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Due to the impending lemm.ee shutdown I have migrated to notabot@piefed.soc

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The trick is not to arrest most if the really high profile individuals who are critical of the state, but encourage rumours about why they've been spared to discredit them.

This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn't bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.

Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.

The absolute best case scenario is that they're just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I've not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.

You can't tell me what to do!!!

Well I suppose, technically, you can tell me what to do, I just wont listen. I probably should, but I won't.

Why? Why did you put that in front of my eyes?

Tabs are the one true way! All those who blaspheme against the might tab will be regex'd into compliance.

Look out of your window, yes, just a little to the left, you see that pigeon? That's for posting memes giving away the secrets.

From the article:

The 10-person team is trapped at the remote Sanae IV base, which is on a cliff edge about 105 miles inland from the ice shelf, by encroaching ice and weather as the southern hemisphere winter sets. Teams overwintering at the base are typically cut off for 10 months at a time. Sources told South Africa’s Sunday Times that the only way to leave the base now was via emergency medical evacuation to a neighbouring German base about 190 miles away.

As far as I can see it's currently the end of the Antarctic summer, winter is just starting, and will likely last until October. It sounds like something went badly wrong with both the psychological screening of the team members, and the decision for the ice breaker that delivered them to leave before the situation was resolved.

They're cut off, noone's getting in or out until the weather improves, which will be months. The team are on their own with the attacker until then and will probably appreciate counselling when they're out.

I have a strong suspicion that if I was suddenly attacked, my brain would dump all ideas of fighting back and just freeze, which of course allows the violence to happen.

Find, and take, local self defence classes. Not necessarily martial arts classes (though they may be involved), but real world self defence. It'll be grittier, nastier and much better practice. Get used to grappling and fighting in a controlled environment, and you'll be much less likely to freeze if you need it in an emergency.

You're right that'll it'll take a long time to change at a cultural level, but that needs to start somewhere, and obe person doing it and then encouraging others could be a local catalyst.

That's how it's going to have to be until the US administration starts to act reasonably, sorts out it's agricutural system and generally shows that it's a beneficial member of the global community for a good long time. I think the rest of us will have moved on by then, realigning alliances and generally making things better without them. The US and Russia will fight that with every dirty trick they have, and as a global community, we'll have to be ready for that.

I don't think it's entirely crazy talk, I can also see how this could end up makibg other countries work better together, but the path there is narrow and trump, his adherents, and puppetmasters will be doing everything in their power to stop it happening. At least, everything short of not destroying their allegences and friendships.

Do it properly, or don't do it at all: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E

Any of the 'leopards eating faces' type comms are a natual home for this.

I'm going to need you to flesh this out a little bit, then make a web 1.0 style site, complete with scrolling marqe, random fonts and sizes, and a lot of statements along the lines of "if you don't see the truth of this you are evil and should be thrown off the edge". Once that's in place I think we're good to launch your new conspiracy.

That sentence was going rather predictably right up until the last word. Well done.

No, no, the importer pays the tax. You might want to send them a little extra if you want to help them out with that.

I've got to say, I initially thought I was looking at a bat on the bats comm.

I'm curious, given the choices that were put in-front of the voters at the election, and considering the whole ballot, what would you suggest would have been the best course of action for a voter to take to minimize harm or even seek a positive outcome?

If your point is that it should never have come to that, then I would agree with you, but it did, so what would you have suggested voters do?

Images you can hear.

It buys a reduction in unhappiness, which is a good first step to hapiness, but money can't take you the next step of actually appreciating what you've got.