Sure, buddy. The people cheering for this are on Lemmy. You mean Dear Leader Trump might be lying to me? I’m absolutely shocked! Thanks so much for imparting this vital information.

What is the point of comments like this? Yes, we realize this. Are you just hearing about it? Do we really have to face each new horror with admonishments that it is distracting us from the last horror?

His grandfather is a famous architect and his Dad a successful lawyer.

You’re so quick to call marginalized people “divisive” for having standards. Why is it freedom of speech for rich white guys to get Nazi memorabilia on their chest, but when PoC push back then the conversation is suddenly about ”civility"?

No, I don’t think Platner is a Nazi. I think he’s fine with having Nazi imagery on his chest for 20 years. It’s a boldfaced, unbelievable lie that a military history buff didn’t know what a Totenkopf was.

Yes, it does demonstrate poor character to be fine with Nazi iconography. Your reticence to admit such was an attempt to be moral, but if you’d rather abandon any principles you might have had for this guy, you are correct that we don’t have anything to talk about.

Ever hear of object permanence or are you 6? Something “covered up” still exists, so don’t try to “well acktually” me when you’re wrong.

There are 8 people in the Primary. Part of “loudly standing up for Justice” is not getting a fucking Totenkopf.

I’m not in Maine. Go fuck yourself.

There’s still a year before the primary. This is ridiculous. You don’t believe there is a single progressive person in Maine without any tattoos of Hitler sucking a penis?

Fascists lie. You really want to elect another Fetterman or Sinema?

When someone tells you who they are by keeping a Nazi Tattoo on their chest for 20 years, believe them.

Yet, you still say “he’s not perfect”. You’re an asshole.

He HAS A FUCKING TOTENKOPF on his chest. You want people to vote for SOMEONE WITH A NAZI TATTOO.

You people keep saying “purity test” because you don’t want to say “I’m fine if my Senator has Nazi tattoos”. Own it, bud. Make your case why you want the Senator with the Nazi tattoo. Say it with your full chest.

Yeah, my friend, we all agree that people are capable of honest mistakes. Some of us just don’t vote for a Senator unless they at least waited a couple years after getting rid of all their Nazi tattoos. It’s not a high bar.

Hmm…I agree kiddy diddling is nonpartisan even if I quibble with your reasoning here.

Democrats are complicit because both parties are bought and paid for by the same donors.

Our boundaries about sex and violence are weird.

With the caveat that I don’t pretend to be perfectly logical, I’d say that fighting pokemon isn’t really violence. It is just a video game.

Someone who’s jerking off to pokemon is fantasizing about bestiality. This is way better than real bestiality, and I honestly don’t care if someone is into it as long as they don’t tell me about it. But it’s still going to squick me out.

I’m built different. Turns out if you stick your head far enough up your ass you turn into a Klein bottle.

Conservatives’ first instinct is always to lie.

True. But an old joke.

When the results clearly show incompetence, don’t fall for the administration’s mouthpieces that it was actually “integrity and thoroughness”.

Democrats use adherence to protocol to shield them from doing what they don’t want to do, and their primary motivation has always been shielding powerful people from consequences.

How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?

3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.

All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.

AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.

Bullshit. The truth is an absolute defense against libel.

Don’t tell me the excuse the paper uses, as if I don’t know or do care. They aren’t doing their jobs, and their abdication of real journalism is why the country is being torn apart.