History just doesn’t matter lol, people believe what they want. I still see people spouting lines about how many people Obama killed with drone strikes (which, let me be clear, he did get a lot of innocent people killed), but halfway through Trump’s first term the number of strikes had already surpassed Obama’s full tenure. Then Trump’s administration stopped keeping the tally at all, aka “removing all pretense of public accountability.”

Yet somehow I never see people shitting on Trump for that, only Obama.

And the tree in the top right is the exact same color as the clouds, and she only has 4 fingers on her left hand, and the reflection patterns in her eyes are suspiciously distinct from each other. I’m definitely leaning towards this being generated

Maybe it has something to do with also needing international support in order to defend itself from its neighbor… talk all the shit you want about the US’s stance on Israel, but shifting that to Taiwan is on par with claiming Ukraine deserved to get invaded.

Which I now realize is probably your next line. Anyway, oh well

This is kinda where I’m at. So far it’s been a lot of hot air, like always, but no one’s been arrested or had their subsidies cut yet.

Well, of course the real answer is that calling it fraud is simply how they justify the transfer of wealth to already obscenely rich people. But as for how the propaganda works, it ties into how they don’t believe in due process. Right now it’s most visible in how they’re kidnapping people, but it also extends to fraud. They claim fraud, no prosecution happens because ThE CouRtS ArE cORrUPt, and so they get to go outside the law and do things like cut already allocated Medicaid funds without losing support.

this isn’t a falling out. i swear there’s been an article once a week since january pretending This Is IT between the richest man in the world and one of the most corrupt, but turns out, they have a lot to offer each other. they’re talking a bunch of bullshit like they always do and news outlets are reporting their meaningless words uncritically like they always do.

wake me up when spacex loses funding.

It can be if you run the campaign right

No, the logic stops as soon as we can drill more than one hole per pigeon. We could just drill M holes in one pigeon, leaving N-1 pigeons with no holes.

You’re not an asshole for going faster, you’re an asshole for tailgating

Huh, I misremembered that last scene as a kiss, but I checked and I guess they do just hug. So at least that part isn’t so bad. I think the rest of my problems with the season are still legit though

I guess I’m the only one disappointed by season 2? I feel like they could have cut half of it and told the same story. Nothing even came close to the powerful messaging of the season 1 prison arc.

It wasn’t the worst or anything, but it was a pretty weak follow up to that great first season.

AI is a flawless technology and they’ll have fixed it by next month for sure this time

How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?

At a guess, they’ll stop tracking the data?

This isn’t about trans people specifically, but the very existence of gendered bathrooms dates back to hilariously sexist 1800s ideas about how men and women should only be allowed to coexist at home. No surprise that religious fundamentalists continue to weaponize private spaces against anyone that doesn’t fit their norms.

Same with people who blast music in public. There’s a bike/pedestrian trail near me I use a lot and people are constantly riding or running while blasting the worst music imaginable to everyone nearby. Maybe someday I’ll build up the courage to tell them to shut the fuck up… or at least teach them what headphones are. Maybe I could buy a bunch of cheap ones and just chuck them at the heads of anyone who apparently needs them.

I guess we’re all too busy watching number go up to actually manage anything. For them it’s their stock prices, for me it’s my seed ratio!

They also care about ruining trans people’s lives in any way possible. I’m sure there are plenty of transphobes who simply haven’t thought the bathroom thing through, but don’t forget the other reason they’d be happy to put passing trans men in women’s bathrooms: it forces them into an impossible decision. When an angry mob drags a trans man out of the women’s toilet, you think they’re going to listen to protestations of being AFAB? If anything, that’d just rile them up further. So a when someone is faced with the decision of choosing either the room they’re least likely to be noticed in, or the one the law technically assigned to them, they may instead choose to stay home. They may even start considering detransitioning. This is a feature, not a bug.

If it were that simple they would have done it by now

Next week: Trump claims to be an Eldritch being that coalesced out of Jesus’s anger while up on the cross over 2000 years ago

Gonna have to double check the next phone I buy has a screen first