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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • Let the guy who wants to do even more genocide into office! That’ll show the genociders!

    People really out here wondering how the dems could have such right wing policies while also never showing up during primaries or generals to indicate that moving left will pay anything back.

    Fosters electoral climate where the people who at minimum are sympathetic to the genociders are the majority of likely voters.

    "Why won’t the dems go against the genociders‽ How dare a major political party adopt policy positions that upset a contingent of voters who have consistently demonstrated they can’t be trusted to show up even when you do take the positions they want as evidenced by how they completely abandoned Bernie during the primaries BOTH GODDAMNED TIMES!!!"

    Now to speak as a Palestinian American, your supposed stand for your principals is actively putting my people in even more danger, so quit acting like you’re their ally while you basically use them as a hostage to demand leaders stop letting them be held hostage.

    If you think the answer to Dems being soft on Bibi is to let power back into the hands of the guy who handed him West Bank, East Jerusalem, and The Golan Heights on a silver platter, you’re either a covert zionist, or an unwitting agent of them, either way, you need to sit down and shut the fuck up before you get the people you’re talking over into even more danger.


  • Zest a small bag of lemons, 4 to 5, then peel the lemons and reserve the zest with the lemon flesh.

    Get a box of strawberries and chop off the tops before cutting up and tossing in with the zest and lemon flesh.

    Get a cup of cane sugar, and pour it into the bowl before tossing the whole mess together as much as possible, then spread it into a baking pan.

    Either hit it with a kitchen torch, or slap it under the broiler for 2 minutes.

    Toss it all in the blender with 2 cups of chilled water and give it just enough pulses to get it all combined together.

    Strain it into a bowl, then strain it again back into the blender.

    Add in 1 to 3 cans of sweetened condensed milk to desired consistency, and cane sugar to taste.

    Blend it all together one more time with a handful of ice cubes and voilà.

    Swiss because the sweetened condensed milk and zest are from what’s called a Brazilian Lemonade, but what the Brazilians call a Limonada Suisse, and Lion because the Strawberries Cane Sugar and Torch come from Detroit (lions) 75 Kitchen Lemonade.






  • A stock is a piece of the deed or title or charter or whatever that is the essence of the company as a piece of property.

    You can buy that piece of the property for a value which fluctuates based on the value of the company as a whole, your fractional piece is tied to the value of what it’s a piece of.

    The stock market is the cumulative eco-system in which people are buying and selling stocks in different companies based on fluctuations in value of different companies at different times.

    The name of the game is to basically always be selling just before a downturn and always be buying just before an upswing, so that the money you’ve bought the stocks with is always growing, because your bought stocks are always growing in value, until you decide to sell them.

    There is a lot of other factors to it but that’s basically it. It’s a system in which you temporarily buy small pieces of companies for the purpose of selling them once they’re more valuable than they were when you bought them.

    If you’re thinking that sounds a lot like crypto, you’re not wrong, but the difference is that stocks actually have a modicum of regulation that are meant to keep people from getting fucked over quite as hard as crypto has done. Doesn’t mean that premise is always lived up to, just look at 2008, but overall the stock market represents the safest form of investment you can make other than stuff like federal investments or buying a home that you intend to pass along to your kids.






  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldDemocrats Vote
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    No, you just behave in a way that gives yours away because you’re the exact kind of privileged twit who unironically named themself “LeftOfJillStein” like that signals anything other than that you’re a purity tester who can afford to let everyone else die while they wait for their messiah before taking any action towards even harm mitigation.




  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzdream job
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    Fun fact, only one trebuchet has ever been deployed for combat in the new world.

    The conquistadors and coalition forces built one during the siege of Tenochitlan, they tried to fire it but the sling snapped, rock went up, rock came back down.

    Thus ended the storied military record of trebuchets in the new world.





  • No, my state oppression is the police sanctioning my family being killed for not being right wing enough you fucking gaslighty lunatic.

    Especially right now, not everyone worried about this country becoming an authoritarian hellscape is worried about common sense gun reform or minimum standards of medical care, some of us are worried about the fact that the guy who set a lynch mob on the capital is a breath away from having the legal authority to do it next time, and being so damned flippant about Anti-Authoritarian messages really doesn’t make me think you’re taking that very real threat seriously enough.

    Fuck all the way off and choke on it if you’re gonna go out of the way this hard for the sake of defending a stupid turn of imagery that doesn’t signal anything except that you feel smug about identifying yourself as a probable bootlicker to be clinging this much to “Imma step on the snek all I want!”

    It’s not clever. It’s not cute. Especially in today’s day and age, it’s just fucking tone deaf.