This is fucking nazi shit. They’re not Israelis, they’re Jews. This shit furthers the Zionist agenda of conflating all Jews with Israel. This is exactly the kind of post I’d expect to see on a nazi message board.

Fair enough, I was forgetting my time in S3. But the addendum that clean toilets would be available seems to go against this theory as well.

With air conditioned tents? Not really a field situation.

(like that one post I saw of someone preaching something about the Starbucks logo being the anti-christ)

That guy is a genuine nutter, though. He’s always posting unhinged garbage about numerology, and the Jesuits scripting all the wars, and what have you. Real Q-anon tier stuff. It’s concerning.

Yeah, I didn’t say that. I think vestigial European monarchies are among the least of our problems at the moment.

It’s true that the US has a problem with political dynasties, and nepotism in general, but these issues are certainly not unique to America. While Kennedy’s last name got him on the ballot, and his presence there led to his current position, he’s about as qualified as anyone else in this administration. The only qualification that matters to Trump is total personal loyalty. If old worm-brains failed that test, he’d be out on his ass, replaced with any no-name toadying lickspittle that was convenient.

For most things that “block” vpns, I’ve found you can just try different countries until one goes through. Works for reddit and lemmy.world, at least.

It’s a great game, but the hoops you have to jump through in the last loop to get the “good” ending are a massive pita. After my 6th or 7th try, I got burned out, uninstalled, and moved on to something else. At some point, I’ll go back and give it another shot.

Since the news broke that Academy was cancelled, I’ve seen a number of comments implying that people who posted negatively about it on Lemmy are in some way responsible for its cancellation. That’s a ridiculous notion. Nobody with the power to make that decision gives a single shit about what goes on here, nor are they even aware of our existence. I get that you’re frustrated, but your ire is misdirected.

I thought I remembered there being an episode where he did, but I’m probably misremembering the one where Bart claims to be Jimbo to ruin his date with what’s-her-face.

Wow. You don’t see a Sayers reference every day. I love that book.

People who criticize new (or old) Trek for its wokeness are overwhelmingly not on this platform. People here who dislike Kurtzman-era Trek take issue with the lacklustre writing. At least, that’s my impression. I suppose it’s possible that there are a bunch of bigots commenting that I’ve blocked and/or have defederated with.

Absent that, the proliferation of these sorts of memes just strikes me as pandering, coupled with a misguided, combative defensiveness of anything that falls under the corporate-owned Trek umbrella, regardless of quality.

Thanks, this comic really resonated with me, but being a straight cis-gendered guy, I hesitated to make a top-level comment.

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing it! Been a while since I considered making a backyard pizza oven, and now I’m down that rabbit hole again.

This is horseshit. Plenty of us knew it before he was elected. It was fucking obvious. I was a teenager in 2000, and I was stunned and appalled that we’d elected such a moron. Just because a large proportion of the country got caught up in post-9/11 jingoistic mania doesn’t mean it wasn’t clear from the start what a dipshit he was.

Indeed. Conversely, if the GOP had had superdelegates, Trump may never have won the nomination. Superdelegates are inherently anti-populist, which cuts both ways.

I think where a lot of this comes from is that HRC had locked in the vast majority of the superdelegates right from the start. The media consistently represented Bernie as having no chance to win, due to all the superdelegates being in the bag for Clinton, regardless of how people voted. This depressed progressive turnout, as a Clinton victory was apparently a foregone conclusion. Absent the superdelegate system, and the lopsided media coverage it engendered, many would argue the result would have been different. Obviously, there’s no way of knowing at this point, but it’s not as if these claims have no basis in reality.

Just shuffle through a few vpn servers until it works. Always does the trick for me ¯\(ツ)/¯

Edit: same goes for commenting with a lemmy.world account

Hey, thanks, I’d never heard of this one! I’ll check it out.