I may at some point. It's one of my backup plans. I do like the area I live in, though. It's thankfully one of the better states. Maybe we'll secede and join you! :D
We definitely won the election. Canadian authoritarianism would have just made things worse. And at least we still have somewhere to go north of the border.
They have a damn good reason to want to impeach him. He's threatening the economy and the remainder of our relevance internationally. The Republicans have to live here too. If he yanks down all the load-bearing structures in our house, it's going to collapse on them too.
I mean, step one is not turning the entire opposition into defeatists via constant steeping in negativity and hopelessness. We need to get our energy up and keep it there so we can actually get some traction. We have to believe that we have a chance to change something before we can actually work up the gumption to do it.
That won't happen if half the left is busy telling the other half we're cooked. It certainly won't happen if they convince more of us to become defeatists or to try to take our ball and go home as if our homes aren't literally in the country in question.
I would be surprised if it got that much support, but that's not the point. The vibes on Lemmy are absolutely terrible and actively cultivating helplessness. There are so many people here who immediately decided we're all cooked and spend their time trying to demotivate people and push any resistance to admit defeat that it's absurd. That's not how you push back, it's not how you make things better, and it's literally the kind of shitty helpless attitude that got us into this mess.
Something isn't right? Don't take active steps to try to fix it or give your support to anyone who is. Stand on the sidelines preaching this loser shit. We're all doomed and there's no point fighting. Don't run new candidates, just refuse to vote. Don't create networks of support, tear each other down. Don't for a second allow a glimmer of hope to go unopposed.
Seriously, how can anyone ever be expected to accomplish anything with that kind of attitude?
I'm honestly starting to think this platform is just as toxic as Reddit or Facebook have ever been, without the help of any shady manipulative algorithm.
Despite the defeatist angles that are constantly posted on Lemmy, this is not what I'm seeing from actually reading the news.
Congress could literally be voting to impeach with 90% of the house and senate in support and y'all would still be banging on about how nothing will ever happen. I'm over it.
I think there's a good chance. He's shown both parties that the result of him being able to do whatever he wants unchecked will be the crumbling of our alliances and our economy and the steady erosion of all the good things about our country. Even conservatives can see the damage he's doing.
If there were an election today he wouldn't even come close to winning. Hopefully those who are responsible for his potential impeachment see that if they allow this to continue they won't have a shot in their next elections either.
I feel for you, but that "straight women generally want assholes" talk is the entrance to the incel pipeline. Careful with that kind of thinking. Women want all kinds of things. Don't get sucked into all that black pill shit.
I mean, it's also why some people like me. And why some people like me at first but eventually wander off when they run into people that don't like that I'm not willing to pretend to be someone else.
But it also means I speak my mind and am seldom surprised when someone who says heinously authoritarian shit turns out to be a jerk. And it means that sometimes I see manipulation that some people seem to go out of their way not to see, which makes me gravitate away from people that other people seem to get sucked in by.
Personally, I'd rather be willing to say what I see than to tiptoe around polite fictions that ultimately cause us more trouble than they're worth. Even if it means some people who would rather bite their tongues forever don't really like me.
It's strange the way resigning seems to be treated as some sort of protest in and of itself. It's not. It's giving up. Protest would be refusing to resign, refusing to obey orders, and delegitimizating the people giving those orders.
Resigning just makes it easier for someone less principled to come along and do the job.
I think it's just jabbing at our early assumptions about dinosaurs seemingly lacking much in the way of bulk. We used to interpret them as these ultra-skinny weirdly mummified looking things rather than the plumper creatures many of them probably were.
The idea is that aliens find skeletons of animals we're more familiar with and come to the same kind of wildly mistaken conclusions about them that we might have if we'd found rabbit skeletons without having first hand experience of modern rabbits.
What is this shady, unsubstantiated, posted yesterday ass random github repo trying to encourage people to compromise their email security and why is it worth posting?
Element really needs to get push to talk. It's an incredibly basic feature to be missing, and for me personally and I'm sure others the lack of it is a deal breaker.
GIMP is honestly fantastic. My workflow goes draw in GIMP, import to Inkscape to convert pieces to vector, then bring them into Godot where shaders get applied. I would rather draw in GIMP than any other program. I find drawing in Inkscape super awkward in comparison. GIMP is pretty no-frills, but it does the job. I prefer it over Photoshop. With Darktsble I've found it useful for importing high res raw images for textures too.
I don't know why people hate on it so much. It's all about using the tools you're comfortable with.
I may at some point. It's one of my backup plans. I do like the area I live in, though. It's thankfully one of the better states. Maybe we'll secede and join you! :D