Yay! Baby steps. Seems to be a lot of those recently.

“As much as these local leaders and governors talk about cooperating and having the backs of our law enforcement officers, this is what we have to put up with every single day,” she said. “And all we’re doing is getting criminals, and terrorists, and cartels, and gang members off the streets.”

lol it’s the escalator story all over again

I always suspect that even the “local” models somehow connect to some larger database out in the internet.

Yeah but “my people” is humanity. That’s the difference.

Reports circulating on social media – difficult to independently verify – claim that more than 11 Hamas members were killed, with some of their bodies dragged through the streets.

I hate this so much: why would Palestinian journalism be more “difficult to independently verify” than Israeli journalism?

Yeah, I need a better article about this incident.

I have seen this on another .gov website recently. I opened it in Tor Browser and on top of the stupid text it was also super annoying, popping up whenever I clicked a link.

Me too. Of course it would require some sort of cataclysmic event first.

I use it for podcasts, the app is gPodder but doesn’t require a gPodder account. It does have a search function though.

… with AI 🤣

edit: not sure why I think that’s funny, of course they’re using AI. Clearview, according to the article.
I just thought of vibe coding disasters and DOGE fucking pretty much everything up, I guess, but we’re beyond that now.

Mixing metaphors here; so far I think Nazi Germany still fits better than Orwell’s 1984. Like, uncannily so. Almost every single action of this admin can be compared to something that happened in Germany after 1933.

Like they’re interested in that anymore.

A well played double entendre, my liege!

In-group, out-group, fascism etc.

I can’t remember the full quote or who wrote it.

Or: rules for thee but not for mee

You’d want to look at how minorities are treated in the countries the immigrants are coming from to predict future behavior. The answer is usually going to be “quite a bit worse, actually.”

It doesn’t work like that, unless all immigrants came from the same place, as a homogenous group.

I know, some immigrants are just as xenophobic as the “original” inhabitants of their new home (e.g. my mom), but never in the same way as it was in their former country.

But emigrating in itself means a desire for change; a desire to change.

I think it’s a good gotcha. It says: what are you really afraid of? That you’re going to be treated just as badly as you are treating minorities?

That’s what this is about, not any hypothetical future situation where $MINORITY becomes the majority. That’s just thinking in the same terms of paranoia the xenophobes are thinking in.

You’re not wrong. These comedians have made their choices. For money, against integrity.

You’re not wrong about capitalism, either, but is that a valid reason to just do anything for money?

Here’s the line-up btw (not complete I guess):

The Riyadh Comedy Festival features an exciting lineup of comedians including Jimmy Carr, Louis C.K., Tom Segura, Mo Amer, Mark Normand, Russell Peters, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jo Koy, Jeff Ross, Jack Whitehall, Aries Spears, Pete Davidson, Sugar Sammy, Zarna Garg, Andrew Schulz, Sam Morril, Hannibal Buress, Chris Tucker, Ben Hart, and Wayne Brady.

In an interview on the tabloid’s “Pod Force One” podcast, Lutnick told The Post’s Miranda Devine that Epstein, his former neighbor, was “the greatest blackmailer ever,” and that “may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal.”

Programmer Shitposting

The letter cited President Donald Trump’s Article II powers under the Constitution to dismiss federal agency career personnel, a justification used in several recent firings at the Department of Justice and FBI.

Governing by presidential decree is as close as you can get to absolute monarchy - or, let’s called it as it is, fascist tyranny - in this country. And they already started dismantling the last remaining obstacles. As he himself said “if you vote for me you’ll never have to vote again”.

The terminations are currently being challenged in several lawsuits.

Good.

This shit is horrible, but it gets worse. People are dying from this regime.

Here’s to hoping! 🍻

The ones I understand are pretty offending to the originals.