It’s not even a good joke because any engineer who was dumb enough to round pi to 3 would quickly find themselves out of a job. No engineer does this. They either use a pi function, or 3.14

They are untouchable. They may lose power. In a fantasy scenario, they may even be barred from office. But there is no scenario, even in fantasy, where these rich fucks will spend a single day in prison. The best we can hope for is them dying from old age, or quietly fading away.

They’re not going to be held accountable. There is no scenario where they do.

Yes, I agree. For too long now, wealthy Indians in the top 1% have been coming to the US to become CEO’s or executives of US tech companies and completely running them into the ground with greedy, short-term, profit-driven strategies; completely spitting in the face of their customers and the legacy the companies once stood for, and eroding their position in the global market.

Of course, he means those Indians, right? Not the massive number of hard-working individuals who simply came to try and build a good life for themselves?

But my smooth carapace hippo would NEVER harm anyone! Just look at it’s happy little smiles!

There is literally nothing that he could release that would affect MAGA. Nothing.

If they’re sophisticated thieves, they will be sold intact to some overseas billionaire for much more than that. You’d be surprised (or maybe not that surprised) how much stolen art and artefacts winds up in the private collections of rich assholes.

You’re my favorite customer!

a lot of American soldiers will refuse to commit atrocities against their fellow citizens

Tell that to Kent State.

American soldiers are soldiers. Soldiers follow orders. Soldiers without critical thinking skills follow orders without question.

How much money do you think 4chan gets from the UK? I promise it’s not much.

Are you seriously trying to say that if you have a website, no matter where it’s hosted and what you are hosting, you are subject to the laws of EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY that has internet access?

Here’s a text picture of Muhammad lying down: O<–<

Are the admins of lemmy.world now subject to being put to death in Somalia? Under Somali law, that is blasphemy and punishable by death.

That’s not stooping to their level. That’s the kind of thing a crying middle schooler would say, where in their head they think it sounds like a clever retort, but it just comes off as pathetic.

This whole conflict has been like watching a video from halfway around the world of a child molester mercilessly punch and kick the unconscious body of a second child molester after he hit the first one in the face. And then having a bunch of people ask “which child molester do you support?” who then get really upset and confused when you say neither, that you consider them both to be monsters, and don’t really care if either, or both, of them die.

There is no real history of holding the forces of fascist regimes accountable. If you’re thinking of the Neuremberg Trials, I urge you to look up how many people actually got prosecuted and faced justice compared to the total number of Nazi officials. Spoiler: it wasn’t many.

Thinking that members of ICE or supporters of this administration will face ANY legal consequences for their actions is delusionally naive. They won’t.

Even in a magical fantasy scenario where MAGA loses all power, progressives get into office, and enact wide sweeping change to undo all of Trump’s damage and ensure it can’t happen again; the only thing that would happen to these people is that ICE loses funding and they have to find a new job. That’s it. And in reality, even if a progressive takes office, ICE funding is never going away. Just look at the TSA, we were promised it would be a temporary thing in response to 9/11. Does anyone really believe it’s temporary anymore? Does anyone expect even the most progressive politician to push to defund them?

Yes, everyone knows if the majority of the military is untrained and lacks critical thinking skills, they could never successfully oppress their population.

That’s why African Warlords with armies full of child soldiers famously never commit unspeakable atrocities on their citizens.

Cowbee: “Haha! What executions? All of it is completely made up and originates from things like satire! Things are wonderful in North Korea and anyone thinking otherwise has just been deceived.”

Also Cowbee: “Look, this execution was actually not a problem because of many reasons. Besides, DPRK was just going through a rough time, and the guy probably deserved it or something. Anyways, stop trying to judge a country based on its past actions!”

Well that’s retarded

I just got into Star Wars Armada, a game that was discontinued last year. Finding models has been hard lol

I would like to see a random person. Put the entire adult population in a lotto and draw a name. Congrats, that person is now president.

The knee-jerk reaction is to be horrified by this prospect, but I want you to stop and really think about this for a sec. I think we can all admit that most of our leaders/politicians are, to put it mildly, fucking monsters. Those positions attract personalities that fall firmly in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). And those that are capable of getting themselves elected are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one or more of those traits.

But these traits are relatively rare in your average, everyday person. Although the media tries it’s best to warp our view of the world, individual people are, for the most part, good, decent folks who want to help those around them. It’s practically built into our DNA. The problem is it only takes a small handful of selfish jackasses to ruin things, and our society tends to listen to those that are being the loudest.

By this metric, if you take a random person off the street, you have a higher chance of them being a good person; rather than if you selected from a pool of politicians.

Another benefit to this is the person entering office has zero ties to any company or billionaire. Lobbyists spend billions to ensure that anyone elected is already in the pockets of whatever big industry wants to fund them. By the time someone is elected, it’s already too late as they’ve already had their hands greased and have accepted gifts, officially or unofficially. That’s just the way the game is currently played. But a random person? They can’t bribe someone ahead of time if they don’t know who that person is going to be. Oh sure, I suppose they could try to appease the public as a whole so that your average person already has a positive opinion of them; but would that be such a bad thing?

Is it a perfect system? Hell no. Leaving leadership up to the whims of chance is a dangerous move to make. But is it a better system than the one we have now? I say yes. I truly believe we would be better off with a random person as president than any known politician or talking head.

Maria Cortina Machado dedicated the prize to Trump because she wants the US to intervene in Venezuela.

I would put the average American’s knowledge of the “situation in Venezuela” somewhere between diddly and squat. I’d say we can’t afford another war right now, but that’s never stopped us before, so who the fuck knows?