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LOL, you and me both. I'm too old to make any radical changes, but I've encouraged my kid to finish a University degree that will get him a job outside of the country. I think if I married for emmigration purposes, I'd end up in Hungry or something. Out of the pan and into the fire.

Seeing that the PRC has secret, illegal police in the US, are known to go after Chinese in the US, coupled with the US not being a country of laws...well, you do you. Just don't do it in ignorance.

Well then, carry on tilting at windmills and not getting a damn thing changed. For what it's worth, I am no communist, just a strong believer that ludicrous wealth inequality is the leading indicator in a society's dysfunction. If you feel the need, and actually believe, that almost 1/2 of the population of the US hasn't been fucked by the 1%ers as well, then I guess we'll just disagree. I wish you luck in your quest.

Anything other than class warfare is a distraction. If you drive through the rustbelt, the South, or many other parts of the country, the average white man hasn't had it great compared to the 1%. We can argue about levels, but we've all been getting fucked by the boys at the top.

Man, forcibly exile me back to my grandparents' Scandinavian village. Please.

I need to force myself to rewatch it. I watched it when it first came out and laughed my ass off. Then I watched it again about 10 years ago and didn't laugh as much. It wasn't a stretch anymore.

Honestly, the thread made for an interesting read. That person was like when you're so angry you can't even comprehend what the other person is saying. Or a troll, but it seemed more heartfelt than trolly. Either way, unwell is as accurate a keyboard assessment as I could come up with.

As Big Black sang back in the '80s

🎵 The only good love's unenforced

I acquiesced to marriage twice over the decades. Both times I didn't really want to get married. The problem was I didn't really NOT want to get married either. I think these choices, well-intentioned and made with love, kind of fucked up too big of a chunk of my approximate 4000 weeks of life. Unless there is a seriously pressing reason to do so, my very subjective advice is always: DON'T DO IT.

Well, from context it should be pretty clear. Sure, you'd need labels if you're submitting it for a formal paper or something, but for a comment on Lemmy, seems pretty...I don't know...petty.

Not Vim? WTF?

Have you seen these voters' fucking voting record?

This shit show is no joke, but I can't stop laughing. Every day. It's all just so unbelievably (yet somehow easily predicted as well) stupid.

...I thought it was don't vote for Harris? And yippee, it sure is great that you couldn't be fucked to vote for the lesser of two evils. Although maybe the current burn-it-all-to-the ground (focused on both Gaza and the US), will allow some type of phoenix resurrection in a few decades. I guess time will tell if your one-issue non-voting really made a difference or not. Short term, pretty obvious fuck-up, but long term you might have been onto something all along.

I thought zionism was a belief that Israel should exist.

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

Zionism

n 1: a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine

2: a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine [syn: {Zionism}, {Zionist movement}]

therefore I've always taken anyone who says,"I'm not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn't exist (IE, anti-zionist)" is a closet antisemite at best. Like a smug dork saying,"I'm not Republican, I'm Libertarian!" And I don't really thinks it's a game of semantics. It is semantics.

I can say that I really think the current Israeli gov't should be exiled on St. Helena and not allowed to leave or communicate forever, but that doesn't mean I'm anti-zionist. People who are anti-zionist seem to only have a selective and limited knowledge of a few thousand years of the history of the area.

Edit: Wow. A lot of "fuck the Jews" (historically from the area and persecuted in every surrounding country). Also a lot of "no, that means what I want it to mean, not what the word's definition is". Very right wingy. One of the topics I once again failed to keep away from. Freaking third rail on Lemmy to say anything about the problems in the mideast other than,"It's the Jews fault." I agree, fuck the settlers and the Israeli gov't right now, but that doesn't seem to matter. Again, very right wingy. Something doesn't work to satisfaction, so instead of fixing it, just get rid of it. Seems like the current US gov't approach to "fixing".

Yeah, I spent 20 years living outside the US. The ignorance, even the "good" people, about the rest of the world has been painful to me for most of my adult life. It's been really weird hearing all this rah-rah USA! USA! shit every time I moved back and just experiencing a place getting shittier every time. I've had way too many fellow Americans ask, "If it's so bad here, where else in the world is as good?" That type of ignorance. Most of us can't even imagine the idea of there being better countries. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

When I'm on my home instance (piefed.social for you I suppose), I see a list of subscribed communities on the sidebar. I think you can go into your profile and see as well. I used to just look at someplace like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to find new communities, but I don't know what the goto is now, it's been awhile since I've looked.

One weakness/strength of the fediverse is that it's not a single point of failure. By that I mean reddit might just nuke /r/foobar and it's all gone. The fediverse may break up that single community into several, ie foobar@piefed.social, foobar@lemmy.world, foobar@whateverhost. Now you have 3 or more communities discussing foobar, but they aren't linked. The weakness is that they aren't linked and can split the userbase. The strength is that if the owner of lemmy.world fucks off and their server disappeared, the other choices are still there. If you find

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It can be a little annoying at first, if you are used to reddit and 10k people commenting stupid shit all over the place, most of Lemmy you'll usually find 10s or 100s of people commenting stupid shit. It's worth it for me, and I haven't opened reddit in over a year. Your mileage may vary.

Well no, you can't trust the US for food safety. I live here and am starting to doubt it myself.

• Fight Club
• Click
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Spanking the Monkey
• Punch Drunk Love
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Those are just off the top of my head. Pretty standard list I think. The more I was thinking of the question, the more I was thinking that the majority of films probably could be used as an answer.

I've seen it mentioned that his speech was more of a shot across the bow of DNC leadership, highlighting that shit needs to change. Personally, I lean more toward your sentiment.

I suppose his speech could be seen as a shot across the bow of DNC leadership, but I'm not really that optimistic. Even if that's what it is, waaay too little and waaay too late.