Indeed, on Tuesday Trump said, “I don’t care” that the U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Iran isn’t building a nuclear weapon, according to his own top intelligence official.

So, his generals told him it’d take two weeks to be ready for war with Iran.

The generals were hoping he’d never be able to focus on one topic that long.

There is an entirely plausible chance the US is bombing Iran by (or on) the Fourth of July…

TL;DR:

“A thing happened (or it didn’t), nobody knows why (or maybe they do)”

I want to see some crazy CGI of streaks of red and blue bandanas mixing together under the sound of gun fire to create a rain storm of Purple Hearts all over the LA skyline. Then, an intense voice over and splash screen of the title “PURPLE REIGN”, as a low rider bounces across and fades to black.

Ok, let’s kickstart this picture….

I look forward to someday telling my grandchildren the story of how the Bloods and Crips united to defeat the National Guard and bring sanity and dignity back to LA…

Ok, so the graph shows us how police killings have gone since George Floyd, but can we see a graph of police killings since George Floyd?

Nah, it would never happen.

We would end up with comprehensive gun control reform before we ran out of our precious billionaires.

While the communities you view may differ from my own experience, I would say that political and news themed communities have had an uptick in aggression.

My sense is that it is less about the overall population on Lemmy, but more about the polarization of news and political topics in our society. If there were truly a force actively trying to promote a culture war to prevent a class war, I’d say they are doing an effective job.

Outside of news/politics communities, postings, and (directly or indirectly) related comments (or commenters), I have not experienced an increase in outright negativity and rudeness.

Just like in any written dialogue, I think some expressions of humor can be written or received poorly, lending to a received sense of rudeness—and those moments sometimes serve as reinforcement of actual offensive aggression observed elsewhere, you dick /s.

Jokes aside, I do appreciate you drawing attention to it, as a reminder for each of us to do our part to express ourselves more clearly—allowing for discussion, disagreement, sarcasm, and humor while maintaining respect and civility.

And, of course, continue to block users and communities you find objectionable; though, I would challenge anyone to ask themselves if they are blocking to avoid offensive content, or are they blocking to avoid content which does not align with their views. Silencing different points of view, ultimately, only expedites the original problem.

Don’t you dare give consumers what they want.

I just watched The Boys season 4, and it was real-life headlines like this that stood out as “too extreme” to fit in the ultra-violent fantasy world of real life fascist superheroes.

Yet, in the REAL real-world, this doesn’t seem out of place at all.

Did some fuckin’ Aussie heart surgeon just breeze into a Home Depot and saunter into the plumbing aisle in his board shorts and flips flops and just whip together a heart out of brass fittings and teflon tape???

“Oi! DANNY, YA FUCKIN’ BOGAN! I DONE DID YA UP A NEW RICKY TICKEY—ALL FUCKIN’ SHINEY AND CHROME!!! GRAB A CARPET KNIFE AND SOME DUNNY GLOVES—WE’ll GET THIS FUCKER INTO YOUR BLUDGER CHEST BEFORE YA SHEILA SAYS YA WERE CHUCKING A SICKIE!”