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Elon Musk reading this headline: “ZOMG that writer must think I’m so cool! They like me! They really like me!”

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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

To be clear, though some folks like to make a big deal about someone being on .ml, I am not a communist, and the part that was significant to me was that our trajectory was being openly called by folks that far back, not any message regarding communism.

I think we’re going to have to strike “boring” from the name soon.

It’s kind of scary that people are responding so passively and pessimistically this time.

I’m arguably part of the problem here. The fact that he won again, and that Dems ran the 2016 playbook again, and that they have openly moved to the right on various issues since 2020, and will probably run the 2016 playbook again in 2028 even if they would deserve another vote, has really just taken the wind out of my sails.

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I don’t have the slightest doubt about which way this will go, but I would love to be proven wrong.

It’s not that I don’t understand those concerns, I just don’t think those are reasons to reject the concept, nor the obligation to make an effort.

How would you solve that problem?

I doubt I have the necessary understanding of the nuance to propose any good solution. That’s not evidence that one doesn’t exist, however. And if the folks who should be responsible for such things are choosing to abdicate that responsibility, I’m going to need a better reason than “because it’s hard.”

No argument here.

*…but don’t anyone worry about that! We’re going to take control of a nuclear power plant and keep pushing them to you whether you want them or not! We’ve never let the sanctity of users’ data stop us before, and we’re not about to start now!"

Me too!

Well, I can at least understand your point of view. Thanks for the discussion and perspective.

People fight on gun rights all the time tho… Have you been living under a rock?

Ah yes, the very effective fighting for gun control that NO ONE pushes back on despite all our deaths, school shootings, etc. I keep thinking we have an entire political party that treats every restriction as a precursor to gun confiscation, what was I thinking while under that rock??!!

That’s a solvable problem, not a reason to reject fact checking as a concept.

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“Fact-checking” is preserving a certain model of censorship and propaganda. “No fact-checking” is moving to a new model of censorship and propaganda.

Dude, facts are facts or they are not. There is no rejection of fact checking that will result in more truths being exposed to the world, only less.

My hypothesis is that they now except political support from Trump administration and to pressure the EU?

Yes. We will now export our fascism, making it essentially just the same imperialism we’ve been engaged in forever.

All fair points, but what do you suppose the Taliban would have done to those same people and more if the US had not pulled out when Trump told them we would?

Fair opinion I guess, but I think there are plenty of things you can cleanly give Biden shit about before you get all the way down to complying with the troop withdrawal schedule that Trump committed us to.