“gloves off” is supporting the daily “music festival” (what we have to call the protests to avoid censorship on social media) in LA and coordinating other cities to join the festivities. It is making a list of corrupt judges who’s verdicts will be ignored. It is claiming that gerrymandered politicians will similarly be ignored. It is strategy that depends on the one thing the GOP doesn’t have: broad public support.

Have they tried cursing while supporting Israel? I’m sure that will work.

They will just change how the rules work, again.

The courts are rigged.

Nah, they want your money and making the election a desperate struggle for survival is the best way to do that. They couldn’t care less about votes.

To assert dominance?

The governor didn’t call for their imprisonment but that they be returned to the state to perform their duties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Oregon_Senate_Republican_walkout

Also did not call for them to loose their seats or that the FBI be sent after them.

If Newsom is our best hope then we are fucked. The guy thinks if the throws enough minorities under the bus the rest of the country will forget he is a Democrat from California.

Ahh yes, we all remember that time the Democratic president asked a state to gerrymander away some oppositional seats. /s

We also remember when Republicans fled Oregon to deny quorum. (This one is not sarcastic)

I wonder how many Republicans would be unseated with rank choice voting…

The more overworked people are the more willing they are to take intellectual shortcuts and not think independently. One of those shortcuts is to mistake a contrarian opinion as independent thought. Throw in a contrarian leader into an economy where people are overworked and this is the result.

And sometimes even little girls.

If media bubbles didn’t dominate the landscape they would see common cause with the farm workers who also don’t like breathing pesticides when working in the fields.

As t the very least we are entitled to see the complete Epstein files.

There’s a difference between seeing and perceiving. If you see AI slop and don’t see how it is different than something crafted by a human expert, that is a problem of one’s perception.

1. How Generative AI is framed by the industry is an affront to humanistic values.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/tech-ceos-dont-seem-to-realise-just-how-anti-human-their-ai-fanaticism-is-and-i-think-its-all-because-of-the-enlightenment/

2. It’s not even close to consciousness. For those of us who understand how these things work it’s almost an insult to make the comparison.

https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html

3. All the other unethical considerations mentioned elsewhere by others (stealing art, water usage, politics).

The immigration courts happen to be directly ran by the executive branch. They’re firing any judge who isn’t onboard.

Many restaurants are allowed to pay their employees below minimum wage. They expect tips to fill that gap.

It should but it doesn’t. Like for a while starbucks tips would go towards the shift that cleans the place.

Are clean surfaces something special?