[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

And there you go from the moral/intellectual high ground, mocking them as toddlers and saying it's right and normal to laugh and make fun of them.

I can't stand vaccine hesitancy and anti-science bullshit. I've had to deal with this becoming a Fox News thing in my own family, and lost too many people from alternative "Eastern" medicine over "Western" medical science. But the mockery and ridicule only feeds into the Christian persecution complex most of that rural white population already embraces, and causes the wagons to circle.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

January 6th is not seen as an insurrection but as citizens banding together to protect democracy. Collusion with Russia was always seen as a false attempt to make him look bad, especially with things like the dossier being faked. Tax evasion is considered smart if you can do it legally, and the New York prosecution for what the industry considers standard practice reinforced the perspective that it was weaponizing the justice system. Autographed bibles are no more sacrilegious than any of the megachurch/televangelist who buys a private jet because God wants him to to.

Each one of those hurtles may take someone out of his camp, but for some that will only be if there is a viable alternative. Keep in mind that the alternative on the democratic side is trying to end their 2nd amendment rights, open the borders to secure a permanent underclass voting block, and lose the national protection of God by persecuting Christians. It doesn't matter to what degree any of that is true, that is the hurtle they have to clear.

Since armed service is venerated more on the right than the left, and has higher percentages of veterans and their children, this might indeed be the straw that breaks the camel's back for some or many. He is grifting in so many areas, that if he is also shown to be a grifter on respecting the armed services in addition to being a false Christian and 1 percenter elite then parts of his base might see him as no better than the Democrats.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

That may or may not be entirely true, but you have to admit that was a damn good burn. Someone had to say it, it was too perfect a setup not to.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Ignoring the tragedy of the actual situation, the way the title is parsed for the link implies that a diesel powered bicyclist crashed while rolling coal and that imagery makes me giggle.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Clearly Megyn Kelly is clearly concerned about boys being exposed to unnecessary lead and other toxic metals. Got to look out for the health and safety of tomorrow's men.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Typically it's prescribed for ghosts in the blood, but can pull double duty off-lable for ADHD if amphetamine is out of stock at your local apothecary.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

To be fair, any American at least 35 years old can run for president. Criminal status or history isn't a block to that, to prevent pulling a Putin and jailing political rivals to clear the field. The media is also a cesspool of ragebait and train wrecks due to the 24 hour news cycle and "ratings".

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I've been wanting that since 1994. Jawsome!

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Are we also going to tolerate the same with Islam and terrorism? POC and safety because "crime statistics"? If those are not acceptable because it's not anyone's individual responsibility for others in an involuntarily assigned group, why is this ok?

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

The US is far more like the EU than it is like Britain or Canada, being a Republic of aligned States. We have a body representing the states themselves (the Senate, and each state is equal and gets 2 Senators), a body representing the People in those states (the House of Representatives, which has been capped for total size and is no longer equally proportional but serves the same purpose), and a body representing the entire Union (the Executive branch - the President, Vice President, Cabinet, etc.).

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I got tired of soldering new switches on my Logitech mice. It's the only reason I ended up with a Razer for my latest mouse, optical switches that physically cannot get double click failure. Logi isn't the only one with the double click failures, Razer traditional switch mice fail for me even faster than logi.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Even American cats have spyware.

And they have since the 1960's: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

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