Imagine the USA being the new North Korea, Donald Jr. eventually following his father to the throne. Ostracized by the world. Global hacker scams and their own version of Juche. The parallels are astounding, esp. if you make a few simple deductions into the near future: distribution of wealth, collapsed economy while claiming it’s booming…

* too weaks

“Please buy Tesla again! We kicked him out already, all is good now!”

Talking to family, coworkers and friends: the public image of Musk took a long while to destroy (thanks to no-one but Musk), and Tesla is connected to it 100%. These my peers only just about got to where this is now the majority opinion.

FWIW I’m seeing more and more new electrical cars on the roads, none of which are Tesla. And a lot of those who drive one feel compelled to apologize for it.

Sorry for the downvotes, OP, but in good old reddit tradition this community is for US politics.

I’m sure you can find better communities for this.

What is there NOT to impeach?

NYT as a whole hasn’t really been neutral or “dedicated to journalistic objectivity” for a long time now.

Famous are their countless pieces blaming democrats for losing elections because they’re not republican enough.

They bear a fair share of the blame for how the USA got to where it is today.

Oh yeah, “Deregulate Everything”. Because that has done the USA a world of good in the past 100 years.

Not sure what’s supposed to be democratic about it. Or I guess they mean Democratic: OK, it needs to be pointed out. But isn’t that like pointing at the splinter in the Democrat’s eye while ignoring the beam in the Republican’s eye?

Opium for the masses

Lies.

In reality, Boelter was a Trump supporter who voted for Donald Trump in November, his best friend David Carlson told reporters Saturday. Boelter was a longtime conservative who was a registered Republican when he and his wife lived in Oklahoma in the early 2000s. He was against abortion rights but “never mentioned any particular anger with the lawmakers who were shot,” Carlson told CNN.

It’s hyperbole for sure, but OP was one of the first to post this when the linked article was hardly more than a note.

I have seen articles on Snopes that I personally find a little too conciliatory, but they don’t “lie”. I think they’re just really dedicated to fact checking. Do we think that Me-lon knew exactly what he was doing? There is no doubt in my mind. Can we know it as a fact? No.

We cannot read Musk’s mind to learn precisely what he intended by it.

I can see how this can be disappointing to some people.

BTW I suppose you are refering to this article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/20/musk-nazi-salute/

They quite clearly state that the salute had the (desired) effect anyhow:

Even so, Wired published that “the response from the neo-Nazi community across the globe was instant and unanimous.” Rolling Stone also noted much the same, with both publishers citing specific neo-Nazi accounts and other far-right users praising Musk’s gesture.

And there is plenty of fact that supports that Musk is a nazi, which Snopes also addresses.

Common sense confirmed. Thanks.

no-knock warrant

a horrible euphemism. That’s a raid.

This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I’m not missing anything, and delete them.

Worst case, I’ll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

This is the context I was missing yesterday.

Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

Isn’t it still fake then, if they claim they’re from yesterday? Politicians have to use simple words.

Also, they were already showing fake images back then. Or images of faked situations. Or fakely escalating situations, then taking pictures of them.

One day we are going to feel nostalgic about those crude beginnings of generative ai. I suspect we’re going to be well and truly fucked by then.

How is this not bigger news?

FWIW I just logged on and the first thing I saw was this story on German TV (edit: twice).

And if anybody has doubts about the political motivation:

Officials said they located the suspect’s vehicle, which had lights and sirens as if it were a police squad car, and found a “manifesto” inside with the names of other lawmakers and officials.

edit: the politician killed was pro gun control

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing parts of his sweeping executive order overhauling federal elections, including by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and barring states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston issued a preliminary injunction at the behest of 19 Democratic-led states who had argued that the Republican president lacked the authority to mandate changes to elections and the states’ voting procedures.

This is what really happens while the clowns are having a fight. Let’s just hope these 19 states do a little more than “argue”.

“The largest public gathering of centrist Democrats.”

WelcomeFest consisted of professional consultants telling politicians, ​“Don’t sound like you listen to consultants!”, followed by politicians saying ​“Ya know in my district there in the Midwest, I talk to regular folks, not consultants.”

Derek Thompson, coauthor of the new centrist Bible ​“Abundance,” jumped in with an inspiration. ​“Stories are for children,” he said, channeling the voice of a politician. ​“What Americans need is a plan.”

“I’m not a storyteller,” he declared, modeling a bold man of action. Then he pulled back from his speech, to pundit once again. ​“What I did there is also storytelling.”

This is how people sound when they’re just talking. Talking and talking, with nothing to say.

I always thought this book was more a techbro nazi utopia sort of bible.