

Cue Israel bombing the airport.
Cue Israel bombing the airport.
I would assume their totals aren’t going to change much but thry’ll lose some number of users from the UK and gain a more or less equal number of users from a seemingly random snd ever-changing assortment of other countries.
As far as genre statistics and the like go, I wouldn’t expect them to change other than as they generally do, just as tastes and trends change.
America - the land of “people should be punished for voting the ‘wrong’ way.”
It’s amazing that all it took was a few months of Trump in office for Republicans to stop even bothering to pretend to be anything other than overtly and explicitly anti-American - to out themselves as deliberate and even enthusiastic enemies of every single thing that ever made America great…
And once again, all we can do is wait and see if any of the thousands of people with the authority to fight this will lift a finger to do so.
And my prediction is no - they won’t. Between the cowards and the co-conspirators, there’s nobody left who will even try to stop the overthrow of the US givernment and the establishment of a plutocratic autocracy in its place.
So at this point, the Democrats aren’t even bothering to pretend that they’re anything other than absolute enemies of leftism.
“Debate” in this case is actually just the blatant and obvious truth vs. evasions, excuses and lies.
Unfortunately, at this particular point in our history, the evasions, excuses and lies will probably prevail.
Appropriately enough, that bubble of aging people also holds an outsized proprtion of the political power.
So all they have to do, if they want to ensure that there’s a constant supply of young people to do the work, is use their political power to make the country the kind of place into which people would want to bring children.
And I have to say, cruel though it might be, that if they can’t even be arsed to do that, then it’s their own problem and their own fault.
So?
The only downside to a declining population is that the moneyed class will have fewer people to exploit, and at this point, anything that harms the moneyed class is a good thing.
Oh, and:
Many researchers believe this accelerating global shift is being driven in large part by a positive reality.
And I believe they’re wrong. I believe it’s driven primarily by the negative reality that much of human civilization (and the planet itself) has been warped and corrupted for the benefit of a relative handful of greedy, power-hungry psychopaths, and more people all the time don’t want to bring a child into such a shitty world.
Yes.
Corrupt as it was, it still maintained some degree of independence. It does no longer.
Think of it as something akin to the difference between the period when two separate corporations were part of a cartel in which the larger of the two was by far the dominant partner, and the situation after the larger one has bought out the smaller, fired the entire C-suite and most of the employees and sold off most of the company assets.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin
After reading through the other answers, I’m not sure of what to make of the fact that my first thought was coffee.
Because the Department of Transportation is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil.
What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.
It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.
And that’s it.
And he’s right.
By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.
It’s akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.
That rather obviously would mean you’d failed.
So literally what happened here is Trump said, “I want to violate the Constitution” and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."
And that’s it for the rule of law in the US.
All that’s left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.
Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
Political corruption should be a capital crime.
Ah… yeah… I see it now. I took it wrong.
And yeah.
That’s the same reason that I do the opposite - I take an equal number from each end, so the remaining eggs are centered in the carton, so I’m never surprised by a carton that’s unbalanced in an unexpected direction.
How odd that a single policy document okayed white supremacism, false medical information and pedophilia.
It’s almost as if the three are all somehow interrelated - like they’re all promoted by and for the same people.
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