"Heavy use of psychedelics and a brutal Zen regime."

I thought it was by replacing Ellison's blood with the fresh, young, clean blood of DNA matched children. Hence the desire for a DNA/PI database. That and occasional organ grafts from the children (liver being the main one). The better the match, the better the results. Or so I've heard...

What did we learn from this article?
Stunningly, incredibly stupid people remain stunningly, incredibly stupid people.

They don't mind that Trump hasn't bothered with inflation, though they pretended it was the single thing that mattered before the election.
They don't have a clue how tariffs work.
They idiotically believe "waste, fraud and abuse" is ubiquitous and they aren't going to be hurt by killing the agencies and department that provide services they need.
On subverting the judiciary? "That wouldn't happen. I'm not even thinking about it"
oh - and 8 of the 11 are total morons. Seriously deluded.

This is brilliant, though. It shows what the Democrats and true patriots for the ideals of the United States are up against. It helps to see if there's any chance of saving this union or if it's too late.

Damning.

I hope so.
Unfortunately a------ tRump and his bad doge are going to kill us all in the process.

BTW - I wish to god idiots that cry "First Amendment" would actually read it and understand it. The biggest criers of cancel culture are the ones banning and purging everything. G-d damn the hypocrisy and self-blind idiocy is stunning!

That is some Grade A projection. Nothing is more Orwellian than policing language and having the state partner with the private sector to engage in censorship. Cancel culture. Engaging in heckler's veto at campuses everywhere.

The International News Agency, the AP is now banned from AF-1 and the White House for not changing their style guid to "Gulf of America"

Because - you know - respect for the First Amendment... /s

#93 Reads like a Humtake post. Just sayin

Shht. It does. And I responded.
Fool me once can't be fooled agin! '-)

It was a demand or else. He even started by saying the US would like to have, but... non-compliance on the US terms wasn't negotiable.

Disinformation/misinformation is a vague catch- all to describe wrongthink that justifies censorship.

That's the problem with MAGA. MAGA has lost any moral compass it may have had. That loss is critical to those that seek to bring authoritarianism to a nation. The steps to fascism requires this. That is what George Orwell wrote about. Funny you even misuse "wrongthink" and end up proving the point. We are in a time when all Norms, all Mores are gone. Destroyed by Trump and MAGA. You've even convinced yourself you're the victim and your free speech has been suppressed.

As always, MAGA can't stand to live in a world were everyone else has the same rights as they. They feel a loss of culture, of identity, of privilege. It burns MAGA to their core. So much so that they have to import White Afrikaans from South Africa. Or so they thought that would be a no-brainer. Turns out even they want no part of what they see here.

But I know being a Nazi is illegal in Germany.
I'm sure that infuriates deplorable Trumping MAGAts who expect everyone to support their hate and bigotry.

It is illegal to display Nazi symbols, flags, swastikas, etc.
It is illegal to wear SS uniforms.
It is illegal do deny the Holocaust.

That'd be a whole lot of problems for America's MAGA party,

Of course he does. He's a HUGE GOP donor.
Enormous Trump supporter.
What do you think Musk is doing right now?
Vacuuming up all our personal data.
Even the restricted information.

Keep in mind Vance just said that the US wants absolutely no controls on the development of AI in the US. Nothing. In fact he said that AI technology is the one technology that should not have any constraints on it whatsoever. Including weapons development.

Just think! What a brave new world we're ushering in.

Hey Onenut - you're wanted on your "In-N-Out is OUT of CA" thread.

Those are leftist sites, yav,

And one of those is 12 years old.

"leftist sites"
{drink}

National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated " but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information.

Jeezus. This is the most inept, stupid, keystone cop administration in my life time.

The above post makes more sense on this thread then the thread it was originally posted on.

Lol!

I'm thinking this thread's author isn't going to show its face on this thread again.

His entire premise from the start was garbage. He ended with analogizing Marquis de Lafayette's sword to AI weapons. Totally stupid on so many levels. The most obvious being a sword is a simple tool with no ability to make decisions, that lies with the person who wields the sword.

The insanity of saying that this technology, which can be an enormous threat, is the one technology we can't employ safeguards or tread carefully with - well that was stunning on so many levels. Utterly stunning. Ignorant. Stupid.

He hilariously criticized using AI's use curtail the spread of disinformation by our allies after crying for it to be unfettered, and then turned around and said we can't let authoritarians misuse it. All the while saying that Europe (Germany) had no right to their own laws and autonomy when it comes to dealing with its own history. He ridiculously called out two examples of what exactly I am not sure. It was silly. It wasn't logical. It was an emotional ploy. How you gonna do that, huh?

Then there was his remark about how we, the United States, are going to educate our children, through our schools, to be the best and brightest in the world on this technology. You know, while we do away with DOE and focus on indoctrination and non-value stupid culture war nonsense. Good luck with that, J.D. Just how you gonna do that?

I'd say that ~15% was something I might agree with if he fleshed it out, but 85% of it was exactly as I described it. Arrogant, demanding compliance, contradictory, hypocritical, and belittling anyone that won't agree with the trump policy.

I don't know what you want me to say here. I already told you it was a shht proposition from start to finish.

You call Vance a "--------" because (R).

I call him a shhtheap because he is.
Just like Eric Adams is.
Just like Mendez is.
Just like Blagojevich is.

The difference is they're all criminals and Vance is a twisted POS spewing destructive garbage and cavorting with nazis at the expense of our critical alliances. The fact that he has an (R) by his name is because (R) attracts and courts shhtheaps like him. Like the AfD, like the "Alt" Right. Like right-wing militias. Like J6 insurrectionists and criminals. You know the ones - they were all freed by another (R).

In Vance's AI speech he was clear that for Europe to be a "junior" (arrogance dripping) partner in AI they have to stop policing of the internet for what its governments define as disinformation. That's right. Shhtheap Vance wants fact checking, privacy laws, everything gone. ShhtHeap Vance, I do not doubt since he met AfD, wants Germany to drop all the laws it has on the Nazi speech, symbols, clothing, Holocaust speech so that Europe is "free" to be just like the United State's version of "freedumb." Vance comes from a place where he believes the US and only the US has any business dictating what's acceptable.

If you are paying attention at all you'd know exactly where this is coming from. Musk is furious that the EU regulates and fines (billions) over their spread of illicit content. Apple and Google have face similar fines, but for non-payment of taxes and giving -------- search results (how far Google has fallen since its inception).

Vance advocates for policies that promote the far-right, having been made VP with a minuscule number of votes compared to every leader in that room he spoke to. More ridiculously overinflated arrogance of the United States.

You know why Bellringer loved the speech? Because he identifies with and agrees with it. He is, at his core, what I called out.

we have money to spend on sending migrants our of the US on military aircraft - at, what, eight times the cost we have previously paid using commercial/charter planes? You have no issue with spending close to a million per flight when it's not at all needed or warranted.

That pocket square summed him up perfectly.

Also I didn't say the idea of AI weapons was something in the speech. That was a result of the speech. An announcement by Google changing their commitment from not using AI for weapons to using it for weapons was just one of those outcomes.

JD Vance's speech.

Did you hate his AI speech as well?

I thought it was horrid. Dangerous. Stupid. Let me guess - you think "move fast and break things" is smart. You love the idea of autonomous AI piloted weapons?

I thought it proved exactly what I've feared from the techbros getting into bed with trump. You do know what that's called, right?

Fascism.

More explicitly, dangerous, deadly, ignorance based fascism.

#18

"But, but, but... that doesn't mean a thing!" - the usual suspects

#13 - hilarious revisionism and imperialism you have embraced so deeply.

That was brilliant work there, Ebs. Brilliant.
/s