I think they want the only choices to be utter destruction or communism. But unfortunately when it takes the alternative being global catastrophe in order for your politics to sound reasonable, that doesn’t speak well of your politics.

Why do so many people actively wish the world was a worse place?

Voyager provides the ability to block whole instances. Is that not default Lemmy functionality? I’ve been using the Voyager WPA since it was wefwef, so sometimes I forget what’s native and what isn’t.

The worst people live forever. See: Kissinger.

These days nothing is illegal and nothing is a fact until that specific case has been adjudicated in a court of law.

Even lawmakers and judges are loathe to call anything illegal. They apparently don’t fucking know until a jury tells them. Unless you don’t have money and they know you’ll be railroaded by the system. Then that shit is illegal.

To be fair, that would make them a big waste of money, indeed.

I don’t remember the specifics because it was damn near 40 years ago, but I had a teacher tell the class that everyone has a sort of 6th-sense sight through an invisible 3rd eye in the middle of your forehead. And her example was that blind people will pick out clothes by colors or tell someone they were wearing an ugly tie. Which I’ve never seen, at least not outside of some sort of Hallmark Romance Drama quality religious schlock.

I never had any problem correcting a teacher if they made some calculation error or misquoted something out of the book (I wasn’t an asshole who corrected every single thing, just the ones that might be material to everyone else’s understanding of the lesson).

But when confronted with a teacher spewing utter bullshit, I was at a total loss for a response. I can’t imagine anyone else believed it, either, but what a fucking loon. My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.

I don’t even know if that was the worst/only one, but that’s the one that has always stood out for me.

I guess you could add that American Exceptionalism was taught as a legitimate point of view rather than nationalist bullshit.

Eh… what I really wanted to know was when they are going to clear the wreck and whether that stupid mother fucker died so I shouldn’t flip them off as I drive by. Can Google Maps tell me that?

I didn’t really want to out myself as the asshole wishing for someone’s death. But here we are.

Are they accepting refugees? Or did we wipe them out?

This was supposed to be funny, but tbh I’m too ignorant to made a decent joke about it. Obviously they would just be under US jurisdiction if they still exist, and probably don’t have that kind of power, but fuck maybe it’s time for native Americans to kick the rest of us back to the sea because we obviously don’t deserve their land.

I didn’t like Twitter as a social platform, but I did use it a lot for news on current events, such as how is the traffic on my route home, and why am I stuck in traffic, and how many miles ahead of me is the fucking accident?

Handy for communication during some kind of emergency that floods the phone network, but that’s pretty niche. Anyway, I interact a little on Bluesky but mostly it’s just a time killer like TikTok or whatever. Twitter was super easy to quit between the Musk take over and moving away from DC.

No one is supposed to follow illegal orders. But, who is to say what’s illegal and isn’t? And who are you going to call when they force you? The people executing Trumps orders? Is it worth not going home to your family over, or should you just let the courts decide? And who is to adjudicate your guilt? And can you even afford to fight it? Not if you’re a non-corrupt civil servant.

No, there is no plan for the country choosing evil.

Please do… that’s super sexy.

Boy, Putin really knows how to play Trump. It’s kinda gross.

The assumption of the right is if only democrats are upset, he must be hurting the right people more.

Looks like you had your transgression thoroughly explained to you.

Busch Gardens?

Welp…

I suspect trades unions might join with them in solidarity. The civil servants would have to put themselves on the line, but I think they would have support.

No. And worse, I think over half country wouldn’t care.

He’s probably already just unplugging servers.