skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Also, screw it, #79 should be Aurium.

You'd really be fucking Spandau Ballet over with that one.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (24 children)

The arrogance of assuming that anyone who didn't vote or who voted third party, just automatically owe your party their vote.

The entrenched two-party system has done more to cripple democracy in America than any other factor, and yet it's so pervasive that y'all whip each other into line trying to shame anyone who tries to break free of it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago

Human civilization is built on co-operation and trade.

There's no winners here - Trump is punishing Americans and foreigners alike, and making the whole of humanity collectively worse for him being there, all because he can't let go of the idea that everything is a zero-sum game where the other guy losing means you won.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or, here's a crazy idea, the US could start meeting the basic safety and animal welfare standards that the entirety of Europe long ago decided was the basic minimum required for something to be suitable for human consumption.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca -4 points 4 days ago

Boggles my mind how all these people desperately trying to whip everyone into supporting the two-party system, just assume that third-party voters and non-voters automatically owe their vote to their party. The sheer vanity and arrogance of it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 days ago

Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or it's rendered at 1080 and upscaled...

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 80 points 5 days ago (3 children)

When an influential group of powerful people make hate speech a part of their standard rhetoric, is EXACTLY when you MUST block it on your platform, not a signal that it's time to start letting it slide, you fucking pricks.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I guess not so much in the grander scheme of things, but it’s astonishing and depressing in equal measures that Britain doesn’t seem able to have kept hold of any of its own beloved home-grown brands.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago

If you’re talking about animals it doesn’t matter.

Not even that it doesn't matter, it's almost entirely the point. The reason why using 'females' as a noun to refer to women is dehumanizing is because it's a noun we use for animals.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

It never really felt to me like the tech bubble crash was that big a deal to many people outside of a group of greedy rich assholes. There's always collateral damage of course, but the only change I really witnessed was a stop to people getting paid 20x the median salary after spending a few weeks with a Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours book.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago

Reminder that after setting the political stage for the Khmer Rouge to take power with the carpet-bombing of Cambodia, the US Government continued to recognize Pol Pot as its rightful ruler all the way through to the early 1990s, simply because the actual Cambodian government of the 80s was installed with Vietnam's help.

The USA seems to be on an never-ending quest to fuck Indochina over for no fucking reason.

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