No treaty ever awarded the Kuril Islands to the Soviet Union.

While media sources have always had agendas, I think the key difference now is the fact that people are relying more than ever on a oligopoly of social media platforms as their primary news source, rather than media outlets across the country.

Not only does an information oligopoly make it far easier for propaganda to be disseminated to national and international audiences, but it makes trading political favors for propaganda-backed political support far easier than ever before as well.

Republican sheep will toss their support behind Trump on any issue, so the numbers don’t reflect a well-informed public.

and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

The problem is that MAGA people either don’t know about the problem, don’t care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.

Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know it’s a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.

I’m guessing that they mean extending access to Japanese citizenship to descendants of Japanese expats abroad. Brazil in particular had a substantial wave of Japanese settlers in the early 1900s.

Surely there’s a better source to post than Fox News’s propaganda.

For all non-fascists, the Gulf of Mexico is not a disputed name.

As long as scarcity increases revenues from enterprise customers, they have no incentive to increase the supply of gaming GPUs back to a level that fulfills all demand at a price that doesn’t rip off consumers.

This is How a Constitutional Crisis Will Begin Began

FTFY

And the same idiots would vote for him again in a heartbeat.

They should have thought more about his agenda beyond nodding along to his lies before voting for him. Although most people under-anticipated the insanity that has come to transpire, arguably making Trump’s first term look tame in comparison, any level-headed person should still have been able to recognize the dangers inherent to the right’s extremist rhetoric before the election and voted against it.

Just goes to show how easily swayed so many social media addicted Americans are, and although many of them might not admit it, tolerant of xenophobia and transphobia to the point of seeking perceived short-term gains at the expense of the civil rights and wellbeing of millions of their fellow Americans.

One shitty company suing another shitty company; nothing more enjoyable to watch!

MKVToolNix Batch Tool should be able to do it automatically, assuming the subtitle format is supported.

In her place, Trump would be lauding how great he thinks it is for US-Israeli alliance and commit twice as many resources to Israel in the process. Acting like Harris is anywhere near as bad as Trump on the issue of Palestine is either being grossly naive or intentionally deceitful, while not voting for her just because she isn’t pro-Palestine enough is counter productive when Trump is far less so.

The worst culprits though are the EAs and Paradoxes of the world that sell dozens of DLCs for games that cumulatively cost far more than the base game itself.

Unless he were also forced to divest all his shares in the company though, he’d still profit if the company’s stock price continued to grow after his departure. Not likely given how much sway his involvement seems to have on its value in the minds of Tesla shareholders, but still a possibility.

All states except Maine and Nebraska tally votes cast statewide and allocate all electoral votes from that state to the winner. Specific concentrations of voters in those states aren’t factored into the allocation.

With the electoral college though, it’s especially important to get people from states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Georgia to vote for Biden instead of Trump.

We really need users like that on Lemmy to replicate the positive aspects of the Reddit community that are worth bringing over. Something original to here, hopefully.

Legislation like that might happen in places like the EU, but in the US at least, unless lobbying rules are amended, consumers stand next to no chance against the commercial interests of advertisers.