I think they chose to focus more on the human warmth and positive vibes, and, dare I say, normalcy, to contrast with Trump’s themes of hate and inhumanity that his campaign even seems to be ratcheting up in these final days.

He smirked at the compliment. “What’s discipline got to do with winning?”

That right there tells me all I ever want to know about Trump and how he sees competition.

Not an American, so I do not feel called out, nor do I care about downvotes from idiots who think Lemmy threads are here to be won or lost by getting or giving out good and bad points. :)

EDIT: By “idiots”, I didn’t necessarily mean you. Only after posting this comment I realized that it could be understood that way. Sorry.

Thanks, now that makes things clearer - on Wikipedia, I noticed this “if resident of a US state” exception for voting, but I automatically dismissed it as unimportant, thinking “eh, that has to be a very small fraction of Puerto Ricans”.

Thanks everyone for the informative responses - as a non-US person, I wasn’t aware of the intricacies of Puerto Rico’s unusual voting situation. 👍

Wait, I thought Puerto Rico residents cannot vote in the presidential elections. Even Wikipedia seems to think so.

That’s an odd way to misspell “young incels”…

Could we actually get both of those rich assholes into an arena and let them fight it out?

Even NY Times is starting to see the writing on the wall, and is starting to hedge.

So now he’s conning gullible seniors also out of their military decorations? If it was anyone else, I’d say it’s a new low, but for Trump, it’s a new middle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Next thing they’ll start rounding up people who wear glasses, like some African dictator a few decades ago.

I can’t believe It’s not TheOnion.com.

Elon Musk reminds me of a demented Elon Musk. :)

After leaving him, she can just make money by having someone ghost-write a “My Life With an Orange” book for her and selling that.

Can humans even have a real communist society? I suspect it would take a species without any individual self-preservation instinct, or individual greed, so that each member can fully serve the collective.

Well, at least we got something.

And even that is debatable. Japanese surrender came shortly after a quick succession of several events - the first bomb at Hiroshima, Soviet Union declaring war and invading continental Japanese land, the second bomb at Nagasaki, allies completely obliterating Japanese navy, and preparing to invade their home islands, etc.

Many argue that Japan would surrender even without the two nuclear bombs.

Yep, most of my non-tech friends just say “Ads? Oh yeah, I don’t even notice them anymore, I got so used to them.” whenever that topic pops up in a conversation.

Enshittification actually does work, but only up to a point. Unfortunately, all the corporations have all the subtlety of a Sherman tank, so they always go all in on it.