Option A: have a real court that judges against you and points out all the crimes you commit.

Option B: A court that judges in your favor and makes up rules to support your actions after the fact.

Hmm, which court does a dictator want?

Trump admin: what’s the rush? He’s not going anywhere.

Great for trump. He can just declare whatever crisis to do even more stupid things and grab more absolute power.

Truth. Half the time I see some satire article from The Onion or similar productions and I have to double take to make sure it’s The Onion and not real. Satire used to be more obviously absurd and mocking. Now it’s too real.

The Constitution according to Republicans:

We The People…words words GET TO HAVE AS MANY GUNS AS WE WANT words words…The End.

I’m not a fan of vigilantism or mob justice save for the removal of objectively destructive and tyrannical leadership. Too many ways to get it wrong.

Ah, catch a predator style. Gotcha. Removed my comment because it was wrong. So far anyway.

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He doesn’t lie about what he wants to do.

He lies about his accomplishments.

It’s been like this since his first term. He’s not lying about invading Greenland or punishing Canada into being the 51st state. He absolutely wants to. Assuming (hopefully) that both these endeavors never materialize, he will claim that these threats accomplished some other goal that was made up on the spot. Which will be a lie.

Nothing to be done at this point, all we have left is watching leopards eat faces. They wanted this damage. They wanted to hurt people they disagreed with. So yeah, we should feel schadenfreude or gloat when they shoot themselves in the foot because they were going to do this to others anyway. The math says that’s all we get. We shouldn’t be glad that they succeeded in accomplishing any aspects of their talibangelical manifesto of Project 2025 at all, but their willing support of an inept authoritarian and their whining that they get the same treatment should not be given a pass.

I have an acquaintance that works for an old money, very wealthy family from oil money. The kind that influences regional as well as national politics. He worked for them during the last major recession in the late ‘00s. He basically said that his employer and all their buddies were running all over the world buying everything they could “like it is a fire sale” during the recession.

So yeah. This is how we get more billionaires, more oligarchs, and more meta national corpo monopolies where one company controls multiple brand names.

Almost like someone actively causing instability with bad economic policy and stirring global political instability would cause it to go down.

The medical misinformation led to the measles outbreak. It’s not in parallel, it’s in series.

Gonna blow up the database as many times as they blow up SpaceX rockets.

I think one of my favorite keyboards ever was a Microsoft “Natural” keyboard. I think they were available in the mid ’90s or so. Not quite a real split keyboard, but the ergonomics were great. I think I gave it away…it was great for typing, but I wanted a simpler keyboard for gaming.

And if his decrees don’t have the expected results, it’s someone else’s fault.

Yeah, fucking over some wageslave by making them clean that up really sends a message to the country. TF, man.

sell outs

Well, yes. That’s entirely the point. It started years ago with the quarantining of fringe subs like WPD or Spacedicks, followed by allowing extremist subs like T_D to continue unfettered. Those were red flags many recognized, and Spez made it plainly obvious he was planning on commercializing Reddit and wanted a platform for advertisers. He didn’t lie about that, it was openly stated. Those events were followed up by cramming the Reddit app down our throats, the closing of the API, removing mods and communities protesting Reddit actions, the cleanup of anti-Spez art on /place, forcing ads into the feed, etc., etc. Now we have tacit support of censorship in support of an oligarch.

IOW complaining that Reddit “sold out” is a bit late. It happened a while ago. Now they’re licking the boot

Yeah. Got me there.

The Battlefield franchise. I went back and played 1942, and disregarding the graphics, omg it’s so slow and clunky. It was the shit for the day, but man…compared to 2042 it’s super-dated.