goddamn it they don’t “own” free speech. fuck them. it’s as much mine as theirs.

Fair. It is easy to lose the humor when things are getting worse and worse.

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LOL

Unirionically our funniest president. Shame he might be our last.

Maybe because AI porn of her is very popular on 4chan.

And this is why I’m not surprised at all the US is in the situation it is in right now. We have two viable political parties: one is a pack of gremlins doing their best to destroy anything good, and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it. Even if you’re one to believe that the Democrats are the “good guys”, they’re the proverbial good men who do nothing that let evil thrive. Rational or not (not), people have been pushed into making more and more extreme choices in a collective attempt to make the powers that be listen to them. Now we all have to pay for it.

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good point and not something to be trivialized. it would be devastating and the toll to life and limb would be high. but i take solice in the fact that even then, they’d be greatly outnumbered by non-establishment citizenry. im just saying it wouldnt be a landslide victory and theyd face a (probably) reasonably well equipped guerilla resistance force that wouldnt just fade away.

side note, i also find the drone arguments to be kind of irritating. technically yes they could carpet bomb the US and drone strike every apartment building where some resistance leader is living, but then they’d just be the king of a wasteland.

you might be surprised. there are those who are very open about owning weapons, but there are just as many who do not flaunt what they’re equipped with. there are still lots of reasons left-leaning people might own guns, like hunting, self defense, pure hobby shooting, etc. i think progressive people have been stereotyped as anti-gun because they tend to be anti-kids-getting-shot-in-school, but they’re not quite the same thing.

it’s possible progressive might be out-gunned, but it’s by no means a guarantee.

You mean the clearly legible text? lol

LOL yeah I see what you’re talking about. It’s like the Red Scare but for illegible text and wonky pixels.

That is certainly one way to view it. One might say the same about human brains, though.

That’s a matter of philosophy and what a person even understands “consciousness” to be. You shouldn’t be surprised that others come to different conclusions about the nature of being and what it means to be conscious.

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Seems newsworthy to me when powerful government officials say unhinged and deranged things.

I’m just a layperson, but my guess would be that they could start from the bottom and work their way up. They can’t touch Trump, but they can start sending US Marshalls to round up the underlings that refuse to obey the orders or the court.

Now would the Marshalls do that? Who the hell knows. And maybe there’s a problem with that plan I don’t know. I like it better than just assuming the executive branch is defacto untouchable.

hell yeah i love learning new words

Always, if they can deal with the consequences. But if the consequence is being blocked by a country they could make money from, chances are slim.

My understanding is that it is technically a “federated” standard, but I think there is a lot of technical hurdles to implementing and hosting a compatible server. So no one actually does it, and I’m not sure they’d federate even if someone went through the trouble of getting it up and running.

That’s what we want, though. People and organizations with the most means to do so are the most morally obligated to resist.