Gutting the state as beefalo said is right but they’ll still have the usual scapegoats (immigrants, dog whistle racism, lgbtq community).

Any of these communities could be hit with state violence, either directly through police action or state sanctioned terrorism such as the proud boys, or indirectly by eroding protections and further marginalization.

Just look at what Texas and Florida are doing to hurt trans people and immigrants. Scale that up to a national level. That sort of stuff is in the project 2025 playbook. For example just being trans they want to make illegal under the pornography act. And charge teachers who talk about the existence of trans people with child sexual assault.

So, hopefully not gas chambers and witch hunts but, it could get pretty bad for a lot of people.

I think you weren’t clear in delineation between leftist and reactionaries.

As well as to extract tax money from the working class. As it makes more economic sense to house and rehabilitate a person then it does to put them in jail. But the jail tends to have more kickbacks for the owner class.

Class warfare scorecard.

Having more homes than you need even ones you never sleep in, legal.

Having zero homes and having to sleep on the streets, illegal.

But the swing voters the person you were replying to is referring to, mostly think that President is basically king.

It’s the low information voters that are the problem, and you guys trying to spin it like this isn’t a big deal isn’t going to help the situation.

The DNC needs to find a different horse. Biden needs to retire and go enjoy that golf he was talking about last night

I hardly saw any mentions of him being hoarse reading through the megathread comments last night.

Stuff like, winning the war against Medicaid, on the other hand, as well as his general just got out of bed demeanor, is absolutely going to erode confidence in him and quite potentially cost progressives the election if they don’t pick a different horse.

Information can travel at light speed. So, I think there’s more to it personally

Depends on what you mean by religion.

Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads and don the robes as a ceremonial act of letting go of identity views such as ‘us and them’ and even self and other.

This and not holding onto dogmatic views in general is a big part of the practice and the teachings.

Not saying all Buddhists are perfect by any means. I’ve hung out in enough Buddhist online spaces to come across a lot of dogmatism and people using Buddhism itself as an identity view. Myself included when I wasn’t as far along my own path.

But the intention of the practice is to point these things out and help people to let them go. Not to cling to them.

Aid is a gift. They paid for some of it.

Will Trump pee in a cup first?

I mean if we’re going to start drug testing candidates it’s going to apply to both of them right.

And as far as I know only one of them has incontinence that’s most likely related to stimulant abuse.

It’s media attention, but the intent is to educate about propaganda rather than spread it.

Noise machine being a metaphor for propaganda.

He seems kind of weak to me. He’s not even allowed to own firearms. How can a man who can’t even own guns possibly MAGA?

Is he entitled to US arm shipments?

The headline makes him sound pretty fucking entitled

Yeah I know. But I wanted to point out that the comment in the article wasn’t so much a real consideration as business risk analysis 101. Along with a healthy dose of corporate spin.

Provable economic damage is how we have standing for class action lawsuits btw.

I hope there is no statute of limitations on child sexual assault in his jurisdiction.

Here I think it’s best to delineate the GOP base and the GOP elite.

What you say is most likely (though not always) true for the base. While not likely (though sometimes) true for the elite.

And it’s not a delusional disorder. But the effects of propaganda by the elite. (Still technically delusion but I think it’s nice to point at the source, as it helps us not fall into the trap of blaming people for being manipulated).

The reason we see more of this recently in broad daylight is because propaganda works. The oligarchs and political elite care about the same things they did during WW2, money and power. And up until Pearl Harbor, there was support for Germany in the U.S.

https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/

And don’t forget, the GOP has a history of shitting on minorities that goes back many generations. This isn’t new. It’s just masks off. Because their base drank the kool aid.

A spokeswoman for OpenAI declined to comment beyond pointing BI to a corporate blogpost from May, in which the company says it takes web crawler permissions “into account each time we train a new model.

The translation for this is do we stand to profit more than we stand to be punished.

Basic capitalist risk assessment in other words.

Oh thanks I only caught the vegan part of it and the hexbear reference went over my head. Was like, I mostly eat vegetables, should I he upset by this?

Either way it would be on them rather than your demeanor.

But I figured I would mention it since you’re tracking everything.

Thanks for keeping the addicts safe btw. I have a lot of friends who have struggled or are struggling. Security at a rehab facility I’m sure can be both difficult and rewarding.