It’s an interesting article, but I have the same concerns about this strange “Stop Population Decline” organization. Who is funding this?

It looks like something from the PS1

I unironically shout “Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s fucking go!” whenever I encounter it in the wild. Take it back!

He wants to play the martyr, thinking it will help his candidacy. It helps him in the primary, as it pumps his narrow base up, but how many people can be undecided about Trump at this point? I’m hopeful this circus will turn off anyone not wearing a red cap already.

Where are you seeing this on Lemmy? Doesn’t seem the the US government gets a pass here at all, I mostly see justified skepticism at best.

Currently reading “The Last Watch” because I wanted some fun sci-fi, but the liberties the author is taking on physics and the universe makes it very hard to suspend my disbelief.

Looking at starting a re-read of “All Systems Red” in anticipation of the new Murderbot book coming out. I can’t recommend this series enough

I love this. I tuned in to a little Sean Hannity on the radio on my drive home Friday and heard him rail against the selection of Weiss multiple times, while throwing out vague bullet points about why he’s unacceptable.

My first reaction was that they’re laying the groundwork for when this investigation comes up with nothing, or some really boring crimes (like firearms charges? The Republicans are about gun control now?) and they have to lay the blame on someone so the conspiracy machine can keep pumping out outrage.

Knowing this is a guy they wanted for the job until he started doing it makes it even more delicious, but as we know when Republican’s beliefs come up against reality it’s the reality that gives, so they’ll have no problem ignoring that this was even ever a thing.

Have you ever heard a large firecracker pop? It’s very similar.

This is the only answer

The best part of Lemmy is the low userbase in comparison means it’s easier to be original and not try and say the same thing a hundred times.

I’m upvoting you because you’re making a good faith effort here. He’s not reasoning through this and thinking over what you’re saying, but someone else might be. I’m too tired to do it anymore myself though, so thanks for putting up the fight.

I can’t believe the argument is the cops just decided to plant people to start an insurrection to storm the capitol just because they’re so used to doing it for other things. BLM protests, I assume he’s talking about…

The graph charting donations received vs when he was indicted and arraigned was one of the more interesting parts of the article to me. I knew that to his supporters the legal news was proof of the deep state and nothing would turn them off of him, but I didn’t realize what good press all the news about it would be. I assume the other bumps in the chart are other, smaller news items about him.

16 years there. Once Boost stopped working I got off the site and migrated here. I’ve read threads that come up in Google searches, and looked at some specialty subs since, but nothing longer than 5 minutes every few days.

This is it exactly: the difference in the discussions and posts between when I joined a few weeks ago and now is striking. It’s reminding me of early reddit before the Digg migration and I’m hopeful it will continue to improve

I’m not a big fan of too much tech in cars, I hate touchscreen climate controls, and I still drive a manual transmission; but using Android auto with maps and Spotify has been amazing. And the wireless mostly works most of the time.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to do a double take at season 5. I figured it was around season 3.

I had to take a screenshot because the irony was so delicious.

Exactly, it’s giving me big nostalgia flashbacks to the pre-reddit days. I was on SU so much for years, used the social communities, and was pretty excited to discover reddit. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years, ouch

Thank you for making explicit something I was wondering about. I noticed the .ml instances have a pro-authoritarian bias and couldn’t figure out what that stood for.

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