Leopards Ate My Face

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Are we back a little too late? Maybe we're just on time with the US general election around the corner? Who knows! But we're back. Please check out the new sidebar. The community is no longer locked to moderators-only.

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I'm pretty sure this is common knowledge among Lemmy's politically engaged userbase, but with this community having been closed for eight months, I'll try to nail down a (verbose) definition here:

  • A person ("the victim") has been treated cruelly and unjustly.
  • The victim directly helped in advancing e.g. a statute, politician, philosophy, or organization ("the leopard(s)") via endorsement, voting, activism, etc.
  • The leopards have substantially harmed a group of people through cruel and unjust actions ("eaten their faces"), and there is a logical throughline from the leopards to the face-eating.
  • The victim knew or reasonably should have known that the leopards would eat people's faces if given the power to. They helped the leopards anyway because they're indifferent to or actively enjoy this group's suffering.
  • The victim is then shocked to find that the leopards have eaten their face as well ("I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!"). Usually, any reasonable outside observer would have concluded that the victim was likely part of the group whose faces the leopards would eat.
  • A common element is a lack of an apology to anyone the leopards have hurt, tacitly indicating they haven't learned any real lesson in empathy and only care that they have now personally had their face eaten.
  • Another one is the (incorrect and denialist) belief by the victim that the leopards have simply eaten their face in error and need only be informed of their mistake to make it stop. (E.g. pleading on social media to a politician about their specific case).

A prototypical example:

>Adrian Personson relies on assistance they receive through Social Service. They endorse and vote for the Austerity Party – knowing one of their main promises is to slash spending by making sure Social Service doesn't go to the people who "don't deserve it". The Austerity Party wins against the Social Spending Party and ascends to power. To Adrian's shock, they receive a letter months later stating they've been cut off from Social Service. They take to social media to write an outraged post about how they're a good, honest person who doesn't deserve this.

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Subheadline: PILIPINONG NAGPAKILALANG TRUMP SUPPORTER SA U.S., NAGTATAGO DAHIL UNDOCUMENTED AT TAKOT MAARESTO

Translation

Subheadline: FILIPINO INTRODUCES TRUMP SUPPORTER IN U.S., HIDING BECAUSE UNDOCUMENTED AND FEARING ARREST

https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/1idm3ys/what_did_he_expect/

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Honestly an AI firm being salty that someone has potentially taken their work, "distilled" it and selling that on feels hilariously hypocritical.

Not like they've taken the writings, pictures, edits and videos of others, "distilled" them and created something new from it.

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The great Molly White has collected some responses from tge crypto communities expressing concern about the meme coins.

Molly White akso has this interesting web site: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17496031

The singer, who was hit by technical glitches that forced her to perform an acapella, was allegedly not thrilled about the issue, as well as how she was forced to perform, after initially sparking backlash over the performance and allegedly not “caring” about the hate.

The 41-year-old allegedly felt slighted because past performers at inaugurations for Joe Biden and Barack Obama, like Beyonce and Lady Gaga, have been afforded such luxuries.

“Carrie was dissatisfied with her performance at the event, primarily due to the limited space she was given, which left her feeling cramped and uncomfortable,” the source told the publication.

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Sociopath greedy fucks fucked by their own sociopathic greed pushing tech explicitly hyped to cause mass unemployment. You first, finance bros! Welcome to the "capitalist efficiency" games you were so fond of running 🤣

Turns out you made a career out of felating oligarch dick, expecting romance, but they'd rather keep your class traitor salary and kick you to the curb. Guess you chose to keep poor company.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23598266

Summary

Key leaders of the “Abandon Harris” movement, which encouraged voters to oppose Kamala Harris due to U.S. support for Israel during the Gaza war, are now expressing unease about Trump’s incoming administration.

Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East.

However, concerns are growing over his Cabinet picks, such as Mike Huckabee and Tulsi Gabbard, which some see as troubling for Muslim communities.

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I think the title explains it all… Even right wing influencers can have their faces eaten. And Twitter views are literally their livelihood.

Trump's conspiracy-minded ally Laura Loomer, New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax and InfoWars host Owen Shroyer all said their verification badges disappeared after they criticized Musk's support for H1B visas, railed against Indian culture and attacked Ramaswamy, Musk's DOGE co-chair.

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Grandfather votes for President who will deport his son and law and grandchildren because he knows they are "good ones."

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16136797

“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

This is apparently the point where the "moderate" Republicans are willing to start pushing back — where they've got personal experience with just how evil a policy is.

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Trump backtracks on campaign pledge to bring down grocery prices

The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.

Dec 12, 2024, 10:19 AM ESTUpdated 10 hours ago

President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices, contrary to statements he made on the campaign trail this year.

Trump told Time in an hourlong interview for its “Person of the Year” feature that his presidency wouldn’t be a failure if he failed to bring the price of groceries down.

“I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will,” Trump said, according to the transcript.

Trump is right that it’s very hard to achieve across-the-board price reductions. Curbing inflation is only a matter of slowing the rate of price increases — actual economy-wide price drops typically don’t happen outside of a massive economic downturn.

Nevertheless, Trump repeatedly told voters during the campaign that electing him president would cause prices to tumble.

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“We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands of factories back to America,” Trump said at a Georgia rally in October, reciting a line he used in speeches at several other events.

. . . (excerpt)

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