demlet

joined 2 years ago
[–] demlet@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

"But who will hang the bell on the cat's neck?"

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Obligatory reminder that the US is geographically monstrous and organizing a nationwide strike of enough people would be extremely difficult to pull off. We're also extremely tied to our employment for little luxuries like healthcare, and we have very weak worker protection laws, and right now seems like an especially bad time to lose your job protesting for the sake of the half of the country that absolutely loves what Trump is doing, whether they admit it openly or not.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh especially now, yes.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, I know that. It was more just a weird feeling that I find it hard to describe. Like, it felt like I was existing within multiple different realities at the same time for a brief moment. Just my imagination getting carried away, like how familiar objects can look like monsters in the dark, even though we know perfectly well what they really are.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty depressing all around, but man you have to be willfully gullible to believe you'd be talking to the actual performer...

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I played Ingress a little bit before Pokemon Go came out, enough to recognize all the same physical locations were being re-used. I found it kind of uncanny for some reason.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Yep,the scam worked exactly as planned. If only they were half as competent at governing as they are at scamming their cult members.