jispal01

joined 3 years ago
[–] jispal01@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

A bunch of performative cruelty.

[–] jispal01@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

My dog does this. She knows that I can control the temperature inside. She knows I can control the wind (ceiling fan). She knows I can summon rain in some instances (showers).

Sometimes when it rains she acts like she wants a walk and we get suited up and I open the door and she stands there at the threshold and looks at me like I am dumb because I won't shut the rain down so we can walk.

[–] jispal01@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah. When reelecting Trump, America acknowledged that our country will collapse with the oil industry. We'll fight a war to preserve our hegemony over oil, and the resultant oil crisis will be the final straw that gets everybody else in the rest of the world that have money to buy a new vehicle committed to electrification.

It is the Iron Law of Institutions in macro scale. The oil industry and American car companies would rather see America suffer and lose its position in the world, than to help facilitate a transition to some other energy source that would threaten their own entrenched power.

[–] jispal01@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Genuinely worried that they'll dress up some 40 year old to look like him, and say that Elon's med-bed rejuvinated his body. Christians will declare it the second coming of Trump and make him King of all Christiandom. The rest of all of our lives will be a world war led by religious nuts to bring the word of DJT to world.

I mean our SecDef has a crusader cross tatoo.

[–] jispal01@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I saw people pissed off about this on social media last night. I didn't even really understand what they were upset about. Other than the fact that it's a handful of people sitting at a table, I didn't really see any similarities with the Last Supper. Christians don't own the concept of people sitting on the same side of a table.

TV shows put all the people on one side of a dinner table all the time - because of camera/blocking reasons. Is every episode of Eight Is Enough blasphemous?