ThePyroPython @ ThePyroPython @lemmy.world

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Genuinely, what you're seeing right now is individuals in an entire group go through their own individual chapel perilous moments: confronted with the reality of what their beliefs have brought to the world some will be horrified and reject those beliefs, yet some will double down and be sucked further into them.

For those that reject the beliefs it will be highly traumatic and isolating for them and, as hard as it will be because it feels like a misjustice, those who have always seen the orange cunt for what he is should bring them into our community to support them during this process of genuine repentance as there's now an avenue for these people to be deprogrammed from the cult of personality, gently educated to make them more politically aware, and help them find an active supportive role in the community so they feel some positive empowerment and hope that will act as a stalwart against the fear that MAGA had been poisoning their minds with.

For those who double down and reject what their own eyes and ears tell them are going to become even more dangerous as these ideas, thoughts, and beliefs they'll now guard even more closely as a part of their identity which could swallow things like self-preservation, which coupled with the sheer amount of anger and fear is a violent cocktail that Trump, the Billionaires, and foreign powers seek to put into destructive actions.

Yeah the only reason they didn't want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain's other colony of Canada.

Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.

Yeah nope, if the same product is available for free then the only way to prove a "stolen sale" is if someone had previously paid for the subscription and then cancelled to use the free version of the same product.

Anything else is just the hand of the free market doing it's thing. If Adobe executives are malding because someone made a cheaper (or free) alternative then they have two honourable routes available:

1. Add more value to their products to convince people their price tag is worth it.
2. Reduce the price they charge.

But they'll literally do anything else but those two, including astroturfing messages like "open source software is piracy", so stop spewing corpo bullshit!

You're god damn right!

Any venue or building rated for say, to pick a random number, more than 20 people can get randomly inspected by a fire safety inspector.

And I want fire safety inspectors to be feared as much as Judge fucking Dredd. So when they turn up announced, the building management shits a mega-block in fear when they realise that skimping on installing a proper security setup and resorting to chaining/locking fire escapes has just cost them personally a month in jail with a criminal record, issued on the spot!

There's simply no valid excuses for being this reckless with safety.

For fucks sake it's the same goddamn lessons that keep getting ignored.

The only way would be to jail any building owner who breaks fire regulations like this.

Oh let's absolutely piss off big tech, starting by removing anti-circumvention laws.

The UK will be the LAST country to break ties with the US because the "special relationship" is just code for Nuclear Dependency.

The UK in early stages of the cold war had a choice; build a joint missile, reactor, and warhead with DeGaul and the French OR buy systems from the US. They chose to go with the US.

The UK supposedly has "Command Independence" over its nuclear weapons, i.e. we can launch without US approval, but the middle technology is US bought as are the warheads and nuclear materials. The only thing we do is build the launch platform (Trident capable Submarines) and install the nuclear materials into the warheads and afix the warheads to the missiles.

I fucking hate it.

IK this is a meme, but how does "Luxury Anarchism" work?

Best one is to respond to something they say with "Oh that's quite interesting" in the flatest tone possible, then move the conversation on to a different topic or exit.

Works particularly well on Americans because in American English "quite" is an amplifier modifier but their brain will be confused by the flat (not sarcastic) tone.

Please, instead of more satirising toxic masculinity, can we have some more depictions of positive masculinity in lead roles like Aragorn from LotR?

Also, please feel free to list some good examples of positive masculinity in replies below because I and others I know could benefit from seeing more of that.

Yeah, fuck that noise. The whole idea of policing is that it's done by consent of the public being policed.

Depending on where you sit on the Anarchy - Authority spectrum, what "policing by consent" ideally looks like is very different, but the one thing the overwhelming majority of those on that spectrum (excluding the extremes on each end) is that civilian policing is not done by the (para)military.

So yeah, cops should not be saluting anyone and media depictions of them shouldn't be showing that either.

Also why is the police fox shown saluting someone?

Is this a US thing? Because police officers in the UK don't salute eachother.

Saluting was done to show respect to the officer class who literally came from the upper classes of society, not the working class that the rank and file come from.

Because the metropolitan police forces were founded in the UK as a working class organisation they don't salute eachother to show respect to ranks above them, they only stand to attention.

Are you ok mate? Do you need a cup of tea and a lie down?

The only guys who'd get mad at this either have some unresolved homophobia or are generally avoidant of touch.

I support all eggs in their journey, but I gotta say this is me purely because I prefer looking at the model (in 3rd person) and listening to a girl voice. I hear way too many gruff sounding men and the female voices usually have more variety of tones.

Especially watching in 3rd person as the lady character does something bad-ass, that dates back all the way to seeing Angelina Jolie as Tomb Raider.

Yeah this would just short the battery and the metal would heat up.

Might get a small spark when you close the gap between the conductors and that spark, despite not jumping to skin, might be enough to cause some sort of sensation?

Do we have some volunteers to test this?

Once you've been, you'll never want to leave.

Honestly yeah let's see what would happen because for me it's a win-win:

1. Pope welcomes and shelters them just as Jesus would do, American "Christians" get embarrassed as they find themselves without a leg to stand on.

OR

2. Pope ejects them from the Vatican and Catholic church hypocrisy is shown on full display.

They're not frustrated because the news is talking about it, it's because they're talking about it too quickly for them to normalise the horrific acts he's committed before the next one comes out.

I'd say throw her in the bin with the rest of the MAGA trash, but it'd be more environmentally friendly to recycle her.