Sometimes you just have to let gravity win

This is perfect drunk dancing strategy. If some stairs sneak up on you while you're getting in your groove, retreat to safe ground and recover dignity, before taking on the stairs directly for the final victory. Magnificent.

Pretty sure it's best for all parties, and the EU knows that. But the UK does have to leave it at least 10 years so it looks like they knew what they were doing and meant to do it.

"lol, we did it! Lemme just check what we did"

Yay well done God. Great job you did there. Keep it up, you're doing so well.

In the scenario you're talking about, that would be the moment when US democracy is definitively in the can, beyond hope of recovery by conventional means. That would be the right time to overthrow the administration by any means necessary. But yeah I really wonder if even then there would be enough collective spine to make it happen. Every effort will be made to muddy the waters. The vote will be rigged wherever possible. The white house will announce a resounding success. Most news outlets will parrot this line. From some democrats there will be "deep concern" about how the elections were handled. There will be calls for an immediate investigation. Some investigations will take place and there will be findings and condemnations, which ultimately have no effect. But the cumulative message will always be : "now is not the time"

My PC is 15 times faster than the one I had 10 years ago. It's the same old PC but I got rid of Windows.

If you can get arrested and jailed for wearing a shirt saying "from the river to the sea", that means your government is suppressing your free speech in service to the genocidal regime of a different country. Even if you don't care about the genocide, the subversion of your democracy and your civil rights by a foreign power is something that any responsible citizen should be fighting against.

I was put here to add carbon to the air and convert food into shit!

I'm sorry my mind is stuck on

If gravity is not strong enough to stop a small stream from flowing to its lowest point

I mean... what...

My PC had been running like shit for a while and I was already weighing up options for replacing it, when I got the popup message from MS about Windows 10 expiring, and how my only option was to dump the PC. So I installed Linux out of pure spite. Runs like a dream now. Thanks Microsoft!

Ironically, what Musk posted is perfectly acceptable ( in and of itself, ignoring the context of the person who is saying it ) since violence or the threat of violence is sometimes necessary to prevent things getting worse. For example, "Ukraine should be helped to defend itself" is a call for violence.

Which is why it's such a bullshit excuse to ban speech for that reason alone. I got banned for suggesting France might help out the USA by shipping over any surplus guillotines. I'm sure they would have no issue at all if I were enthusiastically advocating genocide. Never mind, I needed a push to make the move to Lemmy ; )