For real, that’s all I’ve been saying whenever people start come in and start bashing on Harris and pushing false equivalence. Like, yeah, Biden is super bad on his policy towards Israel and Gaza; I HOPE Harris will be better; I KNOW Trump will be worse.

That’s it. That’s the whole dynamic. That’s the only two choices we have as members of the American electorate.

Holy fuck, dude. I’m not defending them or their ideology. I never will. I categorically disagree with them on the vast majority of their positions. But right now they and we share an existential threat. If you want to ignore that… welll, you do you, but I’m not going to let perfect (or in this case, deeply flawed in a lot of important ways) be the enemy of objective good. And here, “objective good” is “not letting the fascists win”.

For those unaware of the numbers, the union’s internal vote had members breaking for Trump nearly 2:1. So I guess I hope they have fun when the leopard comes around for some face jerky.

Tangentially, I think Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio commentators that flooded the airwaves for DECADES across the country are largely to blame. That was one of the “you can always find it anywhere in the US” sections of radio content for a very, very long time, and it corrupted the thinking of a LOT of people. Propaganda works, and it’s often very fucking scary when it does.

One law, which took effect immediately, makes it illegal to distribute “materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate”

Genuinely fantastic.

in the 120 days leading up to an election and in the 60 days following an election.

…why would you restrict it like that…?

Stop.

Recognize the tactical political exigencies that exist here. Understand that there actually are a meaningful number of republicans who are NOT, in fact, down with fascism, and that this is them trying to stop the fascists from gaining power.

To be clear: they’re not our friends. But we DO share a mutual enemy that is very likely an existential threat to both of us.

I, too, find stuff like this obnoxiously navel-gazey, given the context.

Think of it like WW2, and the Soviets. They were NOT the good guys at the start of the war - look up the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and the joint Soviet/Nazi invasion of Poland if you don’t know what I’m talking about. But ultimately, the greater existential threat ended up being the Nazis, so the allies ended up in a straight up military alliance with the Soviets. And then, of course, immediately segued into the First Cold War shortly after the European and Pacific campaigns were fully wrapped up.

The Republicans who are doing this are not really our friends, but they are recognizing a mutual threat, and for now, the correct tactical decision is to let them help the rest of us stop the overt fascists from gaining power.

Seriously - not a bad response per se, but fucking EVERYONE knows these chucklefucks come to negotiate in bad faith, so bringing the receipts as a journalist is absolutely fucking crucial to catch them in outright lies, and actually nailing them to the wall on national television instead of letting them skitter around and avoid the point. I can just about guarantee you a large proportion of the viewership is on that shitass senator’s side, because a large proportion of the viewership is either that wrongheaded, dumb, prejudiced, dogmatic, or some combination thereof.

The Theory of Thiel

The crazy part is that that 1/3 refuses to admit that the Nationalist Christians will not hesitate for a fucking second to put them up against the wall if they manage to gain and cement their hold on power in the US.

Sure but there’s no fuckin way they get to hold onto the pound sterling if they want back in.

I anticipate the Brazilian government will send a nastygram to Cloudflare, which will cause Cloudflare to give Musk an ultimatum of “stop fucking around or we won’t touch your traffic”. And Musk will probably call their bluff, and Cloudflare will not be bluffing.

lol he fuckin’ around and he gon find out

Which, bluntly, is absolutely insane, and betrays a fundamental (and for some, likely intentional) misunderstanding of the true intent and meaning of that eternal obligation, to the extent that it has deeply disturbing jingoistic echoes of the Nazi party itself.

Now get out there and make me some goddamn money _{huh huh}

Note that some issue devices have VT-x disabled and the bios locked down by Corp IT for one reason or another, so a VM may not actually be possible from the work issue device here.

Tbh, just run the Ubuntu box headless and ssh into it. You can do anything you’d need to. Even better, swap it to Debian or something like that, because Ubuntu is unfortunately kinda undergoing gradual enshitification lately.

And hopefully, the Germans will respond with something along the lines of “our eternal obligation to you does not give you carte blanche to perpetrate the same evil our forefathers perpetrated upon you”. But we’ll see, I guess. I am fully aware that it’s an understandably touchy subject in Germany.

It appears that Orban is somehow envious of Luka’s relationship with Putin, regardless of the fact that Belarus has essentially transformed into a Russian puppet state.

Yes, we are seriously suggesting something like that.

You gotta realize that all these federalist society judges are coordinating WAY more than most people realize with the RNC and republican politicians. It’s a big club, and you (and I) ain’t in it.

Edit: Merp, I misinterpreted the context. You weren’t referring to Roberts.

More seriously, it smells an awful lot like a staged distraction strategy, considering the SCOTUS Robert’s memo broke literally hours prior, and also considering crazy distraction stories were a go-to strategy of the Trump admin