Except the xenomorph is an animal, a remorseless killing machine. Kill it, and it’s dead. It’s acid blood might burn a hole in the hull and turn all the astronauts into iced spaghetti, but its death is the beginning of the end of the problem.

Trump is not our monster. He’s a symptom of the problem, like an infected cyst that forms due to autoimmune deficiency. His end will not make American great again. Our government needs to be able to function and expel infections like Trump without a violent coup, otherwise we’re just kicking the can down the road. We need a United States that can maintain its governmental functions regardless of who is in the seat of power, one where criminals are imprisoned efficiently until they can be rehabilitated, even if that never happens. As cathartic as it might be to see enemies punished, vengeance is not justice. Creating a system that cannot be capricious or vengeful is the only way to prevent despots from being capricious and vengeful. If we have learned anything, it’s that we cannot rely on our representatives being decent people with good intentions.

That makes sense to me, and I think scientific research is frequently confirming or debunking things everyone assumes are true. I just think it’s not particularly newsworthy.

Lol no.

I thought of this, too. My knee-jerk reaction was “you’re just learning this?” but then I remembered the 10,000. Thank you xkcd for making the world a better place, even if it’s only by helping me be a (slightly) better person.

They never rebuilt the Mussolini regime because that’s never how fascism works. But… [gestures broadly at the current state of the world]

Is that not intuitive? Eating less puts less strain on your irritable digestive system. I bet a study on back pain would find that carrying less weight would help, too.

Like, it’s good to confirm these hypotheses with science, but is it news?

I’m really fucking tired of cleaning up after people who told me I was overreacting.

As an American on Lemmy, I feel very much alone. Most Americans I know don’t know what Lemmy is, and they aren’t interested in learning. The average American is barely engaged with politics or technology, and rarely both.

I do remember a time when the word “capitalism” was synonymous with “freedom” and “democracy,” and I consider it progress that it isn’t anymore. But now, if an American hears the word “capitalism,” they think, “ugh, here comes some political bullshit. How can I get out of this conversation immediately?” Doesn’t much matter where they fall on the ideological continuum.

Conservatives won by burning out the tolerance for dealing with crises. Support for progress is subsurface and dormant, as most moderates are simply waiting for fascism to blow over, like a parent at a mall food court eating their lunch stone-faced while their toddler throws a tantrum on the floor.

The irony of reddit becoming popular because Digg was doing all the manipulative bullshit reddit is doing now… Wait, no. Not irony. What’s the other thing? Predictable.

You say that like there aren’t fascists who think he made the trains run on time.

They are goading protestors to try to instigate violence.

I remember when “Remember Digg?” was a meme on early Reddit.

Sure, but that’s exactly why people should not have the authority to decide punishments. Even if I agreed with you in this case, capricious torture would absolutely be used by the people we hate against the people we care about. Our first order of business should be to restore a functional justice system.

I don’t want to make martyrs. I want them to grow old and frail watching their legacies crumble and their fortunes taken from them. Death is too quick for fascists.

Fuck you, try to stop me.

-The President of the United States

Sadly, invoking the insurrection act without an insurrection could create the need for an actual insurrection. He’s just praying for someone to start murdering his gestapo so that he can justify a violent crackdown.

The hard part is resisting the urge to fight wanton violence with wanton violence.

You do that, and people will complain about the traffic.

The best way to reduce car crashes is to build public transit infrastructure.

But that’s about as likely as repaving all the roads to force drivers to slow down.

No, it’s a tragic case of fascism going as planned.

TIL thank you!

You are correct.