protestin' Tesla (March 1, photos by Henry B)

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Trump ❤️ Putin
Putin ❤️ Trump

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BABAM @ Tesla Protests:

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For future reference GOP Rep. Schweikert talking about how deep hurtful cuts only take hours or days of a year's worth of debt spending.

All Trump ever wanted to do was make engaging television, and by that standard it's been a wildly successful presidency.

This is going to be great television, I will say that.

"By one recent count, Trump has appointed 21 Fox News personalities to his staff--many, like Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, at the highest levels of his administration."

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The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation was awarded a huge research grant to design and produce synthetic personalities to order. The results were uniformly disastrous. All the 'people' and 'personalities' turned out to be amalgams of characteristics that simply could not co-exist in naturally occurring life forms. Most of them were just poor pathetic misfits, but some were deeply, deeply dangerous. Dangerous because they didn't ring alarm bells in other people. They could walk through situations the way that ghosts walk through walls, because no one spotted the danger

The most dangerous of all were three identical ones--they were put in this hold, to be blasted, with this ship, right out of this universe. They are not evil, in fact they are rather simple and charming. But they are the most dangerous creatures that ever lived because there is nothing they will not do if allowed, and nothing they will not be allowed to do...

Trent: You know what you are? You're like a big bear with claws and with fangs...
Sue: ...big fucking teeth, man.
Trent: Yeah... big fuckin' teeth on ya'. And she's just like this little bunny, who's just kinda cowering in the corner.
Sue: Shivering.
Trent: Yeah, man just kinda... you know, you got these claws and you're staring at these claws and your thinking to yourself, and with these claws you're thinking, "How am I supposed to kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny?"
Sue: And you're poking at it, you're poking at it...
Trent: Yeah, you're not hurting it. You're just kinda gently batting the bunny around, you know what I mean? And the bunny's scared Mike, the bunny's scared of you, shivering.
Sue: And you got these fucking claws and these fangs...
Trent: And you got these fucking claws and these fangs, man! And you're looking at your claws and you're looking at your fangs. And you're thinking to yourself, you don't know what to do, man. "I don't know how to kill the bunny." With *this* you don't know how to kill the bunny, do you know what I mean?
Sue: You're like a big bear, man.
Mike: So you're not just like fucking with me?
Trent: No I'm not fucking with you.
Sue: Honestly, man.

sometimes I feel like this when I have trouble getting started with a tech task Been a little behind in reading these days. A friend recommended "The Great Delusion" by John Mearsheimer. The basic idea is you got a balance a kind of liberalism (terms get fuzzy; he's talking like Clinton/Bush/Cheney "share our good values to the world" 'liberalism', something certain liberals would certainly condemn as a new flavor of colonialism) with nationalism and realism.

It mentioned Francis Fukuyama's famous article, "The End of History?" which I think a lot of us Gen Xers got introduced to via Jesus Jones' song "Right Here, Right Now"

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Trump and Musk are a revolution, alright, and no one will treat the USA as a reliable partner again. "And although one should hesitate before saying anything as pointed as describing president Trump and Vice-President as Russian assets, their conduct is indistinguishable from them being so."

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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Maybe I'm a bit too quick to admit my faults than, you know, try and fix them.

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Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says anyone want to place bets? such scummy underhand ways of killing a program so many have paid into and are counting on