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VikingHippie

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VikingHippie ,

It's Dale Earnhardt and a couple other people

VikingHippie ,

Bad muzak I can handle. It's when they interrupt it every ten seconds to remind you that there's still the same number of people ahead of you that really gets my goat. And I need that goat!

VikingHippie ,

Tbf, a pun-based show with gratuitous fourth wall breaking is the kind of desperate I would actually love 😁

VikingHippie OP ,

Nope, some game called "IfSunSets" that I'm not going to try 🤷

VikingHippie OP ,

Good point!

VikingHippie ,

All I can tell you is that this isn't you.

VikingHippie ,

I love that they won't trust Wesley Crusher with the task 😄

VikingHippie ,

Warm night, cold beer, blue jeans, red pick-up

VikingHippie ,

I walk and talk like a field hand
But the boots I’m wearing cost three grand

VikingHippie ,

That fucking amazing! 😮🤣 Gotta love Letterkenny 🥰

I was actually quoting Bo Burnham's equally hilarious Country Song though 😁

VikingHippie ,

my radical and poorly regulated militia

Talk about fighting fire with fire!

VikingHippie ,

Damn you! Now that abominable song is stuck in my head and probably will be for the rest of the day! 🤦

VikingHippie ,

Biden BARELY beat him the first time around and conditions are WORSE this time around:

1: The electorate has a ridiculously short memory and aren't currently suffering from Trump being president.

2: Related to but distinct from 1, Biden's main strategy of "at least I'm not the other guy" is much less effective for an incumbent than a challenger.

3: Biden is currently alienating a large part of his own base by supporting two seperate genocides (Gaza and Yemen), one of which Democrats actually care about even when there's a Dem president.

Don't get me wrong, I REALLY want him to win since he's by far the lesser evil, but for the above reasons and others, there's a significant risk of him actually losing if the traitor isn't disqualified as he should be

VikingHippie ,

He won the popular vote by a smaller percentage of votes cast than Hillary and the Dem candidate winning the sub-45yo vote is pretty much a given. In most elections, it would be by much more.

As for the 65+ group, a lot of fascists and people who don't consider fascism more of a deal breaker than a (D) behind a name are aging into that group, perhaps as many as are dying off.

And no, I'm not assuming anything. I'm pointing out that there's a big risk of the pro-democracy candidate losing if he and the rest of the DNC don't stop thinking that "Not Trump" is enough and start listening to what the public wants.

VikingHippie ,

You obviously have a lot more faith in the rationality of voters than I do, in spite of the whole gestures at entire world thing.

In stead of pointing out details, I'm just gonna hope that your faith will be rewarded in a little under 11 months and wish you a nice day.

VikingHippie ,

I meant that his ELECTION prospects are worse, in part BECAUSE life in general is better and many have forgotten just how awful it used to be.

It's much easier to get elected on "we know he's not the most exciting candidate, but at least he's better than the one ruining your life right now" than on "we know he's been underwhelming but at least he hasn't been catastrophic like the one who used to ruin your life"

VikingHippie ,

No. I was about to refute their misconceptions point by point but decided it wasn't worth the effort since we're ostensibly on the same side and nothing I or anyone else can say would convince them.

Same with you, it seems, so unless you actually have something to add, I suggest you take your conclusion jumping elsewhere.

VikingHippie ,

hilariously out of your element

Says the one who calls me a

conservative

Dude, can't you read? I clearly said that Biden's the lesser evil by far and that the Trump presidency was a catastrophe.

I'm not calling Biden an evil because I think he's too far left. I'm calling him an evil because he's way too far right and way too authoritarian. Dude loves cops and the fascist apartheid state Israel, just like Trump does.

VikingHippie ,

I still think you're a conservative, just the kind that wears a Mao t-shirt instead of a Reagan one.

That would make me a tankie. Tankies are super authoritarian and I'm the opposite. That's one of the things I dislike about Biden, remember?

I tend to occupy a very wide field between European style Social Democrat to Left Libertarian bordering on anarchism, depending on the specific subject.

Always on the "no such thing as inherent authority" end of the axis where Biden's at the "cops are great" end, though.

Also go look up what astroturfing means

I'm well aware of campaigns disguising themselves as grassroots when in actuality some very rich people are behind it.

Ironically, every campaign of The Senator From MBNA has been more or less astroturfing.

VikingHippie ,

Quotes conservative media

The fuck I did! Conservatives didn't coin that nickname, progressives did! Progressives pointing out that he was suspiciously helpful to a major campaign donor to the detriment of regular people.

Since when has Joe Biden been marketed as a grassroots candidate?

Since every time they've portrayed him as just a regular middle class man of the people friend of union workers, none of which he actually is.

I'm genuinely worried about your critical thinking skills

Right back at you, shitlib. Have the day you deserve.

VikingHippie ,

Your anger is futile.

Aww it's cute that you think your bullshit is crafty enough to rile me up lol. My use of emphatic language is out of bafflement, not anger.

go look it up.

Nope. Not going to spend the time and effort looking up YOUR claim. YOU provide a source or stfu.

Btw, even IF it bizarrely turns out that the notoriously pro-business and anti-consumer conservatives were the ones who came up with it, that doesn't change the context and meaning which I'm using it.

That's not what astroturfing is... you should brush up on the term.

I literally defined the term for you. Unlike you, I'm fully aware of what it means. You're acting like Vizzini from The Princess Bride with his constant misuse of "inconceivable!"

It seems like you're going through some stuff

If by that you mean "wasting time and effort trying to talk sense into a Dunning Kruger poster boy", then yeah. I have bad impulse control that sometimes makes me keep answering when bad faith arguing idiots adress me directly even though I know it's a bad idea.

In conclusion: you started out with nonsense and if anything just got worse from there. Please leave me alone.

VikingHippie ,

"Numbness will subside in several minutes."

VikingHippie ,

This poop turned my cereal brown

VikingHippie ,

That's what all mean people say.

VikingHippie ,

Never! Everything on the internet is genuine! https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/795a0413-db4c-4834-84b9-9028b256035a.webp

VikingHippie ,

I like that the article consistently refers to Meta as what it is, an adtech giant that also runs social media platforms rather than the other way around.

VikingHippie ,

Serves you right for not trusting in his self-righteous suicide!

VikingHippie ,

material value

I think that's the point that they're making: it's supposed to be about which object of immense EMOTIONAL value would make people the happiest, and then a lot of people make it about their material value in stead.

As much as I understand their disappointment, though, Lemmy of all places is so full of nerds and geeks (said with love as a geek myself) who know a lot about technical stuff that it was pretty much bound to happen..

VikingHippie ,

I was in a band called Conceptual Disappointment. We had excellent stage design, but the music was mediocre at best.

VikingHippie ,

Fun fact: when my country transitioned to a new public authentication app, the default way was to use your passport to register. My passport was expired, though, so I had to show up in person with my birth certificate and social security card equivalent.

To get my birth certificate, I had to show up at the local office with, you guessed it, my passport.

Lucky for me that they accepted it in spite of being expired (none of the pertinent information such as my face, name and birth date had expired, after all), or I would probably be trapped in the loop to this day, years later.

VikingHippie ,

It's compulsion all the way down..

VikingHippie ,

And arguably best known for inspiring the best video game series in the history of mankind.

VikingHippie ,

Judging by the comment you're replying to, I'd say 5 hours or less.

VikingHippie ,

The sun after blinding you

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/1a694aa6-f8cb-448f-b25a-dad4815c4814.jpeg

VikingHippie ,

With a name like that, it's NOT a comedic work?

VikingHippie ,

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/a37ac065-430a-4c16-9de9-a8ab2093a22b.jpeg

VikingHippie ,

In this case, being more accurate would have distracted from the overall point.

Granted, attracting the dismissive comments of insufferable pedants and the wilfully obtuse isn't ideal either, but here we are 🤷

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    VikingHippie ,

    (Almost) all humans are horny. Just look at gestures at entire world

    VikingHippie ,

    Reminds me of the scene in Lucifer, I think it was, where an atheist was highly annoyed by meeting god 😄

    VikingHippie ,

    British Museum: "what's a country of origin?"

    VikingHippie ,

    And maybe a good psychologist 🤷

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