We should also keep records of every single person that participated in this project. We will need those to conduct the Nuremberg-like trials after we put this wave of fascism down. Everyone, from the President, to the middle managers, to the storm troopers, to the fucking janitor at the ICE office will need to be arrested, tried, and if convicted, executed. There should be no “just following orders” defense accepted.
For years I’ve been hearing Republicans fret about the danger of the federal government and the value of arming the citizenry so they can violently resist the agents when they come. Perhaps this should be the big second amendment moment that they’ve been dreaming about.
Can you imagine the solemn farce that will be trump’s funeral? We are going to be forced to endure all the pomp and circumstance that a normal leader gets. Media drones are going to speak in hushed respectful tones about the clown. There will be commentators spinning a fiction about the merit of his “maverick” ways. We are going to be expected to heal, and unite, and respect the fool and his mournful idiot fans. It’s going to be such nauseating bullshit.
While I would prefer that he and criminals like him would have self awareness and feel contrition, I’m perfectly fine with Blinken believing this as we lower the fucking noose.
Feudal lords like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk will wrap themselves in fake populist notions like “free expression”, but they will never, ever tolerate speech that meaningfully challenges the entrenched power structure that they benefit from. All of their feel good taglines are an intentional misdirection designed to pacify the mob that would tear them to pieces if they actually realized what was happening. Remember “Democracy dies in darkness”? I work in Silicon Valley and I’ve been trying to educate family members who continue to mistakenly believe that the tech community is comprised of lefty California hippies. Tech will not save us from fascism. The professional media won’t either. Given the institutional corruption now fundamental to our government, I fear that there is no ‘rules-based’ solution to any of this.
The cohort that controls the Democratic Party are perfectly content to pantomime gentlemanly decorum while being led into the ovens of a fascist authoritarian oligarchy. I’m just completely done with their bullshit.
This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.
This type of behavior will have a dire effect on my purchasing habits. I just don’t know if companies like Apple realize the effect these types of decisions have, or if I’m just not representative of their market. Either way, Cupertino can go and get fucked.
Keep this in mind as you listen to them claim that privacy is built right into ‘Apple Intelligence’. The profile that is being built as that system learns about you will probably grow to be the largest potential privacy threat that has ever been introduced to these devices and ecosystem. Keep that shit off your phone.
It’s going to be fun when the trump administration kneecaps the FDA and deregulates the food industry. We will get far fewer warnings like this, and dear leader will tout that as evidence that the food supply is much safer.
Absolute nonsense, and totally expected from the WSJ. There has been no ‘progressive moment’ to swing away from. At no point in the last half century have ‘the left’ had power, or has there been any meaningful attempt by either party to push for or enact a progressive agenda. Democrats, as a party shifted right so far during this period that the latest presidential candidate was basically touting “progressive” policy positions that would have been considered Republican 30 years ago. Of course, Republicans have shifted further right during that time also, and are now literally fascist. To suggest that the populace is rejecting progressive policies is just false gaslighting.
We should also keep records of every single person that participated in this project. We will need those to conduct the Nuremberg-like trials after we put this wave of fascism down. Everyone, from the President, to the middle managers, to the storm troopers, to the fucking janitor at the ICE office will need to be arrested, tried, and if convicted, executed. There should be no “just following orders” defense accepted.