There’s a massive difference between taking the deer you hit with your truck and whatever the fuck RFK was doing with bear cubs in Central Park

Oh, so it won’t harm ICE then

Meanwhile, Lanky Kong

Schoolhouse Rock was a foundational part of my childhood. It’s because of those songs that I have the preamble to the Constitution memorized, and know what a preposition is

But the history songs… Wow. Presented as fun and educational, but the one about Manifest Destiny might as well be called “Lebensraum”

https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/

An oldie but goodie

That’s why I have my own olive trees, chicken farm, lemon orchard, anchovy fishery, and a dairy farm in Parma

I don’t know why anyone would buy readymade olive oil, eggs, lemon juice, anchovies, or Parmesan, they’re dead simple to make

They all have Grok AI integrated to ensure that they’re Always On™ and that all of the totally real and accurate details of the violent antifa rioters brandishing their automatic assault pistols are enhanced to perfect, crystal-clear HD

At least The Birth of a Nation and Riefenstahl’s films had an impact on filmmaking. No one’s going to cite Melania as inspiring anything other than suicidal thoughts while being forced to watch it

No, they showed me their antifa membership card, they’re legit /s

We just have to succeed before we get drone striked

The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.

It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters

Hegseth has to be a master of drunken boxing

Not like any actual fighting style, just years of experience trying to punch people outside of bars

Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”

I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.

Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.

You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.

This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.

No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.

Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.

We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!

No.

The leaders of the American revolution were some of the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential people in the colonies.

It’s like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos deciding that Trump’s tariffs are costing them too much money so they commit to organizing and overthrowing him, not a bunch of farmers and laborers managing to organize a rebellion

It’s been a joke since they gave the Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973

Oh, for sure. This was very much a frustrated response to comments I’ve seen on Lemmy today being like “I’m so sorry, the US isn’t like this 😭”

No, as soon as we were able to meaningfully project power, this is exactly what we’ve been like. Canada got a pass for a long time, being part of the British Empire, but otherwise if you were in the western hemisphere, you had to play by our rules