I upvoted you because you’re making an interesting argument, but I’m definitely more in the Charlie Chaplin camp on political satire, and that ridiculing fascism is a productive thing to do - The Great Dictator was released before the US entered WW 2. Although Chaplin put a lot of work at the end of that movie to make sure everyone knew it was satire and Colbert was a bit less diligent.

Hm. A bunch of media illiterate conservative dingdongs watched the Colbert report and politics now visually looks like that… but nationalism to it’s extreme tends to look like that and Colbert’s team knew that. Fascism and nationalism look like that and I’m not sure satirizing it normalizes it (in general) but neoliberalism and that ‘working across the aisle’ politics (and journalism) that was also trendy at the time did actively normalize it.

Don’t fuck ICE agents.

I’ve seen a screenshot of a Minneapolis cop on Grindr who was bitching about nobody wanting to sleep with him. Praxis!

And a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

IIRC vr is still a bit of a mess on Linux.

Take the entire Orlando area, they’d be thrilled to get their crosswalk back and some sane leadership.

Also I love how a bunch of internet randos know about my favorite field trip spot when I was a kid.

I got the “not prey” bit and the Predator movie franchise when I bought it (if the first thing I thought of was the other definition, I probably would have bought a different laptop), but I’d completely forgotten about Alienware, the Alien vs Predator angle is kinda funny.

Still, at some point you think they’d go for a rebrand, because you don’t want people to think about your line of gaming laptops and go “wait… yuck”.

I’ve got an old-ish Acer Predator and thankfully it doesn’t have quite that level of dogshit branding but I did have to go into the bios to disable the boot screen and obnoxiously loud boot up noise. I like the metal and the RGB isn’t that bad, but if I buy another gaming laptop it’s probably not going to be from the Predator line since that seems to be all NVIDIA and I use Linux now, lol. Also who the hell thought Predator was an appropriate name for any commercial product, it’s pretty yikes.

(Also my laptop has always been an RGB space heater but that seems to be a problem with gaming laptops in general).

Newsom has been leaning into transphobia recently, he’s a slimeball and I don’t trust him to not throw the trans community under the bus for some bullshit.

He’s getting lots of ideas that his government should do something about homeless people. Unfortunately those ideas are all horribly evil.

Up until probably about a decade ago I would occasionally go into small shops that used dial up to process credit card payments. There may still be some places doing that but I haven’t noticed it in a while.

I’m trans and originally from Florida. Rick Scott getting elected in spite of the Medicare fraud was enough for me to realize Florida would continue to get worse, so I left.

Florida is a sunny place for shady people.

Isn’t his daughter a furry?

Uh… maybe?

I was the weird kid who was more politically informed than the average adult, but I’d read the newspaper daily since about 12 or so. Maturity IDK but there are many adults that are less mature than I was.

Why should any American not want a country to criminally prosecutes their corrupt former leader

Because we don’t criminally prosecute our corrupt former leaders, we re-elect them.

So I’d been considering getting a used smart watch with fitness tracking stuff and audio controls (I listen to audio books at work but have to pause fairly frequently), what should I be looking for to keep my data away from the ghouls? I know about the PineTime, how ready for less techy consumers is that right now?

Maybe look into Bazzite if you get impatient waiting for SteamOS to become more widely available.

'Murica! Fuck yeah!

I supported a war in Iraq because of WMDs and women’s rights. I was also 12 at the time and gullible enough to believe Iraq actually did have WMDs.

Now that I’m older and less gullible, the sense of deja vu is nauseating.

The US congresswoman in question is, of course, Ilhan Omar.

There were still a whole bunch of people who showed up, at least some of the politicians who were supposed to speak at the capitol understandably cancelled though.