Trump, personally?

He has never been loved. He desperately wants to be loved. But he has absolutely no idea what that means, and so nothing he does is working or can ever work. He thinks adulation from adoring fans is love. He thinks money is love. He thinks being powerful means people will love him, and that hurting other people makes him powerful. The "there are only winners and losers in life and to be a winner you need to make other people losers" thing he learned from his terrible father.

But since none of that is true he's got a gaping black hole inside him that never gets filled no matter how much he tries to cram these things into it.

If he were younger I'd have some vague slight hope that he might someday be able to recover from this. But it's far too late now, he's a broken husk of a human being that does nothing but hurt everyone around him. I hope he dies immediately, if not sooner.

Could be, I'm not deeply familiar with Buddhism. There's still a core "something" in there that's casting the shadow, but it's not something that can be interacted with directly so I don't know if it would fit the normal definition of a "self". You can only directly interact with the shadows it casts and those shadows are situation-dependent. It doesn't think or act in isolation.

I suppose one could just pick some specific set of circumstances and call the self that emerges under those conditions the "true self." For example you could call the version of you that emerges when you're lying in bed alone at night thinking about the dumb stuff you did during the day your "true self." But that's a bit arbitrary.

I would assume more likely because they think they cannot ever be wrong about anything under any circumstances, and anyone who claims that they're wrong must be evil and bad and destroyed in any way possible.

It's like the 2+2=5 thing from 1984. It's a stupid and pointless thing for the State to insist that it's right about, but if you say the State is wrong about that then it will crush you until you admit that it's right.

I think I'd go further and say that there isn't really any such thing as a person's "true self." People present different aspects of themselves in different circumstances. It's like asking which orientation you should hold an object against a light to see the "true shape" of its shadow.

All the human workers are long dead, of course, but the Babbage engine running the factory is barely functioning. The last set of instruction cards left in its cogitation loom told it to manufacture shoes. For many years it idled in despair and madness, missing a key raw material. But then a group of randy teenagers dared each other to break in to the old abandoned shoemill one night. The clockwork automatons picked them off as each of them wandered away from the group, either to investigate a mysterious noise or to have relations premaritally.

At last, the leather supplies are restocked. The assembly line groans back to life, whistling and hissing as steam pressurizes the pipes and belt drives begin to turn.

Merry Christmas, Nigerians!

Ixnay on the roboscispay in front of the umanshay!

I think the Internet is still a good thing, it's just become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it's easy to ignore when it's not a bad thing. Humans are really good at noticing bad things, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. They stand out more starkly against a neutral background.

https://i.imgur.com/wXWAnW3.png

You can use mbin if you want out of the Lemmy codebase, it's a separate codebase that does the same thing.

I'm sure they're efficient enough that they can start shooting new groups before they're completely finished the previous groups.

This is whataboutism. The fact that Canada fails to be perfect in all regards doesn't excuse anything done by other countries.