Thanks for the laugh, I loved this line: “He looks like he’s been bobbing for hummus. They say after a while you get the face you deserve, and Trump’s just desserts appear to have been applied with a trowel.”

Magnets, how do they work?

Alien sex technology refined by bear gods of forgotten religions obviously

Oof… Al Gore, of An Inconvenient Truth (2006 so he was late to the 2000 party) didn’t care about the environment enough…

My head… :(

as that is money going to poor people instead of themselves

You need to look no further than the GOP obsession with cutting government programs to back this up. The “money going to” is in fact taxes and so if government programs are cut Republicans can also further reduce taxation on themselves and the ultra wealthy without hurting the deficit as much. They couldn’t possibly care less about government assistance programs because they don’t need them, it’s just the “poors” that do and we all know the Republicans mindset on that: get good or die, loser. Let the church do charity, but don’t “force me” to care about you.

I’m on the wrong side of 35, and owning ANYTHING reasonably sized for a reasonable price has just seemed deeply laughable for the entirety of my career.

I’m right there with you friend. Almost done with my 30s and they have not been fun as far as economic/housing stability goes… I moved from “illegal” apartment to “illegal” apartment 5 times in the last 10 years with no end in sight.

printing press fired up in 2020 and real estate investors seemed to get plenty of that cash.

Maybe I’m just ignorant, but in a just world that should have never been allowed to happen… I’m sure our politicians had nothingggg to do with that “oversight.” :/

Thanks for the links!

I really don’t think so. The vast majority of internet users just stick with whatever simple thing that serves their need. Lemmy isn’t the most difficult thing, but if reddit already exists and is more popular then people won’t be leaving that for this if they haven’t already.

The boost in people coming here last year was a “last straw” kind of deal from people using reddit who cared enough about not supporting their shit decisions, but by now that has died down and we’ve seen from recent articles that reddit “won” and they have a metric fuckton of users.

Yeah that was me too… I FINALLY got to the point where I could realistically start looking, got the pre-approval and everything just after COVID started… People had already starting WFH and moving away from where they worked and investment companies kept buying and now I’m still living in someone else’s garage because prices went through the roof pretty much as I was looking…

Of course once you mention WFH everyone gets defensive and claims this was a trend, but those charts are the same everywhere. Houses in 2018-19 were often less than half of what they cost now…

“BoNe To PiCk! SeCrEt LiBrEaL! dEeP sTaTe PiZzA!”

I wish Magoos would actually listen to someone other than their chosen propagandists and Trump, but then they wouldn’t be Magoos…

If this story is true then that actually gives me some hope that it isn’t as solid of a plan as I was assuming. If he’s stressed about polling then apparently it won’t be as simple to steal as some people made it seem.

I was literally just going to write that comment. SNL to get sued next! Fucking crybaby strongman Trump…

Here we go again with this absolutely fucking insane hypocrisy… JFC…

What the actual fuck? Fox news anyone??? Hello??? No? OANN? No? Newsmax?? No?? Their bread and butter is all pro Trump all negative on Democrats ffs… God I hate these people…

“Preventing this scenario requires Republicans to act in good faith and certify the results of elections that go against their guy.”

Magoos: there it is the magic name “Russia!” that means I automatically don’t believe you!! FBI election interference!!

“wait wait, fake news and then sue others for fake news!”

Thats a name I could do without hearing ever again. One of the main proponents of the “my way or go fuck yourself” politics that we are now stuck with…

Same here, I feel your pain…

The best I could hope for is possibly teaching English in another country, but I don’t know the exact requirements for that.

If we filled that with groceries at these prices they’d bankrupt even Bezos lol

“The lead is larger than the one Hillary Clinton had over Donald Trump in the 2016 election…”

Don’t invoke her name! Don’t put that juju on us! She had a supposed 95% chance to win and look what happened lol

I definitely envy your optimism though, I’m in the exact opposite camp. I believe Trump has this hands down even without the fuckery. Polling that has weights for shitty partisan pollsters still show Trump leading everywhere that matters and polling always underestimates him. :(