• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    He didn’t announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Consider how stupid Donald Trump is, then consider how stupid one would have to be to vote for him, then consider that those people are all around you, all the time.

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    4 hours ago

    He better not be watching PBS. Not only did he not donate, like viewers like me, he is cutting their federal funding!

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    9 hours ago

    And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He’s not the only genius there.

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    8 hours ago

    When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals

    I don’t know, SOAD radicalized me when I was a teenager and I would say that this is bullshit from a criminological point of view.

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    8 hours ago

    I propose a movie about dinosaurs released in San Diego.

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    17 hours ago

    So… You take a prison which:

    • Generates $60M yearly from being currently a museum;
    • Needs serious rebuilding and modernization to even function at all;
    • Needs a way to be supplied with safe water, plus constant deliveries of all other necessities, likely by boat.

    And you get:

    • A prison which generates little to no revenue, while needing funds to be kept functioning.
    • Only has its name and somber history going in its favor, because “prisoners should be afraid of the historic haunted prison”.

    Yes. Brilliant idea, truly a Trump deal in all its glory, as we get to see how the casino-bankrupter’s mind works. Hopefully by the time the prison is ready Trump and his cronies get to be the first “tenants”. And whoever comes next declares the prison closed again and leaves them rotting there.

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      9 hours ago

      But it is a typical Trump deal, selling vibes of “doing it the rough old way, with guns and hookers and lead paint and gasoline that makes your windows rainbow-colored”.

      That’s what he sells. His fans know it’s not achievable, they want a mess sufficient for something better to evolve, and vibes for them signify that mess. It’s a bit like Shadow ideology in Babylon V.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes…?

      It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.

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        9 hours ago

        Beachside property after all. Rockside.

        Actually would be a cool idea, make there a combined prison-museum with luxury cells like the one Brejvik spends his time in. If it goes together with a prison reform to in general make American prisons more like Norwegian ones, would be cool.

        I mean, inmates shouldn’t pay for that, I just caught a thought.

        It’s more interesting after all, inmates can talk to tourists and not feel too isolated, but live in more comfortable conditions than their historical colleagues, and you still have a profitable museum.

        Sort of a prison entertainment park. On an island. One can even have a small computing history museum with an IRIX machine there, next to a few dinosaur pics.

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          You can spend the night in a cell in Alcatraz already. I did it as a little scout. I would absolutely not call it luxury lol.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Next up on truth social:

        ONE OF MY SUBORDINATES JINGLED HIS KEYS IN FRONT OF ME FOR HOURS. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS MUCH ENJOYMENT IN MY LIFE.

        MAKE JINGLING KEYS GREAT AGAIN!