DreamlandLividity @ DreamlandLividity @lemmy.world

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However, I still believe he's a Russian agent, or something just as useful, because of the way he acts. I don't need further evidence than that. He couldn't act more like a Russian agent if he tried.

But that is the tragedy of the situation. There are so many awful things Trump does with incontrovertible evidence, but they are drowned out in conjectures, hyperboles and outright lies.

Even if porn actress are doing that willingly, and even if porn films aren't propaganda, they still convey a vision of womanhood which is demeaning.

It sounds incredibly sexist to me to say it is demeaning specifically to women or that a woman should have to take some image of womanhood into account when expressing her sexuality or herself in general.

Sounds to me more like you are projecting your own internalized sexism onto porn (your belief that woman's sexual expression is demeaning to women for some reason, but not men).

You know, it is still mind blowing to me that people will share stuff like this (an accusation of espionage based on one Russian Facebook post), and then be surprised, when a lot of people actually believe Trumps "fake news" BS. One of the reasons Trump was able to win is that the Democrats and their supporters completely tanked their credibility with anyone still capable of critical thinking.

Polling shows most Trump voters would not have voted for him if they were better informed, but of course they won't be informed if there is no trustworthy mainstream source of information.

Wow, an actually important economic statistic, here on Lemmy? 👏

Perun for military stuff, especially Ukraine.

I don't see any reason why you couldn't with default settings. Beware of enabling any setting that stores data next to the media like nfo metadata storage, as those could maybe cause conflicts.

My bad, I thought it was about payments in general (including other programs) but it says social security database. Sorry.

Another accusation Elon made was that payments are going to people missing SSNs.

A much simpler answer is that not all Americans actually have an SSN. The Amish for example have religious objections towards insurance, so they were allowed to opt out from social security and therefore don't get an SSN.

Good people with guns limit the ability of awful people to do awful things. Good people who give up their guns, not as much.

I am not sure leaving now and letting people who may not have scruples about illegal orders remain is a good idea. If anything, it may be the opposite.

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Asking if a very close relative to fascism is going to do mental gymnastics to somehow normalize even more fascism is neither new nor is it controversial.

I genuinely wonder what kind of echo chamber you would have to live in to think saying "normal right wing ideology is very close relative to fascism" is not controversial.

Then trying to steer the discussion towards the US democrats (still right wing from an objective position) is not only unproductive, it is obvious trolling.

I am not trying to steer the discussion. It is Satire. Showing people how stupid the argument is by applying the exact same logic the post uses to their own favourite party to make them think of the counterarguments on their own.

Just asking questions (also known as JAQing off, or as emojis: "🤔🤔🤔"[1]) is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements. It shifts the burden of proof to one's opponent; rather than laboriously having to prove that all politicians are reptoid scum, one can pull out one single odd piece of evidence and force the opponent to explain why the evidence is wrong.

Which one fits this definition better? The original post that takes one single odd piece of evidence in the form of Musks controversial "Nazi salute" and asks questions about whether r/conservatives would support overt Nazism and even abandons the facade and answers its own questions by saying we should rename the subreddit?

Or my comment that is very clearly hypothetical and primarily intended to make fun of the original post (since I did not know the term "JAQing off" and I find it more fun to create a comment people either have to think about or hypocritically criticize for the thing they are doing themselves, instead of being a nerd and linking to obscure wikis about argumentation).

You are projecting my dude 🤣

JAQing off much?

As opposed to the post I am commenting on? :D

Exactly this. If it is just playing the game within the existing mechanics, then no thanks, I would rather remain mortal.

If you want to do a pointless hypothetical, at least make it ethically interesting.

What if Harris did the Natzi salute while shouting "Heil Hitler!" before the election? No change in policy or anything else.

Would you rather vote for Harris doing a Natzi salute or Trump doing Trump things? Words or actions? Or would you give up and not vote at that point?

Except 99% of people pay with credit/debit cards.

Besides, if it takes you more then 5 seconds to get the penny, count it and use it again, you worked below minimum wage for that penny.

I don't want to convince you here, you do you.

But it seems funny to say that while you are using Linux, where almost nothing has official support.

I personally love that even if GoG shut down or otherwise was inaccessible, I would still have offline installers (that can be installed to wine manually). Obviously having a launcher is nicer, but I hate that there is no backup with Steam.

I just switched to Linux and there are multiple Launchers that support GoG. It is not official but honestly, that makes it better in my eyes. They are open-source, no bloat, no tracking, ...

Games not being on GoG is much more of an issue. :(