I have not read the whole book. I do not intend to. If any of you brave people actually do read the book I am open to your opinion.

Read the whole book? I can’t even get through the whole post.

Ah yes, I got their terminology slightly wrong. But people who are enslaved are not lesser humans either. Not sure why they took it that way.

Read the first three words of the definition: a human being. I didn’t call anyone less than human – but the billionaires who run these companies consider all of us non-billionaires to be less than human, just NPCs here to serve them and pay them subscription fees.

I call them “Chattel” because they’re owned and enslaved (i.e. behavior controlled by) the broligarchs via ChatGPT etc.

chattel: a human being considered to be property; an enslaved person.

Not clicking on yet another clickbait “feel-good” article, but what is it this time-41%? Because every “New Low!!!1!” reported on is always in the low to mid 40’s. Always.

“We need to git these wimpy kids toughened up ASAP! Those crops aren’t gonna pick themselves!” https://lemmy.world/post/33547348

By even debating this idea of ‘at what age is having sex with children OK’, you fall into the trap. We already have laws defining age of consent for a reason.

The trap is to distract you from trump’s sex crimes. They need to normalize statutory rape as acceptable, because more and more stuff is going to be coming out about his doing that. His base is horrified by pedophilia, but not by misogyny.

This is how they prep the base to be just fine with crimes trump did (in this case rape) when more info comes out. Keep their thinking in black-and-white: ‘pedophilia is evil, but trump didn’t do that, so he’s not evil! He’s still our Daddy.’ So they’ll ignore his rapes of under-age girls just like they already ignore his rapes of adult women. So by saying,

“Sure, why wouldn’t anyone be attracted to a girl whose body is developed even if she’s ‘technically’ under age – it’s not like it’s pedophilia or anything, which would be wrong!”. As long as they’re 13+ it’s fine!"

they are saying statutory rape is OK as long as the girl is at least 13. No, that’s just how the new Christian Nationalist theocracy wants it to be. The crap about “it was acceptable back in his day, only taboo since the '90’s” is of course bullshit. I’m surprised they didn’t claim it was only made taboo by the ‘woke left’.

magas: Mass Deportation Now!

maga 1: omg I just realized if we deport all the illegulls we won’t have a cheap labor force to exploit anymore!

maga 2: Hmm let’s see, what other group’s labor could we exploit with slave wages and no rights or benefits?

maga 1: hmmmm, durrrrrrr.

maga 2: I know! Children!

Tin is a heavy metal.

Except he’s looking at movies, not books.

Kennedy: I’m sure Jesus loves him, but …

Jesus: STFU *hits mute*

DOJ is gonna make her an offer she can’t refuse.

Yeah it was pretty much inevitable, sooner or later. The same is true for several other countries whose citizens are here on Lemmy laughing at us or chastizing us about it, not realizing that the same thing is coming for them, too.

How can you allow this to happen?

I love how people ask questions like this, like we’re gods who can snap our fingers and magically stop the fascists who outnumber us. The number of people who wanted it to happen outnumbered the number of us who didn’t want it to happen. Simple as that. Can’t even blame the electoral college.

And those people still absolutely love him and will do anything for him and to keep him in power. The only option left after losing the election would be civil war, but even if enough people were ready to go all out and start one, we would lose that war because they have the government and its resources, including the military. That’s the problem with democracy, you see–majority rules and if the majority decides they don’t want a democracy any more, then it’s over.

False equivalence.

I’d say it’s because during Biden’s term he was running a fairly basic administration and during the run-up to the election, inflation was something they (repubs) could use to rile up the base, but now not only is the election long over, there’s so much new horrible stuff every day (both real and made-up) in the spotlight that inflation pales in comparison.

I’ve said from the beginning that trump will be out right after the midterms, or whenever the regime using him as a figurehead decides it’s safe or beneficial to get rid of him (they’ve needed him so far and still do for now). But as soon as they don’t (which is why I say after the midterms so JD can have 2 full terms), he’s gone. My theory is that it will be made to look like a (physical, not mental) health issue.

I don’t think the Epstein stuff will hurt him with the base other than a temporary blip. They just need to provide a decent rationalization and the base will eagerly latch onto and run with it, to resolve the cognitive dissonance that this has brought to the surface for some of them. But if somehow enough of the base does turn on him, he’s out that much sooner.

I tried to look up what the orca one was and all I found was fake AI videos about non-existent rich people killed by orcas and sharks. No news articles, nothing real.

Cat who is a kitten,
Kitten who’s a cat.
Cat who is a kitten who’s a cat, cat, cat.
Imagine that! A kitten who’s a cat!

Because to teach there you’d have to live there.