Then the winner will be Popey McPopeface.

Hound them to the day they die, like the Nazis they revere.

Oh, so they can only do this during the first two years they’re in the country?

They’ll be fixing that real soon.

Looks like Apple is balking at paying the required bribe.

I came to Lemmy after being permabanned on Reddit, and I didn’t have any problem signing up, logging in, or using it.

I also miss the smaller crowds, but I don’t miss the pages of puns, shitposts, trolls, 4Chan refugees, contrarians, novelty accounts, bots, Russian Propaganda Farmers, etc. I do miss the active forums for some of my favorite subjects, like guitars. The few forums that exist are very quiet, with posts every few days, weeks or even months, instead of constantly, like Reddit.

I find it much better for politics, if for no other reason that we can talk openly without getting suspended or banned.

I was permabanned from Reddit right after the Inauguration after 12 years, and almost a million Karma, of posting radical, activist, anti-conservative, anti-MAGA posts. I’m already on a list, probably have been for a long time.

They just had a ruling on a religious issue, and the evangelicals thought she’d be a slam dunk vote, and she recused herself, forcing the issue to remain with a lower appellate court, where the case was lost. She didn’t vote against it, but she still voted for it to lose.

Why do they have to reboot the exact same stories every decade or so?

I’ve despised him ever since he collaborated with the clumsy Republican smear campaign to destroy Al Franken’s career. Franken is 100x the man and senator than that weak, spineless, insipid Schumer will ever be.

The next American Olympics is scheduled for Summer 2028. America, and the world, will be a much different place by then. I expect that we will have an Olympics of mostly authoritarian nations, and no Democratic nations.

And there will be lots of ludicrous world records set, because they will fuck with the timings. These guys can’t do anything without cheating.

Back in the 90s, my wife once briefly worked for the largest health care company in our state, working with a lawyer whose entire job was to go through the files of patients who had been diagnosed with chronic or expensive issues, and find a reason, any reason, to deny them. This lawyer was very, very good at her job, and routinely invented reasons to deny people the health care that they had been paying for over years, just when they needed the coverage the most. She was a one woman death panel, and she sentenced people to death, or suffering, every single day.

This started as a temp job, and every day my wife would come home feeling terrible about what this woman was doing, and supporting her efforts as her assistant. Then one day she came with the news that they had offered her a permanent position, which is why she was temping in the first place.

I’ve never seen anyone so unhappy about a job offer. I had a good job, and we didn’t NEED the money, but it would be nice. She felt obligated to take this job, but it was clear her soul was highly conflicted. I had also been conflicted about this job, and told her that under no circumstances was she to accept it, and the relief on her face was obvious.

She ended up with a different job that fit her much better, and didn’t require her to be a functionary in Corporate Serial Killing.

Years later, Sarah Palin started yammering about the “death panels” in ObamaCare, and I thought “the insurance companies already have death panels, why isn’t anybody worried about that?”

Nah, once is good enough. Better to spend all those other bullets on other deserving CEOs.

All insurance is gambling. They are betting that you’ll pay thousands in home insurance or car insurance, and never make a claim, like most people. It’s a good bet for the insurance companies.

But Health Insurance is different. Unlike your house burning down or your car getting wrecked, which seldom if ever happens, EVERYBODY gets sick, and eventually dies. It’s ALWAYS a losing bet for the healthcare insurance companies. They have no choice but to rig the game so they can win.

That’s why we need to forget about Health Care INSURANCE, and think in terms of Health Care MANAGEMENT. That needs to be in the hands of an entity that isn’t motivated by profit, and that’s the government. EVERY other country in the world understands this, but America is a Ferengi nation, and we literally worship profits. And I mean LITERALLY - Prosperity Doctrine is the most powerful religious philosophy in America at the moment.

I don’t remember this game, but I downloaded it, and it works great! I’ll be killing a lot of time with this.

Russia and Israel are similar to a frankly kind of ridiculous degree

It’s not so much that they are like each other, they are both proponents of a new sort of unforgiving, relentless warfare. For decades, we have been trying to fight wars with Rules, but the old saying “All’s fair in Love and War” has returned with a vengeance.

America has wasted trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, fighting wars by the Rules, with little to show for it, so it makes sense that new, more successful, methods of warfare would eventually emerge. When America’s next war starts, expect that we will be committing the same sorts of atrocities.

It’s important to note that Kushner was in the middle of negotiations on a $10 billion arms deal with MBS when this happened. Kushner knew about it in advance, and assured MBS that the operation wouldn’t detail the arms talks, nor would HitlerPig speak out against it.

They knew that Khashoggi was going to be murdered, yet they did absolutely nothing to warn him, and let him go to his death, where he was tortured to death, and dismembered. They have video of him entering the building, but never coming out, although operatives were spotted leaving with heavy suitcases, presumed to be his body. His body has never been found.

HitlerPig and Kushner greenlighted the murder.

I get 5, I’ve known a lot of women who wear just a giant T-shirt to bed. 15 is the weird one. I’ve never known a woman to wear a bra to bed, and certainly nothing except a bra. Maybe they have giant, unruly breasts that need to be strapped down.

There won’t be a 2026 midterm election. HitlerPig can’t afford to lose either chamber majority, and allow the Democrats to control investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.

He will continue to stir up 😵‍💫 now, making more and more people angry, and letting the protests grow. Next summer, he will encourage his Red hats to instigate trouble at protests around the nation, then use Federal troops to quell the trouble with ferocious violence, which he will blame 100% on the protesters.

Then he will declare Martial Law, and suspend elections until peace is restored, and since he controls the peace, that will never happen.

Once we’ve missed the 2026 Midterms, it will be easier to skate past the 2028 Presidential election, and then the Constitution is fully dead.

His spineless simpering responses to everything MAGA have been laughably inadequate for years. He’s been 100% dead to me since he collaborated with that clumsy Republican smear campaign against Al Franken to destroy his career. It’s not enough to primary him out of office, he needs to be forced to resign in embarrassing and humiliating fashion.

Who needs FEMA? They’ve got Thoughts & Prayers®.