“Is handrail one word or two words? Better search Wikipedia.” - Me this morning.
For serious comments, my true audience is the unknown reader. For jokes, my audience is myself alone.
Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.
“Is handrail one word or two words? Better search Wikipedia.” - Me this morning.


The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines
the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporationyoung founders as "a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,”


Maybe the rest is porn.
As you say, tools are just tools. Even a dumb phone and CD players are “technology.” You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to break into a house and kill the owner. The tool itself really doesn’t hold any sin.
Some people prefer to use older tools, though. It often gives them more of a feeling of connection, especially if we’re talking about the things they grew up with. So, there’s nothing wrong with choosing older technology just because you feel like it, either.


That is still sad. Just a different kind of sad.


Try this link: digg.com


What’s really sad is all of the other people there who didn’t heckle Trump.
Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.


It’s unusual for prostate cancer to develop like this. I wonder if it was an unusually aggressive form.
You’re confused because the two people who expressed these opinions, Posobiec and Bannon, do not expect their audience is capable of thinking rational thoughts.
this is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news
That’s not the type of misleading that qualifies as propaganda. It has to be misleading in a way that pushes their agenda.
this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.
This is a fight you started by saying that my original comment was me not being immune to propaganda. If you think it’s stupid, then you should have chosen more correct words.
Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.
It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.
Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.
This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda
This post isn’t propaganda, though, so it’s not that amazing of an example.
So, ICE is scared that aggressive untrained people will use deadly force against them, and that afterwards the government will do nothing about it?
That’s pretty much how everybody else has felt about ICE for a long time.

“How to avoid I.C.E.” Notice how it doesn’t say, “How to safely get through an encounter with I.C.E.”
It’s always interesting how much people’s specific choice of words betrays their true feelings. The only reasonable goal with ICE is to avoid them, because once you encounter them, your safety cannot be guaranteed, no matter the circumstances.
Also, it’s quite a laugh for a Trump supporter to suggest that people should “Obey federal and state laws.” Trump doesn’t even think he should have to follow the Constitution, which is the basis upon which all of those state and federal laws can be enforced.
They’re complaining about other people accidentally breaking a building’s windows while they’re intentionally destroying its foundation.


It reminds me of when, in his first term, a wheelchair bound veteran gave Trump his Purple Heart, and Trump’s response, if I remember correctly, was, “I’ve always wanted one of these.”
Trump couldn’t even pretend to care about the veteran and just made it about himself.


What they did in Venezuela was so reprehensible that this is really the only possible defense. You can’t murder a bunch of innocent people to capture a drug trafficker and think that you get the moral high ground. If they can arrest Maduro and bring him to the US, then Venezuela should be able to arrest Trump for murder and bring him to Venezuela.
There is no moral high ground. There is no good outcome. This is just what happens when evil people gain control of the world’s most powerful military.
The sad thing is that people don’t even argue points. I wish people who lacked knowledge and wisdom would argue. Instead, they just rebroadcast whatever propaganda they were fed most recently, untroubled by anything like critical thinking or introspection, and mostly unchallenged by their peers.


“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested – the only person arrested out of 200 people,” she told the outlet.
Imagine that. 200 protesters, but she was the only one obstructing a roadway. That must have been crazy. 199 protesters safely protesting and this one crazy lady out in the road. /s
If you watch to the end you’ll see a guy who learned to murder a POW in cold blood, though.