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It works the opposite way as well: the radical fringe is necessary in order to make the moderates look moderate, otherwise the Overton Window shifts away from your cause.

The fact that we don't have anybody to the left of Bernie Sanders who is a fucking moderate, measured on an absolute scale is why we're at the point where all the MAGA cultists think right-wing liberal assholes like Schumer and Pelosi are radical leftists.

For conservatives, "family" is just a dog whistle for patriarchy. In other words, they're just butthurt about womens' lib and male heads of households not having absolute power to abuse their wife and kids.

This isn't too bad, but it's disqualified because the daughter delivers the punchline.

Actually, I'm not sure he does mean that. Is he taking about destroying the IRS' efficiency collecting taxes from billionaires, or is he talking about destroying the entire US economy so the billionaires never earn capture that money in the first place? It genuinely could be either.

I demonstrated Klingon in the "In how many languages can you count to 10?" !asklemmy@lemmy.world thread, but nobody cared. Where'd all the Trekkies go?

Also, I got a little bored on Duolingo and decided to start German.

That sounds like it would have a 0% chance of being approved by the health department.

Sigh... Better get out the ol' PSA:

Don't Date Robots!

Not being bleak and dreary was the one thing I liked better about Oblivion, compared to Morrowind or Skyrim.

The correct response is to report as misinformation, not merely to block.

demonstrate understanding and application of the concepts, rather than just recite stuff

That's how it should be anyway. I suspect the only reason all schools don't do it that way is that it would cause too many students (and teachers) to fail.

[insert joke about Le Pen or something IDK]

The first mention of Cetacean Ops, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual published in 1991, predates SeaQuest DSV by two years.

Quit trying to support fascism by minimizing the damage it's done. This is not normal.

Lena Kotler, a mother of three, was manhandled by four police officers at a recent City Schools of Decatur Board of Education meeting for speaking out against proposed changes to the district's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Kotler shouted "Cowards!" at the board members, after which a recording of the meeting shows Board Chair Carmen Sulton asking her to leave.

Holy shit, Decatur‽ I was expecting it to be Cobb County or some rural shithole, where this would be terrible but not out of character for the area. But Decatur is one of the most progressive towns in the entire state. If this is happening there, it's getting really bad.

After 4 years of tariffs, declining dollar value and Trump being unable to run again, I think that pendulum will swing fairly hard to the left.

Trump is doing everything from threatening the media for failing to parrot regime propaganda to trying to render citizens to concentration camps after only a few months in power, and you think the US will still have free and fair elections in four years?!

The remaining patriots at the DoD need to quit acting individually and act collectively (and decisively) instead.

I'm calling it now: they're pursuing federal charges so that they can get him into federal custody and then rendition him to CECOT.

Everybody knows he's enough of a public hero that there's 0% of him getting convicted by a jury, so the fascists are taking steps to destroy him without one.

For a minute there I thought there was Chris, Chris, and Brian and that a table of Vikings was about to start chanting "Krebs!"

If you're not making plans now, it's very possibly already too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/self-deportation-email-citizen-immigration-lawyer

Soo... which side of the line does she fall on?