The opening paragraph for easy viewing:

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.[2] A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.[3]

So also: the right wing extremism is motivated by immigration ideology grievances and electoral fraud claims. Probably unrelated that an administration built on lies about immigration and electoral fraud wants this removed.

I mean, op said, “I’m going to love watching America eat itself over this.”

Could have said “love watching MAGA” or whatever, but that seems pretty directed to “America”?

They not only started this, they weaponized it during Obama. Democrats always uphold the (arbitrary) confirmation rules when they are in power, always limiting Democrats’ power. When Republicans are in power Democrats cave under threat of changing the (arbitrary) confirmation rules or Republicans change the rules, always expanding Republicans’ power. This is just business as usual.

Ngl, the fact that a 9/11’s worth of people were dying every fucking day, just in the US, during the peak of Covid, and one entire fucking half of our country was just shitposting and TRYING to spread it more entirely reframed 9/11 for me.

I’m glad to see this, I feel like all Americans should have to come to some personal terms about the 9/11 worth of daily COVID deaths that half the country were just casually ok with. I prefer existentialism to nihilism as a response to the absurdity of the world, since nihilism is just going to trap us in a cycle of resigned apathy, but a little self-reflection is preferred either way.

And related to the 9/11 comparison: amazing how there was no reckoning about how hundreds of thousands of those cumulative deaths were attributable to Trump’s mishandling. From that standpoint, we elected Osama bin Laden times a thousand to be president, after he took down the twin towers.

We don’t like innocent people being killed. This isn’t hard.

Trump: FEED ME THE SACRIFICIAL MARTYR.

Fox News will just switch rat poison brands to feed into the IVs.

So, you’re saying we need to put more money into AI?

(/s)

My point isn’t quite the same one you’re responding to.

I’m saying that what we’re seeing now is not what they’re doing “anyway.” Trump stretches his delusional reality as far as he can, but he cannot currently stretch it to the point he needs to actually institute martial law. We have to climb that ladder with him, and he’s trying to tempt us as much as possible to do it. Don’t take the bait.

That’s not how it will play out, unfortunately. A sustained violent widespread resistance may work, as an insurgency to a now-or-soon-to-be established fascist regime.

But that isn’t likely in the US. More likely you have pockets of violence that will be politicized for many times the harm compared to the benefit. And we’ve already seen our judiciary is spineless, and even the historically neutral judges will err on the side of not upsetting the right.

Trump is just begging for this, so he can justify his seizure of the National Guard and wage war against citizens. Pretty good distraction from Epstein too.

They’re chasing a narrative that the cities are misbehaving and need daddy Trump to spank them. Nonviolent (but persistent) resistance is the only way to avoid that narrative.

Epstein’s favorite book was apparently Lolita. That book used the word “gamine.” It’s actually eerily fitting that if Trump and Epstein’s secret was pedophilia, that that’s exactly what “enigma” means.

Trump isn’t smart but he can parrot back something that sounds smart from someone else.

The line “enigmas never age” remains too strange. The whole card feels built around that line.

The anagram enigmas = gamines is the only theory that fits. It’s just the kind of basic show of intelligence a slightly less<dementiaed Trump would think is the height of wit.

Correct, but they serve the intended purpose, which is to make people worried exercising their rights will get them dragged into court and bankrupt them or worse. That’s enough to dissuade most people.

I think it’s genius. The machines are a dopamine bomb. Seeing the coins makes you think you can strategize, and the connection between action and winning is much more visceral and feels more controllable than a slot machine or other casino games. I have similar memories of seeing them in the arcade and thinking they were very tempting, but no way worth putting in real coins.

A game done well is going to be extremely addictive, but if done in the service of a full, fun, not-micro transaction-pushing format, I fully support it. I think it’s going to be huge.

I know, I know. People don’t understand how they’ve already conceded the war with language.

Me: Like…Yeah, I’m just going to “jailbreak” the small computer I bought to… run a program.

The public unironically: Oh man, I hope you don’t get arrested.

Susan Collins: I’m shocked at this completely unpredictable turn of events.

We need our Bear Mexican(-American US Citizen).

How long ago? Because it looks the MBAs are in charge now.

This is a super helpful reminder to remove my a Google Photos and fully switch over to my shadow Immich server to stop them being used for training data. Thanks, Google.