Ukraine is facing an existential threat. If they have the in-house knowledge and capability to do this, they absolutely should.

If Russia gives up tomorrow, the war will be over. If Ukraine gives up tomorrow Ukraine will be over.

A “good” thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it’s currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.

Man, mandatory voting in my country was never popular, but am I glad we have it. We still elect right wing nutjobs, but compared to their American counterparts they’re positively benign.

They probably do, but:

• at this point if surfaced they’ll be claimed as ai- generated
• his sycos don’t care at all. Nothing he could do would ever sway their opinion, and you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t arrive at using reason in the first place. It’s very much a ‘feeling’ thing instead of facts.

Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What’s not to like? It’s basically how Elon envisions X, an “everything app” that is actually good at nothing specific.

I hope you’re right, but AFAIK there hasn’t ever been a candidate who quite literally said he’d end democracy if they voted for him the way Trump did.

I don’t think it’s “compromat”. They just bankrolled his entire real estate empire since at least the 80’s. That creates a certain debt to be repaid.

Trump was never under the impression that anyone is his friend. All his relationships, including to his wife and biological children, are transactional.

Russia has dirt on him and has for a loooong time. That’s why Putin doesn’t need to suck his dick like the rest of the world’s wannabe dictators do.

Bold of you to assume you’re going to get to vote in 2028, or that there will be any oppositional candidates left by then.

Trump has made it crysal clear he intends to establish a dictatorship, and dictators aren’t known for voluntarily stepping away from power.

Not to mention all the extralegal ways Trump and his cronies could muster to make his life miserable. Guy likely wants his pets and kids to stay alive. Can’t really fault him for that.

Never thought I’d see the end of US military hegemony in my lifetime. But this makes it that much more likely.

Money equals speech.

Elon just has a whole lot of it.

Well, at this point I’m just rooting for nature to take its course, which it will.

I don’t want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.

Doesn’t look like I’ll have much choice though.

He already said he wants to divy up all protected lands and sell them to the highest bidder. All your national parks will become playgrounds of the 1% and off limits to vile proles such as us.

I’m guessing no since that judge probably wants to stay alive and out of jail.

Looks at the heap of empty cans on the desk

Wabi-Sabi it is!

Dude litterally spent his entire life trying to help us. We consistently turned him down. He did all he could, the blame is not with him.

All of Eu, starting with Poland and the Baltics.

Your kind words are appreciated. I will take them into consideration!