That’s literally what I wanted you to feel!

Missed that - hope I have a good lawyer.

It’s going to be a hard life for a lot of innocent boys after their parents effectively tattooed “punch me, I’m a douchebag” on them.

Edit: Clarified “innocent,” obviously the parents are the issue.

Having a girl in a red state? You are legally required to end it in “lynn,” “leigh,” “ly” or “ley”.

For reference, Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion in 1937 dollars on his death. That is the equivalent of $31.36 billion today. The richest person, Elon Musk, is currently worth $400 billion, or nearly 13 Rockefellers.

Nothing humanity has ever seen really compares, unless you’re looking at literal kings literally enslaving and literally extracting all value from an entire population, and even then the scale will be far lower given population growth. We are in the oligarch golden age, and if we’re lucky and we don’t stay here, people will look back at this moment, and not the robber baron era, as the historical comparator for grotesque wealth accumulation.

I would have agreed with you three years ago. But at a macro level, we are in proxy civil war - we are in the legal phase of a coup of the Constitutional US government by fascists. They are literally deposing our ruler: democratic constitutional law. A necessary part of that coup is control of the government’s three branches, and so denial of that control by any legal means necessary is itself an imperative.

I’m at the point where I accept the necessity of using the same tactics, if moves like this can help delay or avoid overt civil war.

I’m reading replies to your message and I can’t figure out why people are coming at you so hard, except that they’re conflating you with a Trump supporter or sealion (which is obviously not true if they read your comments), and then just digging in.

You specifically say that this is “fucked up,” but there doesn’t seem to be a genuine dispute that you are correct, there was a deportation order. Hence, not a “legal immigrant.” That sucks, it doesn’t mean that the arrest is legal, but it is an objective inaccuracy.

I’m the absolute diametric opposite of a Trump supporter, but I agree we should use accurate words and facts.

Many places don’t pay them out - use or lose.

Oh, they must have coordinated, seems like it happened the same day for them both:

Jon Stewart, unless I missed Colbert saying it too.

It’s honestly about time.

No state should be gerrymandered, and I would have been upset about this years ago. But we can’t try to win by arguing over the rules of the game while the GOP is snapping the gameboard in half, stabbing other players, and setting fire to opponents’ pieces.

Hey, Canada is on top and Alaska is on the bottom, it’s even in the picture.

But what people don’t get is that the scale of the map means that bridge would have to be half as tall as New Mexico, which is like at least 5 miles, and also there’s no way the bridge would support the weight of the entire United States. C’mon people.

Wow, incredible, so they “slammed” him?

Now if we can just get them to “criticize,” “lambaste,” “scold,” “lecture,” “eviscerate,” “castigate,” “censure,” “chide,” “rebuke,” “reprove,” “condemn,” and “excoriate” him, we’ll all be fine.

Pretty clear message: Lies and corruption are now so powerful that if you defend the Constitution and do your job ethically, you will be branded a traitor.

I actually don’t know if I can take another year of this, much less 3.5, or whatever worse number it ends up being.

Edit: So anyway, did you hear Trump is in the Epstein files?

That star has been destroyed so many times. Whenever I see it happen, it’s kind of a heartwarming treat.

It’s a basic post-Soviet, Russian Propaganda tactic. And it’s a shame we (the American people) never learned to spot it.

Why would we waste time learning about Russian propaganda when It Can’t Happen Here™.

I think those doomsayers will be partially vindicated in the coming months. You can go to Best Buy’s website and order a Switch 2 with no waiting line, no delay. The supply is outpacing demand. Because I think a huge part of the 6 million sold was pent up demand for a new console and the inevitable cumulative brand effect and population increase leading to a larger early-adopter pool.

Unless Nintendo somehow had the ability to increase supply in a way unheard of for launch consoles in the past, I think that they met that early demand, and now it’s going to slow down abruptly. Now they have to convince regular people in a bad economy to spend way more than normal for a Nintendo console, with no Mario or Zelda killer app.

Eventually it’ll be a great selling machine, but these early numbers are misleading.

Nazi Germany, Russia, Hungary, Hong Kong…

We are in step one in a long-storied process of what Russia has termed “political technology.” Seizing control of the information space is the number one priority for a new authoritarian regime, and that is because it works. And why does it work even though we think we can spot propaganda?

People won’t necessarily believe overt propaganda, but their perception of possibilities is also shaped more than they think by what they don’t hear. For example, Trump fired the person responsible for job numbers reporting yesterday. When Trump’s fake replacement job numbers come out, people won’t believe them, but they also will lack exposure to the real, negative data, overall reducing the legitimate, verifiable grounds for pessimism.

And that is the point of these moves. Eventually, the vibe voters and even moderate-information voters will reflect the effect of not hearing real negative news, even if they think they are savvy and can spot affirmative propaganda. Like in modern Russia, Trump’s (and his eventual successor’s - by choice or by death) support will actually organically grow, in addition to other plans they may have in the works to stay in power (like continued vote suppression, or inevitable and eventually, outright fraud).

I wish there was a way to easily break out of this.

Funnily enough I tried that too, still needed a code. Probably will be fine, I’ll try tomorrow,

Just FYI, they may be getting hammered. Tried this and to authenticate it sent a 15-minute-expiration 2FA code, which took 3 hours to arrive.