I don’t begrudge her campaign. Making noise on the national level is a good way to elevate the message and slowly undo the demonization of socialism. It’s her supporters acting like Harris is the same as Trump that chap my ass.

No, but that one is rough, too. Stand By Me has the story or the obese kid at the pie eating contest. That one can be forgiven for being over the top, because it was a campfire story being told by one of the kids. So of course it would be exaggerated.

That’s a really good point I never considered. If it’s played for laughs, you want people laughing. If it’s not, you want people grossed out, but not so much they need to mop up in theaters.

I was going to say, being responsible for a new warning label.

Yeah, there’s an awkward length where it’s long enough to curl into your mouth, but too short to comb out of the way. You just kind of have to get used to having hair in your mouth.

I like scissors for my mustache, only because I find myself usually going after whiskers one at a time. But the electric razor is good for getting straight lines.

One thing a lot of mustache owners do is trim above your lip. Don’t do that. Brush sideways, and the whiskers in the middle will push the sides outwards. Once everything is trained to grow sideways, you can start trimming above your lip again, but it will be longer and at an angle. You can also trim any stray scraggly hairs, but the less you trim the better.

Have you tried being white?

Sometimes, I like the intro. The music, the visuals, sometimes they get you in the mood for the show. Sometimes, I just want to get on with the show. I appreciate having a choice.

I never want to watch advertisments.

I think you mean “provenance” instead of “providence.”

JFC Putin is going to drop a nuke as an October surprise.

I don’t think you’re wrong, but I think you expect too much from people. Some people don’t have more to offer than virtue signaling and proviking outrage. Not everyone has the capacity to write a thoughtful and compelling argument. We’re hanging out on Lemmy writing comments to each other. It’s an open forum. There’s no entrance exams or rules against slacktivism.

And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a slogan or a chant or a meme or a bumper sticker or a tshirt or a hat or a button or a plaquard or a tweet or an emoji being the summary of your message. It’s easier to share and easier to remember. Calling it “slacktivism” is itself a clever portmanteau to convey a much broader concept, instead of a thoughtful and compelling argument. But I’m not mad, because I understood what you were saying and do not need additional convincing.

If you’re reading yet another article about police protecting a criminal because the criminal wears a badge, then “ACAB” is sufficient to share your point of view. It would be really cool if we didn’t live in a society where the term had any relevance, and nobody knew exactly what it meant. Sadly, the things we have shorthand for tell us the things we see a lot.

ACAB is not an insult, it’s shorthand for an ideological shift in how we perceive civil servants. It’s a reminder, or a clue for those who haven’t seen it before, that we have a very real problem.

Similarly, references to the guillotine should serve as a reminder that the social contract applies to everyone. When the rich devalue the lives of the poor, enriching themselves at the expense of human suffering, they need a reminder that they are outnumbered. The downtrodden need a reminder that basic human decency is a reciprocal requirement.

I’m with you on personal insults, even against shitbags like Leon, but I also enjoy clever or novel insults, so it’s more about how repetitive they are for me.

“The company to which I’ve always given my money because I trusted them to make good products has started taking advantage of my trust and is producing shitty products. How do I avoid this?”

Stop buying their products the moment they stop making good ones.

I feel your frustration, but I think you already knew the answer. Any workaround or jailbreak or open source firmware update would just be avoiding the problem, not fixing it. Stop buying Logitech products.

Salty, sweet, greasy flour and egg mush. Mmmmm

Gotcha. Sorry to have wasted my time talking with you.

Ok but in the meantime, can we all agree to vote for the person who isn’t a convicted felon? And a rapist? And a racist? And a fascist? And a xenophobe? And an insurrectionist? And like twelve other things that should disqualify him from office? Surely we can agree that, in the absence of overthrowing of the most powerful government in history, that at the very least we should do what we can to keep Donald Trump out of the driver’s seat?

I don’t know enough sign language to say for sure, but I do know that signers are often expressive and mouth words along with signing. It’s actually something I’ve noticed that fakers don’t do, because they don’t have hand motions to match their mouths.

Edit to add, it would help to have audio, because I knew a few of those signs and it might match up with the speech.

Compare this lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNPKwz4Ghw

Or this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CujDuBthnOw

Or this guy who seemed to actually know a few words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWJwIs3pbI

and here’s some real ASL interpreters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlxsY1lbSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byToG9ZWSM4

Notice the expressions match the tone and specific words.

So you just want to overthrow the government? I’m not saying I’m opposed to it, but I’d want to know what your plan is for if you actually mobilize a resistance.

But it isn’t wrong. I’d like it to be wrong, and I can appreciate wanting to shift the Overton window, but that’s not where we are and it won’t change before November.

There are more single issue voters in America that support Israel and won’t support Harris if she wavers than there are single issue voters in America who will start supporting her if she threatens to withdraw US support of Israel. That’s the reality of the world we live in. If she changes her position on Israel, she will definitely lose the election, just as De La Cruz and Stein and West will lose the election.

The margin of error is already razor thin, and it’s never been more important for America to run up the score. Winning isn’t going to be enough. Harris needs to make the legal challenges and ballot shenanigans look frivolous and absurd.

You want to convince me to support a third-party candidate, first we need to put Trump in prison, then we need to roll out Star Voting, and then we need some third-party alternatives that aren’t obvious Russian assets.