The context of who does a thing and how they’d be likely to do it matters; a surgeon cutting into someone with a scalpel can help heal them, but an untrained idiot with the same scalpel is likely to make the situation even worse than if the surgery hadn’t even been tried.

Though I don’t agree with the deportation bit, I view unwilling deportation as cruel, and taking his obscene pile of wealth away would also remove most of his ability to negatively effect society anyway (and if it didn’t, then him being physically in a different country probably wouldn’t help much either, or else would be pushing the problem onto them instead of solving it.)

He isn’t the only winner of that prize to be involved in war crimes, to be fair.

3rd? Surely there’s been more than 2 before?

I would imagine the Iranian government or an affiliated organization like that would have better access to the internet at the moment than the average citizen. A social media influence campaign doesn’t even have to be physically based within the country running it, technically. I’m not saying whether Iran is or isn’t running bots or to what extent, because I don’t know that, but I would think that, given that their enemies are doing it, it would make quite a lot of sense for them to do so as well.

I’m not sure that modern political terminology, especially with regards to something like socialism, really fits someone who predates even the invention of those words. Sure, you can find similarities, but you can’t always expect consistency with it in all their positions if the person in question got to those positions in a very different manner.

I mean, I doubt people tend to buy medication based on the name of the company making it, so do they really have much incentive to change it?

Ron DeSantis isn’t a lemmy mod, to my knowledge.

presumably well thought out business decisions arent made spontaneously out of rage from a twitter fight.

The dragon capsule worked though? You may be thinking of starliner, which is Boeing.

To be fair, you can’t always take things as “obvious” in science without so much as an attempt to investigate, because every so often an idea that seems obvious or common sense turns out to be wrong, or has some unexpected detail to it.

I’d rather not create thought crimes, or give the government a vague label to slap on any group of people they want to criminalize.

I mean, a few million nationwide is high numbers to get for a protest, but not for a presidential election, with the size of the US anyway. I’d bet most of them probably voted. It’s the more politically engaged segment of a population that one would expect to show up to a protest, after all.

It does have a useful definition I think in “a non-state actor using violence to serve some political goal”, as that at least lets one categorize a murderer who just hated that specific guy as having something different going on with them compared to a murderer who wants their act to shock a nation into taking some action. It’s commonly misused as “someone using violence that we don’t like”, but there is still some utility in understanding a person’s motive for doing something.

To be fair, Hong Kong wasn’t really large numbers for the government that would actually have had to have been affected to change the policy, that is, mainland China. Had every other Chinese city had protests similar in relative scale, things might have gone differently.

Those guys are what got me to finally start using adblocker, when they were running their videos as every other youtube ad (unless they still do that)

Whatever his charisma might be, if he runs in 2028, that’s good at least in that it would require his father not have managed to remove elections and term limits by then for it to occur

Every so often that kind of thing goes badly for them. Just ask the French

By trying to find the smartest guy around to get expert advice from no less.

You know things are bad when your policies are too cruel for even the cops to go along with.

The internet has taught me that there is no such thing as sarcasm that everyone can detect.