Literally how Mar-a-Lago works. He wants people to pay him to make a rich boys’ club for heads of state because all the other ones aren’t money to him based. They’re just about how much money does the country have, like the G8.

Well, we’ll see I guess. It IS wildly unpopular and midterms are the new distraction. Unless election rigging leads to GOP control of both houses (ugh), he’s going to be a lame duck for the rest of his term and Congress and he’ll fight over ICE and the Epstein files more than anything else.

Yeah, but that’s cool and niche. Suave making people smell like the Cinnabon at the airport gives me the ick.

Thanks for the rundown. OK, I’ll give it a shot.

Thanks, and thanks for being willing to discuss this. I guess, for today, dead internet theory is confirmed not true!

Why would anyone want to smell like this?!?!

OOooooooh… ok, well that’s a feature not a bug.

There’s literally a whole thread about this in here.

TIL - FINE, I’ll give a try!

Fair points.

My underlying point might be that whatever site it is that the screencaps come from is silly bullshit. But the more important point is that when you let it stress you out, the censors are winning. They’re using fear to manipulate you off your baseline. And you’re not even a desired subject of their censorship! You are putting yourself under control by reacting with fear.

Flashers do what they do to elicit a reaction of fear and horror. The reaction they don’t want, more than anything, is laughter. To have the insecurity that drives them called out.

In this case, I’m asking you to think rationally about this and see it as an indicator or what you’ve correctly noted. But also laugh at it and understand that if you don’t let it force a reaction in you, that you can react to it when and how is bet for the goals you have. Then you are in control.

Of course, no one should be normalizing authoritarian styles of leadership. But that perspective is a relative luxury only afforded to privileged people not living in that situation already.

Have you considered the possibility that whatever the source is of these weakly censored images is intended to demonstrate the ease with which anyone can circumvent repressive blocks? To mock them? That whoever’s account this is spends the time to minimally censor for the bots to ensure that, more importantly, the message gets out regardless of the rules? That posts like this demonstrate the futility and arrogance of the limp-dicked censorship, mocking its effects and demonstrating the paper tiger for what it is?

That this post about whales having an argument demonstrates that censorship is flawed and brittle and fucking stupid. That anyone can get around it when it’s important to do so. That authoritarians, be they Zuckerburg or Putin, are foolish in their hubris.

Or do you only see this for what it is?

I mean, I don’t jump from trend to trend, so I’ll support Lemmy until either the project gets depreciated and no more updates happen. I can still see everything because piefed is federated, so why jump from platform to platform every few months? What features really are there that make a difference?

I understand what you’re saying.

However, if artifacts from a screenshot’s trip around the web is the worst thing that’s happened to you this week, maybe consider how lucky you are.

Or maybe something bad has happened. Have you had a bad week or month and it’s coming out here? It’s ok to admit it when we’re scared or afraid. Fear is the mind killer, after all. Fear makes us act in irrational ways.

Like calling a bot account that shares twitter screenshots a fucking coward giving in to bullshit censorship because a script pulls images from a site somewhere else that cares about that kind of thing.

I see a lot of piefed posts on Lemmy - are we not federated across so that we’re getting the milk without needing to buy the cow?

I have no idea, the account is new and this is their first post. The comm itself notes Zitron’s name in the description in the sidebar, though the only way I knew it was Zitron’s podcast was the title card is used as the header. My guess would be no.

Do you really think the OP is actually on twitter, curating these fine screencaps for us themselves?

Not to get all conspiracy theorist, but the poster does a lot of posting of twitter posts, usually screenshots that often show both light mode and dark mode. Indicating that they are not actually on twitter themselves, but are getting the screencaps from somewhere else.

It’s far more likely that Lady Butterfly isn’t intentionally rage-baiting you by censoring words to foil text recognition, but is getting screen caps and posting them on Lemmy to our benefit from a source that is concerned with text recognition and getting an NSFW tag.

This isn’t worth getting worked up about if you just think about it for literally 2 seconds.

95% of youtube is people repeating what someone else said, or having an AI voice repeat what everyone else said.

OP, to be a bit more clear, this is about the Cool Zone Media podcast with Ed Zitron.

for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS,

So…9? Is 9 the number you were looking for? Maybe 10? I assume this is based on him starting a war and bumbling it back out of a war between the time this was sent and received.

Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China,

Yeah, if only there was some sort of military force treaty organization that covered the North Atlantic so friends could help friends.

I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding,

Comedic line of the decade

The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.

lol, sorry, no, this is the comedic line of the decade.

The administration is still in violation of the law releasing the Epstein files.