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ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Now Musk is boosting claims Wisconsin Supreme Court election was ‘stolen’English143·8 days agoIt’s not that I feel any particular sympathy for Elon Musk. But I’m sure there are lots of people living with small dicks who don’t experience any need to become crazy Nazis, and lots of crazy Nazis with sizeable penises. I just feel this whole “a man needs a big dick to be secure, and any insecure man has a small dick” thing is a somewhat offensive outlook.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•'Sobering reality' for Trump as he rages at night to friends about negative press: reportEnglish48·8 days agoThis is just how he is. He did the same in his first term. If you took away anger and resentment, he wouldn’t have a lot else left in his life.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Now Musk is boosting claims Wisconsin Supreme Court election was ‘stolen’English293·8 days agobotched gender affirmation surgery that left him with a mangled useless sex organ
I keep hearing this around here. Is there any actual reason to think it’s true?
Even if the bit about the surgery is true, it’s a very reductive explanation of issues which clearly aren’t new in his life. He was brought up by far-right parents and his father apparently showed him no love. He has been poisonously insecure all his life, only now he has the power to inflict his psychological troubles on the world. Ever since he got financially lucky in the 1990s, he has had the money to buy influence and pay people to do what he wants, so he has never become equipped to deal with people as equals and has all kinds of issues and insecurities around power. He discovered early that, while he had trouble making friends, he could make an impression on people by being edgy and controversial, and has never managed to move beyond this into a more mature persona.
I feel like saying “it’s all because of his wonky penis” trivializes how profoundly this man’s life has messed him up, and how many complex factors are at work in his psyche. It also implicitly insults anyone else who doesn’t have “normal” genitalia.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.English2·10 days agoNo, I’m on Fastmail. It’s full-featured and has a slick web UI, but it’s not as good for privacy as Tuta, Proton, etc. Also, although Fastmail is Australian they apparently host their servers in the USA.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.English6·10 days agoMy email provider will auto-generate aliases with no limit, and I also subscribe to Mozilla Firefox Relay, which allows me to invent email addresses on the fly and have them relay emails to my inbox. The advantage of the Firefox Relay is that it isn’t tied to the email provider so if I switch provider the aliases can still work.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can SayEnglish52·11 days agoA leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”
Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.
So they’re not allowed to talk about reality, or how to make anything better. And the fascists in charge must know this is what they’re doing, but they don’t care.
I keep thinking of how the Buddha recognized three poisons of the mind: greed, hatred and ignorance. Right-wing politics is pure poison.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison | Trump administration says it mistakenly deported immigrant with protected status but courts are powerless to order his returnEnglish39·11 days agoICE are not taking any care about what the tattoos are. There was a story of someone being sent to prison in El Salvador because they had an autism awareness tattoo, which looked a bit pride-y because it was rainbow colored. If they don’t like the look of you they’ll find an excuse. Nazis are like that.
Meanwhile the utterly incompetent Secretary of Defense has white nationalist tattoos all over him and that’s just fine with them.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison | Trump administration says it mistakenly deported immigrant with protected status but courts are powerless to order his returnEnglish60·11 days agoIt’s real Nazi science, this identification of criminals by skin colour, tattoos, and gestures. Perhaps they should study head shape too. Anyway, trigger their Nazi spidey sense and you’ll be kidnapped and trafficked into permanent imprisonment and slavery in a foreign country where you have no legal rights. They don’t have to prove you did anything. And half the US population will cheer because they can’t imagine it will ever happen to them.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Man tackled by parishioners, handcuffed at Kansas church after Jesus-like prayer -“He has long hair and a beard.”English177·11 days agoAnd when the police arrived they started questioning him about whether he agreed with Trump on deportations and Gaza. The police questioning people on their political views seems to be becoming standard in the USA.
“Why are they saying you pushed a priest?”
“They were trying to pull me away from the pulpit. I grabbed the pulpit and just held on. I didn’t push anyone. They had four guys grabbing me and dragging me off there.”
“What made you want to preach today?” “I’m worried about human beings, our brothers and sisters who live within our midst and are being targeted by the government.”
“What do you consider to be targeted by the government? What class of people are you …”
“Undocumented immigrants.”
“So you don’t agree with deportations and things like that?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Did you say anything like that?”
“I didn’t even get there.”
Looking at a copy of Gillcrist’s prepared remarks, the officer said, “So I see you mention Gaza and Ukraine in here. What’s your message with that?”
“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Elon Musk calls for 'arrests' after woman points her finger at a CybertruckEnglish5·11 days agoDeep down, he knows, and it torments him. Unfortunately he’s rich enough to take it out on the world.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Elon Musk calls for 'arrests' after woman points her finger at a CybertruckEnglish56·12 days ago“It is time to arrest those funding the attacks,” he wrote. “Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence.”
How much funding does he think it takes to get people to protest against the world’s most publicly obnoxious Nazi?
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear dealEnglish5·12 days agoThis pattern of behaviour is why no country will consider any agreement with the USA to be trustworthy ever again.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear dealEnglish10·12 days agoSo there was a deal with Iran which Trump ripped up, and now he’s threatening Iran with war if they don’t make a deal with him like the one he ripped up?
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans back US takeover of Gaza.English14·14 days agoStill, it’s significant that only 32% of Republicans support Trump’s genocidal policy.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump sends innocent man to El Salvador for having autism awareness tattooEnglish62·14 days agoHegseth has white supremacist tattoos. Those are approved of.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requestsEnglish23·15 days agoBe a shame if it got completely clogged up with spam so no oil companies could get their pollution exemptions. Or if everyone wasted their time with trivial questions.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of GreenlandEnglish7·15 days agoProtests don’t hinder such organization though, and they can connect and embolden people. They’re valuable as long as they’re not all that gets done.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•ICE is kidnapping immigrant and labor rights activistsEnglish19·16 days agoThe USA has become one of those countries where critics of the government are disappeared. And it only took a couple of months to get there. So much for the American commitment to free speech.
Don’t go to the USA.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malwareEnglish1·16 days agoIn Windows, Foobar2000 does easy audio file conversions, once you have installed the relevant codecs.
Clearly it’s time to deport the majority of Americans to foreign prisons.