INB4 Elon “$1M/day bribes” Musk screams on Xitter about how this is election interference.

Anxiety and concern are not the same thing.

Yeah, I know. And the article trying to gaslight us into mistaking the latter as the former is part of the problem!

On the contrary: they want you to think it’s suspicious because casting doubt on the election’s integrity is their goal. They want to manufacture justification for Trump’s lawsuits and coup attempts.

More specifically, it’s to delay the count past the deadline for certification, so that they can throw the disputed votes out, throw the whole state’s votes out, prevent either candidate from passing the EC threshold and force a contingent election, etc.

Concern is justified. Frankly, articles like this one piss me off: everyone ought to keep their concern, and use it to motivate them into action. It’s fucking absurd that we’re here talking about “managing stress” and not “organizing counter-protests to Trump’s impending next coup attempt.” You want to make yourself useful, Arstechnica writer? Fucking tell us about that!

That’s a fair argument. It’s very circumstantial and not enough to convince me, though, especially if the Post was liberal before he bought it and it simply remained so through his inaction (which I believe to be the case – correct me if I’m wrong!). The rebuttal to “he must be liberal: he owns a liberal newspaper” is “yeah, but the first time he intervened in it, it was to force it to be more conservative.”

If the situation were reversed and my wife “agreed to disagree” by supporting a fascist, I freely admit that it would cause me to have serious doubts about our relationship.

That isn’t to say the MAGA husbands’ views are justified – quite the opposite! It’s to say that moral relativism is bullshit and being judged for supporting fascism is not equivalent to being judged for opposing it.

I have no idea what’s going on this thread. I get the Star Trek half, obviously, but I have no clue what the other references are.

You must not have been paying attention to the recent Supreme Court rulings.

Do you? Because the first half of your misquote was exactly the opposite of what I actually said.

Stop giving Bezos the benefit of the doubt. There is no evidence that he’s doing shit in Trump’s favor for any reason other than that he likes fascism and wants to support it.

I’ll tell you the same thing I told the other guy in this thread with the same prediction (https://lemmy.world/comment/13226562):

I used to think that (even before Jan 6), but I’ve changed my mind. The trouble is that in order to make the decision to flee, he would have to first recognize and genuinely accept that he lost, but he’s so terminally narcissistic that he’s literally incapable of fathoming that concept. He’d still be loudly rationalizing to himself that he’s “the real president” even while standing in a prison cell wearing an orange jumpsuit.

I used to think that (even before Jan 6), but I’ve changed my mind. The trouble is that in order to make the decision to flee, he would have to first recognize and genuinely accept that he lost, but he’s so terminally narcissistic that he’s literally incapable of fathoming that concept. He’d still be loudly rationalizing to himself that he’s “the real president” even while standing in a prison cell wearing an orange jumpsuit.

So we can’t really believe an argument that suddenly Democrats are going to have a coming to God moment

That’ll only happen when Trump’s thugs come to purge them. But then it’ll be too late, of course.

bloodless if the left allows it.

The left should not allow a coup.

I think another issue that plays off this concept as well is the media showing red/blue images of states giving a false representation that is populace overwhelmingly voted one way or the other. You know the one where the Midwest is entirely red and only a few states are blue. This feeds to this belief that the coastal elites disregard the true American families because there’s simply so much more red than blue.

This (a “dot map”) is the kind of map the media ought to be using:

(That one was for the 2016 election, by the way.)

I was about to reply to the same thing to another comment about 300 tabs, LOL

It means a change either applied completely and successfully, or not at all (think “atomic transactions” in databases).

Decomposition releases greenhouse gases. Better for her to preserve herself in a peat bog or something.

We have that already; it’s called a bicycle.