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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I swear to god post the map with lots of diagonal arrows one more time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

lol, no, but this was good post

some inane fucking thing from bloomberg or NYT or someone’s Bad Visualisations Department. it’s at least 35 points of psychic damage

10 centibasilisk simtime units in old money

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

ikr i've already seen it too

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I have been having this feeling in a couple places too, heh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My hope is that either more progressive third party options become more viable OR the dems finally understand that being essentially republican is a bad strategy and actually become progressive. I know the reality is that the dems will learn nothing from this as they have clearly learned nothing from 2016.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'll bet quite a lot that they'll learn the exact wrong thing from this and decide that they just weren't republican enough.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

and for 2032:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Overton window, more like overton viewfinder. Point it wherever you like and the median voter will agree everything to its left is radical extremism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that I've been owned in a way I can't even explain to my closest friends.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

What did sideburns ever to do that guy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

the bit i wonder about is: would president couchfucker block weapons exports to Ukraine

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The third worst part is the fact that I’ve been owned in a way I can’t even explain to my closest friends.

Oh god, this so much. Well, third worst for me personally, as a non-American white guy. I suppose Palestinians, Ukrainians, and marginalized groups in the US might have a few issues they'd rank higher.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Fuck it, off-the-cuff prediction: I expect resistance to Silicon Valley is gonna turn violent during Trump's term.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, if there exists sufficiently motivated opposition I'm given to understand that guns and improvised explosives aren't broadly limited by cost. The fact that the market is failing to correct (or more accurately, the human costs aren't impacting the finances) might end up being further motivation for more kinetic action.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this line of thought.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

well, people have been making these things for hundreds of years by now, but there are some other restrictions, some of which are cultural

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this line of thought.

If the tech industry is implicated in Trump's election in any way, I suspect you'll be proven right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, I don't think that there's the same kind of preexisting social/political/economic infrastructure to support that kind of terrorism on the left as the militia movement on the right, which I think is going to be what prevents things from devolving into outright violence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

imo the most important part of that infrastructure is mass surveillance

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