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@VeroniqueB99 On the plus side: one would not want to meet the people that are invited. Best just to seal the building once one starts... tschernobyl concrete sacophagus anyone?

@MaryAustinBooks
Eh, the decent people are looking at the US as a re-run of nazi germany, pretty scared alright. But making a connection to what is happening here would be another step.

Elon is more of a joke here, at least among people that have half a brain.

The fascism is actually coming from inside the house, media belonging to just very few, very rich people (I'm sure you heard of that from some place or other) and the usually most powerful party here turning a lot more aggressive.

You see, the "conservatives" from the CDU never did good, but the last chancellors we had from them (Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel) were very intent on sitting things out and not stirring anything. They projected calmness and cut social benefits slowly and silently.

The latest version, though, is pretty aggressive and pointing towards poor people and foreigners while cutting social benefits - a sure way to increase AFD votes. Blame and increase the pain, gets people riled up.

So i do have the fear that AFD will take over, but that's a future concern. Right now, the formerly harmful but composed and at least superficially pretending to be not evil "conservatives" are axing what they can. Not as bad as in the US, we don't have concentration camps yet like you do. But it does feel pretty close.

@spaf

@MaryAustinBooks @spaf Don't worry, they can just go to germany. Big revival in the works here, very enthusiastic maga-ass kissing and enthusiastic definition of outgroups, if you know what i mean.
The actual problem is where decent germans are gonna go.

@senj How odd. Is your brain control chip malfunctioning? Try going out of 5G range and then back in!

@interfluidity It also might be pushing the boundaries of logic.

If something is self-evident, would that not imply that it is visible to at least most people? If people are rich or poor from birth, are they actually created equal?

I'm thinking about that swastica-spangled banner (did you see?) hanging in that one dudes office... what about that and a big "NO" over it?

@VeroniqueB99 Adult relationships are much better... can always say "nope, can't do anything today" and it will be fine. dog/cat/baby would starve, then.

@AppleFangirl Ofc, scrolling masto is the only acceptable way to spend friday work time! How could i overlook that?

Please forgive me, for i have assumed in a much too capitalistic way!

@AppleFangirl Haha, good thing your tracking tool will absolve you of wrongdoing. Remember to take a deep breath between the orders!

@AppleFangirl Are you in some kind of US-special situation where reality does not count and if you don't do impossibly much before clocking out it will count against you? Or is this just "wtf, how do those work orders clump together so much?"?

@light I think that is a perfect comparison.
It really doesn't matter if someone is biological family or which bio/birth sex they have - until you try to have sex. Then it needs consideration.

@ruemaleficent It's always nice to find someone who also appreciates bittersnark

@ruemaleficent Well, i do hope that my bitterly cynical optimism has at least been a bit of a distraction, of the nice kind. Didn't mean to say something stupid with it, like "cheer up" or such.

@ruemaleficent I'd say the bottom is where humanity (or the people in one country, if you want to look per country) die. That's pretty final.

But until that happens, every step has potential to worsen things or it kills us.

Luckily, our lifespans are finite. So we either get spared from further suffering (if we all die), we get spared the worst of it (if we die before humanity does) or we see things improve. Logically, there's an upside to every possibility :-)

@ruemaleficent Capitalism paved the way by taking ever more, fascism puts an axe into the smoking ruins... is "it cannot get worse" reached?

I'm not religious, but i always liked this saying:
God spoke: be happy and smile, for it could be worse.
And they were happy and smiled.
And it got worse.

@sophamir Since "once in a century" natural disasters are now more like "five times a decade", the length of a decade has been adjusted. We are some two digit number of decades after 2020, no wonder your vibe is off. It's not you :-D

@VeroniqueB99 I feel that one, i don't even have a pet (partially) because i don't want to guarantee anything for dependants.

@OpenComputeDesign Saw an instance of that. An old proprietary online banking software got abandoned, and the mandatory replacement is specifically only for win10/11.

Can't make this shit up, the big players making our computing infrastructure are working against the people.

@Stoned_Deva_ I love it when the emojis are dancing and it's not powered by a big ass datacenter guzzling up water and electricity but biologically sustainable on cake. Hope you got that comfort food you were missing!