadvertently or not, you’ve parroted a lot of Right Wing talking points. They usually insist thinking of race is itself racist, white people are actually the most discriminated and so on. From the Left, the refusal to see/think of race etc is a convenient way to ignore structural racism etc.

    The first part of your last post comes across as a tone deaf right winger trying to say we should stop talking about race. And once people have read that first paragraph, they are unlikely to read much in depth of the next few.




  • Exactly, the key bit being "Ms Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law

    In other words, even though he wasn’t found liable for rape, she was raped as the word is commonly understood. Unfortunately, Stephanopolous made the claim (repeatedly I believe) that trump had been found liable for rape.




  • Ohhhhhh, British Columbian and ex professional here on this one.

    Personal “bulk” sales are usually some in 1/8ths (3.5 grams) or more but in stores, the first page of their lil booklet is usually half or full gram pre rolled joints.

    Admittedly, for what it’s worth, first time I saw this meme in the wild was at a pot shop while buying a pre rolled gram.


  • But also notes that he was found liable for something different. The judge makes clear that in colloquial terms, yeah, it’s rape. But legally, there is a difference. And Stephanopolous said he’d been found liable for rape, which is a very specific charge and a claim which is demonstrably false, even if we all understand his actions to be rape.

    Law is fucked but in the confines of the law, trump’s legal team has a point and, it seems, the law on their side.


  • when it’s literally the truth and public record lol

    It ain’t and that’s the crux of the lawsuit. Stephanopolous said trump had been liable for rape when in reality he’d been found liable for sexual assault. Rape is a different charge.

    It’s a subtle difference but it is one a veteran journalist would be expected to know, which is why the bar of him acting “with a reckless disregard for the truth” wouldn’t be unthinkable.

    Morally, yeah, I’m with you. But legally, ABC was on dicey ground. Maybe could win but damn, that’d be a battle. Stephanopolous would have to, in court, claim he didn’t understand the difference between the charges which isn’t a great look for an anchor.