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My answer depends on whether the country you’re going to has an extradition treaty with the United States.

It could be much worse. I was ready for you to tell us about the massive debt you racked up. At least this is something that will go away over time with no cost or effort on your part.

Musk paid to build (and is paying to maintain) an AI that calls him out on his bullshit and stubbornly refuses to be “corrected”. That is an oversimplification, but I fucking love it anyway.

lol true. I gave them the benefit of the doubt when they probably don’t deserve it!

Even if I was okay with her visiting my home, I wouldn’t be okay with the massive security detail and intrusive background check on every member of my household.

I sorta get it, but sorta don’t… and I’m proud of that. I’m glad I’m not a torturer (or official) who can seamlessly rationalize cruelty.

That headline seems like a bit of a catch 22. If he says he’s Hamas, he becomes a “legitimate” target.

I hate AI and avoid it as much as possible. I don’t really care who is better at it.

Black licorice. Don’t even try to tell me that shit is candy. It tastes like some horrible byproduct of an outdated process for manufacturing tires.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is in favor of the bill.

Of course he is. No low is too low for that man.

I’m just a vanilla cishet male who isn’t part of Blahaj’s target audience. Regardless, it makes me happy that folks have such a positive, overwhelmingly supportive community. Simply knowing that it exists makes me feel good. You’re wonderful!

Sure, people love witty comments, but sometimes a simple LOL and LMAO are the only things to say. Nicely done!

The entire world needs to treat American investment as a potential threat/exploitable weakness, and have a Plan B ready.

Change the name of the community to Mildly Hilarious

America won big both morally and militarily in WWII. For the average poorly informed citizen, that meant our government had permanently earned its position as the Good Guy. Lots of people thought (and still think) that any evidence to the contrary is merely a mistake or anomaly.

Then there’s capitalism. Wartime manufacturing brought us out of the Great Depression, and even the average citizen benefited. Unfortunately, capitalism became much more powerful than we realized, and now we’re beginning to see what a monster we’ve created. We know that the top 1% are literally killing our biosphere to protect their investments, but somehow our Good Guy government is allowing it to continue. The average citizen can’t reconcile those facts, so they decided that the facts must be wrong.

Government and capitalism have always been intertwined, but never to the extent we’re seeing under Trump. A Nazi billionaire is shaping government policy. That was supposed to be impossible. Again, the average citizen can’t reconcile those truths, so many of them decided that the libtards must be exaggerating.

I wouldn’t say that we Americans are stupid. I’d use the word “foolish” instead. “Deceived”, too. A few people saw what was coming and tried to warn the rest of us, but we let it happen anyway, because organizations that we thought we could trust lied to us.

Those of us with at least some awareness of what’s going on are traumatized (whether we think so or not). We’re trying to accept that our own government suddenly hates a lot of us, and that the corporations that have tried so hard to make themselves indispensable are, at best, constantly trying to deceive and monetize everything about us.

Ah. Thanks for clarifying!

I must reluctantly agree. Replace “nervous” with “annoyed” and you’ve got a more accurate headline.

I think people will support democracy.

The biggest lemmy instance…

That seems like a flaw in this reasoning. I don’t think the behavior of society as a whole can be extrapolated from the behavior of Lemmy users.

May I suggest Goya?

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