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    2 months ago

    I really wish this were true. And if it is, please, please, please provide even the tiniest shred of proof.

    Bonus points if it made Steve Jobs angry.

    Edit: if this is not true at all, at least write some fun fanfic about it. Who wouldn’t enjoy an episode of Golden Girls: a Day at Apple, 1996?

    Edit 2: Gil Amelio— he wouldn’t like that.









  • I know how you feel. I had to break contact with several family members during the 2016 elections when I learned how they really felt. There are a lot of people who I thought I knew that I can’t ever speak to again after the things I have heard them say. There’s more to it than simply their political views, but, yikes, that’s as the last straw.

    I’m sorry to hear it, but that’s poison in your life. Lancing a boil is painful, but it’s the only way to start healing.



  • I call that a “Trumpian Slip”.

    Your parent is in denial. They’re obviously not really so brain-dead not to know better than what Trump claims and the other garbage that they encounter about him online and on tv that supports him, but they believe it nonetheless because they want to. Because it supports their worldview. Because, over time, they’ve become so invested in him that to back out now would shatter their entire reality. They’re trapped.

    But, as you have seen, for some, reality will slip through the cracks from time to time. The Herculean effort of maintaining such a massive, complex, and, frankly, ridiculous mountain of absurd and outrageous lies for so long is, honestly, exhausting. Nobody could be expected to even keep track of them all let alone maintain the mask 24/7/365 forever. Even Trump slips up and tells the truth when he’s blathering at his Nazi campaign rallies. Just yesterday, he admitted that he did, in fact, try to get to the Capitol on Jan 6 to attend the rally after denying it for over a year, lmao.


  • This headline is stupid and shows how many on the left still don’t understand Trump or his followers. The article goes further:

    Because Donald Trump must always be seen as wielding absolute mastery over his hapless, flailing opponents, he and his propagandists want you to believe his hush-money trial in Manhattan has proven nothing but a smashing political success for him.

    Here’s the rub: it doesn’t matter. None of this does. Trumps followers believe this regardless of the reality, and the truth doesn’t matter. It never did. For whatever happens, they’ll believe whatever they want.