Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
chat is this real
are we *sure* he's alive?
woke bill kristol is my favorite bill kristol
#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge Neil Young, “Harvest Moon” The weather is almost fall-ish, and that makes me think of this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Mt...
It doesn't count if you were alone, sorry
Agreed!
Interestingly, we were drilled on the "compare and contrast" writing method so hard it's almost understandable when professional writers find themselves without a proper writing paradigm.
"Mussolini wasn't all bad" is still popular table conversation in some places in Italy
You mean like how 15 minutes into the 6th sense I was like oh Bruce Willis is dead and none of the rest of the film worked at all for me.
He does the heaven thing and JD Vance says he's ready to step up; then there's the big send-off in the Oval Office where everyone comes to tell him he's the smartest man ever; then he clears his calendar and fakes going golfing. Death may not be certain but it's a definite possibility.
Just for context here, in 1893 they didn't have social media or 24/7 news coverage.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
I mean, I don't think she was hired and groomed for the purpose of influencing nerds. It's just working out that way.
Then you get her to write from the political right and watch as ten million frustrated nerds move to the political right.
I'll say it because nobody else will. You put a cute girl up there writing techy articles, ten million nerds will defend her with their lives.
It's not the first time she's taken the side of a Nazi and it won't be the last either. She's not even good at walking the line.
Also: no. I had a corporate job for four years before I decided it was too great of a compromise on my values. I was 27 when I went on my own. It took a lot of courage and I struggled, so I have very little respect for people who do evil and say they're just following orders to get their check.
No, i won't. Lorenz is no antifascist. She's a total shill.
I needed a paycheck so you know what I did? I made my own job so I didn't have to be a corporate slave. Genius, I know.
driverless car spotted in the wild
picture of fuckin health, that guy
ok guys there's this photo he's obviously perfectly fine nothing to see here
Oh the infighting will be GLORIOUS
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
that'll never work in ________ because ________
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
if it happens it'll already be sold out everywhere
A hit dog will holler.
But also: if you use AI to create more-or-less "finished product" music that you put out under an artist name and collect money from it, you're an awful human being, sorry, but you suck.
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
been saving a magnum of champagne for this one particular special occasion I've been patiently waiting for and I just put it in the fridge, just saying
Spotify using AI (trained on copyrighted human generated music) to generate music to poach listeners from existing artists (so that it can pay those artists *literately nothing) is objectively evil. If you can't see it, that's your blindness, not my prejudice.
if he doesn’t appear in public tomorrow something’s up. maybe not the big Something, maybe a totally innocuous Something, maybe a little nip/tuck that couldn’t possibly kill him. but Something.
In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.
c'mon we were never going to have a GenX President nothing would be less GenX than getting our own President
I do think historians will look back at the mass-adoption of social media as a source of mass-delusion and madness
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
I’ve never witnessed this many people collectively hoping someone has shuffled off this mortal coil. It’s a real spectacle.
man they're more gung ho than we are
Apple pays on every stream and when it does it pays ~2x what Spotify pays Apple (AFAIK) does not generate AI content in order to poach listeners from artists just those two facts alone make Apple far less evil from the artist's perpective I myself like Tidal and Bandcamp
also: generates giant library of AI created music in order to poach listeners away from actual human artists look, this is an objectively evil company. avoid it at all costs.
hey hey well looky what we have here
the streets are saying trump is dead
why is Spotify "evil" you may ask? 2 Spotify founders build catalog of intellectual property they had no right to use when they launched; became worth ~$25B on said catalog; *demonitized* (as in, pays literally zero) ~60% of said catalog; funds military hardware startups instead
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
just don't use Spotify! it's evil. better alternatives exist (Apple Music, Tidal, etc).
[counterargument] they are really bad at planning for things
I daydream about being woken in the dead of night by the sound of shouts, cheers, and car horns.
So many netizens tonight seem to be indulging in the kind of hopeful flights of fancy typically reserved for kids on Xmas Eve. It’s all silly, of course. But seeing the joy it brings warms the heart. We haven’t lost the capacity to dream.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
Fox viewers eat this up not because they think either Donal or Melania deserves a Peace Prize, but because if they receive it, then that means that Obama's was/is worthless, too
i mean he's going to stop living eventually, that alone is a fact worth celebrating
obvious health decline + wishful thinking + group trolling obv we all know he hates it if we are all talking about how old and sick and weak he is, so hey, why not trump is dead, let's celebrate!
it's memes, it's that simple
speak for yourself
nope just a guy that watched the video footage that shows them waiting on the platform for the shot to be composed
is soros in the room with us mike
not fake. staged.
Tempting to ask why in less than 24 hours we know more about the Minneapolis school shooter than the "Earwojima" assassin, in Butler PA, a year ago.
he obviously disagrees with you and you really respect him as a politician (as do I) so you'll have to reconcile why you disagree with your favorite guy on a strategy that is objectively working for him
you keep talking about "the party" as a monolithic entity when very clearly it is not and if mamdani understands why it's a necessity to run as a democrat I'm not sure why you can't pick up on it; if he thought he had a better chance of winning as an indie, I'm sure he would have done it
i personally cannot wait for the power struggle and inevitable backstabbings
it's hard to take someone seriously who cannot differentiate in any way between Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump when one of them very much would like to literally cancel elections and the other very obviously does not just that one issue alone kinda makes you seem either uninformed or petty
yay you did it
The guns are a problem but you know what else is a problem? Our shitty, understaffed, underfunded mass-production education system. The next Dem candidate should promise to eliminate ICE and use the money to moneybomb teachers.
some say he's still out there
word is that the Trump cabinet is going along with his goofy dictator schtick because they know he's not going to finish out the year
MAGA is what happens when stupid people with no self-awareness elect someone to punish the smart people they hate for making them feel stupid.
"Here's why that's bad for Biden."
But the unflattering rear view
You said Dems are trash and your very first example of the sort of change agent you need is a Democrat. You're making my point. Mamdani isn't an outlier. He's a bellweather. We agree. Subvert the Democratic party with leftism.
The photographic evidence of the Oval Office suggests that The People thought so highly of their glorious leader that they showered him with gold, reflected in the increasing opulence of the wall decorations. That's the thing about hard evidence. You can't refute it.
i know they're 30 years old but no, i don't have the receipt. i guess we'll just have to carbon-date them.
i got some thirty year old socks here as evidence but i doubt anyone wants to see them
well isn't this your lucky day? because there is a little-known secret to never being tired again, and it's
think of them as a death accelerant
NRA: “Guns don’t kill people.” ME: “They certainly seem to help.”
You're making my point for me, thank you. I guess we agree. Support leftist Democrats.
Remind me again what party he's running as
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
The wild thing about this reversal is the way Donald Trump was partners in an underage sex trafficking and kompromat ring.
Flip the table then. Let's see a third party to the left of the Democrats with double digit national support. I'll support it!
A political party is not a single atomic entity. So when one thinks about a political party as a single atomic entity, one is likely to reach poor conclusions.
The two party system is a byproduct of the first past the post voting system. Until you change that, the political landscape will always collapse into a binary system. In my lifetime there has been one serious national candidate who campaigned on changing it. Tim Walz.
Sure, either way. Do you see some other group that's decisively seizing the moment?
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
It's not that I'm pro-Democrat I'm just pro-what-works and the last time a third party won, it was Lincoln.
Don't really understand the mentality that says you can more easily subvert the entire nation than just one party; or more easily beat two entrenched parties than just one.
So get rid of the bad ones. Take over the party. There's a lot of momentum for this.
"You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you."
When you complain about the US they tell you "if you don't like it you can leave" but the USA is one of only three countries that taxes non-resident citizens on non-resident income (the others are Eritrea and North Korea) so it turns out you can never really leave.
hurry up and make him King so we can revolt and get this over with
and then when you understand how property tax in many/most places is used as a means of keeping the schools in white neighborhoods well-funded while denying resources to schools in Black neighborhoods it gets even uglier
around $8000K annually to the city to effectively rent a house I already owned outright - and that's a tax you pay unless you're so poor you can qualify for an exemption, so: a very regressive tax (this wasn't a second property or investment home but my only home, the one I lived in)
"oh but property tax can't be that bad" lol I had a 1800sf (167sqm) suburban house, 2bed 2ba w/garage & I paid OVER $600/MO in property tax on a *teardown property* (meaning, when I sold, the condition of the house had no residual value and was torn down & a new house built).
