“the homegrowns are next” - Mr. Donald J. Trump, April 2025
NFT, AI, “the blockchain”, 3D TVs, SaaS… I know I’m forgetting some more tech trends that have been annoying from start to finish in the past ten or twenty years.
(Sadly SaaS seems to be doing OK right now, and I suspect our Windows friends are not too far from OSaaS)
except perhaps it would have meant more publicity and lent credibility to the opposition, which seems to have been intentionally ignored and marginalized by major media so far.
This is one of the things bothering me the most. Yeah yeah owned by billionaires who support Trump. But this is our media, it’s one of the things I grew up being taught helped preserve our democracy.
And yet they spent years sanewashing Trump and are now failing to adequately cover the resistance to Trump.
Are those principled folks who resigned publicly the only ones who remember why they are here?
I’m even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don’t have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
Didn’t they US used to send special forces out to rescue people like that in the past?
That’s only when you have functioning institutions and a commander in chief that cares about people.
The USA is crazy right now, but not this much.
OK.
Have been told for about a decade now that we’re overreacting about Trump and meanwhile he’s doing exactly what has been predicted, exactly what he’s said he’ll do.
Folks acting like this is all normal are as big a problem as the magas. It’s not. We’re 1930s Germany, LATE 1930s Germany.
Daughter says it’s just the way the world works - life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.
See if you can get her to consider that the big dog at a place like her High School may very well be the small dog elsewhere. There is always someone smarter and hotter. She’s a big fish in that specific small pond.
Remembering there’s no guarantee she’s always the big dog might help her start to develop some empathy for the small dog. The initial impulse may be self-preservation, but maybe personal growth will flow from there.
Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?
If it doesn’t happen it’s because we stopped it, not because it wasn’t going to.
If you don’t recognize that we’re just at the start, sure.
raises fear that confidence in America is fading
Just now that fear is being raised?
Yeah, like most such memes I stole it from another post, and as I was looking at it after submitting it hit me that it had that look. Sincerely sorry.
I’m sorry about whatever stunted your reading comprehension.
Likely true, but I like to think it’s because she told Vance to go fuck himself.
Let’s just cross out fingers mass deportation turns out to be the cheaper solution.
Well, if there’s any positive stereotype about Germans it’s that they are pretty good at efficiencies, and we know what their final solution was. I’m sure Trump won’t want to reinvent the wheel.
The rule 2 refers to the rule 2 of the instance, not the community, which is:
Ah that makes more sense.
The part you decided to show in the modlog is also a little deceptive.
I left that out not to be deceptive, but because it wasn’t germane to everything else, and it was an edit.
I have some news for you about how they will keep enough space in the camps.
Fucking hell.