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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged countering the Trump administration’s policies by resisting at every turn, arguing that its incompetence makes it vulnerable.

Her remarks followed chaos caused by a rescinded executive order that temporarily shut down Medicaid portals nationwide.

She encouraged activists to take offline action, citing ongoing mobilization efforts.

Her strategy focuses on making governance difficult for Trump, calling his administration “dangerous and cruel” but also “shockingly dim.”

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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 107 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (6 children)

It isn't chump and his taintsuckers you gotta worry about.

It's the army of Federalist Society lawyers and policy experts around him. They've spent decades figuring out the removed in the armor of our governmental system. Figuring out how to dismantle it piece by piece.

Edit - wtf is that removed about? Wait....oh. bot thinks I did a racism.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ha. Reminds me of an Asian standup comedian who had this routine about how he grew up in the inner city where the basketball nets were made of chains and so the chains didn't go 'swish,' they went 'chіnk.' So when guys wanted to play basketball, they said, "let's go shoot us up some chіnk."

Thank you, Cyrillic letter і, for letting me bypass the bot to tell that joke. Because I've remembered that joke for years.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

lemmy.ml removes certain words, other instances don't.

Of course the tankies get their pants all knotted over THIS.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

What was removed ? I don't understand

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

A small imperfection in armor sometimes used to refer derogatorally towards people of east Asian decent

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Chinamen is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 33 minutes ago

Look, this isn't a guy who built the... I mean what's your point, man ? what's the word ?? I'm out of my element

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Omg...what an idiotic auto moderation

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What do you expect from marxist leninists?

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I really need someone to explain all the random marxist leninists bogey-man bigotry that happens on this site at some point. Like this is a completely weird-o comment, about a political ideology that's effecting a word filter for possible rascism? and on .world people still label it marxist?!

I'm aware there is deep historical connotations which I haven't spent years researching so I try not to defend or participate but it feels like since people push back against "instance hating", we've gotta pour on any political hatred we could possibly see in the shadows. I'm just gonna assume this is another bad faith comment striking up fear and hatred till I learn otherwise.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

My dude, what do you think the .ml in your instance stands for?

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

.ml is Mali and marxist-leninists tend to use .ml as their hosting domain of choice the way that a lot of Generative AI domains are hosted in Anguilla because of the .ai domain.

[–] door_in_the_face@feddit.nl 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

They're asking what automod removing an out of context word has to do with marxism/ leninism. This kind of error can happen on any instance that automatically removes slurs, and that particular one isnt exactly commonly used either way.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 0 points 40 minutes ago

Oh no! We're all really communists because we use .com!

Am I still missing something? This is posted on the instance of .world, wtf are we talking about .ml and politics for? If your instance filters your comments on other instances than that's concerning and something I didn't know.

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Similar to chips in the armor

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 40 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Fucken hell, that's the correct fucking way to define a gap in armor. Bullshit. I really want to try a bunch of slurs out and see what sets it off.

[–] GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

It's clbuttic bowdlerization.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 30 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I really want to try a bunch of slurs out

This is surely the most rational reaction to being slightly inconvenienced by a word filter.

Anyone else remember Neopets? They had a filter that was extreme and multilingual. I can't count how many times I'd write a friendly message, the filter would block it, and I would end up editing chunks of text trying to avoid whatever word or series of letters the filter thought was inappropriate. Sometimes it'd be a few letters embedded in another word (like "associate" being banned for the letters a s s.) But sometimes, I was truly stumped. The only explanation I can think of is that some letters in English words matched up to swears in other languages.

Anyway, fun fact - I met my first boyfriend through that site. We decided to see how dirty we could talk while still getting messages past the filter. We used innuendos, slang, and other turns of phrase with each other just to see what we could get away with.

In the end, all that filter did was make us more creative at communicating forbidden topics. Whoops ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

SEE WHAT YOU'RE MAKING ME DO? NOW I HAVE TO SAY THE N WORD... I DON'T WANT TO BUT YOU GAVE ME NO CHOICE!

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Making hard eye contact while slowly donning burger king crown

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"What if I come up with an entirely fictitious, nigh-impossible combination of circumstances to try and corner you into accepting my racial prejudice?"

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

also the answer is yes. Just because it's a last wish doesn't make it okay. it's not like you can wish to do crimes for example.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Wait until you try the in-game chat in Rocket League. You can't even type "Discord". It's a banned word. 🤡

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago

Go removed ahead you removed.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Not much since you're on .world. .ml is much more strict.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Can't upset the Chinese on .ml 😂

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I must be a classy enlightened centrist since I have never had my words removed.

Entire comments removed & bans, on the other hand...

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Jebus. I still haven't figured out if .ml is government funded or true believers. Very strange to me.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's the home instance of the founders of Lemmy, who are communists. I don't know their views on authoritarian communism like Stalin or Mao, but people who thought these were good leaders are the "tankies" you may have heard of. There are a lot of them on .ml.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I've basically only ran into 90% left wing, sporadic sprinklings of conservative, tankie, liberal, other. "A lot of them" is pulling extra weight here.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago

Fair enough. They are more visible than most commenters, stand out to me at least, so maybe it seems like a lot.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Would it not be kink? not …

[–] Pazu900@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Are you saying your comment was edited?

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

There are better Lemmy hosts out there, just waiting for you to join.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 27 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

There was as guy running around with a list of smaller, worthwhile instances.

I ended up on lemmy.zip more recently after starting on kbin, then moving to .world.

lemm.ee seems to be gaining popularity.

sh.itjust.works is also pretty well represented, its users seem normal enough afaik.

lemmy.dbzer0 is an anarchist instance, their admin is super knowledgeable and seems like a cool guy.

lemmy.blåhaj.zone is a radically inclusive, safe instance. They're virulently anti-bigotry and anything perceived as "anti-marginalized" groups will likely be removed/banned.

There are hundreds of instances, 569 as of writing this. Some are niche and focused on specific hobbies or uses and a bunch of others are general purpose. It's worth clicking around and sorting a few different ways to find a server you like. Remember you can export your settings and import them into an account on another instances so moving is relatively painless.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

sh.itjust.works is also pretty well represented, its users seem normal enough afaik.

I resent the implication that I am normal!

Seriously though it's a p chill instance

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago

Thank you very much.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Bookmarked. Thank you for this insight.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Huh. Where can I get such informative descriptions of the different instances on that site?

The front page of each instance has a sidebar.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

I chose this one because it had the piracy community

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

I just signed up with the first one that worked, and it still took a while to actually get it created.