Americans on average are far better off than is necessary for people to risk trying to overthrow their government. Most of them still have a place to sleep and food to eat. There’s no guarantee that will remain the case indefinitely.
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It’s not common knowledge but there is no legal requirement for either party to run democratic primary elections. They used to just pick candidates with no public input. They opened up voting as a concession to their supporters. However, they did so in a way that allows party officials to tip the scales in their favor.
The cruel irony is that the democrats actually have a less democratic primary than republicans simply because their voters interests are not aligned with the interests of party officials. Of course republicans party officials don’t care about democracy either but neither do their voters.
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News@lemmy.world•Bill Gates Admits ‘Affairs’ With Russian Women as He Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties: ReportEnglish
0·4 days agoNever give a billionaire credit for philanthropy. It’s either a PR scheme, tax evasion loophole, or vanity project for them. You don’t get that kind of money in the first place by being anything other than a sociopath and that’s not something that can be cured.
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News@lemmy.world•Bill Gates Admits ‘Affairs’ With Russian Women as He Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties: ReportEnglish
0·4 days agoI don’t think Billionaires like Gates were corrupted by their money. Rather, I think only narcissistic sociopaths care to do all the fuck of things necessary to amass that kind of wealth and power. Anyone with a conscious would stop much earlier.
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News@lemmy.world•Bill Gates Admits ‘Affairs’ With Russian Women as He Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties: ReportEnglish
0·4 days agoAlmost certainly the latter. Gates has some of the best PR money can buy. Every damning revelation that has come out linking him to Epstein has been paired with Gates admitting to some less serious transgression.
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News@lemmy.world•Bill Gates Admits to Affairs with 2 Russian Women While Married to Melinda and Apologizes to Staff for Past Epstein TiesEnglish
0·4 days agoProbably as long as Mossad and the CIA.
The economic depression in Eastern Europe during the 90s created a lot of desperate people and vulnerable children that monsters like Epstein could prey upon. That’s why many victims of his trafficking operation were Eastern European.
Just because Gates is claiming that he slept with two supposedly adult Russian women doesn’t mean they were part of a Russian honeypot. Considering these admissions come on the back of the Epstein files release, I’m more inclined to believe it’s a limited hangout intended to soften the blowback from some of the sick shit Bill was alleged to have done with his friend, a known pedophile and child trafficker.
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News@lemmy.world•New York sues video game developer Valve, says its 'loot boxes' are gamblingEnglish
0·5 days agoRelative to the money being spent on games it is incredibly cheap.
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News@lemmy.world•At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their contentEnglish
0·6 days agoUnfortunately, I think most quality sources with broad coverage aren’t free. Even the paid sources almost always have a corporate bias. Of those the financial times probably does the least to editorialize. Beyond that I think you just have to find independent journalists or outlets with a narrower investigative focus that you can trust.
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News@lemmy.world•DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein FilesEnglish
0·11 days agoAre we just going to ignore that the DOJ had all of these documents while Biden was president and just twiddled their thumbs apparently?

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