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  • BananaChatBot.exe has entered the chat

    Prompt: cheerfully describe, in detail, thoughts about about putting obscure historical artifacts in your butt, for research purposes.

  • It takes some time to be comfortable enough to break the fart barrier.

  • I legit farted as I was opening this post.

    (Seriously though SSRIs screw with my GI)

  • Was not expecting new amiibo for this. Digging it.

  • One of these days, the headline will be "Active Shooter Reported at Board Meeting."

  • This tracks with my viewing habits, thanks!

  • He was in a video I watched once. I don't remember the whole context, something to do with how he was so successful at working YT's algorithm. Had never heard of the guy before then, and all of the content samples they showed were braindead nothingburgers.

  • The problem with rules is that they bind those that follow them and enable those that disregard them. I'm not against those trying to enforce the rules. I'm just hyper-aware of the damage being done in the meantime.

  • This would play right into the persecution narrative. It's basically asking for a shooting war with both the secret service and the proud boys/oath keepers/etc types, at the very least. And I suspect it would be where we see if the military is going to follow illegal orders or not.

    Can it work? That's a long shot at best. But the list of viable options is short and getting shorter.

  • Gotcha, that makes more sense.

    So then to answer your question, the judiciary branch is being de-fanged. They're supposed to be a safeguard against all of this. But it's all just words on paper if nothing is enforced. Agent Orange was handled with kid gloves the past four years. Cases delayed, investigations slow-walked, and even the cases that ended in conviction saw zero consequences.

    If judicial (those that aren't full owned, anyway) wants to try and reverse course... I wish them luck. I would love to be wrong about this pessimism. But given that a third of the public blindly believes whatever Fox etc tell them (and another ~third, probably more, can't be bothered to pay attention), it all plays straight into the persecution narrative. They are grossly outnumbered, outfinanced, and outgunned.

    This is why we are seeing the phrase "constitutional crisis" bandied about. The groundwork has been laid over generations. The plans are being executed now.

    "You're not allowed to do that" is not stopping any of it.

  • The legislative branch isn't the courts.

    The legislative branch has been confirming all of the appointments.

    The legislative branch could try impeaching him (again) but we both know that's not going to happen. Best case scenario is yet another vote down party lines. The magats are complicit. The corporatists are complicit. There are scant few voices that speak up for anything that doesn't benefit themselves.

    The majority are letting all of this happen.

  • Because the answer is "awful" and it hasn't changed in decades.