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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Further; if there is anyone who ensures Trump’s first win and enabled the second was the DNC undemocratically undermining Bernie’s primary successes and putting her forward and despite the machinations and dishonesty of it, her wanting it so much she accepted it and marginalized Bernie and actual progressivism dooming the democratic party to further irrelevance and weakness when they could have moved left 8 years ago and won.

  Fuck Hillary for thinking her winning was more important than the constituents of the party she’s a member of. It’s the essence of entitlement, elitism and antidemocraticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since today is March 24, I'll be watching this classic for the first time (the movie takes place on this day in 1984).⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just watched it for the first time last year, it had been one of those “always on the list” but just never happened.

  It translates well and was insightful for me. I was shocked by the dialogue in a good way; remembering how much people used to be able to communicate with each other, handle complex emotions without shutting down forever, recover, and grow stronger. In 2025 where people barely talk about real things to their friends and family in the US let alone strangers, it is such a stark reminder of what has been lost to cable TV and cell phones in the intervening decades since the movie came out. Not that everyone used to talk like that on a everyday basis but if you put out a movie like that now many people wouldn’t even watch it, or be able to process it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System into Turmoil | A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile just was looking at the Jeep with the “let’s go Brandon” bumper sticker in my grocery parking lot with Veteran license plate…

  These fucking idiots are signing their own death warrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cathy, do the math.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, that’s not true at all. This one time, I met a guy who…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was trying not to be sensational but felt it should be higher as my made up stat, but decided lower and inarguable would be best since the internet loves to split hairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fauxnalism- make up a shitty portmanteau, generalize about an enormous group of people based on their age without any hard data, assert you have special insight into something that doesn’t exist to divide and distract from real issues and generate clicks and outrage and profit. 50% of “news” in 2025.

  Ironically, this article is fauxductivity it adds nothing to anything, and could mostly be AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think the US will actually log its national parks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They will sell it to the highest bidder, likely foreign. That is the whole point of the “sovereign wealth fund”. Trump and the Uber wealthy see it as an asset to plunder, who cares if Bahrain owns Yellowstone or you have to pay Bezos to fly over the Amazon Canyon? The future is amazing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shaquille O’Neal Admits to Not Watching Detroit Pistons After Being Called Out for Praising Coach Who Isn’t Even on the Team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t care, not important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sad debacles of "Big 3" teams in the NBA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phoenix is your dream trading partner; desperate and valuing name recognition and salary pricetag over fit, stats, effort and performance history. I felt like PHL was trying harder than Phoenix and got a bit unlucky the way embiid went with injury and maturity.

  Bradley Beal has talent and never was anywhere near showing he could play within a system other than talented player on a crap team, let alone a complex balance of sharing the ball with two of the most talented offensive players in the league…who also mostly share his main affliction of being a defensive liability. He’s a 90s-era ball hog star. Shocker he didn’t work out.

  Building slowly and organically is the way to do it and enjoy it, if you get a lucky draft pick along the way it helps. Cleveland(recent), Memphis, Sacramento, OKC of old were all far more enjoyable, and mostly more successful than teams that just back up a dump truck of money with no strategy to someone who can score 30 a night; clippers, nets, Knicks, Etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The MAGA War on Speech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming from the NYT who prioritizes neutrality over directness and transparency which allows cover for fascism and dishonesty. Biggest mouthpiece in the world but only run opinion pages with real teardowns and only now but for how long?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Wants to Pass Trump’s Agenda in One Big Bill. Here’s What’s in It.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bulk of the article focuses on whether or how the insane deck chair rearranging to make tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and corporations “possible”, and zero time calling out the horrifying impact and real world consequences. What a horrid rag the NYT is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Has a Rogue President⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yawn, pull the news out of the opinion pages you coward NYT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embiid benched, declines comment as Sixers lose⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the NYT can’t call fascist takeover what it is, that wouldn’t be “fit to print” as their money lies in service of power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.

  I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And by vulture venture capitalists you mean nearly every publicly traded company, which is almost every company you’ve ever heard of. It’s why you have to constantly be on the defensive even when buying a pack of gum. Is it full of poison? Too much sugar? Do they use slave labor to produce the product? Are they funding genocide in central America? Why is the price 3x last year?

  By welding insatiable, unregulated capitalism as the sole way of operating our economy, we guarantee that quality and human-positive outcomes are eaten up, taken over, destroyed, monetized, privatized or enshittified.

  I just want to buy a pack of gum in a reasonable world that doesn’t need to support CEO levels of wealth and all the horrific downstream practices and cost cutting that comes with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I reported that tool to another mod in AskLemmy, got nowhere. Same mod you mention posted an AskLemmy question, I commented, he removed my up voted comment and then deleted his down voted, nonsensical one. I asked why and he was super weird. I’ve had maybe 1 comment removed by a mod in 15 years of reddit and 1 of Lemmy.

  It’s a bad look for Lemmy, get rid of the dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you truly haven’t connected the dots as to why the slide to the right of Democrats enabled Trump to win, and win again, I pity you.

  Throwing labels at me because you can’t refute the point is always the mark of someone on the correct side. Rest easy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He allowed extra-judicial torture practices there against UNHR and any humanitarian objections. He didn’t do what Trump is going to, but he allowed it to normalize and continue despite the power to stop it, and makes it less of a leap for a right wing freak to make something like this happen. It’s not a “thanks Obama”, but people down voting holding Obama to account for keeping it open want Dems to be blameless despite complicity in the neoliberal bullshit dating back to Clinton as the party swung for corporate interests and abandoned their humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Obama didn’t, even with a supermajority in the Senate. This is the problem with me liberalism taking over the D party. Trump certainly isn’t going to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nikola Jokic buries nearly full-court buzzer-beater for Denver - ESPN Video⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I just thought I was tired and decided to not run more and shoot from there. What?!?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canva charges you to make a circle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You catch on too quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canva charges you to make a circle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can no longer choose the shapes, AI hallucinates them for you. If they don’t fit your desired shape you can pay-per-side-polygon to have a fixed number of sided shape added. mS pAInt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood Doesn’t Make Movies Like ‘The Fugitive’ Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read an article about how the Atlantic, owned by Steve Jobs widow, employs a leader who is ex-israeli military and that their coverage of the conflict in the last year has been one-sided and horrific. It was damning.

  “The reason it’s called the Atlantic is that it belongs at the bottom of the ocean” was the title. I was convinced and disappointed, I remember them having interesting articles back in the day but am done reading them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lebron with the lefty dunk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it looks like he was also back to make the steal off the outlet pass. Just wow at his age. The decision was what 15 years ago?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's fucking ads in board games now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  -you won’t believe this shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's fucking ads in board games now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a money maker. Now just as AI to it and you’re set with your 2025 business model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's fucking ads in board games now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until toilet paper real estate starts being used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion | Enough With the Land Acknowledgments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “might have outlived their usefulness.”

  As they were mostly non-commitment, no-cost virtue signaling without any benefit to the harmed, of course they never had any usefulness other than allowing the opioid of having run the progressive gauntlet of ideas and become somewhat fashionable so as to rid consumers of horror, guilt, doubt and the complex feelings that should be associated with genocide.

  There is always a place for education about horrors committed, but as an also-ran, a brochure cover footnote or something read before a Drunken Shakespeare play you are out to see on a Friday night, they are all offensive to the tragedy of what happened.