And he’s not the only one: During Trump’s second term, 19 Democrats have voted to confirm at least one of Trump’s nominees.

I am not familiar with the nominees in this case. Are they the typical Trump unqualified pieces of shit?

I read the sentence quoted and thought “that sounds a little bit too much like team sports.” But then I also thought about how ridiculous the real world has become, so maybe zero support was the correct amount.

I wonder how much of the push behind this is from asshole men worried that their kinder wife is secretly voting against the republicans.

I bet some of the worst of them are psychopaths who don’t directly enjoy it as much as they enjoy proving that they can do it and get away with it. Because they’re special. They’re better than everybody else. Clearly. /s

No, because I can’t shake the feeling that I’ll be watching a documentary in a decade or two and learn that these Nazis took multiple ideas from works of fiction meant to be a warning.

Decades of indoctrination and conditioning is a hell of a drug.

Me reacting to that statement 30 years ago: Yeah ok it’s the Illuminati controlling the world and doing evil shit. I’ll be sure to hunt them down in the future smash hit game Deus Ex.

Me reacting to that statement 30 seconds ago: fuck

If they ever remove this ass from office, it will probably just be the final compromise to somehow still not release the epstein files.

Oh don’t worry, most of them who voted for him a third time are still cheering on the leopards with glee as all the smart-ass minorities and democrat-run areas get what’s coming to 'em!

I went and looked at the profile of a real life trumper who is no longer a friend, on a social media site that I also mostly avoid, and they are openly supporting ICE.

Their justification is literally “imagine if you or your loved one was killed by an illegal” after listing a random list of names of people who were supposedly killed by “ILLEGALS.” But it’s a 3-paragraph post written by somebody who seems to think they are very clever for coming up with a weak metaphor for “imagine if somebody got some shit instead of you” so it’s probably just a copypasta from some grifter they follow.

Jeez. Forget going mask-off. This asshole just did the equivalent of walking in the room naked.

Thank you for this post!

For me, getting into self hosting was nice because of the privacy and tinkering yes, but a huge part of it was just having my stuff work reliably and without enshittification.

I just set up my Home Assistant server and new Zigbee network in the past few weeks and it’s pretty awesome. Was already using Jellyfin despite having a lifetime Plex pass. Feels good man.

I know, right? How am I supposed to take that argument seriously?

This is not a situation where being technically logically correct matters. Of course we don’t AHKSHUALLY know. The world is complex and chaotic. Maybe if Harris got elected and started a reasonable administration the butterfly effect would have led to kim jong un launching all his nukes last month.

We don’t get to try both ways. Sometimes we have to estimate probabilities and acknowledge that all choices are flawed and come with numerous risks.

Just look at the news and be honest with yourself.

It reads to me like it’s meant to take down the “the left wing in America is still right wing in most of the civilized world” assumption that’s buried within the political alignment graph.

And I think there’s also a potential disconnect where one party could be thinking “american democrats = right wing” while the other is hearing “individual leftists in america = right wing” which world be a lot more likely to elicit a response.

In near future Black Mirror USA I could see that being a real diagnosis but one of the checkboxes is that it only applies to rich patients paying cash for VIP boutique healthcare.

Anybody who needs to use health insurance or receive any kind of government benefits would never be exempted from any of the tried and true methods of control.

It’s like each newly revealed crime against humanity can only permanently lose him a single maga influencer or high profile republican.

And I wish it weren’t so, but I bet he has enough in his history to lose them all.

Unfortunately the lesson that needs to be learned, that trumpers shouldn’t just move on to supporting Vance doing the same evil shit but without the rap sheet and the dementia, probably isn’t going to happen.

Down there touching our Earth too! 🤢

The first few minutes and any rough treatment or insults was more than enough for uh, doing his job.

The rest of the 10 years is a “you have disrespected The Party and The Race” bonus.

The AI scanner

Oh boy. Does this mean that one or more of our favorite tech sociopaths might have full unredacted versions of the kompromat that they totally promised the AI system would not save?

Oh we have men of character forming militias alright.

The character is just a lobotomized and racist Elmer Fudd.

I think you guys can both be correct here. Just because shitty people are all over the Earth, that does not negate the problems people point out with the US.

I did not see them say or even imply that the US is the only place with sexist conservatives, or that we are the worst in the world about it. It was answering a question about the US too.

I think we all know that there are places in the world that have been far worse for far longer in just about any bad way you can think of. But it’s still pretty noteworthy when the world’s superpower that once saw itself as a diverse melting pot and land of opportunity and democracy goes and elects somebody who literally said on TV that they would be a dictator. And this after that same person already did a horrible bad faith job for all the world to see.

Most supporters voted for him thrice. Just another old white dude got in the way that one time.