[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Either lack of critical thinking or driven by greed.

You get the top to vote for you by ensuring they keep and/or increase their riches. That’s done by immediate things like tax cuts, or other long term strategies like cutting environmental protections and reducing the role of gov’t, allowing businesses to rape the planet and abuse their workforce as hard as possible to increase profits.

As for the rest of his supporters, the “MAGA” crowd, they’re kept in line by keeping them stupid, allowing you to more easily feed them propaganda and influence their emotions to fit your needs. Religion teaches them to be subservient from an early age and take a back seat to a higher power, whether that be god or the charismatic talking head at the alter or on tv, all the while leeching as much money from them as possible without leaving them totally destitute. This helps explain why conservatives/religious turds continue to attack early education (less chance of them learning to think critically and question things), school lunch programs (hinder brain development), libraries (access to other ideas/beliefs), sex education and abortions (keeping those accidental pregnancies from being stopped, thereby ensuring the already uneducated and poor families continue to have kids they cannot support financially and give a good education to). It’s all very sinister when you look at the whole picture. It’s why I detest religion, not so much the concept and practicing of religion, but how evil men have turned it into a weapon, and exploiting the very people they pretend to care about. A lot of the evil they push is all done under the guise of religious beliefs/freedoms.

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

I view MAGA/Republicans like Ace Rothstein views Don Ward in Casino when the lottery machines were rigged to hit jackpots, which is effectively: you’re either too dumb to see what’s happening or you’re in on it, either way you’re out!

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

“YOU’RE BALD!” 🗣️

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

“That bank money was begging me to take it, your honor. Sittin’ there, with those tight little bands on; it was askin’ for it!”

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

I killed him almost immediately after those first few nights in camp. I then left Shadowheart there to rot with his corpse. I never understand the mass appeal towards those two.

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah I don’t get why someone would make a bot that removes 90+% of an article. It just spits out a disjointed mess of half thoughts leaving you more confused.

I’d rather there be a bot that just reposts 100% of it so I don’t have to click on the site.

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago

Idk but I’m reminded of the 2002 adaptation of The Time Machine. One of the great achievements of our civilization was an advanced AI with all of our collective knowledge that you could converse with. Feels like our AI tech is on track to get there by the time we start dying off en mass lol

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

Error 69: Bonk

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Definitely paused for dramatic effect. So cringe lol

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 months ago

I feel like one day the common practice to combat Microsoft’s enshittification of Windows (besides dropping it altogether) will stop being “download this program and disable all the garbage with registry edits A-Z” to “download this fighting AI that will be in a constant battle with Microsoft’s AI to try and stop it from spying on you”.

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

This post is about VALVE’s next game. Can’t you read?

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