WatDabney @ WatDabney @sopuli.xyz

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It's likely not quite the case that treason has no consequences now.

Actual treason, no matter how egregious, has and will have no consequences if it benefits Trump.

But at the same time, it's pretty much certain that the definition of "treason" is going to just be shifted a bit so that it only applies to opposition to Trump, but will include everything all the way down to just saying mean things about him. And that will very definitely have consequences, and quite often fatal ones.

And still fucking Democrats are sitting in their comfy enclaves with the "good" billionaires, wringing their hands over how they just can't seem to find the right "messaging" to convince the sweaty plebes that they know what's best for them.

All it would take to start winning elections is for them to get up off of their soft, pampered asses and get out there and actually listen to some ordinary people for a change, find out what they want, then fucking well set about actually delivering it for them.

The psychopaths in power are afraid that Israelis might come to see Palestinians as actual human beings, which would complicate their genocidal goals.

No, it doesn't much matter.

The DNC is more galling though, since serving the interests of the wealthy and empowered few isn't all that far removed from legitimate conservative ideology. All the GOP really has to do to make it a more or less valid expression of their claimed advocacy is to invoke some variation of "trickle-down," so they can claim that what's good for the oligarchs is good for everyone. It's a lie and at some level they know it's a lie, but it's a relatively small one in the grand scheme of things.

For the DNC though, serving the interests of the wealthy and empowered few is diametrically opposed to what the claim to represent, and doing it requires an enormous and complex web of lies and deceit. So even beyond the fact that they're betraying the ideals I prefer, they just offend me more on principle because their deception is so far removed from even vague legitimacy.

It's sort of like the difference between being assaulted by a bouncer and being assaulted by a nurse. You end up the same either way, but at least from the bouncer it's not unexpected. There's an entire additional layer of evil when it comes from someone whose whole identity is wrapped up in not doing precisely what they in fact are doing.

I think it proves me right.

Harris had a clear lead right up until she started backing away from her earlier more populist rhetoric in order to suck up to the corporate donors.

Yes.

Two things I believe in that context:

1. Those Americans are louder than they are numerous.
2. Some significant portion of the ex post facto "Sanders couldn't have won anyway" spin was and is astroturf.

“Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”

Wow.

It's astonishing sometimes how deep the delusional evil runs in the Israeli right.

He starts that statement off trying to claim that the Gazans are "an animalistic society," and then without missing a beat shifts to doing nothing but vividly demonstrating that in fact he and his allies are the actual animals.

They truly are among the most foul and loathsome and vile abominations to have ever crawled across the face of the Earth.

They aren't buying cryptocurrency - they're buying influence. The cryptocurrency is just a front.

I don't directly blame Biden though.

The blame falls first and foremost on the DNC. It's likely that if they hadn't overtly sabotaged Sanders, Trump wouldn't have even had a first term, much less a second.

It's far worse than that.

People aren't just going to be harassed or blacklisted - they're going to be murdered.

Ken Paxton is already slated to play the role of Himmler in the coming order.

Oh gee look - Netanyahu is sabotaging the deal.

Who didn't see that coming?

If only it was a cult.

It's actually something far more dangerous, and very simple really - Trump 2.0 is pay-to-win.

It's not so much what Trump will let them get away with, but what Putin will let Trump let them get away with.

Just left to his own devices, Trump, strongman sycophant that he is, would let Netanyahu get away with anything. But there isn't enough Israeli support for continuing to just grind away at murdering Gazans, which is why Netanyahu tried to expand it out to a regional war. And the problem with that is that any regional war is going to draw Iran in, and Iran is allied with Russia, so Putin isn't going to stand for that. And Trump is Putin's lapdog.

Well, so apparently the first possibility I noted is not the case, and the early reports weren't just yet again blowing smoke.

So we're down to two alternatives - it's a legitimate deal that cedes at least some significant Palestinian autonomy, in which case Netanyahu will, as he already has in the past, sabotage it, or it's just a long term con job that will leave enough of an Israeli presence that they can shift to West Bank style incremental conquest.

If Trump was anywhere close to as strong and admirable as he claims to believe himself to be, he'd freely offer respect and honor to Carter, secure in the knowledge he had plenty to spare.

But instead he's a pathetic, weak, frightened child, terrified at the thought that someone else might get some respect when he so desperately needs it himself.

So, presuming that the accusations about TikTok and the Chinese government are true, does this mean that they recognize Musk as a kindred spirit? As someone who shares their goal of undermining the US with misinformation?

Much though that cynically amuses me, I think it's more likely that they just see him as a fool.

The draw is supposed to end up being that you can continue to access more or less all of the same content with all of the same functionality regardless of how badly someone might screw up one or another instance.

Back when the big Reddit exodus happened, after the whole API debacle, lemmy.world ended up being far and away the most popular instance, and that hasn't really been good for it. It's had a bit of a "Reddit with a different URL" reek to it ever since.

But certainly not coincidentally, its popularity has also waned since, and it already has less of a share of active lemmy users than it had before, which is exactly the way the fediverse is supposed to work. And I would assume that after this last announcement, its popularity is going to take a definite hit.

I recommend trying a bunch of instances. They're all at least subtly different, and the best way to figure out which one(s) you prefer is to just spend some time with them. Over time, you'll just come to use one or maybe a couple more than the rest.

And I don't even bother with any of the apps - the basic mobile version of it is actually quite good.(on Firefox at least - I can't vouch for any other browsers).

I'd pretty much guarantee that "willing to turn a blind eye to U.S. war crimes" was a prerequisite as far as Trump and his handlers were concerned.

From the announcement in question:

Some communities will receive an immediate notice with a link to this new policy. The most egregious communities will comply, or their moderators will be removed from those communities.