Why would there have to be a point? It’s possible there is no architect and thus no point. It could all be random chaos colliding into this weird situation, and we’re just particles floating along in the maelstrom.

To come the question of why should you care, well you can choose pleasures or pain in your time on this planet. Pain is the default if you make no choice.

Say it ain’t so! 😂

Manipulative headline. It’s not holding up anything as much as people are trying to make sure they can still feed their families in the face of the insatiable corporate hunger for cost cutting to yield ever more profits.

Terrorist charges?

Rich people justice.

Us

I thought this guy was voted in and they wanted his shock therapy on the economy.

Well, there you go. Maybe economics isn’t as simple as populists would have you believe, but it’s too late now, the damage train is rolling.

Message control.

This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.

I never thought I’d ever see someone argue against helping kids with cancer DIRECTLY when we have excess in the palm our hands, and yet here we are.

I’ll never understand spending that money like that instead of helping kids with cancer.

Probably one of the several reasons why I am not rich.

That’s great, I suppose less concentration to a single platform is a better direction.

Is there less rage and frothing at the mouth on Bluesky? I would imagine whatever ills plague Twitter would also eventually come to Bluesky, because people are there. And people are people. We don’t seem to have a solution to the problem - which is a specific subset of people intent on harm, and allowing them direct and wholesale access to the social fabric.

So easy nowadays to fabricate rage-inducing and follower-generating bait. No time for truth and no plan to really get there. How long before we see someone take a stab at a ministry of truth?

That’s up to Trump, because your vaunted checks and balances are gone.

Think he’s going to show restraint? Insight? Empathy?

I think each woman has her own reasons (some people actually like traditions) but I have the impression that, globally, women are not the same as what we see online. I think today the taking of a surname does not indicate ownership or property, at least to most modern women (and men).

I don’t think any woman thinks like that anymore, or perhaps not many, so the motivations would then also be obviously different.

Yes definitely. Anything that spreads knowledge should be hugely supported.

Be very suspicious of anyone advocating for less support of knowledge sharing.

I’m really enjoying Bluesky strangely enough, not normally my thing.

Get offline, and simplify. Start doing things that are good for you. There is yet joy to come.

Do it. Promises from super powers are worthless. Only power itself matters. And all the other countries are aware of it too now.

It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

Yeah. Most people are probably experiencing the shock of what they thought the American people were vs what they are. It’s hard to understand and accept.

As foreigners, our views are heavily affected by things like Hollywood, celebrity and visibility to the “best of America”. But the bulk of America is not that, at all. So the veneer is torn away and it’s jarring to most people.

The only positive I see in all this is that we get to watch the US get what they voted for. Pain can be a teacher, but I doubt they can learn from it. Any and all agony from this will just be the other parties fault, always. Too much venom and malice in the politics and too little earnest substance.

Most Americans like and support Trump. That IS America.

Trump and team don’t need to win the election. They just need to make it tainted with enough irregularities that it forms the basis for the entire thing to be called into question. Even if that evidence is created by them. And this time they’re more prepared for that outcome. They’ve had years to work on his scenario.

The court cases and investigations will go on for years.

Doesn’t need to win a vote at all.