You know those “The earth isn’t flat, its obviously a [Insert Shape Here]” jokes?

This is like that.

Now the joke is ruined.

🥲

You shall perish in the crack in space-time continuum.

Adava Kedavera!

Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.

mass mail-in voting, which has the same downsides as online voting

What exactly do you mean, the same downsides?

Mail ballots require physical presence to tamper with, so if you have armed guards + security cameras watching the drop box, most tampering threats can be prevented, at the same time, no one knows who the voter really voted for since envelopes are sealed.

In contrast, internet connections are really easy to tamper with. Most people just blindly click past https warnings, and thats just the most basic attacks, there are more sophisticated attacks. Not to mention, you dont even need physical presense. Anyone, anywhere around the world can hack an online vote.

Forbidden load of laundry.

Makes me nervous looking at this.

I was cooking something in the oven and had my oven open and my cat walked by, then I started having intrusive thoughts fearing that my cat would get caught in the oven. And I just told my cat loudly “Noooooo get away from the oven its dangerous”. I think I might have to spray my cat with water any time she gets near the ovens.

Please dont put your cats in the washer.

People love to romanticize accelerationism until the civil war start and they begin starving.

Chemtrails! Obviously

/s

Its obviously a crack in the space-time continuum. The universe have been watching our elections and was disappointed on November 5. This is an obvious sign of the end times. Now drown in fear, you mortal being.

rumors have it have trump is planning to sell gift Alaska to russia. And he’ll split up a red state to make up for the lost senate seats.

Dude… We have a convicted felon and anti-constitution insurrectionist in the highest office of the US. Crime rate just went back up. Dont forget all the hate crimes he’ll inspire around the country. Murders might have gone down, but the many instances of racial harassment, that are most likely going to be unreported, will skyrocket. Police aren’t gonna make a report until you’ve been injured enough to end up in the hospital.

Go on Lemmy and rant in an echo chamber.

Or alternatively. Continuing reading SCPs and hope I don’t get creeped out this time. (Spoilers, I will get creeped out again)

(My favorite SCP is 2935 btw. Awesome read.)

Or watch youtube videos. Veritasium is good (they did have some sponsorship controversy in the past, keep that in mind)

I sometimes rewatch old Jacksepticeye videos for nostalgia.

Occasionally I check to see if theres any new movies or TV series to watch.

The last I watched is For All Mankind, an alt-history on the premise of “What if the USSR won the race to the moon?”, very intriguing. Hoping they’ll have a new season soon, there is still a lot of story to be wrapped up.

I also check to see if The Expanse got renewed, although at this point I doubt it ever will.

I’m honestly running out of things to do.

Maybe I should go outside lol… right into the toxic gasoline exhausts of the many cars passing by, which just reminds me of climate change and makes me depressed…

What do y’all even do? I’m constantly bored…

Covid broke our brains, literally.

Do y’all notice how people seem to have gotten more aggressive after covid.

Its like the Lead-Crime hypothesis, but Covid-Crime hypothesis

You mean people have to actually go outside? 😱

Nah I rather in my echochambers no thank you.

“Expat” because the person’s country of origin is “better” than their new country.

“Immigrant” because the person’s country of origin is “worse” than their new country.

At least, that is my assumption on the reason behind different labels.

Because I assume the person labeled as an “Expat” would go back to their country of origin if there is, say, civil unrest in the new country. Whereas a person labeled as an “immigrant” probably would have to stay since their country of origin might be worse than their new country even considering any civil unrest.

As an anecdote, my country of origin is China. And I’ve immigrated to the US, and have become a US Citizen. Despite the US going through democratic backsliding with the 2016 and 2024 elections, the US still probably isnt much worse than China (at least in non-red states). Whereas a person from like Norway would probably not have taken US Citizenship in the first place and would pack their bags and leave after the 2024 election. In contrast, there is nowhere for me to go. According to Chinese law, they revoked my citizenship immediately after I obtained US citizenship. Not to mention, its not like leaving a autocracizing democracy into a full dictatorship is any better.

2025: The supreme court of the US has decreed that god created humans therefore any human-made disasters are by transitive property of mathematics, “acts of god”.

I’m gonna reiterate what I wrote in another comment:

Basically, the people who wrote the 14th amendment didn’t specify how the ineligibility clause is invoked. Because it could be interpreted in a lot of different ways. Is it:

A. If popular opinion deems a person commited an act of insurrection, they are inelligible.

B. Congress passed a resolution that deems a person have committed an act of insurrection, then they become inelligible.

C. The Supreme Court has ruled that a person have committed insurrection, then they become inelligible

D. The person gets charged with committing an act of insurrection, and they become inelligible.

E. The person gets convicted with committing an act of insurrection, and they become inelligible.

Because the problems are:

A is just dumb,

B would allow a republican controlled congress declare a democratic candidate inelligible. Basically its just partisan shenanigans.

C also allows partisan shenanigans

D is presuming someone guilty, bad idea.

E trump has only been convicted of state charges of fraud, not anything involving insurrection. Not to mention, it’d require enough evidence to convince a jury to convict for something serious like insurrection.

So yea they should’ve been more specific. Because the vagueness gives the supreme court the legitimacy to interpret it the way they want to.

Biden is dont do things that seems unlawful. Because in his mind, he doesnt want to set an example for future presidents to reference and use that example to justify doing the same thing.

Also, how do you even prevent someone that wins both the popular vote and electoral college from becoming president? trump supporters would riot and even non-maga military officials would have to recognize trump as the next president.

The thing about democracy is that we all agree to let the person winning take office. Otherwise its just civil war to determine who is the leader.

You seem to have the impression that the US is a Defensive Democracy like in modern day Germany than can ban anti-democratic parties, but the US is not that. The US is a “whoever wins takes office” type of democracy, whether they are pro-democracy or a fascist. We would need to change the whole US culture about democracy if we want to become a Defensive Democracy.

Lol they can bypass the vice president ineligibility part by chosing trump as speaker of the house and then run placeholder candidates for president and vice president, then get rid of them and trump becomes acting president for the rest of the term.

States run elections. Even if Biden were do try to prevent trump from appearing on the ballot, the states doesnt have to obey, especially if the supreme court’s decision is contrary to the president’s orders. And if trump appears on ballots, throwing him in prison wont do any good since if elected, as he did in our timeline, he becomes president on January 20th and can order the military to break him out of prison, whether state or federal prison.

And if the states somehow prevented trump from appearing on ballots, we’d be in a constitutional crisis and also a state vs federal government political crisis. Pro trump supporters will cite the supreme court decision as a rallying call to trump supporters around the country to protest, and use violence if necesary.

Well you might say, who cares what his supporters have to say. But the point is if the 14th amendment has a more clear procedures of how to invoke the part about insurrectionists being inelibible. trump could be barred from office and the prorests would’ve been minimal since the media would portay it as more legitimate. But unfortunately, the 14th amendment is so vague that the supreme court decision would paint a different picture in the media and in public opinion, making it seem like Biden is being tyrannical.

They can chose trump as the speaker of the house (who doesn’t need to be a representative) and then get the president and vp to resign, to be removed, or die, and trump becomes acting president for the rest of the term.

Does it even matter? trump can get convicted of insurrection but the supreme court can just decide that he hasnt committed an act of insurrection based on their interpretation.

Too bad people who wrote that didn’t specify what it meant.

Like does it mean:

A. If popular opinion deems a person commited an act of insurrection, they are inelligible.

B. Congress passed a resolution that deems a person have committed an act of insurrection

C. The Supreme Court has ruled that a person have committed insurrection

D. The person gets charged with committing an act of insurrection.

E. The person gets convicted with committing an act of insurrection.

Because

A is just dumb,

B would allow a republican controlled congress declare a democratic candidate inelligible. Basically its just partisan shenanigans.

C also allows partisan shenanigans

D is presuming someone guilty, bad idea.

E trump has only been convicted of state charges of fraud, not anything involving insurrection.

So yea they should’ve worded it better on what it means.