vvilld

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If the fascists truly believed your votes don't/won't count in the future, they wouldn't be working so hard to take away voting rights.

I think we're dangerously close to a point where voting won't matter, but we're not there yet. Look at the Wisconsin Supreme Court race a few weeks ago. Elon Musk got involved and personally spent more than $25 million to try to buy the race. He was directly paying off voters to vote for the Republican. There was nearly $100 million spent on the race, an overwhelming majority of which was spent by/for the Republican.

Yet the Democrat won with like 10 percentage points more of the vote. She blew the Musk funded fascist out of the water. It wasn't even close.

If voting really didn't matter at all, do you really think that would have been the outcome?

If voting really didn't matter at all, would they be actively trying to strip voting rights away from women right now?

Don't fall for the fascist propaganda. Voting still matters. It's not the only thing that matters. We should all be way more engaged in politics than merely voting. But voting still matters, too.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago

There's really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He's so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.

Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He's not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren't going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.

The only way he could stop being bullied by "the left" is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he'll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.

But that would all go directly against his nature. So there's nothing he realistically would do that could get "the left" to stop being mean to him. It's the rest of his miserable life.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Only 20 minutes?!?! I do have a dishwasher, and I still spend well over 20 minutes hunched in front of the sink cleaning dishes that can't go in the dishwasher every day.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I'm 6'6" (200 cm). I'm ALWAYS hunching over in the kitchen.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

With kids it's so much worse. I clean the entire kitchen at least 3 times a day, usually more.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

Did you see him drop Ohio State’s trophy the other day?

Maybe he dropped the Pope?

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Pat the bunny recently came out of retirement and released a new album called Friends in Real Life. It's quite good, as is pretty much everything he's ever done.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago

I haven't noticed any moderation issues on lemmy.dbzer0.com

Mind if I ask what exactly you feel like is being censored?

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I'd be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.

Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

this made me completely lose any sense of my place in reality

This is precisely why they used to (and still are sometimes, although not as often) be used for pilot and astronaut training. All the astronauts who went through the early Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions trained on one.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

I went to Space Camp for a week when I was like 13. We all got to go in one for a bit. It makes you very dizzy.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.

view more: ‹ prev next ›