We are being actively dragged back in time to a point where it was less difficult for the rich and powerful to control us like livestock

Thank you, I’m so tired of this loyalty to decorum. Call them what they are, authoritarian regressives

Wild that I got downvoted to hell like 9 months ago for suggesting such a thing

Not in my experience growing up with “good Christians”

It just further proves that the primary driving philosophy of conservatism is in groups and out group, one to be protected and one to be bound

I’ll be intrigued to see how this goes with his followers, seems like they’d be opposed to this

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Google would likely be the subject of several lawsuits from other companies big enough to damages them if they just suddenly pulled the plug on Drive without an off ramp time. So even if one was worried, they’d have to have time to move the files somewhere else.

Dude I’ve been getting those vibes since it became apparent Trump couldn’t be kept from becoming the GOP nominee

I agree it’s probably not the number one reason someone would turn down one of those jobs. But anyone that’s on the fence might be swayed

I’m increasing suspicious is that the reason marijuana is being rescheduled is that someone finally convinced the brass that they are talent limited in the IT world because of the large percentage of IT pros that smoke

Pretty much, they’ll all eventually turn on each other for not being Christian enough but they’ll keep it together long enough to destroy the lives of everyone else

I’m a systems analyst, I had to get really fucking good at assessing the stupidity and dishonesty of other people because I have to write documentation for people that couldn’t tell the differences between windows 10, windows 11, macOS, Linux, and Android. Not tell you the difference, tell the difference at all. But they tell you they worked with one of them for ten years starting in 01

We united and circled the wagons, everyone that wasn’t with America was against America, that’s what 9/11 did, it gave a spark to an already existing powder keg of latent fascism in the subconscious of America. It destroyed a sense of invincibility that had been growing inside our collective culture, that the struggles were behind us and we’d always be safe, the fear and sense of uncertainty it brought thoroughly cooked the brains of so many Americans that we started distrusting everything and backing into isolation.

Bin Laden won because his goal was to make America bleed, to prove it was vulnerable to its own people, which would and has lead to the place we now stand

See I would have agreed with you just a few years back, the fear of a martyr is that it will radicalize their followers. I don’t think that applies here because in their eyes he’s already surpassed martyr status

I’m not giving them this W, Bin Laden is the most influential single actor here, there were many more who laid the ground work(the John Birch society, the federalist society, George Lincoln Rockwell, William Luther Pierce, Roger Stone, Murdoch, Limbaugh, and the Koch’s come to mind) but 9/11 was the poison pill that broke the country

Hate and cruelty age your face, I don’t have research to prove that beyond looking at Kissinger vs Mr Rogers at the end of their lives.

I keep thinking there’s no way the top brass of the GOP and the DNC will be around next time, and we’ll really be able to fix shit then. I’m always wrong, but Joe, Mitch, and Trump all see to be showing their age more than usual for my lifetime(I was too young to remember Reagan’s Alzheimer’s), Nancy might still be around but she seems to be at least kinda taking a step back.

Can we please just make Congress into pro wrestling, it’s not like it’s not already some carny bullshit and we’ll make sure Vince stays away from it

Hanging means his death shit will be in full view, which will affect his followers final view of him. Otherwise I agree with you for say, if Kissinger ever saw justice