Oh, no. Russia is feeling stronger than ever now that they’ve captured the largest (yet rapidly fading) superpower. And two buddy-buddy fading nuclear superpowers against the world? It’ll be like the end of Thelma & Louise…except the entire world is dragged over the cliff after them.

This is literally them feeling like they’ve finally got the upper hand after struggling so much after the invasion. They now have the US on their side. So now they’re feeling like a big boy.

Sickusername btw. Ever seen them live? One of the best shows I saw in the few surrounding years (of the year I saw them)

Ooh yeah let’s hope that’s the case.

I think it totally depends on your cat. If my cat were more of a loner/not glued to my hip, I think I would’ve gotten her another cat to hang with. But she and I are really bonded and I feel like it’s hurt her feelings if I got her another cat. I’ve brought home a few fosters or had visitors and she’s never been thrilled. She’s also partially paralyzed after a stroke and has incontinence issues. I don’t think I could handle another cat myself.

All depends on your situation. Sounds like you might be feeling like it’s something missing from your cats life if you’re thinking about it.

STOP FUXKING PATTING YOURSELF ON THE BACK FOR FUCKS SAKE. All you’re doing is driving a wedge between people who oppose the genocide. Do you support the genocide? Because shit like this makes it seem like you love it because you get to say “pfft. Well this is on those people over there and I was sooo right.”

Why is this so fucking important to you? Shut the fuck up with this. Every single time there is horrifying news about Gaza. You pull out the blaming stick to say “this is the fault of thise people who didn’t like the genocide!” Shut the fuck up this isnt about you and how fuxking right your vote was.

Do something better. If you actually give a shit. Because it’s very possible you don’t and are more concerned with labeling yourself as having been right and washing your hands of the situation

For fucks sake

Because the republicans have spent years gutting oversight, and decades making the populace dumber. This is their final putsch to fully gut the government so they can have complete power. And they’ve mostly succeeded already. The people are beyond disengaged from four years of this four years ago, plus Covid, plus struggling to survive in late stage American capitalism. It’s the perfect storm for a fascist takeover. And they’re taking full advantage.

The UL has had plenty of far right fucks vying for an grasping power for a while. UKIP, for one.

It’s a final push for he final solution. Almost a putsch.

What’s it from

Basically just a late stage capitalist hellscape where people and corps are insanely invasive and disgustingly tapped in at all times, I’m assuming?

Yeah, people who can only get into the old shit just have a hard time letting go of the past. Live a little, friends.

(That said, there are some bands who peaked a long time ago, are going on reunion tours, and yeah, usually the new stuff sucks.)

Nah I mean it’ll be 20ft below sea level

Lol you think florida will still be a place past the next 100 years

I dunno, man. That would be a massive, coordinated effort—and lemmy is such a small community. Like 300,000 active users. So someone targeted this super niche platform? That’s just so unlikely.

TikTok, yeah. I could see multiple fronts pushing their own ideas, but to have one coordinated effort? It just doesn’t really seem feasible. Neither of us have proof of it happening or not, I’m just saying. It might be a little bias showing.

Edit: this is the kinda shit that scares me. People with generally the right worries, the right ideas of Justice and righteousness, seeing someone say something that doesn’t 100% fall in line with the magical reasoning something could, possibly be happening, you turn on them? Insane. You all need to learn some fuckin nuance. Learn that things aren’t black and white. Saying “hey, that doesn’t sound feasible” or “is there really any proof of that?” does not mean people disagree with your overall values.

It’s just crazy shit. I can’t even describe what makes it so disillusioning that otherwise smart and seemingly good people do this kind of shit. It’s just…sad. Are we really so segmented between ourselves and so goddamn uniform in our ideas that someone saying there is no proof of a wild conspiracy theory—even if we are all hoping for the same outcome—makes people turn against others who don’t 100% align with our ideas? It’s just depressing, man.

Where have you noticed this? What are you suggesting is going on?

lol they are citing a different news source. HaMakom. Sooo…? Are they an “antisemitic jihadist supporting Israel targeting one issue rag” too, or…?

And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.

Yeah that writing style is…oof. That’s what I’m saying. It’s like reading a political column in an early 2000s maxim magazine mixed with some barstool sports douche.

Well…they kind of are. We are not seeing the kind of push and pull we saw last time trump was in office. We’re not really seeing the compounding buffoonery and constant chaos of an evil yet highly disorganized and stupid and largely solitary extremist right wing government.

We are seeing a largely accepted—if nothing else, ignored—well-funded, focused group of absolute death mongers who are powering this much larger boat with trump as the flag on top, but an elite crew of Chistofascists turning coal (yes, it’s a coal powered boat) into much more precise and damaging takeover of every single lever of power. And this is just one in a fleet of these types of ships taking off all around the world. This far right surge is not an isolated thing. This is happening worldwide and they are fucking ready to put their plans into action.

While we all took four years to decompress, they were becoming a much more ruthless and serious fascist machine. They are primed to make some scary moves and they don’t have nearly the amount of big dollar pushback and spotlight on them. They are manipulating the spotlight to focus on flashy trump nonsense while some truly fiendish motherfuckers are doing everything they can to fuck things up christofascismo style.

Be very much more worried about things that aren’t the “gulf of America.”

Lol is this a tongue in cheek self aware comment? I had to start and restart each sentence a few times.