Its not that people have missed the joke, it's that the joke is poorly formed and not hyperbolic enough to be funny, instead it's rather a half joke and brings up a larger issue (intentional or not), that undermines the attempt at absurdist humor.
Again, I hope there are a lot. And I suspect you're right. Except that advertising it ultimately becomes important, though as you point out, it is risky because the alt-right is filled with LEO.
It's important to encourage other liberals and non-fascists to deplore violence and be firmly against the collapse of the union, but also ready for it.
Humans are herd animals. When they hear that people they identify with are preparing for a worst case, it destigmatizes it.
So do groups like SRA and Iron Front, which spend much of their time doing community service. But in that they provide a community and a sense that, wow, when the radical right in this country says they want a war and their lead candidate says he wanrs to kill us all, and they're constantly buying guns, ammo, and armor... maybe they aren't kidding.
Worldnews terrorists and terrorist sympathizers have driven off a ton of people. I see your comment echoed regularly. A lot of people who reluctantantly have returned to Reddit have said the same thing. And they drive more people off Lemmy than anything else.
The WorldNews group specifically is a hot spot for terrorist recruitment. I genuinely hope that there's serious intelligence gathering going on and flagging these radicals. I regularly file reports when they're advocating terrorism and other illegal activities.
These nutters are dangerous, and the group continues to get worse all the time. Their trajectory is literally a case study in indoctrination, then ultimately becoming active terrorists or providing material support to terrorists. When you see the really off the deep end shit, be sure to report it.
They regularly debate that there's no such thing as terrorism. Which is a screaming red flag.
I don't envy you that miserable decision. And I get that you've evaluated everything and personally feel it's worth gambling that they don't fuck you and make it pointless, all that effort, bringing the game to market.
I'm rooting for you here, and I hope everything works out!
I feel just as awful for anyone who has an overwhelming port or even an impossible port. It's just miserable.
Canada looks to me as an outsider who just reads and watched the news there, to be just about 7-12 years behind, but headed in exactly the same direction using the exact same playbook.
I super hope I just don't get it, or my sources are wrong, bc if true that would be fucking awful.
BUT I mean, honestly, it's the home of QAnon, so why not, right?
There are groups like the Socialist Rifle Association and Iron Front USA, which are listening and not inured. This or similar groups welcome new members all the time.
End state capitalism, the coportocracy / oligarchy using the legal system they control to wield the fascist police forces against the people who don't behave like they're told. Meanwhile, taxing what little those people have to pay the salaries of those forces abusing them.
I mean, the studios are doing it right and following SOP.
They wrote the DCMA, used the congress they bought to pass it, the president the bought to sign it into law, and now will use the FBI and local militarized police to impose their will by force.
Constituon was an obstacle they did away with when they bought the Supreme Court.
Heh, all Arab states were established fairly recently. LOL.
And holy shit. At least we are done. You're an apologist for terrorists. As I tell a lot of radicalized kids on here who are Hamas aligned or members, you need to self reflect and get out of your bubble.
You're heading down a super dangerous direction that could ruin your life. Take a step back, and take a breath. And step away. When you come back, expose yourself to something other than Hamas propaganda, and the Lemmy echo chamber.
Your assertion that "Oct. 7th wasn't a terrorist attack", is a crazy huge red flag warning. I won't try to reason with you anymore. You're clearly past reason.
I wish you the best of luck and hope you turn away from embracing terroism before you become an active participant.
I've never seen a better recruiting place for Hamas than Lemmy. It's super dangerous, and needs to be addressed.
For this reason, he said, “we stand firmly against a political instrumentalization” of the Convention.
Which is exactly whats happening. And in the process its demeaning and devaluing the convention. Much like happens constantly in Lemmy WorldNews.
Israel’s six legal representatives asserted that the ICJ has no jurisdiction over the complaints brought by South Africa since they relate to the laws of armed conflict, not genocide; argued that “random” inflammatory comments of Israeli politicians did not reflect policy determined in the state bodies making war policy; and insisted that the widespread harm to Palestinian civilians during the war was a result of Hamas’s massive use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes, and not genocidal acts
It's nice when sanity and reality rear their heads. That's going to rial up the Hamas members and supporters here ON Lemmy.
It's time to extinguish the lone star. When you take up arms against the country... it's SHERMAN TIME!
Joking aside, though, this is treason and literally taking up arms against the country. The insurrection needs to be put down, and the courtrooms filled with these traitors on trial, especially Abbot and his cronies.
Wait, people are still using Unity after they clearly demonstrated they'll fuck you on a whim? Honestly, seems like everyone's been given a fair warning about dealing with these scumbags. I get migrating a codebase is a motherfucker, and sometimes it is even easier to redevelop much or all of the project. But again, if you're renting retail space from someone who is a psychopath, bipolar, and an arsonist (Unity in this case), and they might burn your shop down at any moment, sometimes you gotta move!
Because when your legislators write laws (read, have them handed to them by the party with a direct interest) they do it for campaign donations because everything is money. Capitalism's end stage is corporatocracy and oligarchy. Surprise, we're there! Legislation in a healthy democracy/republic is written for the benefit of the citizens, but we stopped being a democratic republic long ago. In capitalism, legislation is written to maximize profit at all expense, including the health, welfare, and best interests of the citizens.
This isn't new, study the history of the East India Trading Company. The difference is lack a monarch to dissolve the company (and it's not just one company anymore). The founders remembered the lesson of East India Trading Company and corporate charters in the US used to be temporary, and you had to show a benefit to the citizens. It's one reason conservatives, republicans, and capitalists don't want strong education and history lessons. Corporations in the past were NOT people, and they better benefit society or they could swiftly have their charter revoked and dissolved.
This is a repeat, but even more successful than in the past. But when your populous has no education it seems brand new!
I don't know that they deserve it, but as a society, we certainly don't have the resources to fix MAGA. That level of deprogramming and educating is WAY past our infrastructure and resources.
This post was a great laugh, I'm thankful for you OP!