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DougHolland 166 points 3 years ago

Everywhere I go I'm usually the oldest person in the room, and I've been hearing that line since long before I'd ever heard of Donald Trump.

Always, the left has to support whatever bland middle-of-the-road candidate the Democrats put forward, candidates who seem idea-free and utterly without passion, because the Republicans have a terrifying candidate. Gotta take boring over terrifying.

And Bernie's right. I ain't arguing.

Sure is a bucket of swill we're always forced to drink from, though.

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DougHolland 48 points 3 years ago

It's kinda funny, and I laughed.

It's also shit journalism — the article doesn't say what McDonald's posted this sign or enacted this policy. Maybe some McDonald's did, but when there's no attempt at sniffing out a who - what - where - why - when, it's piffle.

Any schmoe anywhere could've made the sign using Microsoft Paint.

The article is a laugh, but it isn't news until someone says where it happened..

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DougHolland 26 points 3 years ago

That's the punchline that makes me chuckle when I read how "little impact" the protests and migration have had.

Here's a little secret: Reddit mods can't know for sure which accounts are bots. They can suspect, but they're no easy, reliable proof. Reddit admins, though, know exactly which accounts are bots — they just prefer keeping that info to themselves.

For me, that triggers a great big "Hmmmm".

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DougHolland 17 points 3 years ago

Wow, you are the correct person to be a moderater, and I hope your patience holds out. OP has provided an incomprehensible picture with a nonsensical headline, and your response is so very polite. Me, I'd just roll my eyes and scroll away.

I'm from Reddit, so I have to add: I'm serious, not joking.

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DougHolland 14 points 3 years ago

What utter bullshit. The Catholic Church is one of the richest entities on this planet, but we'll let them pretend their San Francisco branch is a separate entity, so the church can get away with centuries of kiddie-diddling and continue kiddie-diddling until the Rapture.

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DougHolland 12 points 3 years ago

Love the pep talk, and the sentiment behind it.

I loved Reddit, spent at least an hour a day there and often much more, but I'm loving the Lemmy too. In many ways it's better, and one of those ways is that it's so much smaller — a much higher ratio of thought vs tired memes and dumb jokes and slick burns.

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DougHolland 10 points 3 years ago

Jamie Dimon is a wealthy old fart who never worked a day in his plush lazy life. What he says interests me less than analyzing my neighbor's dog's poop as its eaten by bugs.

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DougHolland 10 points 3 years ago

To improve your Lemmy home page, let's fight climate change and end corporations' ownership of Congress and America.

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DougHolland 9 points 3 years ago

"You are viewing this from Firefox on Windows."

I should worry that this info is exposed?

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DougHolland 8 points 3 years ago

I couldn't stay on Discord even long enough to be treated like shit. It has such an unintuitive and clumsy interface, at least for an old fart like me.

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DougHolland 8 points 3 years ago

Of course he will.

He's never made a mistake in his life, never broken a law, never lost money unless someone else was a crook, never been outsmarted because he's the smartest human ever, never touched a woman who didn't want his touch because he's the sexiest man alive, and never lost an election unless it was stolen from him.

How could he lose an election, when no-one anywhere would vote against him, because he's Donald Trump.

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DougHolland 7 points 3 years ago

And all of this has been public knowledge for a long, long time, long enough that anyone paying tithes to the Catholic Church is scum.

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DougHolland 7 points 3 years ago

We are adults here...

Hey, watch it with the insults.

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DougHolland 7 points 3 years ago

We don't do karma here, one of Lemmy's major improvements over Reddit.

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DougHolland 7 points 3 years ago

A novel approach. It would slow me down, certainly, if I was driving there, or walking.

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DougHolland 6 points 3 years ago

I am grumpy today and also tired of Twilight Zone memes, but this one made me larff. :) Thanks

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DougHolland 6 points 3 years ago

There are things going on that are less important than which monstrous Republican is Speaker of the House and which office Nancy Pelosi's desk is in, but Republicans are fucking the world over in many, many far more important ways.

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DougHolland 6 points 3 years ago

Perhaps I live in a bubble of pessimism, but — isn't the looming collapse of civilization well-known, and essentially a certainty?

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DougHolland 5 points 3 years ago

Breaking away is sometimes the right thing to do, and from what you're saying, OP, maybe you should break away before Turkey Day, not after.

I broke away for 13 years, enjoyed things better without them than with them. By the time I came back, some of the family had mellowed, others had died, and we actually have decent holidays now. It gets better.

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DougHolland 5 points 3 years ago

Seconded. I've thought the Pope's knowledge and support for Nazi Germany and the Holocaust was common knowledge. Feels like something I've known for thirty years, at least.

Maybe I just have a knack for the extremely obvious.

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