This is dangerously close. We know it’s AI-generated because a picture like this would never be taken, but without that context, there’s very few clues inside the picture itself that suggest it. JD’s left hand is at an awkward angle, but his right hand looks correct. The Cheetos bag is closed. We also know that Trump’s spray tan isn’t applied nearly that evenly; the AI made him look better. That’s about it.

This is getting close to having entirely realistic pictures that are completely made up, and nobody will be able to say for sure that they’re AI or not. The political implications are unsettling.

Absolutely. It’s no coincidence that anti-union sentiment is common among right-libertarians.

There’s a lot more people with a plan behind the scenes this time. They only need him to sign the papers.

Agreed. If right-libertarianism could work at all, they’d need to be on the frontlines of boycotting companies that do bad things.

They claim that the government doesn’t need to force desegregated lunch counters; people would stop eating there until that place either changed or went out of business. Alright. Are they going to be the first ones to stand up and boycott companies that do anything like that? Because from what I saw, they were the first ones to say “they technically have a right to do that” and then do nothing. Almost like letting them get away with it was the actual point.

Gilette seems to have caught on to this trick at some point.

We haven’t even seen the start of this opsec rocket diarrhea.

Are people actually arguing that? The USD/CAD has only been close to parity relatively briefly about a decade ago. A 70% drop doesn’t get explained by that.

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Fuck off. This is pathetic.

The bit you edited in afterwards? No, you don’t get credit for that, and you still don’t know what you’re talking about.

Do you understand how gerrymandering works? It doesn’t apply directly to Presidential elections.

The vote was within 2M. Yes, they changed the outcome.

The solution to the space elevator was sitting there the whole time.

Why are my neighbors mad? They have all the mint they could want now.

Maybe, maybe not. This has turned out differently before. Here’s a tidbit from Homage to Catalonia (emphasis added):

But there were several points that escaped general notice. To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism.This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.

It’ll come down on if they like authoritarian control better than they like money. They’re getting burned on the money part, and there’s no reason to think Trump’s policies will make it any better in the long run.

But don’t count on them either way. They’ll still enact policies that are good for billionaires, not us.

He needs enough support that his most rabid fans will keep calling into congress with death threats if they don’t let Trump do whatever he wants. The calls to congressional offices asking them to do fucking anything will drown those out.

Active duty service members look at how much veterans benefits are being cut–things they were planning on having for themselves later–which means the military isn’t a reliable path to maintaining indefinite power. If Hegseth goes down, then they’ve thrown away any chance of controlling the military. He was supposed to be The Guy for that.

He’s got ICE and maybe the FBI. Those can cause havoc on individuals, such as Gaza protesters and green card holders, but they’re too small to grip the entire nation.

A lot will come down to city police and county sheriffs throwing in their support.

“Mike colors outside the lines, but doesn’t eat the crayon. He does his best.”

A security clusterfuck involving the Secretary of Defense, the VP, and a list of other high level executive branch personnel is spilling all over the news. Even conservative news outlets are calling for heads to roll.

Mike Johnson thinks this is a good time to consider dismantling the Justice branch.

It’s a complete lack of control of sensitive information. Signal should never be used for this. No phone app can make the security guarantees necessary for this level of detail.

It’s amusing watching Free Republic go hmm, errr, Atlantic = North Korea, err, fuck this is bad.

Pilot G2 if I must, but the real answer is a Lamy Safari.

Nobody knows. The world economy is built around America always paying its debts.

But there is one thing: build mutual aid networks that can thrive without money being involved.