I know you think you’re being pragmatic but it’s really just coming off as depraved.

It’s like the trolley problem, except on one track is somebody’s beloved father and on the other is some executive’s 5th yacht.

Because the economy would take a significant hit

And risk upsetting Israel? That’ll get you arrested on a good day, missiles shot at you on a bad one.

My Linux journey over the last ~18 hours:

I followed a YouTube video on how to install Linux Mint on a flash drive last night around 11pm and got it to post before going to bed. This morning I woke up at 9am, made coffee, then spun up my new OS, configured my system settings, played around with some extensions, then downloaded Steam and a few games and had at it with no fuss.

I don’t think he waited. He’s been trying to start shit in other blue states all the way back to sending the Natl. Guard to LA and DC, and failed miserably mind you.

Minnesota was a convenient distraction from Venezuela and the Epstein files. Minnesota was in the news and Trump needed a distraction.

It had to be big to overshadow everything else so he ordered thousands of ICE agents to be deployed, which required expediting/skipping the already inadequate training they’re receiving. Then those untrained agents killed somebody within days of arriving and things have escalated.

Trump doesn’t have a master plan. He fails until he accidentally succeeds.

It’s certainly plausible to survive the initial bombings by taking adequate shelter, you may even be able to stock up enough provisions to survive for several months. The problem is what follows.

Nuclear winter is hypothesized to change the climate to the point where growing food is impossible, potentially for several years. Any animals you can hunt before they eventually succumb to starvation will have been poisoned by the fallout, their meat contaminated.

The fallout will spread across the globe, making the air you breathe toxic, either by radiation poisoning or by any number of harmful construction materials such as asbestos which is now particleized and floating freely.

If by some miracle you do still cling to life by this point, you will either be completely alone or surrounded by people just as desperate to survive as you are. Only in fiction do either of those situations end well.

Yeah, the heightened potential for nuclear annihilation is terrifying but there’s frankly nothing you can do to survive it. Even if you somehow lived though the bombings, there’s no corner of the globe where starvation nor irradiation would not reach. The Earth would be uninhabitable and death would be certain for most land animals.

It’s a tragic way to die and for the human race to cease to be. But it’s only death and that’s certain to happen one way or another. There are countless other ways you could die that are either within or beyond your control. Many are far more likely to happen than nuclear war. Do you fret about being killed in an accident every time you step into a car?

I know it’s a lot easier said than done but try to live in the now rather than the future. Plan for tomorrow but recognize that, unlike the present, the future is not guaranteed. Don’t take the present for granted, go do things that bring you fulfillment now because ultimately that is the only time that you have control over.

In summary:

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Walz started the trend and it resonated with and energized the base so much to the point where he surged to the spotlight from relative obscurity in a very short amount of time and ended up getting picked as running mate by the Harris campaign.

But then Harris’s campaign almost immediately pivoted to the classic strategy of, “damn our base, they’re going to vote for us anyway so instead let’s appeal hard to the right”, despite that consistently being a losing strategy over the last decade or so.

So they told Walz to shut up, just stand there and look pretty and cut it out with the “weird” stuff, it’ll alienate voters on the right. Turns out instead they just killed all the momentum growing within their own base while at the same time failing to win the votes of the weirdo cult members wearing ear pads in solidarity with their God king.

Next he’ll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that’s known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!

There is only one Florida Man, though he exists in many places at once.

Tell that to Fetterman voters. I really hope Platner wouldn’t be a Fetterman 2.0 but now it’s not unheard of.

This guy, man. Every other week it seems there’s a reason for the Internet to do a 180 on their collective opinion of him. In this case, credit is due. We could all have more humility as a society.

As an American, please do. Some humility would do us good.

I’m resisting the urge to jump to conclusions, however I can’t help but observe that objectively there seems to be a common denominator in your situation. Either way, it sucks that that’s been your experience and I hope things change for the better for you.

It doesn’t feel unique to Lemmy to me. I’m seeing higher levels of hostility in just about any environment broad enough to include left and right wingers

Just wait till No Kings II. We’re going to turn out so peacefully it just might scare him into a coma.