Now you have to explain how they relate.

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No radishes but I did find a stock picture of bread

The main draw of Mastodon for me (and why I didn’t stick with the *key servers) is following hashtags. Really eases post discovery in an algorithm free world.

Otherwise the misskey forks have all manner of neat features to make using them a delight.

There’s the part where all the firstborn sons die unless their parents paint the walls with sheep’s blood.

I’ve been part of a Strength of Thousands campaign for the past year or so. Incredibly fun adventure path for PF2.

Ayyy Pathfinder 2 gang

Is porn an annoying project [spams a bunch of thinking emoji]

IMHO Krita is more of a drawing app (that’s what I use it for) and GIMP (I wish I could make a wish upon the monkey’s paw and get it renamed… To Libre Graphics Manipulation App. Or – LiGMA) is more for editing stuff

But yo’ure entitled to your own opinion ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Been a long time since last I’ve seen a good honest Snafu

I guess it does feel like 2016 in here with neofascists on their way back to power in the US and all that.

Rare dotworld mod W

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever closed like 50 browser tabs after finishing an annoying project?

One mostly exports the genocide to the third world

The other wants to bring it home.

I’m from Mastodon

But I got to Mastodon from Reddit, so idk if that counts. :P

I am going to commit several violent acts (in Stellaris)

At the same time, years of propaganda by monied interests have led us up to this point

See you’re right but –

– Those monied interests are also coming from within. The wealthy and powerful from America who see this as a way to consolidate and protect their own wealth and power.

Silicon Valley wanted Neofascism. Wall Street wanted Neofascism. Fracking Barons like the Koch Brother(s) wanted Neofascism. Some out in the open, like the afore-mentioned Koch(s) and Elon Musk, but make no mistake, every billionaire who “shuts up about politics” is most likely a Neofascist in private, because this benefits them.

The people in America are heavily propagandised, but that propaganda is funded and developed by and for the benefit of the wealthy within America itself.

Some people lean really hard into the whole “russian influence” thing because it is comforting. And it is entirely possible that there ARE Russian fingers in this pie – Russia does benefit from a weakened America, in any way they CAN weaken it. Heck, China and the Middle Eastern powers do too, so maybe they have fingers in that pie too.

But never forget that it started with wealthy Americans, and not some foreign agent. And if every foreign influence walked away, it would continue without them.

Theoretically, The Revolution™ that lefties like me talk about could change things. Just like theoretically, a peaceful political reform could change things. Theoretically.

But I’m from the third world. Hopelessness is my bread and butter rice and beans. So I’m entirely accustomed to daydreaming of one day things changing, while expecting elections to change nothing, and knowing for a fact that any attempt at armed fighting would most likely end in a victory for the bad guys (they have the bigger guns).

The idea of “things are already fucked, have been since before you were born, if you want to make a difference, look out for yourself and those you CAN help, make a difference in the micro, because The System as a macro thing is outside your reach entirely” is in fact how most people have dealt with things since forever, and we survive.

This has actually all been a very elaborate “come to Brazil” meme on my part.

Jokes aside, given how a lot of our people tend to worship the floor 'Murica walks on, if a bunch of refugees from the US came over, they’d probably be welcomed with open arms. :P

It would.

But I think that ship has sailed.

And honestly it might be the third-worlder-accustomed-to-things-being-uttter-bullshit in me. But I think “Winning back the country” is an unrealistic and foolhardy goal. Everyone who is on the radar for being harmed by Trump should look out for themselves and their own. Which includes “getting the fuck out of the country” if that is what it takes.

Additionally: A significant portion of the country won today. They got exactly what they wanted. And pretending that this neofascism is some kind of external infection is tantamount to covering one’s own ears.

Honestly at this point y’all should just get the fuck out. Where to? Anywhere honestly. You’ll probably find the third world preferable to a post project 2025 Murica.

Russia’s been having a major brain drain issue as all people with functioning brains either have escaped or want to escape the country. I don’t see why Americans should do any different.

The entire system is alien to me, with the districts and the electoral college and (…)

It’s so – Simple – Here.

WELL

At least presidential choice is simple here, the legislative houses are their own beast.

But yeah here it’s just: Each (properly registered, though registration can be done through the internet) adult person gets one vote, if a candidate gets 50%+1 they are in, if none manage to get that there is a run-off round with the top 2 or 3 candidates.

Over there it’s like people from certain states have their votes be worth more than people from other states, and then there’s the whole “winning the district” thing and the whole idea of red/blue/swing states. So much complexity.

That specifically has actually not happened to me. Though I’ve seen people comment on it.

… But.

One scenario I run into a lot is finding a result that would be useful…

… But it depends on external links. And those links are dead. The internet is a perpetually on fire Library of Alexandria