None of these shooters are left wing though. It’s not like the only thing the administration is wrong about is their level of organisation. The premise that there is a left-wing extremism problem is completely false. They’re trying to pin all this violence on completely the wrong people so that they can ramp up their persecution of trans people and anti-fascists.
Agreed, it’s a needlessly vague and ambiguous headline. A lot of stories these days seem to be undermined by the headlines the editors put on them, and nearly always in a direction favourable to the Trump administration.
As a member of Gen X who breathed all the leaded gasoline and still finds these people appalling, I think blaming their shit on lead poisoning is giving them a pass they don’t deserve. Lead may have made us all a little dimmer and angrier, but it didn’t turn most people into raging assholes, crooks or fascists, or gullible MAGA cultists. These people would have done it anyway, with or without the lead.
saying they dropped off the grid - like, they chose to disappear - seems totally unsupported.
I don’t think that was the intended meaning of “dropped off grid.” It means what you said: they have been disappeared by ICE and no-one knows where they are or even whether they’re alive.
Jesus has a twisted sense of humour.
Neither. Your comment blamed parents but not Meta. It also talked about “men on the internet” as if they can be expected, as a normal man thing, to be into photos of kids. The concern is not men in general but pedophiles. And the responsibility is not just with parents but with Meta.
Kind of sounds like you’re making excuses for Meta and for pedophiles at the same time.
Iraq war logic, Nazi edition.
Sooner or later they will decide only straight white cis people are allowed to own guns.
Exactly how would this work? They just going start arresting trans people for existing?
These are Nazis. Yes.
Whether it’s a thing will depend on whether you pay your bribes and flatter the right people.
“We’re not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary to Intel’s roadmap and Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings,” Intel told PCWorld, reiterating the commitment that Intel’s Michelle Johnston Holthaus made before she abruptly left the company.
I don’t see any commitment in that statement. Indeed it seems carefully worded to avoid making any particular commitment.
I thought it might be AI, but an image search found other photos in the same series so it seems to be real. There are 4 foxes.
These people suffer from a severe lack of imagination. Raised to pursue success along a solitary economic metric, they ignore all arts and sciences extraneous to that pursuit. They treat the world outside their interests like a children’s game they’re not really into. Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own.
That’s the startling thing about these tech guys: they are utterly oblivious to life outside of their extremely narrow little domain, and they occupy that domain largely because they never had the imagination or curiosity to look past it. The Silicon Valley milieu they grew up in told them that success consisted in this one thing, and they just swallowed the story and dedicated their lives to it without ever pausing to question, investigate or think for themselves. They buy into ideologies without ever exploring alternatives. They condemn the humanities with no understanding of them, and no interest in learning. They constantly attempt to solve philosophical, existential or cultural problems with technology, because they don’t even notice that they’re not engineering problems. These are dull people, the sort who’d stockpile art as an investment and status symbol without ever looking at it for more than a few seconds. They’re rich financially but in other ways everyone can see how impoverished they are except them.
Of course. It’s just crazy that this “antifascism is bad” line gets any traction at all, and that the media don’t call it out.
All the tech CEOs are playing this game, even in the established companies. When was the last time Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai spoke non-bullshit?
US culture conflates money with all kinds of things: intelligence, importance, respectability, work ethic, maturity, creativity, “good genes”, even godliness. Many people just can’t see the very clear truth that to be super-rich you usually just need to be a lucky asshole.
“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play,” Peeler said, adding that the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office retrieved Reed’s body for further examination. Deputy Coroner Murray Roark, who assisted in the medical review, stated there were no signs of broken limbs and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm, though the investigation remains active.
Kind of comes over like “We can tell this isn’t a lynching because we always break the victim’s legs.”
They’re pedophile hunters in the same way Saul Goodman is a criminal lawyer.