They’ve added to Troopers over the years with an animated series and a new live action one, if anyone’s missed it

Ireland above Luxembourg feels a like joke if we’re discussing ‘real prosperity’

Noice. I beat Morio.

Thank you!!

This is so cool. How does one learn this skill? I’d love to get into this but I wouldn’t even know what to search for

Vote Jon H. Ryan

Separation anxiety is what happens when you can’t find your phone.

The one whose name sounds like a printer model

Nothing will fundamentally change

It isn’t true that my mattress is made of cotton candy.

Or sarcasm, even

Their comment history is literally just Fox News. Covers the full gamut from trans athletes to Hunter Biden conspiracies. I didn’t know these people existed on Lemmy

She is never happy until she finds something to be unhappy about; then, she is overjoyed.

Someone I know recently combined Maple Syrup & buttered Popcorn thinking it would taste like caramel popcorn. It didn’t and they don’t recommend anyone else do it either.

He would only survive if he kept the fire going and he could hear thunder in the distance.

He looked behind the door and didn’t like what he saw.

The opportunity of a lifetime passed before him as he tried to decide between a cone or a cup.

The reservoir water level continued to lower while we enjoyed our long shower.

He was surprised that his immense laziness was inspirational to others.

Some insight from across the pond:

Our last Prime Minister was a British Indian from the Conservative party. Recent right wing and far-right members of cabinet have included many more Brits of Indian descent, including two of the most heinously anti-immigrant cabinet members we’ve ever had. One of them, Suella Braverman, ran for party leadership on an anti-immigrant platform, pointing out that Indians are the largest group who overstay their visas in the UK.

I think very similar things can explain why Usha Vance, Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswamy and the like can align with an openly racist MAGA crowd:

1. Class matters more than race. Most of these people grew up privileged and don’t identify with the common immigrant or brown person’s experson

2. Power hungry people come from all backgrounds and will do whatever they need to get what they want (in Usha Vance’s case that’s being first lady one day)

3. Submitting to model minority status, as many well-to-do immigrant families from South Asia do, means implicitly accepting, and ultimately reflecting, white supremacist values

And as with all issues rooted in history, you can blame the British for some of this. A white supremacist world view where Indians stand above the darker races was introduced to India by the British over a century ago. The British wanted East Africa to become “the America of the Hindu” so they educated and trained a generation of Indian colonial administrators and enforcers. This world view of Indians as superior to others, if subordinate to whites, did not disappear with colonialism. A lot of the people who held those views came directly to Britain and their children became right-wing voters and politicians. The connection with the US is less of a straight line, but you can hear it when you listen to Vivek talk about African-Americans, for example.