I love all Lemmy-goers, but I’m amused by how .ml users here don’t seem to get the joke…
They’re all feeling a bit disconnected.
I can’t see them because My instance blocked them
You don’t see them because your instance blocked them. I don’t see them because I blocked that instance. We are not the same. <adjusts tie>
When I despair about how Ukraine can ever rebuild after this war, my mind keeps circling back to their expertise at blowing up data centres. This could prove a highly marketable skill!
A bit sad that the most profitable expertise we’ve gained is blowing shit up and making things that blow shit up. But if it keeps us alive, I’ll take that.
Brings me great joy seeing Ukainians on the threadiverse despite the uh, heavy opposition presence here
Some of us allive, anyway.
my mind keeps circling back to their expertise at blowing up data centres
You’d be better off consulting the Houthis. They don’t need tens of billions in foreign aid to pull it off
We need a per fighter number comparing international aid to Ukraine against Iranian aid to the Houthis. I’d actually be surprised if the numbers were far off based on the size of the AFU and the difficulty the Houthis must have in getting arms after Russia turned off the tap to the black market.
And Trumps cabinet just met with Russian Envoy today in the whitehouse.
hah, funny political meme. Lemmy just pop on into the comments real quick.
Yep. About what i expected.Did they even say thank you?
Homie, it was about the economy. I wish USAmericans would give a fuck about anything else, but it was the gas prices.
The implication was that it was about social media propaganda too…
Any other reason, then they’re policies sucking
I’m pretty sure 2024 was about the racism. The price of eggs was an excuse so they didn’t have to admit it was the racism.
We’re still guessing, but there were a lot of factors at play in the 2026 Midterms blue typhoon. Yes, runaway inflation, the affordability crisis and the global energy crisis felt at home were all large factors.
Curiously – and this brings me hope – open corruption and self-dealing by the Trump family and Republican pay-to-play politics was also a large factor. People are really vocal about it.
Weaponization of government departments, like the DoJ going after political enemies or state election boards, was a factor.
ICE and the concentration camps are a factor, though not as much as it really should be. This motivated the Latin flip.
After the gutting of the VRA and the southern-state gerrymanders, the US Black vote responded Oh, HELL NO!
The broken MAGA promises, the still-elusive Epstein files, the war in Iran after a promise of no more forever wars, pushed some MAGA true believers to the fringes of their movement. They just failed to show.
I don’t think so. Yes, the US is very racist in a lot of ways, but the reason Harris lost was because the Biden admin failed to do anything to substantially improve anyone’s life, and she didn’t appear credibly different. Biden was elected purely over dissatisfaction with Trump, but that wasn’t enough for a second win. We are in the same place right now. Dems won on dissatisfaction, but they’ll need to deliver results to win again in 2028.
We already had a term with Trump, and knew how that worked out. On the campaign trail, Trump also said what he intended to do. His dictator for a day fantasies made his malevolence super clear. His promises were entirely implausible. (E.g. I Will end the Ukraine conflict in the first week.)
And then there was project 2025 which described how the Republican party planned to dismantle federal regulatory bodies and neuter federal elections.
No. They said so. #IVotedForThis — They wanted to see brown children back in cages again. They wanted a Schutzstaffel to disappear the undesirables. They didn’t care the patrician class was going to plunder the US treasury and its credit.
Of the severity-seven million American voters in who chose Trump, hundreds, maybe might be ignorant idiots, but most of them were malevolent. They still are.
To be fair, they’re also under the influence of a massive far-right propaganda machine that dominates social media and television viewership. FOX News uses the same brainwashing techniques that were used on US soldiers in Korea.
I understand the Democratic party postmortem suggested it was more benign issues, (trans athletes) but then I’m pretty sure that part of the party is captured and controlled opposition. They have cause to present a biased analysis.
You’re describing what motivates Trump’s base. They are in a cult, but they don’t win elections on their own. Believe it or not (and I don’t like it either), most people just care about their own lives.
Trump’s base are low-information, low-education voters. The rest of Americans should have actually seen Trump is a monster and should not be entrusted with power.
To be fair, most Democrats polled identify as moderate or centrist Democrats but then they agree with the main DSA positions that moderate Democratic officials stand against.
To paraphrase something that Jamelle Bouie recently said, The American people voted in a madman. And they’re going to have to collectively ask themselves some difficult questions about their intent, and even their capacity to self-govern.
I have every reason to be pessimistic.
They did. 1/3 of eligible voters chose hate and rascim. 1/3 said said anyone but Trump. And almost all of the remaining 1/3 saw the same racist pedophile who straight up told us what he was going to do. They looked at the malevolent evil he represented, weighed out the pros and cons of him being reelected and rather than vote against him, they decided that him winning was acceptable.
If that 1/3 of the country had voted for anyone else, then you might be able to say that they just couldn’t agree on who to vote for, and didn’t like her politics or the Biden administration or whatever. But that’s not what they did. They decided that what he represented was acceptable.You don’t just find that level of hate ”acceptable" without having enough of your own hate to make it not seem that bad.
Most people also treat everything as not real and inconsequential, other than what benefits them.
That guy looks like Vigo the Carpathian
It’s Doctor Who.
No matter what role he plays, it just looks like a badly pasted 11th Doctor’s face on top of the character.
Who?
Aaaaaah who the fuck are you?!
I am Yu, and he is Mi
The Dr. Of Whodo.
You do.
You remind me of the babe!
The Australian that lives in a porta potty?
he’s just trying to save the world
vhy am I drippings wiss goo…?
It’s funny and all, but no credible source reported lowered Russian bot activity after those bombings. It’s one of those things that makes sense, but didn’t happen.
It was visible in my spam folder. Usually I get 1-2 russian spam emails a day, but from Oct 12th to October 17th they just stopped (the bombing was on the 11th)
The data center hit only had crawlers. There is no noticeable lowering of Russian bot activity.
There is no way to know that
There are organisations trying to monitor bot activity and none of them saw a noticeable decline.
That does not mean the datacenter hit was only hosting crawlers
People just want to believe whatever they want. You are right all this points directly to Russian bot activity clearly going down, this guy got less Russian spam because Ukraine killed a data center. Slava Ukraini.
“… ahhh I’m sure those things are unrelated…”
Oh so liberals are doing they stole the election!! shit now, i see, voter fraud, good, very good
Just goes to show you that when an administration screws up this big that the other side can win at like 53 to like 44 in certain places.
