ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 40 minutes ago:
He should have given more than $1m to Cheeto in Mar-a-Lago. Cheapskate…
- Comment on How Elon Musk's favorite news influencer is capitalizing on his clout 3 hours ago:
The only reason Musk has influence is because he has an audience on Twitter. The only reason he has an audience is because people are willing to listen to what he has to say.
The questions is: who the fuck is interested in what Elon Musk has to say?
Unfollow him - or whatever ignoring someone on Twitter entails, I’ve never been on Twitter so I don’t know - and Musk will find himself deprived of influence. Just like that.
- Comment on Nigel Farage Calls for ‘DOGE’ Teams to Root Out Waste and Inefficiencies in English Councils 2 days ago:
Hey! Look at that bunch of bozos across the pond wrecking essential state services without having anything to show for it. Let’s do the same in Britain!
I could understand Nigel Farage being this misguided 2 months ago, perhaps. But in April 2025, advising anyone to create a British DOGE is akin to setting fire to the country and throwing the fire extinguisher in the bin.
What a fucking moron…
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 4 days ago:
Just because people like being abused doesn’t mean it’s not abuse.
Developers get shafted pretty hard by Apple, if nobody else.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 4 days ago:
What the hell rock have you been living under? Apple has been a monopoly for many years.
- Comment on Prompt: How would an AI win an Election? 5 days ago:
Well, a human being talking random shit won the last presidential election. So why not an AI at this point?
- Comment on The Ghost in the Shell (2026, dir Moko-chan) 5 days ago:
I want to watch this so bad because I’m a sucker for anything Gits. But I will say this: the trailer doesn’t entice me at all.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals the full stunning amount DOGE will save taxpayers next year 6 days ago:
Elon Musk rule #1: everything will happen next year, for many years, until it doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Microsoft is about to launch Recall for real this time 1 week ago:
Microsoft has been stealing people’s data right and left for years. Nothing new. If you’re only concerned about Microsoft violating your privacy now, you’re not that concerned about privacy.
- Comment on Microsoft is about to launch Recall for real this time 1 week ago:
Good. That will push more people to abandon Windows.
- Comment on Trump team shows American Dream reminder as DOGE cuts more waste in latest move 1 week ago:
He is not and you know it.
He’s wrecking stuff that the rich don’t have their grubby fingers into - like social security, VOA, USAID and other poor people stuff - and leaving the military industrial complex they make money out of intact. No significant amount of waste is being eliminated.
The Democrat didn’t do jack shit. I agree. The Republicans are doing worse, is my point: what they’re really doing is stealing from the poor to give to rich, as always, but at level 11.
- Comment on Trump team shows American Dream reminder as DOGE cuts more waste in latest move 1 week ago:
Your question is whataboutism and a logical fallacy.
I’m not comparing with Democrats or anything the Democrats did or didn’t do. The Democrats are just as awful as the Republicans because they all belong to the fat-cat politician class, but with one crucial difference: they’re not fucking fascists.
But I digress. This is beside the point.
The point is: Trump and his South African backer pretend to go after waste and they don’t. If they did, DOGE would be busy gutting the Pentagon instead of USAID. But they’re not doing that. In fact, they just gave the Pentagon more pork.
- Comment on Trump team shows American Dream reminder as DOGE cuts more waste in latest move 1 week ago:
So you think we should just let 15 million dollars go to waste
No, I think we should go after the real money wasters first: the military.
Then we should go after the billionaires and tax the shit out of them.
Only then should we go after insignificant sources of waste.
- Comment on Trump team shows American Dream reminder as DOGE cuts more waste in latest move 1 week ago:
$15M ? Wow… We’re well on our way to reducing the $1.2tn deficit. Thanks Elon!
- Comment on How this auto union leader's support for Trump's tariffs scrambled labor politics again 2 weeks ago:
The only thing this story proves is scrambled is the brain of Trump supporters.
- Comment on SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever 3 weeks ago:
Well, if it’s good enough for a couch-fucking VP and a weekend TV show hosts playing Secretary of Defence, it’s good enough for me.
- Comment on Elon Musk and his DOGE nerds reveal bombshell plans to turn government into an Apple store 'experience' 3 weeks ago:
You mean overpriced and made in China?
- Comment on Annotated Text From Leaked Signal Group Chat With Top Trump Officials 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny how Pete Hegseth doesn’t understand he was put there solely as a pawn to execute Cheeto’s orders. He totally thinks he has a real role to play, he takes himself seriously and he thinks everybody else takes him seriously too as Sec. of Defense.
- Comment on If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign 3 weeks ago:
A defense secretary intentionally using a civilian app […}
That’s your mistake right there: Pete Hegseth isn’t a defense secretary, he’s a fucking lowly weekend TV show host Trump placed in the Pentagon to execute his orders. He wouldn’t know anything about secrecy because he’s utterly incompetent in sensitive state matters. Hell, he wouldn’t even know how hot sharing this sort of information with a journalist is because he ain’t even a journalist…
- Comment on Pam Bondi Calls Tesla Vandalism ‘Domestic Terrorism,’ Promising Consequences 4 weeks ago:
Hint: there are Tesla dealerships in many other countries, if you want ideas for other places to visit during your holidays abroad.
- Comment on Pam Bondi Calls Tesla Vandalism ‘Domestic Terrorism,’ Promising Consequences 4 weeks ago:
Aah, the magic T word that lets the US powers that be arrest and detain anybody without due process…
I’ve been wondering for 25 years when the US would finally turn terror charges inward against its own citizenry on trumped-up charges to quell dissent. Well, that time has come.
- Comment on Trump admits to using autopen after declaring Biden's pardons void due to autopen 4 weeks ago:
I say we should consider all the stupid executive orders Trump didn’t verifyably signed by hand on camera done by autopen, therefore null and void.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 4 weeks ago:
My parents have a small bussiness here, and like, we can’t just thanos snap and move everything.
Remember that many jews said the same thing in Germany before the war, until they realized it really was time to get out of Dodge and they couldn’t.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 4 weeks ago:
Curious, what country did you go to
I lived in many countries. The one I went to when I left the US was the UK.
Because AFIAK, there only a few ways
You missed mine 🙂 I had dual citizenship. I simply gave one up.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 4 weeks ago:
If I was still an American (I gave up my citizenship after Dubya shat the USA Patriot Act) and part of an at-risk group - and there are many - I would seriously consider emigrating at this point.
Don’t do like the jews who stayed in Germany after 1933 thinking it can’t get any worse: it will and you don’t want to be stuck in the US when it’s too late to leave.
- Comment on Inside Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent: Obscure Laws, ICE Agents and Fear | President Trump is clamping down broadly on dissent using the tools of the federal government. 5 weeks ago:
“Freedom of speech has limitations,” Thomas D. Homan, who is overseeing Mr. Trump’s deportation operation, said on Wednesday during a meeting of New York lawmakers in Albany. “We consider him a national security threat.”
Nothing says democracy like “Freedom of speech is a national security threat”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The sad truth is, Americans are so damned dumb, he might be right.
- Comment on Americans Fall Behind on Car Payments at Highest Rate in Decades 1 month ago:
One less omelette per day and they’ll have enough money to pay off their car and buy a new one cash.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 1 month ago:
I try to learn the following sentences in the language of a country I go to if I don’t know anything at all about that language:
- Hello, as polite as possible
- Goodbye, as polite as possible
- A beer please
- I’m sorry I don’t speak <language>: do you speak English?
I find this quite enough to strike up a conversation in most of the world. When people don’t automatically switch to English - perhaps because they don’t know it well enough - then I try another “universal” language like Spanish or French (universal mostly because of past colonialism, sadly). That implies speaking those languages of course.
If the locals won’t speak in English because of a prejudice against English (mostly French-speaking regions) I don’t even bother with the “I’m sorry…” bit.
If the locals are anti-Americans - very common, and getting more and more common - I affect a British accent. I wouldn’t fool a Brit for a New York minute but I’m convincing enough for a non-native English speaker to avoid being associated with the US.
- Comment on Trump Is Hiding Something on Ukraine 1 month ago:
You mean Krasnov is hiding something on Ukraine…
Honestly, I know it’s a conspiracy theory. But the orange utan wouldn’t act any different if Putin had him on the payroll.