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Likely true, but I like to think it's because she told Vance to go fuck himself.

Where the fuck are the, “Mah rights!” people now that the government is actually trampling on the constitution?

Let’s just cross out fingers mass deportation turns out to be the cheaper solution.

Well, if there's any positive stereotype about Germans it's that they are pretty good at efficiencies, and we know what their final solution was. I'm sure Trump won't want to reinvent the wheel.

The rule 2 refers to the rule 2 of the instance, not the community, which is:

Ah that makes more sense.

The part you decided to show in the modlog is also a little deceptive.

I left that out not to be deceptive, but because it wasn't germane to everything else, and it was an edit.

I have some news for you about how they will keep enough space in the camps.

FWIW, I left .ml after about a year (and around a month ago) because there were just enough threads shit flinging and just enough posts like below, and just enough people who would dismiss any argument based on seeing .ml that it annoyed the shit out of me.

Not for how anyone at .ml ever treated me. (And FTR I'm not a communist)

So I'd say how much you worry about it is up to you, but switching instances is also pretty easy.

You do realize you don't have to assume and can just look at the modlog, right?

https://slrpnk.net/modlog?commentId=14991101

Modlog for this comment says rule 2, but that rule is about reposts??!!

According to the modlog, this is the removed comment:

Democrats are far from perfect, but last time they were in power they... invested in infrastructure, forgave student debt, helped Ukraine defend itself, and tried to give everyone healthcare. Republicans have now crashed the (global) economy, increased disease spread, decimated public departments and services, fired thousands of critical workers and veterans, retaliated against people for their Free Speech, limited rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people, made us less safe against wildfires and contagions, started to gut Medicare, turned all our allies against us, raised prices on everything, engaged in corrupt theft of our tax dollars, and now want to deport legal Americans.

Well, I think this is worth highlighting.

100% it's because they are being financially hurt and no other reason. I know for sure that Portnoy has been complaining about losing millions.

What we are seeing in the last few months of this administration is not the traditional Republican party. Trump has hijacked the Republican party much like Hitler hijacked the Nazi party. There is no more Republican party- it’s the Trump party.

I'm in my mid 50s, as context.

I:

• just missed being old enough for awareness of key events in the civil rights movement, but:
• grew up in a very racially diverse area, surrounded by people who lived those events
• Lived through through/witnessed:
  • the Satanic Panic
  • the Tipper Gore, 700 Club/Pat Robertson heyday
  • the pre- and post- dont-ask-don't-tell period in the military
  • the AIDS Epidemic and homophobia feedback loop that came with it
  • the steady progression as it became more and more acceptable over decades for gay people to be open about their sexuality
  • the beginnings of the same thing happening for trans people
  • and more changes to and challenges to our social norms than I will possibly remember to list here, all along with each and every step of progress continuously made against the strong opposition of conservatives.
• then watched as the entire Republican party gleefully worked to destroy and roll back all areas of progress the very moment they had enough power to do so. They are shitting up the place and destroying as much as they can, as wantonly as they can.

From the rank and file infiltrating and twisting local school boards and libraries all the way up to the whitehouse, they are making things as shitty as they can as fast as they can for as many people as they can. And it didn't start 2.5 months ago, you could feel it from the moment Trump took office the first time, though even then it was just a louder version of what was already clearly under the surface for decades. We are literally headed towards some freaky blend of WWII Germany and Gilead.

Everything being done now is something conservatives and Republicans I've known have been preaching to a greater or lesser degree for as long as I can remember. They were just better in couching it behind nice words back then, and less of them were comfortable being vocal about it. As far as I can tell, Trump has hijacked nothing and no one.

Resistance to him by Republicans at any level has been weak to undetectable the entire time, coming from a tiny minority of (now ousted) Republicans, and that is precisely what gives the lie to this idea that he hijacked a damn thing.

The commenter saying to line them all up is being ridiculous, of course, but they aren't getting any disdain they haven't earned, and in any case they aren't interested in having unity with anyone not like them anyhow, so I don't see any point whatsoever in this idea that we're supposed to talk nice and mollycoddle them into some kind of class-aware coalition. That ship has sailed.

 

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Not one time have I seen a Republican acknowledge those statistics, no matter in what form they are presented. Not once.

Which is not a knock against you, but yet more evidence how how willfully they will bury their heads in the sand if you encourage them to hate people they already want to hate + tell them they are patriots for doing so.

I will go to my grave before I support a Republican for anything. I wouldn't vote for a Republican for street sweeper.

That's a good point, I really can't argue.

Republicans now face a dilemma: Musk brings cash but may damage their brand.

LOL. Their otherwise shining, untarnished brand.

It's a shame Trump supporters won't consume anything that doesn't feed their confirmation bias.

Please apply that to this:

all I said was that I don’t know and neither do you.

Because there is not any evidence whatsoever that there is consciousness associated with LLMs. We have ample evidence that consciousness is associated with many forms of biological life.

I'm not even aware of a scholarly theory suggesting there might be consciousness associated with LLMs. Now, I'm not an LLM expert, but neither are you (hurr durr) and so I think if you are going to suggest that maybe consciousness exists there, it should be based off something other than "hey man you never know" which is pretty much what it feels like. (Or you should be unsurprised when folks find that assertion unconvincing.)

I kinda feel like you missed the point.