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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.detoComic Strips@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 days ago

    First thought, would the roaches would live long enough to make this remotely worth the wasted toothbrushes, let alone the effort?

    … then I realize I’m almost certain he’s plugged-up their shitters, and were I a little saner, I would be too afraid to ask for confirmation. At least I can’t be bothered to look it up myself?

    I’m chosing to believe he doesn’t live there, if only because its not a “home”, with pesky things like a “lease”, or “utilities”, or “property taxes paid by a living owner in the last decade”. That last one almost gives me the warm fuzzies, so I’m rooting for him now.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.detoPolitics@beehaw.org•Trump raped a minor
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    5 days ago

    Why is it always any-thing-but-bullets with people? Either it needs done badly-enough to do it yourself, or it doesn’t. We’re long past the point where someone-else should have stepped-up to do it for us, if that was what was going to happen.

    Me? I’ll admit I’m just a completely-disgusted-with-myself coward at this point, too afraid of the price of failure or success, mostly to my family; I want to just give up and leave this country. You are welcome to join me, but stop pretending “the problem” is that we don’t have enough proof of what everyone knows to be true.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.detoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there any way to see removed Lemmy posts?English
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    9 days ago

    So, on posts, next to the up-vote arrow, there’s a rainbow-colored pentagon that will take you to that post on its original instance.

    I guess for deleted posts you would instead need to go to the community/instance where what you are trying to find was, but the modlog there would definitely be the place to check, IF my original comment is correct, which I haven’t seen confirmed or disproven yet. I have no idea if the modlog federates per-se, beyond the minimum pointers/references necessary for mod-actions to propogate.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.detoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.
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    16 days ago

    You think the boundaries weren’t spelled out? I mean, we all know “international law” is a joke 1st world countries ignore versus their own actions and the rest of the world, but versus eachother? “Don’t fuck with us and we won’t fuck with you” is stupidly over-defined.

    The same for the financial enmeshment that sees this threat well-inside the realm of potential reality. Europe never promised not to sell these debts. The fact the US can’t complain about it if they do is part of what makes it a good threat. Are you not familiar with “soft power”, like, at all?

    You might have begun to be onto something if this was the only threat in Europes hand, but let’s be real for a moment: the deck is stacked so badly in Europe’s favor towards a half-dozen or so Royal Flushes that come with a free(if unwanted) blow-job, and dozens of other relatively-painless-to-Europe-but-enough-to-Fuck-up-a-US-election-cycle-or-three options, its absurd, so saying “maybe they could, but should they?” is insincere and enabling at best.

    Pretend this is a Zoo; The signs say such things as “Please Don’t Feed Pedo-Hitler”, and “Break Glass For Free Dart-Gun in Case of Escaped Pedo-Hitler” … you’re the person hemming and hawing about someone else maybe breaking the glass while escaped Pedo-Hitler stalks a pre-school class. Could you at least get out of the way of the other adults, or are you cool with it being assumed you are happy to see Pedo-Hitler on the wrong side of the barriers?

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.detoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.
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    16 days ago

    Trump didn’t specify how we would remove Maduro in the same way its pointless for Europe to specify exactly how they could or would retaliate. Its more than enough for there to be multiple options to make them all valid when it comes time to say “we warned you”.

    Please don’t confuse my enthusiasm for one option that’s been shown to be possible and devestating, for me saying this is the only option Europe should consider. On the contrary, I’m just wishing they would pick an option that matters and run with it already. All they’ve done is show their belly like a submissive dog.

    They don’t even appear to care about plausible deniability any more. Arresting Gaza protestors is just such a good, strong-arm look for going against Trump. Fear of Europe must be why so many churches in my area are flying Israeli flags at the moment.

    As for how you contradicted yourself, you said “if the threat isn’t listened to then they act on it”, then went on to claim a threat that has to be followed-through on is worthless. On the contrary, a threat that has been known all-along is rendered moot when you spell it out long after the time for it is past.

    Its the threat you have to verbalize that’s worthless. Holding a knife to someone’s throat to threaten another person is not the act of someone with any control over their present situation, and its a threat made-up on the spot that’s easilly invalidated in so, so many ways. That scenario is not applicable to Europe versus the US at all.