These are the times that try men’s souls. They are also the times that put the “Fuck You” in “Fuck You Money."
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octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again | FortuneEnglish
1·5 months agoDon’t forget the penis size compliment, also.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again | FortuneEnglish
5·5 months agoAfter 2020 I thought he was surely cooked. Then after Jan 06 I thought surely no one with sense wants to do anything but run as fast as they can from these cultists, and going into 2024 I thought Kamala isn’t perfect but at least everyone finally has trump’s number.
Then I woke up the day after the 2024 election:

The sad truth is a huge part of this country is OK with fascism and at least as many seem to be ambivalent. (or were so until sometime after November, 2024)
We might get a temp reprieve again like after WWII until enough of us that are alive now die off, then folks will forget again. That’s how we got Israel speed-running Holocaust 2.0 and Trump working hard on Hitler 2.0. The folks who just want bottomless power and wealth never stopped wanting it and the folks who remembered how bad it could get eventually lost the numbers game.
Sorry to sound so damn pessimistic but the one thing I really looked around after decades on the planet and could feel proud of about humanity was that at the very least we were getting better, however slowly.
Now I’m less sure. Now I’m starting to think it’s a cycle that’s just long enough that most of us don’t perceive it.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again | FortuneEnglish
33·5 months agoCowards. We won’t forget.
Sadly, as a populace, we sure as fuck will, and faster than we should.
Some of us won’t forget. 🤜🤛
(sadly the best we can hope for is that enough of us won’t forget)
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
News@lemmy.world•Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix ItEnglish
16·5 months agoJust look at the Charlie Kirk aftermath. How many people lost their jobs because they showed the wrong emotion and posted about it? I haven’t heard of a single person on the right fired for threatening retaliatory violence.
Though only tangentially related, the fact that this man still has a job tells you everything you need to know about these alleged “conservative values”. (like so many countless examples before)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/business/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-apology-homeless
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
News@lemmy.world•Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix ItEnglish
2051·5 months ago
Gone nowhere have they? I can’t imagine why.
These are the times that try men’s souls. They are also the times that put the “Fuck You” in “Fuck You Money”.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
Linux@lemmy.ml•After decades on Windows, so long and thanks for all the phishEnglish
431·5 months ago
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said. | Van JonesEnglish
12·5 months agoTo my knowledge Manson never murdered anyone with his own hands either. (Though I’m prepared to be corrected.) Same thing 100%.
Edit - arguing against myself a little - maybe not, I’m sure Manson coerced his followers with more than words at times.
RFK Jr: I gotchu fam.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The ViewEnglish
6·5 months agoIt’s very possible you are correct, and I’m sorry for being too lazy to look it up right now. 🙂
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The ViewEnglish
91·5 months agoIt’s been a very long time since I’ve paid much attention to the show (which is not the snarky sideswipe it might sound like) but I thought it was a very, very liberal-centric (note I did not say left) show with (IIRC) one token conservative host.
I could very well be wrong though.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
Atheism@lemmy.world•MAGA supporter: "Trump is a Godly man. He cares about us. He doesn't care about money. This man is working for God. God is on his side."English
45·5 months agoThe fact that there is a single person who believes this to their heart and will go on camera to say it is proof that we’re doomed, IMO.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netto
News@lemmy.world•Video shows federal agents striking, spraying nonviolent Portland protestersEnglish
51·5 months agoSo far I’ve seen this same sort of report of federal agent escalation for here, also Chicago and Manhattan as I’ve scrolled various social media in the past few visits. That was without looking for the stories or a pattern.
I wonder if they’ve been instructed to take it up a notch across the board.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don't stop until *everyone* complies.English
3·5 months agoI can see it alright. My vote 3.5 years from now doesn’t impact what Trump does next week though. How Dem leadership reacts when he does it might impact that vote though.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don't stop until *everyone* complies.English
32·5 months agoNo one even knows what my half of the proposition is, but that’s alright! I’m only one vote! (which is the other thing everyone seems to be forgetting)
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don't stop until *everyone* complies.English
2·5 months agoA lot of branches of the far left are authoritarian, and they deserve the same treatment as fascists for the same reasons.
Ok, I’ll agree in principle!
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don't stop until *everyone* complies.English
1·5 months agoIt’s almost like I’m expected to uncritically serve up my vote to them for not being the other party.
If it really is exactly like that (and clearly it is) this has been a waste of both our times, frankly.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don't stop until *everyone* complies.English
82·5 months agoNo one seems to be interested in asking what I’d want to see to vote for them, only that I’m wrong for the vote that I might or might not cast in 3.5 years time, which I find very interesting on an intellectual level.








They just write off any show that meshes uncomfortably with their worldview as woke and don’t watch it. Problem solved.
(to be fair, sometimes they watch it anyway, then bitch continuously like little snowflakes about how woke the show they chose to watch was)