Him and Joe Rogan

It absolutely should be. Do you want wealthy people to be able to offer poor and/or homeless people $100 to vote for candidate X?

Because that’s not a hypothetical, that shit used to happen all of the time.

For sure… But it seems like a whole different level of indoctrination than just like “being a Christian” or whatever.

Like, you have to be OK with ignoring objective reality. It’s just something I have trouble grasping.

Yeah, in this case, sure. But I guess I was talking about more in general. These people are out there. I would wager that there are millions of them in the US. At least.

I can understand having trauma related to the topic

What are you even talking about? Was this meant to be some kind of clever retort suggesting that I’d been forcibly sterilized, and that’s why I’m commenting on it?

Such a self-report, and you don’t even realize it. You cannot even comprehend someone giving a shit in the way that I did, unless the thing specifically happened to me.

Great way to tell everyone that you don’t understand empathy without actually saying it.

I installed Bottles, but was disappointed when it didn’t actually have anything to do with bottles.

If you think every name of every product, etc., is going to be literal… you’re gonna have a tough time in life.

I feel the same, except it is actually true because I have not allowed myself to not be high for the last 8+ years.

It’s an interrobang, baby

This is just something that I will never be able to comprehend… How can someone be so completely incurious?

Shameful… The union members who fought and died for his right to be a member would be sickened by the idea of supporting someone like Trump (politics aside, even if you just look at his history refusing to pay workers and bragging about it).

I read that JD Vance crossed a picket line to do a rally or something a week or so ago. When I was younger, that shit would get you killed in a union town (possible hyperbole, they’d probably just break your legs and boot you out of town). Nowadays nobody bats an eye. It wasn’t even in the news, I only read about it in my union newsletter.

Well, the GOP literally wants to outlaw no fault divorce, so they better do it quick.

I’m sure it’s easy to laugh about when none of them are voting for outright fascism.

Absolutely, they should target all of them.

However, you’re ignoring the difference here; that TikTok is a Chinese company, and in that kind of system, you can’t really separate “private” companies and the CCP.

It would be trivial for China to get data from TikTok.

I was raised with the very strong belief that my vote was private, and I never had to tell anyone. I think it probably came from my father’s own experiences as a hippie during the War in Vietnam, and voting differently than his conservative family…

Unfortunately, he’s seemingly forgotten all of that in an angry pro-Trump haze, to the point where I’m convinced that he would do this to my mother now. If he had to. I think he’s already got her conditioned to not have a political mind of her own. So no need.

Seems clear now that it was always just the typical boomer mantra of “me me me.” The only reason he had any concept of being ostracized by family for voting a certain way, is because it happened to him. Now it doesn’t matter because they all know he’s a fucking nutter, so no need to hide it I guess.

In other words, if I were being raised by him right now, he’d be saying something completely different (and probably demanding to see my ballot). Just like every other value he instilled in me, then immediately ignored for the rest of his life.

I don’t think this is necessarily true when talking about modern social media

Unless you’re a slave, of course.

and I’m so amazed how well it just works with proton.

Yeah dude!

I’m relatively new to Linux, so I don’t really have any experience pre-proton. But I get the feeling that there are TONS of people who haven’t tried it in years, that truly do not understand how far it has come. I’m sure they’ve heard that before, etc., but I can say that it’s 100% true this time.

If you haven’t tried gaming on Linux since before the Steam Deck came out, I implore you to give it another shot. Even better if you use a gaming-oriented distro (I’m on Bazzite now, and it has been wonderful).

Admittedly, I don’t play any games with anti-cheat, but my linux gaming experience over the past two years or so has been outstanding. I don’t believe I have encountered a single game that I have wanted to play, but could not. And 99.9% of them work without any tweaking required.

This comment conflates jail and prison as if they’re the same thing, and they are not. It’s an important distinction.

They probably don’t have the resources for name tags…

I know you were making a joke, but it is foolish to believe for one second that this wasn’t done intentionally as a form of dehumanization and public humiliation.

Does it really matter so much that the IDF writes a number on their forehead, when they’re also bombing children? Is a marker really a greater evil than a bomb?

Yes, it really matters. Both things matter. Do we have to make “Israel war crime” tier lists before determining if we should care about something? It’s all awful. And it’s all inter-related anyway. This is the type of dehumanization that allows IDF soldiers to murder so many women and children without remorse.

And I could see someone who does not have an understanding of history, and the historical context around this level of dehumanization, could not fully grasp the symbolism here.

But yes, this is something that we 100% should be talking and worrying about.

Right, but I wouldn’t call those places “prisons,” and even if they once were, they ceased being such when they started using them as fucking black sites to torture people