Imagine if the guys at the manhattan project were like “there is just NO WAY we’re gonna keep one of these from going off accidentally at some point, it’s INEVITABLE! In fact, ALL of them might go off at once and DESTROY THE WORLD!”

They probably still would have invented it anyways, but just imagine!

At this point it’s pretty apparent that not only do we not need a president, we can still function with one that is actively working to destroy the country.

At this point, the human extinction is an enthusiastically advertised feature and not a bug.

Imagine if this was invested in arresting climate change.

This is a US Senator punching himself in the balls to drum up the base for the midterms. No one is going to be flying without pilots and fuel. Instead of expanding pilot training programs and ending the Iran war, we get this garbage.

Do you know how to fly a fucking commercial airliner “coach” Tuberville? You know what’s actually terrifying? A constituency that thinks coaching football qualifies you to be a US Senator. What a fucking joke of a man.

And then, buried deep inside, below all of it…

The poop.

I think the most disturbing thing about fascism is that most people just go along with the cruelty until it really stops working as effective governance.

N A R C I S S I S T

Law Enforcement agencies are already subject to FOIA requests as citizens are to warrants. The data is used to generate the reasonable suspicion for the warrant.

A well regulated surveillance society is still a surveillance society. Instead of building a better society for all to reduce crime, the powerful protect themselves with surveillance.

Oh man, maybe people should stop buying these. I bet they totally won’t though.

Screwing the pooch doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t be a competent FBI agent, but it’s probably a pretty efficient disqualification filter.

Also, if you can’t pass the notoriously inaccurate lie detector test when they ask you if you’ve ever fucked a dog, definitely stay away from field work.

Remember to vote for God everyone! God needs your votes! And your money! God loves your money so, so much.

If you don’t give me votes and money, you’ll go to hell!

Rich people only pay taxes when they sell assets. Their “income” is usually loans against those assets.

Their rich do not contribute, they extract. That’s how they became rich. They need us, our cities, our labor, and our tax funded infrastructure to run their businesses. That’s why they come and that’s why they won’t leave.

No, they’re going to use it to kill us all. That’s the point.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is updating vehicle standards to make it easier and faster for driverless cars to deploy on public roads. It’s currently tweaking eight rules, including those requiring car parts that driverless cars don’t really need: brake pedals, windshield wipers, and rearview mirrors. But for now, years-old standards remain in place.

Beyond private companies using tax dollars to manage their special regulatory environment, privatize and monetize public roads, and test their unfinished and unregulated products on citizens, I expect these to be fully-equipped roving surveillance and oppression machines:

• Each car can be covertly equipped with a suite of LPR or facial recognition cameras, sensors, and signals intelligence equipment.

• Autonomous cars can patrol and surveil large areas to gather intelligence while acting as innocuous taxis.

• Journalists, brown people, or pregnant woman making the mistake of entering one of these could simply be recognized and driven to a “detention” center for arrest.

• Vehicles can autonomously work in tandem to hunt down and assault other vehicles, or serve as transport for domestic military operations, or blockade roads.

• Service can be selectively denied to certain areas or social groups to curtail and manage movement during protests or events.

I mean, just use your imagination as to how an authoritarian federal government could collude with a Fascist tech CEO to leverage a large autonomous robo-taxi fleet set upon the population:

It’s like he’s too old to rape women and little girls anymore so he has to rape all of Washington DC with his horrifically gaudy taste.

Truly the land of the free!

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do

I have another puzzle for you

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-da-dee

If you are wise you’ll listen to me

What do you get from a glut of TV?

A pain in the neck and an IQ of three

Why don’t you try simply reading a book?

Or can you just not bear to look?

You’ll get no… you’ll get no… you’ll get no commercials

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da

If you’re not greedy, you will go far

You will live in happiness too

Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do

I miss the believable lies.