Hahah nooooo I’ll be banned from Lemmy and the police will knock on my door.

Ao some banal shit ? Pepsi is better then coke ?

Australia and New Zealand

People

I’m an Australian, as a 16 ur old I’d slong my gun over mu shoulder and rodee my trail bike up the range to hunt for pet food. Drape a gutted dead roo over the back of my motobike and bring it jwome, meat for the dogs and skin it. No one batted an eyelid or said anything.

Now I’d be labeled a terrorist, have police helicopters chase me down and be in jail for decades.

The US prenteded to be Australia’s ally and friend, China is just another country who happens to be a great customer and that should be recognised but that’s about it.

I’d pivot away from the US and try and forge better and closer alliances (more like we have with NZ) with places, The EU, Canada, Japan for tradr and defence but theres no warm embrace with China.

As an Australian I’ve long been a Green voter and their policy has been arms length from the US (and China)

That the US treats us with disdain has been obvious for decades.

How big are their clits ?

Hopefully they have kill switches built into their machines and can turn them off if needed?.

ASML is literally the piviot on which the entire tech world balances.

For most of the democratic world, the US Democrats are right wing, like Canada, Australian mainstream. conservatives are to then left of the Democrats…eg it was Australians mainstream right wing party that brought in compararively draconian gun laws (by US standards)

Chatham Islands ?

I chose Tasmania, am here now… I dont think anywhere is but i am hoping it’s lesser and i am not the literal tip of the spear.

Albiet the poulation is older, white, conservative, religious so there is that problem.

Trump has broad aupport.

Im 58, I’ve et 4 people in my life I’d classify as “good”. Im with one and I’m not one.

All 4 are women, which gives me pause as a guy.

It’s already hapoened in the US.

Maybe. I thought and fought for this from the 1990s on my own small ways with no luck and only to see the rise and rise of walled garden, proprietary, bullshit software.

The issue is end users have the prescience of a gold fish, i have zero solutions to that.

well before the midterms when he losses his majority.

Seems to be board suooort for thsi shitstain and his acolytes and hes making voting much harder

The story i saw on Reddit nacknin the day explained how during her first electoral campaign her "supporters " literally attacked the wife of the D politcans, she was so scared she left the state.

He was also ininimidated and attacked of I recall correctly. No one to wants to be invoked with nutcases who put their partner in danger but that’s how the nazis win.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

It reminds the rest of us there are sane American’s, so thank you Mr Vance for that.

They won’t, they’re immensely supportiv"

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. .-- John Stuart Mille

These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Indeed, GAB is a great example, their “freeze peach” or banned :)

Compartmentalise. It’s a trait of Homo sapien to convice themselves things are true, so they can believe any bullshit, try not to fall for it yourself in otjer areas.

The problem for me arises when they speak from authority on another subject they are expert in, if they’re so naive and easily misled on that, how can i trust their opinion on anything substantive?

A superb example of this is Katherine Hayhoe. I get around it by just reading nothing she writes on climate change because her evangelical christianisim just muddies the waters too much to take her at all seriously. On a side note, my goto is Professor Kevin Andersin.