@jonhendry @orionkidder @JuliusGoat he had none LEFT. The point was that one major reason people in power thought he had them was because the US *sold them to him*… but he’d just used them all already (mostly on his own people)
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@JuliusGoat @orionkidder And that weaponized proliferation of dumb ideas happens from both left- and right-wing parents/authority-figures.
Is the right-wing "ahead of the curve" on it (so to speak)? Sure, no question. I don't want this to come across as defending right-wing-nutjobbery. But having just been an adult finishing up a PoliSci degree at a LA college, I'm here to tell you that there's some pretty whacked out shit that left-wing parents are reinforcing as well. 😠
Randahl Fink“I really wish a trustworthy person like Mark Zuckerberg would make a Mastodon rip-off, so we could get back to using social media with ads and have our personal data mined.”
— No one.
@MissingThePt or maybe that's an excellent opportunity to also delete your Insta account. 🙂
@orionkidder @JuliusGoat The flip side of that is that there are some mindblowingly naive left-wing students who have zero clue about the world.
I remember taking an int'l relations class at a "liberalist of liberal arts" college during the Gulf War, and one student was like "why did we even think Saddam HAD weapons of mass destruction anyway", and I was like "because we kept the fucking receipts from when we sold them to him?"
That sword of naive-bliss cuts across the entire spectrum.
@rbreich are you really free if you have your money taken from you at gunpoint to give to someone else?
GlyphIt is just *wild* to me that the people who built a business on a linux *distribution* are trying to die on the hill that "people who just take source code and build it aren't adding any value".
@[email protected] As a reminder that a bunch of pissed off 20 somethings overthrew an out of touch government who refused to do what they wanted? Seems apt, honestly.
@breadandcircuses if we’re actually “out of time” isn’t the response “Fuck it, dude. Let’s go bowling.”
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)If you're making an indie pixel art game, tag me with a screenshot and I'll boost you!