Many hugs to you guys!

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I’m no-shit sincerely happy to see the rest of the world putting their finger in his eye.

Yes, any retaliatory action will affect us all, but we were already going to all be affected by the buffoonery that those people voted in.

At least this way it will help get him the fuck out of power and limit his damage in the meantime. And not just Musk, Trump and his pet Vance too!

No argument from this US Citizen.

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TBF I explicitly said “Not Satan.”

Hmm who do we know that will sell anything that isn’t tied down and currently controls the US government and is buddy buddy with Putin? No, not Satan, but you are close!

I wish I wasn’t so sure you were right.

US right now:

Republicans: Meh, what’s the big deal?

It’s something, but it still applies to his commanders and everyone who followed the orders. (including him - though it wasn’t my intent to single him out)

Maybe in his case it would be a valid defense, especially since he publicly spoke out about it. It didn’t go over well at Nuremberg, but I think it’s clear there will be no prosecutions for Israelis over this.

Just following orders…

You are both right, but this armchair psychologist thinks it’s similar to how popular skeuomorphism was in the early day of PC guis and such compared to today.

I think many folks really needed that metaphor in the early days, and I think most folks (including me) easily fall into the trap of treating LLMs like they are actually “thinking” for similar reasons. (And to be fair, I feel like that’s how they’ve been marketed at a non-technical level.)

No, I meant anointed by the God-Emporer.

“I have a clear mandate.” 🤮

Shocking that the Republicans started liking him when he became more and more fascist and racist. They tell you all day long how we falsely accuse them of bigotry and racism, but they support it every last time.

Edit: I continue to love the one Lemmy maga who shows up to downvote any comment critical of the admin or Musk, but who never has the courage to disagree openly with anyone. I hope you read this, Sir, or Madam, so you can know the joy I take in finding evidence of your passing through a thread, even on my own comments.

It’s like finding sasquatch poop in the wild.

His approval rating is low? Might matter for anyone who needed to be elected. Doesn’t matter for the anointed.

Man I don’t have enough time in the day to be doing that.

I save my cynical outbursts for when he gets caught. And I have reasons, though you may not agree with them.

I think it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that our government is incapable of dispensing consequences to this man, regardless of what he does, regardless of where his loyalties clearly lie, regardless of how he continually works at the destruction of the United States of America. So we’re not surprised at where things are four years from Jan 21 like we were four years from Jan 06.

While we are all tempted by the complacent comfort of “someone in government will handle it” now that he’s actually at the peak of his power, it seems key that we all remember “no one in government handled it” for four years when he was out of power and arguably at his weakest.

Independently verifiable detail number 28543 showing that Trump and everyone he has appointed are unfit for office, and that no one who voted for him will ever care about, and from which no consequences will ever flow.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters. – Mr. Donald J. Trump

Stupid mother fuckers.

Anyone old enough to remember knows - politicians have been stupid and reactionary about public access to the internet from its earliest days.

Section 230 of the DMCA is probably the only reason social media as we know it was able to emerge past infancy. (You could argue about whether we might want to put that cat back in the bag, but the earliest discussion forums, leading to sites like Lemmy and Reddit, also could not have existed as we all knew them.)

And frankly, this looks like another part of the march to oligarchy to me. When the only social media sites that can exist are those with owners that have big enough pockets to hire enough people to become responsible for what users post and aggressively control it… (or, shudder what if the end goal is literally nationalized social media)

I absolutely love that Emby is such a third thought that they don’t even get a mention anymore.

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