djsoren19 @ djsoren19 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Considering it's Mike Johnson's chief of staff, I'm pretty sure the drinking was celebratory.

There absolutely are Americans who get insulted when you make fun of Trump, you can meet them at any Trump rally. I'd also point out, Trump insulted the PM and the entirety of Canada.

You're never going to get a satisfying answer to this question, because there is no actual reason. If you want, you can go peek in on the conservative subreddits and watch their gold-medal winning mental gymnastics, but the reason Trump is doing this is Putin told him to. The U.S. is destroying themselves for no gain.

I used to think that all the times I had to survive drowning were unique, until I met my coworker who almost drowned to death in the same wavepool as me, despite us growing up in two seperate states a few hundred miles apart.

I still hope drowning three times is fairly uncommon, but at least one of those pools is just hella dangerous I guess.

I really appreciate your honesty. You absolutely could re-tell this story to make yourself look like a cool rugged survivalist, but I imagine you didn't much feel like one in the moment.

Pretty standard business practice for the U.S. is "The Customer Can Always Get Fucked." There's a lot of money that's basically just been stolen from me because I got tired with fighting the company to just ship me the thing I paid for, and I either bought the thing somewhere else or decided I didn't want it anymore. Most companies don't even actually have customer service, just chatbots or outsourced chumps who only seem to exist for Americans to yell at, because they have no authority to do, view, or fix anything.

I mean sure, but would you prefer he stick to his views as children die, or do you want him to change his views and try to get MAGA crazies in TX to give their kids the measles vaccine?

I don't typically point out that my opponent is a hypocrite if they're doing the right thing for the right reasons.

The OG lemmings are Marxist-Leninists. The surge of centrist Dems came from the Reddit exodus.

Democracy already died, and it died under a Democrat. We've been a true plutocracy since Citizen's United v FEC. What actually would happen is the Democrats would defend the plutocracy until the Republicans inevitably win an election because they take advantage of people's hatred of our situation.

Y'know, if you're willing to make a few small concessions on who is ultimately in control of your country, I know this great authoritarian dictatorship that's been investing in new port infrastructure projects all around the world.

Wow, I didn't know you took your title so seriously, Dumbest Man on Earth.

Yeah, you guys have a great, long history of being super chill about immigrants. Maybe our marginalized trans members of society can go hang out in the Romani or Syrian camps and hear about how wonderful European hospitality can be. Oh wait, most of them won't be able to, because they don't have an in-demand technical degree and European countries have strict immigration requirements.

What's happening in America is starting to happen in Europe too. We also thought we were pretty nice, before the mask came off.

because the truth is that our system is too corrupted for that to work. People have absolutely been trying to get leftists in their local offices. They often face a united opposition from local Republicans AND Democrats. The two sides are happy to work together to prevent other challengers.

Huh, I really thought the other members of the Five Eyes would be kicking us out. Well, I guess if they don't want to remove us, we'll start making plans to leave.

I dunno if I'd say it's never been good in those two decades. There's definitely been a few great Standards Wizards lucked into, and they had a really strong run of limited formats for awhile too. It's definitely been trending downward for the last two decades though, and largely because of unchecked corporate greed.

If we're destroying the planet anyway, at least this is a more fun reason to do it.

It is going to hurt, and to my understanding it's already begun impacting businesses. The only salve I can offer is that us Americans are going to hurt a whole lot more. Hopefully, Liberal is able to maintain power up there, and is working on new trade deals with new partners. Nothing the U.S. produces is really unique, so alternatives can be found, but it's going to take time to set-up new agreements.

Theoretically, if you made a new language based on English symbols, is it still just a cipher?

Preventable deaths are actually America's #1 export.

This is a false dichotomy though. I'd argue the fact that "escape" doesn't even cross your mind in this hypothetical scenario is damning.