I’m guessing you think

You don’t have the foggiest idea what I think, so don’t you fucking dare mansplain it to me.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

Yes.

Both before and after.

All of them, real or imagined.

Reminder that Trump isn’t carrying out an autocratic coup d’etat in the US by himself.

He has the active support and assistance of the Republican party and their politicians at every step of the way.

Trump is Pol Pot. The Republican party is the Khmer Rouge.

Think he’s figured anything out about mob mentality and the damage they do in service to utter bullshit?

Yeah… me neither.

You must be using the All Trans Anime Porn All the Time app.

I just use Firefox for Android and sort by New by default and I don’t recall seeing any trans anime porn. Ever.

So by “fresh thinking” he actually means “sycophancy,” right?

That seems to be one of the defining traits of the Trump administration - be a malicious, incompetent, self-serving fuck-up, and fire anyone who won’t pretend that that’s not what you are.

No surprise there - Republicans have hated Wikipedia pretty much from the start, since they require valid attribution and constantly fact check, which means the Republicans can’t spin their lies.

Expect to see a lot more of that all around the world.

Trump can hide enough of his caprice and his pettiness and his self-absorption behind emotive rhetoric to fool the MAGAs, but none of that works on an international scale. The rest of the world just sees him, accurately, as a petulant, self-serving asshole and raving lunatic who can’t be trusted. Ever. And that’s the way they’re going to treat him, and the US by extension.

Yes.

What era would you rather have been born in?

Why is there a watermelon there?

Subs or dubs?

Lemmy isn’t a site at all. It’s a piece of software.

There are few things more painfully stupid than a mass media version of a scientific take on a matter with strong philosophical elements.

I obviously can’t know this is him, but it tracks.

More broadly, I’ve been certain for years that he spends a lot of time on 4chan. Anyone who’s at all familiar with /pol/ should be able to see that.

I’m not clear on what it is.

Broadly, they seem to have just lost track of the fact that their privilege is paid for by other people’s labor. Yeah - I think that part of it is thinking that AI can pick up the slack, but I think a lot of it is just not really thinking much at all.

I really think a lot of it, especially for Trump specifically, is looking at the amount of money that’s spent on social programs and education and housing and environmental protection and workplace safety and so on, and just dreaming about all the things he could buy with that much money.

I’m just the opposite.

I still own my SNES and all of its games from back in the day (and an NES, an original XBox and a PSX with their games), and they’re all in boxes in my garage. Pretty much as soon as emulation became viable, that became my preferred way to play, since I don’t have screw with wires and connections and consoles and cartridges or discs and all the rest of that clutter. I just click on an icon, select a game from a list, and away I go.

At this point, I’m assuming that “reforms” that are going to lead to deaths are a deliberate eugenic strategy - that the underlying idea is that the owner class will be able to deal with problems privately, so it will be the working class that will be disproportionately affected and will disproportionately die, and that’s actually part of the point.

Well… yeah. True.

I’d go even further - get them from people who emulatecthe games rather than people who play them on (or merely buy them for) the original hardware.

People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games, without any of the collector cachet getting in the way.