Embarrassing me, which when I say that why should I care if they embarrass me in front of other adults? So long as I’m trying to resolve the situation in a reasonable and mature way, why do I care about what other random adults are thinking.

[S] Is Lemmy better than therapy? [/S]

I’m definitely the kind of adult who applies a disproportionately large punishment for small public disruptive behavior from kids I’m watching. It sucks because I know I’m going to far but I’m also so scared of the other adults in the room that I don’t know how else to react. It sucks.

…did the NRA just do something I agree with? This is indeed the darkest timeline.

It’s almost like the Republicans are using the Epstein files as a way to distract everyone from them taking cudgel to the foundation of democracy and the Democrats are playing right into it. What if the files were released today, would any representative or senator really see any consequences? Would any of them sit before a judge? Will it be something else for them to yell at each other instead of addressing the real elephant in the room, the governments abject failure at governing. Cause you know, we could just believe the survivors. I trust them over anything the government releases at this point.

Except that his administration is. Look at Abrego Garcia. He’s going to be deported and there won’t be any recourse to undo that. If it can be done, with no consequences, and can’t be undone, doesn’t matter if a piece of paper says it’s illegal. It won’t be enforced, and a law that isn’t enforced might as well not exist.

It doesn’t matter, Trump can legally do whatever he wants, he’s a king. 1/3rd of the population of America believes that Trump can rule unilaterally. The other 2/3rds are scared of the first and they should be. Trump and MAGA have the executive branch, the judicial branch, the legislative branch, the armed forces, law enforcement, immigration enforcement, and wall street in their side. They only group not on Trump’s side is the general public and it should be pretty obvious now that he doesn’t have any use for the general public. Trump won. He’s king of The United States of America, I suggest you start to think about what you’re going to do about it.

That’s worse than the toolbar hell people installed onto their browsers in the 2000s. I will never forget my great-aunt telling me that her grandkids broke her computer and made the Internet slow but wouldn’t uninstall all the toolbars and emoticons she had. Truly a PEBKAC error.

Hell, they connect to hell.

No, boomers don’t go to therapy because they believe it’s for weak people. Millennials don’t go to therapy because they can’t afford it. Same result, different approaches.

Here’s an AI summary of your distain for AI:

I’ll begin saying this when people ask why I want “dumb” machines.

AI summaries lack quality, ads distract drivers, you want a washing machine without ads, you don’t want your TV to watch you, you want machines to be submissive.

How did I do?

Speaking as someone who worked cash as a teenager/young adult, no we don’t want to fucking talk to you. I was there because I liked money and that was a reliable way to make minimum wage. That’s it. I didn’t have a passion for scanning items and asking for payment. I had tuition to pay and debt racking up. I wasn’t there to chat with you, or improve the customer experience. I was there to get paid and I can tell you that most if not all of the other cashier’s were in the same boat.

I agree with you that there is a significant chance J.D. Vance would do more to harm the US and the World than Trump ever could, you don’t have to be such a jerk about it. Being right doesn’t give you permission to be mean.

They’d remark on how restrained he was, ‘he only had sex with 30 children, the Democrats murder hundreds of children every day to collect their adrenochrome.’

With Trump’s staff and cabinet choices sure, but he didn’t put Congress or the Senate together, the voters did. Unfortunately both are filled with Republicans who are all to happy to be hand over their power or Democrats who are too scared to use theirs.

Now it’s too late, Trump has his own personal paramilitary with a budget that on par with military spending. At this point Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost has a better chance of taking Trump and MAGA down then a Democrat.

Of course all that would do is put a Democrat in charge who would just slow the decline for four years.

While I agree I don’t think you’ll get many Democrats who are willing to put their necks out to stop him now that it’s open season for hunting Democrats. What would you do if you were in the Senate or Congress? Would you vote to impeach the Orange Julius Caesar and have your family at the top of every crazy MAGA supporters hit list or are you going to stay quiet, stay low, and don’t bring any attention to yourself until you can lose your seat to a republican. One option your kids are targets of domestic terrorists, the other you get to collect a fat paycheck.

Cause if you think the last set of Democrats who were murdered will be the only ones, you’re nieve.

I think the confusing part is because the story of the movie doesn’t fit with what most people, including myself, assume a trans-film would be.

The aesthetic and the environment I can kind of see are trans-coded. Jacking in to a fake world, and living in one where you’re your true self fits. Even the plot as a whole of living under oppression to be your fake self I can understand. Getting away from the broad strokes it really challenges what I expected a trans-film to be and that’s just confusing.

Not to take away from your point but depending on their health little old ladies (or anyone really) can get a bruise from a gentle breeze. ICE agents are still pigs and as a reminder to everyone I don’t eat halal.

I mean who else wants to hurt God loving Texans other than the radical left? No one that’s who. The radical left is lying to you about climate change so they can hide their secret Jewish space lasers and punish anyone on the right for speaking out. Like, if you’re on the right you’re not even allowed to speak anymore, at all, about anything. It’s always the left agenda this, or left agenda that, bo one listens to the right anymore. The radical left terrorists have bullied the right with fake climate change so now when there’s a national disaster the left can come out with their conspiracy theories about climate change when we really know what they’re doing. The left terrorists hate America and want to destroy it by making more natural disasters, and making them more serious then lie to your face and call it climate change when it’s really them who are causing natural disasters to change in our climate to silence the right.

~Hopefully obvious that is parody~

What are you talking about?! You’re just wrong! Minor incidents don’t magically get people in trouble. They’re bad people to the core. We want to take them down because it’s the right thing to do. ~<In case it’s not obvious I was trying to be sarcastic>~

I mean you can but it’s foolish. What has the democratic party done to deserve your hope other than not be Trump?