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floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Outrage after Israeli army fires ‘warning shots’ at French and other diplomats on West Bank visitEnglish39·12 hours agoKnowing how Israel operates, they probably just missed.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Trump confronts South African leader with ‘white genocide’ accusationsEnglish52·12 hours agoJust to be clear, this “white genocide” in South Africa is entirely fictitious. It’s not even an exaggeration of some small trend. The rate at which white people are killed in South Africa is no higher than for other population groups.
And yet, on the basis of this racist fiction, Trump’s regime is giving “asylum” to white South Africans.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Watch moment Trump ambushes Ramaphosa with videoEnglish36·17 hours agoI suspect Trudeau winning the handshake-wrestle is one reason Trump wants to crush Canada now.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Josh Hawley Begs Trump Administration to Approve FEMA Aid for Missouri3·1 day agoOh it won’t be a general principle that the government should help people. It should help when, and only when, not doing so would make Josh Hawley look bad.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Ali Velshi: The giant Trump banner at USDA is another sign the U.S. is sliding into autocracy13·2 days agoIt seems to be true. A number of sites have photos.
floofloof@lemmy.cato linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Which distribution should I recommend to beginners to scare them?2·3 days agoYes, that’s why I’d like to run something as clean as NixOS. For now my compromise is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed’s btrfs snapshots.
floofloof@lemmy.cato linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Which distribution should I recommend to beginners to scare them?39·3 days agoI’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years and I recently noped out of NixOS. It’s a great concept, but I’m old and I don’t want to spend the rest of my days configuring stuff just to get to where I would be in 30 minutes on a less rigorously designed distro.
floofloof@lemmy.cato Politics@beehaw.org•Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact1·3 days agoHow is that relevant to this article?
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE2·3 days agoImagine having to watch this guy run your country. Resentful friendless losers can be pretty dangerous.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•MAGA quickly turns Biden’s cancer into another conspiracy51·3 days agoThey need to INVESTIGATE all the FAKE LIBERAL universities handing out PHONY certificates that allow people to call themselves “Dr.” when they CAN’T EVEN diagnose prostate cancer.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Poland seizes tires for Boeing aircraft headed for Russia | ReutersEnglish15·3 days agoCan’t take off either, so Poland is really doing them a favour.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•The world does not owe Trump’s America a living21·3 days agoHe doesn’t have any, and that’s probably due to how he was brought up. I get the impression there wasn’t a lot of love going around in the Trump household.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE131·3 days ago…shudder…
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement541·4 days agoSurprising to see the NYT reporting on this, since they’ve usually been on board with such crushing.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Harrods' ex-owner allegedly abused hundreds of women. Some Australian survivors say he had helpEnglish7·4 days agoStories of young women being taken to Al Fayed’s office circulated in the company at the time. But it was only after the billionaire’s death in 2023 at the age of 94 that the full scale of his abuse of women came to light. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.
The UK is good at this. Somehow it’s impossible to investigate what everyone knows about a powerful person until just after they die, when the evidence suddenly turns up.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Mexican tall ship strikes Brooklyn Bridge, snapping masts and killing 2 crew membersEnglish7·4 days agoThe masts were too tall for the bridge so it seems they didn’t intend to go towards the bridge, but the ship apparently lost power and drifted backwards under it.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•‘It’s Outrageous That You Banned American Products From Your Shelves’English11·4 days agoAnd threatening to invade, crush and/or annex all your neighbours.
Greenland is not a full member of the EU, since a referendum in 1985. But it’s a territory of Denmark, which is a member, and citizens of Greenland are citizens of the EU. It seems complicated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union