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.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply it was an organized operation. I think it was more just one kid who was faster/more eager than his buddies. Or maybe just standing next to them but loud, for all I know!

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.)

Fun fact: the entire Free Software movement exists because Richard Stallman got pissed off at Xerox one day, for not giving him the source code so he could fix his printer.

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.

(The reference, in case anybody missed it: https://lemmy.world/post/21493783)

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-engineering!

A sentry gun that fires candy corn!

Reading the responses in this thread, I’m kinda starting to think we need to bring the “trick” half of the tradition back so some of these neighbors get a clue.

The last time I was handing out candy at my old neighborhood, kids would ring the doorbell but then they’d just stand there and stare at me until I handed them candy. You’re supposed to say “trick or treat”!

That was happening to me sometimes, too. I’ve tried just standing there without offering the bowl to make it awkward until they figure it out, as well as just straight-up telling them “c’mon, say the words,” but it’s just so cringeworthy that they don’t get it in the first place.

And even people who live in safe areas will like their kids into a car and go drive

Yeah, I’m annoyed about that sort of thing, too – albeit more about the car-brained laziness of parents idling a car from house to house instead of parking and walking with their kids, rather than the class issues – but that’s a different rant.

I greatly value the experience of knocking on my neighbors’ doors and it’s sad to see people discount this community building experience.

Thanks, you said what I was thinking but struggling to express.

I think maybe I’ll bring it up with my community association, to see if next year we can’t make some sort of organized effort to encourage door-answering (and communicate that renewed expectation to trick-or-treaters).

That seems plausible, except that I’ve been living here since long before COVID and have been suffering a lack of trick-or-treaters the entire time.

Actually, that reminds me of another failed hypothesis: when I first moved in, the neighborhood was just starting to gentrify and was still a little rough, so at first I figured the lack of trick-or-treaters was due to the lack of families with children in the neighborhood in general. Plenty of 'em now, though.

Stop giving sociopathic billionaire scum the benefit of the doubt; they don’t deserve it.

Musk and Bezos support Trump because they like fascism. Regardless of what ancillary reasons they also might have, that one is the most essential and the most damning.

“Law enforcement must act, NOW!” he added.

Welp, he’s right about that part! Just not the way he thinks.

The grift, I get. The bigotry, I get. The hate, I get. Hell, even the fealty to Putin, I get. But at this point, they’re veering into gratuitous destructive stupidity without any upsides that I can fathom at all, not even abhorrent ones. I don’t get it.

It’s not, but you have a DOJ that is afraid of doing anything that might look ‘political’.

Which is itself political, and 100000000% corrupt.