Please tell me this person has not reproduced.

Lincoln’s.

I’ve no idea whether Reconstruction would’ve been successful with him at the helm, but it almost certainly would’ve gone better.

oh, huh, I thought it involved infecting them too, I didn’t bother checking out the wikipedia page when I was writing my comment. Wouldn’t be the first time we’d give people diseases in the name of science if we had but I’ll edit my comment

MKULTRA: “Can we mind control people?” (no) “Can we make truth serum?” (no) “Can we just straight up dose random people with LSD without them knowing?” (…yes. Yes We Can.) and a whole lot more questions the CIA decided they needed answering.

Tuskegee Experiment: Deliberately not treating black men with syphilis from 1932-1972 (despite the fact we knew how to by the 1940s), and not telling them, instead subjecting them to ineffective bullshit we knew would do nothing. You know, for science!

Poisoning foster children: I’unno.

Poisoning St. Louis: Probably Operation LAC? Spraying toxic chemicals over St. Louis and other locations, testing how biological or chemical agents would disperse.

MKNAOMI: “Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce. It is generally reported to be a successor to the MKULTRA project focusing on biological projects including biological warfare agents—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.” – Wikipedia

Operation Mockingbird: The CIA leaning on the press to sway public opinion against communism.

Operation Northwoods: proposed false flag terrorist attacks to justify a war against Cuba. quote: “The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft which would be secretly repainted as US Air Force planes, a fabricated ‘shoot down’ of a US Air Force fighter aircraft off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, exploding a US ship, and orchestrating terrorism in US cities.”

I’mma be real with you G, it would probably be easier to list the things the U.S. government is not willing to do.

and you have stockholm syndrome for capitalism, but I forgive you.

yeah but it’s almost like those comforts and services of modern society should be able to still be performed without trying to extract value for shareholders and we just choose not to because line go up make (rich) monkey brain happy. I believe there are, in fact, plenty of people willing to do the things that make the world run, completely for free, if only we did not operate on a global system that enriches shareholders, executives and politicians while paying the people doing the actual work a pittance and forcing them to struggle to survive.

And let’s be very clear about what your definition of “obligations to society” is – busting your ass creating value that is extracted from you for ~40 years for comparatively dogshit pay on the tenuous promise of retirement somewhere down the line, a promise that is actively being taken back by the upper class. Now, you work until you die unless you’re very, very lucky. I don’t find that a very compelling or fair deal, and if you do, would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?

You can, unless your teeth or something else becomes a health problem you can’t fix.

✨ they already are ✨

to add to what @Kaerkob@lemmy.world said: because here, I get to decide exactly how much interacting with people I’m willing to engage in and have multiple ways of controlling who I do so with (blocking certain instances so I don’t see their posts, blocking smartassed trolls, etc.)

there’s a reason my username is shortened from the Latin for “I want to leave”. I don’t necessarily want to die, I just don’t want to be here anymore. Unfortunately for us both, leaving society as a whole without dying is rather difficult.

if I could just exist in a room with my things and a pet dog forever (or just the rest of my natural life) and never interact with another human being ever again, I would jump at the chance. The social contract I have been forced to participate in merely by being born – one in which I have to pay money to live (read: live normally. yes, you can live off the land off the grid in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, this does not make it a practical solution for everyone and their grandmother), unlike every other living creature on this planet, in a world of adversarial sociopaths controlling 99.9% of said money – I would have chosen not to sign had I had the opportunity. The juice is simply not worth the squeeze, not in this world, not for me in this life.

I’m hoping someone takes it upon themselves to have them torn down after his reign. State sanctioned or otherwise.

and this is different to normal… in what way, precisely?

Or are we just reaffirming what we already know? Is the next headline to be “Demented Orange Rapist Still Demented, Orange, and a Rapist”?

I hope people just don’t show up in the first place. Boycott the event. I say this as an American, the only languages these evil fucks in power understand are money, and violence – do not give them any money, do not come here, do not pay to watch the match (pirate it if you must). It is both incredibly dangerous for foreigners in the US right now, and hurting business (like the tourism industry) in America might be the only thing that actually drives the US populace and the money away from MAGA/right-wing christian nationalism as fast or faster than ICE murdering people in the streets. I can already tell you as someone that has worked in the hospitality industry, US hotel chains are probably already feeling the sting of the ICE crackdowns, and the fewer “heads in beds” there are, for longer and longer, the more pissed off all of them will get.

comprised of what?

seek help

The man is clearly insane.

Put him in a home. Or just buy him a proper, sharp pizza cutter. But if he didn’t consider doing that himself rather than whatever the fuck this is… I still say he needs professional care.

this would fuck so hard if it was included in AdNauseam as an optional mode.

they have the opportunity to do the funniest damn things to the tankie triad.

I know they probably won’t, but god, I wish they would.

with the amount of geriatric bastards in our government, all we would need is a statistically significant increase in the amount of tripping hazards throughout the D.C. area (but specifically focused on congress and the white house) and pure chance would do the rest; even if she doesn’t fall down some stairs, some ancient old fucker doing an awful job probably will.