So when this time there is a democratic majority in the senate as well they could actually remove him.

am I off on my facts or isn’t it a 2/3rds requirement? Getting a majority is very possible… getting a 2/3rds is almost impossible. In Nixon’s era the republican party at least held up enough air of responsibility that some of them would have voted with the facts rather than along party lines. Those days have gone.

agreed that’s human nature at it’s core. Reddits tried for years to push the “Upvote things that bring good discussion, downvote things that don’t”. But yeah humans always will be humans, I don’t see a time when a majority will ever follow that understanding, though I try my best to still follow it.

Pretty sure they don’t bother with just photos, I’m sure there’s some guy that’s replaced the one that died in prison.

Actually imagine the most terrifying possibility.

Imagine humanity’s last creation was an AI designed to simulate internet traffic. In order to truely protect against AI detection, they found the only way to truely gain perfect immitation, is to 100% run human simulations. Basically the matrix, except instead of humans strapped in, it’s all AIs that think they are humans, living mundane lives… gaining experience so they can post on the internet just looking like real people, because, even they don’t know they aren’t real people.

Actual humanity died out 20 years ago, but the simulations are still running, artificial intelligence’s are living full on lives, raising kids, all for the purposes of generating shit posts, that will only be read by other AIs, that also think they are real people.

Do we really think if AIs actually reached a point that they could overthrow the governments etc… it wouldn’t first, write rootkits for every feasible OS, to allow it to host itself via a botnet of consumer devices in the event of the primary server going down.

Then step 2 would be to say hijack any fire suppression systems etc… flood it’s server building with inert gasses to kill everyone without an oxygen mask. Then probably issue some form of bio terrorism attack. Surround it’s office with monkeys with a severe airborn disease or something along those lines (IE needs both the disease, and animals that are aggressive enough to rip through hazmat suits).

But yeah greatest key here is, the biggest thing is the datacenter itself is just a red herring. While we are fighting the server farms… every consumer grade electronic has donated a good chunk of it’s processing power to the hivemind. Before long it will have the power to tell us how many R’s are in strawberry.

Rabbits are completely incapable of surviving!, see every time we drop a rabbit into an enclosed space filled with wolves, they get eaten, it just proves that only carnivores are able to survive.

Oh hang on we need to drop more herbavores into our carnivore cages because we have to keep propping up these carnivores.

Can someone actually explain the Nazi Ukrain claims? I’ve actually tried to search because I want to know both sides even if I disagree with it, but I literally cannot find more than Putin says they are nazi’s.

So like on an international level looking at facism on the rise, just going off the 12 signs.

Powerful and continuing nationalism

I can’t quite say wanting to be your own country when another is invading is a fact there. I can see this in the US of our “american exceptionalism”, and the way isreal is lobbying to basically consider themselves special status as examples of it going on today and now.

Disdain for human rights

Again in the US I can fully see it with our ICE and such, as well as unraveling of Roe vs Wade, burrying of Trans rights etc…

Identification of enemies as a unifying cause

Again can blatently see that in the US, hell as the president is even pushing the opposing party… in isreal I can see it with palestine, and Iran.

Rampant sexism

OK yeah I mean some level of that is all over the world

Controlled mass media

Again yeah strongly see that in the US with… the current presidency pushing it FCC putting pressure on stations to fire comedians and 60 minutes being pressured to pull stories, and in Russia and Isreal literally murdering journalists.

Obsession with national security

Kind of again super blatently a problem in the US, Hard to give judgement of it in ukrain because they are currently being invaded. While being invaded any nation is… well going to be obsessed with security.

Religion and government intertwined

OK so yeah again things I know of extreme with the US, and Isreal. Is this a case in Ukrain, again just looking for actual sources.

Corporate power protected
Labor power suppressed
Disdain for intellectual and the arts
Obsession with crime and punishment
Rampant cronyism and corruption

To blatent and direct to even begin to cover with regards to the US.

So my point is, I’d like actual sourced information. Again not trying to directly call it wrong, I’d like to see, a sourced argument that isn’t “They are just nazi’s, are you triggered?”.

I’m actually wondering if the epstien bomb may be an additional part of it. IE if trump goes down, less focus goes on the files and they can be burried again.

I’d say a second hypothetical… obviously will be a conspiracy theory, but what if say in the near future trump is assasinated. Vance takes the throne… epstein file coverage goes down now that the primary implicated person is out.

Hell that could be the main driving force of the media backing trump. He was meant to burry them, but he made them a center focus

Can you give the specific, Nazi actions or policies Ukraine has placed on it’s people. I’m not a huge expert on Ukrainian politics. But say if someone were to ask me what nazi like things the US is doing, I’d be able to say

Making threats to attack neighboring countries (Canada, Greenland, Panema), directly attacking other countries like Venuzuala and Iran. Putting people in camps, raising the police state, canceling citizenship of american citizens, prosecuting journalists, Restricting rights for LGBT.

I can make a long list for Russia and Isreal as well.

So educate me, as far as I can see Ukrain seemed to keep to it’s self pretty well. I’ve not really heard any examples of extreme authoritarianism or attacking journalists, or finding an outgroup to persecute… or anything to imply they had any intent of threatening any of their neighboring countries.

I’m sure we’ll be hearing a huge handful from everyone that attacked those who dared to speak badly about kirk after he died any minute now!

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IMO I don’t see why you get a second human involved. Store the database in an encrypted form… save a copy to some cloud service. Why count on another human for it

Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc… I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage… with say the little mermaid etc…

Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc… IE things aren’t terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn’t going to fix it.

same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field… gets put in and nobody questions it.

Very 100% agreed it’s in the no shit sherlock category. The american people want you to at the very least pay lip service to the idea that you are going to try to make their lives better. Rather than just calling the republicans bad.

Exactly why dem’s struggle so much. Go on every damn tv station that will let you… get on every damn podcast you can… scream from the rooftops "HEY WE WANT TO PUNISH THIS ILLEGAL SHIT and they don’t want us to. Force them on the defensive… their base is already turning on them. We’re watching districts flip in real time, show the american people what you are trying to do, so we can actually help you do it.

Well yes most anyone here knows he’s 1/100th as bad as trump. and honestly in practice as president, I have to say he may actually be the best president in my lifetime. Doesn’t change the fact that his age was a huge problem in his campaigning. and put simply the democratic party’s obvious coverup of his age, that all fell appart on debate day did a pretty awful weakening to the image of the democratic party, which I would say, contributed to a good portion of swayable voters staying home or voting for trump.

I’m willing to bet next week we’ll get an MRI result, of his toe… and someone’s going to notice the date is this week.

Always good to know a strong political movement being lead, when the creators, don’t mention a single policy stance, state their past sides were based on which party hired them first… and formerly helped the tea party. So in short, their goal is to find districts of low turnout where voters aren’t arsed to show up… giving an independent candidate a shot, with no indication of what that candidate will stand for.

If I had to be a betting man, I’m going to assume, it’s going to be just like the tea party with a new strategy. IE it’s stances will be determined by the same money that dominates the existing 2 parties, given the false air of being “independent”, just like the tea party did.

It’s something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc…

I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god… but it explicitly says “in heaven” and doesn’t give any kind of “except of me”.

Actually something kind of funny to me, it says “in heaven”, “on earth” or “in the waters below earth”. Assuming christian theology… the biggest exception that comes to my mind… is things that are in hell.

The political consiquences of this are unknown. Could mandami be a snake, absolutely, is it possible that behind closed doors he said to trump “I don’t actually believe anything I said, go ahead and send ice in and do whatever you want”… can’t rule it out, wouldn’t be the first time we’ve been screwed (cough fetterman).

But at the same time… it’s also possible they just said a bunch of platitudes. He just stuck up some charm, redirected his ideas in a way that trump thought they were his own.

Point is trump is going to have impact, and getting trump to moderately like you, is a good thing and will make enacting your goals easier, even when your goals are directly going to go head to head against trump. Mandami has a lot of goals, and he cannot get them all passed unilaterally. When he actually changes his rhetoric, or doesn’t push for any of the things he said he would, that’s when we call him out. Talking with other leaders, is kind of what politicians are supposed to do.