Exactly that. Which ironically doesn't mean that everything that they say is false... but it does mean that everything that they say is suspect.
We need a billionaire to swoop in an save us. Which won't happen, so we need a grass roots effort from the ground up to save us. Which won't happen so we need a spaghett monster or god to save us. Which won't happen bc e.g. the Christian God allows free will hence consequences.. so we need aliens to save us. Which won't happen bc they do not exist - that we can demonstrate.
It is a lot easier to destroy than to create, and it will require enormous efforts to maintain constant vigilance to know things in the future, in this our mis- and worse yet dis-information era.
Rules for Rulers
The rulers change, but the rules do not.
I feel like we both mentioned facts there - hopefully we added something to the conversation, that there's some nuance wherein it both is but also is not The Onion, depending on which "it" we're talking about:-).
For-profit media sells whatever makes them the highest profits. (Those who won't, make way to those who will, or remain in obscurity e.g. how many people have even heard of Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios.)
They will sell anything it seems, with little to no regard for facts. Then they leave it to you to determine the lies of omission, while hunting for the real truth, i.e. to do the true work of journalism. But usually unpaid, painstakingly, and again you'll never be able to share that message by virtue of being in conflict with the for-profit sources. Or if you do, who would even understand you, especially among the sheeple who either cannot and/or also will not bother to read anything at all.
Some people like Jon Stewart have railed against this for decades... but he lost, and it's worse than ever before. Adjust your expectations accordingly. This is the world.
Okay it looked more like 3, but still you can imagine the joke as if it were funny 🤣.
Green definitely learned their lesson: don't talk to the drug addict until after they get their fix 🫠.
Edit: a very well-done comic either way to be clear. 😁
I almost cross-posted this video to fuckcars, but held back bc people tend to dislike my video shares. Anyway the word is getting out there, both of the dangers of cars, and alcohol, and especially the combination, and furthermore the dangers for others who did not make the choice to drive.
Next time he should try booking the Four Seasons... Landscaping and Gardening Service. 😜
If he had mistimed that, we would have seen a VERY different ending here, delivered as it would have been to/from the man in the muscle t-shirt 👕.
Tbf, this community is called "The Onion":-P
I mean, blue shirt is being a bit of a Karen there... but green kinda brought that into themselves too, so I guess it all evens out:-P.
Oh dear I didn't even think of that 🫠. LET THE MURDER GAMES COMMENCE! 🔪 (I'll offer you a 2s head start, beginning... NOW!)
Speaking of, I saw a post today that lead me to check out Reddit for the first time in months... damn we sure do have much more friendly conversations here! It's enough to make me forget all the years of toxicity there, towards the end. 🙃
Hehe caveats definitely apply, like if you are talking to someone only over the phone, then maybe don't say that one 😜 😉.
But it's a good thought.
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I don't know how to link to it directly, but I mean the #5 entry in this imgur dump (the preview pic is wrong, it's showing the #1 entry, but you'll know the right one bc of the guy holding the hoop). Some of the others aren't bad either, but definitely check out the hoop one, I'm saying.:-)
(The title you see below mine is the wording chosen by the OP of the full post - I hope I do not cause offense, but I cannot control it showing up here as it is linked.)
Nature’s first green is gold,
>Nature’s first green is gold,
>Her hardest hue to hold.
>Her early leaf’s a flower;
>But only so an hour.
>Then leaf subsides to leaf.
>So Eden sank to grief,
>So dawn goes down to day.
>Nothing gold can stay.
>If you can keep your head when all about you > Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, >If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, >But make allowance for their doubting too; >If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, > Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, >Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, > And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
>If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; > If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; >If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster > And treat those two impostors just the same; >If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, >Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, > And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
>If you can make one heap of all your winnings > And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, >And lose, and start again at your beginnings > And never breathe a word about your loss; >If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew > To serve your turn long after they are gone, >And so hold on when there is nothing in you > Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, > Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, >If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, > If all men count with you, but none too much; >If you can fill the unforgiving minute > With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, >Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, > And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
The result may surprise you: about 50/50, based on polls. These people relate their thoughts and experiences and explain why they feel as they do.
> Honestly though, "get on board or STFU" is not a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker, nor is "meh, what are you going to do?"
> All we want is for someone to keep it 💯 - the percentage, not the age.
Comments & analysis: Mistah Kurtz-he dead / A penny for the Old Guy / I / We are the hollow m
I
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer-
Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is Life is For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/16476649
> For the good of the republic and to demonstrate new leadership before the election.
Lays out an argument about how to navigate the difficulties ahead, addressing the challenges that would result.
Jon Stewart is outstanding, but also this video seems like one of his better ones. Aside from gun issues specifically, part of what makes this great is his calling the for-profit media sources out for their hypocrisy and willful ignorance, and callousness to the lives of innocents including our children.
Originally a light-hearted post poking fun at and doing a survey to gather input, but it has turned into a thought-provoking deeper dive into what it really means to be someone that people would call a "tankie". Note that to some (die-hard conservatives), we all are "tankies" on the Fediverse, but is there a meaning beyond the pejorative of merely "holding a belief that I do not personally agree with"? Come and join the fun, or read about the community consensus even long into the future?
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, t...
https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
Lemmy.ml, like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, has consistently been accused of improper Federation practices and many instances have decided to ban one or both of the latter by default, with many individual users having already gone further to block the former as well. However, many individual users on lemmy.ml seem unaware of the accusations of the practices of their admins, and some people go so far as to see lemmy.ml as a sort of default instance on the Fediverse.
This discussion promotes wider knowledge of the situation and what might be done about it in the future, in order to e.g. not turn away new potential Federation members (Fedizens?:-) that could otherwise associate what happens on that instance as something relating to the Fediverse as a whole.
