Indeed, I think the Americans’ only recourse left at this point is the fourth box of liberty. The problem is, the powers that be have understood a long time ago that they need to outgun the citizenry if they want to stay in power forcibly. So they militarized the police to the point that it’s simply impossible to overpower it, and all of them surround themselves with multiple layers of bodyguards, so they’re impossible to approach.
Trump is so transparent, his evil henchmen even look evil! I mean look at that gormless, single-digit IQ pig Tom Homan, the Cruella-looking Tulsi Gabbard, the worm-for-brains RFK Jr. with the tombstone voice, and now this children-scaring motherfucker: they’re so caricatural they could have been cast as Dr. Evil’s henchmen.
I guess all that’s missing is a cat called Mr. Bigglesworth sitting on Trump’s lap.
This country is beyond hope.
I know. What I meant was, even assuming vaccines did cause autism in some cases and it was 100% confirmed, it’d still be a stupid idea from a public health point of view to give up vaccines, and it’d still be a risk worth taking for the health benefits from an individual point of view.
This is the most bizarre and dystopian threat.
Meanwhile, while this stupid diplomatic theater is playing, people are dying. It really is rather shocking.
Even if vaccines sometimes caused autism, the immense good they’ve been bringing for many decades to the human species would largely outweigh the risk.
What the anti-vaxxers are doing is akin to trying to convince people to give up electricity because some people get electrocuted sometimes.
If you only have one survival skill on the internet, it’s this:
Never EVER click on a .su link.
Probably some tankie administrator of one community read your comment in another and decided to preemptively ban you. I’m banned from multiple tankie communities I’ve never even set foot in myself. Not that I care 🙂
The solution is: when you get banned for no good reason, block the community - or the entire instance in extreme cases of craziness like Hexbear or Lemmygrad. Then it disappears from your Lemmy experience entirely and you never need be frustrated ever again.
What I find most amazing in recent times - not just the Trump years, but mostly - is that cheating, lying, grifting, flip-flopping, selling out, corruption and doing and saying any abjectly immoral thing is completely normalized and done in the open.
Rectitude and decency have been militantly and proudly abandoned, and dirtbags are totally happy to show their true ugly selves in full view of everybody. They don’t even make the effort to pretend they have any moral standards anymore. And somehow they’re allowed to remain part of society…
Did you get banned from tankie communities? Because that’s ridiculously easy. Those people are fucking crazy.
Don’t fret it. View it as social Darwinism: whichever communities banned you for posting what you thought were reasonable comments, you probably don’t want to partake in anyway.
What is DOGE doing? That agency should have been dismantled months ago!
Oh yes please!
Then go after OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Facebook too.
Because everybody doesn’t hate Meta already?
so, no Quinoa?
Yeah but they have to set it up. It’s not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn’t get to make any money off my back.
I pity the victims who have to watch this nauseating theater.
I said goodbye to the internet as I knew it decades ago when the first ad reared its ugly head on a website. It’s been pretty much a turd getting stinkier every year since then.
But I agree, the stench is about to become properly unbearable.
Oh yeah true, how could I forget that psycho!