Is this the Epstein files we’ve been hearing about?

This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

I think it’s fair to say those rookie numbers don’t reflect reality. The orange turd can’t have his minions saying anything is less than perfect.

Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

This statement is gibberish. It makes no sense.

“But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here.”

A deal with who for what? This is an American talking to a Russian?

What the fuck is this point of this stupid verbal diarrhea?

Oh well if a senator said it then by all means, let’s stop and take notice.

Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

Oh hey, that was easy. I guess they have nothing to hide after all!

The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.

I know there are actual people like this, but I do think it’s mostly foreign bots beating the war drums. It happens here too, though far less than on Reddit.

In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, domestic government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.

Are people having a hard time remembering this? I sure don’t. If there’s any hilarity to be found in any of this, he’s going to get fucked anyway.

Somebody needs to have a word with Ohio.

Explain how this is disingenuous though.

Just a guess, but I figure Isreal must want their asset back. What do you suppose Mossad has on Trump? Surely not nothing, he had to be the easiest of marks back in the day.

“They have been radicalized by Democrat Party rhetoric that describes anyone who doesn’t share their warped and twisted world view as fascists, worthy by implication of execution,” Miller said.

Dude incites violence against Democrats eight times in one sentence and what’s the sentence ostensibly about? Democrats inciting violence.

It’s stunning how these guys are able to remain on point 24/7. Like that AZ moron who ends every Twitter post with “Democrats hate America.” No, it’s just you, dumbass.

Sick and twisted is what it is. Or as some might say, “fascist.”

Yeah OK, we can talk about that, sure. The point remains. Comedy won’t do that either.

Comedy will not keep me from going bankrupt from medical debt, create a robust middle class or for that matter, produce the Epstein files.

Also, comedy is subjective. As an example, I don’t think it’s funny, I think it’s fucking dumb. Third rate 4-chan trolling shit is only mildly amusing when coming from a fourth grader, it’s absolutely retarded coming from the octogenarian president of the United States.

Just to add, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repealed Carter’s Mental Health Systems Act - effectively defunding community based health organizations that would support those tossed out of institutions and onto the street. Reagan and Republicans more generally just didn’t give a shit what happened to these people as long as it didn’t cost them any money and that is largely why the homeless situation is where it is today.

It also should not be forgotten that shortly after this, Rush Limbaugh began a decades-long campaign against the homeless on his radio show, constantly demonizing them and attempting to paint homelessness as a choice made exclusively by addicts and the societally worthless.

Ironic that the only way to get a government to put the screws to billionaires and their shit platforms is to threaten the hegemony of the party that used the very same platforms to ratfuck their way to the top.