If we told our vassal state to stop committing genocide, the Houthis wouldn’t be bombing ships. Please try to keep up.

I love how the Atlantic called around to the various government offices who should care about this stuff: “Hey, are you sure there’s nothing classified in here? If this is too sensitive to print, just tell us and we won’t print it.” This has been a study in covering your ass and making sure the reporter doesn’t become the story, as much as the administration would love for it to.

It really does show how stupid this country is about waving “National Security” for any matter that would make the administration look bad.

It’s okay when the US does it.

I’m sure USians would be perfectly normal and react calmly and rationally if a foreign power killed 50 innocent people while assassinating a target on US soil.

Yes.

America has always been more or less of a fascist state, and this is not new activity, although it is worse and more brazen in a lot of ways. Civil Rights for ethnic minorities has always been pretty iffy.

30% of the country loves this shit, and another large fraction doesn’t even know it’s going on. A lot of us are working to try to change things. The media is not covering all of the demonstrations, but we definitely need more people to get angry.

Derek is a decent person, so you don’t have to worry about that.

I saw speculation about another person in the administration with the same initials. I think they work at the US Trade Representative (?).

I’m sorry–small, but necessary, correction:

The biggest player being Elon: His daughter, Vivian, has transitioned. And when his daughter called out Elon’s nazi wave as being legitimate, Elon tipped his hand by saying the woke killed his “son” and he is out to kill the woke mind virus.

Very good consideration. She did publicly acknowledge it on BlueSky, so I’ll take that as permission.

@motherkegs.bsky.social

Playing sweet chin music and she won’t pass the aux.

The problem with that is that a guy who murdered his three kids is known for something.

At the most generous, maybe the professor in the article shares a name with the killer. Articles will include enough information to clear the professor (like maybe the killer has been in jail for a decade ). A LLM will weave together real information about the professor with the “fact” that he killed his kids.

ChatGPT shouldn’t be used to find any real information, period.

People thinking a glorified autocorrect is a source of factual information is horrifying.

" they were not fooled by the vote for it on cloture and vote against it on final passage."

I love how they’re openly admitting this is a trick now, when so many Blue MAGA people fell all over themselves to justify it when they’ve done it in the past.

Obviously truth is absolute. The question is whether morality is absolute or relative.

That’s the saddest thing about people born after the 90s. We expected the future to get better. Kids now are just hoping we don’t destroy everything.

If you enjoy dehumanizing people, you’re not a leftist.

Calling people “NPCs” is always fascist.

How is giving him congressional approval going to help? The Doomers keep obeying in advance. Try fighting for something.

The alternative isn’t “keeping the government operating”. Its letting the Republicans know that they can shutdown anything they want while the Democrats do nothing.

“Needing 8 Democrats to pass the budget” is what you call “a position of power”. Democrats piss every bit of power away for nothing, then we’re still swamped with idiots online going “what do you expect them to do?”

When Republicans need Democratic votes to pass something, that means Democrats should get something in return. When Dems are in power, they water down legislation and say they need to do that to court Republicans who still don’t vote for the bill. When Dems are in the minority, they vote with Republicans and complain about not being able to do anything.

One of Bernie’s biggest flaws is that he’s working with the Democrats.

This is a big world, people’s customs vary, and I’m not one who expects everyone to follow my moral judgements, but “COUSINS ARRESTED AFTER REFUSING TO STOP HAVING SEX DURING FUNERAL CEREMONY” doesn’t throw up any red flags for you?

Not trying to dunk, more wondering whether I’m missing dry humor or a language barrier.