There should be no need to pile on. Any one of those things would have been disqualifying in times past. Clinton almost got impeached over a blowjob. But Trump and all the things he said and done over the past 9 years is somehow okay. The mind boggles.

A post in all caps isn’t doing the work you think it’s doing.

I had no illusion in 2016. In fact, I had no illusion back in 2002 when I left the US and gave up my citizenship after Dubya was elected and signed the USA Patriot Act into law after 9/11. America is hosed and has been officially on the path to idiocracy and fascism since then.

It’s just that a 3rd round of millions of Trump votes should confirm it without the shadow of a doubt to even the most wide-eyed believers in American exceptionalism. America today is the 1933 Germany of our time.

Even if Trump had lost, one fact remains: tens of millions of Americans voted for this guy three times in a row.

The first time, it’s conceivable that Americans made a mistake.

The second time, they knew Trump as actual President.

The third time, they knew Trump as a convicted felon, insurrectionist and overtly wannabe dictator, and they voted for him even harder.

At this point, MAGA isn’t a freak event, it’s the norm. Even if the dems had won, they’d have won the presidency of a MAGA country, and quite frankly, what’s the point… You can’t cure someone who wants to be sick.

It seems to be lagging behind by hours.

For instance, this thread on lemmy.world shows 5 comments and 56 upvotes, while the same thread on lemmy.sdf.org has 3 comments and 24 upvotes only. And the weird thing is, I posted this thread from lemmy.sdf.org, as well as one of the comments, and outgoing is instantaneous. It’s just incoming comments and votes that don’t seem to come through.

baseless lawsuits erode public trust

Haha that was a good one. As if lawyers had any reputation to lose…

Here’s an old joke:

You’re in a cage with a wild angry gorilla and a lawyer and you have a revolver with 6 bullets: what do you do?
Shoot the lawyer 6 times and try to reason with the gorilla.

I suppose the server has to catch up now, right? There seems to be plenty of stale discussions.

Yeah I watched some Gutfeld. He does go through the motions but his jokes never really land. It’s kind of like having a conversation with an AI chatbot: it’s convincing to a degree but something is off and it’s nowhere near as enjoyable as talking to a real person.

This argument hinges on the premise that churches aren’t evil to begin with.

Finally a real list that doesn’t include Dave Chapelle - whom I already knew and whom find extremely unfunny.

I do enjoy Bill Maher very much. I don’t always agree with him but at least he makes good points and he’s funny. If nothing else, I respect his ability to address points regardless of which side of the political divide they traditionally fall on.

I’ve watched Joe Rogan too - not for comedic value but to listen to some of his guests - and he sucks ass. I didn’t think he was trying to be funny, because he really isn’t. Buf if he is, it’s not working at all. He’s just a terrible Youtuber the same way countless other Youtubers are, just with a bigger audience, as far as I can tell.

I don’t know any of the others you mention. So I will gladly check them out now. Thanks!

The recording seems to show that Epstein and Trump were close enough for the disgraced sex offender to know how Trump ruled his White House

It takes one to know one.

Great idea - the idea is to favor funding to project that a lot of people contribute a little money to over those that few people contribute a lot of money to, thereby removing rich people’s money’s power.

The way I see it, it’s a sort of hybrid form of public funding: there’s public money going to certain projects, but they go to projects that people privately put their own money into, so they have a real personal stake in it, with a bias towards funneling more public money to projects that more people want.

But I can immediately see a problem: rich people bribing enough poor people in the community to fund the stuff they want done. E.g. telling 500 people “Here’s $1200: put $1000 in the golf course extension and keep $200” to get their $500,000 private golf extension funded.

The other problem I see is that for this kind of scheme to become mainstream, banks and governments will have to get onboard, and those are controlled by the rich, who obviously don’t want to shoot themselves in the foot.

The third potential problem is, crypto bros are pushing this. We’d better look really REALLY closely at the proposal, because there’s a really good chance there’s something scammy going on in it.

Still, intriguing concept: it seems reasonable and I can see myself participating in such fundings.

Joe Rogan would have you believe this “joke” goes down well in comedy clubs.

But I’m not buying this: I get insult humor and I don’t mind getting insulted when it’s funny. But Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico thing is just a straight insult. I don’t find anything remotely funny in his “joke” at all. Do you? Is there any redeemable comedic value in it that I’m missing here? Honest question.

I think Hinchcliffe made a simple mistake: he thought “How can I crack a joke about a part of the USA, that is not a state, doesn’t have federal voting rights and is full of despicable assholes?” But the racism kicked in at the last moment and he went “Puerto Rico!” instead of DC

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We make sure it’s very difficult to prove, especially wrt cohabitation.

You know, I have to say you’re right.

At this point, unless you have been living under a giant rock, there are simple, hard facts you can’t possibly not know about Donald Trump that should be unacceptable to anyone regardless of political leanings. It’s simply impossible to ignore them.

Therefore logic dictates that whoever votes for Trump today must agree with the Nazi stuff, the Trump Purge, shooting protesters in the legs, hanging vice-presidents or locking up former speakers of the house. I mean LITERALLY agree - because he LITERALLY said those things. Even MAGA people shouldn’t agree with those things: making America great again implies not destroying America!

Meaning roughly half of this country agrees with those things. If that’s not fucked up to the n-th degree, I don’t know what is.

I’m a billionnaire too - in dongs - but nobody forks my repos…
But most of my repos have more stars and more watchers than this one.

annoying to me because my wife didn’t take my surname!

You think that’s annoying? My wife and I aren’t even married.

I mean we call each other husband and wife but we don’t believe is shackling ourselves to one another, even for tax purposes, and we find the ease of permanent separation keeps our relationship fresh, and has for 35 years.

We used to get mail addressed to our house as Mr. and Mrs. <my name> or <her name> and we quickly realized why: it’s just advertisers collecting my name or her name, gender and the fact that we’re married (not legally but we say we are). Absent the name of the spouse, they assume a man would bear his own name and a woman the name of her husband.

Obviously it can’t be anything other than fucking advertisers since we’re not legally married: city or state agencies wanting to send us mail know exactly what both our names and marital status are and use them correctly.

The easy solution is to not provide real data to data brokers whenever possible. We now use fake names, and we also track which names we provide to whom because it’s interesting to see how they bounce back at us.

For example, is she uses the name Elizabeth Corona-Smith to, say, book an appointment at the hairdresser, and I get mail addressed to Mr. Corona-Smith with advertisement inside for arthritis products, I know the online service her hairdresser uses to book appointments sold her data, and the hairdresser filled in her approximate age to add to the data they sold.

With that knowledge, next next time she goes to town, she can give an earful to the hairdresser and tell them she’ll never patronize them ever again.

It’s happened several times. It’s really interesting to see how your information gets sold when you use fake information.