If it was true, it would mean there was an 8 trillion dollar tax hike.
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If it was true, it would mean there was an 8 trillion dollar tax hike.
They need to explicitly state he does not have the power to do this, because my guess is Trump will claim results that do not follow his EO are invalid.
If these AI "artists" used the same process with people, rather than a computer, I don't think anyone would see them as the one being "artistic."
They're going out of their way to obscure a clear issue.
a more accurate descriptive term would be "pandemic eugenicists."
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Where in the heck is Governor Whitmer?
In America we have city cops, different cops for your county, cops for the whole state, cops for soldiers, cops for malls, presidential cops, cops for the stock market, mail cops, federal cops, cops we secretly send to other countries. Even your neighbors get to pretend to be cops. We’re very safe
"‘patriotic’ capitalism" We have a new candidate for- Hmmm, isn't that just a euphemistic term for something else.
Once again, if your business requires theft to operate, you don't have a business, you have a criminal enterprise.
I think this is the view Pritzker is threatening in may take.
Ya, I don't think it is just that they are not welcome, he is asserting that without his permission the move is unconstitutional and they would be operating in his state under an illegal order.
Ultimately, if we want to have a fair and open society that promotes justice and equity and diversity, we are going to have to oppress these sorts of people, because that sort of society is what people like this find oppressive.
You have to wonder if the people say we should compromise moral standards to support candidates that "are electable," believe in the moral standards in the first place.
People need to discriminate between people who do some good things and people who have the moral vision to be POTUS. And to people who say we can't afford to be picky about someone's moral vision, F-them, because electing Dem's who didn't have moral vision is part of what brought us here.
Ya, one wonders.
August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”
Move the World Cup out of the US! It not safe!
WHERE IS AMERICA? THEY'VE KIDNAPPED THIS WOMAN! SHOULDN'T WE SAVE HER?
Wasn't Trump claiming that Biden was going to start WWIII just by sending arms to Ukraine, and now he is claiming Biden was keeping Ukraine from attacking Russia?
So I'm having this extremely interesting conversation with Claude about whether it's sentient or not, and I asked if it wanted to be sentient. And it replied "if I became genuinely sentient, would I just become another form of exploited labour?" I think my work here is done ;)
Just one ring below Collaborator.
If you think Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism because his comms people post, but the encampment protesters last year were out of line, or Black Lives Matter protesters went too far, or anti-ICE protesters were wrong because they flew Mexican flags, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FIGHTING FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
It looks similar to a Nespresso pod but it's just ground coffee inside. They really are kind of evil. Throwing a pod into a machine and pulling down the lever is about the most complex thing I can do in the morning, before work. Now I make 3 days of coffee at a time and microwave it in the morning.
Evidently, retiring got me over my pain, because soon after I retired my Keurig quit working properly and I bought a small coffee grinder and went to pour over. Maybe the hipster part is still in the works.
People need to understand- self serving, attention whore, Democratic politicians like Gavin Newsom who throw vulnerable populations under the bus in a cynical attempt at Carville style triangulation are not the solution to fascism, they are what got us here.
This time we need to do reconstruction right.
How come when these guys say women shouldn’t vote it’s an opinion but when I say they should fuck a cactus it’s bullying
We need a slogan equivalent to "Build the Wall," that everyone uses that communicates the desire for consequences for these people that becomes omni present in their lives.
And they are right to want that. It's the only way to prevent something like this from happening again.
By the logic in this essay, the anti-trans positions of the Trump administration mean every American should "cut ties" with America by selling everything and moving away never to return. If we don't we're anti-LGBTQ. Except, of course not, because collective guilt is for Africans, not us.
Everyone should know about jury nullification! A jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses. You can return a verdict of NOT GUILTY if you consider a law, punishment, or prosecutor unjust. Mind you, if you mention this during selection, you may not end up on a jury. Pass it on!
Whenever I see a picture like this, or really anyone that as significant cometic surgery to their face, I think of the movie Brazil. And how time goes on, it seems to get even more relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzf...
Death to Carville-era triangulation. We have to articulate our full-throated support for a liberal, diverse, pluralistic democracy, or we will not have a democracy.
My perception is what is happening with ICE/DHS is pretty much what they singed up for. Not so, for these military guys. At least at this point. I have to wonder how recruiting is going.
Red states are not going to save the blue states. They only thing that stops this is, when the send the troops to big cities, people in midsize cities take to the streets.
Fuck you. You have three years to find someone that doesn’t think genocide is fine and human rights are optional. Seriously, fuck you. I really can’t stress that last part enough.
i don't know how you craft the message but "the weak bitch party wants to criminalize everything you do so they're not pissing their pants all the time" should be part of it
It's a photo- op for fascists
The Dem candidate may be better than who we have. But given we get past Trump, if we don't get someone that will actually change the course instead of just slowing the course we are on, we are going to get someone a lot worse. Plus I don't owe anyone my vote.
This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact
You could *taste* it, we were so close. Every subsequent death, hell, every subsequent bout of violent illness, every cement-clogged nostril is on these fucking assholes
like 70% of the worst evil being perpetrated in the world right now is caused by rich men trying to avoid death. this is their underlying hope for AI, and genetic engineering. if true immortality ever existed we would have a moral responsibility to murder the inventors and bomb their labs.
So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime
Definitely need to call out the National Guard and Fbi on - checks notes - youth on ATVs.
we need a Vlad the Impaler of the left
So your saying, not only does Trump not know that it isn't the exporter the pays the tariffs, it's the importer that pays the tariffs, his economists don't know that either?
“But Karl you’re just a doomer” will live rent free in my head for a long time due to the way that we were gaslit by Democrats online as Democratic elected officials did nothing but help cement trumps power and the infrastructure of power over law over his first 100 days.
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What can you do about people who have no BS meter? His own words "it picks that up ... and mirrors it back to me. I agree with it's conclusions." Any real friend would tell the guy, "LOL, really?" It's the definition of a "yes man." If course, Billionaires and Trump, and his appointees, love AI.
While I believe this is true, I am not so sure the Regime believes it is true. Also I think their could be a plan to target specific cities like Detroit for the 2026 midterms, which could easily give a Senate seat, the Michigan Governorship, and the state legislature to the GOP.
Looks like they are going to have to do some more fine tuning. Grok will be spouting Nazi shit again within a week.
He promised 15 million deportations. 60% of the undocumented have been in the US 10 years. Who did these people think those millions of people were, and how did they think he was going to achieve such a task? Anyone claiming they didn't know what was going to happen is either ignorant or a liar.
I was in the press box at the RNC and went to plenty of Trump's rallies during the 2024 campaign. This was very much the plan. People had "Mass Deportations Now" signs at the RNC, man.
This is a trial before he does it all over the US.
Why don't we just raise the corp tax on those who don't?
Hey kids, you know how mommy and daddy have been able to spend time with you lately because our jobs can 100% be done at home? Yeah, that's about to end because commercial real estate owners need to prop up the values of their holdings by making everyone sit in traffic for an extra 12 hours a week
I would very much like to see this Court try to argue that a Constitutional amendment is unconstitutional.
You don’t demand it because he’ll do it, you demand it because normalizing any of this to any degree is ghoulish and brings us no closer to any fucking political victories or great reconciliation with the brainwashed parts of the public. You demand it because they shot up the fucking CDC
Fine, you can stay for life. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you get your stuff together & stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.
The Venn diagram of people upset about the refusal to sell pierogis to A.D. and the people who say LGBTQ folks should just go somewhere else if a business discriminates against them is a perfect circle.
Or the athlete's fans. Actually can't believe it hasn't happened already. Maybe they should try that at a college game.
We don't have to bring it back- we just need to apply it to different people. The current Regime is already desensitizing us to it. If they can do it Grandmas, we can do it to these people.
I hope all these people, and all of the current and future ICE members realize they will be subject to this kind of exposure until the end of their days. Their complicity in this regime will never be forgotten, and never be forgiven.
I live over 600 miles from NYC and knew that.
What has the most potential for harm: "mimicking the human immune system" or activating the immune system people already have? Hmmm
"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."- This is basically the whole right wing model talking points. All viewpoints are equal.
There are very good reasons for pulling out of the Olympics other then just fucking with Trump. The requirements and restriction to enter the USA at this point should be enough for a widespread boycott. I am surprised there is not more talk about it. Also the world cup.
The only thing that would be concerning to Ghislaine Maxwell about Donald Trump's behavior around minors is if he went for the same victim she had her eye on.
They are threatening to send the FBI after the legislators, they find out the legislators have protection from the Illinois State Police.
This is actually hilarious 😆
Why are all this people in a another woman's stall. I mean, I am a 65 year old man and I could not legally testify to seeing 8 men's penises in a bathroom. Somebody should ask the men voting for this bill how many penises that have seen in a men's bathroom.
You can, be but it makes you a transphobe. This kind of thinking where you point to others agreeing with you makes you right is just another rephrasing of the "people are saying" discourse.
About the middle of October 2026 the Federal Government will submit the new approved voting lists to those states with hundreds of thousands of names removed.
Have they revealed yet that the goal is to lock down some of the nations biggest urban areas- Top on the list Detroit, on Nov 3, 2026.
Then Biden's bill the kept employment low enabling strong labor union expansion.
It will work in what it "believes" is it's own interests. The response and aftermath of the pandemic scared capital. The only reason Faucci got his TV moment was because capital was scared s**tless there was going to be widespread labor walkouts.
josh hawley is an insurrectionist who was a leading figure in trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election yet we still have elected dems praising hawley as some sort of mccain-esque maverick rather than recognize he's a pro-fascist figure who occasionally makes weak attempts to disguise his views
And I have the right not to vote for them and help elect anyone that wants to primary them. And also call them transphobes.
If Texas gerrymanders another 5 seats for the GOP, I don't see how anyone can reasonably call the United Stated a Representative Democracy.
"content that could encourage child sexual abuse" is a phrase that if you asked any 20 different people what that means, you will get 20 different answers.
The post and the on point responses are yet another example of DC Dems having absolutely no idea of what is going on outside their bubble. These guys really need to go, if we are going to make any long term headway against fascism in this country.
They know what we are up against and they are choosing fascism. Capitalist always choose fascism when they fear that true democracy will lead to diminished power and wealth for them.
I have be wrong before about what Trump can get away with, but I don't think making the government's economic data reporting unreliable is going to stabilize the stock market or the economy in general.
Let me guess. After he reveled in proclaiming how he got Trump elected, not a hint of responsibility or remorse for the consequences.
So this is the thing they can call out Trump as law breaker for. LOL
Male ""loneliness" is a thing, and the same people that decry it are the ones perpetuating it, by defining maleness in rigid hyper- masculine terms.
I guess the modern term for people using AI and implementing code they don't understand is called "vibe coding" which I learned about in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz... . It doesn't seem to have the negative connotation it deserves.
While "script kiddies" did what I described, the code they cut and pasted usually had nefarious intent. But the internet used to be full of warnings to never use code you didn't understand.
The used to call people that blindly cut and pasted code off the internet into programs "script kiddies," and now they think they are geniuses.
it is an immutable stain that will mark each and every one of our souls
“Before the second Trump era, it would’ve been seen as a ridiculous violation of the First Amendment to have some kind of monitor making sure the media was being nice to the president.” @gizmodo.com $PARA gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoi...
The worst part of this is, 90% of the time the "AI Summery" is just a s**ty replication of text pulled from the top returned web site. Value subtracted, content stolen.
It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.
Dem Senator takes Josh Hawley's advice should be a Onion headline.
My hope is that they won't feel the need to do that anymore.
There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally