A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, and has resigned from her city position, officials said Monday.
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P.S. these fucking Tankies getting desparate enough to show up a lot on Lemmy World now that Piefed has helped people avoid the plague that ML is.
What’s “ML”?
The Lemmy.ml instance. If you see anyone with a @lemmy.ml after their name, there’s a better than 50% chance they think North Korea is a pretty cool palace :>
And that both sides of the current US political divide are exactly the same, yep, exactly the same. The really boring ones who are kinda slow to get with the times and then the ones who are destroying the institutions of government as fast as legally possible and also faster than legally possible. Yep. The same.
Oh I’ve met those. Honestly they are so absurd it’s hard to not think it’s sock puppet accounts.
In all fairness “kinda slow to get with the times” is at least a slight underrepresentation of how culpable democrats are for the current political moment 😅
They are not the same. And they are also clearly almost exclusively accountable to their donors, and for a very hot minute now have done nothing to meaningfully adress the countries class-based dysfunction (that disproportionately impacts minorities) while championing minorities in almost exclusively superficial ways that have laid the groundwork for the current cataclysmic anti-inclusionary social movement thats feeding our rapid decent into neo-fascism.
Slow to get with the times is more than just being charitable. They kinda suck. They are not a monolith, no group is, but there is good reason why people call them controlled opposition. I’d like for people to be wrong about that and for them to fix their shit. Because fixing the Democratic party still feels easier than uprooting the deeply entrenched two party system, and there are candidates that make me hopeful… But I’m not holding my breath :/
The DNC have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years and have never held a SCOTUS appointee majority. They are more progressive now than they’ve ever been, I highly recommend you read their party platform document, do you need a link to it?
Ok
Right now you’re on Lemmy World, another instance is known as Lemmy ML. All of the Fediverse Instances are built to communicate with each other unless specifically blacklisted, which is common. Lemmy World uses the reddit-style forum framework called “Lemmy” which is developed by Lemmy ML admins and owners, which is problematic because they’re “Tankies” who are well documented to think trans people are a western psyop, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified, that North Korea is one of the most democratic and free nations on earth, and that there is no Uyghur Genocide but instead a large sudden “birthrate decline” specifically an only in Xinjiang.
I am on an instance which uses a framework called “Piefed” which is developed with different codebase by different people than Lemmy.
Yeah one told me it was feminism that caused trump to get elected.
.ml = Mali
The Lemmy instances use it as an abbreviation for Marxism/Leninism
Oh makes sense