The US was most definitely NOT founded on this.

This was a poem written in 1883 to raise money for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty that was donated by the French.

For historical accuracy, it’s worth noting that the United States were founded by religious nutjobs, and open-armed integration of foreign people and ideas was really, REALLY not what they had in mind.

The more I think about it, the more I reckon Europe should offer to take in the “worst of the worst” that the US administration is forcibly deporting.

Because I’m pretty sure Europe would take in overwhelmingly harmless, hard-working, talented and grateful people - grateful for being spared the cruel fate the fascist US regime had in mind for em.

There is a precedent for this: the US taking in refugees and deportees from early Nazi Germany some 90 years ago. And anybody who know anything about history knows most of those German expats became a huge net positive for the US - save for Henry Kissinger that is.

If I was a furlough worker, I’d tell them to go to hell and I’d find me a job with a decent employer.

What a loss. Oh the humanity!

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

You guys gotta vote!

They did vote. That’s the problem.

Ah right okay.

The Android version of Signal works well in Waydroid in Ubuntu Touch also, bu running it permanently in the background like Signal is designed to do is problematic for several reasons that make it kind of a painful proposition. But if I needed it just to send or receive a message punctually, it would be a great solution.

Okay then, it sounds like Whisperfish might work well enough as a primary Signal client to make SailfishOS worth giving a spin. Thanks!

I meant have you tried it? Do you know if it’s any good?

I’m curious: I’m currently evaluating mobile Linux OSes to transition away from Android. What I got going right now is Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5, but there’s one big drawback with this one for me: the lack of a decent native Signal client.

I’ve always planned to give Sailfish OS a spin, and I’m almost certain I can install it on the FP5 easily. But I’m not all that keen on ruining my Ubuntu Touch install, and possibly not being able to reinstall it if I want to go back.

So before I install Sailfish OS on it, can you tell me if it has a decent Signal client? If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not really worth investigating in the first place for me.

Nope: we all get what they voted for, which is much worse.

Trump steals people’s money, then gives some back to them, and that’s supposed to pacify them?
How about not stealing people’s money to begin with?

Well, we all get what they deserve.

Not a problem: just escalate it all the way to the corrupt Supreme Court and they’ll rubberstamp it.

Who cares: the White House will soon have the brand new, magnificent Epstein Memorial ballroom. Now that’s much more exciting than starving poor people!

The Muslim prayer schedule is like the Christian’s: if you’re crazy enough - or dumb enough - to be strictly observant, you deserve to have a miserable life from which a sizeable number of years will have been pointlessly wasted to religious mumbo-jumbo by the time you kick the bucket.

I wasn’t aware Hitler made calls to prayer mandatory during the Third Reich…

When I was a kid - admittedly a long time ago - people who didn’t go to school for very long tended to avoid talking for fear of looking like fools. Today, people are proudly ignorant and confidently open their trap to say any old nonsense with zero concept of shame.

Totally awesome. This is the uplifting news of the day!

And it’s a comforting reminder that Chaplin was right: so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Rest in piss you war criminal scum…

At this point, I’m convinced the motive for most of what the Trump regime does is gratuitous cruelty. Once you accept that explanation, all those motherfuckers do starts to make sense.

Kash Patel lumping artists with terrorists in 3… 2… 1…

There aren’t fewer trans people - young or old: a lot of them simply choose to stay quiet in a dangerous reactionary fascist country.

And just like the Wehrmacht, the US military won’t lift a finger to stop the ICE thugs because they’re brainwashed into obeying blindly, like the dumb servile robots they are.