Wrong, a question based on a strawman is still disingenuous. There’s even a term for it: JAQ’ing off.

IOW, a strawman.

There it is… Best comment I’ll read all day.

It’s really not that hard for a person of reasonable intelligence to distinguish the difference, unless one is being disingenuous.

Back then, it was questions about early indicators of dementia. Wow, how wrong we were! /s

I seem to recall a President who decided that the only way to deal with an inconvenient, political loudmouth was to kill him with a drone. And then kill the guy’s teenage son with another drone.

I take your point. More Nazi goons need to get it, ASAP.

I have to point out here that the Obama administration laid down the legal reasoning and set a precedent for killing accused civilians without trial.

Yeah, so what? This is the natural evolution of online communities. It’s a good thing. When the user base is small, we should have a few, non-specific channels/forums/communities/whatevers so that everybody is in the same place to talk to each other. Metaphorically, it’s like sustaining a nuclear reaction: The fissile material has to be in close enough proximity so that the radiation (posts and comments) can strike more fissile material (other users) to keep the chain reaction going. In the past, I’ve criticized the urge to immediately atomize Lemmy into thousands of highly-specific communities, and indeed, most of them have withered away.

Once a particular topic starts to dominate a community, once it’s reached critical mass, then it’s time to fork it off into its own community. I don’t think that’s happened to !asklemmy@lemmy.world yet.

Oh, certainly not! True, all of the men I know now who wear bow ties regularly are gay, but not the guy I knew back when I was a high school senior. Y’know, good, solid, conservative Limbaugh listener. Had a girlfriend even—back home, while he was at college—you wouldn’t know her. Real friendly, he’d invite me over to his apartment to talk computers, share his university Internet login password with me, that kind of thing. Yup yup. Totally. 110% straight.

We don’t blame the Democrats for the crime, we blame the Democrats for positioning themselves as the only ones who can stop the crime, and then just not doing it.

Don’t forget the part when Obama created a joint federal/local/corporate-bank task force to illegally surveil the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the brutally crush them. Or decided not to prosecute the authors of the torture program in the Bush administration.

Remember when the new Democratic President prosecuted the Bush-era war crimes?

Me neither.

This makes sense if cruelty is the point.

Here’s the crux of the difference of opinion: No, Pres. Harris would not have been talking about luxury hotels on the rubble of Gaza. Israel, however, has been talking about it for years. The U.S. President has very little influence over Israeli intentions, and whether the U.S. President talks about it sounds like an objection based on style rather than substance.

Wealth inequality is in the inevitable outcome of a market system. It’s mathematically baked in. A tax system like this just makes it faster.

Don’t get me started how bad outlook is, period. I don’t get it, it fails so hard at just being an email client.

If “basically a left wing Trump” isn’t exactly that, then it requires some elaboration.

This is a flawed understanding. Many of the Arab voters in Michigan were not solid Democrats to begin with. Unlike the racist notion that brown skin means Democratic votes, the people inside that skin have a range of views, just like any human. Just pointing at the other side and saying it’s worse fails when voters didn’t think the other side is worse. The party has to win their votes, and aiding the war machine massacring their relatives is for some reason a poor way to do that.

I’d be interested to hear what you plan to do when the Democratic blackmail stops working?