Trump voters are the victim of a con, but the con is bigger than Trump. Conservatism in general is a con that needs misinformation networks like talk radio, fox news, facebook groups, etc. Without having been steeped in that bullshit for 40+ years, Trump would never have succeeded. It’s the whole ecosystem that’s doing the radicalization, not just Trump.

When the Trump fever finally breaks

Oh you sweet, beautiful child. Never change.

expect the backlash to be swift and bloody

I do. I just think you and I have different ideas of who the target will be.

The gadsden flag but the snake is being tread on and says “one day I’ll own this boot”

No, it’s obviously soy consumption

I lowkey kind of love these folks? I mean, I know they are assholes in other ways, so actually I don’t. But I do love how they make shit up and try to get cops to go along with it. For one, the actual legal system is more absurd than whatever they come up with, and for two, they annoy the shit out of cops which is always a good thing. I dunno, maybe reading a ton of posts where they are pestering cops and that’s all has skewed my views on these people.

I’m curious if you watched the video and if it persuaded you or not. Like you, I’m open to change if I find better information on a subject

This is just not true.

My guess is that it’s related to the Weber-Fechner laws of perception. This is the same principle that explains why turning a second light on doesn’t make a room seem twice as bright. Fechner’s formulation is “the intensity of our sensation increases as the logarithm of an increase in energy rather than as rapidly as the increase.”

Chamber of Commerce Republicans sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Chamber of Commerce Republicans reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Although Biden claims to be “outraged” by the killing of aid workers, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US wouldn’t leverage its extensive military aid, or anything else for that matter, to “hang some sort of condition over [Israel’s] neck.”

Reminder: Hamas does not have a presence in the West Bank. Mass killings of Palestinians have never been about containing or defeating Hamas. The killing, destruction of property/seizure of land, and creation of fear are the point.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-crazy-desperate-gazans-left-in-despair-after-australian-visas-cancelled-midair-20240313-p5fc5c.html

https://archive.is/DvA1X

Here are some similar aphorisms:

• It is what it is.
• Patience is a virtue.
• Success breeds success.
• You must be a friend to get a friend.
• Life isn’t fair.

Statements like these are truisms. They are widely accepted and often broad enough that they can easily be turned against their intended purpose. For instance, you could use “no labels” to say that people shouldn’t be racist. But you can also use it when people are pointing out or trying to correct racism, because correcting racism necessarily involves pointing out the racializing labels that are applied to people. They can also be used by dominant groups to say “don’t label me as a member of the dominant group” in order to mask the material benefits they are receiving as members of said group.

They are owned by governments in the sense that they exist at the pleasure of the governments they depend wholly upon. Corporations are legal entities; who administers the law? To use a tech analogy, I’m pointing out that though a file has an “owner”, which is a user account, the true owner is the operating system itself.

I have to admit I’m surprised this is as controversial a take as it is.

All corporations are owned and funded by governments. A corporation must be incorporated somewhere by some government. These corporations benefit from services, grants, and special benefits (e.g. limited liability) provided by that government.

However, I don’t think governments are using this to do mass surveillance on people with VPNs, if only for the reason that there’s not much to be gained by such an action. Most privacy invasion is of the kind people freely allow. Using a VPN doesn’t make logging into Google meaningfully more private. The only groups I can think of that would really want to be able to spy on VPN users would be the MPAA, RIAA, etc, and I don’t think they have the kind of sway to get governments to do that.

But yeah, if you are doing something a three letter government agency will target you over, a VPN ain’t going to cut it.

I agree that dropping dumb bombs on populated areas is wrong

Comparing Netanyahu to Assad is very apt, I agree

Oooooooh I tell you if you keep committing genocide I’m gonna get frustrated! Reeaaal frustrated!

IMO the best way to ensure that traffic always goes through a VPN is to use network namespaces. The wireguard website has an article describing the process. In a nutshell, you create a dedicated namespace to put the physical interface in, create the wireguard interface in that namespace, then move the wireguard interface to the root (“normal”) namespace. That way the only way to get traffic out without the VPN is to run a program in that dedicated namespace.

This is a paper about it by the same guy: . I found it while reading an NYT article about AI consumption.