If I’m being honest, the first term was quite underwhelming compared to how bad it could be (as 2025+ has proved).
This is nothing yet, and the previous wasn’t bad for lack of their trying. There is nothing to stop them this time.
No, the first term was pretty damn bad, it was a version 1.0 for sure but it was BAD.
Did you forget all the COVID anti-mask and anti-distancing insanity? The still-not-fully-understood blatant theft and corruption around the PPP “loan” program that pilfered so much money it inflated the US Dollar at unprecedented rates? The intentional separation of children from parents by force?
The PPP was just part of the bailouts as well. They did direct cash infusions into the richest companies, and the Fed did a lot to make sure the rich didn’t lose any money, and in effect shoveled trillions of dollars to the richest.
The PPP was forgiven to big corporations that got the money then fired workers anyway, while small employers that kept people on after getting the money, as was the point of the program ostensibly, were forced to pay it back later.
The Democrats are fucking worthless I’m afraid I’ve to throw in there. Can’t even make hay out of this, or change an unjust system, when they are hated and have to win.
Were we talking about Democrats? Or did you just need to bring them up because you can’t abide a discussion that doesn’t criticize them as well?
You can’t escape it, if you give the establishment a pass and allow them to stay in control of the party we lose. Unless you are pretending to be one of us and helping fascists to overthrow the Republic in all but name in favor of putting the worst people in permanent control of the country, you need to face that fact.
Yeah, but it didn’t affect ME back then, so I don’t care. Lots of people think like that, even on Lemmy.
Democrats can’t say shit about Trump’s covid response after fully adopting the playbook themselves once they were in power
If anything they were worse because they turned it into a bipartisan consensus on reality and made all the ‘normal’ people take their masks off.
If the public isn’t on board with something, it’ll cost the ruling party dearly. This wasn’t like 1918 where the public wanted to help each other by limiting the spread of the disease. This was rugged individualism, “you can’t tell me what to do.” Dems were honestly smart to get on board or a red wave would have wiped them out.
When we want to change things like this, we have to change the norm in advance, not reactively.
BTW epidemiologists I used to work with at the CDC have long said “the big one is coming” and after Covid, many of them said “this wasn’t the big one,” so we still need to change that norm, but like climate change and a dozen other pressing crises, we can’t deal with it because fascism.
A complete inversion of reality. Democrats actively manufactured consent for the ‘end’ of the pandemic. They were pushing for a return to school before the vaccine was even out. The moment covid was their responsibility instead of a cudgel with which they could barely win the election, they started adopting the exact same language they were criticizing. Minus of course the meme shit like horse paste and bleach.
He didn’t surround himself with literally zombies who only say yes to him during his first term. Them turning on him when he wanted to overrule the election results showed that. He doesn’t know how government works and thought everyone should treat him like a king from the beginning and had a rude awakening that was term 1. Now he knows and thus, utter destruction.
Project 2026.
We got that teeny tiny micro apologie from Anna Kasparian the other day. Wait lemme get a microscope for ya…
Reminds me of an all time classic Onion article.
As an autistic person who has a great skill of finding similarities between two things, you can see a lot of parallels between our modern world and 1940s Germany.
I’d say we’re still at the 1930s Germany stage, considering World War 3 hasn’t started yet.
Unfortunately there are plenty more fascist regimes than Germany’s to choose from as examples. Many didn’t start a world war, and therefore lasted much, much longer than the Nazis did.
The appeasement of Putin has been going on since 2014
But the appeasement of Hitler still happened in the 1930s.
yeah but like, I saw that—if that is the same person—she dared to make some comics about very obvious social issues rendered with very competent art and comedy and also dared to be a woman doing such activities and as a person of man I find that objectionable that a woman so me mad. but like just because i had to see it because me mad at her because she is.
No people generally don’t like her because she can be a big cunt and just attacks people wildly for having criticism. Some of the dm logs that have been released are wild
I think her comics are okay, people do overblow that aspect of it for sure
I remember Lemmy having a matter boner for her last year cause of some law suit.
but like doesn’t it suck that she dares to be a woman making content as a woman like that make ne mad as me man like how dARE?
I really don’t have an opinion on that. I liked her early stuff, but don’t really care for her contemporary work. That said, let people do what they want? One of my favorite quotes goes something like “if you ain’t hurting anyone, I’m here to help or get out of the way.”
Nah, she got hate because she takes criticism very badly, exacerbated by the r/comics mods. That, and also the comics just aren’t very funny.
I think some of the early ones are pretty funny. But she has become largely lackluster as she gained fame.
Matter Boner? Law Suit? I don’t think I’ve ever had a boner from a lawsuit to be perfectly honest with you.
Bruh if your boner isn’t matter, then what’s the point in all this?
She’s a massive bitch if you say even the slightest remark. She went ballistic a few years back when I commented on that other vile website.
Oh you’ve met her?
She went back & forth with me on Reddit. Thin skinned twat.
Hey it’s that porn lady
The left will never get the credit for being right all along.
The best the Dems can do is demand their vote then if they win say they didn’t need it but if they lose it’s all the left’s fault.
That’s okay. I don’t want credit. I want things to get better. I want to make things get better.
Basically what I think of Simpsons “predictions”.
Matt Groening isn’t some kind of clairvoyant. He just knows history and recognizes patterns.
Which prediction exactly? The one about the current president becoming president, their writer was interviewed about, and he said they just chose him to symbolize the US hitting rock bottom. As they were smart and informed and therefore realized the then real estate mogul was a crooked lying cheater, that lied to steal and then slandered his victims to justify it, that was in bed with organized crime. I don’t know if they knew that he was a career blackmailer, and also being blackmailed by Israel and their Epstein, and the Russians at a minimum though.
But the prediction isn’t all that clairvoyant, because in their version the president just bankrupted us and then we elected Lisa, which would be a best case scenario as Lisa is a good person. While the president’s party here will bankrupt the country, they are fixing elections, something the show didn’t see, or put in the episode.
I’m scared about the prediction of Britain saving America’s ass in WW3.
The UK is one of the original Axis III powers. They are beating the US to the punch in some respects.
Oh, that’s wrong. Nobody is gonna come save America.
More like the show has been running for over three decades, it would be weird if they didn’t hit a few.
I had someone here on lemmy literally tell me that history doesn’t matter and we shouldn’t pay attention to it. The ignorance was fucking astounding.
Years ago someone told me on reddit that antivirus protections on personal PCs aren’t necessary and a waste of processing power.
Can’t really reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Were they arguing that extra antivirus wasn’t necessary? Cause windows built in has been better than alternatives for years now (well, idk about 11, but 7, 8, and 10 all had good antivirus).
When I was a strapping young lad, I would rather just reinstall the system in case of viruses than living with the antivirus software
It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.
That could have been me… I once had a virus in the 90s. I didn’t know I had it until I took a floppy into the university to print something, and it alerted me. So I installed McAfee, it found and took care of this virus. Then a month later my PC wouldn’t boot. Long story short, I had to remove McAfee to fix it. The experience stuck with me- antivirus has caused me more problems than any virus ever did. I have lived dangerously ever since. (Though before I run anything even slightly questionable, I will fire up a disposable VM)
Unfortunately a lot of AV “solutions” on Windows are proprietary which makes it a no for me.
Are there any open source av programs, and any that don’t cost money?
Just use Linux and don’t be an idiot on the Internet
I want to switch to linux for sure, both in phone and computer. Too late on the idiot part. Just joking though I’ve not said anything prosecutable.
Windows Defender has been sufficient for most users for a while. Which is just a default part of the OS unless you go out of your way to remove it.
Lemmy is very STEM-brained, maybe even more than Reddit
As in math and science? Because I think history is pretty important with those.
Friend sad he was for The Piece of Shit Pedo because he wanted woke lefties to get punished for making gay Superman or something like that i guess. I asked him how did he imagine that taking place, he said not like this. I don’t think he thought that one trough. People get offended by something that doesn’t really affect them but just riles up their conservative ego, and the first reaction is i to wish harm to someone they never met.
Anybody with the slightest Critical Thinking Skills knew how bad this would get, way back in 2015.
I knew who this hump was back in the 80s, and could have told you what a disaster he’d be as president back then, and would have been 75% correct, with only a 25% underestimation of how bad it would actually be.
Overall 40 percent of Americans didn’t even read a single book last year. Doesn’t bode well for critical thinking if we can’t even read.
Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read
“It’s not even an inability to critically think. It’s an inability to read sentences.”
Being a leftist means being right too soon…
Fun fact: After WWII, people who had recognized the danger of fascism and opposed it from the start (such as Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War) were often termed “premature antifascists” and regarded with suspicion and passed over for promotion in the military because of the possibility of having communist sympathies.
Or any of the people outside of the military who got blacklisted for simply wanting better working conditions ie wanting to start unions
Also they laid it all out in project 2025. It’s not like they tried to hide it other than trumps usual “I’ve never heard of it”. And if you believe anything that shithead says… well this is what happens
Yes, this is what drives me crazy. These fascist fuckers literally wrote down what they were going to do and then started doing exactly that. How could we have known? A mystery, for sure.
Well, to be fair, being able to read is quickly becoming indistinguishable from the arcane arts in America.
Honestly, what I didn’t expect is that QAnon was like 70% right?
What has Qanon actually predicted?
President Trump would initiate The Storm, an attack against the deep-state actors responsible for the global pedophile cabal.
No
the group identified Q’s influence when Alabama’s football team presented Trump with a jersey bearing the number 17, which also happens to be the position of letter Q in the alphabet.
OK. I’m out.
TF? Not even 3%
70%? No. Yeah I think maybe you’re forgetting most of the insane shit those people said. Maybe like 10%. The obvious shit that we all knew.
Can we not start lionizing those fucking freaks
It’s the whole Nostradamus effect. Throw out enough bullshit and eventually something will be correct.
Illuminati people were more on point. Rich pedos control the world. Also who’s saying it is bad? I still hear magas going on about how great this is.
