WatDabney

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Expect to see a lot more of that all around the world.

Trump can hide enough of his caprice and his pettiness and his self-absorption behind emotive rhetoric to fool the MAGAs, but none of that works on an international scale. The rest of the world just sees him, accurately, as a petulant, self-serving asshole and raving lunatic who can't be trusted. Ever. And that's the way they're going to treat him, and the US by extension.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What era would you rather have been born in?

Why is there a watermelon there?

Subs or dubs?

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago

Torchlight 2, as either an Engineer with mechanical minions or an Outlander with shadowlings.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

Lemmy isn't a site at all. It's a piece of software.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fatima Hassouna died with nine members of her family in a direct strike on their home in Gaza City on Wednesday.

She didn't just "die" - she was murdered.

There's only one word fit to describe this and the people responsible for it - they are evil. It really is just that simple.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago

I generally don't. Labels are substitutes for thought.

If you tell people what you believe, then they have to deal with what you believe.

If you give them a label, they can and generally will stop engaging with you as an individual and will instrad focus entirely on whatever crude stereotype they have associated with that label inside their own brains.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

There are few things more painfully stupid than a mass media version of a scientific take on a matter with strong philosophical elements.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I obviously can't know this is him, but it tracks.

More broadly, I've been certain for years that he spends a lot of time on 4chan. Anyone who's at all familiar with /pol/ should be able to see that.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

As opposed to the rest of the internet which does?

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

beautiful

One of Trump's favorite ridiculous descriptors. I'm sure that's not a coincidence.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I'm not clear on what it is.

Broadly, they seem to have just lost track of the fact that their privilege is paid for by other people's labor. Yeah - I think that part of it is thinking that AI can pick up the slack, but I think a lot of it is just not really thinking much at all.

I really think a lot of it, especially for Trump specifically, is looking at the amount of money that's spent on social programs and education and housing and environmental protection and workplace safety and so on, and just dreaming about all the things he could buy with that much money.

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