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I’m going to quote one of the great minds of our time.

“Is this real life???”

“Is this going to be forever???”

“aaahhhhhhhUUUGAAAHHHHHHH!!!”

~David after dentist. 2009.

It’s surprising how often a 10 year old high on drugs from 15 years ago is profound in describing situations of the modern day.

As an American…I’m just going to crash on your couch for the forseeable future.

Yeah. What I’m saying is, they federate, but people have no idea what “federate” means. So they’d come here, and see “@smeg@feddit.uk” and not understand what feddit.uk was.

They would see you, and think you are a user of the verizon owned service. Not question it one bit, and just move on thinking it’s all verizon.

The same way people in Atlanta will say “I want a coke” “What kind of coke?” “Root Beer”.

Or the same way parents in the 90s would say “I bought you a Nintendo Game!” then you open it, and it’s a Sega Saturn disc, when you have Sony Playstation. It’s all just a Nintendo to them.

I’m saying if Verizon grew Lemmy to 200 million users, and all except 60k were on the Verizon instance, then despite being incorrect, Lemmy becomes “The Verizon owned Facebook”.

Doesn’t matter that it’s federated.

Illegal I can begrudgingly agree with. Even though I am a proponent for piracy, I will conceed that for growth’s sake, the tools need a clear well defined path to moderation.

That being said, who’s to say what IS immoral and evil?

In the republicans minds, porn is evil and should be banned. Trans rights are evil and should be banned. Abortion is evil and should be banned.

I disagree with all those claims. I do not think any of them are immoral, or evil.

I think pineapple on pizza is wrong, and evil. Some agree, others don’t. If I had my way, promoting of pineapple on pizza would be banned.

Now, who’s to say what is, and what isn’t evil? I think the only clear line to a moderation approach is to have a clear, unquestionable set of rules. These rules are to be based on public laws.

Everything else, I feel you should have the freedom to do as you wish. But also, I believe other people that you don’t agree with should be free to do as they wish.

You may never know how someone feels, or understand their perspective, but as long as they aren’t breaking laws, I feel they should have the ability to feel that way consequence free.

I may not like that you put pineapples on your pizza, but I feel that you should have the right to enjoy it. Even if it goes against MY views as to what constitutes a REAL pizza! Much to my surprise, pineapple on pizza ISN’T illegal. So you should have the right to enjoy it…

And yes. I did take the most pandtentic example I could think of, in order to display the absurdity of the concept of how easy it is to accept others rights in this world that don’t affect you.

Now just apply that same concept to every other example in the world. Then take into consideration that by using vague undefined terms to define your rules, you create grey area that’s easy to exploit. Who’s to say what IS evil? Adults told their teenagers in the 1950s that Elvis was evil. Parents in the 1920s told their teenagers that jazz was evil.

We need to define the terms that define our rules.

What is stopping some big giant, let’s say Yahoo/Verizon from buying a shitload of storage, starting their own private instance which is open to the public, but private in the sense that only Verizon employees are admins and mods. Only Verizon controls things. Then advertise to the point that the average person on the street knows that Verizon.Lemmy exists, and assosiates Lemmy with being a Verizon thing? What is stopping big tech from pouring the money required for this concept to take off, and using their control over their instance from making the decentralized a centralized service in the general public’s minds?

Right now Lemmy is 60k people. Ok. What if Lemmy was 200 million people, and only 60k knew it was a decentralized service? Everyone else just thought Verizon owned Lemmy?

God damn dude. I’d read your blog if you want to promote it here.

Maybe it’s because I just watched a John Oliver video, but your writing style leaps off the page as impactful as it is truthful.

Personally I think the puppets are full of hate. The puppeters pull the strings knowing that if they sew hate and chaos, they can reap the profits of their destruction.

And it is SO HARD to accuse them of that, because that’s exactly their line of rhetoric towards us, and that’s why it works. If it was just us showcasing how corrupt and morally bankrupt they are, it would serve to put a spotlight on their behavior. But by doing the same back to us, it comes off as unsustanciated chaos and finger pointing. Which doesn’t put a spotlight on anyone.

Here in Ohio we have Sharrod Brown running a political campaign for democrats. I forget the republican opponents name. But the republican opponents campaign commercial was along the lines of “Sharrod Brown approves of born male athletes competing in a dress in high school female sports! Sharrod Brown has shown support for trans rights! Sharrod Brown is a LIBERAL!!!”

And my reaction to this was…even if you ignore the fact that ONE trans athlete was allowed to compete with female volleyball team. ONE. The commercial makes it sound like every school has hundreds of trans athletes. There was one. In the country. One.

But let’s ignore that for a second. Lets say hypothetically that every womens volleyball team DID have trans athletes. Or lets go even further. Let’s say every volleyball team was now all genders allowed. Lets say Sharrod Brown approved that policy.

The commercial is talking about it like I should be mad that trans athletes competed with female athletes. But my reaction was simply this…

WHO GIVES A FUCK??? IT’S HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS!!! WHO GIVES A SINGLE FUUUUUUCK WHO WINS OR LOSES???

I see no reason men and women can’t play volleyball together. That includes trans. I can’t say I’ve played a lot of volleyball in my life. Not really my thing. Haven’t watched a whole lot either…but I will say, the few games of volleyball I HAVE played, my penis rarely if ever became an active factor in the game. It gave me no advantage. So I fail to see why a trans athlete would have any advantage. And even if he/she DID have an advantage? I would still circle back to the whole “Who gives a shit?” defense.

And I suspect those in power don’t give a shit either. It’s more of a case of “make the base angry over nothing, and we can control them with issues that don’t matter if we lose control over. Therefore there’s no risk.”

I misundetstood the headline for a brief moment. For the briefest of moments, I misunderstood, and thought Vance was defending the idea of Harris, though an oppent, still being American, and therefore should be loved by the republican base.

…and then I realized we don’t live in a world where republicans could ever have respect for an opponent.

“Trumo”.

Can’t tell if typo, or insult that I don’t understand the context of.

He could get up there and say yabba dabba doo kill all blacks. These morons would still vote for him.

His base wouldn’t be phased by that. If anything his numbers would go UP.

Well, you know what they say…a politician never keeps his promises.

He IS serious! And don’t call me Shirley!

Oh. Oh I DARE you russia. I DARE you to try to push America around using airplanes and terrorism. Fuck around and find out what happens when you give America a REASON to attack an oil rich country with justified claims of fighting a war on terror.

America see’s a plane explode midair, the very first thing that gets asked in this country is “Who did it?” And the SECOND that question is answered, this entire country will be calling for us to bomb them to the stone age.

See, the MAD doctrine only applies when you have sane, rational, logical people dealing with a situation. Have you seen this country? We’re so trigger happy that we’re going to malls and movie theaters and schools, just shooting anyone. We feel abandoned by our government. We feel hopeless. We feel angry. We feel irritated. We feel frustrated. We’ve been in a never ending election cycle for 24 years. Yes, I realize elections were every 4 years even before 2000, but at least prior to that it felt like politics went away for 3 1/2 years after each election. We’ve been in the 2024 election season since 2015. In no small part due to russian election interfearance.

We’re at each others throats. We’re ready to kill. We’re ready to die. We’re ready…and now you want to become the target? You want to be the thing that unites us all, and says “You know what, you’re republican. I’m democrat. We’re both American…and these fuckers just attacked US. YOU READY TO GO TO WAR FRIEND???” and that republican would pull 16 guns from his hip, his boots, his legs, his jacket, and who knows where else? And why does he have all these guns on his person? Because it’s Tuesday! He’d say "We may have our differences, but take these 6 guns. I brought extras! I thought there might be a line for the buffet at cracker barrel. I wasn’t going to face that without extra guns! Sure, I may have already had 5 on me, but who would face a cracker barrel lunch rush without an extra 11 guns, and whiskey???

And THIS is the country russia wants to start shit with???

Russia. I fucking dare you.

Ok…but, like lets say both sides are fighting each other, and the national guard is brought in. The national guard has to follow the orders of the govenor. Which means, that each individual state may have different orders on who to shoot.

And then what if the guards themselves don’t agree with the orders, and now you’ve just brought in an armed military, who’s fighting amongst themselves, as a smaller statewide riot, which in itself is a smaller part of a national riot.

Now you got national guardsmen shooting each other, and nothing was solved. Ok, so you bring in the army. Ok, but again, what if the army itself is split 50/50?

Now what?

I propose a much safer and much simplier plan. You round everybody up, and make everybody stick a metalic dildo up their ass. And these dildos will also be tazers. So now everybody in the country has a tazer up their ass. Even trump and Kamala. Even Biden. Everybody gets a tazer shock up their butthole at 7pm nightly. And if you’ve been bad, you get harder shocks at all times.

Ok. Now everybody has better things to worry about than what they said on fox news, or cnn.

See? I just fixed all the problems in America. I think that means I’m ready to rule earth now.

BOW DOWN PUNY PEASANTS!!! FOR I AM YOUR RULER, AND I COMMAND THAT EVERYBODY EAT CHOCOLATE AND JUMP ON POGO STICKS UNTIL WE SHIFT EARTH OFF IT’S ROTATIONA AXIS OF THE SUN!!!

Bitch, we’ve BEEN living paycheck to paycheck! Millenials and younger don’t know anything else! It’s only Gen X and older that ever had jobs that pay a “living wage”…whatever THAT is!

I’m pooping right now, and straining. So I misread the headline as

Gingrich, who has cheated on all 66 of his wives, rails against Harris ad telling woman to ‘lie’ to husband

Me not logging into facebook doesn’t require discipline. I haven’t done it in…

checks time

…ever.

Now, I DO log into government nuke code websites. And I also check Burger King’s website. Just to see if they still sell burgers.

As of last week…they do!

This is why I’m stubborn.

I had a kidney stone. Went to the ER. They told me that department was closed for the day. I told them I wasn’t leaving because the bus ride over was absolute hell. They could either put me in a hospital room until they could treat me, or they could call the experts back into work.

Turns out the person I was talking to was an idiot. The department wasn’t even closed. There was NO way I could have rode that bus again. Every bump was like being stabbed in the testicles by shards of glass that were INSIDE the testicles. Noooooooope. Fuck it. I’ll wait in that hospital room for 4 months before I get back on that bus!

Me being stubborn allowed other nurses to overhear the situation, as I braced myself using the counter top. The other nurses brought me in for this thing that basically shakes your insides with soundwaves. That didn’t work, so they got the specialist in. They were able to squeeze me into their busy schedule. Then they shoved a lazor jp my urethra, and turned my insides into star wars. Pew pew pew. They used the lazor to carve the kidney stone into smaller pieces that were small enough to pass.

And if I’d have just accepted the receptionists word, I’d have had to get on a bus again for an hour of bouncing up and down in agony.

I have SOOOOOO many stories where me being a stubborn asshole turned out to be the right move, but that story is the only one where people shoved things up my penis.

I heard Zuckerberg is poop.

Eh, not my best effort, but I’m tired. I just pushed a 600lbs man 2/3rds of a mile while he told me trump was going to save us all.

He never clarified from what trump would be saving us from. Probably because he himself hasn’t been told yet from Fox News. Because it’s more profitable for Fox News to make vague threats in the world, never define them, but pass them off as immediate danger. That way, if they’re ever brought to court, they can truthfully claim that at no point have they ever reported the news. Instead they claim they are a fictional entertainment channel. That’s real. That happened. Fox News, under oath, openly stated that they do not report facts, and are an entertainment company. They were forced to admit under penalty of pergury, that they have as much journalistic integrity as The Onion.

But it would be so great if there were some mark they could use, by convincing him that theres an enemy from within. Then put that man in the white house. I mean, can you imagine??? Manipulating a narcisist who happens to be the president, into doing whatever you want by feeding him, and the rest of the nation, a never ending series of lies? And as an entertainment company, you have zero obligation to report factually and objectively. Instead you can lead him down whatever path you want!!! COULD YOU IMAGINE???

Ok. Back to reality. Zuckerberg is poop.

They don’t even give us lube!