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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I had time to think for a bit. Please be advised that I'm not an American citizen and the following is purely conjecture.
Basically, I believe the US is FUBAR. There are 4 possible scenarios for the 5th of November:

  • Trump gets so demented it's getting impossible to get him propped up, he has to concede somewhere around that time
  • Trump finally gets thrown in jail, before election day
  • Biden wins - right now it looks like it would be a close call
  • Trump wins

The article mentions, as many have before, that the "conservative" way of "thinking" has become purely emotional. So what do you think will happen if either of the three first will come true? Someone will seize the day and shout some bullshit conspiracy or another and now 20-30% of your emotionally driven population will get set to "angry" and "revenge".
If he simply wins: Mission accomplished!

Now that I've thought a bit more, even (maybe especially?) if Biden wins in a landslide, the conspiracy spin could even be made stronger. Yikes. It might be the time of troubles on a very large scale and I reaaaaaaaaaly hope I'm totally wrong with all this!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Never realized the Penguin of Doom got into coding :o

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Been here since Europe got flooded with AOL CDs, same.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The game itself is great, the UI/UX is just on another level. The UI has no ambiguity, is very responsive to input and just feels smooth. The wording on the cards is also excellent and consistent.

StS is a joy to play and I bet it's also really great on the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Germany

Hey, at least we are fighting them this time! But sure, if system-wide changes are not coming, more people will fall into the hands of the fascists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

GNU TPratchett

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

It's in the revised "wormhole aliens" edition .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

OT:
I can't find the critique of this movie from a classicist viewpoint anymore. That was one interesting read.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Die alte Automatisierungs-Drohung zzzZZZzzz
Dann mal zu!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

How do you cope with all this without just giving up?

By making it personal.
No but seriously, in my country (Germoney) a terrible plan of the far-right fucknuggets got revealed and the people are taking it to the streets in response. During this week, I activated quite a number of co-workers to BE there this weekend. You can change people, you can change them with respect, words and your deeds. I'm a firm believer of "do good and talk about it". The process is a bit grindy though, ngl ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bitte prüfe, ob der "Schule gegen Rassismus / Schule mit Courage"-Aufkleber noch am Eingang hängt, mit dem passiert sowas nicht /s
Ernster Rat: Der Mensch hat eine Straftat begangen. Was du machen kannst: Anzeige erstatten, vorher mit deinen Mitschülerinnen reden ob sie bereit wären, als Zeuge bei der Polizei auszusagen. Ohne deren Mithilfe wird das zu nichts führen. Wenn du dich auf deine Schule nicht verlassen kannst, nimm das Szepter selbst in die Hand!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Goodnight Travis County, there will be no encore. Woo!

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