I hope it can be done without more violence.

I hope the sky will rain pizza and world peace, but realistically nah.

When Trump inevitably dies, all of these trumpers will talk about how they didn’t like him and thought he was a tyrant.

Hopefully, anyway.

Presumably it’s a “women and children” kind of thing. The victim being a (presumably) respectable member of the local community adds some emotional oomph to something that is already bad, though Lemmy is way to anticlerical for this sort of thing to be effective.

No, he just kept approving them.

Ah, yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a filthy foreigner.

The fundamental philosophical error here is assuming that all forms of simulation are computational or mathematical.

Uh… that’s literally what a simulation is.

Counterexample: your dreams are a form of simulation (probably). So I can literally disprove this take in my sleep

But dreams aren’t simulating reality as we observe it; they just kinda do their own thing. Your brain isn’t consistently simulating quantum mechanics (or, hell, even simple things like clocks) while you’re dreaming so this is a moot point.

Even in (most) developing countries with authoritarian governments people don’t randomly get caught off the street; this is fascist business.

Free markets are a myth. Every country on Earth regularly interferes in the market to align it with its interests; China just does it more. That’s still not communism, because you can’t have billionaires (or private property in general) under communism. China under Mao was communist, but under Xi? No way. The Chinese government exerts significant control over its economy, but the primary driver of economic growth is still the private sector. China isn’t doing anything fundamentally different from what any Western capitalist state could do if they got their act together for five minutes.

First, what’s a “communism?” Second, China is capitalist as hell; it’s just capitalism under an authoritarian regime rather than under a democracy.

First, no editorialized headlines. Second, I have no opinion on the guy but he’s sounding more just wrong than evil here.

I really don’t think university professor job openings will be a major feature of the next few years.

Eh, I’d argue that the dominant religion in the modern West is nationalism, not Christianity. Whether that makes them “fake” aside, Christianity is simply not a useful framework for understanding these people’s behavior.

My point was more that you lose if you get anything to the right of an outspoken progressive, and given the speed of Trump’s consolidation of power the amount of loss is essentially unchanged. Therefore, better on someone who might realistically be an outspoken progressive is the optimal move. It’s kind of like “you can get bitch slapped, or you can toss a coin and you either get bitch slapped extra hard or get a cookie.” The damage is being done either way, so you might as well bet on the cookie.

From someone with absolutely no horse in this race I feel this is looking a gift horse in the mouth. No matter how bad he turns out to be (which, yeah, I don’t think I’m convinced he’ll be a principled anti-imperialist in office), he’s not going to outdo establishment democrats by much. The way American democracy is going it’s worth the bet, I think.

On one hand, poor guy. On the other, if he’s any good the girls’ team is going to sweep whatever competitions they enter.

Or, alternatively, every taxpayer is giving them $200. For reference this is almost three times the amount of his aid cuts from back when.

I mean, that’s reason to wash it, but I don’t think there’s a medical argument for peeling. Could be wrong though, but I’ve never heard of this being a problem ever.

You peel carrots? Why‽

I mean… exactly?

Enlighten me. Is it loss?