Fascists will always contrive some arbitrary rationalization to do whatever the fuck they want to do with you. They have no allegiance to truth, logic or consistency.

He’s still working out how to personally grift the situation.

I was going to call out the same thing. This looks so pathetic. It’s basically the new version of that dumb sharpie modification he made to the weather map in his first term. What a loser.

Wait, wait, wait. Naturalized citizens are legal citizens. I’m pretty sure that they and every thumb I argue with on Nextdoor has told me that all of this is just about enforcing laws. Goodness gracious, I’m starting to suspect that they are lying.

There’s an important lessons to be had from the way the president, his administration, and the assortment of corrupt media supporters are flailing around right now. That lesson is the absolute lie that is “meritocracy” that they all are so desperate to have you believe in. These people aren’t smart, talented or deserving of the powers they’ve managed to seize. They’re largely dumbfucks that have slid down tracks of privilege into these positions. I don’t mean to downplay the danger that they pose. They have means for incredible amounts of destruction.

Doesn’t the name “Al-Qaeda” translate to “the base”?

I simple don’t understand why anyone buys the sentiment that you are an expressing here. The unfortunate truth is that, in every substantive way, it is true that the two parties are in lock step. I am aware that Democrats will sometimes use rhetoric that implies that they have more enlightened positions on some issues. However, it’s not credible when they consistently cave, pre-compromise, and shift rightward at nearly every opportunity. I’ve been observing the party, from within and without for 40 years. I’ve come to the conclusion that as an organization, the party as currently organized, has NOT A SINGLE principled stand on any policies whatsoever. Let me be explicit: there is no issue on which Democrats organizationally are not willing to compromise or flip on including: abortion, civil rights, democracy, and so on. They are a loose conglomerate of self-interested corporate sell outs, period. Are there a few individual exceptions, of course. But as a collective, the party is trash, and they are the reason that fascism has been allowed to progress in this country for decades.

What is needed is a wholesale reconstruction of that party. Replace nearly everyone in power and completely reject corporate funding. BTW, accomplishing that involves two things: 1.) voting, and 2.) rejecting the voices that demand that we lower our standards for short term political expediency.

It’s so adorable that you think Democrats might ever actually do anything if they got power. Enjoy your cookie.

These days I keep forgetting the App Store is a thing. That’s how important apps are to me anymore. Also, fuck apple for being the tacky soulless corporate monster that it always used to make fun of.

This is exactly the kind of symbolic trivia that establishment Democrats are going to fight for so that they can pretend to themselves and others that they hold beliefs and are accomplishing something all while having no principles and doing nothing substantive.

This exactly. The most significant result of hoisting up nonproliferation as a virtue has been to sustain and grow US hegemony. That is a bad deal for everyone, including Americans.

This has “green m&m” energy all over it. We truly live on the dumbest timeline with dumbest rulers imaginable. https://youtu.be/IT1HAiQy3Io

I would describe it as the application layer of all this AI shit. We are doing very well right now, but I’m just waiting for the turn.

Personally, I am eyeballs deep in this industry and even I’m now hoping to see it all burn to the ground. I’ve already concluded that I’ll never make it to retirement in my field, probably because of automation. Fuck ‘em all.

Oh, hey Ron. Forgot you were, like, a thing.

trump, Clinton, Woody fuckin’ Allen, dersh, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates — it’s just a motley crew of the worst losers imaginable.

I just don’t understand why this is a difficult question. Make the data centers fund their own power needs. End of story.

Barron trump looks like that guy in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Remember when ‘Blaster’ of ‘Master Blaster’ fame got his shit kicked in and the mask fell off and it turned out the dude was just this sweaty pale simpleton that you instantly pitied? Barron looks just like the guy.

I guess. It’s frustrating that it takes so long and involves so much suffering.

Despite the deep pockets and general indifference to casualties, I think that the American populace will react to sudden large losses. Like, we collectively don’t seem to care if 3 thousand US troops are killed during a prolonged engagement lasting years. But if 3 thousand died in a single event, like a ship sinking, people would be fucking pissed. A lot of that anger would be channeled into a desire for retaliation. Some of it would also be directed at the leadership that put that ship in harms way.

I agree. We fucking suck. Maybe some kind of coalition of nations can build a meaningful opposition to us.