overview for hark

Trump threatens 25% tariffs on foreign cars and semiconductor chips in c/economy

[–] hark 2 points 5 hours ago

Those goods from China already have a 100% tariff applied to them by Biden. Oh right, Trump wants to apply tariffs to our allies.

Israeli soldiers used 80-year-old Gazan as human shield, then killed him. in c/world

[–] hark 26 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Remember this and the many other examples when they try to call themselves "the most moral army in the world".

DOGE cuts Nepal's funds in c/politics

[–] hark 12 points 1 day ago

Gotta pinch as many pennies as we can to fund the most important causes like funneling more money into the pockets of billionaires.

Stop the historical revisionism in c/memes

[–] hark 6 points 1 day ago

Presence is nine-tenths of the rule.

Biblical Rule in c/196

[–] hark 24 points 1 day ago

The price of eggs is the go-to example, but the real matter is cost of living in general. People are being squeezed and nothing is being done about it other than token gestures at best. Token gestures are also what's on offer for human rights and dignity.

Biblical Rule in c/196

[–] hark 1 points 1 day ago

There was nothing good about sending billions in weapons to a country actively committing genocide.

How was your valentines day weekend? in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] hark 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I fucka da pizza

Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources in c/world

[–] hark 1 points 2 days ago

It's not just the act of spending on the military, it's about control which they get through the use of the military.

Donald Trump's Gen Z popularity plunges in c/politics

[–] hark 1 points 2 days ago

Kosher salt is large grained.

Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources in c/world

[–] hark 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

US support was never out of the goodness of their hearts, there was always going to be a price to pay, but of course trump goes about it in the most hamfisted way possible.

Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources in c/world

[–] hark 15 points 2 days ago

That works if you're in a position of power and don't need to rely on the people you're reneging on.

Apparently there's a conservative Lemmy community? Anyways, here's some great face eating from one of their articles they posted. in c/leopardsatemyface

[–] hark 21 points 2 days ago

They think other government workers are a waste but they themselves are a special case because reasons. It's easy to criticize when you don't understand what is going on. Hopefully they learn from this instead of thinking it's an honest mistake.

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[email protected] mod enforces own opinion by modding opposing opinion as "misinformation" (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by hark to c/[email protected]

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Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn't "state" (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn't say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn't need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were "provided for defense from Iran, full stop." which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I'm not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn't bother making a post here for that because that's just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it's awful to see something like this happening in a community that's supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it's full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!