[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't say that. It varies from subreddit to subreddit, community to community, instance to instance. And sometimes they are just staying within goals for the given space, regardless of whether it is Reddit or Lemmy. Your personal experience will often vary with how aligned you are with the viewpoints of mods, if they engage in heavy viewpoint discrimination.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yup. I made a comment on !worldnews@lemmy.ml that criticized the recent rigged Venezuelan election, complete with citations. Banned for "misinformation". Sure, you can just go elsewhere, but "better mods" is subjective.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

7.7 million people have left the country since Maduro came to power, the largest refugee crisis in the Americas. Polls show that in a free and fair election, Maduro would have struggled to stay in the double digits. Colectivos actively worked to interrupt the opposition's recent primary election via armed disruption of voting. Whatever that book is basing its research on, Maduro simply no longer represents the vast majority of Venezuelans and the Venezuelan diaspora.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 months ago

I wonder what changed in the last 8 years.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Deadname companies, not people.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 months ago

The video shows easily hundreds, and it's clear there is a larger crowd behind them.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

There's a reason that countries started agreeing on a set of laws of war, and it wasn't the goodness of their hearts. It means if your own soldiers get captured by an enemy working under the same rules, they should ideally be treated with at least a minimal standard of care. But every incident like this or Abu Ghraib weakens those protections and norms.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 months ago

Sometimes it feels like certain parts of humanity just didn't really learn all the lessons that they should have from the Holocaust about dehumanizing people.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 months ago

I don't want to dig into life too much, just to respect her privacy, but I was very impressed with her response to her so-called father's bullshit tweet. Nice of her to post it on a competitor to Twitter while she's at it.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, you tell them Margot! As only a strong Barbie could.

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I'm looking for a vegan sandwich protein recipe that is more of a whole food than the highly processed food that is often found in stores. So far, I'm going to try out lentil patties. I figure I can freeze a batch and stick them in the air fryer as needed. Any other ideas?

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Homes, a maternity hospital, a shopping center, and a metro station were hit as part of the attacks. The attack may have been linked to the destruction of a Russian landing ship in Crimea.

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A lot of news that comes out about the environment, climate change, and the like is very dispiriting. Has anyone seen a Lemmy community geared towards uplifting stories in the area? Species that are recovering, rivers that are being cleaned up, microbes being developed to eat plastic, that sort of thing.

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While the !worldnews@lemmy.ml community has always been a little feisty, the flood of Redditors has turned much of any contentious subject into pure mud slinging. Take the recent post "Ukraine war: Kyiv claims its first victories of counter-offensive". The discussion featured these insults:

  • cia and nafo freaks
  • I don’t think the person you’re responding to has the capacity to realize anything except their own delusions
  • hasn’t achieved reading comprehension
  • tankie
  • fascist
  • gargling Putin's cock
  • weasels
  • So I sincerely ask you to either become a better person or just stfu.
  • loonies
  • Russian dick train
  • willfully obtuse

And that's just half of the page. Seems like it's time to have at least some basic civility rules in place before this community is nothing but personal attacks.

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submitted 1 year ago by pingveno@lemmy.ml to c/history@lemmy.ml

Clarence Darrow was a famous American civil rights attorney of the 19th and 20th century. His most famous case with the "Scopes Monkey Trial", but he was involved in other high profile trials. This case was for a black family that moved into a white neighborhood and were attacked by a white mob. Henry Sweet of the family fired back in self-defense, killing a member of the mob. Partially on Darrow's closing arguments, Henry Sweet was acquitted under self-defense. Charges against the rest of the family were also dropped.

Darrow's speech is well ahead of its time, especially for a white man. He doesn't shy away from things like asking the all white jury to consider its own prejudice. In the hundred years since this speech, many Americans still are resistant to confronting their own prejudices.

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