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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have died on dumber hills than arguing against 1 + 1 = 5.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have died on dumber hills than arguing for 1 + 1 = 5.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

That full body workout took me days to read the last time. I felt like I was watching an epic soap opera and was trying to track all the characters until I realized that they all just needed to hug and communicate better

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 0 points 4 months ago

It was going so well until they started about the day count, and I already knew it was over. I hope they're doing okay now.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 0 points 4 months ago

Jon bois made a great “documentary” about it: https://youtu.be/eECjjLNAOd4?si=6e4WHk9qCKp5oq0z

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago

oh my god thanks for linking that, the full body workout thread is truly painful!

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 0 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Why ARE WE randomly capitalizing CERTAIN WORDS for no APPARENT reason?

[–] kambusha@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

MY LIFE OUT OF EVEN 1+1 YOU'RE ENJOY!

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

YOU’RE absolutely correct, ENJOY.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

BECAUSE if we leave too much SPACE between capitalized KEYWORDS they blend TOGETHER, we get BORED and stop reading the SENTENCE

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does this read like a Trump campaign email/text

I really want to know who entered my info into their system so I can bludgeon them with a rusty chain, there is no opting out lol

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[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

It's too bad it's UGLY because you're RIGHT this was much easier to READ

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They even capitalised the NUMBERS

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago
[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Typography hell

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It feels kinda like how comic books bold words for emphasis, and just about as randomly applied

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[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 months ago

It's definitely the next level of bionic reading.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago

YOU'RE absolutely correct, ENJOY.

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[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 0 points 4 months ago
[–] Gemini24601@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

This is O’Brien type stuff

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

I've always been like this. Sadly my wife finds controversy at every turn and I get dragged in.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do you want a fascist dicatorship? 'Cause letting assholes be dangerously wrong without pushback is how you get a fascist dictatorship.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you know? Its not like we are living in this situation right now

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You know what, you're absolutely correct. Enjoy!

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[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have MAGA family members and it’s not just 1+1=5. It’s a word-vomit tsunami of absolute bullshit. And if you convince them that point 1/367 is not factual, they won’t accept that it disqualifies anything else (including the idea that he never tells lies), and you will have to re-prove that point 1/367 is not factual a few weeks later. It’s exhausting, and I’m fairly sure that is the point (and I’m fairly sure this is also an actual Russian propaganda technique called a “firehose of falsehoods”, regardless of whether it’s being used in that context).

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's when it's time to shame, ridicule, ostracize, and exile. People like that do not deserve the benefits of living in a society.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thats our national issue, democrats care far less about the fascist vomit of the right than they do being polite, "understanding," and "reaching across the aisle."

J6ers tried to overtake the govt, hang em for treason. If their backers violently rise up, take em out too. Problem solved. Instead, dems make excuses for Republicans every day, say they can't do anything about anything, then push a bunch of policies to further snuff out the left instead.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They reach across the aisle because they basically never have control of Congress. Dems need all 3 (presidency, house of reps, and Senate) to pass anything. When they don't have all 3, they have to reach across the aisle to pass anything. So guess how long they've had all 3? They've had it for 4 years of the last 24 years.

And if they didn't reach across, guess what happens. The GOP shuts down the government like they did to Obama.

So what can you do move things left? Give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories in all 3 houses.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Rewarding them for moving further right hasn't worked for decades, but surely it will this time!

There's a reason they cant pull the votes to get all 3, turns out the people voting for Republicans aren't going to switch parties cause dems chase after them year after year abandoning anyone left of mid right establishment dems.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Democratic politicians feel this way because they are mostly friends with their colleagues across the aisle. They all eat at the same luncheons together, hang out at the same establishments in DC, attend the same fundraisers and lobbying events.

I think the voters tend to have a different point of view from those in DC. Consider that even Republican lawmakers were running for their life on Jan6. Dem voters are growing fatigued with the constant gaslighting from the establishment politicians, and hopefully soon might provide cause for their “elected representatives” to flee as well. At this point we’ve been left with painfully few alternatives.

Lastly just want to say I do agree with full treason charges for anyone involved with Jan6. Obstruction was a laughable wrist slap, this is far too serious for such measures. The rioters kind of had the right idea but for literally all of the wrong reasons. It’s tea party republicans all over again (which was funded by Koch bros of course). Instead of addressing this in a serious manner, Dems considered doing nothing at all for 2 years before they finally started bringing the wrong charges. Pathetic.

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[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I just agree with people so they can stop talking.

-Jet Li

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

But 1+1 is 5. I'm sick and tried of people pretending 1+1=1. The sum is always bigger than each of their addends. How do people not get that

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 0 points 4 months ago

Are you Terrance Howard?

[–] example@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

it's clearly 3, stop spreading misinformation

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[–] CylustheVirus@beehaw.org 0 points 4 months ago

Many such cases.

[–] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

In a real job you suffer the consequences of letting something stupid happen.

[–] CylustheVirus@beehaw.org 0 points 4 months ago

Right, so there's very few middle management or C Suite jobs, got it.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only the stupidity that affects your work directly.

[–] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More things are a boomerang than you think.

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[–] redisdead@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yes and no. Sometimes letting someone be stupid means they're quickly replaced by someone hopefully less stupid.

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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

Pff, past jobs I've been at, you got written up for not doing the stupid thing(policy related, nothing that would put you in actual danger).

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait that 5 is a float and hasn't been declared!

[–] quafeinum@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Someone is surely gonna use it later

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

This may explain why everyone likes him

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

I really like this and will embrace it going forward. I have nothing to gain by engaging with nonsense.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

He’d get along well with Terrance Howard.

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's probably not a bad approach in general, but sometimes shit matters.

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