Trump’s ditching them because he’s got Putin’s arm so deep up his arse he can taste his deodorant.

who’s the moralists?

“For a moment, there was hope.”

Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

The way he looks I wouldn’t entirely discard the possibility of Musk having two left feet, but it seems somewhat unlikely.

Flag it as phishing, which is what it is.

I mean we do, but like one would look at a particularly bloated and grotesque tumour. 🤷‍♂️

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she
With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Any software intended to cause harm is malware. MBFC is software intended to cause harm. MBFC is malware.

It has malicious intent, therefore it’s malware. 🤷‍♂️

reminiscent of a malware site

Well, that’s because it is malware.

it, is to me at least, right leaning

It’s not right leaning.

It’s disinformation malware whose sole purpose is to move the Overton window as far right as possible.

It labels anything short of outright fascism as far left.

They don’t understand what federation is

They can’t use email…?

Half a million is within reach for people who didn’t start out dirt poor, got an education, and a professional gig.

No, it’s not.

To have that kind of money you have to have been born with it, be corrupt, have won a lottery¹, and / or have been born back when the world wasn’t yet as FUBARed as it is now.

1.— By winning a lottery I don’t necessarily mean a literal one. I mean that out of the million people with your exact same abilities, opportunities, and circumstances you’re the one lucky bastard who made it out without being chewed up and spat out by the world.

when they turn off old.reddit

If they do that I’ll open a reddit account just so I can leave reddit again. 😤

On Connect it’s a lemmy.world user called batman. (The first link works properly.)

We have to look at the positive side: from now on, every day will be the best¹ day of the rest of our lives!

1.— Least worst, truthfully, but it works out the same, more or less.

An axis, if you will.

In any civilised society American “Democrats” are considered far right (Biden et al) to centre right (Sanders).

Republicans are self admitted fascist lunatics.

Don’t expect American standards when you get out of your fascist echo chamber.

The USA is neither mainstream nor normal.

It’s a literal fascist shithole.

President Musk is doing nazi salutes on live television and anyone calling him right of centre gets labelled as a communist and a terrorist.

No one who isn’t a fascist wants that kind of shit to be considered mainstream or normal.

It’s a well known fact that .world admins have wet dreams at night about spez seeing what good boys they’ve been and rewarding them by making them reddit admins and letting them suckle his little pigboy twig.

alternatives to republicanism

You calling spez’s little playground and a far right “enlightened centrist” instance like . world “left-wing” makes it abundantly evident to anyone with more than half a brain and the slightest bit of education that any supposed alternatives to fascism you’d find acceptable would be effectively indistinguishable from fascism.

Only fascists and idiots would want to be appealing to fascists.

It’s a very good thing that you don’t feel welcome outside of your fascist echo chambers.

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

— @IamRageSparkle, 2020, on the microblogging site that later let the fascists in.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

— Karl Popper, 1945