I owe this women an apology. She was completely right and reacting appropriately.
Who is this woman? I’m not familiar with the reference.
You know what you see here? Acceptance of election results. You know, what many trumpers lack.
There was another woman I think about sometimes who was very upset about maga hats and I thought she was overreacting. I also owe that woman an apology
One man’s red hat is another man’s brown shirt.
Wait was that actually pizzacake or is this someone else?
I dont think so. Its just an unknown person who got dragged through the mud but conservative media.
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).
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)
My favorite is when you point out someone outside the USA lives in a country where they shouldn’t be throwing stones in their glass house continue to do so.
Basically what I think of Simpsons “predictions”.
Matt Groening isn’t some kind of clairvoyant. He just knows history and recognizes patterns.
More like the show has been running for over three decades, it would be weird if they didn’t hit a few.
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.
Reminds me of an all time classic Onion article.
2015? lol… USA has been a trash empire since a few enslavers made it up.
Yes, but have you considered how bad it is that respectable white people are now affected by its brutality? Have some empathy for Christ’s sake. 😤
Seriously though, it is incredibly frustrating to see discourses like these when racialized and indigenous people in the US metropole have criticised the fundamentally violent nature of the United States before it was even imagined. The smugness of it all y’know?
You’d think after Kent State, Blair Mountain, The Tulsa Massacre, Trail of Tears, etc. white people would have realized “wait a minute, this isn’t right.” But seems this land is full of neo-liberal moderate white people who have to be targeted to give a damn themselves.
They did. People, white people included, have fought colonialism since it started. Some of the earliest documentation of protests against slavery and genocide in the Caribbean was written by Spanish settlers in the 1510s. When we talk about “white people” we are recognizing that whiteness is more about privilege than it is actual settlers who, while privileged by appearing white in the maintenance of whiteness as a naturally privileged category, can also have that privileged revoked if they become too much of a threat to hegemony. People make decisions based on their material interests, so a privileged class that is also racialized can be effectively mobilized to the disposal of the imperial state as their material security is assured or at the very least benefited by doing so. What we’re seeing is people whose familial memory extends generations into that privilege realize for the first time that whiteness is in fact not a real thing that can protect you, and they think that’s a particularly enlightened realization because many of them are also liberals who wish to appropriate ideas of anti-fascism and decolonialism to their benefit as they have effectively done in the past. They aren’t mad about the violence, they’re correctly identifying that they were promised protection from it by birthright.
Make no mistake, when they say that they were the first to realize the US empire was evil, they are asserting that they own the ability to criticize that empire and direct actions in response to that criticism. It’s how they coopt black-, queer-, indigenous-, and disability-liberation movements all the time.
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.
Yeah but the other option was a woman so I sat at home.
Please remember this happened when folks get all “AOC is the only person who can win.” No she’s got a built in loss, two X chromosomes. In a decade maybe, but right now boomers still have too much control and even boomer women don’t want a woman president. They’ve done polling on it and it’s very clear, they don’t think a woman has the temperament to lead. We can think it’s silly but we should not ignore it.
Yep cue the downvotes ignoring it. Read this carefully and explain to me why we should even consider running a woman right now. But you won’t, you’re in a bubble where you think everyone believes what you do.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote
I knew this was all the Demmicratz fault
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.
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If I’m being honest, the first term was quite underwhelming compared to how bad it could be (as 2025+ has proved).
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?
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.
I think being in a sane state kind of mitigated that COVID issue for me, but I agree on the PPP loan theft (immigration stuff was always bad, although I guess not children in cages bad). My point was, compared to this term, he was actually held back a bit.
No, the first term was pretty damn bad, it was a version 1.0 for sure but it was BAD.
Well, to be fair, being able to read is quickly becoming indistinguishable from the arcane arts in America.
You can always count on Pizzacake to point out the blindingly obvious as if it was a revelation.
Where the US is headed has been no secret for a long time.
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.
Idk, this meme makes me think of the kids story “the boy who cried wolf”. Screaming doom every year desensitizes people to the possibility of the threat.
