I think that’s part of the problem with conservatives. They’re already living in abject fear of everything.
They’ve been groomed into believing a civil war is imminent and their neighbors are the enemy, to the point where they’ve started making moves toward actual civil war with their neighbors.
They’ve been all been told: “There is the enemy, these are their flags, here is a gun, we can keep you out of jail.”
I remember this sentiment being floated around a lot leading up to 2016. If 2020 should have taught us anything, it’s that things can get worse in ways we won’t expect.
A lot of people knew a global pandemic was on the horizon. That much was expected.
Trump knew. He knew and threw out the established response plan his first year. We did not expect him to be able to do that much harm.
Let’s throw out first-past-the-post voting while we’re at it.
So your solution is to vote in protest for a party you know won’t win.
I’m actually curious now, what possible good do you think that’s doing?
More like “you think you’re helping but you are not”
In a two party system, voting third party will only ever result in your vote being thrown out. It is taking a stand against reality for the sake of your own personal idealism.
A lot of left-aligned voters learned that lesson the hard way in 2016. If you didn’t learn the lesson, you either weren’t paying attention or your idealism is more important to you than the actual outcome of the vote.
Doing that willingly, despite (or maybe because) the rest of your side screaming at you not to fuck this up again, is absolutely a level of betrayal.
You mean a benefit besides being a nuke depot in the middle east?
A funny thing happens to a word when you give it additional definitions: the original definition loses meaning.
Great news for traditional antisemites
AJJ - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People
I knew them by their original name (Andrew Jackson Jihad) and was basically given this album as a demo from someone who knew the band.
There is something so raw and real about this album that just did not make it to anything that came later. It was like they gave up the edge that set them apart when they rebranded to make themselves more marketable.
I get it, the original name was bad. Like actually pretty bad. But I also genuinely feel like the name wasn’t the only thing they changed.
Okay then, where did all the young and in-touch people end up?
This can be true it it will vary wildly from person to person
Gmail has a bad habit of losing my emails anyway. Maybe yours too if you ever used Google Inbox.
I migrated my main account to Inbox and it was honestly the best email experience I’ve had. Unfortunately, the forced migration following its collapse left my Gmail riddled with problems.
Granted, it’s not losing days worth of email. It just occasionally attempts to automatically categorize emails into categories that don’t exist, removing them from my inbox and leaving them in a weird uncategorized limbo space. Once there, I have to search for them specifically before they will show up anywhere.
The worst part is, it is so inconsistent that I have no clue when to expect it. I have missed major bills this way.
I have a coworker who is also an Inbox refugee. He is the only other person I’ve met with identical Gmail issues.
it’s becoming more obvious every day that lemmy is where the old and out of touch people migrated to
Hey I’ve heard there’s this really cool app for lipsyncing and dancing. Apparently it’s getting pretty popular. Sounds like you’d have more fun there
Given how many politicians are deeply closeted, I like to imagine they hurried this one along quietly
Wow you are absolutely right. There it now is.
Pretty sure they don’t exist
Upvoting because I’ve never seen this
but also I am now sad
The problem isn’t that it’s a hysterical idea, it’s that Trump is dumb, unhinged, and blindly supported enough to try it. We know because he literally tried.
I’m pretty sure this is happening with ADHD meds too.