This is an incredibly important statement. You’ve perfectly summarized exactly how non-Harris voters felt. The opinions you share in here may or may not be true and the Lemmy population certainly doesn’t like hearing it, but this was the thought process that brought trump to office.

Frankly, the way to save America is to attack corporations. Regulate, regulate, regulate, put money back in the hands of the voters. Whoever does this has the vote.

By like 20 orders of magnitude or something

What the fuck does it even mean? It’s like buzz word salad

This is a great point correlating gun access with gun violence. It shows that access to firearms is positively correlated with deaths by firearm

As a veteran dependent on VA disability benefits, this is deeply troubling

I guess to be more specific, you can request 6 months of your data

I used this exact thing as a teaching aid when I taught the ROTC opsec lesson. Also scared a couple kids pale when I told them Snapchat keeps a 6-month record of everything you send

China is escalating in their own way, what with the recent article about censoring satellite communication traffic

Thanks, I’m on Voyager and kept looking to report the account itself, but I guess I can only report comments

What is this comment? A paraphrase of another comment with a link?

I just miss my corny dogs

Let’s tear them down anyway

I would trade every American gas station and convenience store for a single authentic Japanese 7-eleven corndog.

Everything in their world is transactional

The earthworm Jim edit is impeccable. Bravo

I grew up in a pretty conservative household and we were literally raised that life is work and work is hell. By way of the transitive property, life = hell. It’s taken a long time through various degrees of depression and I’m still not fully grown out of it.

But yes, the entire culture and identity is about being miserable and persevering through it, even if that means making yourself and everyone around you more miserable to justify the perseverance.

Like the saying “nothing good comes free.” You could say the sunrise is free, but they’ll argue it’s not because you have to wake up early and waking up early is by necessity miserable so that the sunrise can be good. They’re brainwashed into thinking the only way a good thing happens is through suffering. Except the truly lost ones who only see life as suffering.

Correct place: ❌ Correct time: ❌ Meme: ❌

“Mission Accomplished!”

What’s the methodology for Netflix in alphabetical order? Do categories count? Action then comedy? Movies then tv shows? Do episode titles fall under each series, do they carry the series title first then the episode title, or is it a global alphabetical?

God, I hope people can rally around Harris. My biggest concern with the sudden change was fracturing across the Dems. I hope it’s just a concern

6-3 split, but yeah