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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Perfect example of my point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Judging by your downvotes, it looks like many people here neither know nor care that there is a world of difference between Border Patrol and ICE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Why are US americans against helping each other?

There is no simple answer to your question. Generally speaking, the US ethic is largely built on a foundation of rogue settlers who were encouraged to take what they wanted by force and duplicity. Whether it was the attempted (and ongoing) ethnic cleansing of the tribes, or total destruction of the environment, or massacring fauna to extinction, or the brutal subjugation of African people, early americans operated at a level of entitlement, ignorance, and the absolute belief in a zero-sum competition.

This mindset has been useful to the people in power, and it has been frequently stoked to manipulate a large minority of the population into a fearful and angry existence, effectively preventing a cultural shift that embraces social enlightenment. Even the US education system is designed to perpetuate the propaganda while preventing critical thinking skills and empathy.

Interestingly, even the most virulent USers, on an individual basis, exhibit selective social welfare tendencies, while still maintaining their cultural bigotries. To be fair, most US americans are in favor of social welfare. The rich in the US, who are in control, will always fight reform, because it isn’t profitable to them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Not insane when you consider sheriff Bob fucking Norris is still in charge, even after siccing 6 of his nazi boys on a woman at a town hall meeting in February.

This piece of shit moved to Idaho after 20 years with the LA County Sheriff’s Department, where he finagled $150k annual disability, and has been drunk with power since he became sheriff in 2020.

https://www.kxly.com/news/no-evidence-of-investigation-into-kootenai-county-sheriff-norris-role-in-town-hall-incident/article_3a66d963-fc97-4f2c-a209-1a65f5203d82.html

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Impressive that the archdiocese has the bandwidth to fire a widower for his gay marriage, while simultaneously juggling their bankruptcy in order to dodge restitution to the 600 raped kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looking at the linked map, the raped states are:

  • New Mexico
  • Colorado
  • Wyoming
  • Montana
  • Idaho
  • Utah
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • California
  • Oregon
  • Washington

If these 11 states were to secede, they would have a fiscal advantage because many of them give billions of dollars more in federal funding than the non-donor states receive.

They would also take with them all access to West Coast ports, as well as all western USA water rights including the Columbia River and the Colorado River. Of course, Mike Lee would need to be ejected. Preferably from a canon.

https://wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=821970f0212d46d7aa854718aac42310

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It had launched 4 or 5 years before I joined, so I wasn’t really legacy. I came here to the fediverse when Christian announced the Apollo fuckery, and it was like leaving a collapsing pile of flaming trash to breathing fresh air with good people. Those /r/ stories don’t need to be here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Reddit is a cesspit. The first time I posted a comment there ~ 15 years ago, someone answered by graphically describing how he would violently rape me.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Since 2017, Utah’s Mike Lee has been on a mission - this time not Mormon - to demolish National Monuments. He began in his own backyard, targeting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, for fossil fuel drilling. He’s been colluding with Trump for 8 years to hand over millions of acres of protected land to oil and gas.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

And the media shouldn’t be spreading his lies.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Ollie North is also the face of the US government’s war on Central American democracy, the brutal consequences of which affect the Americas to this day.

 

I just found out that Kia has a huge class action and extended warranty arrangement for select models. Because my 2016 is included in the affected group, it seems that Kia would reimburse for the new engine, but I’m being told my car isn’t on the list because I didn’t bring it in for a software update before it seized.

I’ve moved to different states in the past 4 years, and don’t know if any Kia notice ever got to me. Since I was unaware of the oil issue, the lawsuit, the recall workaround, and the update, I’m wondering if anyone knows what I could do to be reimbursed. Do I have any options?

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