mriguy

joined 2 years ago
[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

“We wanted to make sure the democrats couldn’t win”

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because of Bush’s masterful handling of the storm? Way to go guys.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

When the elephants fight, the grass is crushed.

When the elephants make love, the grass is crushed.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I had to read that multiple times - my first reading was 97% of the time, when users of X called for violence, X chose not to respond to the calls by committing the requested violence.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course, if they’re in the army, can’t they be executed for treason and the like?

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

From the way they are acting, they clearly don’t seriously think there will ever be a chance of them losing power, so they probably will go for it.

Of course, they’re probably also fully aware that if the Democrats ever DO regain power, they will trip all over themselves to “let bygones be bygones” and restore the filibuster for the Republicans to use.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, so far no stoppers that I've found. I generally like the look but I think as the betas progress they're probably going to dial down some of the transparency - the notifications on my Lock Screen and the control center icons are very hard to read because I have a kind of busy background picture.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Definitely stealing that phrase!

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

since this is the thing the right armed themselves for

No it isn’t and it never was. That was the excuse they used to cover their gun fetish. They always saw themselves as the shock troops of the authoritarian takeover, and the fact that they are delighted it’s happening is confirmation.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Sure, they could, and probably should. But evidence suggests they won’t. So what’s the point of them spying on him? They’ll collect a bunch of information and do nothing about it.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (6 children)

But you can be sure that the spy agencies are watching him. He's already too powerful for comfort, and it's their job to spy on people like him.

And do what? It was very clear that if Trump got elected he’d take a wrecking ball to the country that we will probably never recover from, at the behest of a hostile foreign leader he’s been openly conspiring with for decades. What exactly did they did to stop him?

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