Lucky that you got the cushy job shitposting instead of planting 🌻🌻🌻. Hope your luck doesn’t change!

We will be sending you a bill to upgrade our power plant. Thank you for your data center services.

What idiotic wording. So if I see some asshole shooting a woman who they believe is having an abortion, I guess I can then legally kill him too since “any person has the right to defend the life of themselves or another, even by use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person.”

Oh no, then someone can kill me for the same reason… and so on.

Well first they need to get promoted to “assistant to the mercenary” before they become truly professional.

It’s like the standard ”I use Arch btw” meme, but maybe there are too many Linux users on Lemmy so these people need to find a new way to feel special.

It’s always funny when they depict adults being reunited with their children. How come those adults aren’t depicted as children being reunited with THEIR parents… and recursively so on and so on.

The “fuck ai” crowd sounds so much like the “fuck cloud” crowd from 10-15 years ago.

Is that just the blue vs red map? Maybe I’m overlooking something, but I don’t see any red states on board.

And of course they wouldn’t be, between the capped electoral votes, the capped size of the House, and the setup of the Senate gives red land too much voting power.

Unless you’re Facebook or any other social media giant. GDPR is just an minor tax on their profit.

100% with you on the note about actual primaries and hopefully some actual progressives this time.

I’m just tired of the people arguing that even come November, a vote for anyone other than Harris was somehow still a better choice.

I certainly wish she wasn’t the nominee, and the whole no primary was shady af, but once she was the candidate in the general election, she was the only viable choice for anyone who wasn’t an accelerationist or anti-western psyop.

People like you are either intentionally bad faith actors (of which Lemmy is ABSOLUTELY INFESTED with), or willfull naive about the realities of the world.

One more time, a little slower this time, the reality of the situation was that come November of 24 the choices were absolutely clear. No amount of whining about how it SHOULD have been changes that.

Unfortunately enough people were misled, chose to light it all on fire, or were too naive to make the right choose in the general election that we all (globally) need to deal with the consequences.

Trump because America’s president, but definitely the world’s problem.

Nope, it’s still the voters at the end of the day. And fuck off with that “majority of votes don’t matter”. It’s as much of a bullshit argument as “both sides are the same”.

So going with harm exponential growth in the short term was the better choice? Sounds like a grown up choice making to me.

Want to reduce harm? Make the republicans unwinnable across the board so that actual progressives can differentiate themselves from the rest of the Democrat party. Party in-fighting is great when you have the margins to not lose to the fascists.

As I stated over and over come November 2025 there was only one choice (unless you are an accelerationist/anti-Western/psyops operative).

All the would’ves, could’ves and should’ves don’t matter anymore when you’re at the ballot box.

My point is that anyone who says they didn’t like Harris when she was literally the only viable choice come the general elections must therefore be totally fine with Trump, because that’s what the actual effect of their decision was.

All of this idealistic backwards reasoning they are using to somehow absolve themselves from having fucking Trump as the president is just foolishness.

Ours laws as written maybe, but certainly not in practice. How can you argue that the outcome of our laws show any adherence to rule utilitarianism?

No because 1) he won so any votes not going directly to him didn’t matter in the end, and 2) Republicans tend to fall in line and vote R no matter what versus idealistic leftists and accelerationists who won’t vote for anyone unless they 100% align with their views, and interesting that the hard line for them is Gaza, not any of the other catastrophic outcomes from the Trump presidency. Almost like these were disingenuous arguments to begin with.

You know who fucked up the most? Non-voters or people who threw away their votes in the general election.

That’s a DIRECT result that brought about the Trump presidency

Sorry to burst your bubble, but capitalism isn’t going anywhere in the US. You’re in a tiny echo chamber if you think that the wholesale destruction of capitalism is even a viable choice.

Absolutely. Yet they hide behind bullshit excuses about how they couldn’t support Harris when they KNEW having Trump win would be terrible for America, and therefore great for their own personal goals.

Fuck those disingenuous trolls.

Funny how linking this comment to your previous one in this thread proves that you don’t give a shit about the “lazy argument” about voting 3rd party. You know it was detrimental to the US and directly supported Trump, which you (rightfully) concluded is negatively impactful to the “American empire” as you call it.

Stop being a disingenuous troll.