Separation anxiety is what happens when you can’t find your phone.

The one whose name sounds like a printer model

Nothing will fundamentally change

Their comment history is literally just Fox News. Covers the full gamut from trans athletes to Hunter Biden conspiracies. I didn’t know these people existed on Lemmy

Some insight from across the pond:

Our last Prime Minister was a British Indian from the Conservative party. Recent right wing and far-right members of cabinet have included many more Brits of Indian descent, including two of the most heinously anti-immigrant cabinet members we’ve ever had. One of them, Suella Braverman, ran for party leadership on an anti-immigrant platform, pointing out that Indians are the largest group who overstay their visas in the UK.

I think very similar things can explain why Usha Vance, Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswamy and the like can align with an openly racist MAGA crowd:

1. Class matters more than race. Most of these people grew up privileged and don’t identify with the common immigrant or brown person’s experson

2. Power hungry people come from all backgrounds and will do whatever they need to get what they want (in Usha Vance’s case that’s being first lady one day)

3. Submitting to model minority status, as many well-to-do immigrant families from South Asia do, means implicitly accepting, and ultimately reflecting, white supremacist values

And as with all issues rooted in history, you can blame the British for some of this. A white supremacist world view where Indians stand above the darker races was introduced to India by the British over a century ago. The British wanted East Africa to become “the America of the Hindu” so they educated and trained a generation of Indian colonial administrators and enforcers. This world view of Indians as superior to others, if subordinate to whites, did not disappear with colonialism. A lot of the people who held those views came directly to Britain and their children became right-wing voters and politicians. The connection with the US is less of a straight line, but you can hear it when you listen to Vivek talk about African-Americans, for example.

We will not allow you to bring your pet armadillo along.

I’m well aware of how Bernie turned individual donations into a funding juggernaut. But if you think a third party candidate would win in a first past the post system, then you’re the one who’s not paying attention

The sad thing is that no Democrat will say fuck the norms to undo corporate fuckery, or to fix serious problems of inequality, or to slash the military budget, or to save the precious planet we live on from climate doom. They’ll insist on doing things the right way but get 1% of their agenda done before the other team takes over and rolls all progress back 50 years

She saw the brake lights, but not in time.

It was the scarcity that fueled his creativity.

The busker hoped that the people passing by would throw money, but they threw tomatoes instead, so he exchanged his hat for a juicer.

Everybody should read Chaucer to improve their everyday vocabulary.

You have no right to call yourself creative until you look at a trowel and think that it would make a great lockpick.

It turns out you don’t need all that stuff you insisted you did.

The truth is that you pay for your lifestyle in hours.

I’d rather be a bird than a fish.

He was also cornered on this since Chrystia Freeland was so loud about Ottawa needing to take action

Except he’s staking the country’s future on being an ‘AI superpower’, so there’s no chance he does anything to piss off big tech

It’s not weird but please consider therapy, friend

Every manager should be able to recite at least ten nursery rhymes backward.