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Cake day: October 18th, 2024

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  • My dad legitimately thinks that TikTok is a national security problem and “it must be really scary if 80% of congress voted to ban it.”

    It’s a national security problem in the sense that any closed source app that connects to the internet on a VIP is a national security problem, it just happens to be owned by a country that Amerikkka wants to beef with, there is just as much danger in a closed source US owned app like Facebook getting hacked by a foreign actor and leaking sensitive information, the op-sec of most governments and a lot of businesses are generally horrendous, anyone doing anything important enough to be worth targeting should have nothing that isn’t strictly needed on their phones, you think they would take it more seriously, but they do not.








  • Johann Wilhelm “Rukeli” Trollmann (27 December 1907 – April 1944) was a German Sinti boxer.[2]

    Trollmann became famous in the late 1920s.[3] On 9 June 1933, he fought for the German light-heavyweight title and although he clearly led by points over his opponent Adolf Witt, the fight was judged “no result”.[3] The audience rebelled, and the Nazi officials were forced to acknowledge Trollmann as the victor. However, six days later he was stripped of the title. A new fight was scheduled for 21 July, with Gustav Eder as Trollmann’s opponent. Trollmann was threatened that he had to change his “dancing” style or lose his licence. Trollmann arrived the day of the match with his hair dyed blonde and his face whitened with flour, the caricature of an Aryan. He took the blows of his opponent as he was asked for five rounds before he collapsed.[4]

    From wikipedia, some people are just unimaginably cool.

    Learned about him in this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8NXfFQ3r_g I posted earlier in the videos community.



  • literally if this is to be believed from Jeremy Scahill

    But what happened was that Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East is not someone like an Antony Blinken or a Henry Kissinger. Instead, it’s kind of, you know, like a scene from The Godfather, where Tom Hagan gets sent as the consigliere to sort of do the bidding of the don. He sends another billionaire real estate tycoon, Steve Witkoff, to the region, and Witkoff then is in the room with CIA Director Bill Burns, with Brett McGurk, the current envoy, with all of these mediators. And we understand from Israeli media coverage that last Friday Witkoff is in Doha. He calls Netanyahu’s people and says, “I’m coming tomorrow to Israel, and I expect Netanyahu to be there.” And they say, “Oh, well, no, it’s Shabbat. He’s not going to be able to meet with you.” And Witkoff, who himself is Jewish, was like, “I don’t care what day it is.” He arrives there and, by all accounts, sort of said, “This deal is going to happen before President-elect Trump takes office.”