Short, but well written.
Can we ban rawstory links? Every single one is sensationalized crap.
I clicked through and half the lines were underlined, half the page height is ads. I don’t know how to read raw internet anymore.
See, the thing is, I watch piss porn. Hear me out. I told my friend that the thing is, to do piss porn, you kind of have to be into it. You could try and fake it, but it wouldn’t be very convincing. So, my contention is, piss porn is more genuine than other types of porn, because the people partaking are statistically more likely to enjoy doing that type of porn. Which is great, I think, because then they really get into it, which is hot. It’s that enjoyment that gets me off. Their enjoyment.
She said, “Krooklochurm, you’re an idiot. Anyone can fake liking getting pissed in the face.”
So I said, “Well, if you’re so adamant, get in the tub and I’ll piss in your mouth, and let’s see if it’s as easy as you claim.”
So she said, “All right. If I can fist you in the ass afterwards.”
Which I felt was a fair deal, so I took it.
My (formal) position was strengthened significantly by the former event. And I can also attest that I could not convincingly fake enjoying being ass-fisted.
What does that have to do with anything, you ask? Genuinity. The real deal. That’s what.
I don’t think this makes any sense, but I can see how much it means to you.
I feel like I’ve been tricked to read that
I read it yesterday, so I was fortunate to be able to skip most of it after the first few words.
Eat the pasta. Mmmmm delicious copypasta.
Is this the first organic lemmypasta?
I was there and witnessed the orginal.
I didn’t see it, by chance would you have the link to the original?
Sorry, I don’t. I looked and can’t find it.
It might be, but it was posted a couple of days ago as well apparently.
Yup, I was referring to seeing the original post the other day.
On second thought, the fediverse girl one is probably the true first copypasta.
I was there!
Hello future robot overlord historians 👋
Praise the coming morn
As culture is born
Put aside your hatred and apathy
As we copypasta most gloriously
Piss porn! Piss porn! Piss porn!
We cry, on lemmy, culture is born
Fuck no. And shove your poetry up your ass.
They can’t, it’s full of fists!
Someone put this on my crypt placard.
Get lost with this copypasta crap.
You elected an imbecile, twice.
That says so much more about the American voters than it will ever about Trump or anyone in his admin.
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." -George Carlin
Valid points, with love to George. But there’s a bit missing from that pithy take. The reasons you don’t see enough “good politicians” are the same systemic reasons we say “all cops are bastards”.
The carrots and sticks in the system are all lined up to weed out a certain kind of person, and to give another kind as much help as they need. The carrots I’m thinking of are campaign finance and the sticks are corporate media.
The American political system loves people who are cynical mercenaries, vituperative demogoues, or any alloy of those traits flexible enough to find a lasting niche. The exceptions prove the rule, to my mind.
The only other time I’ve seen the word “pithy” was on the old cracked.com.
I suppose it would make sense when discussing fruit, as well.
Additionally, I looked up the word “pith” to make sure I wasn’t being dumb and I learned it refers to the spinal cord! I’ve recently suffered a spinal injury, so that’s useful information.
Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from?
The Ivy League mostly, with honorable mention to Stanford, MIT, and the bigger state Universities.
But also, they tend to come from the nation’s wealthiest families, or as personal friends and social relations of these ultra-wealthy elites.
they are elected by American citizens
We had a 44 year run during which a Bush or a Clinton was a leading contender for President (1976 - 2020). What do you do when your options are so limited? Hell, guys like Trump and Biden are the outliers.
Get down to the state and local levels, and you’ll see much the same. Perennial incumbents from entrenched social circles cement themselves into power and promote their cronies to surrounding offices. Down in Texas, you can point to the tight-knit social circle of former Bush-Era cronies running the state as their own private fief. Opponents are subject to a litany of subversive tactics, ranging from vigilante harassment to criminal prosecution. Voting participation is deliberately suppressed through both legal and illegal means. And misinformation runs rampant in a press owned and operated by outspoken fascists.
To say people are just picking its leadership on perceived merits is plainly false.
I think the quote is saying that leaders aren’t being picked for perceived merits, rather we’re just shitheads picking shitheads
we’re just shitheads picking shitheads
Where are the non-shithead options?
George Carlin was also an advocate for apathy and not voting, which is exactly what Republicans want.
Can’t win them all. I ascribe to the saying “if voting didn’t work, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop people from doing it” though I am realistic about it’s limitations. Voting each year is the bare minimum people can do to change conditions.
apathy and not voting, which is exactly what Republicans want
Between 2014 and 2024, Republicans became enthusiastic advocates for higher voter turnout. Trump’s wins in 2016 and 2024 came through record numbers of Republican voters turning out in both the primary and general elections. Republicans have maintained control of Texas, Ohio, and Florida and tightly contested states like North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania by juicing their base voter participation.
The doggedly myth that Republicans only win when turnout is low was flatly disproven nearly a decade ago. Movement Conservatives have been more successful at turning out new voters in swing states than their Conservative Democrat peers, which is precisely why so many purple-ish states have swung red since the end of the Obama Era.
You elected an imbecile, twice.
Idk what you’re talking about. I voted for Joe Biden.
So then you only elected the imbecile once
We elected the imbecile, impeached him, witnessed his commission of countless crimes, then gave him immunity, then elected him even harder.
Biden came into office in 2021 with the promise to root out corruption. After four years, he’d dramatically inflated the incomes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, turned his back on Donald Trump, laundered billions to his friends at AIPAC, and spent two years trying to force the sale of US branch of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin.
With liberals like that, who can really be surprised when the nation swings conservative again? Biden effectively self-financed his party’s defeat.
Impeached him also twice.
“I believe that the president has learned … a pretty big lesson.”
She’s a liar and a coward.
If the rest of the world doesn’t learn from our example I’m gonna be very disappointed. Your government needs real checks and balances, actual power in the hands of citizens rather than billionaires.
Your government needs real checks and balances
For real. We (USA) thought we did. We don’t.
It’s pretty brutal to be surrounded by evil morons
his latest move could kill us all
This phrase could literally have been said at any point during Trump’s current term, and it will continue to be true for the rest of his term. Trump is regularly doing things that could kill us all.
I honestly think that just the damage that’s been done to climate change initiatives might be enough. We had a ton of steam going in to 2025, and this year has set us back by decades. I’m afraid that having such a prominent producer of GHG and pollution pull away so sharply will have knock on effects to other countries. After all, if the US doesn’t play ball, why should a smaller industrial country try to be cleaner?
Hopefully there’s still willpower and (more importantly) time to fix our shit before people start dying en masse. I kind of have my doubts at this point though. I’m pretty sure we will only start to truly prioritize it once it has a large impact on daily life, and that point will be far too late.
Preface: I am not pro-China by any means.
Interestingly, China might be a positive factor there, sort of? They seem to be aiming heavily for renewables, probably as much for economic as for climate change reasons. But with the way slightly more cleared for them to even more heavily reach out to developing countries, they might opt to invest in green energy in those developing countries. Undoubtedly to their own economic gain, again. But the net effect of China on global energy might be positive (good) from a purely greenhouse gas perspective.
Yeah, it’s really weird to look to china as a saving grace on anything, but I think you’re right. They’ve been going all in on renewables in the way that we should be. Hopefully that’ll drive prices down even further.
I also think that with their huge stakes in industrializing countries in Africa, many newly industrialized regions may just skip over the headache of transitioning off petroleum altogether.
Fingers crossed that china keeps pushing!
If the dementia doesn’t get him first, he’s going to get a bomb dropped on US to stay in the White House.
Pretty sure that’s Hegseths only mission. Congress should boot his ass right out of there.
No, we didn’t. Stop blaming voters and start fixing the election system.
I can’t just like, fix the election system. I can vote or participate in direct action.
Direct action fixed a lot of issues historically. It can also fix the democratic process
With magic?
Direct action, civil disobedience, general strike, and (yes) voting
(yes) voting
At least you acknowledge it. It takes civic participation & political organizing to get it done. It doesn’t just happen without enough voter activation & activism to get the right people on the ballot see it through.
I mean, the biggest problem is that you can’t win if you make it to the ballot in most places. Because its not a democracy.
Some places have rank choice voting. And in those districts, voting makes the most sense
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Only if you’re talking about 3rd parties. The major parties have primaries to get them on the ballot that way.
Stop blaming voters
Now see here. I know exactly why Donald Trump is President and it’s because TikTok told my snot-nosed nephew to say “Free Palestine” during Thanksgiving.
Rest of the world here: WE FUCKING WARNED YOU, YOU MORONS!!!
Rest if the.workd ia toying with electing morons, Italy has a fasciat, Hungary has.one, Germany literally looking to restary the Nazi party with AfD, Farange in the UK, Penn in France and on and on.
Hardly, half of the world is currently considering electing just as moronic representatives.
Seriously. Everybody seems to be very eager to make our same mistake. It’s almost like there’s some kind of global disinformation campaign or something aimed at undermining democracy and installing ultra right wing leaders…
Well, goodnight.
I smetime wonder if the that brexit was a proof of concept. Peoples massively votes against their own interests.
After learning what the shadowy forces of the U.S. and U.K. did to Australia back in the 70s I’m not sure I would be surprised to learn it wasn’t unrelated.
American here: I warned them too, but they’re too stupid to listen to reason…and facts…and science.
Weird how the rest of the world hasn’t stopped him. Almost as if there are idiots and inaction everywhere.
Because that would require either a terrorist action or a bunch of Internationally illegal tampering with American Democracy or declaring war against the World power with the the largest standing army and deepest pockets for arsonal. The rest of the world is effectively held hostage while Americans solve their own problems.
It’s the reason why a lot of bad people in power stay in power. There can be tariffs and sanctions and all manner or soft power deals but the rules are rules. Sovereignty and a right to run your country mostly the way you want is protected as a right and and the US used its positioning as the least devastated megapower/millitary supremacy post WWII to basically bend the world over and get a lot of acceptions to a lot of rules.
Or electing your own leaders who are willing to stand up to him on a global stage. Half the country did not elect him. There are protests, there are grassroots movements. What else do you recommend? Pretty easy to sit outside and call millions of people morons, including all those who agree with you. Pretty small-minded if you ask me.
I did not call Americans morons nor was my intention to tell you what to do to solve the problem. I simply told you why there isn’t more help coming from the outside. It’s not a matter of people deliberately sitting on their hands.
Unless American leadership breaks the International rules enough to get the sign on of multiple countries to work in concert against America in a world war you are on your own because of rules designed to allow countries to self govern. Other countries cannot alter another country’s government for good or for ill. This is not an indictment of the voting habits or a rebuke of the process of citizen power the American public.
Whether you or any other country solve your problem democratically or through violent collapse the world is handcuffed. There are civil wars going on right now in other countries and the rules are the same for them as they are for you. The world will recognize whatever government is effectively in power once the dust settles but outsiders cannot lawfully tip the scale and go kingmaking unless one side of the conflict violates the rules of war. War itself is not internationally illegal. The US falling into a full on civil war is kosher from an international law standpoint.
The USA has a historic tendency to ignore that international legality and go kingmaking themselves utilizing the resource of spies and subterfuge ONLY because they are singularly powerful enough on the world stage to get away with it. America essentially declared itself a world police force and the sheer infrastructure they have worldwide means that no individual country can compete. Look for yourself how many bases America has on foreign soil compared to every other country. How many armaments and millitary force and how, their ethics policies of their intelligence agencies differ. America is singularly unique. It may be why you believe the rest of the world will help you “fix” things but that’s not in the interests of the rest of the world.
Foriegn leaders are “standing up to America” but they are doing so by cutting themselves free of American coercion for the security and benefit of their own citizens. By framing America out of the picture and moving reliance to other countries and letting America starve itself once the supply chain contracts and treaties expire they will decrease American influence on world policy. It doesn’t benifit those countries to try and swoop in and shore up a crumbling empire which has held guns to their heads for generations. International help currently isn’t coming for American citizens. Unless your country fixes it’s problems itself fairly soon the “standing up to America” that is happening will level your economy and diplomatic power as other governments profit from the diminishing of American hard power that will continue for decades.
Believing that someone is or should be coming to your rescue may not be in your best interest. Not when so many stand to gain long term from your division.
‘Why don’t you stop us?’ After decades of the US using its financial might to tip the economic and political scales in its favour on basically every front. You’ve relentlessly stripped power from even your closest allies and now you’re whining about the results when they don’t work in your favour. Happy to pursue war and regime change in foreign countries or prop up genocidal lunatics, at the expense of civilian casualties. Just too cowardly to do it in your own country when the risk is yours. ‘Why don’t you stop us?’ You couldn’t write it. Unless you’re American.
I’m doing what I can to foment disgust from another country
Not our fucking job to fix the US’s stupid problem. Land of the brave clearly don’t think it’s that big a deal so they’re on their own while we work out to take care of ourselves. Unfortunately there is still inaction, yes, but the US needs to actually do something about this instead of asking why no one is helping the country that actively fucked them over for decades upon decades.
It is a stupid problem, you’re right. So how would you fix it? It’s lazy to call out an entire country, including those who actively work against him, as if they all voted in unison for the same thing. As long as you’re willing to sit on the outside slinging mud at many people who don’t deserve it, people will continue to do the same in return. Grow up.
Hate to tell you but Canada is next so hope you got your action pants ready. When the united states falls we take everyone with us so it’s kinda your job and your fucking problem too.
And se will need to work on fixing that problem, yes. We’re also not “next” as we’re actively dealing with a conservative government right now that our moronic population believes is centerist just because they are technically between the left and the far-right. I’m not going to ask for or expect anyone else’s help, though, so you can take this nonsense “gotcha” and shove it way up your behind.
And see here’s the thing about the US falling, we don’t need to save you to protect ourselves, we just need to disconnect from that sinking ship. Sure we could try to pull this dead weight along with us but we could also just cut you loose to drown on your own while taking care of ourselves. If you’d even make a slight attempt to tread water then fine, but as it stands a lot of you are just bitching and demanding we carry you after you sunk the boat in the first place.
He needs to be tried for treason and punished accordingly.
Sedition.
Also
The justice system isn’t for punishment.
You mean he needs to be locked in a facility where he can no longer harm others, and he receives treatment accordingly.
yes but for which one?
for me it’s hard to decide which is worse treason, sending your pack of howler monkeys to smear shit around the capitol while screaming for the vice president’s head,
OR,
stealing classified documents including nuclear force deployments, and keep them in your fucking bathroom?
There’s plenty more, but those two are the ones that stick in my brain.
Holy mother of ads! I tryed to read anything twice. To all website owners, if you plan on selling something to me my suggestion is to let my phone load the page. Test with an old phone. If it doesn’t work, go back to the drawing board. Maybe you don’t need that malware 8K ad movie for each button. Maybe.
Hey fren, ublock origin on Firefox works a treat
Not seeing any at all. Maybe try an ad blocker.
What’s this “we” assertion bullshit?
Funny how when it’s Russia, every Russian must suffer for not overthrowing Putin, but when it’s the US, suddenly “oh no, it wasn’t me”.
Americans when a dictatorship with no free elections invades another country: “It’s the people’s fault! Just revolt and take him down!”
Americans when their democratically elected leader commits the worst imaginable atrocities for the 50th time in a row: “It’s- It’s not our fault. We voted for the other, slightly less fascist candidate! What else can we do?”
All the freedom. Zero responsibilities. That’s what 200 years of no public education does to a nation.
Refusing to do anything against that scum was just as good as supporting him, in the end.
So yeah, I’d say that 2/3rds is enough to constitute a ‘we’ in this case.
the election was hacked and stolen…
Unfortunately I don’t believe it was. Go on Next door some time and you’ll see why.
it was. Election Truth Alliance has some compelling public data.
To the extent of discounting Muslims, latinos, white people, and non voting or third party voting tankies???
I want to believe as much as the next person that this was a fully successful voter fraud, but Americans are truly that sexist against women and tankies are adamant, even now, that Gaza is the hill they want to die on.
That’s to say nothing for the idea that if the election WERE stolen, it would be an uncharacteristic display of technical competence the likes of which we’ve never seen from this administration before or since.
nobody said the Trump administration was behind it and people like the ETA don’t make guesses. the information is clear: the election’s data was manipulated.
not sure what state you’re in but:
a) russian trolls can post on next door too.
b) election truth alliance
What is it the kids say? ‘Cope.’ Just like us in the UK after Brexit, you need to just face up to who you really are as a country. You re-elected Trump in free and fair elections after Jan 6th and Georgia. We voted to leave the strongest most influential trading block in the world because we’re idiots. Face it, accept it, start to fight it.
nice brand new account talking only about how bad the us and uk are, with zero other interests.
fuck off
Ugh, stupid webpage kept prompting me to pay despite telling me it was a free article shared by subscribers.
the global south, including poor states in the US
Kek
We elected an imbecile
You’re only just figuring that out now?
It’s like saying your house may have caught fire while standing in front of the building engulfed in flames.
Can I get a trld please?
Too read, long didn’t
Don’t dead open inside
The word order wouldn’t even work as a ddoi.
It is paywall.
Wooosh !
Too read, long didn’t = trld
Too long ; didn’t read = tl;dr
Tl;dr - Trump ruining environment and economy for the whole world, not just the US.
Didn’t see any new stuff besides some stuff from Newsom and the Pope about how it’s probably wrong to let people die and poison the planet.
Hate you for infinity Amerikkka. No take backs.
Honestly? At this point I’d be OK with it, if it just happens fast (there’s a your mom joke in there, but I can’t be arsed)
