Stanford and Harvard both have all sorts of interesting lecture series online! Harvard has stuff like urban design, religious history, art history, the relationship between cooking and physics, biology, Chinese history and much more!

https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

Haven’t taken any with Stanford but here’s a link to their catalogue:

https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses

You are not reading what’s being written.

And are one hundred percent taking the bait, like he expects you to. And to a casual American who remembers that 2016-2020 didn’t result in extermination camps, ended with a transfer of power to a different political party and no invading sovereign nations, well, your claim makes you seem like an unreliable source of information.

Again, I think trump is dangerous to American democracy but you are helping his cause.

I don’t think he’s a genius but knows one game very well, and it’s treating the Left/media the same way I treated my younger sister when I was an asshole; wind her up, watch her melt down, over-react and get in trouble.

And we take the bait EVERY. GODDAMN. TIME.

He’s not imitating Nazis by accident and he’s not doing it because he’s a Nazi. He’s doing it because it makes us make ourselves look like hysterical children.

Edit: It’s not 78D chess, it’s the easiest game to play. Couldn’t be much more simple as far as politics go.

That’s an… interesting opinion.

That’s why we have to vote in primaries for non-evil.

But we get outvoted, badly, by senior citizens so old time politics reigns supreme.

Oh no, I get that. I think he’s echoing that stuff intentionally but more to make us cry fascist etc. He loves our reaction to the dictator but only on day one schtick, his side sees it as a joke, we take it deadly serious and I worry median voters think “he was already president, we still have a democracy, these guys are over-reacting.”

We can be simultaneously right AND lose the persuasion game. I’d rather win the persuasion game.m as that matters more than being right.

I think about Jan 6, with horrifies Democratic leaning folks but to a large swathe of the public, it doesn’t seem to register as a concern compared to inflation etc.

Fair, I play more RPGs and whatnot where a knife takes 4 years to injure someone. (Though, a bad sword can take just as long because, I dunno, it’s too dull to chop through this peasant’s leather tunic? Goddamnit Ultima.)

I’d like to think it’s just because online skews young. I remember (with some shame) my stupid teenage anarchist days. Though I do worry that if I had, as so many do nowadays, ensconced myself only in views with which I agreed, maybe I wouldn’t have grown out of it. The more smart people you meet, disagree with and learn from, well, the bigger and more interesting your world becomes.

I love the idea of Lemmy but goddamn, a good chunk of our userbase need to grow up and I’m not sure they ever will.

The guy had a knife, which might have injured one of the cops, maybe.

Holy damn, this has got to be the worst take I’ve read all day/week.

I know in video games, a knife generally doesn’t do much damage but… Just… Wow.

Go outside.

If it wasn’t for insane ideas they’d have to say the cops were maybe not wildly in the wrong here so insanity it is!

"He knows what he is doing,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history who studies fascism and authoritarianism, said of Trump’s statement. “He chooses his words carefully.”

Yeah but not in the way this person thinks. I firmly believe a large chunk of trump’s success is his ability to bait the Left/media into frothing at the mouth and making us seem like we’re blowing things out of proportion.

It’s why he uses stuff like lying press, to a student of history, that’s a pretty clear Nazism. To a casual American, he’s just hating on the press. Similarly with this, to a casual American, he really means deporting illegal immigrants back to their home countries, whereas to this author, well, you read the article.

I think back to the debate and how well Harris baited trump, it was so nice to see it go the other way and it worked beautifully. Hopefully, we can be wiser than trump and avoid taking his latest and future bait attempts.

I’m not sure they should win. Watching the electoral dysfunction in Germany and Israel is a hard reminder of the bizzare contortions that party coalitions create.

I just wish the under 35 crowd voted in primaries at rates comparable to the elderly, then maybe we’d see policies that actually helped instead of being the lesser of two evils.

I don’t know how weird it is but my cat seems to understand that when faces are talking from the computer screen my hands will be free for the more important duty of skritching.

She has become a hit during team meetings, to the point where one time she was sleeping and didn’t come prompting half the team to send concerned DMs.

Sure, same but that kind of defeats the poiny of the whole exercise…

To quote Greg Giraldo “Really? Is that good? How much worse could your real face look than that clown mask you’ve had welded to your head?!?”

(For those who don’t know him, criminally underrated dead comedian at Joan River’s roast.)

A casual reading of history will confirm that’s kinda been our modus operandi for, uhhh, ever.

That’s such a cool thing for the mayor to do! That’s quality public service.

I mean, Obama was just… Damn. One of a kind, one hell of an orator.

Republicans: Cancel culture is ruining the country!

Also Republicans: You endorsed Harris? Kiss your Republican record sales goodbye!

Yeah, her war chest is pretty huge so a few thousand bracelets on the assumption Seift would eventually endorse seems pretty reasonable.