The things that make us hate it is how they make so much money.

Almost 10 percent of the entire planet’s GDP isn’t that much.

Nothing is deleted, just slightly obscured, and some apps don’t even do that. Child porn, illegal revenge porn, hate speech, everything is stored forever.

I wasn’t debating you, I don’t disagree with anything you said. You posted a thought provoking comment and I shared my thoughts.

Waxing romantic.

Too much aural.

Oh boy, I’m high and feeling chatty. Bag of wind incoming:

Progressives do want better, but the moderate faction, who don’t post on Lemmy, is much larger and they think genocide is keen. If all the progressives unimously said we won’t vote for a Democrat that supplies Isreal, it might not have even had an effect on her platform, we’d just get Trump. The moderates have more money and REALLY support genocide.

That said, using the slippery slope of Tea Party all the way to Trump has been an excuse that has now turned the moderate democrats much more conservative. The border is going to be a horror show under her. It’s a complex situation and progressives are a smaller (but growing) group. The best thing to do is keep swelling our numbers and voting. We still have to compromise with our liberal Democrat allies, but they still recognize they’d lose without us, so they are throwing progressives a few more bones every year. We are getting more candidates elected in lower positions, where the power to change really lies.

Going from America today to the good kind of socialist state will be gradual and take generations. We have to play ball while being vocal and voting in big numbers. It has to evolve from capitalism, like we see in many other western wealthy countries. Tankies want it now, with violence to take and violence to hold. Families executed en masse to keep power for which they have no mandate. You’re really gonna wanna get that public support if you don’t want a warlord dictator in charge.

I’m Canadian and because of QAnon and Trump, I don’t have a relationship with my sister anymore and I see my dad once every few years out of obligation, but not a day goes by where he doesn’t say something mortifyingly racist or fascistic. He watches Fox News from the US every day. They aren’t allowed a Canadian channel because they don’t meet our legal standards for truthful reporting. American politics always leak into Canada. I hate it.

MrBeast is being revealed as who he always was underneath the veneer.

Chef, a British sitcom, is a masterclass in insults. John Cleese is an insulting savant. There are diamonds in that rough, but wit is a feature of brains, while bigotry and bullying is a feature of no brains.

Yeah, it’s not late stage capitalism, it’s peak capitalism.

That’s not money so it’s inconceivable to foreign relations pundits.

His followers will believe whatever Trump says, and whatever Trump says is what they’ve always believed, even if they didn’t.

Maybe that’s just what dancing is for man of his extremely advanced age.

Americans didn’t join WWII for Europe, almost everyone was staunchly against joining the war before Pearl Harbour, letting Europe and Asia sort out their own problems. They were reluctant after so many died in WWI just to save European empires from other European empires. This just seemed like more of that at the time. Then Japan and Germany declared war on the US, obliging them to fight. Otherwise the people were ready to watch Europe get taken over by Hitler.

That said, the US Government had already decided they had to join the war for self preservation and were working on a way to start to convince people when Japan attacked. That really did the US war effort a lot of favours.

I don’t need math for this. Once you have a feel for your car you can just visually gauge it in an instant.

I just leave enough room to come to a stop in the gap between us.

What?! Ha ha, what is cheating in an online comment? Things aren’t "supposed to"ing like you want so its cheating? Cheating means breaking rules. Are saying adhering to some kind of rules or regulations would make our conversations more productive?

Aw, that’s cute, a drummer thinks he’s a musician too? (I kid, that’s a running joke in music circles, percussionists are definitely musicians, we’d be lost without them). That’s awesome! I suppose expert drumming in Rock Band would be a lot like the real thing. A program like rock band would probably work as a great drum trainer on a real set.

That’s great! These things are super fun. Just don’t call yourself an artist or try to copyright your generations. That’s like pretending to be a musician because you’re good at Guitar Hero.