!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
Nationalism tells you your nation is what to be proud of, but that's dangerous and manipulative.
Instead, focus on the people. You can be proud of the people who are protesting, people who are running secret grocery runs for people hiding from ICE, people promoting progressive or scientific thought in threatened educational spaces, and so on.
There are still plenty of us left in the US, some against our will, and you can still be proud of them for still trying when so many others have given up.
The collar of the USA is in the hands of Zionists/AIPAC. The USA is managed by Zionists
That took me by surprise. In his first term, Russia was holding the leash. Are these guys passing around the Trump Kompromat?
there's more than one epstein and more than one blackmail book. weird rich guy sex stuff is about power and control more than it is anything else. the centers of these rings just also enjoy power and control over victim and direct perpetrator in a form of violent sexual hierarchy
Is there another Epstein? I'm sure someone is trying recreate his special "Concierge" service, but it would be difficult to do that today. It took him many years, and potential clients today would be far warier.
It's more likely those services will be decentralized, like the Fediverse. There will be multiple concierges around the world, not just one big service that handles everybody.
The CIA was complicit in Epstein, moreso they were active conspirators. They can absolutely do it again, and we shouldn't assume this is the only blackmail they have either.
Heads should roll for compromising our own people to a foreign interest.
CIA, Mossad, Russia, etc., they were all tied to Epstein, and many claim one or the other was operating him. I don't think it was that simple.
I believe Epstein was more of a independent operator of an extremely high-end specialty concierge service, and he had two types of clients - those who engaged his services, and those who purchased information about those paying clients. Why get paid by one employer, when you can sell the same info to multiple parties?
He started as an Israeli honeypot, then tried to get involved with Russia later. There is no question as to his genesis being Israeli intelligence, with the help of the CIA, there is no way they didn't know what was going on. The FBI was complicit too, heads should roll for this.
I understand that they all knew what he was doing, and almost certainly were paying him a retainer, but I still believe he was mostly independent, working for whomever would pay for his information, sometimes running operations he was paid to do.
I'm just saying that he doesn't seem to have been an employee or agent of one specific nation or agency. But what do any of us really know? They have leaked out some information, but it only seems to further muddy the water in regards to his employment. They surely know exactly who he was, and what he was up to, and they are choosing to not tell us, probably because citizens would go nuts if the CIA admitted that they knew he was raping and murdering children, but covered for him.
He was a hardcore zionist, Maxwell's father was a mossad agent, and he took private jet flights to Israel and back with their spy chief, palled around with their politicians. He didn't do shit with Russia until much later, that I've heard about, and didn't make that many inroads there either. He got some girls from there at some points I know.
Israel has the original tapes. I don't doubt Russia has some of it now, they said as much last summer, medvedickhead said on the floor of the duma that Israel wasn't the only one with something something alluding to epstein clear as day.
Russia has their own blackmail too, this whole thing is fucked, we all have leaders compromised by the worst people in the world.
Valid
No. This is late stage capitalism, it is over for the US.
Let me tell you the good news: we've always been fascist, racist, bullies. This admin is just not covering it up at all. Glad you're awake now my guy.
Pretty much this, my friends and family thought I was being negative. But now, a few either, don’t like admitting it or they act like I’m a wizard.
yea that was really good news. I ment so a small part of me can be proud again to be American?
Hell yeah! America is now the number one exporter in highly qualified workers!
the drain has been clogged for decades, now its just BACKING up, which we are facing the consequences of clogging it in the first place. before we could use the plumber to unclog, but now its so big(trump) its just overflowing.
Some people love their country like a child loves their parent. Uncritical. They can do no wrong and are the best ever. Don't be like that.
Some people love their like like a peer loves a peer. You see their flaws and want them to be the best they can be. Be like that, even when it's uncomfortable and difficult.
For me its like loving a relative who is a writhing hateful shell of what they used to be. Think Alzheimer's or something.
But even that is glorifying a national myth, where the actual history is defined by subjugation and exploitation.
loads
protect your democracy and vote dem in november
good luck!
There are several websites about current good news, some of which is happening in this country right now.
In October 2025, following pressure from United States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered cities across the state to remove LGBTQ+ Pride crosswalks and other road markings that “advance political agendas” and “ideologies.”
Abbott cited safety concerns and violation of state and federal guidelines as reasons to invoke the measure, which required cities to comply within 30 days or risk losing transportation funding.
...
But, in the meantime, the new, colorful sidewalks do not violate any local regulations, and Kaur and McKee-Rodriguez hope they signal an ongoing commitment to LGBTQ+ Pride in San Antonio.
When the Idaho legislature banned Pride flags on public property to punish the City of Boise for flying one at city hall, the mayor and city council adopted the Pride flag as the official city flag. Best part, city hall is two blocks away from the state capitol building, so the bigoted fucks get a nice view of it when they’re at work 😊
The US consistently ranks among the most charitable countries in the world, being #1 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2019.
The only difference between now and what it used to be is that the mask has been taken off of US politics. Who you see in Trump and the entire Republican administration is who this country has always been. Regardless of whether it's Democrat or Republicans, they've always been war hungry, serving only the CEOs bankers and Wall Street while tossing us occasional table scraps, so we didn't get too loud in our grumbling.
The only effort that Democrats have put in is trying to put that mask back onto US politics and back to business as usual. Once the mask comes off it can't be put back on.
Edit sp
That's not entirely true. We had a brief period after WWII until the 70s when the middle class actually existed, the rich were taxed at 91%, and unions had leverage. This has eroded quickly since the dawn of neoliberalism.
No.
What about being pretty good at starting unnecessary wars?
Okay fair. And we make a good bomb, and a nice fighter jet. Our propaganda is effective. We do a lot of good in areas that are not good.
No