Short answer: The Trump administration protects sex traffickers. Didn’t hurt to have a little assist from Don Jr. and Barron to grease the wheels, and a natural mutual interest in capturing the fascist youth influencer set.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/andrew-tate-barron-trump-romania.html
I think on Lemmy you’re pretty much only talking to the Americans who are more upset and frustrated than you are about it.
It’s even exactly the opposite of what the term says.
Keeping the those politicians secret means they remain politically exposed to extortion by any person or government that knows that secret, to the detriment of US national security. Revealing those secrets eliminates any leverage for bad actors.
It’s interesting you are disappointed in the art style - it makes more sense, though, if you haven’t played HOMM3. Because the map art style and layout feels very HOMM3, moreso than the other 3D modernization attempt in HOMM5 (which I hated). My guess is you would have really enjoyed HOMM3, if this one plays how it looks.
Thanks for putting this on my radar, it really looks like a return to the HOMM gameplay I enjoyed.
That’s like a different universe, hard to even imagine we have a pro-worker policy that nice in the US.
Left person appears to be Bobby Kotick, former CEO of Activision Blizzard before it was acquired by Microsoft. He was accused of allowing widespread harassment at the various studios, though he sued for publishing those allegations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick
Edit: He was “outed” as being in Epstein’s black book six years ago, but I can’t find a reliable source. Just a reddit post and links back to it.
I hope we get there. But even that would be a return to status quo.
The typical cycle is democrats come in, do crisis control, enact stable (if lacking ambition) policies and leadership, and at year four or eight, the voters have forgotten the crisis and… Promptly vote back in republicans, who spend the next years systematically dismantling all progress until we’re back in crisis. Repeat. Happening since at least 1992.
This is a really effective rhetorical summary of this moment.
The main point is that we seem to have agreed to enforce the status quo on ourselves. I agree, but I don’t feel like people have accepted this state of affairs. I think they are realizing the bamboozle at different times and rates, and once disillusioned, they just add to the number ready for change. It’s resignation, yes, but even hollow husks of once-living things create the conditions for a wildfire.
So, if there was a leader that “got it” and communicated this vertiginous moment as well as this essay, we all might find we’re closer to a tipping point of change than we think.
In their defense:
They’re so hopelessly delusional about their own value and intelligence, while in fact being less competent than a learning-disabled chihuahua is at quantum physics, that their politically nihilistic misanthropy could in fact just be a contributing factor behind their staggering incompetence.
Our president violated criminal laws. It’s always the right time to focus on it until he’s behind bars. Giving in to gish galloping is how we lost in 2024, and how we continue to lose.
Yes, but last election we could only muster two years of campaigning. We have to keep extending the election news cycle, since we build up a tolerance, and so it takes us all longer to create detailed suicide plans.
The most banal evil in anti-vaxxers is their lack of imagination and curiosity. They have lived cluelessly benefiting from generations of rational health policy for their entire lives, and now simply are incapable of imagining either the need for scientific rigor or stories like yours - tragedies that were undeniable cautionary experiences all of society shared only 60 or 70 years ago.
Add in their utter lack of epidemiological scientific awareness, and they also can’t fathom the macro level of suffering they are causing. Just all around the worst possible people for these jobs, uniquely adapted to cause the most harm.
This is the correct list, having lived through it. BBS services in the mid-1980s were the start of Razor1911, Paradox and other distro and cracker groups. I’d edit 2 to include FTP which is what BBS evolved into with secret dropsites for new releases.
IRC is 2.5 on this list. You can group that alongside the pre-web internet services, like AOL which had slightly IRC-like chat rooms dedicated to serving warez and videos in the same way (requesting a list from a chatbot, and then requesting sequential files).
Some light history here, though like all warez-related scholarship, there’s a ton missing that you had to have seen to know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157/
I don’t know if this meme is fully ironic, but kind of strange to think “torrenting” is considered the OG piracy method now.
The Chinese national security law is bogus for many reasons. A general but incomplete list is here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-national-security-law-10-things-you-need-to-know/
If it’s a bogus law, the charges are bogus. Cultural relativity is not an excuse for arbitrary authoritarian oppression.
Every time I see one of these Trump posts, I’m like, “The only thing that could make this comment more unhinged was if his profile picture looked like he was run over squarely across the face by a Ford F-350 with American flag tire treads dripping wet with paint at the exact moment he completes a bowel movemen- oh wait, nope, they got it.”
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Interesting. So you have *arr set to auto-download from certain lists and see it in Plex for the first time, as options? What kind of lists? How do you cull content you don’t end up liking so it doesn’t fill up your server?
It would be nice if these headlines just said “Stephen Miller set to…,” etc. Miller is setting DHS/ICE policy, and Trump is along for the ride. And we all know this. But Trump thinks we’re all clueless about it, like all of his other grifts.
But gosh, if Trump saw Miller taking his spotlight in the media and portrayed as having the power Miller actually has, Miller would be gone within a week.