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[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Based on his comments and Katie Johnson's testimony, I don't believe he ever had sex with Ivanka, though he very obviously wanted to. I can imagine based on her reaction in that video that he assaulted her in some way, though, like groping.

“Aides said [Donald Trump] talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor wrote, recalling an alleged exchange with Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff between 2017 and 2019.

“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man.’” source

Trump assaulted Jill Harth repeatedly in the early 1990s. On one occasion he pulled her into Ivanka's empty room in Mar-a-Lago to try to have sex with her on Ivanka's bed. source

Ugh. He's such a monster.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Least surprising news ever.

My ex once told me the story about how Leto tried to seduce her when she was 15 and he was 30. She went to see Thirty Seconds to Mars (his band) and had a backstage pass. She was just a fan. He got really weird and handsy and she got really uncomfortable and made an excuse to get out of there. Needless to say, she wasn't a fan after that, and when she got older and processed it with an adult brain, he basically disgusted her on sight. Since then I've had the same reaction to him for the last 20 years.

She was very pretty (and still is), but she definitely looked underage at the time.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

This was obvious after all the anti-Trump Republicans fell in line in 2016, and then did it again in 2021. Some even tried to create some space between themselves and Trump during the Biden administration, but ended up falling in line after the 2024 election.

The idea that anyone was ever going to line up for Elon Musk, a repugnant weirdo space alien who had just spent months pissing them all off, is about as plausible as the idea that they'd line up behind Steve Bannon. They're all just useful tools in service of Trump, until they're not.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago
[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately there's no Smedley Butler today to speak truth to power publicly.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Cascadia and the Republic of California when?

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was skeptical about how complete this effort would be, but I'll admit when I'm wrong. I've got to say that Nintendo has impressed me with their thoroughness and the fact that they completed this audit by launch. It must have been an enormous undertaking.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well we lost $11 billion dollars, ruined HBO as a brand, all of our terrible DC movies aren't making money, we lost the rights to the NBA, and even considered selling off our brand mascots. So I guess Zaslav gets his full bonus for a job well done

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

Character is more important than 100% ideological parity. Republican Party politicians have no values; it's a party organized around mutual benefit for the worst humanity has to offer: opportunists, morons, abusers, bullies, grifters, liars, rapists, and authoritarians. Their leader somehow embodies every single one of those qualities. Not to say Democrats are perfect by any means, but I'd rather someone own up to their mistakes and right the ship late than never at all. I'll happily count Walsh as an ally for that reason.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

tl;dr: The Switch 2 go to market strategy sucks, but it probably doesn't matter.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

What is the team size behind each instance? Sopuli says it's "run by a Finn" (as in one person)

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

I will never buy a game-key card. I will stop buying new games before I buy one of those.

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