A lot of the initial popularity of Isis in Iraq was due to very similar factors. This was an uprising of a complex mix of people and goals. Most involved at first were established leaders who were patriotic and tribes who were oppressed by the new and invalid government.

This of course was airbrushed in the west and countless thousands were killed by Americans during the uprising.

Syria was destabilized due to the mass death.

The main takeaway here is that force often seems like an answer but that can go badly

Huge boost for working people. People were able to negotiate for better pay, and travel to another employer if the pay was too low.

It was a social revolution for the survivors.

But it was more like a 50 to 60% reduction in supply. That Black Death did not mess around

There is too much blame to go around, and not enough people and orgs wanting to acknowledge blame.

Trump did not become a household name randomly. He was helped and aided by many. And I have noticed hundreds of times how the main stream media enabled his word salad and gave it meaning and power. In real life, not many people listen to blathering hateful idiots.

I’m not well versed in the saints, but I think this is a better origin story than most.

All we need is a tearful prayer, with a vow towards some further action: even if it’s just in a cell for the rest of his life.

And then he is on the same level, in my opinion, of some medieval saints I know a little about.

Could easily be a saint for denied claims and other obstacles in healing.

Flies and moths sometimes got behind panels and caused issues. Hence computer bugs entered our lexicon.

It’s easier to imagine the insects entering with this picture,

Thanks for all these gift links btw, it helps a lot of people

witnesses, accusations, court trials, investigations by law, settlements and outright admission.

Some of them have more of one type than the other but most of the people mentioned in this political context are not unlucky people who only have one or two incidents.

That does not mean the other people are saints. But most seem to at least not glorify in it, and many are content to exploit and rob the working class without such public incidents.

I think this is like a parallel situation as seen in the Reddit ceo driving migration to lemmy.

The wp meltdown was destructive and healthy at the same time. A minority of wp users will look into alternatives, which will help make those better to use because the devs get more support, and/or the alternative communities and ecosystems start to grow

It takes being organized and working with others, as a group, to make the change happen.

This seems to be broken in many areas if the world thanks to how much technology has changed, as well as two generations of social upheaval and mass migrations.

Nobody knows how to do this right now, the best that can be done is a day or two of activity in the larger metro areas.

I think people will find their way, but not this year

This seems to be a rare individual who would not have done such except for his own misfortune with his back.

If I learned anything from this, is that most people cannot do any real changes either for health or environment. It has reinforced my cynicism

Undersecretary for auction integrity

Sounds like the nyt cherry picked some influencers to reinforce an opinion that may not be widely shared: that a viable strategy is to give up and do useless politics.

The article vaguely criticizes other movements without giving alternatives.

There are many cool terms and phrases just waiting to be spoken and written again. But yes

Also apparently this particular op phrase lives on in some areas, going by that uk comment

Yea, I see it as a world wide trend in many languages: the dialects are going away

I grew up near the Appalachian segment of the USA southeast. This was an oft repeated phrase then.

I did not even think about it while I read the comic. But methinks it’s going away in style. Everyone speaks high English here.

I like quality content, even if I can’t understand sometimes

All posts are filtered, organized and sometimes made by AI, or non AI programs, which will decide which users get shown which posts?

Interesting

That much ?

That’s great news, am optimistic now

Watched this, it was a silly but nice movie. It’s meant to be a comedy but I understand a lot of the stuff, other than the journalist’s story, really happened.

Which makes it more fun.