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“Look, there’s no police misconduct! Any complaints are from woke radicals!”

A budding authoritarian regime needs to necessarily cozy up with those in positions of authority.

I think it’s only a matter of time before they prohibit recording in public and disseminating those recordings in places like YouTube.

Damn, that thing is running on a 5090, it’s on fire!

I don’t think JD Vance is going to care, he’s already receiving more off the only compensation he cares about by sucking up to MAGA and Project 2025. I’m curious what creative excuse they will come up with, since they won’t want to make JD Vance look bad when they ban it.

My personal opinion is that Putin would have thrown Musk out of a window already if he could have, and that Bannon is basically his proxy on this. Musk just wants smaller, easier to influence nations that his companies can more easily manipulate and be less subject to regulations as a result. Musk doesn’t give a shit about Putin, he is more concerned about there being an economy under him he can’t exploit as well.

So three weeks to either suck up to the US until Russia snipes them off while the US does so as well. Trump opening up with wanting to acquire Greenland and Canada wasn’t him being mad, it wasn’t him being resentful, it wasn’t him being a strong man, it was always within the context of where Trump’s US along with Russia are positioning themselves now. Forget the bombing of Hiroshima, if a nuclear bomb got dropped in Ukraine or Europe, Trump and his followers would blame Europe and do nothing to help it. The US has gone from being schizophrenic bipolar to just being psychotic. COVID was a herald of the world that awaits them, people will get to decide if they follow it as slaves or die with some dignity, knowing that their legacy might be buried under a sea of lies.

This picture needs Musk holding another leash from the other side to be accurate.

He’s a dictator and law has quickly become a facade in the US. All that was needed was for a money cult to hog government and for the opposition to be ok with becoming spineless leeches of their money as well.

Maybe, but it is also a social values problem. People have been raised to believe they are entitled to the wealth they’ve accrued, their society be damned. They got one or several houses? They can rent and are entitled to passive income with very little overhead while the rest of society increasingly finds it harder to make ends meet because they don’t even own their property. Have a lot of wealth? Just live off of the interest while inflation and lack of ways to make money for those belonging to the part of the economy not optimized to make as much money as possible get poorer.

Being rich after a certain threshold needs to be taxed. Hiding your wealth in investments and feeding a market only focused on maximizing profit needs to be regulated. How much property someone can own needs to be limited. MAGA is only possible because of the effort they spend to crowdsource the values of greed and narcissism onto their followers.

Expecting them to invest it back into their communities is expecting trickle down economics to work.

Expecting them to invest it back into their communities is expecting trickle down economics to work.

You are pretty much the case in point: Grossly stereotyping the alternative into a perspective only based on extreme prejudice with an ample amount of pet peeves projected from personal experience. Like, I was actually expecting to see at least one valid counterpoint, like how much corporate interests shit on and ransack OSS, or the inherent dichotomy between software maintained out of goodwill in an environment that’s increasingly defined by greed and intellectual property bullshit inside failing economies, but nope.

Biden was an opportunity for the old Republican party to prevail. Instead they rolled out the carpet for MAGA, and now they are rolling it for an authoritarian dictatorship. Frankly, had the democratic stoked more attention, the more bullshit that would have been spun up about them. The root of the problem is that MAGA was getting propped up with control of social networks personality cults and the sort of modern day profile targeting a shitload of money can provide.

The ego and lack of experience of the Hitler Youth coupled with a team small enough to prevent leaks.

In another timeline, single celled organisms warning their brethren about how their use of calcification processes will result in contamination that lasts forever.

“Don’t look at the man behind the curtains!”

If the people who were jumping at any excuse to call out a swamp can’t see it now when it is in plain sight, it is because they don’t want to.

Good thing that the US has a monopoly on chips and they don’t mostly come from Asia/China, right?

The only thing this is assuring is that other places like Europe don’t pass through US brands before getting their computer equipment. If China was already good at one thing, it was at creating generic brands to bypass things like US IP for other regions. Now, the US has given them an additional stimulus in doing so. Hell, it has even given other countries a reason to support China over Taiwan. If you are looking for something to invest in, might want to look into investing in AliExpress.

Good thing for my argument that the problem is most manifestly systemic and not dependent on the rating of any airport pulled out of anyone’s ass. Last I checked, this time the plane didn’t collide with other aircraft, so I’ll give the ATCs a pass. Then again, I wasn’t the one insecure enough to bring them up.

Funny thing, when a system is stressed enough, the effects generally propagate throughout all of it as resources that would have been available in one area are dwindled in other areas. I’ll let you get back to your Canada being a US state lemmy.ml fantasizing.

Imagine being such a Russian pawn that you immediately bring the aviation industry down to Russia’s level.