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Speaking of self-inserts, remember when she wrote that detective story with long segments that are just people on Twitter accusing the main character of transphobia?

Her brain's just fully melted at this point.

Elections are far too useful as a form of control for the state to dispense with them. Virtually every country on earth has elections, even if they're just sham elections for show. If you're a dictator or aspiring dictator, you're generally much better off having some pretence of democratic legitimacy than just coming out and announcing yourself as president for life.

Anecdotally, my sister does. I was baffled when she said it and had to try my best to respond politely, because she's the only other person in my family who isn't a Republican.

From my perspective, she bombed out of 2020 despite being a media darling cast as the frontrunner, and then was just handed the nomination in 2024 without a real primary and still lost, both of which demonstrate she has terrible political instincts and isn't popular enough to win. From her perspective, the fact that she dropped out in 2020 before any votes were casts means she was never given a fair chance, and the fact that she was handed the nomination meant she didn't have enough time to make her case and the unusual circumstances are what caused her to lose, and if she just had another chance she'd nail it.

I'm pretty sure she's an outlier though and most people are just saying Kamala because of name recognition.

He's confirmed alive, but that doesn't mean they haven't killed others, or that they won't reach that point as time goes on. The Nazis didn't start mass executions right away, but once you were in their camps, you probably weren't getting out alive.

Their methodology involves asking people a bunch of questions and then if they don't get 100% correct they're counted as believing misinformation. Putting aside the unreliability of online polls, that's a pretty misleading way of framing it, if you ask me.

If you asked people 10 questions about just about anything, you'd probably find a substantial number of people who don't get every one right. In fact, they did do this under the heading, "Disinformation Nation: Americans Widely Believe False Claims on a Range of Topics." That's probably why they found that, "Respondents identifying as Democrats were about as likely (82 percent) to believe at least one of the 10 false claims as those identifying as Republicans (81 percent)."

Many of the people responding to the poll may not have ever encountered the claims they were asked about. If you are first encountering a claim in that context, you pretty much just have to guess whether you think it's true based on vibes. And you can easily set up misleading vibes, like, "Conservative initiative Project 2025 proposes cutting or eliminating Social Security" which is false because it's not explicitly stated, but it does explicitly state a whole bunch of other horrible shit, so like, if you get got by that one it doesn't really show that you believe in an inaccurate picture of the world, just that you got tripped up by details. But that claim dings you for "believing misinformation" just as much as " COVID-19 vaccines killed 15 million people worldwide."

So like it doesn't really tell us very much about how far reaching disinformation really is, the results are more of a reflection of their methodology.

Not exactly.

On July 1, 2024, the Court ruled in a 6–3 decision that presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their core constitutional purview, at least presumptive immunity for official acts within the outer perimeter of their official responsibility, and no immunity for unofficial acts.

So if they rule that something isn't an official act, or outside of the president's constitutional powers, they can still find it illegal. It means that the courts can effectively "pardon" the president if they rule that he was acting within the scope of his official responsibility, but it doesn't mean that they gave their ability to prosecute if they choose to.

Whether the president has the power to "self-pardon," effectively giving him total immunity to the law, is another angle, but that has not been tested in court.

Of course, Trump could simply choose to ignore the courts the same way Andrew Jackson did and it's not clear that anything would happen to him, at least while he's in office and is commander in chief.

If you look at the historical polls about the direction of the country, wrong track always win, it is just a matter of how bad.

Yeah, no shit. That's the point. What you're bragging about is "Most people hate us, but they hate us marginally less than they hated the other guy." It's pretty pathetic that that's the point we're at.

Significant improvement since taking office is a good first step for the Trump administration.

It's not a "good first step for the Trump administration." Trump didn't do shit to actually improve anything, it's just that he has a significant following who defend anything and everything he does, or are willing to give a different face a chance. Democratic voters are more likely to vote reluctantly while still seeing the country on the wrong track if their guy wins. It means nothing. The minority of people who think like you are simply wrong and the majority who disagree with you are correct.

You’re correct, but in the end those same tankies are also the ones that want a fascist state because they’re basically a capitalist state on the brink of collapse – a good ground for revolution that tankies wish for.

This is the dumbest shit ever and not what we believe. Y'all don't ever listen to the things we actually say, you just make shit up and repeat it to each other until it becomes accepted as obviously true, regardless of any basis in reality.

A fascist state is not "good ground for revolution." There have been many far-right states that have successfully hunted down and exterminated the left and survived for quite a long while. And the conditions in the US are such that in an armed conflict the right would obviously have a major advantage. Should conditions decline, it's far more likely that we'd have a right-wing revolution than a left-wing one.

The problem is that conditions are declining under both Republicans and Democrats. Neither party offers any possibility of actually halting or reversing the decline, or averting any of the many, many crises, some of which are looming and some of which are actively happening. Liberals are fully content to accept this state of affairs for some reason - they just want a more gradual decline which will still lead to crises, the far-right gaining strength and power, and the complete extermination of the left and vulnerable populations. As long as that gets pushed back 5 or 10 years, perfectly acceptable to them, and worth sacrificing any attempts to actually fix the problems - which is what us "tankies" would prefer to happen.

If I were an "accelerationist," looking to bring about a fascist state on the bizarre logic that it would somehow be "good ground" for a left-wing revolution, then why would I have a problem with either side? Conditions will continue to decline regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in charge. What, am I just so impatient that I couldn't wait a few more years? If that's what I believed, I'd just disengage from politics and not give a shit what happens, confident in the fact that the inevitable decline will bring about socialism, somehow. Doesn't really seem worth the effort.

Unfortunately, this "accelerationist" concept doesn't actually track with history. People have lived - and do, currently live in much, much worse conditions than we have in the US, often for generations. Slavery persisted for centuries, and yes there were slave revolts but they were often disorganized and put down. This idea that bad conditions automatically create successful left-wing revolutions makes no sense to anyone who's actually capable of thinking beyond a meme level.

According to your own stats, the majority of people disagree with that assessment and think things are still getting worse.

But regardless, what people think isn't necessarily reflective of reality. This is the best argument you can muster, not that Trump is actually improving things in specific, tangible ways, but just, "My guy has managed to convince marginally fewer people to hate him than hated the last guy." Of course, we'll see how many people still feel that way by the end of his term when we'll have likely fallen into a recession thanks to his bullshit.

I mean, I guess you could look at it that way, to an extent. But the larger effect is that it reinforces the threat against every other major news outlet, in a very blunt and overt way.

I don't expect the AP to suddenly radicalize over it or anything.

"Not just fascists, but also those who oppose fascism and are trying to build an alternative to fascism" got it.

What stage of decline is it when Trumpers are bragging about a stat that still shows a majority of the population saying we're on the wrong track?

How is this legal?

Having a spot in the white house press pool is legally a privilege, not a right. The AP can still operate and write whatever they like, they're just not invited to exclusive press briefings.

This is a long-standing conflict of interest that incentivizes the press to field softball questions and avoid writing critical stories in hopes of getting priority treatment from the government, but typically it works in a more subtle way.

This is some seriously weak shit. The only connection is that the poster "teases" that he's Elon Musk. Speaking as Beyoncè, even if he outright said "I am Elon Musk" it still wouldn't be strong evidence, but he didn't even say that, he just posted a bunch of random gibberish that some people read as metaphorically suggesting a connection.

This is QAnon conspiracy nonsense, and repeating it on the pretext of "I'm not saying this, I'm just talking about what other people are saying" is still spreading it.

I mean, sure, maybe this account was Elon Musk in the same way Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer, but like, it's not actually.

The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems countries will slip through your fingers. Every year, more and more middle income countries that were unaligned are buddying up with China and the ones that were buddying up with the US are playing the field. China is keenly attentive to this global battle over hearts and minds while Americans are too preoccupied to even notice, and don't care when they do.

:::spoiler spoiler

Try adding a decimal after the 3

3141 5926 5358 9793; 2/38; 462

See, this is why I hate America.

Slippery slope arguments aren't inherently fallicious.

They targeted gamers.