Seleni

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Man, Phil Knight is such an ass

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The line is usually ‘where the majority party in Congress thinks it is’. That’s why even though they got impeached, none of those presidents left; look at which party was in charge at the time.

Make no mistake; the Republicans could have him out on his ass and facing criminal charges before you could blink if they wanted to. They don’t want to, because he’s doing exactly what they want him to do. 40-odd percent of Americans also think this is great.

And so, yes, he could shoot someone in Times Square and totally get away with it.

That’s the real problem. Trump and fascism are symptoms, not the cause. If the disease wasn’t there, like it wasn’t with Nixon (or at least, it was just starting to develop then), none of this would be an issue.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because that’s not how the military works.

And in the end, it isn’t up to them. Trump won the popular vote. Not by much, but he’s in the White House legally and legitimately. Doesn’t matter what his ‘popularity ratings’ are now. We The People put him there, and We The People are the ones responsible for removing him.

Do you really want the military to decide ‘I know the majority of y’all voted for this, but we’ve decided we don’t like that, so we’re overthrowing the government’ for anything?

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Because then they’d have to deport most Republican lawmakers.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It’s just going to be the ol’ ‘women aren’t allowed to go to school’ schtick again.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Guess he’s part of a group galvanizing Christians to boycott companies that cut DEI.

I’m not a big fan of religions, especially the Abrahamic ones, but this group is doing good work.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Sir Terry Pratchett hitting the nail on the head. This kind of mentality will be the death of us all, I fear.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We’re aware you all are having a housing crisis. It wouldn’t be fair to dump a lot more of that issue on you.

Although I would certainly love to move up there if I had a choice.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago

This is the same generation that gave us ‘participation trophies’ so their feelings and their kids’ feelings didn’t ‘get hurt’.

I’m not quite sure where this plague of ‘treat my feelings with kid gloves, otherwise I might die’ got started, but we really need to do something about it.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Won’t someone think of the billionaires!?

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Go get ‘em!

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Sharia, really? You can’t possibly be that stupid.

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