Lmao is that an actual quote? They deleted their comment, and I hope it’s because they realized their mistake.

My stance was “Trump is going to make a lot of things worse, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You’re either for Trump or against Trump, and if you’re a single issue voter, you’re either voting in favour of, or against, making the genocide worse”.

Some people told me that the Democrats are definitely in favour of the genocide, but who knows what Trump would do! I told them everyone else knows. They told me it’s impossible to know because there was no genocide during Trump’s first term, but there was during Biden’s first term. So Trump is a safer bet for single issue voters.

Regardless, single issue (non-)voters have succeeded in making life much worse for Americans and Palestinians.

I didn’t vote for Harris because Trump didn’t do genocide

I wonder where all those people are now. Because they were REALLY active leading up to the election (and shortly after).

I wonder if they realize they were wrong.

EDIT: Oh, they’re here, just had to scroll more.

At a glance, no, they don’t seem to be taking responsibility, and even still seem to be taking the moral high ground.

Which suggests it wasn’t even astroturfing…lol

Yes, myself. That’s it though

Funny how it’s never “The man shouldn’t have gotten her pregnant”

I’m getting stuff on Facebook, too. I’ve stopped engaging with political content on Facebook years ago, and every time I see something, I either block the account or click “Stop showing me posts from X”.

It doesn’t even look like ads. It’s just stuff that Facebook seems to happen to be recommending to me.

I always forget what makes it the safest mode of travel.

If it’s the safest per KM, then it doesn’t matter when it’s the only way to travel.

If it’s the safest per trip, again, there often isn’t an alternative.

Is it still the safest mode of travel per time spent travelling? Because I’d imagine trains generally surpass that. And hopefully walking too in most places…

The second amendment was supposed to be about the citizens protecting themselves against a fascist government, right? (Though I don’t think the term existed back then)

Here’s the fascist government, Americans. What are you actually using your second amendment for?

Having read the article, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The undertones of the writing seem to be “There have been some attempts to deny that these are Nazi salutes (and not from the people making the gestures), but plausible deniability is rapidly running out and it definitely looks exactly like a Nazi salute”.

Oxford’s top definition for Apparent is “clearly visible or understood; obvious”

Impeachment in the US seems to be meaningless too, though

That’d be a crappy downgrade. The US needs to get someone a bit less dementia-riddled in charge

We also have the ability these days to back up a lot of our physical media. It wasn’t so easy back when those things were new.

Yeah, and as someone who is actively trying to vote for improvement, I’m disappointed time and time again at people who think we should be comparing ourselves to the US’s metrics and not the rest of the developed world. We could be doing so much better.

Canada. Could be a lot better, but I’m happy that we’re not currently doing as badly as they are south of the border.

I’ve been working relatively high-paying precarious positions, but my circumstances have allowed me to build myself a safety net. So even if the government can’t support me should something go wrong, I can support myself, at least for a time.

I currently have enough money to engage in hobbies and socialize. What I’m currently wishing for is more time.

I haven’t had a paid sick day in my life, though I have had a couple “We can’t give you a paid sick day, but we can pay you to do light work from home” in the last couple of years. The last time I had a paid vacation day and a job still lined up was in 2020. Though I do get statutory holidays, so it’s not terrible.

First world problems. Overall, I’m happy with my life. This year, I’m looking to turn my precarious positions into a full-time gig. If that doesn’t work out, I’ll try to turn my side-gig into a full-time thing (and take the pay cut in exchange for life satisfaction). And if neither of those works out, I have my safety net which should be able to carry me through until I can get more contracts. And my partner may be looking at income increases next year, which should make everything easier.

Things haven’t always been this good for me, but I’m happy with where they are and where they’re going.

For the majority of the last century, life has been pretty great for Americans, essentially putting them on top of the world. Generations have seen nothing but life improving for their children and grandchildren, with no indication of it slowing down. For most of this time, many people haven’t even needed to really sacrifice much for it the way that previous generations have.

This is finally starting to change.

Decades ago, we were told we’d finally have to start sacrificing to make a better life for our children. That didn’t sit well with some people.

Millions of people are coming to the West (not just the US) for a better life, and have been for generations. While we’re getting more tax dollars, resources are being spread more thin.

As well, it’s been harder for people to earn a living. Before some time in the 1970s, company earnings were tightly coupled with employee earnings. Since then, company productivity and earnings have skyrocketed, while inflation-adjusted employee earnings have stagnated. Of course, employee productivity continues to skyrocket with advances in technology.

Nowadays, the “current” generation is feeling the pain.

Before, a person could graduate high school and find a good job to be able to afford a house, a car, and a family. Sometimes their spouse needed to work, too.

Nowadays, two people working in a household often can’t afford to own a home. Yet the companies they’re working for are making more money than ever.

Long story short, the US has been on top of the world for decades, and for the last half a century, they’ve been funneling their wealth upwards while taking away from the working class. There was so much money to go around that it wasn’t enough to notice for generations. But now, people aren’t just noticing – they’re feeling it.

And there doesn’t seem to be any agreement on what needs to be done to make it better. (Partially because it’s cheaper to fund media-based distractions than to fund social programs that would help people, or to tax corporations and the rich!)

IIRC, it did change at some point around when the Switch came out. I seem to recall gold points being available from physical games forever, and not expiring. But maybe that was in the DS days…

Link is dead?

I’ve been told by admin at a few different institutions that DEI helps bring more white students into the institution.

They could put limits on international students (which also means limiting money coming into the school and into the country), but going purely based on merit means that Asian students would be pushing out white Americans.

FWIW, this was the same thing that homophobes were doing to gay people.

It’s not based in evidence or logic.

Could be that phenomenon (illusory correlation?) where there are a few rare examples of someone who is [sexual minority aka. gay/trans] is also a pedophile, and that particular example of a crime becomes prolific…but the general population doesn’t have any experience with [sexual minority] people. So they assume that being [sexual minority] means you also have pedophilic tendencies because that’s the only connection they know thanks to that prolific crime.