Um i can agree that the democrats are fucking terrible but…. Like read the room a little? You just what about-ism’d to a party not currently in power in a situation where the republicans are actively killing peoples

Again you mean?

Thank you! Thank you! bows

It was important for me that elon takes the bob page role. And really hammer in that trump is somehow second fiddle as president.

Elon Musk: " My appointment overseeing FEMA should be finalized within the week. I’ve already discussed the other matter with  Mayor Eric Adams."

Camera cuts to Elon and Donald, alternating between them

Donald Trump: " I take it he was agreeable?"

Elon Musk: " He didn’t really have a choice."

Donald Trump: " Has he been indicted?"

Elon Musk: " Oh, yes, most certainly. When I mentioned that we could force the DOJ to withhold their case against him, he was so willing it was almost pathetic."

Donald Trump: " These plagues – covid lingers in the background as we cut ties with world medical groups, and bird flu already further raises the cost of eggs, and without leadership or funds, the FDA is incapable of containing its spread to humans."

Camera zooms in on Elons’ son picking his nose.

Elon Musk: " Why contain it? (Its coool!) Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they’ll beg us to save them."

Cut to the LA fires and a FEMA agent surrounded by farmers and newly homeless.

Donald Trump: " I’ve received reports of escalating natural disasters, and mass ICE deportations has irrevocably harmed the agricultural-business complex. There’s not enough food or funding to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate."

Camera pans through a super market. Food displays show surge pricing raise costs in real time.

Elon Musk: " Of course they’re desperate. They can smell their poverty, and the sound they’ll make rattling their cage in Gitmo will serve as a warning to the rest."

Cut to protests getting beat into submission by police.

Donald Trump: " Mmm. I hope you’re not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think – intelligence indicates grass roots protests are growing across the country."

Elon Musk: " A bunch of pretentious children pretending at changing the world. They protest where we want and how we want."
Elon Musk: " But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future."

Donald Trump: " We have other problems."

Elon Musk: " Activist judges?"

Cut to the terrace of the Supreme Court and the ceremony confirming Justice Kavanaugh. Attending are President Donald Trump with First Lady Melania. Agents in the back row, together with two generic NPCs.

Donald Trump: " Hired before my last term as president, they claim to have authority over my executive actions. I have people in place, though. I’m more concerned about Bernie Sanders. He stands to rally the orphaned progressive vote against me"

Cut to Guantanamo bay. The captured immigrants are forced to concentrate at this camp, exploited for labor.

Elon Musk: " Our party unity is lock-step and will believe anything we tell them over their very eyes. And democrat…ethical inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider."

Donald Trump: " Project 2025?"

Cut back to Washington.

Elon Musk: " Among other things – but I must admit that I’ve been somewhat disappointed in the… efficiency of the government agencies."

Donald Trump: " These agencies should be captured soon. We are currently undergoing a loyalty purge, and will be operational within six months. My people will continue to report on their progress. If necessary, these agencies will be terminated."

Elon Musk: " We’ve had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again, a new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical City on the Hill. Soon that city will be a reality, and I will be crowned its king."
Elon Musk: " Or better than king. Godking!"

You didn’t have to go that hard. You could have said “are you a doctor? ARE YOU MY DOCTORS? no? Then would you kindly stfu?”

Really they should have known better then to pick a gotcha out of an unknown situation

But its a lie… they had the chance to make this a reality, but they honestly don’t care. They can try to appeal to progressives but it’s too late.

So, ok.

1. They introduced exclusivity requiring people to use their storefront. So some would argue that Steam did that first… though only with games they made. This in of itself may not normally be that big a deal… if they didn’t rug pull customers of a few anticipated games into thinking they were getting steam keys because they were advertised as being on steam.
2. The EGS is still not feature complete. This goes hand in hand with problem one. The exclusivity bars the “”free market”” from making a choice as to which platform is better. And the ceo blatantly said that he did not care about trying to make a good store front, he could just force people into a worse system with exclusivity.
3. The EGS was against the very idea of a refund policy. Its owners were very very loud about it. As a matter of fact the ceo himself has caused a lot of the hate for the EGS though they have since given up and i think they match steam now.
4. The actual user interface and customer service are terrible. In contrast steam has been outstanding in its implementation
5. EGS did not initially allow user reviews, and wile i hear that there is some form of it now, they take a much less open approach to silencing dissent. As opposed to stream who still keeps dissent, but will give context to the scoring.

The EHS has given up on most of its open disdain for the consumer, but it apparently is going to take a lot more than a few years and free games to win over the crowd. And i personally REFUSE to have competing launchers on my system, and stream has the best good will with me by such a long shot, i don’t see how it would be remotely possible to get me to consider adding EGS.

I’m not here to defend Hitler or jk Rowling. Yea the joke is malformed

The implications are that hitler drew up the sketches. You know… The whole failed artist thing causing him to join the field of genocide tyrant instead.

Um… yea? It’s not supposed to? Let’s ignore how dangerous and foolish it would be to allow llm’s admin control of a system. The thing that prevents it from doing that is well, the llm has no mechanism to do that. The best it could do is ask you to open a command line and give you some code to put in. Its kinda like asking siri to preheat your oven. It didn’t have access to your ovens system.

You COULD get a digital only stove, and the llm could be changed to give it to reach out side itself, but its not there yet, and with how much siri miss interprets things, there would be a lot more fires

It was more then you deserved

Isn’t it already too late? Didn’t they already contaminate the data, and render security protocols unrecoverable?

No matter how specialized gorilla warfare would look, it’s still effective. Arming the progressives is key, which prompted my exclamation that all progressives should be armed. The narrative that guns should be banned is not only an unfeasible goal, but i do not see any way out of an armed conflict. And sure there may be other tools, but gorilla warfare is just ‘an irregular form of combat in which small, mobile groups use tactics like ambushes, sabotage, and hit-and-run attacks to fight a larger, conventional military force.’ Which is the exact scenario a rebellion would be facing and is proven effective against the US armed forces. Not sure what warfare you would argue would be better.

A war that becomes too costly to fight is a war lost. And kinda proves my point. I made no claim about how glorious, or easy an uprising would be, but i am not going to accept “its too hard” as a legitimate argument for giving up to tyranny. People are not very different, even at their most societal extremes, and the same tactics will work even better here in the states then where they were used on other countries soil, because of the very nature of guerrilla warfare and the previous advantages that the US enjoyed losing the previous wars would not be available.

The US government has lost all wars against gorilla warfare since i have been alive. And that is with an untouchable economy, uninterrupted logistics, and numbers.

None of that would be a thing in a revolt of the US. US Civilian weaponry is some of the finest in the world. And a 22. Will kill a man just as dead as a .50 BMG

So that’s the thing, it’s a lie of omission. The full line is ‘The civil war was fought over the states rights… to own slaves”. We were taught that north were not freeing slaves out of a moral standpoint, but to ensure monetary dominion over the south. Anyway, it’s carefully curated propaganda and white washing of history that is apparently still happening to this day.

That the civil war was fought over states rights.

We did WHAT?!

I feel that stupid is too easy an answer, especially when the stupid was manufactured, or at the very least the cure was withheld. There is a deeper part of human nature at play, greed is close but its more nuanced, it’s featured in the “tragedy of the commons” and against the tide even those who would act righteously in their own life would be replaced and utterly destroyed by the clawing hands of everyone else.

Every science fiction story has been a failed attempt at using our creativeness to warm us of our doom. Which This failure itself was foretold in mythology such as with Cassandra’s tears. We know our fate and we seem powerless to stop it, for some reason…