[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

If you had actually ASKED the Sioux of the Black Hills about this, you'd know they've told pretty much everyone "yeah we don't like Mt Rushmore, we don't like Crazy Horse's relief carving either, but we think destroying them is more disrespectful than just leaving them to fall apart on their own." Like, this isn't an uncommon thought. It's just more complex than "blow them up".

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Oh that's an easy dodge. A lot of these people think Trump is either a prophet of the Lord, a devout agent (think David or Solomon), or Jesus Christ Himself.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Not "hundreds of years", don't let them make you think it's old. The idea that "God wants you to be wealthy and healthy and being poor and sick is because you displeased God" only really goes back to the start of the last century, and gained a lot of traction with the Jesus People type revivals in the 70s, when faith healing became a serious mainstream thing in the US. The larger portion of devout US Christians were largely fairly apolitical to left-leaning until about the 50s.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

Don't forget him bragging that he now held the tallest skyscrapers on the NYC skyline.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

To paraphrase the 10th Doctor, don't you think he looks tired?

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

And in some cases, the IP getting a shit movie or show can tell the game developers "well, time to drop the entire brand for 15 years".

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

Yup, regulatory capture at work. You see this a lot in EPA and OSHA as well - "we'll take your word for it until serious shit starts happening a lot."

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

And, they DQed her in a way that erased her win, making that Russian boxer still undefeated on the record.

But yeah, they claimed she failed a test, but won't reveal who did it, or the methodology used, meaning it's not replicable and thus NOT GOOD SCIENCE.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

As Behind the Bastards pointed out recently in their Kent Hovind episode, the IRS doesn't give a shit about what illegal or immoral activity you commit, they literally just want you to pay taxes on it.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago

Not entirely. Derailments like this were pretty much expected to increase at...right about this point after Reagan deregulated the entire rail industry. Take away any expectations of the railways to maintain their rails, cars, or engines, and couple that with an industry that believes in cutting everything to the bone in order to maximize profits in a way that's almost unrivaled, and you get this happening more and more. Already before this, railways in the US were averaging 1000+ freight derailments per year over the last decade - to put this in perspective, the entire EU averages half that in a year for their freight network.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Musk has since come out and all but stated Hyperloop was specifically funded and hyped ONLY to kill mass transit initiatives in the area. It was a total vaporware project, they never intended to solve anything.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I love that people are surprised that a man who prominently wrote "ARM THE HOMELESS" on a guitar he uses on stage is leftist as fuck. Like, I don't know what you expected dude.

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