Expect to see a lot more of that all around the world.

Trump can hide enough of his caprice and his pettiness and his self-absorption behind emotive rhetoric to fool the MAGAs, but none of that works on an international scale. The rest of the world just sees him, accurately, as a petulant, self-serving asshole and raving lunatic who can’t be trusted. Ever. And that’s the way they’re going to treat him, and the US by extension.

Yes.

What era would you rather have been born in?

Why is there a watermelon there?

Subs or dubs?

True.

It’s cynically amusing that it’s reached the point that a focus on one dishonest part of a Trump Republicsns story runs the risk of missing another dishonest part.

Lemmy isn’t a site at all. It’s a piece of software.

Or more precisely, judge blocks administration from human trafficking.

What? You mean investors might be wary of placing trust in the value of the dollar under the administration of a vindictive childish, capricious, narcissistic moron who’s surrounded himself with grotesquely unqualified sycophants?

Who would’ve guessed?

I’ve just started doing #11 and intend to stay with it.

I think a central part of the strategy here is for Republicans who want to avoid being too brazen about their own lust for power to conveniently not oppose Trump but not overtly support him either, in the hope that they can reap the benefits while avoiding the blame.

And I like the idea of holding their feet to the fire - of driving home the fact that Trump isn’t doing any of this alone, but with the active support of Republicans at all levels and in all branches of government.

This Republican administration is doing everything in its power to establish the precedent that it can disappear whoever it wants into a foreign prison over which even the leader of that nation claims to have no aithority, and further that it can do so whenever it wants, for any reason it wants, entirelybregardless of any other governmental ruling, including a direct court order.

Very obviously, this is not a power that an office in a nation of liberty and justice should ever possess, for any reason, ever.

One would think that Republicans would be particularly determined in their opposition to that, rather than being the ones responsible for it.

There are few things more painfully stupid than a mass media version of a scientific take on a matter with strong philosophical elements.

I’ve been predicting that by the time this is all over, there will be mass graves in the US and Trump will be included in the lists of worst mass murderers in history.

I’m now predicting that there will be mass graves in El Salvador and Trump will be included in the lists of worst mass murderers in history.

I obviously can’t know this is him, but it tracks.

More broadly, I’ve been certain for years that he spends a lot of time on 4chan. Anyone who’s at all familiar with /pol/ should be able to see that.

As opposed to the rest of the internet which does?

I’m not clear on what it is.

Broadly, they seem to have just lost track of the fact that their privilege is paid for by other people’s labor. Yeah - I think that part of it is thinking that AI can pick up the slack, but I think a lot of it is just not really thinking much at all.

I really think a lot of it, especially for Trump specifically, is looking at the amount of money that’s spent on social programs and education and housing and environmental protection and workplace safety and so on, and just dreaming about all the things he could buy with that much money.

I’m just the opposite.

I still own my SNES and all of its games from back in the day (and an NES, an original XBox and a PSX with their games), and they’re all in boxes in my garage. Pretty much as soon as emulation became viable, that became my preferred way to play, since I don’t have screw with wires and connections and consoles and cartridges or discs and all the rest of that clutter. I just click on an icon, select a game from a list, and away I go.

I was waiting for that one.

And no.

The same thing happens in state communism - in fact, it generally happens even faster, since the disconnect between work and reward is there from the start, and the party leaders are in such a perfect position to siphon off reward other people earned. They can do immediately what a capitalist system can only do after wealth has been concentrated and used to buy political power.

It comes with the establishment of a hierarchy by which some can arrange things such that they enjoy unearned privilege - it doesn’t much matter specifically how that hierarchy is established or nominally justified, and “capitalism” is just one of them.

At this point, I’m assuming that “reforms” that are going to lead to deaths are a deliberate eugenic strategy - that the underlying idea is that the owner class will be able to deal with problems privately, so it will be the working class that will be disproportionately affected and will disproportionately die, and that’s actually part of the point.

I wonder if there’s a specific name for that dynamic by which the ruling class separates work from reward so that they can keep the reward of other people’s work for themselves, then ends up conplaining that nobody wants to work any more.

Well… yeah. True.

Nobody tell him that when he says things like that, it doesn’t make them look pathetic - it makes him look pathetic.