[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Topics on the side. "Gaming, Sports, Business, Crypto..." Reddit trying really hard to pretend it's not just around for porn and memes. Also, crypto lol. Tech bro a little harder, spez.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

that may have been a lie the whole time.

Musk's taint on the brand is I think majorly based on this type of thing. His twitter purchase has revealed that he's a serial liar, and now people are seeing all of the ways that it is happening with Tesla. People tolerate assholes all of the time. What they don't want to tolerate is snake oil salesmen, and I'm not sure there has ever been a bigger one than Musk.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Remember that time he offered to solve world hunger but then didn't because "nah" basically?

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

You know, if you skip that first sentence in my comment, what country would you think I was talking about?

Fascism happens slowly, and then all at once. Please, I beg of you, read a book.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Trump wins re-election, I think it's entirely non-hyperbolic to say that democracy in this country is over. Think of the things he tried to do with some, obviously-too-small, guard rails. He attempted a literal coup. Literally throw away votes. Literally has one of his chief advisors saying that if people protested said coup, they would use the insurrection act, or more directly, use the military to put down to put down those protesting the coup. There is a very small number of things that prevented this from happening, not the least of which is just a tiny handful of people being like "uh, we can't actually do this, right?"

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

I remember when my kids were small and I would make them come inside when it would get dark and a fit would be thrown as if I controlled the sun and this was an injustice I was creating. IDK why that popped into my head.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think there is a certain group of people that ruin it. EG: "yeah, I'll have the burger, but no bun because if you put the bun near my burger, like within 6ft of my burger, I will die slowly and painfully." Ok, so we should take off the sauce that is thickened with flour, right? "No, the sauce is fine. Also can I get the hef with that?"

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Which is why we don't need to debate. It's like being invited to a debate on whether water is wet.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

🤝

Chuck Norris memes were barely funny the first time and he’s a crazy asshole now.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

This. I don't need to win, I just want Meta to lose.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

They should be? I mean, not just for the crime, but in general privacy should be the default.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I'm an ideological purist and I'm voting for Jill Stein! This won't backfire in any way!

AOC is being smart/practical. Is Biden anyone's first choice on the left? Fuck no. We can have some more ideological purity when the choice isn't between milquetoast and literal fucking fascists.

Biden wasn't even my third choice in the '20 primary. That said, he's one of the most legislatively accomplished presidents in modern history. Still zero chance I'm going to be excited about voting for him in '24, but who has a shot at beating Trump right now? is maybe the guy that already did?

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