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  • I’ve often referred to Trump as Stupid Caesar.

    Like Caesar, Trump pushed up against established political norms and found very little pushback. As it turns out, having it be up for debate whether a leader is legally responsible for crimes committed is not a stable foundation for a nation.

    The only difference is, Trump did not wait to build up his base not just in the electorate but also among other political figures before pushing as hard as he did. The whole drinking bleach and shining a light to cure Covid probably didn’t help.

    Also I’m pretty certain Caesar wasn’t borderline illiterate. If we look up any of Caesar’s speeches recorded by even his most ardent opponents and compare them to Trump’s, there’s a bit of a difference there.

    Anyway the point is, both of these men did nothing except expose the flaws in the system, and so long as we do nothing to fix said flaws, is there anything stopping a more competent modern-day Caesar from finishing what Trump started?






  • I’ve used Avelon exclusively for about a day now, here’s my feedback thus far:

    • Your implementation of NSFW blurring in the feed is the best I’ve seen across all Lemmy apps I’ve tried. I hugely appreciate the red [NSFW] block and the additional safeguard before loading the feed. 10/10, absolutely perfect.
    • Performance is, as I’ve mentioned previously, also the best across all Lemmy apps I’ve tried.
    • The haptics are very enjoyable; excellent implementation.
    • I love that you can see the formatting as you type it in your comment, rather than having to gamble on using Markdown correctly and then editing your post when it inevitably looks wrong
    • The scroll box for the comment you’re replying to is a good idea. The UI is even better than Apollo’s, where IIRC you couldn’t actually read the comment you’re replying to AND write at the same time.

    The only other request I have, other than what I put in my other post which is already on your radar, is to add a swipe action for “collapse top comment”. In Apollo and Voyager, you can swipe to collapse the top comment of a comment chain. For instance, if I swipe on this comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/1591116 it would act as if I tapped to collapse this comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/1565013 - hopefully that makes sense!