Some of them I’d rather not know 🙄

“Democrats have moved so far to the left. We had an $18 billion surplus that has disappeared, they’ve raised taxes, they’ve overspent,” Van Binsbergen said. “In business, we budget. We plan. The government needs to have a little bit more of that as well.”

I would vote for him if he ran for president. He’s not perfect, but he does actually try to push forward on fixing things. Hopefully we’ll have elections in 2028 🤞

This is just sad and a dick move

Bonus panel better than the main comic

Other than the happy ending on some cuts providing a different tone for the ending, I don’t think there’s any difference in the story/aesthetics

Yeah, Blade Runner is also amazing at capturing the aesthetic. I watched the final cut version of it, which is the only one that Ridley Scott got complete creative control over. Haven’t watched the other cuts but did check out the monologue voiceovers on youtube that are on some of the other cuts, and I didn’t care for them. The happy ending on some of them also seemed silly. There’s a whole Wikipedia article about the various versions lol.

Haven’t yet watched Blade Runner 2049 yet, but I’ve heard it’s worth watching. Not quite as good as the original, but not much worse.

Does not like tall skinny icebergs

I’ll be posting that panel to a very different community over at lemmynsfw.com

Context, no spoilers:

Sure, crossposted

Unsurprisingly for the Star Tribune, seems like a reactionary response

If someone is doing something really bad to you, and someone else came over with a gun to stop them, would you stop the person saving you and purity-check them first?

Slavery was also much less prevalent in the North, and abolished completely ~55 years before the civil war. It’s not really equivalent. To borrow your drug dealing analogy (though it’s a loose one at best), it’s kind of like your local weed dealer helping to remove an unabashed fentanyl dealer from the community

This is a great explanation. Thinking of the question @ad_on_is@lemm.ee asked the other day of How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy?, this is the sort of post that is good to share and draw people in to Lemmy.

!truecomics@midwest.social

One of the links in the article was interesting, I didn’t know that Nancy Pelosi visited Tianenman Square in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8-Woj1eA

If you’re in her district, you should let her know what you think of the bill

Yeah, I can kind of see the argument of “the state messed this place up and now needs to fix it”, but that doesn’t seem sufficient in this case.

There’s a joke I’ve heard, “In middle school, you learn the Civil War was about slavery. In high school, you learn it was about states rights. In college, you learn it was really about slavery”.

Alternative form:

Send interesting Lemmy links to people you know. That’s how they get interested, and check it out. You won’t convince many people by extolling the benefits of the Fediverse, you just have to show them that they’ll be entertained, and maybe they’ll be somewhat more likely to switch if they know it won’t enshittify. I’d say you should send links from instances that don’t federate with some of the weirder places like Hexbear though, that’s likely to turn people off until they realize how the Fediverse works.

One thing that we could use more of that draws people in is posts about relationship issues. Entertaining for almost everyone, and pretty much anyone can create them from their own experience.