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Cake day: February 27th, 2025
  • slag@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Remember when they were calling for regime change in China because of mass surveillance? This is the USA todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This world you keep imagining where Kamala would have invaded more countries than we have in this past year alone is quite the sight.

    Tell me more. How many times will congress fail resolutions to narrow her war powers? Will the DoD get renamed to the Department of War Crimes? Will she fill her cabinet with actual circus clowns instead of the hand picked pool of media sycophants who aren’t experts in their fields? Will she build her ball room on top of her triumph arch? (idk, maybe it has death lasers and satanic pentagrams, that would be cool)

    The “but Kamala” card requires entertaining the idea that literally any president other than the one that got voted in would have been able to outpace the malignant narcissism of senile Emperor Nero over here. It’s not an argument in good faith. It’s an argument for the guy who babbled incoherently about how tariffs work and then did exactly what he said he would.

    Edit: Tee hee. If there is one thing ML and MAGA still agree on, it’s that the US is on the best trajectory for everyone. Albeit for very different reasons.

  • slag@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you stop arguing with people on social media?English
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    1 month ago

    For many people it’s the notification that is the biggest problem. That sound immediately sends the mind back to the anticipated argument and the physiological responses to conflict are already kicking in before you’ve even tilted the screen to read the notification.

    If that describes you, here’s my advice:

    • Type your comment, put your best rebuttal forward, click send. That’s your mic drop moment. Now never come back to it.
    • Turn off notifications. If the thread has a link for turning them off, click that. If it doesn’t, turn off notifications for the entire app.
    • That entire comment thread is now off limits, and it’s easier to police yourself now that the mind controlling powers of the notification have been dealt with.

    While you’re at it, turn off notifications for a few more apps. Pretty much everyone needs to turn off a few more than they have and that shit disrupts your best thinking throughout the day. And if you still can’t exercise the discipline to say your piece and move on? That means you’re running out of excuses for telling yourself it isn’t an addiction, and you really should delete the account and the app.