Thankfully there won’t be fair elections by then, but still that video is some low level of infighting instigation

Exhibit 3

Man, these zionist sympathisers really all coming out of the woodwork all because some silly book is making them believe this is the end times. Worse than the MAGA cult.

Make this the most upvoted post on Lemmy yet

Only fighting when you’re certain of victory is actually the smart way of doing combat. Nothing to do with fascists or cowards.

I think what you mean is that they will only pick on the weak and indefensible. That’s what’s going on. This isn’t even a fight, they are snapping them off the street without warning. And it isn’t a victory either, as they are fast tracking mass outrage.

We’re being played, as is always the case with Trump. He’s dictating the things we get outraged by, day by day. He wants the outrage, because he needs the pretext for Martial Law. That’s the fight he wants, and the victory they seek: total consolidation of power, so he can crown himself king.

Hitler too, only had a vocal minority before he rose to power.

I wouldn’t say there is no secret agenda. It’s clear the administration is not in the loop of what the secret agenda is. Their blatant anti-everything-non-white and overall incompetence and ignorance is enough right now to keep the divide and conquer going.

Based on the upvote ratio of this very legitimate question, a majority of USA-landers who want to live in a country with a stupid second amendment, are actually too chicken to use the provisions it provides.

Love the silent downvotes this is getting, yet zero counter points.

Meanwhile

Exhibit 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1SjVCYUIwk

Buddy, I’m not following you around. I’m casually perusing Lemmy. Look at your comment history, shitposting and being a bitter salty contrarian is your full time job here, which I didnt know, hence my surprise to run into you again.

You’re not here. None of your comments - to me or others - display any kind of willingness to listen or openness to other people’s viewpoints. You never respond to people’s points, just talk over them, so carry on. You’re making Lemmy look busy and a valid alternative to Reddit lurkers, and provide downvotable content, so I’m grateful for your contributions either way.

No alts. One and the same.

Sorry for not posting reference.

Here you go https://lemmy.world/comment/16421833

You may be projecting. I see your alt is upvoting your ridiculously bitter comments everywhere. Time to take a break from Lemmy Person Prole.

If you’re outside USA

1. stay there
2. upvote this
3. comment
4. share everywhere

If you’re inside understand there is no going back from this, you will not be able to vote your way out of this. Go to the protests this weekend.

Nsfw

You simply haven’t even read my response or are completely unable to explore that far outside your comfort zone. I’ve even given you a scientific response, and you don’t even react to it. And guess who’s now starting to sound like a pseudoscience person?

You may think that astrology is just harmless fun, but at a societal level, the acceptable of pseudoscience like this as meritorious is dangerous.

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This is the kind of thinking that leads to being anti-vax,

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why children are dying of fucking measles again.

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This is the kind of thinking that allows people to completely ignore the science surrounding it

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, and stake their entire personality on the belief that abortion is literal murder.

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You're eroding away your own ability to think critically.

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Impressive how you swung that to abortion too! You seem to have failed to counter my excellent rebuttal, hence your reflex to deflect to other baiting issues.

There’s no need to adapt a tone with me Person Prole. It’s very clear you’re a skeptic, so it’s quite unnecessary to continue to highlight that fact.

I cannot provide evidence of the usefulness of astrology in my own life because that’s like asking a random stranger to give them your social security number. And when the in the end of the month things unfold that would remotely point towards these predictions, you would have a mountain of ready made arguments to refute it and claim luck or something else. We are not talking about science, we are talking about belief. And you won’t change yours just like I’m not changing mine. I have had your belief and I found this to be an improvement on virtually all aspects of life.

To your point, and the pointlessness of my responding to this: You see the gas giants as the things you know they are because of the angle you’re viewing them at as if their physical attributes or physical position or physical motion has anything to do with their value. I will paraphrase your question.

Please explain to me how 2 arrows of different lengths of metal or plastic only a few centimetres away from the centre of a clock can have any meaningful influence on the time of the day or when the sun will set, the seas will rise or the night will fall.

I will point out that in this very materialistic and ego centric view of (y)ours there are many things we can use or have a form of predictability without us completely understanding what it is.

In this mad world of instant news, AI, crypto and wireless payments and microchips we still have no idea what electricity really is. But that doesn’t mean we can’t use it.

If you keep going, you may discover that your fear of astrology has nothing to do with astrology at all, but with being comfortable not really understanding the vast depths of life and the universe, because it is fucking scary once you remove all the “we think we know for sure’s”. Just look back in human history how often we changed our mind on subjects we know consider set in stone.

But since you read this far, I can even answer your question in your world and viewpoint too: what in the world makes you think that a ball of gas CANNOT provide that influence? You and me are here and alive and talking because of one of them being ON FIRE a solid 93 million miles away from here and has been for millions of years too. That one is providing LIFE ON EARTH. What makes you think that just because others are a bit smaller or a bit further or not on fire wouldn’t have the tiniest bit of influence especially when they align with others? How do you know for sure they don’t? Just because you haven’t explored the idea doesn’t mean there’s nothing there. We just studied the Sun a lot more, but we are far from having all the answers.

And with that, Person Prole, I wish you many more joyous lapses around El Sol.

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It’s fairly futile to continue this as you clearly already made up your mind (hopefully after a thorough open minded exploration in the topic as science would like you to)

However

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

You touch upon a key issue here: the extraordinary evidence is often extraordinarily personal, deeply vulnerable so not the stuff you can easily share. It works for me, and it helps me to see life clearer.

I like your coin toss analogy and I do understand there is plenty of astrology and horoscopes that have that vibe. And because of that I see that any prediction could be much more successful on Lemmy or Reddit by just omitting the astrology from the prediction. Or at least not lead with a screenshot of it.

The core of my prediction remains. A neo nazi, happening to sit on mountains of cash, freshly purchased the US presidency and with an affinity for the previous title holder of world’s most terrible human being.

The pieces are moving in place with the 19/4 protests which will probably be the biggest the USA has seen in a long while. They may turn violent. They may invoke a Marshall Law declaration.

The astrology is not the prediction. It simply shows that around that time is a cosmic fertile ground for these types of forces to clash and for a tension that has been building to be released one way or another. The astrology is not any astrology either. It’s from a Swiss company who has one of the highest reputations among astrologers, precisely because they are not predicting there will be Marshall Law, but outline the kind of energies which will exist around that time to enable an unexpected evolution such as the one outlined in the actual prediction.

Anyway, I’m sure none of that convinced you, but I’ll watching next weekend. This ride is not going to calm down, and hasn’t even gotten wild yet. Thanks for the civil discourse, despite our differences.

How do you say r/wooosh on Lemmy?

Don’t worry it gets downvoted there too.

Hitler was an occultist and into numerology, so is Musk. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand.

This is the typical peasants fighting among themselves while they are steamrolling their Project 2025 in broad daylight.