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A newly welcomed Afrikaner ‘refugee’ tweeted Jews are ‘dangerous and untrustworthy’

This is one of the 59 Afrikaners personally welcomed at Dulles airport by the deputy secretary of State and in what Marco Rubio called a "tremendous accomplishment". That's the same Marco Rubio who personally cancelled visas of darker skinned people who signed Gaza protest letters.

Racism is the goal, protecting jews is the excuse.

A newly welcomed Afrikaner ‘refugee’ tweeted Jews are ‘dangerous and untrustworthy’https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-afrikaner-refugees-jews-dangerous-tweet-b2751423.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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House Republicans vote to defund DC police

Basically, house Republicans voted to defund DC police because even though it's not federal money, they fact that that have the power to pass laws affecting DC means that they can claim these as "cuts". Again, defunding the DC police doesn't help the federal government save a dime. But it's technically a budget cut, just not the budget cut they're supposed to working on. Yes, it's that silly.

House Republicans vote to defund DC policehttps://51st.news/house-republicans-vote-to-defund-d-c-police-and-schools/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off

In Umpiem Mai camp in Thailand, which is home to more than 10,000 people who fled the brutal civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, a resident and a health worker told ABC that multiple patients who were reliant on oxygen have now died.

“The medical workers left without even taking the equipment and the patients had to return to their homes, including some who had to be carried out,” said Sulaiman Mawlawi, a camp resident. “It was a very tragic moment for us.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/us-aid-freeze-claims-first-victims-as-oxygen-supplies-cut/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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nostupidquestions·No Stupid Questionsbyrational_lib

Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?

Yes I know, your least-favorite idea goes here. But seriously, someone must have come up with the concept before. Like a bad get-rich-quick scheme could fall into this category, where joining the scheme makes people lose money and become more desperate, so they become more likely to do desperate things like invest more in the scheme. But it can apply to a number of other bad ideas.

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