I would also consider the evolutionary advantage of having pets. Dogs help hunt and herd and cats help with farm pests that could spread disease. It just makes sense that societies that accepted that help and encouraged the symbiotic relationship would fare better than those that didn’t.

Also I hope the news is right: racoons are next on the list. We need to pet the racoons. It’s a matter of national security.

I’d say they’re fine, but if you have some yellow dye it could give a more orange color that I associate with cigs.

Unless you expect yellow lighting then you are genius.

I’ve been pretty pessimistic that the Epstein files would actually have any consequences, but an image in my head was trump in a sweater walking past all these nails sticking out of the walls, each time passing one it’s forgotten for the next. Maybe this will be the nail that catches and undoes his sweater? Maybe with no more distractions the other stuff will finally catch up?

Like I have no reason to believe he will face any prison time for this, and I have no reason to believe that somehow this will give us healthcare, reverse citizens united, or return roe. Like the damage is done, so the most optimistic I can be is that this is the first domino but after everything that wasn’t I don’t know.

Sometimes it’s hard to see what is a distraction for what. Venezuela distracts from Epstein, Epstein distracts from secret police kidnapping people, Kidnapping people distracts from tarrifs, Tarrifs distract from Venuzela…

Yep. History curves to justice my ass.

We didn’t start the fire, we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it. And fucking failed the open book test each time.

Don’t forget to write in “Guillotine” in 2026!

“I will have you know I am a self made man! Just like my father and his father before him!”

I mean the millionaire class is a grey area between those who are so rich they are completely out of touch with working class realities, and those who were working class who got a break and played a good hand right.

Personally I don’t really have a problem with millionaires, that’s an amount you can make playing by the rules and not bending them to your own will.

Personally I think that we deserve the respect to make our own decisions on this issue. Defederation should be reserved for situations where actual laws are broken that would jeopardize the existence of this instance or even Lemmy as a whole.

As a former mod on a larger subreddit and then a mod on a decent lemmy community, and now a sad mod trying to pick up the pieces (RIP lemm.ee), I’ve seen how hate can be pervasive in most every sphere. If we start locking things down because we want a hate free Internet, well… We won’t have much of an Internet anymore.

My modding style was always the “let 'em cook” method. Unless doxxing, impersonation of a mod, spam, bots, and the like are happening, the community would dogpile the user, and frankly as a bystander seeing coherent arguments against hate was more convincing than just censoring it all together.

No, I think that decision should be left up to users, we can block an instance if we don’t like it.

Where are these people? I don’t see them here but I just don’t see them anywhere. No buildings have blown up in DC, and the people we see who have attempted an assassination are loose lone wolves with conservative/ non-aligned backgrounds. Yes, even Luigi.

Please, show me evidence of an American black hand.

Still wondering, are leftists just going to share memes or is this suggesting we start building bombs? The message I keep getting is that voting alone doesn’t work, that liberals, even liberal protests, don’t work, that peaceful resistance doesn’t work.

So like… Who here is actually thinking of blowing something up or assassinating someone? Are we just talking big while looking around for someone to move first?

Even then, where are the Luigi copycats? If we are so much more effective than liberals, why the hell aren’t we doing anything?