[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Definitely bed. Not affiliated in any way but AmeriSleep makes the best bed and pillows I have ever slept on. Hands down no comparison. It's the perfect combo of firmness and conformity.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

The post was about binge drinking, which is a specific kind of "drinking"? I was comparing the differences between "binging" both drugs and the effects they cause after the fact.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

I think they just might, though. There's a unifying experience with cancer that transcends party lines. Not a single person in this country has not been affected themselves or know someone affected by cancer.

Democrats really need to drive this point home. They need to make this personal for every voter, not partisan. Blatantly say that cancer doesn't give a fuck if you're Republican, Democrat, wealthy, or poor. Or can come for anyone, even those that have spent their life trying to live healthily.

What they've done it's akin to an alien invasion movie where instead of defending the planet, Congress decides to do nothing because it might give someone they don't like a political win. It baffles my mind how inhumane Republicans and the mega wealthy are.

Honestly, if tRump was president and there was a chance to cure cancer for good, I'd be 100% fine giving him that win. I'd send him a personal fucking thank you letter.

Fuck cancer and fuck Republicans!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'll start donating the maximum I can afford if she tells him to fuck off publicly! Or, just tell the douch she'll do it, then call him the day she confirms the pick is the same, and thank him for the donations. Fuck these ghouls.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Warhammer series as well as the Gears of War franchise. I like other strategy and 3rd-person shooters with cover mechanics. I just couldn't get into this world or the characters/groups.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

In the cat and mouse game, the cat can adjust tactics but the mice eventually figure out an alternative route. I'm sure they will find a way with this. Either that or a lot of people will just stop watching YouTube, I'd imagine.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Honestly, until the working class realizes the cops work for the capitalists and are there to protect their property, not civilians, we will see more "don't have anything to fear" crowd stepping in to assist against this kind of thing.

However, most are still hung up on wedge issues like abortion to unite against the powers of their own oppression. So long as cops are seen as protectors to some, we will have bootlickers tonguing some pork brown-eye.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

And take the rest of the GOP with her!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I keep seeing this said on these sort of posts, like the average voter has anything to do with the voting system being used or has the power to change it. Those with the power to change would never change the voting method. They would almost assuredly gain nothing and lose almost everything.

This isn't a direct rag in you, personally. I just don't know how to expect the wolves to accept the addition of other predators in the hen house. Obviously, it takes a unified electorate to get change like this via elected officials with simple goals and they've spent the last several decades hyping up wedge issues for people to fight each other over that no one could ignore those things to vote and push for a change to the national voting method.

Just like the president not having the power that the electorate believes them to have, I'm just too cynical, now, to expect anything positive to change before I die of cancer from some shitty corporation that wants to cut corners to add some zeros to their bank accounts.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

It'll only work if you use three Bonds' in a trench coat!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I'd expect nothing else from a bunch of vampires. They've all but hoovered up all the money and ruined entire generations attempts at wealth building. There's nothing left but our bodies and precious fluids!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only way to break these people out of their echo chambers is to enact anti-cult tactics. Trying to get someone out of a cult is an extremely hard thing to do. When it's 30% of a country's citizens, however, it may be impossible. If Capitol Police testimony, video evidence, and other MAGA members speaking out couldn't break the spell, what will insulting them and their beliefs prove?

I don't have the solutions to fix this and I loathe the MAGA cult, but the harder you insult, point out hypocrisy, and humiliate these supporters, the deeper into the cult they retreat. This is seen time and time again with friends and family who attempt to help someone escape an obvious cult or religion.

I am 100% in the "punch a Nazi in the face" crowd, but what we need to do is treat these people like they have been brainwashed, rather than them making the conscious decision to support fascist rhetoric. To them, in their cult, we are the outsider trying to prosecute their leader and destroy their beliefs and way of life.

You will never out-debate them in their beliefs. You will never insult them into leaving. And treating them all like the enemy is exactly what their leaders are telling them you will think.

I'm not saying every MAGA member is possible of redemption, but the most success we may find, to remove this fascist rot is with those who were deep in and have found their way out. The call to leave needs to come from "inside the house," so to speak.

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