Yeah I’ve got nothing but respect for his initial achievements and character. I’m not really an MMA follower but I saw some of his initial fights and interviews.

Not sure what happened since but it’s clearly not good. I wonder if the kind of people you end up being around when you get that rich and famous are part of the problem. I’ll never know so I can only speculate haha.

Yeah, they’re all the same. Musk, Trump, crypto, religion, AI - they all offer a simple, easy solution to all problems. It’s false hope, but it’s reassuring and we’re all susceptible to it given the chaos of existence.

Reality is complicated, politics is complicated, running countries is complicated, and no one has all the answers. We have to work on those together. No one person is going to solve all the problems we have, and these cunts absolutely don’t give a fuck about you or me or the ‘working man’.

It works because it’s such an easy sell and it’s easy to fall for it. I have before too. But being good at battering people and choking them out does not by default translate into being able to run a country (maybe thousands of years ago hah).

Thats the other aspect to these things. We tend to mistakenly assume that because a person is good at one thing, they’re automatically going to be good at everything. People like Musk and McGregor are also very good at selling this, because they’re generally talking to people who also have a limited understanding of the topic.

I honestly think if we taught local civics and critical thinking on a global scale you’d massively reduce this kind of problem, but who knows.

Ah, makes sense. I wonder how long he can slither around like this until it finally bites him hard.

Well, he certainly would be whether he realised it or not - if by that you mean easily manipulated by outside interests (like musk and god knows who else)

Looked him up. Agree 👍

Jesus could he be more vague and incoherent?

Seems like a good reason to put him in charge to me.

Interestingly, it seems the last government were sitting on a massive prison overcrowding crisis, and there is now talk of sending prisoners to Estonian prisons to ease it.

To be honest, I’d imagine that’d be an even stronger deterrent for these pissbags. I can’t imagine an Estonian prison being very accommodating!

Just waiting for the token drop 😂

“in Canada we don’t kill them, we just objectify them!”

Came here to ask the same question.

I agree. Lemmy isn’t as progressive as it thinks it is generally. Just like other social platforms, the concept of a nuanced discussion is mostly (not always) an alien one.

People want things split neatly into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ or ‘us’ and ‘them’ and melt down when anything challenges those neat little boxes. We all do it to some degree, and I get the appeal of it.

But if we want things to ever really get better, we need to be able to have better discussions about important issues and accept things are very rarely binary.

Placing Kamala or Walz on some pedestal as if they’re perfect is just as blind as doing so for Trump.

I’m not in the US, and yes I would vote for Kamala, but I think it’s important to be aware they are not perfect and the fight for a better society/world won’t be over if they win.

Divisive? Let’s call him what he is: a dribbling, brain-dead misogynistic cunt grifter (and now potential pedo).

This can’t be a serious comment.

True. No taxes for them in that case. No food either, after a while.

… from Steps?

At this rate it won’t be anthropogenic climate change or the associated risks that will kill us.

It’ll be war and chaos sparked by some AI generated misinformation peddled by morons like Elol and these other braindead wastes.

Bad bot

You seems surprised and yet Trump has been charged with almost the same thing for inciting the Jan 6th riots.

Maybe not the majority, but clearly it’s common enough to warrant mentioning for the people affected by it.