Yes I am familiar with Desert Bus. I was thinking of that game and a few based off it when I wrote my second paragraph. That, and the abundance of flash games targeted toward kids.

For “possible to beat” I really mean possible. Not humanly reasonable. If there is a way for a standard human to do it, as difficult as it may be, it counts. Unless the game is unfinished, has no means of completion (like some Action52 games) or is impossible by design—like, the player can not cross a gap impossible—it counts. For stuff that requires staying awake for 100 hours… I suppose stimulants could be provided. That or you switch to polyphasic sleep.

That would be fraud. I’m sure it happens, and it’s going to be hard to prove it did. This whole system is undoubtedly rotten, and I’m not excusing any part of it.

After 7 years without any payment, most debt including medical debt and standard loans are discharged. The non-payment is key. Even sending a cent will restart the obligation to that debt

for Roblox, at least, you’re not missing out. If I wanted to get fleeced by a bunch of pedophiles and bigots, I’d check out the next RNC gathering.

Understanding that we don’t have that elected leadership, do we just let people die en-masse? If our mayors and governors stood up and said they refuse to comply with federal orders, then what? The national guard was federalized in LA, and we saw troops shoot reporters and peaceful citizens in LA and Minneapolis.

Obviously there are no easy answers here. That ship sailed when Donald Trump won re-election. If your answer is “we sit back and wait for something to save us” then that’s your answer. Seeing the ongoing mass-murder by ICE, border patrol, and the rest of the bipartisan-founded Republican-led terrorists; that answer doesn’t sit right with me.

As I said in my comment, the killing frenzy is here. This government has become more emboldened than ever in oppressing and brutalizing us citizens because they’ve been taking slow steps toward fascism for decades. The War on Drugs; Bush v. Gore; The Patriot Act; the reporters of Ferguson; Trump’s first term executive order overreach; the fucking Insurrection—This year: DOGE; ICE; CECOT; Tariff War; Plus we’re just now seeing everything in the Epstein files which was happening as well for decades.

Decades of peaceful protesting and it hasn’t worked. We’ve only been losing ground. 2015’s gay marriage decision was a fluke; and the Affordable Care Act was more of a duct-tape fix than true reform.

We’ve had two real assassinations in the USA: Brian Thompson in December 2024, and Charlie Kirk in September 2025. Do you think the government wanted either of those? Judging from the bipartisan condemnation, absolutely not. Folks like me are not saying to mow down a red state neighborhood. We’re saying to resist the ICE deployments, physically, when they show up.

You’re right that the US government wants a killing frenzy. It’s the one they are enacting, every day of the majority of this term. Even if Republicans’ intent in disappearing these tens-of-thousands, maybe hundreds-of-thousands of people is to bait a reaction from people, what is the alternative? We… let tens of thousands of human beings get disappeared? The dehumanization of these victims is sickening and yet it continues to be perpetuated by “holier than thou” liberals who either don’t realize what they’re suggesting, or don’t care.

So, let’s say no one does anything in retaliation. Why wouldn’t they just make shit up? Well… the answer is, they have. We’ve got Stephen Miller on FOX ranting about how blue cities were littered with “body after body after body” under Biden; talking about how Portland would burn to the ground every night. It’s all lies. They lie. We know they lie. Their biggest ally, big tech, spent billions of dollars over the last several years making machines that fake evidence and gaslight people. The White house has used AI-generated images and videos to humiliate activists and produce propaganda.

IF we ever claw back our nation from fascism, and that is a big IF, scholars will ask why no one did anything—how this could happen with the open internet, a tool believed to be able to mitigate and prevent the rise of fascism. This constant fearmongering about the “Insurrection Act” and insistence to not react is a significant part of that answer, and I will preach that to the grave.

I’m genuinely losing my mind at this take. For the last 13 months we’ve seen thousands of human people walked to their death – watched planes of human beings take off and return empty; and still half of the comments I see that suggest taking action beyond peaceful marches and waiting for the 2026 midterms get this “smarter than thou” smug response from people, some claiming to be 50501 liberals. Sometimes it’s, like, 15 lines and a song quote; with the occasional ALL CAPS “DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT”.

People are dying, folks; now. Come to reality. A clash with ICE, especially in the first months when they were untrained and barely armed, wouldn’t have accelerated anything–because we didn’t have that and yet we are here. This mythical “Insurrection Act” invocation wouldn’t have caused the terrorism we are witnessing now; nor the deployments in LA or Portland. Yes, people will die in clashes with the state; but what’s the alternative? Letting people die in raids from the state? We watched camera footage with video of pro-Palestinian activists getting disappeared. We’ve seen masked agents killing hundreds of people across the states, every month. We’ve seen them raid neighborhoods, and pull people into vans. We’ve seen our police watch, do nothing, then arrest the bystanders for “causing a disturbance”. Every. Day.

The part of me that is clinging onto some partial hope in human nature wants to blame this widespread passivity propaganda for the reason it took a year to have the resistance effort in Minneapolis, which there had been nothing like until that point. Really, though, I sense the real reason behind these arguments and the wider inaction, is that the targets of ICE have been predominantly people of color, and mainly Hispanic folks. So, too, were the kids in cages through the first Trump and Biden administrations.

I understand that Holocaust poem in a depth that I just didn’t understand before. I understand the Holocaust documentaries and testimonies I’ve watched in a depth I hadn’t gotten before.

You aren’t outsmarting the Republicans by standing back as they kill thousands; tens-of-thousands; hundreds-of-thousands of people of color. You’re giving them exactly what they wanted: A “second American Revolution”; [white]-bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

[The world is run by Satanic Pedophiles]

Etsy knows their power.

I really don’t think that California will secede and it would be stupid of any USA governor to suggest that. Sedition would warrant a military response, and I’m certain the Republican administration would obliterate the state given how they’re reacting to anyone opposing their fascist paramilitary “ICE”.

Edit: Upon re-reading I think I understand what you’re saying. Newsom is the head of California and he leads California’s economy, which includes Silicon Valley and the major Fin-Tech companies. I see; I see.

“Gavin Newsom-” aaand the comments are flooded lmao. I mean, I despise Newsom as much as I can, but, also, this is World News.

In the spirit of a non-USA news subreddit, I’ll point out that California governor Newsom feels like a weird speaker for a world economic event. Yes, I know Newsom had to deal with the Republican administration when ICE and the military were deployed to Los Angeles, CA; but if you’re looking for a leader to advise you on opposing Trump from an economic standpoint, wouldn’t an economic department head from Canada be a better choice?

Canada’s been dealing with Republican isolationist tariff policy fairly well from what I know. Facing the most direct pressure over the “51st state” invasion threats, the Canadian population is pushing away from USA brands and investing in domestic products. With alllll the nations facing tariffs from the USA, surely a dialogue about encouraging such shifts in a population would be valuable.

Unlike with Greenland, U.S. officials say Trump isn’t trying to annex Canada. Instead, he aims to partner with Prime Minister Mark Carney to shore up the country’s defenses

Does anyone else think these threats against Greenland – and earlier, Canada – might be intended to spur increases in other nations’ defense spending? If Trump pushes all of Western Europe and Canada buying billions of dollars of military gear (through threats or “partnerships”) most of that funding is going to defense contractors in the USA.

fuuuuuuuck I mean I knew it was bad, but… fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

I completely agree. I’ve been swimming in these realizations for the last year. I knew Trump’s second term would be bad, but this has gone well beyond where I thought it would go.

I keep asking the question How did we get here? and Why?. None of those have any good answers. We’ve passed off-ramp after off-ramp over the last 20 years and now our nation is in a state of genuine peril, and yet so many people remain ignorant still. Even seeing fellow Leftists proclaim about the “Revolution” with joy makes my stomach churn. Masses of people are being disappeared. I get that these posts are probably a way to cope, but my mind tends toward the human side of things. I don’t care about figures or standards; I see pain and suffering. These are lives we’ll never get back. We’re going to lose tens of thousands of people in the next months and every one will leave an impact on the people around them.

You raise a good point about the aftershocks. I’ve been thinking of that same aspect. Millennials and Gen Z already show signs of severe trauma across the generation. Social withdrawal, clout-seeking, AI/Religious psychosis, anti-social behavior (like TikTok public nuisance content) – and that’s from the living conditions before Trump’s second term. Ironically, that trauma led Gen Z to become more conservative – see trad-wide/manosphere content – and to back the alt-right.

The USA population was already crumbling. Look at how many people are physically disabled, mentally disabled, emotionally over-burdened. Drug addictions incl. alcohol; Regular mental breakdowns; Compassion fatigue; Cyber harassment – Our population is profoundly sick.

I worry for what will remain when whatever uprisings happen, happen. We’re losing more people every day this regime holds power. 365 days. 365 days of suicides, mental breakdowns, psychosis, murders, new addictions. If standards continue to escalate, we’ll soon be seeing bombs; which kill some and injure many. Whoever remains will be left with the momentous task of rebuilding a functioning society while caring for a population in which the majority of people are disabled, many are delusional, and all require constant food, water, and maybe medical attention.

I’m not sure if I’d rather die before the action, burn as the USA turns in on itself, or cling through the hell that will unravel and be left sifting through the pieces… if there even is another end to this regime.

This is all true, to which I ask, what is the alternative? I’m afraid that the future of the USA is one of two options: the authoritative oppression of fascism, or the chaotic hellscape of war. Both are intolerably violent. Fascism is targeted and ruthless; War is broad and destructive.

None of us want to live in a war-torn state. That’s why I and most others voted for harm reduction. What we’re facing now is terrorism. The USAmerican people are being terrorized by federal forces.

People are not calling for violence for a economic policy we don’t like, which is what the first USA Civil War was fought over. We’re dealing with federal forces who are hell-bent on terrorizing us. What politically-aware people have been calling for, for the better part of a year, is the next degree of harm reduction. Targeted political assassinations. Fighting ICE agents. Storming the capital, perhaps. With each month, this government gets more empowered and more violent.

War is awful. Violence terrorizes people. I have severe C-PTSD from the police response to the BLM riots in 2021, still. I have vivid nightmares, still. I understand, and I felt that when I saw Trump take office. I felt that watched that university student get abducted by ICE at the beginning of this mess. I feel that with every clip out of Minnesota.

We all know war is terrible. No one thinks the USA going through a Civil War will be exciting. People see violence and they want it to stop, and they see massive peaceful movements that have not worked, in the face of a government that shows no hesitation in threatening or attacking its people; and those people are desperate.

What is the alternative? We let federal agents keep shooting and abducting people until some magical aspect of Democracy manifests and pushes them out? How do we actually envision that happening? What do we do for the three years until our next presidential election? Every person who is killed, abducted, disappeared is a life permanently lost.

For those who talk about peaceful protests and voting the fascists out, how do you expect to win elections when your voters are being killed? It’s not just the ICE agents, either, though they certainly are violent. Consider: Layoffs, Homelessness, Imprisonment, Emigration, Suicide. The people here today are not going to be the same people here in three years.

The reality is, the people of the USA are under violent occupation. We are living the terrors of war. Violence does not require mutual-consent; and when only one side chooses to fight, you end with a massacre. That is what we have been living through – a slow-rolling massacre. No one knows what will stop this, but maybe, just maybe, ICE agents would think twice before going on deployment if half of the last three squads never made it home.

You should really post this on its own. I think people in the USA would benefit from seeing and internalizing this principle.

For the same reason the media pushed the AI bubble. Silicon Valley holds their chosen boys…

AI crawlers are scraping every site. Every site. Random public-but-unlisted hobby sites are getting scraped and spiking users’ data. There was a Lemmy post about someone who had that experience just yesterday.

Think of how much Child Porn is stored on public sites that are shared in private groups. Also consider that FaceBook is the largest distributor of Child Sex Abuse material. These models are absolutely trained on Child Porn.

Queer teens regularly get yelled at by bigot mobs and brush it off; Stephen Miller sees two insults and a statistic written in front of his house, and immediately jumps ship. So much for the “Tough Guy” shtick.