Yep, up to 830 now. The cheese stands in a crowd! You’re right.

This is 100% true, however, it depends entirely on who each person defines as “we” and what they define as “fucked.”

Authoritarianism is brittle, and easily fractures. Sure, there are examples of large-scale, long-lasting authoritarian regimes. And plenty of examples where they burn themselves out quickly and crumble. Often times they’re held together by one charismatic leader that is the only thing keeping it all from spiraling apart. “We” shouldn’t be the status quo, because the status quo is always changing - sometimes by a lot, sometimes hardly at all. Don’t cling to something where the only 100% known value is that it will change.

“We” is the people that matter to you most in the world. “Fucked” is suffering you create for yourself if you let fear and clinging to desire define your life.

Find local community. Find healthy community online. Find a hobby that makes you feel fulfilled. Never stop learning. Get in shape. Create something, build something, or write something, even if no one ever sees it but you. Test your boundaries and get out of your comfort zone, if even for a little while, before you’re forced out of it.

Because we’re not fucked.

So, it seems like not. Edit: But Actually, yes.

I just tested this by finding some random video about cheese with a low number of views (827 as I write this).

I watched the WHOLE DAMN THING. TWICE. Kidding, I love cheese, it was lovely. Both times I watched it via Invidious instances. It was 827 before, still 827 right now.

Edit: OK, looking now, it’s up to 830. Dammit, have one of you all been watching my cheese video? I never watched it when I loaded it from YT direct. So there’s 1 extra view.

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Also, we’re deporting people now for bouncing a check? We might as well just empty Mississippi out into the Gulf of Mexico now.

Yeah, I thought these people shunned the mainstream media so much that they only got the rEal fUlL tRuThY TROOTH from Dear Leader on Truth Social and Fox News.

It’s called TRUTH Social. It means he can’t lie! Right?

Typical Newsweek, I’ve seen several people who have worked in Nepal say that corruption was spiraling out of control and people have been livid about it for months. The protests were already ramping up, which is why social media platforms were cut off, so videos about the corruption and investigations and means to plan protests were cut off. The “they didn’t register in time” excuse is for the government to save face internationally.

Well, education in terms of exposure. “Practical education” to understand the threats and consequences. Just saying “ya gonna die” is too abstract.

You can go to northern Nigeria right now and see people, especially kids, with shriveled legs who got polio because 20 years ago when a conspiracy theory pushed that George W Bush hated Muslims and poisoned the polio vaccinations. Families hid their children when vaccination teams came around. Turns out the polio was the poison all along!

And this is what these people want BACK. Because no one showed them these pictures and said “you will curse your children to be treated like creatures if they even survive.”

Specifically: We should anticipate legal fuckery that is is a problematic legal grey area that no one has dealt with before.

Well, the overhaul in 1947 was huge, so it made sense to wrap it all up into something that also, in a post-WWII country, didn’t make it sound like “OK, we have this amazing military apparatus and now we’ve consolidated power, and let’s see where else to point it at…” I get it.

Personally, I think the “Department of International Violence” sounds more appropriate.

Vance has the charisma of a fire hydrant, just like Pence, he’s expendable and has fulfilled his purpose. I expect the only “acceptable” heir will be newly religious Theil.

You’re making my point for me - media and everyone else will, like usual, get mired in the details of precedent that he’ll steamroll the process, do whatever he wants, and everyone will stand around saying “totally unprecedented! Irregular!” No, y’all, that’s a coup. It’s treason. It a dictatorship.

This is the same person that took literally 2 days off, had people spin up on twitter that he “mIgHt bE dEaD!” and then trotted out a nothingburger announcement to overshadow Epstein victims testifying in Congress. And y’all watched and hoped and fell for it.

That figure is assumed from people who connect a start TV to the internet. Once the TV is online, it’s collecting data non-stop, even when it’s “off” and regardless of what services used. Samsung doesn’t offer streaming services, so their value is derived easily from tracking what you’re watching even when it’s not streaming services, like live TV, cable, etc. to sell it themselves, regardless of what other apps are installed. Since they’re all typically Android-based apps, the typical other permissions apply, like Amazon Prime being able to see what you have installed as well. But as the TV maker can take screenshots or see info about what you watch over an HDMI port, that’s of huge value to them over years of time.

NO! Oh my god no! WTF, man? The title refers to oligarchs having invested in skipping the elections for their own “stability.”

The central point is that if the election isn’t just outright “delayed” for a month, then a year or so, it will be jerked around to intentionally cause a constitutional crisis. There’s another comment about his use of an EO to get on the ballot in some states that don’t fight the EO, which would be just enough to cause the kind of chaos in which he thrives. So maybe you’ll get to vote, but it’s not going to be allowed to count for much even if you do.

I hope he found Crossfit, at least then it’s expected.

When “Fuck” has all the cultural heft of “darn” then the edgelords have no choice but to turn to whatever forbidden words are left.

My leading theory is that the lessons learned from an EO trying to undo the 13th Amendment are what will be used. Some new EO saying that due to some made up circumstance he’s needed to continue being a shitbag maga saint, we’re at war with anyone of the 30 wars we’ve been trying to provoke this week, etc. The reason is immaterial and so of course the minutia of that reason is what everyone will talk about, not the obvious nature of the this happening. All it will take is a dozen red states not challenging an EO undoing the 22nd Amendment to invalidate the whole election and drive just enough chaos to let them do whatever they want.

So, yes and no - It was the “Department of War” for most of the country’s existence. Truman changed it in 1947 when doing a massive overhaul of the military and intel parts of the government. Also, just calling “Department of Defense” hasn’t prevented us from getting into a whole mess of wars since then.

I do agree that it’s a sign of the times in terms of “everything old is new again” and undoing the 20th century, which is the T47/project 2025 stated goal. Sure as shit, we’re making incredible progress towards returning to 1860.

Oh no, this picture is from 1998, those Macs were new. That woman was rocking the Agent Scully look for a reason.

A modern version of this where “it’s all on the chain!” and everything is a crypto micro-transaction would go a long way.