Hmmm.

My thoughts are that once Trump picks a fight in some backwater country and starts a war and hits these same angry young men with a draft, you’ll likely see a lot of them changing their tune.

School is one thing, but the culture of the last 30 years has been decidedly tilted towards being cautious and wary of risk.

Right now, they think it’s cool to be tough and callous about life and since most of the men that actually fought fascism are now dead, this is when generational amnesia takes over. It was inevitable we’d swing in this direction.

How far it goes before the hot young things see the actual costs of this political viewpoint - and start paying it themselves, is the question of the day…

It is, blessedly so. Maybe this will take the electricity-gobbling AI data centers off line and my power bill will go down.

Seriously gonna try this the next time I pick up some sushi.

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Lots of kids in the neighborhoods across town wherre the families now live. In the part of town where I am where it is all rental units filed with childless professionals and retirement homes for affluent snowbirds, there was no trick-or-treating. My husband grew up here and in this part of town it used to be crawling with kids in the 60’s and 70’s. Then again, that was before rich people “discovered” our city and snapped up all the affordable rentals and converted them to luxury condos.

Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.

When I was a kid in the Bay Area in California in the 70’s there were dairires that made ice milk and it was like vanilla and chocolate sherbet. I know the texture you are talking about, and yeah, it’s delightful and smooth.

You’ll find…

Well, you know the reply there: “Bad Bot!”

Asking the questions we want answered…

Now that is being damned with faint praise!

The burger is definitely healthier than the cigarette.

Coffee for the win though… all those complex alkaloids and polyphenols…

It’s the extra tar that makes the Gailoises so smoooooooth…

Exactly. Chances are at that height it’s gone to seed and is now hemp.

Oooo, that looks like headaches, not highs.

Oh noes! The dementia took over and he drew a pre-teen female figure with the magic sharpie and wiped out Mar-A-Lago instead…

Right now, everyone is terrified of the actual President, Stephen Miller.

Mr. Trump is just a loudmouthed figurehead with dementia that runs interference.

What 8 wars?

They’re just laying low and waiting until Trump’s bribe money runs out.

Never forget that Trump will throw down cash in order to make himself look good. What does anyone wanna bet that the money grifted from the cybercurrencies his organization is supporting isn’t in this mix?

There’s nothing real there.

What? You mean Mike Johnson’s continued harping about the Democrats being the cause of this isn’t being believed?

Horrors!

…Were they sold into the idea that when the company is making lots more money it can do lots more good with it?

This. I remember the PR that came out at the time.