News

23367 readers

3167 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

484

Crowd cheered as two transgender women were attacked in Minneapolis, advocates say (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

79 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Summary

Two transgender women, Dahlia and Jess, were attacked at a Minneapolis rail station, with onlookers cheering their assailants instead of helping.

After confronting a man yelling transphobic slurs, the situation escalated into a violent assault involving four or five others, leaving both women unconscious.

Advocates attribute the rise in anti-trans violence to emboldened transphobia fueled by misinformation and political rhetoric, including Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

The local trans community is responding with solidarity rallies, self-defense classes, and firearm training to prepare for a potential increase in attacks.

Police are investigating, but no arrests have been made.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lol no they do not. There is no ToS or even state/local laws in the USA that make it illegal to discuss owning firearms. The fuck are you on about? Reddit would have banned all the firearm subs a long time ago if this was the case. Lemmy users are mainly antigun, this isnt rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Your first comment in this chain is surprise about the up votes for support for armed self defense, you then insist that Lenny users don't support gun ownership... Clearly Lemmy users support self defense. The push back I see comes from people bringing their assault rifles to do grocery shopping like some emotional support dog.

Also, an anti gun Queer person from ten years may have changed their stance by now as the situation gets more desperate. There's no clear path for disarming every citizen and when even the State is directly hostile to your existence, you may decide that the safest path forward is to level the field.

Also, the ToS/laws comment is about what you may need a gun for that's not exactly legal, but again, when the State makes your existence illegal, that stops being important.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

Karl Marx

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The majority of lemmy users do not support gun ownership. This is just a flat out lie.

You can search for gun, and you're flooded with heavily upvoted antigun rhetoric. Let's stop pretending it's even remotely progun.

I'm all for arming people, an minority is harder to oppress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

*citation needed

If your talking about the Meal Team Six posts, those people deserve ridicule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Absolutely, but there isn't a need for AI images like that when people already do that shit anyways. Those people absolutely get trashed even on the progun side of things. We love to make fun of them.