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[–] dead@hexbear.net 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I've never played a FromSoftware game in my life. I just want to see how /c/fakenews responds to this announcement.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 77 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This phenomenon is known as the "State Monopoly on Violence". The government's unlimited use of violence is considered by the public to be legitimate and any resistance against the state's violence is considered to be illegitimate.

 

Greenblatt: "I'm thinking about the New York Times doing a gauzy profile a few weeks ago of this gamer, Hasan Piker, who regularly employs awful genocidal rhetoric against Jewish people and the Jewish State. Extremists should not be empowered. People who spout prejudice should not be platformed. This is a moment when we need to look ourselves in the mirror and say 'We've got to stop this because the consequences are deadly'. "

https://xcancel.com/CharlieSheenGO/status/1925566024218218496#m

[–] dead@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of US copyright law is that it's a violation of copyright law to share (upload) copyrighted material that you don't own, not a violation to receive (download) copyrighted material. The technicality that people have been sued for using peer-to-peer software where the user both uploads and downloads the copyrighted files.

Also copyright infringement in most circumstance is a civil infringement, not a criminal infringement. This means that you are only prosecuted by the copyright holder, the rights holder could try to sue you in court. The US government won't prosecute you for copyright infringement unless you are making money from it or are operating a large scale distribution operation. However, it is very difficult for a rights holder to track you down and it's costly for them to prove it in court, so they don't bother.

Use a VPN when you use peer to peer software to share files.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

rizz is an abbreviation of charisma

[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for contributing your analysis.

I don't like to post in the megathread. I'm not going to post in the megathread. In my opinion, posting every news article into one thread goes completely against the design of lemmy and link-aggregators in general. It's difficulty to read and navigate the megathread. It's impossible to view the megathread alongside other instances. On a link aggregator website, links should be posts and comments should be user discussion.

I post things that I think are interesting. I will admit that I did not write a full analysis of the meeting. I noticed that nobody had created a post about the meeting. I chose to center my post around Trump forcing the South African president to watch a twitter propaganda video because it was the most outlandish part of the meeting and I think unfortunately most people don't read a full analysis of a press meeting. The themes of "white genocide" and "kill the boer" also relate to the news stories from the past week where Elon's AI started spamming those same terms.

The post links to an article by The Guardian. The Guardian has a longer analysis of the meeting. The Guardian article mentions the South African Billionaire and the golfers. I also included a link to the full video for people who are interested.

I wish you would make posts of important things as posts instead of dumping comments into 1 thread. I can understand putting lesser known stories into a megathread. In my opinion, confining the top news stories of the day inside of the megathread makes Hexbear into a worse website.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very good point. It would seem as though Trump is spreading the "white genocide" conspiracy theory to distract from the real genocide that Israel is doing in Gaza.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In the video that Trump shows to Ramaphosa, it display footage of Witkruis Monument. Trump proclaims that this is a burial site of over 1000 murdered white farmers. This is not a burial site. The Witkruis Monument is a privately-owned memorial which displays painted white crosses to symbolically show farm murders. The Witkruis Monument refuses to commemorate murders of non-white farmers and has been photographed flying the old South African flag in support of apartheid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkruis_Monument

[–] dead@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

The comments probably varies by the youtube channel. The same video is being uploaded on all the right wing channels, fox news, oan, newsmax. Those channels have taken clips from the meeting and are framing it as the South Africa President denying white genocide. It's all over right wing twitter.

 

Trump said: “We have thousands of stories talking about it,” then ordered his staff: “Turn the lights down and just put this on.”

Sitting next to Trump before the fireplace, Ramaphosa forced a smile and turned to look at a big TV screen as Trump’s South Africa-born billionaire ally Elon Musk, JD Vance, the defence secretary Pete Hegseth and diplomats and journalists from both countries looked on.

The video included footage of former South African president Jacob Zuma and firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called “Kill the Boer”, which means farmer or Afrikaner, as supporters danced.

Trump forced him to listen to the Kill the Boer song

full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLkZv3gzO0

The part where Trump forces Ramaphosa to watch the "Kill the Boer" compilation starts at 00:20:45

[–] dead@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

WKUK made a sketch about a sketch about the Pope dying in 2010 and then the Pope dies in 2025. That's why the CIA killed Trevor Moore. He knew too much. illuminati

[–] dead@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

The Pope's brother traveled with JD Vance and other administration members to the Vatican this past weekend. It seems like Trump is trying to use the brother to influence the Pope.


May 18, Louis Prevost and JD Vance at the Inaugural Mass at the Vatican, Marco Rubio in the back


Private meeting with the US administration and Pope. JD Vance is on the left of Pope Leo. Brother Louis is on the right of Pope Leo. Marco Rubio is to the left of JD's wife Usha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbIWsrDn6pA

[–] dead@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

In relation to crimes that should be investigated, Kristi Noem once bragged that she killed her own dog because it wouldn't behave.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks for tagging but tagging doesn't work unless you put it in a comment. The pacing of this release feels too slow. I was expecting the league launch to be in early June at this point.

 

"China is intent on using spies to monitor and influence events outside its own borders. 60 Minutes reports on why China’s spies are on the rise, and what happens when one gets caught in the U.S."

13-minute video segment aired on Sunday on CBS. The CBS article includes a full summary of the video.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-spies-in-us-60-minutes/

https://archive.is/q94nZ (cbs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwdfjNveVM

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https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1924840161625407881#m

Elon is replying to a twitch drama account. There's also a video attached to the tweet that doesn't load with xcancel. The video shows Asmongold ranting about Hasan bullying people for having right wing beliefs.

https://x.com/Awk20000/status/1924833593865666648/video/1 << video attached to the tweet

 

https://archive.is/FGza2 (rolling stone)

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1924831221814636632#m

Maggie Hassan: What is habeas corpus?

Kristi Noem: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

Maggie Hassan: That's incorrect

*talking over each other*

Kristi Noem: President Lincoln used it

Maggie Hassan: Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason

UPDATE added archive link because paywall

 

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1924502826622886244#m

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-trump-gaza-aid-genocide-smotrich-ceasefire-hamas

"We're going to take control of all the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu vowed Monday in a video released by his office announcing that Israel would begin delivering “minimal humanitarian aid: food and medicine only.”

"Our best friends in the world—senators I know as strong supporters of Israel—have warned that they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge," he said. “They come to me and say, ‘We’ll give you all the help you need to win the war… but we can’t be receiving pictures of famine,’” Netanyahu added. To continue the war of annihilation, he asserted, “We need to do it in a way that they won't stop us.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/19/israel-to-allow-limited-food-into-gaza-amid-intensified-military-offensive

 

Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement

Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement titled "The U.S. should stop offending the DPRK with unnecessary and inefficient malicious provocations" on Friday:

Recently, the U.S. Department of State committed a political provocation of re-designating the DPRK as an "uncooperative state in combating terrorism" under the pretext of not joining in its "anti-terrorist efforts."

Such unilateral and malicious designating campaign staged by the U.S. every year should be duly denounced and rejected by the international community as it is a smear stratagem to brand the independent sovereign states as "state sponsor of terrorism" and make them targets of international criticism.

The "anti-terrorism" advocated by the U.S. is nothing but an excuse to justify interference in internal affairs of other countries and the overthrow of their social systems and in fact, the countries designated by the U.S. as "uncooperative state in combating terrorism" are becoming the main targets of the U.S. hostile policy and military threat, the expression of the most heinous state-sponsored terrorism.

No one has asked the U.S. to lead international anti-terrorist efforts, nor has anyone invested it with such power.

"The Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism" and other international laws adopted at the 49th session of the UN General Assembly branded the acts of threatening friendly relations between states and of encroaching upon the territorial integrity and security of a state as crimes and clearly stipulate that the struggle against international terrorism should be waged under the UN Charter and other international laws.

This proves that the U.S. illegal and unjust hostile acts against the DPRK and other sovereign states are the most serious political violence as well as state-level terrorism.

It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to resolutely oppose all forms of terrorism threatening international peace and security, but the so-called "anti-terrorist efforts" of the U.S., recognized as a synonym for interference in internal affairs and acts of aggression against independent countries, are irrelevant to the DPRK's will against terrorism.

Before dealing with someone's "cooperation" in the issue of "anti-terrorism", the U.S. had better face up to the present situation of the DPRK-U.S. relations which have been fixed as the one between states thoroughly hostile to each other due to the U.S. unilateral and wrong doings.

The more the U.S. provokes the DPRK with unnecessary and inefficient malicious acts, the further it will escalate the irreconcilable hostility between the DPRK and the U.S.

The DPRK will never tolerate any outside attempt to impair and violate the dignity, sovereign rights and security interests of the state but take effective and proper measures to cope with the U.S. hostile provocations in all spheres. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.05.17.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/f1d1db4aaa77cca0678b500dee22d6af.kcmsf

https://archive.is/hAwVo

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