In a pinch you can just crank on it until you’re satisfied.

Trump’s team has been preparing for a loss for at least weeks now. Luckily it’s so obvious that, especially with the precedent of the last coup, it’s not going to take anyone by surprise. As a Canadian: please get out and vote, give Harris the substantial victory your country needs, and rub it in Trump’s face so hard it’s breaks through the layers of spray tan.

P.S. OP, I can understand how you feel. Even as a Canadian I’m going to be so glad to get past tomorrow + the time it takes to confirm a victor. Issues like the environment, Ukraine/Russia, and Israel/Gaza affect us all.

Finally a voice of reason - I don’t know which psychos are giving up screwing for a whole month, but I have things to fasten.

Downvote if you want, they aren’t the same. There are big differences between this brief statement and the lead-up to J6, and takes like this only fuel the conservative assertion that “woke Liberals” will blow anything out of proportion. You can believe what you want, but I’m not going to resort to unfounded “but he could be” claims given how many valid criticisms are available. I’ll stick to the things he’s actually said about women’s rights, the environment, locking up opponents, wanting to be a dictator…

The long J6 speech was held right in front of the Capitol where he said some version of “we need to fight” so many times that legal experts say it’s obvious, in an evidence-applicable-to-court way, that he was inciting. It was preceded by many day’s worth of rhetoric, and he was telling others to do his dirty work. It’s the basis for an incredibly serious lawsuit.

The “hit back” conversation was like two lines in one anecdote about verbal sparring, and in context clearly wasn’t him asking if it was his turn to punch Michelle Obama. He also never spent days calling for anything along the lines of “You folks need to hit Michelle Obama” the way he called for them to fight at the Capitol. No one is going to make a lawsuit about those quotes.

If people get out and vote, 4 years from now he’s going to be in whatever the prison version of hospice care is. In his few coherent moments he’ll be raging about everyone betraying him and how orange spray tan would never have cost 3 packs of cigarettes and a handjob under his administration.

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I really don’t like the various outlets’ coverage of this story or how quick people are to interpret this as a violent threat. I am VERY skeptical that he meant physically hitting Michelle Obama, and I think the only way to make it sound that way is to clip the quote. When he says, “She hit me the other day” and “She said that about me, I can’t hit back?” he’s obviously not talking physically and you wouldn’t think that if it was Harris saying it.

TONS of legitimate exist reasons to hate Trump and tear him apart (Huffpost: “This just in, user GrymEdm threatens to ‘tear Trump apart’. Is he advocating assault?”). We don’t need to grasp at straws when there are rock-solid criticisms of Trump. If it’s not right for the other side to take things out of context and spin them, then it’s not ok for us. How about we stay focused on Trump being a democracy-destroying, racist, lying convicted felon/sex offender (with ample proof) and not try to force this quote into something it probably isn’t.

Edit: People comparing the J6 coup/maintaining deniability need to look up how serious and extended the lead up to J6 was. It was many days worth of violent rhetoric capped by a long speech where he said “peaceful” once and called for variations of “fighting” 20 times. His J6 incitement is the basis of a very serious and (according to experts in the linked article) indefensible lawsuit. No one is taking him to court because of the quotes in OP’s article. Lemmy, you don’t need to push this to make reasons to justifiably despise him.

• If you’re the owner of the home, know what bylaws there are regarding snow removal near your home. Where I live you can get a fine + snow removal costs if you aren’t reasonably prompt getting snow off the sidewalk.

• Snowy surfaces (sidewalks, driveways, roads) are often icy surfaces = slip and fall hazard. This is especially serious for older folks but it can hurt/injure at any age. This gets worse if it snows then melts then refreezes. Don’t run if you don’t have to. Sand/grit on these surfaces can help, and in my area you can get sand for free at certain town facilities.

• Frostbite on exposed skin is a genuine hazard. Look up the weather forecast when it’s cold and take time-to-frostbite warnings seriously.

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"It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’” This from a guy who discusses deploying troops in America against Americans, yet dodged the Vietnam draft with fake medical issues.

I was writing something like “I understand but here’s why it has to be this way”, but then I read comments about not wanting to take the high road and how being nice gets you nowhere. So instead: when I was a young adult in the 2000’s, angrily telling someone to “go f themselves” face-to-face might get you punched in the mouth. Someone who started swearing at everyone whenever they were angry was labelled an asshole. It’s not like I spent those years in a weak, no-confrontation, “let’s hug instead” environment either - my friends and I just didn’t put up with regular disrespect. I’ll stop there because I don’t want to glorify violence - there are better ways to deal with insults and we didn’t fight often. Most of the time jackasses just didn’t get invited anymore.

My point: online, anonymous communication removed a lot of social and physical consequences of confrontation, but that doesn’t make being nasty alright. You may say, “It’s just a f you”, but your comments make me think that being nasty is the intent. Not trying to shame you but if I’m right about hurting others being the goal then: yeah, admittedly that’s not rare anymore but you can do better.

Also you say being nice doesn’t get you anywhere. I’d ask: when was the last time you told someone to f themselves and they were like, “Oh, I never considered that. You’ve won me over.” Trading insults online leaves everyone angry and encourages inventive cruelty so the other person is hurt more. Anger is natural - we all feel it and I need to self-censor all the damn time. But there are better ways to deal with being angry, and even to reduce the amount of time you spend angry.

Reddit:

• It has a much larger user base and many heavily specialized boards that nevertheless stay reasonably active.
• It’s a collection of echo chambers. Dissent is usually stomped out by mass downvoting and heavy moderation/bans. It’s rare to find a board that allows arguments for a long period of time. Agree with the board’s users/mods or get silenced. Posted rules do not matter, and you can definitely be hateful in ways that violate posted rules so long as that type of hate is acceptable on that board.
• So many users mean that getting content to succeed is a crapshoot. Often posts become lost in the noise, especially on busy boards.
• I left about a year ago, but apparently there’s a lot of bot/AI slop on boards now.

Lemmy:

• Much smaller user base. Heavily specialized boards move slowly if they exist at all. It’s not unusual to see boards where it’s just one/a few people posting with days in between new content.
• More ability to have disagreements. Whether it’s because moderating a smaller # of users is easier, the mods are less authoritarian, or whatever you are more likely to be able to disagree. Don’t be blatantly racist, celebrating violence, clearly trolling, etc. and you’ll probably remain able to participate. I’m sure this isn’t universal on all boards, but it’s my experience on many boards.
• For all that I believe the above point, there are still “echo chamber” moments on Lemmy. Sometimes it seems people may be downvoted simply because they are already downvoted. It’s still way less egregious than on Reddit, and such is human nature I suppose.
• Fewer users means you are more likely to get some engagement on your post, at least in my experience. I never sorted my feed by new posts on Reddit because it was an avalanche of posts of questionable quality, so I only saw whatever content had already succeeded. On Lemmy I can look for new posts and see most if not all content on the boards I enjoy.

I can’t believe these arguments are still a thing. There have been 13.72 Billion doses of COVID vaccines administered by now. That’s roughly 1.7 doses per every living person on Earth. If even 1 in 1000 doses caused side effects there would be many millions of cases. How big a data set do these…people…need as proof that the vaccine is basically a modern miracle of safe and effective medicine?

What makes me super angry is it’s not just the adults involved who will suffer. These…people…are substantially increasing their kids’ risk of serious disease because of politics and conspiracies.

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• Take time off from social media once in a while, or at least avoid doomscrolling all day. Bad stories generate FAR more engagement than good stories, and every form of media knows this. If 100,000 people in your area have an average-to-good day and 5 people have terrible days, all 5 stories presented to you will detail how things are in your area are terrible.

• Physical health affects mental health and vice versa. Eat healthy (or healthier). Stay hydrated. Get 7-9 hours of sleep regularly and use sleep hygeine. Get 90+ minutes of exercise (anything that raises your heartrate) a week which is like 15 minutes/day. Don’t worry about doing it all immediately - if you try to change everything at once you’re more likely to get overwhelmed and burn out. It’s way better to make slow, sustainable changes over months than it is to do a difficult crash course for a short time and get fed up with the process.

• Do thankfulness exercises. When I go to bed at night I think of 3 things I’m thankful for in the day. On average or bad days it may be that I wasn’t in constant/chronic pain, that I got to eat and drink, and that I’m in a safe place and a soft bed. Just remembering those basics (that many of us take for granted) helps keep me aware of good things in my life.

• Find ways to enjoy hobbies that require participation - arts, sports, board/video games, whatever. Just something other than passively taking in TV/online media. This will help you feel engaged and double points if it’s something that allows for improvement because you’ll feel rewarded as you get better.

The only thing he he should be allowed to do is retake whatever high-school civics course he failed that covers how laws protect anonymous and uncoerced voting.

That actually does sound better. Voter assessment of actions in office, not influence of who gets into office (e.g. I don’t think I’m qualified to pick a Supreme Court judge). It serves as a check and balance on situations like we see today where the SCOTUS is destroying public trust in the justice system.

So these judges are basically refusing a democratic foundation for their power. This policy should be brought to other countries. I’d love to make Clarence Thomas win an election to keep his seat. Or all the other judges that overthrew Roe v. Wade for that matter.

Because of his billionaire background, he already knows where he can grab them to keep them close at hand. He’s been practising for this policy with several reluctant women over the years.