“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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  • So I was having a conversation with a close friend of mine at sunset last night. She grew up in eastern Europe. She grew up under communism, still spends time there. These days she does early childhood education.

    She made a point I had not heard before which I thought was salient, and I don’t hear echoed enough. Trump has the behavioral patterns of a toddler. His focus, his motivation is to have the attention placed on him. And what he wants? What he wants is to be recognized as a strong man. To have the world as afraid of him as they are of Putin.

    So when we’re trying to think of the implementation of these plans and to what end, this is maybe a way to think about it.







  • Look I’m not gonna dox the mf’er, but the primary force behind the .ml instance, and frankly all of lemmy, spends a lot of time enjoying the privilege and benefits that come with being a well paid software living in a “global north” social democracy. Thankfully, they have since cleaned up their profile, but previously, it was trivially easy to figure out where a certain person lived, at least the metro, what company they worked at, and that their income range was well into the 6 figure plus.

    If you are new to lemmy, maybe take a bit more time to develop your understanding of the ‘lore’ that underpins this place. If you are already familiar, please understand that basically the core development team of lemmy, and admins of the dot ml instance advocate for a kind of authoritarianism they’ve been shielded from their entire lives, and that they’ve enjoyed extraordinary privilege that has only, historically, been available to the global north, and specifically, a kind of democratic socialism that affords them incredible breadth of opportunity. And its fine that they have contradictions and don’t live their perspectives; but I’m going to exercise a significant degree of criticism at this disconnect.