Fascists were super happy when they fomented riots and tried to assassinate the other guy, but they were super disappointed when they lost and started getting their people and propaganda removed from government.

I mean, you’re on here. So obviously yes.

Hey, remember when a bunch of “mainstream” republicans endorsed Kamala over Trump?

Those are the ones who historically opposed lowering drug prices.

Really makes you think.

I mean, I do, but I voted for trump.

Feeling pretty OK so far.

And notably, it looks completely different from the original concept (which would have just been a management game) so its safe to say the original got scrapped, they just liked the theme enough to make it into something else.

The FBI spied on trump as well as got caught lying about the Biden laptop scandal to help Biden win the 2020 campaign so… Would it be surprising if he directed Patel to fuck with the FBI on purpose?

Yeah, if the end consequence is creating a giant database of photos of US ID’s (and storing which accounts theyre associated with as a nice bonus) then that is, in my opinion, not great.

I understand Discord is already rolling out ID verification in the UK and their solution is to use a 3rd party service (you send them your, they just send discord a "is over 18? YES/NO). Personally I don’t think thats much better but it won’t be Discord’s own liability when they find out call center employees in India or Vietnam are using the images of your ID to sell online or something.

Must… Not… Heil…

We had a pretty close call there. For a while, the president was pushing hard for a federal online censorship program that got caught lying as soon as it was formed, and also trying to get votes counted with no voter ID unlike every single other democratic country. The administration was also paying bail for protestors who burned down random businesses and pushing for prosecution of people who acted in self defense. Luckily we didn’t re-elect him and his handlers after that.

It threw off everybody’s bullshit calibration when the FBI announced in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which included implications of Joe Biden taking foreign bribe money, was “Russian Disinformation”.

They also ordered (technically only “asked nicely”) Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship campaigns based on this.

Later, after helping Biden win the election, they admitted that the laptop was real and not a Russian psyop as publicly claimed. Internal text messages revealed even later prove that while the FBI may have thought the laptop was not real at first, they did not believe it was a Russian plant, in other words, they lied.

So stuff like that might be why Republicans tend to believe “Russian Misinformation”.

Ironically, thats the exact idea behind the whole trade war thing. It has lead to TSMC already accelerating their plans to expand the Arizona microchip fabrication lab, which means… Factory jobs, the thing we used to have in the 70’s.

“Uhhh, yes ALL MEN, why would you say not all men?”

“Uh not all of them obviously, I don’t mean the good ones. If you thought I was targeting you when I said all men are bad, threats to innocent people, and need to be kept out of public spaces and valuable positions. Obviously you are a bad person.”

More like Facebook worked overtime to tip the 2020 election towards Biden and Trump is still mad about it.

Well, FOIA requests revealed Facebook was extremely cooperative with both enacting government censorship requests, and keeping them secret, when those same censorship requests would have been utterly illegal if they were an official order, so…

Some deal like “You give us control over information and we leave your monopoly alone”, even unspoken, seems to be the gist of it.

Based on the age of the original, they probably toned down the one gay/bi party member a lot.

I think in the west, we mostly only hear from the government, and not regular people because they don’t speak English and aren’t on western websites. Regular people probably have a lot of the same concerns we do. Of course, the government wants to increase total productivity and don’t care if it causes an upset for regular people.

Keep in mind, one example of “more productive” to the Chinese is passing AI generated bullshit through as peer reviewed academic articles, like nobody is gonna notice the rat with a dick larger than its own body.

So I’d say people who care about ethics, or academic integrity, or whatever, still have something to worry about. China just doesn’t care.

I don’t understand why Linux users are like this.

Disappointing to hear, I liked Obduction and Firmament both.

One could also argue that the USDA killed like 12 million chickens under Biden.

I think the real end to the culture war nonsense came after Thomas Lockely was caught red handed fabricating the words of people who allegedly met “black samurai” Yasuke to embellish his story, rewrite Japanese history to be more “diverse”, and sell books, which was a while ago. Or in other words, it was proven beyond any doubt that the very premise of AS:S was, itself, “culture war nonsense”.

It should be pretty clear which side was in the right.