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2024 US Election

Gurgen

50 years from now our grandchildren will say: you crazy fuckers had unregulated social media platforms??

Coombs

Gurgen 50 years from now our grandchildren will say...

You are quite the optimist.

jones

Gurgen

HomeSteak

Coombs That has always been my fav conspiracy theory. It's always the unkown, secret billionaires running the world. Never the one we know...that you know, have been involved in politics/paid politicians for years lol

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-far-right-german-leader-weidel-hitler-communist/

Gazza M

HomeSteak there's a widespread concerted effort for the authroritarian anti-reality movement to either whitewash Nazism, or recast it as a left wing ideology.

with musk and trump, they've figured out an easy formula for flooding the zone with shit using online media. notice no-one is talking about the H1B policies that so scandalised the america first crowd. a few tweets about ethnic rape gangs, some nonsense about Canada and Greenland, and the libs get riled up again and the magas have something to yell at the libs about again. a master-class in sleight of hand

Big Willie

jones that grotesque monstrosity on his wrist costs 900k btw

And is it me or does that video make him look like he's completely out of proportion. Like his arms look super short, his body looks very wide and his head looks really big and really small at the same time.

Mirth

Coombs Our grandkids will be named X Æ A-Xii or something.

Coombs

Gazza M and the natives have something to scream at the libs about again

*the nativists

Burnwinter

https://www.science.org/content/article/shoddy-commentaries-quick-and-dirty-route-higher-impact-numbers-are-rise

Here we go. Science publishers are starting to reject letters and commentaries because well over half are AI generated by self-interested institutions and researchers trying to game their KPIs. Cool, cool.

Qwiss

Burnwinter there was a big controversy here a couple of years ago when the Irish Times published a ridiculous ragebait article written by AI. https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-times-fake-tan-6067048-May2023/

jones

This guy is unreal lmao

Big Willie

jones This guy is unreal lmao

Wow, he actually posted that? And this is going to be the leader of the "free world" in days.

Burnwinter

Seems a pretty familiar media play for Trump by now ... he's set things up so he's the one who gets to demonstrate he's not bound by the rules, and he also puts himself in the audience of the whole spectacle by sharing the same kinds of jokes others have been ...

Makes it hard for opposing figures as if they stick to being polite and reasonable they seem weak or out of touch, but if they try to imitate him they have to escalate.

Mirth

Burnwinter Trump's main strength is his understanding of mass media. He's a sophisticated operator even though it doesn't come across.

JazzG

Got that one in right at the last minute! Clearly nothing dodgy going on!

This is all gonna backfire on the Democrats, Trump will do the same and nobody will listen to their complaints.

Gazza M

people seem to have memory holed the raft of dodgy pardons trump gave all his mates from 2017-2020. the guard rails and institutions have collapsed in the US to such an extent that these biden pardons will seem quaint in 1-2 years because of the utter insanity that trump and his cronies will unleash

JazzG

The Democrats also said liked to imply they were better than that, just seen a clip of Biden saying it concerns him the type of precedent it sets and said he wouldn't do that. Then again I don't think Biden has any idea of what he is doing right now. Already seen rumours that once Trump is in a lot of Democrats are gonna start leaking about what his mental state was really like, which then makes you wonder who was running the country?

Presidential pardon after the crime isn't very nice, giving blanket pardons before any crime or investigation imo is banana republic kind of stuff.

awooga83

JazzG or rightly or wrongly he possibly believes Trump and his administration are the kind of people to hold grudge and try to settle scores however they can and he doesn't believe that some public servants deserve that treatment. I think it's very probable that Trump could be that petty so it could be a factor in that. Not everything is some conspiracy just people making decisions as they see are right.

JazzG

awooga83 Biden is doing exactly what people said Trump would do. Trump campaigned on locking Hilary up and didn't follow through on it. Trump says a lot of shit and doesn't follow through on most of it.

Democrats including Biden on record for saying they wouldn't give pre-emptive pardons and here we are. They can make all the excuses they want, if they've done nothing wrong it will eventually get thrown out of court anyway so why pardon them? They might be innocent but giving out pardons like this only makes people think they are covering something up. Trump will probably do similar or worse so they can't complain about it then. Also like I said I don't think Biden is thinking anything right now and then doing this literally hours before leaving office!

Mirth The Americans do seem to attract a certain type to run their Space programs....But yeah he isn't doing a Nazi salute, a very odd looking salute mind you.

Claudius

pretty frightening inauguration speech. he has given his goons license to go after Latinos and LGBTQI community. was interesting to see how people just automatically stood up to applaud each of his announcements even though they are clearly designed to erode civil liberties in a country that has always prided itself as the greatest democracy.
poeple won't even notice when large groups of people's rights are violated over the next few years, and when they are slowly conditioned to be hateful, perhaps violent, to these minorities.

Mirth

Man literally does a Hitler salute at the inauguration but Jazz is still trying to both sides it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2025/jan/20/elon-musk-appears-to-give-fascist-style-salute-after-trump-inauguration-video

Gazza M

Mirth the 'bu-but-but hunter bidens laptop' gang are going to be in shambles within a year or two trying to justify all the bullshit that's about to happen. the torrent of utter insanity that's about to be unleashed will leave even the most partisan running out of strawmen, though it won't stop them from trying. or elon and trump will just keep creating phony straw men for them to run with.

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