Thank you. I can’t stand his humor. Cringe on top of cringe with a side of cringe with nothing to balance out the cringe. Just not my cup of tea.

Why bother? They set fire to themselves.

Funny, I could see the KKK in all three of them.

My mom was a librarian and can confirm, librarians are weird badasses.

Everyone who hates ice should apply and then just be shit at their jobs. Deport nobody. Lose paperwork. Say you can’t find the person. Then if you get fired they just hire someone else who’s screwing things up from the inside.

Man, if only that were possible. Every time anything local has tried anything to get ranked choice voting in or get rid of gerrymandering, it gets shot down, and if people tried any direct action they would really get shot down.

Though that second option seems to be more viable each day here.

TIL this waterfalls want to get nasty

Lol mfer going around saying all women are soft when there’s queens out there being like

Dude have you met a woman?

You’re making excuses. Saying “ohh it’s just a different opinion” is a way to dismiss actual criticism of your opinion and preemptively try to make anyone who gets mad at you look like they are overreacting.

Your opinion is shitty and didn’t hold up, and it’s a cruel opinion to have.

That’s trying to make this seem like a small issue, when it’s not. It’s not about sports. The right has been using “men in women’s sports” as an excuse to try to hurt people.

Protection from what? They want this. Trump has been giving them exactly what they want, more money and power.

Kinda shitty to assume all Americans are responsible. There’s a lot of people here who tried to keep this stuff from happening and fought against it, and still are. If it’s not cool to paint the French with a broad brush it isn’t cool to do that to everyone in the US.

Ok so, cutting away at the chaff here, your answer was diplomacy.

That’s a have waving, dismissive and ignorant take.

First of all, you’d have to have something you can negotiate with. Something the other side wants that they don’t have. What, exactly, do the American people have that Trump doesn’t have already? He’s already got control over the American people, either through propaganda or force. If you’re thinking that the one card we have is our labor, and also think the military can obliterate us from space, then you might want to look up how the military was used through like, all of labor history through the US. Or South America.

Second, diplomacy and negotiation with whom? The Trump? The guy who’s known for not negotiating? Who goes back on every word? Negotiation comes from people trusting they are going to keep their word and Trump absolutely will not. And do you want a whole new human rights organization to throw on the pile that’s already being ignored, or do you want to utilize a new one?

Third, negotiation has been tried. Democrats “negotiate”, make concessions (which is an inevitable part of negotiating) and we get what? Just a slide to the right each time. You really want to negotiate with fascists?

Fourth, you’d also have to get everyone who’s opposed to Trump and the Republicans to organize, agree to what the terms are, and send representatives. That alone is a Herculean effort. You can’t get along with people on Lemmy, how are you going to get people to agree nationwide? Assuming you don’t get assassinated in the attempt, what negotiating power do you even have of they even would deign to meet with you?

Fifth, the military does have it’s weaknesses. A lot of soldiers do have problems with attacking us citizens in a full on war. Some would even defect. And the us military has a real hard time dealing with guerilla warfare, just look at Vietnam. Especially with supply chain issues because of the tariffs, and if there was a dismantling of the supplies and communications on the home front. So dismissing it out of hand as impossible is jumping the gun I think.

My point is that, while nonviolent revolution is a useful tool, I don’t think it’s the only tool that should be used, and we should keep other options open.

Man, y’all people think we don’t know what “implying” something is or what “reaching a natural conclusion” is. Going “oh well that’s not what I said” isn’t a gotcha. I swear reading comprehension is at an all time low if you think everything has to be said directly.

So ok, I’ll bite, what’s your glorious solution? What should we do oh wise one?

Ok so what, work within the system? The clearly ineffectual system which isn’t working?

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Gotcha, that’s reassuring

I want double my money back if the free program doesn’t work!

Yeah but breaking like six computers to do it, or one computer six times, seems like a pretty steep price for that when I basically just use my computer for gaming browsing and the occasional audio/video edit.

… So what should I try Linux again?