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  • OpenStars@discuss.onlinetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldOh Elon
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    2 days ago

    Yeah the only way to kill a troll is to… just stop talking to/about them. They feed off the negativity of others - Elon likes it when people increase the stock price of his company, and allow him to sell the userbase to advertising firms, so every single word of this just makes the Musk all that much stronger. Every. Single. Word.







  • I presume that much of the absolutely most essential services have had to move underground, beyond reach of such things.

    Remember that letter sent out by most of the top security people in the nation, that if Trump won a second time rather than Biden anyone else, that America would - not might, would - fall to Russia? Trump surely would not be so petty as to fire all those who signed it once in office, thereby leaving this country exposed without any intelligence capabilities (hehe, in more ways than one:-P)?

    We came so close to it all being over, but nonetheless managed to dodge one bullet that almost ended this “experiment in democracy”, and now it’s 4 years later so time to reload this Russian Roulette round and play again… Except this time with that SCOTUS ruling that nobody seems to talk about anymore, and with Project 2025, the stakes are higher than ever before and this is for sure the last election that we’ll ever have to do ever again (as Trump himself literally said) - unless ofc Democrats win and then ofc we’ll simply repeat this roulette again in another 4 years time.

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  • And thanks for the comment! Honestly, while I see the religious connotations, that wasn’t even the first place my mind went. i.e. it seems much more “zen” than Judeo-Christian, although I suppose in fairness it’s both.

    Anyway, it seems to be (1) something mostly just to ponder, rather than a specific rule that someone must take, and therefore (2) not something intended for everyone, e.g. if you have a medical need that will cost money, then why commit suicide by giving away that treatment?

    But… as with any art, I suppose it means whatever the reader pulls from it.

    I do want to add that we are getting sidetracked with the “money” part, as should be expected, but that’s nowhere close to what this poem seems to be about overall, to me at least. It also mentions telling someone you love them (hehe, not necessarily with a gift of all of your money:-), and overall screams to me of bravery. Especially that last stanza - “nothing more pathetic than caution”, which it goes on to specifically mention that while perhaps not always, definitely there seems to be times when it needs to be discarded, not to fill someone else’s pockets or even stomaches, but for our own sakes, in that moment.

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