OpenStars

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It helps to realize that most of the people "defending" the Constitution have literally never read it, and they even admit that.

Like religion, "God" is whatever the TV (and radio) people say that He is - he's so strong, he's so precious, he rides around shirtless on horseback and wrestles bears, literally barehanded, and so forth.

Such people don't care one bit what the founding fathers have to say - heck, they don't even listen to Trump Himself when he said to take the vaccine (which he invented ofc). On the other hand, May The Founding Fathers Be Praised (and other chants that sound nice).

[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh hell naw. I'm maintaining my sanity by letting Jon Stewart tell me all about it afterwards:-).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

💸 Microsoft 🤑 got 💰 paid 🫰 so... they managed to come out ahead of this whole ordeal just fine.

The rest of us can go suck a bag of dicks for all they care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If you are the only one in the entire community doing so, then it wouldn't help all that much - though good on you to be so considerate!:-) But it's not required, and I don't think I'd use the NSFW marker for this, if it were me. You could rather use a hashtag or some such for maximum friendliness? e.g. "[violence]", to allow people to use filtering keywords (for those that use apps that even support that - I don't use apps so I don't know which ones can do that).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tbf, cruelty isn't the point. For the recipients of the most benefits of conservatives being in charge, things like lower taxes and free handouts to corporations etc. is the point. And to Russia and China, the point of the disinformation warfare is to distract while invading others countries. And to the voters themselves, they get to live in a fantasy dreamland where "God is in charge" (ignoring all those pesky parts of the Bible that say e.g. take care of widows & orphans, the worker deserves their wages, you reap what you sow, etc.).

All the school shootings, all the lunch shamings, all of it, and it's all a by-product of those real goals. Children's actual lives, health , and mental health do not seem to matter in the slightest according to those precepts. 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Please discard your "logic", in favor of some vitriolic spew from an angry white man (or woman) that I heard on the radio / saw on the TV. /s

Just bc we can, doesn't mean we should.

We should (no /s), but that doesn't mean that we will.

Democracy requires the good faith of its voting citizenry, e.g. to edumacate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's part of inflation - in this case the cost may stay the same (or even go up a bit) but you receive a cheaper product in return for that similar cost than the past.

The important thing is that people will continue to purchase the product regardless, not knowing any better, and thus the manufacturer pockets the profits. Always remember that the goal of any corporation is to produce short-term value for its shareholders, and... no, that's it, period.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This issue is similar to the one with COVID, where it is the facts themselves that are often in question, and people following the leader regardless of what they do. As such, Innuendo Studios' The Alt-Right Playbook works here as well - i.e. it is a mindset held by those who wish that the world were a certain way, and are willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's all very well and good and all, until it meets another worm and wants to talk. Perhaps one of the opposite gender...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the maze of endless urinals - that somehow brings it all together:-).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In that case, it sounds more tolerable. Also, username does check out? :-P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Assuming they did it properly and the seal is still good. It may also void a warranty.

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