jballs

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 61 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Man, his diaper was really full!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Look just because we control all three branches of government, have replaced compent government workers with loyal ones, tried to overturn the last election we lost and are working to ensure we'll never be able to lose another (assuming our plan to incite riots doesn't work so we can just declare a national emergency so we don't have another election), have created a secret police to snatch people off the streets, are prosecuting our political opponents or anyone that we deem to be not loyal enough, are removing press credentials of journalists and trying to force news outlets to sign agreements to what that can report, are using the FCC to silence voices of dissent, have sent in the military to occupy our own cities, have had friendly oligarchs purchase traditional and social media companies to silence critics and push our own propaganda, are using government resources to push partisan messages, have declared anyone that disagrees with us as anti-American, are using our military to sink civilian boats and murder the people inside, are ignoring orders of judges who don't rule in our favor, let our oligarchs choose which government programs to axe, created our own cryptocurrency to facilitate bribery by foreign nations, have declared anti-fascism to be terrorism...

doesn't mean we're fascist!"

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah I think it holds up. Bill Belichick, 73, was in the news for dating a 24 year old and it's not only creepy and gross, but also like she's taking advantage of him by inserting herself into his interviews.

If he were dating a 43 year old, I don't think anyone would be nearly as concerned.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

A nice-time Charlie Kirk quote: "Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia filled, alzheimer's, corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."

Yeah definitely need to rise to their level of respect. /s

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah that is exactly it. They didn't want mods to be able to disrupt the site again, so they're looking to make that more difficult.

God, I am so glad I left that place.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving … 600 times more [now],” the pontiff [said]

I hate to math check the Pope here, but this isn't 600 times anymore. We're talking 6 MILLION times more.

Humans have a hard enough time comprehending a billion. A trillion is even harder.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly! I was not Republican or even Republican-curious. But I joined /r/thedonald in the early days because it was hilarious. Then all of a sudden it was like "what the fuck? you guys are serious?"

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Like a lot of users weren't aware of the jokes and took the shit seriously.

That's called Poe's Law and I swear it's a huge reason why Trump became president the first time in 2016. A ton of his internet presence was just shit posting because no one took his campaign remotely seriously. It was all stupid stuff like "Rubio gets blown the fuck up!! Here comes the Trump Train WOOOOOOWOOOOO!!"

It was all pretty hilarious, until all of a sudden it wasn't. And you realized people had gone from making jokes to taking it all serious. A few years later and our country's democracy is on the brink of collapse.

Crazy shit.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Not sure, somehow I heard nothing about it until today!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So apparently they announced this in a trailer a couple weeks ago? How the hell did I miss that?!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Lol I dunno. This is the first I've heard of it. I've been on Lemmy all week too!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

Bonus Panel:

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40087740

Happy ruleversary

 

Video and title aren't mine. Just posting for discussion purposes.

 
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