Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The logo change drama seemed fabricated to renew interest from a declining customer base. Every part of it seemed like a weak plot dreamt up by some overpaid brand advisor.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The logo change drama seemed fabricated to renew interest from a declining customer base. Every part of it seemed like a weak plot dreamt up by some overpaid brand advisor.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
He can get away with saying that only because any war zone is also economically depressed. Most people don't exile from their home countries when there isn't a real issue with both political and economic destabilization. Asylum seekers typically have to prove that their lives are in danger.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
This is the epitome of shitty leadership. Not having any idea how to do your job with a single obstacle in your way and threatening to destroy an organization when you don't get your way. Trump is a pathetic loser! Death to tyrants! www.axios.com/2025/08/31/t...
Kenny Akers (@keneakers.bsky.social) reposted
Is this what I missed while I was at the range this afternoon…….. 🤣
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
I miss this show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAd...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
How many indignant crooks could Lutnick possibly know? He's obviously talking about Trump.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Waiting for him to die is not an option. Cubans waited 40 years for Castro to die and there's still an unstable communist dictatorship in that country. Chavez died and his incompetent lieutenant took control. If we wait we'll end up with Stephen Miller as president. Fuck your shirt.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t... "I PAID ZERO FOR INTEL, IT IS WORTH APPROXIMATELY 11 BILLION DOLLARS. All goes to the USA. Why are 'stupid' people unhappy with that?" Says the moronic communist dictator that doesn't know he's a communist dictator.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
This president doesn't know he's an asshole so all of his decrees are and orders should be revoked based on the asshole rule.
South Florida Sun Sentinel (@sun-sentinel.com) reposted
A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Then we should defiantly repaint this. What kinds of people hate rainbows?
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
We should all just tell him he's doing a good job to confuse him.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
When your best argument is that "we're doing it because they're doing it." when they're doing it because you're doing it, then all you're doing is adding more flaws to a flawed system. There will never be any real leadership from these hateful pricks. www.axios.com/2025/08/24/v...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
It's also the Israeli logic, redistributing Palestinian land to Israeli settlers. So it's not Nazi logic, it's ethnonationalist states behave. This is how the US has behaved in the past, stealing land from native tribes and non-white immigrants. MAGA wants that old America back.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
And being very well, with bonuses for everyone they abuse.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Rubio is right. This wasn't a meeting to reach a peace agreement. This was a meeting for Trump to speak to his Russian handlers.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
No. China needs consumer markets in the US and Europe to continue to thrive. Tariffs are a bigger threat to China and Taiwan than Ukraine and even tariffs aren't enough of a threat to get China to invade. Taiwan and TSMC are also playing their part diplomatically. Taiwan is not helpless.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
He's Couch-fused
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The minute anyone starts talking about who was here first instead of who has gained legal entry or who has a legal path to citizenship, we'll all be at each other's throats. It's more divide and conquer bullshit, pitting Americans against each other to distract us from everything they're planning.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
You're not asking to pay a higher effective tax rate, but that is one solution to your suggestion. The president just told homeless in DC to find another home, so the solution is going to have to be somewhere between a Trump family BBQ and what you're suggesting. Move a little closer.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
Some news headlines exist only point out that our president is a moron. This headline could just as easily read: "Old moron tells homeless to find a new home" www.axios.com/2025/08/10/t...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Continuan las ridiculeces del payaso anaranjado.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't believe people still watch The Walking Dead.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
They are trying to justify every manipulation of public reporting data they will commit over the next 4 years by referencing one instances where they thought numbers looked funny. Congress, which authorizes defense spending was controlled by Republicans prior to that election.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
Is it only me that thinks Sydney Sweeney is a very average looking girl? She also comes of as being a dull person in interviews.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
that guy lost it
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Fed by propaganda for nostalgia they continue to destroy themselves while they look for a solution to their destruction while rejecting every solution that doesn't align with their increasingly twisted worldview. They look for strength in everything that weakens them. That is their way.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
In the process they started to believe what every country in decline believes, that the values that caused their stagnation and decline are the values that made them strongest. They clung to their otherizing instincts until it tore at the fabric of who they really are as a people.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o... Otherizing from middle America is cultural and stems from the cultural history of a people who lived in a strongly otherizing island nation in strongly otherizing small towns who moved to a large nation to live in the strongest otherizing small towns they could find.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
Why did Trump turn down a visit to his friend's island? Because he knew what was going on there? Or because he wanted Epstein to bring the girls to him? www.axios.com/2025/07/28/t...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
He's been trying to distract from it for weeks. Everyone is thinking this is another distraction. He can't run far enough away to avoid finding a journalist that isn't thinking he's trying to distract from it. 🧑🍳🍗
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
What does balance even look like? Isn't a populace that is evenly split, believing two very different versions of reality, already balanced? How about a voting population that's evenly split? Republican's don't want balance, they want to control the narrative. Good luck with that.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not surprising the Mario has gone full fascist. The difference between fascist light and extra strength is only a few degrees and requires no course correction.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Cobalt, nickel, copper and rare earths are all used for a ton of products. Your cellphone uses all of those minerals. Every server rack being built to power AI uses all those minerals.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Eat the rich!
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Consumer demand is increasing the demand for these minerals. If consumer demand didn't include so many electric cars and solar panels, there would still be a demand for other products that also uses these minerals. Name one of these minerals that's exclusively used for green energy.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
This isn't about green energy. This is about technology. All consumer and enterprise grade electronics use these minerals.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Not enough patronage of novelists with good ideas and nobody wants to read 300 pages of ChatGPT output based on a weak prompt.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
It is true that those policies are set by an administration that is very racist and very much sees Latino ethnicities as an alien threat, even while they are represented as a significant portion of the population of US citizens.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretending that Latinos are a monolithic ethnicity and not a collection of ethnicities, some of which are represented as employees of US Immigration and Custom Enforcement is the absurd position here. A lot of Hispanics work for ICE.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
I hear you, not because Latinos are an ethnicity but because they want to get rid of all other ethnicities that are not "Fascists Theocratic Middle American Redneck" and "Rich Old White Guy"
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
he heard "unsealing"...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
And that is why it's not ethnic cleaning. This is a "culture war". It's about mono-cultural dominance and the rejection of multi-cultural acceptance. Latinos are not the only group being targeted, they are just the largest minority group being targeted.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
I recognize that there is violence and cruelty directed at Latinos as a group but "ethnic cleansing" is not the correct term to describe this violence. "Cultural cleaning" maybe. White middle-Americans trying to extend their cultural influence to the rest of the country by force.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Latinos are not an ethnicity. Latinos are a generalized amalgam of ethnicities, like Americans. There are Latinos of Asian, European, African and Native American decent. Every Latin American country has it's own cultural identifiers: foods, music...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
That isn't even ethnic cleansing, that dude is white, he just has Spanish ancestry.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
He wants Murdoch to kiss the ring. Like Steve Kroft said about the 60 minutes suit, this is about fealty. He wants Murdoch to pay him a tribute and to stop printing anything that might be interpreted as negative towards him.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
This year has been pretty crazy.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
That girl was 15. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
It builds character. /s
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
In all fairness, the Wharton grad in the White House with the reputation for being a shrewd businessman seems equally clueless.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"Now, churches can endorse political candidates and not lose their tax-exempt status, but secular nonprofits cannot. The First Amendment does not stand for the proposition that religious groups get extra-special treatment from the government." — @snipy.bsky.social
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Is the US president typically referred to as the "Leader of the Free World" or is that title usually used to describe the role the country has played in promoting democracy globally? A strange title to self declare.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The Judiciary has no power except when Trump grants them the power to save his ass.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no way in hell that Trump would blow up his presidency to protect anyone other than himself.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
Countries negotiating tariff agreements with the Trump administration, need to make compliance with international law regarding immigrant detention a prerequisite for any deal, to protect their citizens and the citizens of their friendly trading partners.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump received all the training he needed to pass tests at an early age. It's called open checkbook, close checkbook and threaten livelihood.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
From my hazy recollection, the title has historically been used to describe the US and not the President of the US. I guess that giant FIFA trophy he stole has boosted his ego.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Self proclaimed "Leader of the free world". Which begs the question, why does Trump even want that title?
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Is Israel really trying to start wars with every country in the middle east? This is clearly the second Arab-Israeli war now or at least that's what Netanyahu hopes it will become.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know all the details on this but Krafton seems to be panicking enough that they could have unleashed the reddit sentiment bots.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The reassertion of authoritarian power structures is not new. Just look at France's history, moving multiple times from republic to monarchy or authoritarian state. Dictators require self sufficiency in manufacturing because their domestic policy always disrupts trade.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
China's trade surplus grew to record highs over the last quarter. The US trade deficit is still growing. Their policies are not working.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
A Nazi wrapped in the US flag and clutching a bible is still a Nazi.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Suck a fat one Nazi
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
His bullshit game is too weak for Fed Chairman and his grasp of economics is juvenile.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
This really shouldn't be a holy shit movement. This should be standard operating procedure from the press, the judiciary and congress. Serious people in this country should be incessantly demanding serious answers to real questions when a presidential administration fails to provide those answers.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
84 hours per week at $60/hr. no benefits. Most prison guards are eventually seriously injured in attacks or attempts to break up fights.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social)
Petition to close Alligator Alcatraz action.aclu.org/send-message...
Maxwell Frost (@maxwellfrost.bsky.social) reposted
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Regardless of the outcome for the US, it does seem like the rest of the world is going do less business with the US over the next 10-20 years.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Nazi Party recruited men with criminal backgrounds into the SA (Sturmabteilung or "brownshirts"). Italian Fascists did the same recruiting in the "blackshirts". Both also recruited disaffected youth and unemployed veterans.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe for silver medal science fair projects.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
He was carrying it like a child zooming a toy space ship model. I felt so embarrassed by that until I saw these drones missing gyroscopic stabilizers being tossed around by 5mph winds behind Secretary Kegsbreath.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The way this administration is behaving, trade schools are going to be the next ICE raid target.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
This has to be an intentional attempt to disrupt US food security? They put tariffs on foreign food imports, now they attack US food producers and imprison farm labor... all without a plan to replace that labor or shore up food production? This can't just be stupidity.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
How is this not the bar they are aiming for? Every time these morons open their mouth we lose standing in the world.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do these MAGA propaganda efforts always make the US look like we have the weakest drone program in the world? Did they fire all the marketing and PR teams at the DOD?
Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) reposted
You Had One Job Hall of Fame
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
It seems like anyone unhinged enough to think they can fix it all with a purge instead of 1000 corrections is the problem. MAGA is currently the largest ideological movement pushing purge mentality. They claim existential risk as their justification. Anyone that buys into that is the problem.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in an unincorporated area. I still have to abide by county and state laws, zoning and building regulation. Building booms that allow development in floodzones without restrictions is the same problem that happened in North Carolina.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
What's your source for 7% with a violent criminal record?
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
I would think lower. They man that died of a heart attack in ICE custody in Florida only had a Marijuana possession arrest from 40 years ago. Maybe 7% have any criminal record.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Fox News aired a segment considering the possibility of cloud seeding by Americas enemies as an explanation, which is far worse than blaming the children's parents and the people running the camp for being morons.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Calling them "victims" implies somebody is at fault. When you have historical data on flooding and a weather alert system than tells you where a hurricane or tropical storm is going to be days ahead of time, the casualties are usually people that ignore warnings.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly. Why does the state of Texas allow the building of a child's camp or any other residential housing in a flood zone? If hurricane season typically coincides with the rainy season in Texas, why weren't all residences in the flood zone put on tropical storm watch days ahead of time?
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
What a shitshow. Incompetence at higher levels of government always leads to increases in incompetence lower down the chain of command. I imagine their takeaway will be to quote higher rates of violence against ICE agents to attempt to excuse their behavior.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
nudge till they get there
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Too much guano seems like a good reason.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Some day in the future, we'll learn that Trump had a severe learning disability.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The State of Florida led by Ron DeSantis built the camp, not Miami-Dade County. Dade Country already changed it's name 30 years ago.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, well, short question results in long answer.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Calling for the extermination of minorities sure is outlandish. Grok is such a whacky bot! How about you hacks report on changes to training sets or prompts at xAI that are causing this? This does seem like a policy change from xAI and not a random error.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
The only things keeping LLMs from going full Nazi are training sets and prompts. I believe MAGA going full Nazi and Elon Musk's AI effort dropping the guardrails that keep it from going full Nazi match up very nicely.
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Fair but the US has been building concentration camps, occupied a sanctuary city with US military personal, forcibly arrested a US Senator for asking questions...
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Where have you been?
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe the "Woke Mind Virus" is really just "Nazi Anti-Bodies".
Roba (@ecocentrik.bsky.social) reply parent
What? You mean all the Elon apologists were wrong and Elon really is a Nazi? Hard to believe. Did this "America Party" thing happen because Trump isn't moving quickly enough to turn his concentration camps into death camps or did they disagree on shirt color?