Ah yes, progressives and leftists, notoriously concerned with government waste and undeserving foreigners, this original tweet definitely wouldn’t have any effect on the “I’m not racist but” moderates that the Biden and Harris campaigns chased after by getting tough on asylum seekers and talking about having the most lethal military in the world /s

Incidentally, what do you suppose that watermelon in the reply name means?

Wow, if they invented the word they must really have had a lot of respect for this kind of person throughout their history

I mean, jazz goes from like Kenny G to Sun Ra. There’s a type of jazz for every drug trip, I’d like to believe.

How hard is it to manipulate votes on Lemmy instances? I’m guessing the answer varies depending on the instance but I don’t think it’s completely impossible on any of them.

“Imposing any kind of environmental regulations in businesses would destroy the entire economy, concludes team of economists paid by those businesses. Coming up next - are you doing enough to protect your family from dangerous toxins in our environment? We’ll tell you what a dumb and lazy piece of shit you are, after these ads!”

“They asked me how well I understood class consciousness. I said I was a member of the conscious class. They said welcome aboard.”

Ah, you’re totally right,thank you, I’d been using those interchangeably without thinking about it much

Synthesis: everyone should have a well constructed residence with ample sound dampening where late night fireworks and early morning traffic noise wouldn’t be a problem. Capitalist real estate developers minimizing their costs and maximizing their profits have us fighting each other when they’re the real problem.

e; I was actually thinking microphones would pick up and retransmit sounds after running it through some reverb and flanging to get a cozy underwater effect, but damping external sounds makes a lot more sense

FWIW, the article author also wrote a book called “Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food”

And the original artist was only ever paid $20

Boo Radley weird vs Bob Ewell weird

I think I agree, but I’d phrase it a bit differently. The problem in our country isn’t division, it’s that there’s an energetic fascist movement that needs to be stopped. The problem with assassinating Trump is that it gives that movement a martyr and would very much energize them (disorganize them too, since they wouldn’t know for sure who to follow anymore, but they’ve never needed to be too organized to do damage and they could do plenty before succession fueled infighting really started to take a toll).

Killing Trump won’t kill his ideas, the only way to do that is to embarrass Trump and Trumpism badly, so I think the best series of events would be a) Trump loses the election, b) prosecutors explain Trump’s many crimes in meticulous detail to a series of juries who sentence Trump to years and years behind bars, c) Trump dies of a heart attack while taking a shit in prison.

The fact that the voters already did a) once in 2020 and the system’s let us down on b) is deeply frustrating and worth acknowledging for the sake of identifying the country’s underlying problems (it’s the politicians and lawyers more than it is the voters), but it doesn’t change the fact that assassinating Trump is the last thing we want to do at this point.

I don’t recall learning about the last time the Tops grocery shooter looked at porn

Gosh, I can’t believe Forbes whiffed on a social justice issue, they’ve been so deeply committed to those principles throughout their publication history /s

A: We’re happy to work with a wide variety of organizations with different cash flow scenarios! We accept payments in precious stones and metals, narcotics, slaves, and human organs (sorry, no Discover)

wrestle with jIMMY

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=t_lpSSTIbpM

Kelloggs CEO reading this comment section getting ready to drop another banger

I have never felt so seen by a piece of media as I did when I got the solution to this thought

“Look, I get it, everyone has a story and contains multitudes and all, but the paperwork from the children’s hospital clearly says he was officially contracted as an “Entertainer and Humorist,” so that’s the title we need to refer to this John Wayne Gacy with. It’s just basic professionalism.”