Dammit, that’s too fantastic to NOT be an idiom

“No, you can’t get online, your grandmother is on the phone.”

are the Finns okay

I can still hear the MSN message sound in my head

And the original Steam chat sound

Will the political will to start an actual shooting war with the US be there?

Theoretically yes. This is an issue that has been considered before, though admittedly not with regards to fucking Greenland. Turkiye and Greece have long been enemies as well as members of NATO, and it’s been considered that the invocation of Article 5 by the aggressed-upon party against the aggressing party in case of a serious war would, theoretically, be binding on the other members of NATO.

In practice, NATO is a gentleman’s agreement with no means of enforcement. Everything comes down to political will - NATO is just an organizational structure to facilitate a response. It cannot replace the will (or lack thereof) of national governments.

Fucking bootlickers.

Back in The Day, you’d write on CDRs with sharpie so you knew what each one contained.

That or the ol’ tan cased dinosaurs.

The gray Dell helped me through many-a “100 Games!” disc…

Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.

Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:

But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.

Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.

Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.

Stress helped me lose 20 pounds in three months last year ^.^

I wouldn’t recommend it.

The mask is more iconic than the kid, the mask gave me nightmares for years

“Nobody is saved by electoral politics” for example is, well… that’s exactly what happened.

“Nobody is saved by electoral politics” pretty clearly implies “Nobody can be saved by electoral politics, by the nature of electoral politics in this society”, not “Nobody will be saved by electoral politics in this election, because I believe firmly in the inevitable victory of the immeasurably worse candidate to win by 2% of the vote”

https://lemmy.world/comment/14674367

We were going to end up in the same place whether democrats or republicans won. It’s just more pleasing to you draped in blue instead of red. I thought maybe TDS democrats would finally start fighting for Palestine once Trump came into office, but they instead turned their derangement on the people who don’t want American to fund and safeguard a genocide. Crazy times we are witnessing.

https://lemmy.world/post/12247352/7775795

This, but unironically. No point in electing a different fascist. We have to cut the tumor out of the body.

https://lemmy.world/post/21302719/13116088

My honest feeling, and this is just speculation, but it seemed like it was easier to organize large protest movements under trump than under Biden. Once Biden got into office all the liberals stopped supporting protest and started defending the status quo.

I doubt it will be as easy in a fascist police state.

America is a fascist police state right now

Police reaction to protests was about the same under both trump and Biden

https://lemmy.world/post/21302719/13108379

The point is nobody is saved by electoral politics instead do actual organizing and actions.

https://lemmy.world/post/20205865/12584685

To leftists that have been paying attention to the DNC’s politics and how they serve the American empire, a DNC win is the “bad guys” winning. Just the same way a GOP win would be.

https://lemmy.world/post/20720227/12824714

If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you deserve to get the greater evil.

https://lemmy.world/post/20720227/12824370

Voting for Trump or Harris is the same result. Some rich ass who doesnt give a rats ass about me or my community and just wants to funnel money to their rich friends. Its like two-faces double headed coin. Neither gives a shit. Fuck both parties and their candidates.

My blood pressure is rising looking back through them, and Lemmy.world having its first outages in two weeks isn’t helping me search, so I’ll leave it here.

America was killed, by Americans, in a democratic election. And so many are still fondling the corpse, writhing with carrion bugs, and pretending it’s still alive.

Unfortunately, if you’re seriously interested, I can give you a long list of examples from pre-election arguments I had with people.

Some were just garden-variety idiots.

Don’t worry, I was assured by many Very Serious Leftists on here that nothing would change under a Trump presidency and that I was just fearmongering.

Serious beef.