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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

This is going to have "downstream" impacts as well... For those poorer Americans that are "lucky" enough to have a space to rent out, that rent is going to get more expensive to cover the loss of income they need...

Between the social security, Medicare/Medicaid (I can never remember which is which) and this bullshit, my rent is about to skyrocket so my landlord can stay afloat. :/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Brainrotted propaganda obsessed troglodytes hate trans people!

I'm the very definition of loser and I think they're cool!

This is how I spend my lunch break lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I would laugh hysterically if news of his death lead to an immediate jump in the stock price as well.

I would also just be very very happy to not have to share the same planet with that opportunistic Nazi asshat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

You're seriously misunderstanding my comment if you think I'm a tankie. Hell I even posted a comment in another thread mentioning my distaste for the "dictatorship of the proletariat" concept.

My comment was about the fact that we openly refer to a judges political beliefs to inform us of how we should feel about them because the judiciary has gotten so broken that we can essentially tell how a judge will rule based on their political leanings as opposed to simply following the law. I didn't mean to say "we only have liberal and conservative judges" as some lamentation of the lack of leftist judges.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

While that also sucks, it's not really what I meant. I just hate that it's come to the point that we need to identify the judges by their political leanings because that's how they rule on cases as opposed to a straight interpretation of what the law says which is what they're supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

If the judges have those personal beliefs and a case related to that comes before them I'd want them to consider the law not their personal beliefs, so we shouldn't have to be identifying them in this way.

We've come to identify them by their political leaning because it has come to the point that we get rulings based on their political leaning as opposed to what the law says. Hell it's why muskrat was pushing for "his" judge to win. He knew that the judge he backed would rule in his favor and we know he would have ruled in favor of Republicans plans for gerrymandering when that absofucukinglutly should not be the case. :(

[–] [email protected] 60 points 19 hours ago (17 children)

I'm glad, but I'm still pretty damn irritated that we're all seemingly "ok" with the fact that we just have "liberal" and "conservative" judges.

They're supposed to be impartial. We shouldn't be able to tell how they're going to rule based on their political leaning, it should be purely about the law. :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's one of the major "necessities" on the road to Communism that I just can't find myself getting behind...

The whole "dictatorship of the proletariat."

The one "philosophy" I've come to find that is more correct more often than others is "people really fucking suck. A LOT of people really fucking suck. People in positions of power or drawn to positions of power REALLY fucking suck."

I don't care who runs your dictatorship, it's going to be abused and atrocities are going to happen. I don't know how you stop capitalists from corrupting every system you try to implement though which is what they feel that dictatorship is needed for... :/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

I can't stand tight clothes especially shirts. There are very few things more annoying and uncomfortable than a shirt that desperately wants to burrow into your armpit.

As for the pants I can't say I'd enjoy needing a changing partner:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Luigi should try this as his defense.

Sorry Bondi, you can't execute Luigi it was actually HAMAS that executed that CEO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I love that Europe can still continue with scientific research and funding plans that no greedy ignorant American asshole representative would dare support!

I wish I wasn't so useless so I could actually move to Europe, but I don't pass any requirements for acceptance. Too poor and uneducated "lol" but I'd much rather have my tax dollars go to supporting people's healthcare and to scientific research as opposed to fattening Elmo Muskrat, private prison CEOs, the military and Peter Thiel...

 

25 minute exposure of NGC 2264 taken with a seestar s50. Testing the new denoise function added in the most resent seestar firmware update.

No further post processing so colors seem to be a bit off as a result of the denoise feature, but otherwise an amazing result as most images from the seestar s50 contain a lot of RGB noise!

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Hey Lemmy! Time to do some digging!

I was sent a link from a friend about some Totally Cool™ guy who has close ties to JD Vance: Curtis Yarvin. Anyone aware of this guy and his desires? I won't put the link in here as my last post was removed because of it, but a comment within the thread is copied below.

Apparently Japanese media covered the story as was posted to Reddit, but there doesn't seem to be too much talk of this in the US.

From a comment in the reddit discussion: “Curtis Yarvin is a far-right ‘intellectual’ that wants to end democracy and install what I can only really describe as cyberpunk feudalism. He’s suggested turning the United States into a patchwork of corporate fiefdoms ruled with absolute impunity by CEOs, as well as putting mandatory ankle monitors on all unemployed and poor people. This sounds like a joke, but I’m serious. JD Vance is not just a fan of him intellectually, but also a personal friend. As someone who has known about Yarvin for several years, it’s been really concerning seeing how he could potentially become a Rasputin-like figure in the event of a Trump victory. Beyond this, Yarvin has also spent many years advocating for what sounds eerily like Project 2025.”

Links within comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug

For those familiar with Star Citizen lore, he apparently wants to turn the US into the Stanton system “lol” …

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