They’re just reading the room. They’re not doing it because they think israel is bad, they’re doing it because it’s economically disastrous to do so. Within the next few years the US will be in the same position if it keeps going the way it is. We’ll be too “high risk.”
The only people that want to move on from the Epstein files are those that are in the Epstein files. Literally everyone else is ready to see consequences.
My hope is that someone with a sense of vengeance gets fucked over by this and starts taking revenge on everyone else involved. I’d absolutely love to see these pieces of shit eat themselves alive. With how evil these people are there is no way in hell they don’t have dirt on each other.
“We’re tired of getting our feelings hurt at protests. Can you send is somewhere we won’t get caught when we kill people?”
That’s all I hear. Nobody forced them to work for ICE and they can quit any time they want to.
49% of Americans didn’t vote for this. 49% of those that voted in 2024 technically voted for this whether they were aware or not. Only about 62% of the population voted in 2024 so including those that voted third party, realistically only about 20% - 30% voted for this. And that doesn’t include those that voted based on things like affordability without realizing the choice they were actually making. Add those that regret their vote and you have a very small percentage of people that actually voted for this specific outcome. Sure you can look at polls but those only account for people that were interested in participating in polls, which MAGA loves to be vocal about their opinion.
In my opinion, they are trying to make us feel isolated and alone when in fact we are literally surrounded by people that are on your side. They’ll say “you voted for this” in the same way an abuser says “you did this to yourself.”
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Even with how mad MAGA supposedly is, I betcha $10 this will be the most popular Super Bowl of the decade. I think the internet and news media vastly overestimate MAGA’s influence on the daily lives of every American. I live in a big red county in a rural area and lemme tell ya, basically nobody gives a shit about 70% of what the internet and the news says they do. I’m not saying they are saints, I’m just saying that when you see “MAGA angry at [blank]” most of the time it’s literally just, like, a Reddit post, a few tweets, or some right wing podcaster.
The biggest problem we are facing with a general strike is that there aren’t enough people that can easily put their life on hold without sacrificing everything they have. People keep screaming “general strike!” to a bunch of people that live paycheck to paycheck. The best we can do is get the ball rolling right now for those that can’t.
Personally I’m just sick of apathy at this point. Of course this general strike will not be enough. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.
I remember last year when there was a trend of AI generated videos that depicted animals or people doing ridiculous and crazy things on doorbell cameras. Everyone was surprised at how realistic they looked but never questioned why there was enough training data of doorbell cameras to make them in the first place.
Not that relevant, but it makes it pretty clear how “private” this data was in the first place.
I live in the mountains and they aren’t even snowcapped this year. Still feels like September and I can easily go outside in a t-shirt most days. Even when it does snow, which has only happened three times so far this season, it melts by the late afternoon.
You can’t be specific. If you say “tax the rich” they will say yes. But as soon as you start listing off billionaires they will back down. They want to tax the rich, they just still think there are good billionaires.
When lurking on conservative parts of the internet I’ve seen that the vast majority of them are against attacking Greenland and think this whole thing is stupid. If the military goes along with this I hope they realize that pretty much every American across the political spectrum is not on their side with this one. They will not come out of this as war heroes.
Even if I asked my MAGA dad if we should to tax the rich he’d say “fuck yeah we do.”
I mean, you took the first sentence out and ignored the rest of what I said. My point was that yes that is a reason, but it’s not the only reason. My point was they don’t wanna sell to consumers because Elon Musk is just gonna pre-order their entire stock for the next two years.
I have a trans younger sister and one of my brothers is dating a trans woman. My dad is pretty MAGA and I have to hear about my sister “deciding they were trans” after going to therapy at every family get together. Yes, they are definitely way too obsessed.
What’s crazy is that they aren’t just doing this because they make more money with AI. They’re doing this because these AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up. As long as the manufacturers get paid they don’t really give a shit, but this is so unsustainable it would be hilarious if it weren’t so catastrophic for the rest of us. And as long as the line goes up as they all circle jerk their money around they’ll all be happy and can pretend the economy is good.
People on the right are saying that when he puts his phone down to pull out his gun that that’s when he gets hit by the car. It’s like they’ve forgotten every other video out there and assume this is bodycam footage so the camera moving automatically means he’s getting hit. A lot of people are saying that the audio was tampered with too so I wouldn’t be surprised if they added some sound effects to make it seem like he got hit full force.
The lack of critical thinking is honestly insane.
The only thing that surprises me about any of this is that he didn’t name it “Trumphal Arch.” I guess there’s still time, though.
It doesn’t take a lot of tech skill to be an exec for a tech company. My guess is they fall into the same category as those that see the AI overview on Google and think “wow this is so much better” and never second guess the results.
Nobody in the AI industry, tech, or government cares. He says all the buzzwords and gives them all what they want. What he says is basically irrelevant at this point. Until something actually happens we’re all gonna read about some sort of “gotcha” moment every day as if it makes a difference so we can have our rage moments and move on after we get our dopamine hit by calling him a moron.
Not talking shit on anyone here, I’m just tired. And I’m tired of seeing a similar headline day after day as if it changes anything.
I have not seen a single person say this is a good idea. From Reddit, to Twitter, to Bluesky, and Lemmy. It’s pretty much universally hated everywhere you go.