PhilipTheBucket

That's fucking wild

Well this is sure going to go well lol

OP: On the off chance that you are sincere about this: The modern Trump administration is snatching random people including citizens off the streets and stuffing them in extra-judicial hellholes where they sometimes die and sometimes get ejected from the country to God knows where, without the semblance of due process that "deported" would imply. For no other reason than that Trump and Stephen Miller wanted them to be punished. He's also claiming that making fun of him on TV is illegal and that attacking American cities with the US military is fine. He was close friends with Epstein and, apparently, raped several children. Any person with even a shred of deceny or law abiding nature is going to hate him and everything he stands for.

If you're not on board for that stuff, then I think you should say so. I have some isolated views that someone could call "conservative" (certainly in Lemmy's overton window), it is fine, in the abstract. But in the modern US political environment, calling yourself "conservative" is a death sentence for your credibility. Certainly if you're not going out of your way to say that you're not on board for all that (probably even then).

If you're just trolling, then fine, good luck with it. If you don't think that Trump is actually doing any of those things, come to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world and let's talk. But if you want to make a conservative community on Lemmy, and your idea is to be pro-Trump in any way, I think people are just going to laugh at you.

I have studied this topic academically, a little bit. My answer:

1. The people who wrote the old testament lived in a world that was almost unfathomably dangerous and difficult compared to today's first world. Death, disease, starvation, natural disasters, the collapse of whole towns and settlements, unexplained daily suffering for which there is not even an explanation let alone a cure, were constantly present. If you're in that place, and you believe there's a God who's in charge of it all, there is absolutely no conclusion to come to other than he's a real son of a bitch.
2. I definitely believe that Jesus had some kind of genuine religious inspiration, that a lot of what he was teaching was for-real insight about life. The stuff about forgiving your enemies, living for good works through action and how it really doesn't matter what you say or what team you're on, trying to build a better life by caring about people around you, taking care of the sick and injured, even if they are beggars or prostitutes or foreigners or otherwise "bad" people in your mind simply because of their circumstances, seems pretty spot on to me. It was 100% at odds with the religion of the day, pretty much as much as it is with modern religion. What Jesus actually said does obviously have "spiritual" and supernatural elements also, but it is also focused to a huge extent on what you as an individual can do, and a sort of alignment towards the greater good and a calling for humanity, as opposed to this wild half-Pagan mythology about a capricious and bad-tempered God who might kill you at any instant.

Put your hand up if you remember the little bump of astroturf saying that TikTok was a great thing because it was teaching the youth of America about Gaza, promoting free expression and exchange of ideas, and that was why the US government was trying to kill it.

There will never be privately-owned social media that's a great thing for anybody other than a little handful of the worst people in the world.

The city previously ordered Flock to shut down 19 cameras (18 stationary and one flex camera that can be attached to a squad car) provided by the company and put its contract with Flock on a 30-day termination notice on Aug. 26. The company took down 15 of the 18 stationary cameras by Sept. 8, only to reinstall all of them by Tuesday. This was apparently without authorization from city officials, who sent Flock a cease-and-desist order to take them back down.

I don't really understand why this wasn't followed by city employees going and smashing the cameras and charging Flock for the price of their labor and trash disposal of the remaining pieces.

I'm being 100% serious about that. The places they were installed were, presumably, city property. They'd been explicitly told not to. Okay, fuck you, you're losing your cameras and you can take me to court and explain your side if you feel you've been wronged in any way. In the meantime go fuck yourself. People in government in this country have become way too nice when they have justice behind them, it is the source of a lot of our problems.

Oh, absolutely. If I was making it sound like it therefore was not a big deal, that wasn't the intention. They're all culpable, they should all cook for it. I was just making a point about how fucked up the system and the people who operate it are, on a personal level.

Put another way: They overlook and excuse mass murder every day. Why would a few molested kids be a big deal in their minds?

There are a ton of people who knew what went on there. Check out the birthday book, it's a lot of people joking about Epstein's crimes.

The #metoo movement doesn't really get enough credit for knocking some holes in the "everyone knows this person is a massive sex criminal but it's okay because they've got money" paradigm. Practically everyone in Hollywood knew about Harvey Weinstein.

Remember Barbara Walters trying to shut Corey Feldman up about it live on TV? That was a little over ten years ago. She was pretty upfront about "money > no sex crimes, STFU STFU."

Edit: Actually this story gives a better overview of the background of the short clip.

Also, shockingly enough, I actually think it is plausible that Elon's telling the truth here. He's still a piece of shit for any number of reasons, but it doesn't completely make sense that he would be so aggressive about pushing Trump being implicated by the Epstein files if he was also, and that "is this still happening?" does sort of imply some level of unusual uncertainty about it.

I was in court a few times when I was younger. Nothing too major.

The first time, it really disgusted me seeing person after person get up before me and try to tell the judge how they hadn't done anything wrong with just transparent horseshit. My turn came up, the cop testified to what happened, the judge asked me for my side, and I just said that it happened the way the cop said. The judge was legitimately a little taken aback.

What the fuck, what am I supposed to say? Maybe it would have been different if it had been big charges or if I had been less naive or something, or if there was some wiggle room in what happened, but I just didn't see the point in wasting everybody's time and making myself look stupid and dishonest.

(Note: Do not do this. Court reality is different from everyday life honorable reality. Get a lawyer, don't say shit, fight to negotiate a better deal and threaten to waste their time and resources making them prove it if they don't work something out with you. That is what a person will do if they want a good outcome. My priorities were different, I guess, I don't know. I will say that in this case it didn't wind up getting me in any more trouble than I would have been anyway. Mostly I'm just telling what happened to me and how I reacted and why.)

This is going to be a fucking bonanza for a lot of places in the world.

There might be a little bit of a brain drain of natives from the US, although it'll be diluted and made more chaotic by a corresponding drain of people who really aren't that brainy but think they are. But I think the flood of people who used to come to the US to do their educational or scientific efforts, finding some other place in the world to go (or to flee to) instead, is going to really be pretty significant.

America: We're going to make a whole department, we can't just have unauthorized cats everywhere

Mediterranean: "Hi, I am street cat, I'm gonna commandeer your beach towel and eat the fish I caught. Later we can hang out if you want."

Oh, the dipshits will arrive. Don't you worry. 😃

And yes, I agree, I like the culture of Piefed. Let's see how things play out.

Chin up lad. This is just the boss fight. After this, it gets easier again.

(And yes, the people who figured they were doing a big favor for Palestinians and American Hispanics by not voting against Trump are foolish people who helped to cause all of this. I'm not mad but I am disappointed.)