Must be nice being in a position where when things go right (does that actually ever even happen with these fucking people?), you take all of the credit. But when things go wrong, it's because of your aides and advisors.
And I'm willing to bet that it's all the same states where they make the biggest noise about how much they care about the kids while also wanting to marry them and fuck them.
This is one of the biggest reasons that I think reason number 1 that Trump and co won is hatred. Full stop. You can't claim that it was some attempt to protect children from the 'woke agenda' when you instead supported people that have had a reputation and tendency to want to marry, fuck and send children to work in the mines for decades now.
You can't claim it was for a better economy when Trump has a well known history of even bankrupting casinos and spent his entire previous presidency golfing. You can't claim it's 'anti-establishment' when all of the richest people in the world are amassing more power than ever before. You can't claim it's about freedom when we all watched Trump allow Erdogan's bodyguards to rough up American citizens on American soil the last time Trump was in charge. And you can't claim it's for 'free speech' when people get sent to prison for political beliefs.
It's nothing but hatred. These dumb fucking inbred clowns hate so strongly that they were willing to not only sacrifice the rights of their own mothers and sisters and daughters but were also willing to let their children grow up in a world run by known kiddie fiddlers with article after article backing up the evidence that the biggest pedos around are southern republicans and preachers.
Not sure that I even want to know. I've about had it up to here with harmful, nonsense conspiracy shit. I miss the days when conspiracy theories were "did a UFO crash at Roswell?" and not "gay black trans women and George Soros teamed up to turn frogs gay and eradicate white males with the woke agenda."
I'm fucking sick of this shit. It's all so blatantly fucking stupid and dreamt up during a meth binge that the only possible reason that people could follow and believe this nonsense (apart from having disability levels IQs) is that their hatred for the 'other' is stronger than their desire to not look like lunatic fucking clowns.
Billionaires actually need to fucking go. My whole life there has been this hypothetical question of "what if billionaires actually used their money for good" along with this quiet acceptance by society that it'll never actually happen.
But now, as it turns out, not only are they doing nothing good for the world with their wealth but they actually actively use their wealth to buy up all the news organisations, push misinformation, prop up right wingers and inflict misery onto everyone.
I think it's great that they're starting to turn on the orange painted clown with the comically large tie but that's not because of his desire to hurt everyone that isn't a white cis male and push hate, nope, that's exactly what these fucking cunts wanted. It's just that he's a bit more fucking stupid than they bargained for now and now they're numbers are going down. How awful for them.
Fuck them. I hope that there's nothing but guillotines and rope in their futures.
I haven't played GTA 5 (or any of the 2D games apart from the GBA release tbh) but as far as dark and gritty goes, I'd say that GTA 4 fills that role for the 3D games, especially the GTA 4 DLC The Lost and Damned. Wouldn't call them cyberpunk though.
Another one to throw into the mix of mentions here. The first Val Kilmer movie that I actually always think of is The Island of Dr. Moreau. A bit offbeat I suppose but one of my absolute favourite childhood movies and I rented the VHS on more than one occasion. Think I might need to rewatch now.
Killing is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like badwrong, or badong. Yes, killing is badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of killing: gnodab.
Yeah it's funny that those were called out as exceptions because as far as ancient Greek mythology goes, Disney's Hercules (one of the most widely known takes) basically made Hades = Satan and Zeus = God. I've also seen Hades get treated as Satan lite in DC Comics adaptations, basically unashamedly rewriting another mythology to base it around christianity. Meanwhile, from what I've seen, Hades was actually one of the few semi decent gods.
The only two that I ever still make use of are XDA for custom firmwares and other Android related shit. And Pokecommunity for the ROM hacking / decompilation stuff.
I look forward to all of the Fable 'fans' coming out of the woodwork to complain that the female characters and designs don't look like porcelain anime supermodels. It's going to be X-Men '97 all over again with a bunch of people that clearly weren't ever fans of the original complaining about their "childhoods being ruined."
I suggest that any and all one handed Gamers™ first take a look at the original character designs before opening their stupid mouths and complaining about the wOkE agENdA making characters uglier.
Yeah, as much as I support there being women only spaces here, especially around here where it seems like the only way that women are going to be able to have any spaces here is by brute force, I am unfortunately not a woman. And I don't want to invade or force my way in. So just to repeat, I absolutely support and respect there being communities where women can mingle with each other without asshole men popping up every five minutes to shit on them.
What I'm hoping for is that once communities like !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al are able to get a foothold and thrive and more women are actually comfortable around here, we'll start seeing more communities that deal with things like skin and haircare and jewelry and thrifting and cool styles and shit. Because clearly most men aren't interested or else those sorts of communities would be popping up already. So this place needs more of a woman's touch first lol.
Not complaining or being sour or anything. I have faith that it'll get to the point where these communities don't need to be gendered anymore but I've seen the way people around here can be so I also think it's necessary for now.
Probably DC Comics. And it depends what my role in this universe would be. But knowing my luck I'd just be a random civilian that gets wiped out during the latest rampage by Atomic Skull or something. But at least everything gets reset every few years, so that I could live again to be super villain fodder another day.
I definitely understand the aversion to algorithms because just look at what platforms like Facebook, Twitter or even Reddit these days do with them. In the wrong hands, it's deceptive and dodgy as fuck.
But I wouldn't be opposed to an algorithm that you can tailor yourself. And I don't mean Bluesky style 'tailoring', I mean give us a list of interests and categories to toggle that then have more weight in the feed. So for example, if you like metal, you would then see more metal related stuff in your feed and not have it downed out by Taylor Swift and Kanye West because upvotes.
And something I picked up from Facebook (even though it doesn't work for shit on Facebook because their algorithm is mentally handicapped) is being able to 'favourite' something. And by doing that, not just pinning it to the top of the list of communities but actually making it appear in your feed more whether the upvotes are a high amount or not.
More stuff that isn't memes, news and politics. Like, apparently there's two people on this whole platform watching Harley Quinn (or at least leaving a comment about it in the discussion thread). Pretty much everything that isn't memes, news or politics is still dead around here. Except for pro wrestling somehow.
What I'm still missing from Reddit is actual discussion of the forms of entertainment that I enjoy. I even tried that thread about "what music are you listening to" that pops up in casual conversation once or twice but no one gives a fuck, not even the OP of those threads bothers going through and giving an up arrow to people that have replied. And no one interacts with any replies either, so might as well be on Facebook for that kind of 'discussion'.
I'm also missing the haircare and skincare type subreddits. There were a lot of valuable resources and it was nice having a place for the occasional stupid questions. Also fashion / style type subreddits. I still think those would do great around here with LemmyNSFW mostly kept separate from everything else, so it would help keep the one handed browsers away. Although I still maintain that a big barrier for certain people in this regard is no posting to your own profile.
But yeah, there is lots and lots of stuff that this platform still needs. Memes, news and politics are the first things you'll get on every platform. Now I just wish there was more than that.
It was a repeat of MenAreTrash and a little bit of MeToo using different words this time. And just like any other time there is an awareness campaign that highlights the general statistics and truth of things, instead of inspiring men to take a stand and push for any change or correcting of shitty, toxic behaviour; the so called loud minority rushes in to say "not all men" and defend the status quo while the so called silent majority lets them.
Wake me up when something gets done about it other than a fine that amounts to about half a day's profit for them.