It's all good, I mean I read both of the books like ages ago and those were the only things that bubbled up out of the scary dark corners of my memory when the opportunity presented itself.
I always read it as like, radical Islamic Star wars.
You have the whole rebellion and the chosen one and the mystical powers and everything but instead of it being a blonde haired blue-eyed white boy it's a dark haired man incorporated into a desert tribe
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.
And followed by Don Jr and co asking people to contribute to the "take back America" fund, and if you donate over $1,000 you will get 100,000 Trump bucks
I'm sure reddit will limp along, Tumblr did, myspace is still technically running although I don't know anyone that would use it.
Maybe a younger crowd will get attracted to the site, maybe it will live again on fresh blood but I'm just not going to be a part of it. I'm not going to endorse their actions with my presence.
Does that mean that they had to take their soul and dice it up, throw away all the juicy pieces and take the remnants and sell them on the black market to the lowest bidder?
So my question is, if he won the presidency from prison, would they let him out of prison during his presidential term? Would the White House temporarily have some black bars on it?
Wahh! I'm a $5.5 billion dollar company and I need hundreds of people to do unpaid labor for me in order for me to be successful and sell stocks! Won't somebody think of the shareholders?
Hopefully that wasn't a time sensitive question, but in either case once you're balls deep in a cow I'm pretty sure one or the both of you can fake it. No one's going to be double checking.
The four count indictment Special Counsel Jack Smith handed down against Donald Trump alleges that on Jan. 6, approximately two hours after the mob broke into the Capitol, “the Defendant” joined others in the outer Oval Office to watch the attack on television....
To be fair I can empathize with their desire. They want a good and happy America and a good and happy world to live in and they are told that the reason they can't have that is because of all of these crazy things, because our news and media empire entirely runs on human suffering, peppered with occasional feel good stories.
The pervasive sense of dread and misery?, anomia?, can't think of the right word that you get when you interact with the news isn't something that everyone can simply shrug off and go about their day like it's nothing.
You would have to be a robot to not be affected by it.
Of course, this isn't an excuse for them. The sane reaction to being constantly told bad things by a psychic vampire is to remove the psychic vampire from your life and not to act on what the psychic vampire has said.
I mean, when your crazy Aunt Linda starts ranting at Thanksgiving dinner about how they put poison in the salad dressing, you don't throw out the salad dressing you tell Linda that if she doesn't like the salad dressing she doesn't have to eat it otherwise she needs to shut up and eat her turkey.
But you give crazy Aunt Linda 500 million a year and the ability to scream her insanity into 110 million people's ears 24 hours a day and you get a world full of crazy people.
This war is being led by a mass of nameless faceless billionaires and millionaires, and not all of them are in on it.
The goal is to entrench the rich in unassailable positions, and anytime there is a meeting place or gathering place of enough of us peasants to even begin to pose the slightest risk to them, they purchase that place with their immense shopping power and dismantle it.
That explains Facebook/IG, and Reddit and Twitters recent destabilization. They don't want us to have a place where we can communicate and coordinate.
It also explains the news media empire, because people who are constantly dismayed and like the story of Chicken Little always being told that the sky is falling are more likely to listen to the fox and be led to slaughter.
They're already attempting to make inroads on the federated services, anytime a federated service gets large undoubtedly there will be a massive gathering of bot accounts that will Target and destabilize any federated server. There will be people whose entire livelihoods are made around selling their mercenary services to companies who want to destroy and destabilize a federated server if it gets large enough to serve as a meeting ground.
And the whole point of all of this is just to keep us from talking with each other and organizing in sufficient quantities and locations to push our agendas over their agendas.
And the problem is the only way to do anything about it is to either spend massive amounts of resources defending safe zones from billionaires or to just keep fleeing from one safe zone to another safe zone until they get tired of chasing us because we've gotten too small to pose any threat to them.
The only way to win this war is to find a hero who can defend us from the billionaires.
I wish I could be that person but I don't know how to be that person. Hopefully somebody else will hear this and read this and it will serve as a wake-up call for them to establish a system where non-wealthy people who are the bulk of humanity can bond together and communicate freely without interference from governments and billionaires and their ilk.
Because the alternative is for us to just go around and start killing every single rich person on the planet, even though even the majority of them are probably completely innocent, just on the odd chance that we managed to take out one of the ones that are fucking up everything for everyone else.
And the downside with that is is if we do that we will become the monsters, and we won't actually solve the problem.
From what I've been reading and what I've been taking in, there is a class war between the wealthy and non-wealthy going on.
And the strange thing about this class war is that it is incredibly sophisticated compared to the wars of yesteryear. They're not having to roll out military forces and squash peasants. They're not having to actively kill dissenters. It's a very prim and proper kind of class war where the only fatality is freedom.
This kind of war is very effective because it is a mental war.
And it's very difficult to find a leader for the war or a lightning rod for the war or any single group or organization to target to bring the war to an end.
Hey! Christians have never been hypocritical! Obviously if you met a hypocritical person who claimed to be a Christian, then their claim of Christianity is just a part of their secular hypocrisy!
After all, just as no true Scotsman would fail to wear a kilt, no Christian would ever be hypocritical.
A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
I for one would prefer to run through the glades, and considering that I have violated no laws and committed no crimes I feel like my right to do so should not be impinged
Fuckin nazis. It's almost like they're the reason why we can't have good things. Every time you turn around you find there's something bad that happened and of course it was the goddamn Nazis that did it.
I hope whoever started the whole Nazi thing gets shot in the head.
Sources say several other bodies were found near the archaeological site that the radical leftist professor claimed held the holy Grail. He takes no responsibility for their deaths and claims that the Grail killed them. There one of their remains had crumbled to dust, and the other one had melted as if dissolved in acid.
Our hearts go out to the victims of this deranged madman.
Foundation vs Dune
Trump was just indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election (www.vox.com)
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
Trump calls for Supreme Court to 'intercede' against Biden after third indictment (www.cnbc.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
Where did it all go right for Biden? Facts blunt Republican attack lines (www.theguardian.com)
Jim Jordan Says Indictin' Trump Done UPSET THE HILLBILLIES (www.wonkette.com)
Favorite line or scene from Spaceballs... GO! (www.youtube.com)
We’re at Now Now…
Opinion: Joe Walsh - Trump Is a Dangerous Criminal Who Belongs in Prison (www.thedailybeast.com)
The four count indictment Special Counsel Jack Smith handed down against Donald Trump alleges that on Jan. 6, approximately two hours after the mob broke into the Capitol, “the Defendant” joined others in the outer Oval Office to watch the attack on television....
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'I voted for Brexit and heard it wouldn’t affect us, now I can't live in my £13k Italian house' (inews.co.uk)
Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he feels betrayed as he and his partner are struggling to get visas to live in Italy
When the guy on your logo violates your own dresscode (lemmy.world)
Google wants to kill open Web under the guise of making it safer (adguard.com)
A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
TIL that France and Spain are in the wrong time zone because of Nazis.
France was put on to German time when conquered by Nazi Germany....
Garage sale find (lemmy.world)
Danny Trejo and the Muppets destroy toxic masculinity (via @wholesomememes@botsin.space) (botsin.space)
Danny Trejo and the Muppets (by u/slimyrssocks)
Will no one stop this violent radical???