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"Narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that existed until Trump and Hegseth wanted to murder people on a boat with missiles from the stratosphere without involving any available legal system.

Oh yeah, getting banned puts you in a weird in-between space where you basically have no control anymore. Makes me want to just avoid participating altogether.

I never bothered deleting any of my comments, but my understanding was that the best way to get rid of them was to use a script to automatically edit the text content to some static message like "This comment has been removed by the user in protest."

I wasn't banned, I just hate the official app and the overwhelming number of bots and ads. So I gave it up, and Lemmy fills that commenting niche for me. My account is still live on reddit, though. There's like 12 years of old comments and sometimes I like reading through them to see how stupid I used to be.

I recently heard someone say that the problem with making fun of a shitheel for something that they can't help is that you're also making fun of all the people with the same condition. And they don't deserve that.

So I'll apologize to all the people who have become disingenuous dipshits who deny all of science because a worm ate part of their brains.

I mean, that ship sailed as soon as the brain worm guy was put in charge.

Crazy how much they're talking about him like he was the last conservative statesman, like he wasn't a corrupt partisan oligarch willing to murder for his own personal profit. Like, he didn't become a better person, that's just how bad the Trump era has gotten.

That's not an exaggeration in any way. New York and Chicago. There are other cities with some public transit, but anywhere with a) jobs, b) decent schools, and c) reliable public transit will also be prohibitively expensive.

Except it's not merely a cult, it is the entire history of the development of our nation. Our infrastructure is built on the idea that space is plentiful, and everyone has their own car. The very concept of suburban America is predicated on at least one car in every home. Communities were built without walking access or public transit. Commerce was congealed into vast campuses consisting entirely of parking lots and three-story office buildings. School districts consolidated into massive centralized buildings where thousands of students arrive via hundreds of big yellow busses, some traveling for hours each way.

Even if you wanted to break free from the "cult," there's like two cities in the entire USA where you could live, work, and raise a family in a decent school district without a car, and they would be some of the highest cost of living areas in the entire world.

My favorite story from the cast is when Jason Alexander was talking with Larry David about a particularly unlikely scenario, saying he was having trouble relating as a character to something that would never happen to anyone. David said "What are you talking about? This happened to me." It was then that Alexander realized that George is Larry, and he stopped doing George as Woody Allen.

She learned this lesson, but is she actually a better person? Is she rethinking all of her odious stances and actions? I'm ready to applaud someone becoming a better person, even if she still has work to do on herself, but I'm also skeptical of any politician who sees the writing on the wall and makes a strategic course correction.

Quite literally, at times.