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They’re very good at it. Anyone can make mistakes but they’re certainly not stupid, bad at their job, or incompetent.

Because the sale of Tiktok was done to suppress Palestinian voices?

They’re good at what made them rich and powerful! They’re not good at much else, they’re not smart about much else, and they can’t really do much else. But! They’re still they’re very good at what they do, and they love doing it.

They have a specialized set of skills and interests that revolve around making money and gaining influence/power.

Your enemies aren’t dummies, that’s why they win. Stop underestimating them. They’re gonna fucking kill us all.

They don’t want IMAX in your living room, they want IMAX in the IMAX theater, where you pay a premium for their service.

It’s popular among his base!

There is, in fact, a solid core of Trump supporters who really believe he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and really believe he’s solved 8+ wars and that he’s a peacetime president. They’re not the majority but I don’t see how it’s useful to deny the fact that these people exist. He’s still losing support, but that also demonstrates that he still has support left to lose.

A lot of them think Trump “solved” the conflict, you can’t just ignore this.

It’s one of the reasons he keeps demanding a peace prize, his little pig cult believes it.

You’re following normal people. Are you actively following rightoid freaks?

Well sure, there’s wider context behind J6 as a single flash point, but I don’t think you should overlook the event itself. It’s the most successful single day of protest that I can think of - yeah they got arrested and jailed for a while, but in the end they got literally everything they wanted and were entirely vindicated. The J6ers were transformed into political prisoners and martyrs, becoming a rallying flag for their movement. I think Trump’s victory owes a lot to their contribution.

J6 has been the most successful US political movement in my lifetime

I guarantee you that there are people who believe that Trump already saved Gaza and that all the news coming out now is fake.

There have to be at least a few people who believe his “peace president” bullshit.

You’re right, no one ever does anything on purpose. Somehow the richest and most powerful people in the world are all stupid, bad at their job, incompetent, and make mistakes. There are only coincidences. Nothing is done on purpose.

Europe certainly will.

It’s currently $1.6 billion in the hole, and adding $227 million per month because the fund is being looted. Seems like something any large country could step in and resolve with additional funding, gaining a huge amount of leverage for a very reasonable price.

ICE murdered Renée Good because she was among neighbors that were standing guard due to ICE activity and acting as a legal observer. It was retaliation because she put her body on the line, because not every USAmerican was waiting for a white person to die to do something about ICE. Her murder, and then Pretti’s, definitely woke a lot of people up and the fact that they didn’t care before should be part of the discussion. Don’t erase the efforts of all the people who were protesting before, though.

There are a lot of elements of the firewall that are something Europe should consider emulating, because it’s also keeping US slop out of the country and protecting domestic industry and stopping US meddling through electronic warfare. It allows for China to develop its own internal economy rather than be hollowed out and made dependent on Silicon Valley. It’s tech sovereignty.

Imagine if Europe replaced Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, and Youtube with its own internally developed and regulated platforms. No more tech dependency! China made the right choice and it’s becoming more clear as enshitification ruins the internet.

Unless you criticize ICE, then they’ll blow your head off and give the killer a million dollars.

And then the shooter will get a million dollars.