What the heck??? This is bizarre…

Lutnick was trying to competently play “good cop, bad cop” diplomacy for Trump, because of Trump’s personal fixations with tariffs, and was mildly successful as far as successes in this administration go. But I remembered we can’t have any semblance of independent thinking in the Trump administration, no siree. It all makes sense now.

The courts should order Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz, Vance or Trump to go find the guy in the El Salvadorean prison themselves.

Surprised no one has put the “Have the day you voted for 🌈” image up yet.

Regarding your confusion and surprise, the person you replied to merely gave their reason why they bought it and supported a transphobe, and it was because this person’s sister requested that game specifically.

I know the question posed was mostly rhetorical in nature. But I’m not sure why you are questioning why someone is answering the question, and I’m not sure what kind of satisfactory answer you could get from anyone who had purchased the game (and supported a transphobe, yes, which I haven’t).

The rest of your comment is a legit response, but I’m only pushing back on the first sentence of your reply. Or even moving that sentence to the back of your comment to make it less charged. If someone’s going to answer a loaded question, let them, but get to the point about how misguided they are with their justification before you question the answer. That would likely make for a more constructive discussion. Unless you think that these answers are unhelpful in the first place, that we’re better off not hearing why people have done transphobic things with different intentions, and we should refuse to give them space to reflect, learn, then own up to their transgressions if they don’t come right out of the gate to apologize. Then sure, ignore what I said.

Obtain the warrant now, Wikler.

That’s contraband in the state of Texas.

If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.

some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

• Donald Farquaad

Much thanks to you, Moscow Mitch McConnell.

US already did a dog-and-pony show for a minerals deal, Zelenskyy came to them in good faith and got ran out of town.

Ukraine shouldn’t even bother responding at this point until the USA says something reasonable.

Okay, Susan it’s your turn with the “allowed to defy Trump” token. Pass it to Lisa when you’re done.

In the past we gave our power to set tariffs to Trump temporarily

That was less than a month ago, doofus. Also Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is right there, go talk to him. If you need to fix the mistakes, he’s your guy.

Campaigning, you mean buying votes?

If there are no more federal government unions then they will still be able to gather informally and co-ordinate boycotts, industrial action and protected speech, they can’t be sued under Taft Hartley if the government breaks contracts or lets them expire.

If BYD can be fully or almost fully made in Canada, I’d consider it.

Glad you are here!

There are instances of heavy-handed mod and admin actions here, but they are often held to account, generally on [email protected]. Moderation disputes often end up discussed from a third party perspective on [email protected].

It is an echo chamber here too, but I have seen more often that opinions against the “narrative” getting -10 or lower but not censored. Some double down, are flamebaiting or downvote farming for unknown reasons, but there are times when you can see a genuine attempt at understanding and discussion from both parties. Over 7 years on Reddit (2016-2023), I can count how many times that happened on one hand, while on Lemmy, it’s infrequent but it happens a lot more than that.

• There is no buck.
• If there is, it’s not a big buck. Or a bad buck.
• If it is, it stops somewhere else.
• If it didn’t, the buck is actually just a glitch.
• If it isn’t, this is the devastating effects of the Biden economy.
• suckers and losers

Don’t worry, before the end of the year we’ll get into the

U N I M A G I N A B L E Z O N E

of fuck ups.

I’m not upset that Democrats are demanding answers, it’s that they are demanding answers for the wrong fucking questions.

They are buying the line that adding the reporter to the group was the main and only slip up. The problem is that messages of this nature should not be exchanged using a civilian service in the first place. Every one of them fucked up and Democrats had better demand answers from each of them.

I think a lot of people are waiting for the first Civ7 expansion pack to be released, whenever that may be.

Civ 6 without R+F, GS feels like a completely different game. As an example, in vanilla you can expand anywhere right up to someone’s borders whereas with the expansion straying too far from your territory you could just lose it to influential pressure from neighbouring cities.