• @Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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        It would blow my mind even if his opponent had zero qualifications. The fact that she’s actually competent and charismatic just adds to the surreality of the situation.

      • @Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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        Still kinda makes a lot of sense though. Pretty easy to see how the Simpsons, back to the future, etc could see it coming

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    589 months ago

    If you’re a Republican Voter against Trump, but you’re still going to vote Republican, then you’re not really against Trump are you?

    • @Tja@programming.dev
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      I think they mean they want lower taxes, guns, and no gay marriage, but between trump or a democrat they choose the democrat, Harris in this case.

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      He has none. The test is for the corporate news. So far they’ve been failing with flying colors.

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      I just imagine everybody standing board stiff holding their most sincere sieg heil salute while fighting back tears of rapturous emotion while Trump sways halfheartedly to Chumbawumba for twenty minutes

  • @cranakis@reddthat.com
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    And the crowd stood there for hours before, waiting on him to show. Did he take any questions at all or just all his shitty playlist and fainting? This guy is pathetic.

  • @spacesatan@lazysoci.al
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    I really want to hear the room chatter that was happening 5 minutes in. Surely after like 15 the sorts of people there would have been like ‘ok we’re vibing with the supreme leader listening to music, this is cool too’ but after 5 minutes there had to be some confused discussion that would be really funny to hear.

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      Watch the video on YouTube. Some in the crowd seemed to be trying to get riled up but besides YMCA the music was very mellow, very low energy. Do not trade mix tapes with Donald Trump

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    409 months ago

    It’s like if you went to church, and the vicar said:
    “You know what? I don’t fancy delivering this sermon with moral guidance. Lets just sing 10 hymns in a row.”

    • @IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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      … Y’all never had that happen?

      “The Lord has other plans for the service today, so we’re going to continue in this state of worship.”

      • @chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I grew up JW, and their meetings were very structured and organized. They do sometimes show videos and such, but a congregation is organized around not one pastor or anything but a whole group of them, any of who could do the main Sunday surmon (and I have seen subs often enough). They also have “ministerial servants” who are I guess basically elders(pastors I guess?) in training, and they often handled a lot of stuff too.

        • @IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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          That makes sense. This church was ‘non-denominational’, which meant that if they could just have the church band play a jam session and still make money, they would.

    • TheRealKuni
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      Honestly? I love hymns. Especially if the congregation sings in four-part harmony. I’d probably enjoy that more than a sermon.

  • @HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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    Can I just say I’m happy there’s a section of Republicans that think he needs to go, and are actively pushing him out?

    The entire party isn’t a hive mind i.e sharing one mind.

      • "trump is the worst. He has no ideas, he's just an awful, bigotted, racist piece of shit. Nobody likes him."
        
        "Oh. Who are you going to vote for?"
        
        "...I guess I have to vote for trump."
        

        What a time to be alive.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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      The problem is that a normal person can be talked into doing something not in their best interest. A narcissist could only ever be lured away to something bigger.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)
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        Are you saying that all people with a certain mental disorder aren’t able to choose to be kind?

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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          89 months ago

          That’s an interesting framing device you’ve got there; But yes, in the cases of antisocial personalities and narcissists. They have a markedly diminished capacity for empathy.

            • @Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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              “Having the capacity for free will” is not even remotely the same as “being capable of making completely disposessed choices in every single circumstance”. When considering one’s options, different people in different situations give different weights to different factors.

              Consider a person acting under the threat of being murdered if they don’t comply with some demand, like in an armed robbery. The fact that making certain choices, like refusing to cooperate, is in practice nearly impossible for them in this case has no bearing on whether or not they “have the capacity for free will” in a general sense. Likewise someone being manipulated by a person they fell in love with.

              In the same vein, a narcissist is strongly compelled by internal factors to act only in ways that gratify their overinflated ego. While it may conceivably not be 100% impossible for them to go against this compulsion, it is extremely unlikely that it will even occur to them to do so, and given that it does occur to them to do so, it is extremely unlikely that they will choose that course of action. They act in predictable ways for this reason. The weights they place on certain factors are consistently different from average. This is entirely unrelated to the question of “free will”.

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                  You made the original claim without citing any sources or even making a logical argument. I presented my reasoning. There is absolutely no reason for me to go to the trouble of citing sources when you made zero effort at all.

                  Also, facts that are common knowledge and/or self-evident do not require sources unless specifically challenged, and everything I said is both of these things.

              • Dragon Rider (drag)
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                Drag apologises if you don’t like free will debates. Drag will clarify that drag doesn’t have a non-determinist stance. Drag’s a compatibilist, and therefore thinks there’s no debate to be had over free will, and wishes everyone else would realise it too.

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    People are still falling all over themselves to vote for this turd; to buy a huge stars and stripes decal of him and stick it on the back window of their Ford Raptor next to their Three Percenter decal. Buy a huge flag that says Trump 2024 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS and hang it on a flagpole by the front door to their house, on the street with kids riding their bikes outside.

    And there’s an ever growing uncertainty about whether or not this meatball is going to actually win or not.

    • @Halosheep@lemm.ee
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      This guy lives on the street behind me. He even has one of those garage projector things with the trump 2024 logo on it that he has up every night and a trump flag for each window of his car.

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        I’ve got two houses facing each other on my street who have been in a fascist flag competition for as long is I can remember. One of them even has an RFK sign next to his Trump yard sign. But yeah what I described above I saw on my way through a neighborhood in my small town. Its distressing!

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        It’s both amusing and depressing to see all the rugged individuals loudly advertising what a vital subject they are.