Previously, he has appealed to China, France, Japan, South Korea and Britain.

China took Iran’s deal instead…

Iran just sent a super tanker full of oil to China.

They offered to help America for free, and trump told them to kick rocks…

In 1793 each Rep represented 35k people…

In 2023 it was 761k per each House Rep…

Representative democracy is fine, the problem is we need like 20x more representatives at least.

That makes lobbying/bribing that much harder and dilutes political power. As well as giving us a much wider pool for higher office.

The excuse for freezing the number is number of chairs that will fit in a room, literally, that’s why we lost representation. Telework solves that.

Best case scenario, OP doesn’t understand they’re 20 years late an 4chan exists.

More likely they want to train AI on it, worst case they want everyone’s IP and confessions too.

Like, even if they have good intentions, they don’t seem to understand what “anonymous” even means and how hard that is online these days.

Israel.

Israel is the perfect scapegoat on this, all trump has to do is pull his ships back and stop being a defense for Israel.

That’s literally what the American Christian right has always wanted with their support of Israel too.

Their doomsday prophecy is:

1. Jewish ethnostate in Israel

2. War in the Middle East, started by Israel

3. Israel getting wiped off the map which causes the rapture

4. Nonbelivers have to experience Armageddon

Which was cool with Israel up to step 2, but we just passed that a few weeks ago…

right now

Lol

Go to settings and you can block the entire instance

When their admin gets bored, they ban anyone they disagree with. You don’t even have to interact with them, they just browse and remove anything not toeing the instance line:

Some authoritarian dictatorships are actually totally rad guys!

They were counting on being able to get Crockett, and to be fair she flat out said she even entered the race was the polls Republicans pushed.

Talerico has a really good shot of actually winning, and it scares the shit out of Republicans.

A charismatic candidate with good policy helps swing a lot of down ballot races too in the state government

Russia uses Iranian drones…

The price just skyrocketed and supply might go to zero if Iran uses all they can make

Ukraine is winning because they found cheaper drone defenses than drones…

Were burning thru our sophisticated interceptors because we’re wasting them on drones 1/100th the prices.

Iran just has to keep pumping out the same drones they’ve been sending to Russia.

Like, Ukraine is literally the one government that knows how to win this kind of war.

If China attacks Taiwan as America/Israel waste all their interceptors…

There’s nowhere on the planet that would be able to stop Iran or China in a war.

The entire western hemisphere relies on Taiwanese chips for weapons including interceptors.

Even just a chip embargo similar to Iran is doing with oil would be disasterous.

And incredibly likely now that everyone is distracted.

It’s not just wealth.

Any isolated social circle will start to exclude everyone else as “them”.

It’s our brains working as designed.

Even the founders understood this. It’s why Representatives were originally so powerful and meant to spend most of their time back in their home districts.

Sending the same people to DC for decades just guarantees the people they represent start to become “them” and other politicians regardless of party become “us”.

With insider trading and donor/lobbying system, the politicians are getting rolled up with wealthy as “us”.

I’ve been saying for a while now that we have the tech, reps should be required to spend like 90% of their time in their districts. Have an office, occasionally state level meetups in the capitals, and super rare DC events.

But the bulk of the work can be done via telework.

It doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but it would limit grifter candidates, make reps face their constituents daily, actually understand their issues, and go a long way to making politicians feel like their actually accountable.

There’d be no hiding in a crowd of politicians.

He’s too used to countries not falling for sunk cost and being willing to walk away to mitigate further damage…

He killed a literal “supreme leader” and caused a power vacuum where everyone is desperate to establish dominance by showing their feverance to fight what is quite literally a holy war admitted by the three main participants.

Iran isn’t going to let this go anytime soon. And US and Israel can’t win a war of attrition when we spend 100x the money shooting down what Iran launches. They can keep launch shaed drones from fortified positions in their own territory. They don’t even need forward deployment to hit what they’ve been hitting.

Any attempt to invade will be a modern d-day. Anything crossing the border will see a constant stream of drones, and everyone that gets thru makes it easier for the next.

And the only way to get enough bodies for that futile attempt is a US draft. With Trump’s obsession with state voter records, I really wouldn’t be surprised to see them try to institute a draft and almost exclusively take Dem voters or any other demographic they don’t want.

These days, they’ll likely blame AI if anyone questions it.

Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference?

Yes, because I understand our political system…

There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore.

You don’t seem to even understand the meaning of the words used to describe our political system…

Stop asking rhetorical questions like you’re teaching people, start asking real questions so you don’t remain ignorant of how society actually works.

Just ask someone else

Both the US and Israeli militaries possess and have used advanced and expansive multi-domain intelligence collection methods in their conduct of many combat operations, which allow for enhanced monitoring, assessment and verification of targets.

Something that isn’t talked about often, is how these “failures” of intelligence are often used to justify permanent increases in surveillance. Even if something slipping thru is organic, it’s almost always due to missing something in existing data, more data won’t solve anything because the problem is going thru existing data and making the right people aware of it.

They just always look for any excuse to increase surveillance

He’s not a psychopath, he cares waaaay too much how people perceive him

Not every asshole has ASPD, and not everyone with ASPD is an asshole.

This is like asking if you have faith in plumbers…

But no, I don’t have “faith” in anyone or anything.

That’s why I vote and advocate for others to do so, because lots of informed voters mitigates the threats from bad politicians.

AI is shit.

Facial recognition is shit.

But none of that was really the issue here:

Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…

But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.

We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.

We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.

We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.

The worst thing about being Irish is the proximity to the British…

The worst thing about being British is proximity to the monarchy…

Like, people always forget that the real problem was the French aristocrats who took over Britain and didn’t have any loyalty or comradarie to the English people.

For like 300 years the royals and English government used French, they didn’t switch to English until fear of revolt made them want to build cohesion with the masses.

TLDR:

The first victims of the “British” royal family, were the fucking British. As the Empire grew, they changed their definitions of “us” but always only after finding a new “them” to distract the British populace from the fact that foreign invaders have been ruling their island for a literal thousand years.

It’s hard to shit on an occupied people because their occupiers never stopped occupying…

It’s crazy how many idiots convinced themselves authoritarian governments weren’t a big deal…

Like, I don’t feel bad for anyone dumb enough to visit Dubai.

It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time

But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.

So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.

The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.

But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.

But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time