bigbangdangler

The Right hates this guy now. But for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. He was the absolute poster child. “I’m just asking questions” (where you ask completely unfounded questions in an effort to shift discourse where it doesn’t need to go) is a cornerstone of MAGA “thought”.

…except that saying anything against the MAGA cult leader gets you a permaban. And thus, Tucker is out.

You can change your name to whatever you want. Imagine if your last name were Epstein, or Trump. No one would question your motivation.

This is a bit of an oversimplification.

If in the US, you can generally change your name at whim, usually after a petition and fee. But it depends on your state. Some states require a hearing to do a name change. Some require a publication, and some will only allow the change after a waiting period.

All states will generally deny name change requests which are deemed to be fraudulent (details of that depend on state), to avoid debt, or to be harmful/hateful to others. Sometimes the definitions of these terms is not terribly clear, in which case the state can simply deny it with vague reasoning.

Edit: and apologies if this isn’t in the US. I’m not familiar with other systems.

+1 for heliboard.

GBoard has good recognition, but I’d rather my keyboard didn’t just siphon off whatever I type.

Playing by the rules went away a loooooong time ago. At this point the Dems just look silly for even bringing it up.

There are simply a lot fewer people on Lemmy. That’s to be expected.

I will say that the quality of conversation tends to be a bit higher on Lemmy. YMMV though.

I feel a lot less of the hive-mind effect on Lemmy versus Reddit. Not sure why that is.

That is a good point. There’s a lot of overt cruelty which seems to Literally exist to “own the libs”, as Onion-y as it sounds. It’s quite disgusting considering the party pretty much owns everything at the moment.

Schoolyard charades, but with higher stakes and real, human victims, at scale.

It’s not even the wrecking of the economy that really gets to me about this latest Republican administration. That’s a pattern for sure, but this admin grifts right off the top, in plain sight. The Trump phones, the ballrooms, the sweetheart deals for friends, the IRS decision that puts taxpayer funds directly into the President’s pocket.

I can’t think of another admin that has so openly stolen from US citizens.