Add a little vanilla, and yeah, that’s a Creamsicle!

Or, blend frozen OJ, milk, ice, and a bit of vanilla extract and you’ve basically got an Orange Julius. (Do those places still even exist…?)

If you were to cut a hole in your skull and press your finger into your brain in just the right spot, you can probably convince yourself this is just a really creative take on meat, cheese, and fruit charcuterie…

Destroy it?

Like he destroyed Twitter by turning it into his personal propaganda outlet, maybe.

It sounds to me like he’s just positioning himself to control an AI tech provider who will conveniently be contracted to replace all the government positions he is trying to eliminate.

This has to be ragebait cover for something else, right?

Like even the dimmest, least self aware, MAGA-hat-wearing dumbass would feel embarrassed to say “Red, White, and Blueland” out loud.

Right???

I just saw few dozen identical comments with a bunch of upvotes, so the idea of people randomly dogpiling one single comment for no apparent reason struck me as funny!

I seem to recall a subreddit like that… chains of identical one word posts, 20 comments deep, all with a hundred upvotes… and one poor dude with like -1000.

Fuck ICE. All my homies hate ICE.

Scanning this thread though, I was kinda hoping there would be one single “Fuck ICE” comment amongst the rest, that was randomly downvoted to oblivion for no apparent reason.

Lemmy feels more like a community garden while reddit felt more like a really packed lunchroom.

That’s it 100% for me. Reddit was just so busy that posting or commenting felt kinda pointless.

Anything I’d feel like saying had already been said a dozen times by the time I popped into the comments, so why bother except to reap some upvotes?

I for sure hear you on the insane takes flying around! From the context it looked pretty clear to me that they were tagging on to your post rather than trying to contradict it, but who knows.

Posting sarcasm about a controversial topic without a “/s” tag is like fucking without a condom… it carries a risk, but sometimes you just gotta do what feels right!

Maybe I’m just getting whooshed here, but aren’t you and atzanteol saying the same thing? lol

Are they just getting downvoted because the forgot the “/s”?

I think it’s a lot more malicious than a neglect of institutional knowledge.

The people are suffering economic anxiety, Trump points at <insert economic partner> as the cause of their economic woes, and builds popular support for some stupid land grab that trades the country’s soft power for some quick corporate profits. By the time the long-term damage sets in, they are off to the next grift a few hundred billion dollars richer. Tale as old as time…

They know the damage they are causing–they just don’t care.