She’s amazing, Jeph outdid himself with her expressions!

It also makes sense because BSW is quite clearly a Putin-proxy.

AFD and CDU really are a thing, arent’t they.

BSW is also hostile to LGBT+ - they’re not as open about it, but e.g. the issue with the rainbow flag in Neubrandenburg shows they’re certainly no friend of the queer community.

I’m European and I’ve been wondering this myself. Spain looks solid, maybe? Definitely don’t go to Germany (where I live), we’re on track to elect a guy in 2025 who loves the Republicans, and there’s several popular parties that are extremely Russia-friendly and hate LGBT+. And even the current centrist government is engaging in hostile rethoric against “migrants”.

Part of the issue is that Europe largely relies on US media - e.g. there isn’t really a European or French/German/Polish/… equivalent of Reddit or Twitter (unless you count the national Lemmy and Mastodon servers, but those are pitifully small compared to Reddit).

He also hates trans people, worker’s rights and free speech.

It’s gotta hit harder if you’re directly affected by the outcome.

Does this count as actual fascism yet?

Lots of these predictions were actually quite horrible. e.g. flying cars would be so much worse than regular cars in so many ways.

I liked Grimgar a lot.

“Many of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make!”

Who wants to have personal effects in their grave anyway? When I’m dead, I want to become soil as quickly and cheaply as possible.

If I wrote comments like I chat in a grocery store queue I’d never write a single comment.

A scientist might think that the historical/scientific value is more important than the personal rights of people who died millenia ago.

The people who dug up graves in the early 20th century just didn’t see the locals as people, though, which is also why most of those museums were in Europe, not anywhere near where the artifacts were found (if the artifacts were given to museums at all, instead of being sold to private collectors).

If you ask me personally: A pharaoh is a king, and fuck the king.

Agreed, though I think that he doesn’t quite fit the definition of “celebrity” considering he did two terms as a state governor.

No numbers for “A celebrity’s position on a politicial issue has positively affected my opinion of him/her”?

And IMO, considering all the other groups that are trying to sway voters and how close elections tend to be (and how polarized politics are in the US), these numbers aren’t that bad. And the way advertising/propaganda works, they don’t necessarily have to sway people in a way that the people directly notice - it’s often enough to keep repeating a point to keep it in people’s consciousness.

AFAIK cameras can be identified by the dust/grain patterns on their lenses. Probably no risk of random users doxxing you through that, but I don’t feel comfortable opening myself up to mass surveillance like that.

“white” is an increbibly malleable category, anyway. At one point, the Irish (who are generally even lighter-skinned than the English due to higher percentage of gingers) were considered non-white. Nowadays, most people would consider Italians and Spaniards white, and there’s quite a few hispanic people who both look white and consider themselves white (due to being descended from European immigrants). There’s a similar dynamic in India, southern Indians are often darker than ‘black’ americans while many north Indians could pass as southern europeans.

Why write “the” as “ð” instead of “ðe”?

God isn’t real, but if he was real he’d be a dick.