They’re protesting no sex against a rapist?

Yeah, I can’t imagine how this is going to turn out….

Because smart people question each other and disagree a lot. Dumb people are sheep and follow the loudest, most confident voice in the room.

That’s right, bringing race, gender, and other demographic variables into it totally makes your argument stronger. It definitely doesn’t expose your own prejudices at all, no siree.

This has happened plenty of times in other countries. To think it can’t happen here is what is irrational.

I took this attitude the first time Trump was elected, and boy was I wrong. Not this time. Now, I’m seriously considering what his options might be for eliminating the election in 2028. He needs to clean the military brass of people disloyal to him, which he can easily do as Commander in Chief. Once he’s got a loyal military, there’s virtually nothing he can’t do; and this SCOTUS will let him do anything he wants, so long as it aligns with the view of Evangelical Christians, who have been wanting a theocracy for decades. He can conjure the specter of “Democrat corruption” to justify eliminating any opposition politicians as an official act, completely re-stock the FBI with loyalists to wage any legal battles he needs to make his actions seem legitimate and “official,” and arrest any problematic judges under the same “corruption” myth so that he can then replace them with loyalists.

Honestly, we’ve seen this playbook before in countries that are now dictatorships and Trump has already made it quite clear he wants to be a dictator. There is absolutely no reason to be convinced this will not happen. It might not happen, but there’s no reason to think definitely will not.

I think it’s just good video editing, no CG.

They’re all over the place, but I suppose I encounter them most in the news and politics forums.

I like the relatively sane moderation compared to Reddit.

I dislike the heavy far-left/communist presence here. I’m a lefty myself, but a lot of people here are extremists in my opinion, little better than the far right.

Good. That’s one less reason for Netanyahu to claim the war needs to continue and one less terrorist butcher in the world.

I care about my friends’ babies, but that’s mostly because I get to interact with them. The rest is mostly just politeness.

A quiet book is pretty age-appropriate for a toddler.

Someone did an analysis of what would happen if Superman actually punched you at full strength, and it turns out his fist would never connect with you, because you’d be vaporized by the wave of nuclear explosions erupting from his knuckles as they caused air molecules to fuse in nanoseconds.

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They do. You just haven’t bothered to look: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c722pyj1zm1o

The same is true of Palestinians and Hamas though: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-popular-among-palestinians/

So weird, how people rally to support those attacking the people who’ve recently done them grievous harm.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c722pyj1zm1o

Simple Google search: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c722pyj1zm1o

There are tons of anti-war protests in Israel. You’re just not hearing about them because you don’t bother to look.

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Yeah, unfortunately Lemmy is a magnet for far leftists and anti-American extremists. It’s got the opposite problem of some other social media platforms.

I don’t mind it at the end of the day. They make themselves pretty obvious, and once you realize what they are, they’re pretty pathetic.

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