Unlike Jefferson, I don’t believe there were any contemporaneous accounts of it, and there’s never been any DNA evidence to confirm it. I mean Jackson was undoubtedly an asshole and believed in the institution of slavery (and I believe treated enslaved people inhumanely), but as far as I understood it, not for this in particular.

I believe you’re thinking Jefferson though Jackson did own enslaved people

…Trump may escalate pressure on allies by leveraging America’s financial dominance

“America’s financial dominance”?! Unless he has a time machine, not quite sure how that’s going to happen.

Fascists can’t be argued with. They love when you get angry and yell at them. But they absolutely cannot stand to get laughed at. Go look up some quotes from Mel Brooks about why he thought it was important for the Hitler references in The Producers.

We should be doing a monthly nationally televised event where Trump, Musk, and the rest are ridiculed.

This is straight out of Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash. Sigh.

So less “town hall” and more “klan rally” - got it

It’s lead-up-to-the-next-Great-Depression … as a service.

Yep, had the same thought

“He’s actually a pretty cool guy.”

Parasocial relationship much?

Ahh, yes - the studio that own Star Trek has turned against diversity, equity, and inclusivity. I foresee no repercussions from that at all. /s

Ha! Yeah - in fact it evolved and expanded to the extent of almost all of his interactions being simply copying and pasting his responses ad nauseum. Very rarely saw him say anything he hadn’t already parroted back dozens and dozens of times. I kinda get why some people accused him of being a bot, because it’s hard to imagine a human deriving anything out of those sorts of interactions.

I want to second this. I understand the mods prefer a case-by-case approach, but I think that leaves a very specific pathway for bad actors to exploit. Monk was posting a purely insane amount of comments along with a very high but not as insane number of posts, and almost all of it was low-value, and often copy-pasted from a previous comment.

Do the mods even have easy access to the kind of data your script was pulling? I think that may be part of the issue is that the mod tools with Lemmy are lacking/limited.