MsPenguinette @ MsPenguinette @lemmy.world

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Even funnier

The finacial courts do ocassionally do really funny things. Like forcing Musk to buy Twitter and now making Rudy sue Trump

The takeaway for me as a leftist is that this indicates how dogshit Biden is but also how much more infininately dogshit Trump is.

We really are in the dogshitiest timeline

I guess it's cool that a few on the right are finally agreeing with progressives that Biden isn't the "radical leftist" that the fearmongerers have been pushing for the last 4 years.

Empathy seems to act like a sine wave when it comes to learning more and more

I'd rather do what right now instead of doing what's wrong in hopes it doesn't get weaponized. There isn't a politician I care about enough that I'm willing let trump get away with insurrection in fear that red states might try to fuck with a dem nominee

If someone has done something that a state can even remotely argue inssurection, we should just dump that person and move on to the next. Maybe it'd force some new blood into the system

So tired of letting Republicans get away with shit out of fear of them abusing. They are already abusing everything and at some point we might need step up and stand on buisness

I'm gonna be completely honest. I don't truly get all the inner working of git. I'm a senior DevOps Engineer and been using git for a decade, but is git is simular to sed or awk for me. I know how to do what I want really well but when shit goes wrong, I'm flying by the seat of my pants.

A lot of times, I just know what to do to fix things because it's rote memory with substitutions. But if you needed me to explain upstreams and rebases in actual detail, I'd be in trouble. But it rarely becomes an actual problem to the level where I'll dedicate time to learning all the advanced stuff.

That said, I've learnt that most senior people also just pretend they get it all but instead are just relying on rote memorization and basic concepts. Anyone else here in the same camp of being a fraud with git?

The USG has plenty to hide

If I had to pick for myself, I'd pick guillotine. Feel like it's success rate has to be near 100%

Damn, imagine what that must be like for him right now. He woke up fullly knowing he was going to killed that day. Which is already wild to really think about what that must be like. But then imagine what today must be like? I have no idea what feelings he must be feeling but I assume they are very complicated feelings

I thought about mentioning that old age taking it course sooner than later would be good, but didn't want to go that far. But it's wild to think about what would happen if either (or heaven permits, both) were to do what old people do. There is part of me that hopes for it, but Harris as the main president candidate would not be a fun scenario. Right wing discourse would manage to become an even more vile sewage ditch than it is now.

Oh? That's news to me.

I blow off steam one time about being completly dishearted about the government and Biden after watching a video of a service member lighting themselves on fire and yelling free Palestine and I'm a sock puppet? I get it that some people are able to compartmentalize what Biden is doing right now and the criticality of keeping Trump out of office. But I wasn't able to yesterday when I was still reeling. I wanted to truly appreciate Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice, and with that, I did my best to let myself feel the true gravity of the genocide in Israel. Feeling the full weight of it, I feel angry, sad, dishearted, overwhelmed, grief and disgusted.

I'm feeling better today. if the election was yesterday, I'd have abstained. If it were tomorrow, I'd probably still vote blue no matter who.

I've gone from being unenthusiastic about Biden to actively hating/despising him. To be clear, there is absolutely no world in which I will despise him less than trump. It's one thing to try to get people enthused, it's another when you have to bank on fear of the worse guy.

If he had looked the other way for just a month or two, that'd still be bad but at least we could be like "well it was a complicated situation but he made the right decision". It's almost March and it was already an undeniable and unbearable tragedy by Halloween of last year. I think we extremely close to the point of no return.

I'll die before voting for Trump (I'm trans so Trump winning well be extremely bad for me). But I'm so discouraged right now that i don't know what to do

[edit] changed a sentence

Taiko no Tatsujin: Rythem Festival... Guess I'm getting arrested for playing taiko in the streets to try and whip up excitement so I can get invited to the big tournament at that the Thunder Shrine?

[edit] Or getting arrested for eating another drum's food

I don't know man. I'm the one who makes this argument. I'll probably still vote Biden on election day, but I want to vomit at the thought of him after seeing him support this.

It's one thing when he is just useless at getting actual shit done. "Nothing will substantially change" is one thing. But if I'm starting to break down on this, then that makes me scared that we are truly fucked

Worst part is that Biden trusts that he can do whatever he wants with supporting genocide because Trump is his opponent. It's an extra 'fuck you' to all of us.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180606

There are a few line in this I really like

The famous photograph of the monk is shocking. It was like nothing people had seen before. Quang Duc sits peacefully in the meditative lotus position as the flames engulf him. The image is so perplexing, so contrary to ideas of self-preservation that the audience has to stop and ask questions about what is happening.

and this

The self-immolation was a powerful act of psychological warfare. By being willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for his people, Quang Duc showed the strength and immovable will of the Buddhist community. A foe that isn’t afraid of a painful death cannot be bullied and cajoled into submission.

I read a couple other articles on the history of self immolation. There was a new yorker article that did a good job on being scepitcal of the practice. Was suprised to find out that there are a lot more cases of it that I expected. Then again, the handful of cases where it had the intended effect were so successful that it makes sense that others would do the same hoping to get the same reaction (the Tibetan monks, the Arab Spring, etc)

But it definitely seems fair to say it doesn't pack the punch it used to. Which might be good reason to choose other actions.

Every single day Biden continues to support genocide, the closer I get to not being able to vote for him. Among my friends, I'm the most harm reductionist telling people that when election day comes, we have to do what's best with the choice we have. But I'm starting to become viscerally disgusted at the idea of voting for Biden

I truly beleive that this falls under sacrificing yourself to save lives

Self Immolation is the most severe form of protest. It's selfless cause you are giving your life to the cause so that maybe others will have a better chance at achieving their goals