If you honestly think that, you need to maybe read a bit more or work on your short-term memory, because you have no idea what you’re talking about. Hell, the last assassination attempt was just a few weeks ago.

Yeah, really hate the cruelty of my country.

For half the cost we could be dropping food, clothing, water, and medicine on the people we’re bombing and it would do much more to further the cause of peace.

Hola Kitty.

Normally I wouldn’t pimp out my YT channel on Lemmy, but I made a video on this topic a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/kklfzIxWJ7I

I hope some of these are new to you.

Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.

Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.

No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse

Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.

And the people doing the moderation are volunteers who actually give a shit.

Yup.

Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.

And it requires just enough setup (5-10 minutes tops) that the vast majority of the Internet is too lazy to use it, which keeps the quality high.

I don’t think it will work out that way, but I think we’ll find out, unfortunately.

No, he won’t.

He’ll exploit it to consolidate more power within the office of the President, just like Bush did after 9/11. An attack on US soil, historically, has prompted the American people to line up behind the American president for even the most horrific shit, like torture, state-sponsored kidnapping, mass surveillance without a warrant, black sites in other countries, etc. etc. etc.

Donald will love it when we get attacked, because not only will he be able to become a true dictator, but the people will be begging him to do it. (Not me, at least, but the majority will.)

It’s nice to see at least one country isn’t allowing terrorists to hide behind the concept of free speech. :)

Coming soon to American soil, I wager. I wonder if they’ll refer to this as a war when that happens?

The satellite images aligned very well with the school’s location, so they couldn’t really deny it.

When has the human race ever cared about a genocide, absent some material reason to do so?

Oh, we know.

We saw the planes falling out of the sky over Kuwait.

Clearly this was about as well-planned as any of Donald’s “business” ventures.

And then he went on Twitter and bragged about it, as if attacking a man who’s already been mobbed by three shitty cops isn’t punk bitch behavior.

Just wait until a few Iranian drones find their way into the US. Donald will love it, as historically, any attack on America has translated into Americans begging for authoritarians to become more authoritarian.

You’re right, Jake.

We shouldn’t act at all because bad things happen sometimes.

Thanks man. I needed that reassurance.

That volume also did not cross my mind.

The chairman of the joint chiefs literally told our two tv hosts that are running this war that it was an exceedingly bad idea.

And it seems we’ve come to the point where the bully fucked with the wrong kid.