• @bradorsomething
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    Trump looks so tired, why do they keep forcing him to run?

      • FuglyDuck
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        402 months ago

        Never underestimate a fat man’s urgent hunger for hamberders and nuggets.

        The question I guess, is when was the last time he didn’t have a gofer.

        • NoIWontPickAName
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          You know what?

          You’re gonna make me defend this motherfucker.

          Quit badmouthing even vegans love burger they just make him out of something different.

          Which I stand by actually makes them fucking sandwiches cause you don’t get a chicken burger, you get a chicken sandwich.

          But that is neither here nor there.

          Who the fuck doesn’t love a good burger?

          Nuggets personally, I’m not that big of a fan of most.

          I do do popcorn chicken though

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            Who the fuck doesn’t love a good burger?

            I’m not criticizing liking a good burger. there’s nothing like a good burger.

            McDonalds barely qualifies as ‘edible’; never mind food… and forget “good”

            as for nuggets… I like to be able to tell what I’m actually eating. Pureed chicken product…? no thank you. (pop corn chicken is still “chicken”… it’s not heavily processed into a sludge before being shaped. It’s just bits of “waste” chicken that get chopped into that form. Trimmings, or possibly breasts chopped to shape.) (chicken tenders are from a strip inside the chicken breast- frequently they’re part of the breast, but there’s a bit of connective tissue between.)

            • @brenticus@lemmy.world
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              Having seen the tube the chicken nuggets are extruded from at a meat plant, at least in Canada they’re pretty much just chicken. Looks like refried beans, sure, but it’s chicken.

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                I like to call this video “how vegetarians are made.”

                While the initial grind is fairly thick. The continuous mixer they dump it into with all those lovely chemicals, continues breaking it down (and drying it out.)

                (For the record that picture he keeps coming back to is frozen yogurt or ice cream. If it’s pink it’s cherry or strawberry.)

                • @problematicPanther@lemmy.world
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                  the meat industry kills animals for consumption and requires more land than a crop producing farm alone would. emissions from those farms are killing the environment and would be partially responsible for the death of humanity within the next 200 years. However, they are not the only thing which is murdering our planet. We can and should move to a less meat centric diet, sure. but that’s not everything we need to do in order to prevent the murder of humanity. Everything modern life touches is murder. The means of transportation we take to go to work, the electricity we consume, the clothes we wear, the items we consume all contribute to our own demise. And companies will try to greenwash themselves, sellinrg things with ‘natural ingredients’, being ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘100% recycled’. But in fact, they are just as bad or worse than their competitors, and use their eco-friendly marketing to get you to buy their products, often at a steep markup, for no tangible difference in what they are actually doing for the planet.

                  you can say that I’m pathetic. sure, I am. But you’re stuck in the same consumeristic capitalist hellscape I am.

                  Maybe you should make statements a little less facile than “meat is murder” when every dollar you spend is another nail in our communal coffin.

            • NoIWontPickAName
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              I knew some vegans would need to shout so I included you with veggie patties already.

              Nice try

    • @some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      202 months ago

      “We’re doing to inject you with what we’re calling a ‘genius enhancement serum’; it will fortify your already throbbing genius cells and keep you sharp as a tack, ensuring your every response is virtually perfect for your defence in this trial.”

      😴

    • @skulblaka@startrek.website
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      I didn’t even think of that as a possibility, but damn that seems more and more likely the more I think about it. The only way to prevent him from repeatedly shooting himself in the foot is to literally drug him into unconsciousness. I completely believe that, I’ve heard him talk before. Hot damn.

        • @cynar@lemmy.world
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          22 months ago

          Interestingly it would quite likely have the opposite effect. Adderall is fairly focused on the executive functioning areas of the brain. If you are dependent on it, and it’s suddenly taken away, then you’ll recoil. The Executive functions help regulate decision making and focus control. Under activity in the executive functioning leads to impulsive behaviour similar to the base symptoms of ADHD.

          Take away his drugs, and he will become even more impulsive. He would likely oscillate between sleepy and rage ranting, even more than normal.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    652 months ago

    Dozy Don and the Despicable Diapers.

    There you go world: a new band name for someone to use.

    • SeaJ
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      272 months ago

      I read your comment and wondered what Provigil was. Modafinil. I guess I should not be surprised they were all on uppers and downers.

    • @jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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      If there’s one thing I’m not gonna shit on Trump for, it’s letting his White House hand out pills like candy. Although it’s pretty shitty to do while still enforcing archaic drug laws

      • @Wrench@lemmy.world
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        Sustained drug abuse has negative long term effects.

        You can support legalization in support of individual choice, and also condemn the personal use while in positions of (extreme) power.

        I don’t give a shit if my mechanic has an amphetamine habit as long as he can physically do the job required of him. I care very much if my president and his advisors are cracked out while holding the reins to this country.

          • @Wrench@lemmy.world
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            Multiple Whitehouse staffers claimed that amphetamines like Adderall were handed out like candy, no questions asked, no prescriptions necessary, and the pharmacist is being sued for lack of record keeping IIRC.

            Nice try, though.

  • athos77
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    372 months ago

    That’s the picture the media needs to start using.

    • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      572 months ago

      You’re not really required by law to ‘pay attention’ unless you’re being asked a direct question. Though, I’m sure judges look poorly on such things.

      I remember Harvey Weinstein doing the same thing before he got sent to Rikers. :)

    • @geekworking@lemmy.world
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      Not if you are not required to participate in that part and not causing a disturbance in the court.

      This is a jury trial, and jurors are watching. Even during selection. If you don’t care enough to stay awake, it’s not a good impression.

    • @FireTower@lemmy.world
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      Probably wouldn’t fly. This happens more than you’d think. Court room procedures aren’t as riveting as tv would lead us to believe.

      • @Willy@sh.itjust.works
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        -22 months ago

        jurors can get in trouble for it? it’s a bodily function and they are almost volunteers. I mean I can see them getting dismissed or maybe being asked if they are ok and to please try and pay attention, but I hope you don’t mean real trouble.

        • @RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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          They are entirely responsible for determining the facts of the case. The defendant can face dramatic penalties on their decision. The cannot sleep through it.

          • @Willy@sh.itjust.works
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            -102 months ago

            oh. now I understand. death penalty for nodding off jurors! I won’t try and get disqualified when they add that.

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          There are quite a few bodily functions we are expected to control in public, with real legal consequences if we can’t. Falling asleep while driving, or (intentionally) dropping a deuce in the jurrybox during trial as some quick examples.

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            erections? peeing your pants? farting? there are no legal consequences to any I can think of. maybe if you do them intentionally, there are indirect consequences, but we aren’t talking about grabbing a pillow and setting up for a nap in the jury box here. just nodding off.

            edit: aha I see you made an edit with examples. no fair

              • @Willy@sh.itjust.works
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                -72 months ago

                ur just silly. No one is asking you to drive in that situation. even then, you haven’t broken the law and there are no direct consequences. if you hit someone else, there are indirect legal consequences. that wasn’t totally bad though, any other examples?

                • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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                  92 months ago

                  Ahh, my mistake. I thought we were discussing this in good faith. I’ll let you continue to be intentionally obtuse on your own now.

  • مهما طال الليل
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    Maybe a stupid question but how come in a nation of 330 million people, many of them should be qualified, the people are limited to two bad choices?

    Has it always been this bad in US presidential elections?

    • @Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      Joe Biden has led the most progressive Administration in the nation’s history, investing in social justice, environmental programs, curtailing abuses by corporations and predatory institutions, stood with workers (both on the picket line and in the halls of government), developed initiatives and instituted policies to combat racial injustice, staved off a nuclear power’s assault on a weaker neighbor, overseen the largest growth in real wages in over a half century, passed keystone legislation which committed the largest investment ever into green policies and programs while also committing the largest investment ever into revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure, put more federal judges on the bench in his first term than the last two presidents combined, weathered the highest levels of inflation in generations so well that US fared markedly better than peer nations, guided the economy through that inflationary period without the need for a Volcker Shock, expanded trans rights in every corner of the federal government, oversaw the largest reduction in childhood poverty in the nation’s history, reduced pharmaceutical prices for Medicare users by over 20% on average and brought the cost of insulin down to less than $30, and that’s just off the top of my head.

      It’s trendy for the terminally online to knock Biden, but he’s gotten more done in three years than any President in recent history has in eight. I’m not ceding this ground to low-information voters like the commenters here seem to perpetually be. I’m excited to vote for the President who has achieved more leftist goals in three years than any other American elected official has over their entire career.

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        Bro, you need to work for the election campaign. This is far more motivating than professional ads I see elsewhere.

        • @MadMonkey@lemmy.world
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          Watching from over here in New Zealand and if your reply to the thoughtful comment above you is - “he didn’t raise minimum wage enough” - 1. You don’t understand jack shit about economics, and 2. You forgot to adress all of the other points raised. But oh, your threatening to go vote against your own interests to spite this anonymous dude online.

          You are everything that is wrong with this world and I’m glad that I live far enough away that it won’t affect me. Fuck you and do what you want.

        • @sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
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          It’s sad to see that so many people, like you, can not differentiate imbugue situations anymore. Why can’t somebody bring very good progress and on the other side do things you hate?

          If you see that only black and white your only solution can only be following austerity fascist like Trump and all the other ones of his clique.

    • @btaf45@lemmy.world
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      s it always been this bad in US presidential elections?

      Nope. I’ve been following politics since Nixon and Biden is the best president we’ve had in the last 50 years.

        • @Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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          If you want to see some great Republican hypocrisy, read up on Carter and his beehives. They made a huge deal about what a national security risk him selling honey and how he needs to divest from it, but then let Diaper Don slide right in by.

    • @Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
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      The problem is the first past the post system which heavily encourages a two-party outcome. A ranked choice system would drastically improve the chances of new candidates or parties to emerge with meaningful results.

      But since that hurts the current holders of power, it’s pretty unlikely to be enacted anytime soon.

    • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      To be blunt, do you genuinely believe that the population of the US is capable of agreeing on better candidates?

      If so, again to be blunt, how many people would it take to sway this decision, and why can’t this number of people strategically ensure that their candidate is chosen?

      Admittedly, I’m old enough to remember when Digg tried to make Ron Paul a thing, and when that went hilariously wrong, they shifted to Obama and made out that he was their candidate all along. I’m not saying that it’s easy, but mainly trying to say that I imagine that it’s actually quite difficult to get 300m people to agree on anything that isn’t an incredible compromise.

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      Because the people don’t choose their options, just from the options chosen for them. The rich are one team, and our options are just to give us the illusion of choice and to pit us against each other as if it were left v. right and not haves v. have-nots. Notice the options are always deeply rooted in the “haves” camp…

      From the outside looking in (not American, but Canada has similar problems) it looks transparently theatrical. But then I look around in Canada with that same “outsider” perspective and, yeah, it’s just as bad here. Our Premier of Ontario is a slightly less embarrassing version of Trump. Claims to be “for the people” but gives little-to-no fucks whatsoever based on his actions.

      Anyway… Ready whenever others are to burn this all down…