You should pay the first few marks so they’ll help establish the veneer of credibility. That’s Conning 101.

I forget the corresponding Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number.

Shocked any received it, honestly.

Yeah, the reason I referenced the ‘nothing to hide’ thing was because he’s a lawman, and that’s a lawman saying.

I agree with you.

Great, thanks.

So how about we get enraged and vow to fight the blatant fascism going on in [gesturing about broadly].

Too much to ask?

Why would he? Nothing to hide, etc.

As the prosecutor during a nonfascist stint of the government, he was doing his actual job. That sounds ludicrous to these fascist weasels, but weirdly, he wasn’t doing politics. He was a prosecutor for The Hague, IIRC. A by-the-book career man. He literally has nothing to hide here.

It’s so annoying that so many people think everything is intrigue and spycraft when most government jobs are very boring just do-your-job monotony. Stop thinking everything is like movies and learn some real life shit, please. The world is far more boring than you think.

Unfortunately, they can do quite a lot of damage before they fail.

We really need to understand that Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show.

We’ve mythologised fascists to the point we’ve made recognising them difficult.

Oh wow, she’s beautiful!

Is there a /c/supermodelcats?

e: sadly, not yet

Pretty sure the torts in those photos are plotting assassinations. You can see it in their eyes.

Contact them. Flood their inboxes, chats, and phone lines.

Worse, Project 2025 wasn’t written by one guy, but by a large team of people (mainly the Heritage Foundation and a handful of related groups). This plan was generated by groups of idiots, by a coordinated conservative ‘think tank’.

Many of the problems you pointed out aren’t bugs to them, they’re features. Their goals are very misaligned from ours. If you see it through their lens – of accelerationist dominionism – many of those points aren’t problems, but methods to reshape society to serve their particular goals.

For example, they want all of public education to collapse so that all education can become evangelical church-based. Teachers shouldn’t need to be certified beyond a religious education. They’re already very fond of spinning up universities and giving people the flimsiest of PhDs. Look at the number of Christian authors with ‘Dr’ before their name, then see where they got their doctorate and what it’s in. They do not care about education, except that kids should be able to read the bible and learn extra things for common professions, like working with numbers. If all teachers are housewives with training in the bible and the 4Rs, they think that’s a good thing.

They want to put the lower classes in their place, and that includes religiously. This is pretty clearly a blueprint for a christofascist utopia.

e: links. Also, many in the groups associated with this project are self-avowed dominionists.

Time to buy a ham radio?

Tell you what, let’s meet in the middle and make your death day a holiday. So come on now, hurry up so we can celebrate it in 2026.

I haven’t, and I’ll have a look at those, thanks!

🎶 The wheels on the bus go round and round 🎶

I could curl up with that movie and a warm blanket if I had the flu. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it, but I wouldn’t resist it, either.

Many family movies also work. Plus Scooby doo for some reason.

Uh… yeah?

ALL those stories are based on previous stories.

I’m really not sure what your point is.

This doesn’t tell you anything if they were all derived from earlier stories – which, it turns out, is actually the case. We have the earlier stories as proof, in many cases.

Thank you.

Quick tip: going old-school by calling and faxing are more disruptive to their business than emailing. There are free, anonymous, online faxing services, you don’t need to have a machine.

Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.

I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).

I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.