The U.S. won’t stop Musk from faking sales to make it look better than it is

Q3 2025: Americans buy over 900 million cybertrucks.

Don’t trust anyone whose name is Rand, first or last.

Or Paul for that matter, but that’s an entirely different issue. Paul knows what he did.

If social security still exists, I worked long enough in the US to get that and it doesn’t matter for that if I renounce.

Well, hope they won’t change the rules around that if it does still exist by the time you retire. Though generally such things aren’t done retroactively I believe. Once you’ve earned it, you’ve earned it. Even if rules change for future folks. At least in sane countries, but of course we’re talking about the US…

What happens to your 401k and IRA if you’ve moved abroad and renounce your citizenship? Will it ever be paid out?

Not an American so I honestly don’t know.

Long term = next dem president inherits a recession and gets blamed for it

If there IS a next dem president.

Fair enough. I just hit install on Civ 6 on Steam too. May my ADHD show me mercy.

It’s the problem with the whole high ground approach.

The republicans don’t need to have any moral values. But as soon as the democrats drop down to their level, republicans WILL start throwing shit at them.

I mean usually there’s a reasoning behind jokes, I was wondering what that would be.

I can’t imagine a democratic president pardoning someone for burning buildings.

I can’t imagine a republican president pardoning someone for building republican buildings.

Probably not going to happen.

Huh?

6 has too many DLCs for my taste and 4 just kinda feels outdated with tetragons for tiles. I won’t buy 7 unless the Steam reviews greatly improve with updates. It sounds unfinished, and probably you’ll have to pay hundreds to get all the DLC to finish it. I MIGHT pirate it to check it out down the line.

No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.

It’s called CECOT and while it’s had a massive positive impact on El Salvador’s crime rate, it feels like a giant human rights violation at the same time.

Give him a bunch of tattoos and send him to CECOT.

You actually got me there, I had to google his mother’s name thinking this is the worst prank from the universe ever.

The bread and circuses plan from Rome worked.

Might get interesting when DOGE removes the bread for a lot of people.

Removes everyones social security to get himself deleted via bullet

Maybe he’s trying to do assisted suicide? I can’t imagine things going well when a bunch of old people, many with guns, are going to be left incomeless because of him. Though I suppose it’s always possible for the republicans to somehow blame biden, minorities, or people with dyed hair for it and most will buy it.

To be fair, it’s also the tankies that are saying anyone further right of them is a shitlib.

I do agree with you that there are plenty of people that are leftists and NOT tankies. I’m one of them. Genocide is bad regardless of the economic system of the country performing it. Authoritarianism is bad whether it’s left- or right-wing.

TL;DR: You’re on lemmy.world which has defederated from the main instances these types of people and their communities are on.

Longer answer: Read my response to the other commenter who didn’t think tankies existed here

You must not have been to the tankieverse then.

I don’t remember if it was /r/sino or some even further authleft sub, but they had literal manuals in their subreddit wiki for debating non-tankies on thinks like the Uyghur genocide. Similarly, fediverse tankies pretend that China and Russia (which doesn’t even pretend to be a communist country) can do no wrong and if you oppose anything they do, you’re just “spreading state dept talking points” (If you DO say you’re also against the palestinian genocide, not just the war in Ukraine, they ignore that part).

Personally I blocked some of their most prominent communities and posters. Thing is, you’re on lemmy.world which I believe is already defedrated from lemmygrad and hexbear (they absolutely loathed .world users too). My instance admin believes in free speech and peoples’ right to choose which communities they see or block, so we’re not defederated from those instances and until I blocked them, it was an absolute cesspool in my feed.

Here is the lemm.ee thread discussing potential defederation in august 2023. .world had already defederated by then so it’s possible you joined after your instance had already defederated, I guess.

Here’s an excerpt:

Coming back to the events of the past few days: soon after my removal of the comment containing the symbol from the meta thread, two posts popped up on hexbear. One was focused on insulting and spreading lies about me personally. Another was focused on diminishing the horrors of the soviet occupation in my country. In the comments under both of these posts (and in a few other threads on hexbear), I noticed some seriously disturbing bigotry against my people. There were comments which reflected the anti-Estonian propaganda of the current Russian state, things like:

- Suggesting that my people has no right to exist
- Stating that my people (and other Baltic nations) are subhuman
- Claiming that anybody critical of both nazi and soviet occupations is themselves a nazi and a holocaust denier

It is noteworthy that the hexbear admins at least agreed that this shit was way too much and stepped in. But this should give you an idea of what kind of people are out there.

This is the correct fucking take.