ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on How this auto union leader's support for Trump's tariffs scrambled labor politics again 1 day 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 days 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 days ago:
You mean overpriced and made in China?
- Comment on Annotated Text From Leaked Signal Group Chat With Top Trump Officials 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 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. 2 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] 3 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on How Covid Remade Our America, Five Years Later 3 weeks ago:
Your America. Not mine. This sad raging fascist country has nothing to do with the America I know.
- Comment on Andrew Tate speaks to media after arriving in South Florida 4 weeks ago:
I fail to understand how those two bozos have any importance. I must be old…
- Comment on Why do people love Ukraine so much? 4 weeks ago:
Everybody loves an underdog who fights against someone everybody hates.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
Is it a problem?
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
I’m from yesterday. When I was a kid in the 70’s, my tomorrow was the triumph of science, an evermore interconnected world of evermore educated people, the rule of individual rights and freedoms, the retreat of religion and magical thinking, fewer and fewer wars and the gradual end of poverty.
I’m very bitter today because somebody stole my future. But you can also argue that I, a man of yesterday, failed to shape the world of today too. We all failed.
If you’re a person of today, you need to work towards a better tomorrow right now. Because if you don’t, you’ll end up regretting not doing it later in life like I do.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 4 weeks ago:
Because the American culture has indocrinated Americans to put themselves first. Whoever has “me first” hard-coded in their personality tends to view everybody else as inferior.
- Comment on SNP MP calls for Trump state visit to be scrapped 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention, he’s so unstable he might throw another tantrum and lash out at Charles.
- Comment on Trump Will Bring America First Drug Prices by Knocking Out the Middlemen, Making Europe Pay Its Fair Share 4 weeks ago:
President Trump understands
That would be a first…
- Comment on Trump Will Bring America First Drug Prices by Knocking Out the Middlemen, Making Europe Pay Its Fair Share 4 weeks ago:
So, is he going to free Luigi? He’ll cut the middlemen.
- Comment on Trump’s Tariffs Are Raising Costs for One of His Favorite Industries: Oil 4 weeks ago:
One day the orange utan will realize it’s not exporting countries that pay tariffs. But for now, the troublesome child is busy throwing tantrums at the leaders of our allies.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Maybe they should replace it with Google’s former pledge “Don’t be evil”: it’s free for the taking, nobody’s using it at the moment.
- Comment on Trump's new Labor Secretary is a fig leaf for his war on workers 4 weeks ago:
The only way she would care about labor is if she was pregnant…
- Comment on Egg Prices Are Soaring. Bird Flu May Not Be the Only Culprit. 4 weeks ago:
Bird flu is one reason.
The US having a bad case of oligarchism is another.
And a bad case of idiocy too, as demonstrated by the latest election. - Comment on Trump takes CPAC by storm, straw poll drawn for top leader choice in 2028 5 weeks ago:
Trump taking CPAC by storm is just about as surprising as Jim Jones taking Jonestown by storm.
And I suspect the magats would drink the koolaid too.