I’d take back those words that have hurt you

A choice to be? (If only it were that simple.)

Yes they is precisely it. Not to be confused with a Lego party (of blocks), or a Minecraft blocky party.

I mean, if they left it, possibly went to Mastodon, that sounds wonderful to me:-).

That’s what blocking is for:-)

Hence the cognitive dissonance yeah, though those looking to (ab)use the document can still make it work for them even while maintaining the fiction that “we didn’t change it”.

One example is the recent SCOTUS ruling that iirc allows a sitting President to assassinate their political opponents if they so choose, publicly and openly, and yet the conservatives who pushed for and made that happen are still (atm) calling the USA as a “democracy” rather than a totalitarian regime. Meanwhile, the liberal side doesn’t even bother with advocating for a platform any longer and instead focuses purely on attacking their opponent and shoring up the appearance of their own (independently of any specifics I mean) - a recent development for them (in the degree to which it is enacted, if not quite entirely), though conservatives have been doing that since at least Ron Desantis lost to Trump.

In short, “facts don’t matter”, to so very many these days, whereas what does is matters of presentation - tone of voice, who you know, how much money is backing you, etc. We see this all up and down the scale - in people trying to be famous on YouTube/Insta/Tiktok/etc., in the stock market, daddy’s nephew getting the cushy VP job at the office, and the very presidency itself, as well as most of (all of the entrenched) Senators, Representatives, judges, and most other things down in-between. Our society has forgotten the past struggles that gave the people of the past reasons to avoid certain things - e.g. actual literal full-on Nazi-ism - therefore we will now commence repeating them, our only hope to learn from firsthand experience what we refused to learn from reading books and listening to those who were actually there. i.e. we won’t take time to listen, bc we are too busy speaking.

It helps to realize that most of the people “defending” the Constitution have literally never read it, and they even admit that.

Like religion, “God” is whatever the TV (and radio) people say that He is - he’s so strong, he’s so precious, he rides around shirtless on horseback and wrestles bears, literally barehanded, and so forth.

Such people don’t care one bit what the founding fathers have to say - heck, they don’t even listen to Trump Himself when he said to take the vaccine (which he invented ofc). On the other hand, May The Founding Fathers Be Praised (and other chants that sound nice).

Oh hell naw. I’m maintaining my sanity by letting Jon Stewart tell me all about it afterwards:-).

If you are the only one in the entire community doing so, then it wouldn’t help all that much - though good on you to be so considerate!:-) But it’s not required, and I don’t think I’d use the NSFW marker for this, if it were me. You could rather use a hashtag or some such for maximum friendliness? e.g. “[violence]”, to allow people to use filtering keywords (for those that use apps that even support that - I don’t use apps so I don’t know which ones can do that).

It’s part of inflation - in this case the cost may stay the same (or even go up a bit) but you receive a cheaper product in return for that similar cost than the past.

The important thing is that people will continue to purchase the product regardless, not knowing any better, and thus the manufacturer pockets the profits. Always remember that the goal of any corporation is to produce short-term value for its shareholders, and… no, that’s it, period.

This issue is similar to the one with COVID, where it is the facts themselves that are often in question, and people following the leader regardless of what they do. As such, Innuendo Studios’ The Alt-Right Playbook works here as well - i.e. it is a mindset held by those who wish that the world were a certain way, and are willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Maybe it’s… “new to them”? 😜

Naw, you’re right - these must be young people, easily impressed by all the memes since the 80s that they’ve never seen before and therefore think are “new”. :-D

Maybe it’s Miss Pacman?

And don’t post, apparently, only doom scroll to consume bot-produced content.

Unlike here on Lemmy, where we repost memes from Reddit:-). (j/k, there are some true heroes here who truly produce content and we love them for it!)

Other than bots, who else is even still on Reddit…? :-P It’s bots interacting with bots, all the way down.

Don’t forget the maze of endless urinals - that somehow brings it all together:-).

In that case, it sounds more tolerable. Also, username does check out? :-P

Assuming they did it properly and the seal is still good. It may also void a warranty.

Noice:-)

The world is fucked up, so it makes sense. Probably you got toxic traits from your caregiver(s), explaining even why as a child you felt that way. Try to enjoy the ride anyway - I mean, what have you got to lose, really? :-P

e.g., learn to forgive, ending with yourself.