The Supreme Court already endorsed a scenario where a president could legally send SEALs or something similar to assassinate anyone. As long as it's "official" then it's legal... that's what they said.
It's a really good thing for the world, probably, that I'll never be told I can order a few consequence free SEAL raids. That's practically begging for "testing." You know, "just to see if they'll do it."
Shit's really been on a exponential growth curve recently... not really sure there's any slowing the train down either. The US appears to teetering on the edge of economic implosion and the fascists are just rubbing their nipples publicly while screaming how much they "loooooooove Hitler." Shit's so incredibly fucked.
Yeah... unfortunately common among the full blown Nazi types
These people are insufferable nerds of the worst type. They realized they get censored for saying "Jewish question" (as they should. Not a normal thing to say except in the specific context of discussion of Nazis/the Holocaust) or "the 14 words" or "heil..." you know. Don't even wanna type that one (probably gets censored and I won't disagree with that). So they started doing "cute" little codes to each other. "1488" is probably the most infamous. 14 for "the 14 words" and 88 for "heil..." you know.
It's just so pathetically nerdy and loser ass behavior to go around tattooing 1488 on your body because you know 99% of the world's population will recognize swastikas or death's head or SS lightning bolts.
I am just always reminded of that asshole Nazi who shot up the mosque in NZ who kept "memeing irl" That guy is most of these people in essence. They all want to do that type of violence while yelling "1488! Lol! Pewdewpie!" And whatever else. There really aren't proper words to describe how broken and... just pathetic they are
I hope any Nazis harassing Norm like that play Luigi's Mansion
The GameCube game
Pretty fun
I thought we kinda moved past all that pseudo (not even pseudo... less than that) BS around AI ("uhh, the world. Uhhhhhhh. Can you imagine, uhh, it will, uhhh, yeah. Yeah.") Like 10 years ago. But probably not... unfortunately I have a habit of coping with stuff by hearing it and thinking "oh yeah that's dumb as hell." Then falsely believing everyone else also realizes it
I do remember Elon, among many, whining on about the "singularity" or whatever. The chatbot singularity is coming! Any day now.
Then the motherfucker kept funding "AI" research. The only conclusion you can reach is "They are using this as a selling point..."
Some tried framing it like "China bad! We good! We must make!" (Real "God is real and he's an American!" vibes)
LITTLE MARCO
Yeah there's a ton of these people. I guess they still qualify. Not that it matters much anyway. The diehard actual gusanos are pretty psychotic, but the average Burger generally agrees with the sentiment if not the extreme fervor. The propaganda against Cuba has run deep for many decades and seemingly will continue for many more. Biden's pathetic coward-ass waiting until his last days to partially lift the illegal embargo... there's just not words to describe the depravity of such a person. Like just fucking stop... Jesus... can you not do one single fucking good thing???
I don't think he even technically qualifies for Gusano status
His family left Cuba during Batista's dictatorship. The gusanos, to my understanding anyway, are those who fled when Castro and the revolution defeated Batista. They didn't wanna give up their ill gotten wealth and assets, so they packed what they could and fled to Miami and elsewhere. Unfortunately for them the "go to the pub, have a pint" strategy didn't really work out. Nor did the whole "Ok, we'll just invade then!" strategy work. Or the "cut off the serpent's head!" strategy. Incredible losers.
He's stealing gusano "valor" basically. We need a video of a real, certified gusano ripping into him. Telling him his gold bars are fake and his broke ass family never even owned slaves
Can they make an AI bot so I don't have to effectively "beg" my doctor every 30 days to refill adderall script?
I understand and agree that amphetamines aren't something we just kinda like want floating around as a society. But if someone has been stably taking the same dosage of the same drug for years... this is the type of shit people hear about or experience and slowly radicalizes them towards "Just tear that shit down" because it never seems to get changed otherwise. (And yes I realize that racists and generally anti-drug (medically or recreationally) freaks are why this shit is fucked. Doesn't change that it is fucked. And by freaks I mean "Gawd did naht intend for man to use these!" types. You know them. There's a lot working for the DEA... also, Mormons. Bit of a circle Venn diagram there between Mormons and the weird anti-drug sentiment)
May 1, 2028 is the date
Prepare now!
Unfortunately the benefit the right wing has is the more people consume slop and get pissed at manufactured controversies they create, the more it just swirls in a vortex of "shit" for everyone else. Notice that approximately zero American conservatives who aren't capitalists (so "working class" non-business owners) seem to give a flying shit now days about anything that isn't a "culture war" talking point. Or a derivative of one. There's no like "serious" discussion on how to solve inflation or their wages becoming more and more dogshit over time. "Trump said tariffs will fix it! Yep! That'll fix it. And he said we're deporting the "illegals!" And making being trans illegal! Hell yeah!"
They've managed to just create this stew of shit where they create a "controversy" based on, I dunno, some sort of perceived "degeneration" of invented societal norms from the past, say "Yeah, we're banning that. Also, taxes. Those are bad. When has the government helped you anyway? Also, the government is full of trans people. They want to tax you. Ban it all, right?"
It doesn't matter because these people just want a distraction and someone to blame. The right wing slop bucket has endless opportunities to feed them "enemies." Then their leaders, Trump, or whoever (he's not unique. Maybe especially skilled at selling the bullshit though) come and say "I agree with you, long time listeners of SlopCast!" He feeds them the sloppiest slop, fucks something they probably rely on without knowing it (or will one day), and they're just left smiling and giggling covered in shit. Like little hoglets.
The democrats have basically defined themselves as "We are the half measure party to republican full measures!" Aka, losers if you're in the slop realm. Losers if you're on the left. The only people who like the dems are those adjacent to slop world, suburban moms basically, who consume it but don't like how it tastes. "Let's kill... only half the immigrants?" is the conclusion they reach.
It's rather unfortunate that "left wing" slop basically just distracts, for the most part. While right wing slop is actually required for their entire operation. The left relies on people organizing en masse and having leaders from within the working class that represent their fellow workers and are educated on class struggle. Podcasts probably aren't pushing much there. The right relies on the spread of bullshit. 100 loud mouths spouting the dumbest shit you can imagine at people who sort of know everything is getting shittier and shittier and really want an enemy to blame... that's ripe for the right wing to pluck. The left could, in theory, capitalize on the opportunity, and I think to an extent some are doing so currently. The question has long been floating in the ether though "What are the limits of radicalization via podcast/online content consumption generally?" So far, it seems to be extremely limited in reach. The people who consume the content often already agree with the host. It also sort of instills a feeling of "having done something" when you listen to someone else break down a situation. You feel like you addressed it. The anger starts to dissipate. That anger is essential to getting people to do stuff though. Something the right understands and exploits constantly.
Anyway, none of this is really unique. Just sort of observing stuff others have as well.
It's an entertainment podcast
People should listen to audiobooks or perhaps college level, organized discussions (David Harvey has lectures and short Q&A about Capital going chapter by chapter, for example) if they want theory (in an audio format)
But that said, I do sort of agree that they should try harder to at least get people to seek out theory by giving more tastes of it dispersed throughout the podcast. Hakim usually is the best at it. He talks about something then says "Read Whatever by Whoever for more." It just seems like between his "real job" and sort of realizing what people (their audience) want isn't to be told to read books... yeah, he's like "fuck it. Just subscribe, I guess."
The sad fact is if you had a heavy, heavy theory oriented podcast. Like it's basically just a review and highlighting of main points from a book, chapter by chapter. Very few people are going to listen to it. Some will, for sure. But let's be realistic. I think all you can really do is what Hakim used to do more of which is shoutout books for people to go read. If it piqued someone's interest they will go read. Of course the bottleneck or whatever here is the host(s) have to be incredibly well-read themselves. Hakim can rattle off a billion books because he's clearly a theory nerd and has read, perhaps, too many books. That already places him in like the 0.01% of podcasters by education level (self or otherwise).
I guess what I'm getting at here is the same cliche. "Podcasts are slop content. Don't expect anything. The best they can do is shame listeners into reading maybe one book."
God, that's gonna make the libs moan in agony. They still (some fucking how) are obsessed with the like 4 bots that Russia had on facebook 10 years ago. I doubt it was intentional, but it's almost like he's mocking them with that statement. Maybe he read some "dirtbag left" reply guy to some hyper libbed up DNC shill and was like "That's good. I'll save that one."
Since nothing is going to get better... it's at least been entertaining to see the collective meltdown as Trump gasp negotiates with Russia/Putin to end the conflict in Ukraine. I can practically see all the libs doing that scene from that Tarantino movie with Leo where he points at the TV in my head. At this point, I don't even give a shit.
Fuck, I hope Putin, Xi and Trump are all best buddies and all the conflicts end. This desire for never ending aggression towards Russia and China is just pure insanity. "Oh no, but what if..." I don't give a shit! China ain't doing shit outside of Asia and Russia ain't doing shit outside of Europe. Two places the US should be staying the fuck out of! If the map of Ukraine has to be redrawn, well, that was happening anyway.
That's the thing liberals are still coping over. Russia has held the territory for years now. When you say this they act like you're "justifying" it. No, it's just a fact. Israel has annexed the Golan Heights. I care a lot more about that than any land Ukraine will be giving up. And yet, it is reality. They took it, they held it, and it's just the way it is now until or unless someone makes them give it up.
I'm just ranting now, but seriously, fuck all these annoying libbed-up pieces of trash who pretend to give a single shit about anyone on any side of any of these conflicts. They don't give a shit. They have zero skin in the game. They just saw TV lib man say "Ukraine is important to democracy" and they've been repeating that for years while simultaneously cheering for genocide done by another "democracy." These people are devoid of empathy and understanding. So if I they cry a little extra hard over something which was basically inevitable anyway... good