Routinely pissing off bona fide spooks … seems like a way to wind up mysteriously disappeared

NetHack

Fair point. There used to be a distinction.

To quote the great Peter Sellers: “Not anymore!”

A guy like Holsey has incredible strength of will. Has surmounted challenges that I know would have caused me to give up shrink in fear and/or just die.

What the fuck is he so afraid of ?

… just like with Russian diplomacy

Your life is what you mundanely do every day

No one special day defines your life

(Unless you do something stupid like just graze the ear)

Honest question where will you go that has educated voters who cannot be swayed by propaganda & misinformation?

If only the Dems/Ukrainians would give up and surrender then my administration/Russia could finally give us all Peace

Or shoot it from across a field

And it is a death cult

Look at their churches everyone praying to the nailed-up dying guy pleading for their Savior to come back and end the world

Christianity is sick as fuck and Christofascists are in charge

Google is such a shitty company morally

And then it treats you employees like shit

I hope y’all are looking for new jobs, quietquitting, and monkeywrenching

Au contraire

It doesn’t take “people”

Just one person who loves beautiful WWII Italian music

I share your hate of YouTube.

But FYI Odysee is run by a hyperneoliberal Trump-adjacent CEO who jokes with his friends about selling user data for top price. I’ve been in the room with them. Disgusting people

There are no longer any rules

NYT just ran an article today, interviewing academics who study countries that have slid from Democracy into Authoritarianism

Quote from Prof. Sean Westwood :

The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind.

please accept this Lemmy Gold

what happened to all the pre Rand Paul libertarians

I was one of them. I was in deep. I’ve met Ron Paul multiple times. I know some of his former staffers.

I will tell you what happened:

• They were right that in fact the Government is spying on everyone, and bald-face lied about it (Clapper)
• They then assumed that the Government can only lie, and that everything official is by definition untrue
• A supermajority of them are religious faithful. They can be super educated but they still believe in Bronze-Age fairy stories and “personal Truth”
• … which made them easy targets for Russian disinfo

It’s so banal. But it’s the truth. I know because I watched my former friends turn into people who intentionally spread COVID, to “show up the hoax”

I am older; my Dad was an older guy when he had me. He fought in WWII.

Growing up he always told me: “I fought the jackboots. One day it will be your turn.”

I expect more of this.

The party identity is based on opposition. Like a petulant child. It’s connected to the conspiratorial thinking: “THEY are tricking us!”

Since there is no science and Truth is a personal, felt revelation, they cannot maintain a unified picture of the world

Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I’ve been to:

“Never gonna give you up”

"Never gonna say goodbye "

"Never gonna run around "

“And desert you”

I’m sure American farmers will appreciate getting half as much as the Argentinians