He also played the aptly-named Goldmember.

I guess they do already have the market cornered on lying.

I live in California, but I’m worried about just how much resistance a state can do against the Feds.

I will be stunned if he ever acts like a decent human being. Hasn’t happened yet.

I genuinely believe that the ideological divide is far too wide in the US to be able to say that “America” believes this or that.

That would shock me. Sane people in power might piss and moan about him, but they never actually do anything about it.

They’re unlawful until the SCROTUS says they aren’t.

Nah, they’re cool with authoritarianism.

The fact that almost every price for everything everywhere is like this is pretty compelling evidence that it works.

The question was whether or not things will get better, not extinction. We’re unlikely to go extinct, but things will absolutely get worse for us.

Humans needing to be “gone” was hyperbole - we just need to not have enough people to be able to damage the climate any more.

While not wrong, Japan is an especially bad country to compare that to.

Not for humans. Fascism can be recovered from, but climate change can’t at this point until humans are gone.

Yes, not until Jan. 20th (MLK Day, he’d be so proud!). But it’s not like someone’s gonna set up a big Lemmy server, then move it to a different country later.

It’s still weird to me that there is no US instance.

Damn good thing. We definitely don’t want one hosted in a fascist country.

I can’t disagree.

Fascist governments always collapse eventually because of loyalty over competence, but the thought of the damage a powerful country like the US would do before that collapse is terrifying.

Fascism was defeated because of the Allies, led by the US, the country with the most powerful military in the world by a large margin. Who’s going to defeat the US if it goes full fascist?