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Opinion: How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | The Observer (www.theguardian.com)

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Even dickheads love their dogs. Find a way to connect to those you disagree with. “The obvious mistakes of those who find themselves in opposition are to break off relations with those who disagree with you,” texts Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of TV Rain, Russia’s last independent TV station. “You cannot allow anger and narrow your circle.”

Pay in cash. Ask yourself what an international drug trafficker would do, and do that.

He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this.

Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that.

A fundraising banner from The Guardian, an indepedent British newspaper. The centerpiece is a serif block "For f****s sake", with the letters after the f sprayed over with "act '"

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (54 children)

the last time trumps incompetence as president caused a million americans to die in the span of one year due to an inept and purposefully sandbagged federal global viral pandemic response. he's going to beat that number this time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There’s a 3 part series on the Reveal podcast about how the numbers were tracked. It wasn’t the CDC. It wasn’t anything federal trump established. It was 2 guys at The Atlantic collating data of each state individually and putting it together. They had rotating volunteer helpers. That was it.

And the federal government, and everyone else, received the data from them.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fuck that shit. Let those dickheads get their faces eaten off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so, it was only trump voters who died from the inept covid response, or did our side get swept up and decimated, dying in the worst ways, choking and drowning on our own bodily fluids, unable to breathe, unable to say goodbye to our loved ones, bodies piling up. i dunno maybe i dreamed that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Uh, what? What is your point here? That good people are going to die?

...yeah, we voted in Trump. Everyone knows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The article is not written for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And exploring space isn’t a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (7 children)

We don’t deserve to leave this planet

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[–] Shardikprime 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So basically a reminder that, beyond all the mind killer politics memesphere we have integrated into our cortex, the other is also a human being and as such, we have the same capacities/capabilities as them and they have the same capacities/capabilities as us as neither are superior to each other.

Huh.

I don't think that will fit here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The writing is very reminiscent of a satire piece. You can see that from the parts I quoted.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, we could also actually tear it down, but that's not going to happen, so I guess that's good advice.