WatDabney @ WatDabney @sopuli.xyz

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So the American elite are really speedrunning the whole Ancien Regime France thing.

Somehow they seem unaware of how that story ends.

Feeling a bit North Korea in here.

What in the world are you babbling about?

This reeks of astroturf.

It's weird and disturbing that the headline is probably true.

If the world made sense, it would be more than enough that he is, right now, moment-to-moment, obviously deeply mentally ill and wantonly destructive - a grotesquely corrupt pathological liar, vindictive narcissist, and raging sociopath who blatantly has done and is doing more harm to the US than any president at least in the modern era and quite possibly ever.

How has that not already been enough? I don't think I'll ever really understand that.

How perfect.

This is a great example of how it is that the right is always wrong, but always has followers anyway. It's because they live in a doggedly self-affirming fantasy world in which they blithely believe unsupported nonsense like QAnon while just as blithely disregarding simple fact like the Epstein files, all based not on evidence or logic, but just based on whether or not it fits their preconceptions.

It's a perfect little delusional universe where they're free to be told whatever they want to believe and ignore whatever they don't want to believe.

There's no clearer indicator of the goals of Trump and his cronies than that they're trying to make it a crime to oppose fascism.

Trump, who mercilessly mocked his predecessor’s use of an autopen

It's always projection for Trump and his minions.

The Republicans said their findings cast doubt on all of Biden’s actions in office and sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging a full investigation.

“Senior White House officials did not know who operated the autopen and its use was not sufficiently controlled or documented to prevent abuse,” the House Oversight Committee found.

Always projection.

This is a large part of why Republicans love "privatizing" government services - so they can then collect bribes and kickbacks from the often nepotistic contractors who get the no-bid contracts.

And as always, the Trump regime does it more and bigger than anyone ever.

When has that ever stopped them before?

The history of Windows is almost entirely a history of putting out crap that people don't want, then relying on market share, coercion and manipulation to effectively force people to give in and use it anyway.

One of the many simple truths about Israel that's stubbornly and irrationally ignored by the western powers is that it's easily the most active state sponsor of terrorism on the planet.

Weird to pass a bill okaying the death penalty for whoever Israel wants to pretend is a "terrorist" when Israel already imposes the death penalty on dozens of people it pretends are "terrorists" every single day.

I think the simplest way to sum up the whole issue is that AI really is, exactly as the name indicates, "Artificial Intelligence."

But the important bit thing isn't that it's artificial in the sense of "man-made." It's that it's artificial in the sense of "fake."

It's fake intelligence. Pretend intelligence. The illusion of intelligence. A superficial resemblance to intelligence.

And yes, to the degree that it's treated as real intelligence, it can't help but make the world dumber, in the exact same way that all fakes dilute the real thing.

Because he's a corrupt piece of shit, owned by the same moneyed interests that own the Republicans.

I think this ruling might just be the acid test.

It's painfully obvious how the SC should rule, both based on the Constitution and based on precedent. Add in the fact that the cited justices' questions and comments clearly indicate that they understand the legal realities, if they still go ahead and rule in Trump's favor, that will pretty effectively mark the end, in failure, of the American Experiment.

I wonder where the misdirection is, and what lies it's hiding.

Google would not agree to anything unless it was better for them than whatever they'd get stuck with by losing, so the fact that the agreement superficially appears to be even better than the terms that were set to be forced on them means that they're lying.

I can't see yet what they have up their sleeve - how they're planning to continue enshittifying Android and the app store, but it's guaranteed that that is their intent, and that this agreement furthers it.

So the message to poor Americans from Trump and the Republicans is "If we can't take away your health insurance assistance, we'll take away your food assistance."

And all so that they can pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

They're psychopaths. They really are - they are, and rather self-evidently, entirely unconstrained by morals, principles, empathy or conscience, so meet the DSM standards.

That don't just need to be voted out of office - they need to be institutionalized.

It's neither a ceasefire nor a truce - it's a PR con-job.

Trump played a role because he wanted a Nobel and when the Nobel committee passed him up, he stopped pretending to even care. And Israel never intended to abide by it - they just wanted to dodge some of the heat they were taking for being genocidal monsters. And nobody else ever intended to try to make them abide by ot.

And predictably, they violated it almost immediately, and have continued to brazenly violate it ever since.

They were profitable from the beginning.

The "problem" was that the original business model didn't generate enough revenue to pay for obscene salaries and perks and lavish offices for a full complement of executive weasels, so they've been changing the business model and dicking the drivers over progressively more virtually from rhe day they first incorporated.

This is just a sort of ultimate step in that ongoing process - the final conversion of a company that started out serving the needs of the drivers and customers ending up entirely directed toward satisfying the greed of a relative handful pf psychopathic shitstains who contribute absolutely nothing of any actual value.

Like I said, corporate America in action...

Corporate America in action - a company that started out just as a sort of middleman between people using their own cars to shuttle around paying passengers and people who were willing to pay for a ride is now moving to eliminate human drivers.