I hope so. A good step would be for the UK to rejoin the EU but that seems unlikely to happen in the next decade. But we need to build solidarity and resilience, and like you say, increase our independence as much as feasible

I’m curious, what good do you see trump doing for the country? It seems to me that he’s doing a lot of harm but we probably have differing views

I certainly wouldn’t be crying myself to sleep that night.

I kinda feel like the ‘never genocide’ people were always secretly embarrassed trumpsuckers.

But I don’t have a problem with mods giving them the same protections as the rest of us. I think those people are a bunch of wankers but I don’t want Lemmy turning into more of an echo chamber than it already is.

Almost like it was intentional.

Yeah. Funny thing, that.

I’m not American but wouldn’t that mean Vance becomes president? It’s tempting to think he couldn’t be any worse, but trump likes the fucker so who knows?

They do say that folks who don’t learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. Which means scary times ahead.

Yeah I’ve heard of people dying that way. I believe you can actually get something like drunkenness from water - although you’d have to drink a lot, and you’d probably die not long after experiencing the sensation.

Too much of anything is going to fuck someone up proper.

I’ve injected a fair bit (accidentally) on one occasion. Took me a while to work out who I was and what had happened, but I was fine after a bit. But TBF you can overdose on pretty much anything if you take enough.

I feel the same way. But TBF I live in a country that voted for brexit. Essentially voted for sanctions against ourselves FFS, even though it should clearly have seemed like a horrible idea to everyone at the time. It’s not the same as electing an actual fascist but I’m just saying that Americans aren’t the only electorate that makes terrible decisions based on ignorance, xenophobia and misinformation.

Yeah I’m the same. People have said they’re better for subtle movements like aiming but I find I tend to either move too little with them or spin out of control. Fat thumbs I guess.