You can covertly buy and take illicit drugs all by yourself and have a good time. Bypassing a ban to get on a social platform with very few of your social peers is… pointless?
So what if you get to watch a tiktok from the other side of the world, none of the kids in your class are sharing that experience and building the peer pressure.
The controversy over his public presence (both real and contrived) has convinced me that if you want to be any kind of serious public figure you should never-ever-ever put anything off-hand in text or on video. Let alone stream yourself for hours at a time.
Take some time to compile your thoughts and don’t just spit out hot takes. It’ll get you attention for sure, but it’s not worth the scrutiny and drama hunting. For real, look at the people in this thread latched onto a single clip of a dog yelping weeks (months?) ago. Is that such a core and defining feature that I should completely discredit him? Doesn’t seem like it, but I also don’t want to dig through hours of content to find out.
Weird-ass thing to get on your high horse about. If you’re so concerned about phone numbers, get a burner and a sim card with cash. Or, you know, use a communication method designed with anonymity in mind.
Would it be better to have anonymous sign up? Sure. But if you’re on a Google or apple device and got Signal from the first party store, your app usage is probably already enough to fingerprint you.
Signal was never about anonymous chat, it’s built for secure e2e chat between known parties. If you have a different threat model then there’s other options for you.
He just got a text that they finished replacing references to his name with Clinton, no need to delay anymore
Is crude an essential oil? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅
She’s gonna be shocked when someone reads her the 3rd amendment
I’ll take a crack at it:
Lol what? There’s no profit/loss calculation between any number of consumers vs a fascist admin more than willing to chop you up and eat your corporate lunch. Their revenue could get cut in half and bending the knee is still the right business choice.
Their business model is selling media, they don’t give a shit if they need to write out every minority princess protagonist for a white Jesus. So yeah, kill the scape goat, get some brownie points and wait for the media shit storm to blow over by next month.
ITT people confuse the mathematical limits of consolidating currency with the actual unbounded consolidation of power.
No, the rich don’t care about the health of the economy. Yes, they will run out of money that can be directly siphoned from your consumer pockets. That’s just the beginning of the real endgame.
Short on rent money? I’ll be happy to write off your rents in perpetuity if you sign this contract granting rights to your organs upon death. Can’t afford clothes? A lifetime agreed employment spent sorting trash will keep you in free, durable work clothes. Can’t afford to raise your kids? We’ll give you a sweet deal to cover necessities and they can pay it back later. Muggers and thieves got you down? Come sign on to our secure company commune!
These are the exact conditions that historically lead to feudal systems. People didn’t abandon their homesteads and independence to become serfs voluntarily. It was always out of necessity.
Getting elected isn’t the problem, it’s being hamstrung by preemptively antagonizing a police force that’s a major power bloc in your city. He won’t be able to walk in day 1 and purge corruption from a massive, violent, broken institution.
You can see in the clip he checks his left hand with a lift but can’t match it with his right hand. Similarly, he conspicuously doesn’t move his right hand in his most recent recorded speech.
It probably is, dude weekend at Donnie’d himself
Purely from a hypothetical strategic standpoint: Kirk was one of the young household names being groomed to take the mantle of the angry, populist, old white regressive in the future.
A lot of the current generation are decrepit mummies and could drop dead at any minute, and building gravity for successors takes time. Kirk was also a relative outsider as a cheerleader, keeping the taint of disastrous administration off him.
Retribution is coming either way so you could argue the worst assassination attempt outcome would be giving him a bloody ear and a killer photo op. In that context it’s a decent longterm outcome for the violent opposition wing.
Of course we’ll have to see how the shooter motives and responses play out, nobody really knows.
Lol, if it’s registered and you’ve ever registered to vote you’re already on a list
Can someone explain how we might get anything close to a legitimate release of this evidence? There’s no oversight now that the administration has gutted every department. Can they not just stall as long as they want while they forge some fake documents that incriminate political opponents?
Basically reservists, the National Guard is brought up under control of the states/feds for emergencies/disasters. Generally you’d see them building flood levees or rescuing people in hurricanes or (occasionally) shooting college students in the '70s. They’re not really designed for peace time occupation but the admin’s gotta find jack boots somewhere.
There’s a lot of comments about how digital devices are viable/helpful for note-taking and just as good as a pen. I think that’s missing the crucial point: virtually every device we own today is designed as a distraction machine.
A pen + paper isn’t going have any notifications or reminders or updates or emails or texts or ads or alarms or alerts. If there’s any device without those that’s as reliable and as cheap as a notebook, I’ve never heard of it.
Sure, if you go in with the idea that the ban won’t impact their social media usage then it obviously follows that it won’t impact their usage. And that might be true for a while, but:
Putting all of this together, it seems very plausible that child bans could hasten this decline. It would probably work twice as well if more public money was directed to alternatives (third spaces, clubs, etc…).