I mean, she is a better representation of what republicans and MAGA actually say they are. When you really dig in to what they believe they would never vote for Trump if they weren’t indoctrinated into a cult that he created. He’s literally against everything they stand for when you go past the surface but they are so blinded by owning the libs that they don’t see it anymore. Remember before the election last year and every republican, including voters, said that Trump was poison and that they would never support him again? They know this deep down even if they won’t admit it. They just either don’t care, want something out of it, or are genuinely blind to him fucking everyone over. MTG used to be one of the hardcore believers and I genuinely think was brainwashed and is slowly starting to realize it.

But to be clear, I still think she is a garbage human. I just believe that deep down this is the candidate they’d actually want if they weren’t so deep in the propaganda from their Dear Leader. She would actually do republican things and not just use it as a guise to become a dictator.

Marxist, communist, radical, jihadist, antisemite, pro-Hamas.

It’s like they are running a contest to see who can use the most scary words possible. Not as racist a response as I was expecting though…

I’m a musician, an artist, and I was even started to get into voice acting so I have hated generative AI from the beginning. These are all things that are insanely difficult to get jobs in and money from and now it is basically impossible. Don’t get me wrong, I think there are genuinely good uses for AI when it comes to science and medicine and I am a strong advocate of those kinds of AI. The problem with AI is that it is being developed in a purposefully disruptive and malicious way. They’re not innovating for the sake of innovation, they are innovating for the sake of making more money and generally making peoples lives worse.

They could make an AI model that artists can use to help in the creative process by making some of the more tedious aspects easier, but they’d rather steal everyone elses art and replace you. They could make writing easier by developing tools that can make putting your thoughts onto paper a more seemless experience that can open the door to those that may struggle with literacy and dyslexia, but they’d rather steal everything you write and replace you. They could make AI tools that can make making music easier by creating tools that make the post processing part easy and basically automated like how Autotune works, but they’d rather steal everyone’s music and make their own as they replace you.

We’ve developed the greatest technology of the past decade and put it into the hands of people that do not care about us and only want to suck as much money out of our pockets as much as possible and manipulate us against each other while we all lose our jobs to the tools that were supposed to make our jobs easier. And now it’s to the point in the US that these companies have invested so much money and infrastructure into it that backing down is not an option anymore without collapsing the entire economy. And all the while they are destroying neighborhoods and peoples lives with their data centers just to maybe one day possibly achieve AGI if it’s even possible with current AI architecture, which it probably isn’t. When OpenAI is prioritizing generated videos and being able to have sex with ChatGPT, that should be a clear sign that they have lost the plot entirely.

Just to be clear this is all aimed at generative AI. AI is an amazing technology that can do a lot of amazing things. The problem is that the companies making generative AI are actively using them to make peoples lives worse just for the sake of money and are barely even hiding it. And yeah I know, that’s capitalism baby. But this feels different. They aren’t competing against each other, they are competing against us, our rights, our freedom, our privacy, and our money. It feels like the corporations stopped fighting each other and turned all their fighting spirit onto the general population.

Back in like the late 2010s it was an old coworker of mine. He came in two years after i started and swooped in and took the promotion I was gonna get because he went to highschool with my bosses daughter. I’d be more mad at the boss but this guy was absolutely insufferable about it and would boast about it literally every day and talk about how awesome he was. Would always talk about how amazing he was at his job but would crack under pressure pretty much every time. He was also one of those guys that’s nice to your face but talks mad shit when you leave the room. Huge “fuckboy” energy too and always felt like he was entitled to everything. He was the kinda guy that would try to fuck your ex girlfriend the day you broke up yet still be friendly to your face. And I know that because my ex told me about it after the fact. Bro straight up sent her a request on Snapchat and Facebook out of the blue within a week after only meeting her once before.

Glad I don’t work with that guy anymore and that I have a much better job. That guy lives rent free in my head and I fucking hate that he does.

As someone that absolutely loves gambling and loves going to casinos to waste money with friends, I would never touch any of the shit that gets pushed on us on a daily basis. Unfortunately, a lot people that enjoy gambling do not have the forethought or impulse control to think “maybe I shouldn’t put the slot machine in my pocket” and instead think “you mean I can just do it from my pocket?” I’m not saying this as an insult to those that fall into it and I’m not saying that I’m better than them. There are definitely times I have considered it. Even now I’m fighting the urge to download an app and I don’t even watch sports!

Gambling is being injected into every facet of our lives at this point and it’s genuinely hard, if not impossible, to avoid. People like to think that only stupid people fall for this but that’s not really the truth. Desperate and vulnerable people fall for it. People that want an easy way out of the financial hole that we’ve been put into. Unless you are upper middle class or higher, $100,000 would literally be life changing. And it’s pretty fucked up that they’ve made us all this desperate while they rake in millions of dollars off of us on a daily basis.

“We did a lot of cool stuff while you weren’t looking that we can’t tell you about but you should be thankful and praise us.”

This give serious “my girlfriend lives in another state” vibes. My go to with these guys is to always assume the opposite of what they say. So I assume they did nothing.

The difference between her and people like JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and all the other republicans that called Trump dangerous back in the day is that MTG was a true believer. The ones that flip flopped as soon as Trump came back are only doing it because they are either scared or they have something to gain. MTG wasn’t just following orders like the rest of the cronies, she was just a useful idiot to them and is starting to realize that.

I still hate her with every fiber of my being and I don’t expect her to ever actually change, but I’d much rather have her redirect her anger towards the people that deserve it.

And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.

Oh shit that’s where I used to live… I guess she was right tho.

This is purely anecdotal, but I have been running into a lot of DNS issues over the past couple months where I work. 3 of the computers and even one of the laptops for remote work were having DNS issues that needed to be fixed. One even needed Windows reinstalled after fixing the DNS issue (Which was probably unrelated, but worth mentioning)

I’m honestly starting to think that the internet in general might be imploding. Not sure why, but replacing so many developers and programmers with AI might be responsible. Who knows, but it’s definitely very strange.

Look, I don’t believe that every republican voter I run into in the real world is a straight up Nazi. Half my family are republicans and, although pretty ignorant and dumb, are generally decent people. That being said, if you are a republican and find the need to defend this or act like it’s not a big deal, you are a literally associating with Nazis. It doesn’t matter what your politics are, the people that you think have your back are literal Nazis.

A good rule of thumb that I feel like everyone needs to know for locating bots is to look for default usernames. When you make an account, Reddit gives you a randomly generated name that consists of “[word][word][4 digit number]” unless you specify otherwise. 8 out of 10 times the account is less than two years old and barely posts outside of these subreddits, and even when they do it is very minimal and only done to “seem normal.” And when you really start to dig deep you can obviously see a “hello fellow redditors” type of behavior and writing style.

There are two examples in this very post: SwimmerPlus3383 InternationalYou4065

InternationalYou4065: Only a few months old, has all their content hidden, and yet has over 20k karma somehow.

SwimmerPlus3383: Slightly older, but still within the timeframe of mass bots flooding Reddit. Low effort posts that pretty much accomplish nothing or straight up propaganda. Only posts in a few different subs but consistently has poor English.

It’s the same thing in the majority of right wing subreddits. Even the verified ones follow this rubric. Sometimes it’s literally a post by a bot filled with bots commenting and bots upvoting. It’s basically dead and there are hardly any actual people in there except when there’s big news. These places are the definition of “dead internet theory.”

If you’re gonna lie at least make it believable. If he said one of his staffers put it up one day when he was out and he never noticed then that would actually be a believable story.

Like, what do you think they are gonna do when they start running low on the current immigrants? As soon as they run out of brown people they are going to start getting very particular about which white people are the correct white people. Next thing you know it’ll be all the white refugees stealing the jobs and healthcare.

And yet he still has an entire administration of followers. Like, this could easily happen to any single one of them if they step out of line even a little bit. They should be shitting their pants right now and running for the hills when they see shit like this happen. It’s not like they are special in any way or immune. But I guess lack of awareness is a prerequisite to work for his regime.

Jokes on you I never used Spotify.

For real though, the only thing I use Spotify for is uploading my own music. The only reason I don’t remove it is because I only get like 5 listens a month and they all come from my mom. She already got upset that I deleted it off soundcloud earlier this year and I really don’t wanna bum her out. Now, if I was actually good at making music and was actually making money I’d remove that shit today and go to Bandcamp.

Just a reminder that Charlie Kirk was right in the middle in terms of age for these “kids” and said all the same things they do in public. He was probably in a similar group chat himself.

Some of these “kids” are older than Charlie Kirk. They were literally all in the same age range and demographic. This is the modern Republican party when you don’t include the old people.

Some of them are older than me and I remember when smartphones were invented. The oldest one in the chat is only 5 years younger than JD Vance and was older than their national hero Charlie Kirk. These aren’t kids, these are the modern Republican party.

As an American adult that is uncut and was also semi bullied back in the day, don’t do it. Let your son decide when it’s his decision to make. Now that I’m in my late twenties I’m glad that I never had it done people generally stop caring as we get older. Eventually the benefits start to outweigh the downsides and most of the downsides are just social and not physical. If anything the physical benefits are amazing. Makes it all extremely more sensitive and makes naughty times way more fun. Something like 3/4 of the nerve endings die in the tip on circumcised men. And when it comes to partners it all comes down to preference, which is always a factor regardless of what your junk looks like. My last girlfriend thought it was fun and really enjoyed it, but I’ve also met someone that didn’t like it because he had a bad experience once.

There are two major reasons why people find it gross. One can be fixed and the other is just unnecessary stigma. The most important advice I’d give is about hygiene. Too many men neglect it and have to learn the hard way that you actually have to clean underneath, that’s where most people get turned off by it. The other reason people are grossed out by it is because they’ve never seen it before because it’s so uncommon. I say be the change you wanna see in the world. Circumcision is slowly falling out of fashion because we are all slowly starting to realise it’s pretty dumb and kind of brutal to do to a kid.

And if it comes to it, it’s a lot easier to remove one than get one back. Let them make the choice.