That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.

I’ve started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don’t shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.

I grew up in niave 90s with ‘internet will set us free’ thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.

The fascists don’t care about consistency or fairness. By definiton they’re opposed to that.

They will without a doubt block anyone else from doing exactly what they are doing.

Killing multiple regime members on the court or expanding the court are the only two options if we want a supreme court that’s capable of upholding the law.

I doubt there were that many voters who oppose project2025 but were swayed away from kamala by thinking it’s not real.

About 30% of us adults voted R. 30-35% is about the maximum support that fascism can muster. Voter suppression won the election, not any particular policy or lie.

They’re fucking nazis and they’re doing violent nazi shit.

“ominous historical overtones” my ass. Call it what it is.

50% of the population wasn’t saying that, a widespread disinfo campaign funded by our corrupt oligarchs was spreading that talking point.

Affordability AND anti-corruption would be better.

That would give them a mandate to go after regime insiders for their many openly committed financial crimes.

But the Dems would rather let fascism win if the alternative is jailing the rich for their crimes.

Coprolite makes a great insult. I’m sure we can all think of some prominent fossilized turds.

Of course real coprolites are wealth of information and a welcome find, unlikely the fucking coprolites who seized control of the US.

Alerting venezuela to the risk might have foiled the operation.

Galvanizing public opinion beforehand might have led them to rethink. Continuing against public opinion costs more political capital than selling it after it’s already done. Authoritarian regimes can ignore public opinion more than representative ones, but they still can’t ignore it entirely.

Maybe reporting the story wouldn’t change the outcome, but it’s a possibility.

to avoid endangering US troops

This is a straight up lie. They held off to avoid blowing the lid on the US regime’s undeniably illegal actions.

If they had reported on government malfesance as is their sacred duty, they might have stopped a crime before it happened.

Bono was briefly into these.

That’s right, U2 grew a shrew loo.

“Rules Based International Order” is just what the american empire calls itself in public. It’s sum total of the structures set up by and for US hegemony. Like how the Athenian Empire called itself the Delian League.

In a sense, there’s no purer expression of the rules based international order than illegally annexing territories for their oil.

Israel is an important and well-intergrated piece of the US empire so they get a say in how the empire is run. Working class new yorkers don’t matter in the same way.

To translate into the lies of empire: israel’s importance to foreign policy goals and deep cultural ties make it an interested commentator on domestic politics.

People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.

Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would’ve been if trump wasn’t making any of the decisions - we don’t have to imagine because we’re living it now.

War has always been a racket, since long before the west was a thing.

Killing people so you can take their stuff dates back to at least our last common ancenstor with chimpanzees.

Yeah there’s been some wild stuff coming out but this is implausible. Actual journalists who regularly deal with redacted docs must’ve been through most of it by now.

If this were true i don’t think would be a tweet, it would be an uncontainable story.

Edit: well it seems to have become an uncontainable story, though it’s a small amount of files.

Yeah it’s disapointing to see the guardian slowballing an explosive headline.

Epstein tells fellow child rapist trump is one of us but we’re in jail.

My understanding is they only generated some textures, which everyone noticed and complained about, so they had to patch in human-created textures to replace them.

They also lost a goty award because they lied about having never used ai.

I don’t think either of those situations would encourage hidden use of ai.

I feel like a lot of people are misinterpretting your comment because of the way republicans frequently use “clintonzes are evilzes!” as a distraction from their own much greater problems.

I’d think the order wouldn’t come from clinton himself - gotta keep plausible deniability.

But i definitely agree with you - it’s unsurprising that the FBI under clinton declined to investigate child pornography allegations against a child sex trafficker who has strong links to clinton.

30% of US adults voted for trump - that 30-35% mark is probably about the total support that fascists can muster.

And yet people keep insisting the problem is the american people and not the corrupt system that allows minority rule.

It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.