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Crazy that this is literally one of the lines Trump ran on - weaponizing the DOJ.

The Now I Get non-technical version, because I need someone to explain this to me x)

https://nowigetit.us/pages/d7f94fd0-e608-47f9-8805-429898105...

Yeah, but it seems those other protections would/could possibly be a coin toss (eg a successful defense in a trial) and quite costly even if they never get to that stage, and you need a bit more certainty than that. Otherwise help can only come from those willing to become martyrs

Modifying pardon powers requires a constitutional amendment? That’s wild.

I’m surprised we haven’t heard more direct action incidents - there is no way the shameless behavior of our high profile oligarchs is not ruffling a few feathers too much.

Maybe they are just not reporting near misses

Steve Jobs here, this user is wrong and you are both fired for not realizing this

Not only that, but also they have deep monitoring of any little good idea that might get traction within their platforms. It’s trivial for them to see what’s picking up and bring in-house.

Any rando might be able to push out their cute tool (hi mom!), this is what they (will) sell, but true leverage will happen for those that can allocate their vast resources to further dominate; The big players just appropriated the collective corpus of mankind’s knowledge.

Look at the last 3 years of AI startups, and it’s crazy how the big guys are folding use cases into their platforms - I cannot be the only one wondering what’s the point of developing a tool only for OpenAI et all to just incorporate the same eventually. There is no clear boundary as to what the business of the big ones is.

It’s possible they do not appreciate how AI will help some rich fucks siphoning all the money out of the economy and into their bank accounts.

From a Historical perspective, my learning makes me disagree with your statement - that fascism is in essence anti-capitalist.

> At the moment that the "normal" police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium – the turn of the fascist regime arrives. Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of the crazed petty bourgeoisie and the bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat – all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy.

> The social democracy hoped that the docile conduct of the workers would restore the "public opinion" of the bourgeoisie against the fascists.

“Fascism: what is it and how to fight it”, Leon Trotsky

https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/trotsky/fascism-how-to-fight...

Mussolini, after political defeat as a socialist and editor of “Avanti!”, pivoted, started calling himself a “libertarian”, and courted capitalists (industrialists, oligarchs) to fund his newspaper “Il popolo d’Italia” (1914).

Ultimately, in Fascism, the only thing that truly matters is the regime itself, as demonstrated by fascist regimes that don’t fit so cleanly in our definition of Capitalism (like Argentina’s 1950s union based, military Peronist movement). From this perspective, I concede that Fascism is anti-capitalist in the sense that it is anti-everything that is not the regime.

However looking at the historical European, and contemporary American evidence, capitalistic mechanics and actors (ie. the oligarchy), seem to be the preferred route to it.

A little direct action a day, keeps the surveillance state away

It would be unfair to form such a generalized opinion from a single incident, even it that incident was quite brutal.

However, 4 years of following RU military attempts to take over Ukraine have reinforced my belief that RU army doesn’t give two shits about its personnel. They got plenty of people, and their value seems to exclusively correlate with the person’s usefulness towards the Tsar, which at an individual level is generally zero.

“He wouldn’t lie to me.” - American President

Compound that with knowing that your military doesn’t give a damn about it and whether you have any chance of being alive - brutal

Rick Rubin said it best.

https://youtu.be/jg1WUOxY6Cg?si=0ajVvgKnyuSz0e2Y

I wonder how many Adobe users are aware of this sketchy behavior tho

I don’t trust that we landed on the moon because Neil Armstrong says we did, but because it is confirmed by innumerable other informed people and verifiable factors.

If there is anyone worth approaching with a double dose of skepticism is this Israeli Prime Minister in bed with religious extremists, who failed his primary mandate and is self-dealing with a consummated conman like Trump

Putting aside the cast-based insane wealth inequality and the extremist religious zealotry, I suspect they are referring to the pervasive slave labor culture

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie...

I’m still trying to understand how Oct 7 happened, across what is probably one of most closely monitored borders in the world.

It just doesn’t make any sense, from the guys that had Hezbollah using their explosive pagers for years.

Whichever Sweden uses, idc - because if not it’s just disproportionately hurting those that have less

You remember Qasim Solemani? The guy Trump bragged on national television about how he blew up?

That guy collaborated with US forces, led a 2001 uprising against the Taliban in Herat, effectively liberating the town before US army had to make contact with the enemy. Do you understand what leading a local uprising against the Taliban in 2001 meant?

Iran was the first ME country to sympathize and hold candle vigils after the fucking Saudi’s (the guys Trump rolls out the red carpet for, btw) blew up the towers, things were ready to normalize - and then Bush says they are part of the axis of evil with Iraq (which Iranians had a war shortly before that) and North Korea.

Iraquís started chanting “death to America” after we murdered 1 million of their fellow citizens.

They hate us not only because they are religious freaks, but also because we fuck with their country non-stop. We just go around blowing shit up, or enforcing regime change (Iran-Contra?). It’s unsurprising lots of them hate our guts - I would too.

Ps. LATAM is the same, btw - we fucked with their governments non-stop, the only ones that like us are the rich fucks that want to use the military to further amass fortunes.

I’m shocked, let me tell you

The US Army becoming Israel’s strike force, at the hands of rapist, what a time to be alive

Can’t be a surprise to anyone that is even superficially familiar with Iran-US relationships, prior to the Ayatollah’s return in the 70s

I’m just hoping Schumer doesn’t advocate for merging with IDF, if the GOP loses the majority

Best case scenario is when they lose the majority

Second one in 24hrs…and that’s with their “anti-air defenses destroyed”, per our Commander in Chief

Sure, but make fines proportionate with reported income

I’ve gone cold turkey to preserve my mental health, and it’s been amazing. FB & IG completely screwed my dopamine / reward cycle.

I only miss FB marketplace. Rest, I’m crushing it.

Is this a way to use FB marketplace and groups without all the other bullshit?!

I’m sold