Democrats will continue to give sternly worded remarks all the way up to their appointment with the gallows, so brave!

When They Go Low, We Go Die

Chapter 3

Marjorie smiled with great satisfaction as she looked at the crowd and began to check the rifle in her arms to make sure there was a round in the chamber.

2 men with giant beer guts - who each wore different flavors of Punisher-style skull masks and were covered head to toe in pointlessly elaborate tactical surplus gear as if they were cosplaying their favorite Call of Duty characters - began dragging another elderly man up to the makeshift platform.

The white-haired old man was dressed in a finely tailored dark blue suit with a little American flag lapel pin next to his tie. It looked so similar to the one that so many others in his cohort had adorned for probably the last 20 or so years, but he had been blindfolded by the men before being brought before the stage so he couldn’t see how many others still wore it or who had switched to the golden lion that… “the others…” now wore exclusively.

The octogenarian ghost of a man feebly began to speak (not shout) loudly in protest as if trying to reason with whomever might be in charge, but the 2 pig-like men grinned and said nothing. They began tying his hands behind him against a wooden pole covered with small holes, indentations and spatters of red. As the grinning pigs both stepped away from the geriatric man secured to the pole, the mob just below him roared with wild bloodlust over his inaudible words drowning them out over and over again with : “USA! USA! USA! USA!”

Marjorie laughed and took one hand away from the rifle to quiet the crowd so they could hear the old man’s words :

“Point of order, Mr. Chairman! Point of order! I’m reclaiming my time! I’d like the gentle-lady to put down the firearm she just picked up, Mr. Ch-”

…he was cut off with a loud and sudden BANG as he slumped into a dark puddle of red slowly expanding across the stage floor.

The crowd roared and resumed its repeated chant…

…and another blindfolded well-dressed elderly figure was walked up to the pole.

Quoting the entire comment you’re replying to is kinda redundant

Niche communities ftw. Tbh I kinda hope Lemmy stays relatively small.

She’s a national treasure. I wonder how she’s doing these days lol

It’s like how there’s loads of different email providers but they can all still email each other.

Just like Gmail can send mail to Outlook and any other @EmailProvider.com, lemmy.world can populate it’s feed/comments from lemm.ee and any other @LemmyInstance.com

It’s an unpopular opinion but I do agree with this. Google deserves to get a lot of shit for a lot of things, but even after how far downhill YouTube has gone it’s still the best hosting/streaming service out there.

Between podcasts at work and normal videos at home I probably watch more than 8hrs of YouTube a day with no issues. I may as well pay for it like I would Netflix, considering I get, like, 20x more out of it in comparison.

If there was a non-enshittified alternative, though, I’d gladly pay for it.

Choosing the path that makes more death more likely while claiming to want no death…yeah, that’s moral grandstanding.

I get that it’s a real-life “trolley problem” situation, but it really isn’t that complicated. It sucks that the lever only goes two ways because of FPTP, but you’re not a more moral person for refusing to touch it.

If you actually care about people being killed, then join the movement against the FPTP system so that in the future “no genocide” will be an option, and in the meantime exercise your ability to save lives.

but I won’t sign my name to a genocide.

Taking away a vote for “less genocide” is equal to voting for more.

You seem to care more about shortsighted moral grandstanding than actually giving a fuck about the body count.

The pro-“more genocide” party appreciates your unwillingness to push back

Whether you like it or not, refusing to vote for “less genocide” under FPTP is a step towards “more genocide”.

I get the sentiment, nobody likes what FPTP has done for our options when voting, but refusing to play the system isn’t the grand stand you think it is.

They’re not mutually exclusive. The real problem is that with FPTP, we’re just going to keep voting these assholes into office.

Right now, the left doesn’t really have a choice other than settling for less genocide. Voting any other way in this system is voting for more

Nah it’s all good haha, no need to apologize.

It just seemed questionable to me because it reminded me of how some people call trans people “a trans”, which is kind of off-putting for me. It kind of makes it sound like “transness” is the totality of what they are rather than just being another person.

as an autistic

I feel like this phrasing is questionable lol

Not over nothing, just for no results and under false pretenses

It’s more like “etiquette.” The downvote button serves to bury a comment or post, so it’s arguably best to use it as a “this isn’t relevant or is hateful/unproductive” button.

“you could talk to service workers if you wanted to, you just think you’re better than them”

As a service worker, don’t talk to me any more than you have to

(edit): Felt the need to elaborate on this. It’s not that I resent having to talk to you or anything, it’s that we’re human too and we’re prone to the same anxieties our customers are. Some of us are social butterflies, but for me it gets exhausting after a while, so it’s annoying when people talk to me about things that aren’t related to how I can help them. It’s hard enough for me to converse with people I’m actually friends with!

There’s nothing you can throw at me that I won’t be able to help you with, so don’t be scared to come to me. But unless you’re telling me you like my hair or my outfit or something, I’d rather jump straight into helping you with what you need.

I haven’t watched in a long time, but even the stuff I watched as a kid was wack. Turns out, it only got worse after I quit.

TL;DW: The creator of Sam & Cat is exactly as weird as you’d imagine from watching it and iCarly, and way more abusive than you could imagine. They had to separate him from the cast at one point.

Sharing a sexuality doesn’t associate you with him any more than sharing a hair color or preference of fabric softener

This was sorta my thought too, I’m only diagnosed with ADHD but I also feel this

… there are a LOT of possible linux distributions to choose from. There are also quite a number of different desktop environments to choose from.

I never considered the backend could have different frontends. So is Ubuntu just a different desktop environment for Debian? Or is it like I could just install a different desktop environment on top of my old PC’s Ubuntu installation?

Thanks for putting the TL;DR at the top instead of at the bottom where I’ll never see it because I already decided not to read