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  • Oh my. Many would do it for free, but with this much incentive perhaps someone more “skilled” might want to get some skin in the game and expedite results.

    Under other circumstances I’d find this kind of effort deplorable, but oh well. I’ll label it balance/Newton’s 3rd Law and call it a day. When you have these elephants dancing around with billions of lives there tends to be a push back of some kind, sooner or later.

    Even if not now, with this specific effort, someday the bill will have to come due to those involved. Just like Hitler managed to get pretty far in his quest to spread suffering but eventually got his comeuppance. A marathon, not a race, as they say.


  • Yup. Just saw it and came back to check if someone had already replied the obvious before I could. Thank you.

    What a joke of a justice system. Things are where they are because as slow as Fat Blob Trump is, he’s still faster than the law. By the time they finally decide to actually state his actions are illegal it’ll be last year’s news already, while another judge’s order gets paused on the latest scandal of the day.

    If the law were any good neither him or his ilk would even get the chance to run a first term. Because many of them would be jailed for all sorts of crimes, and the rest wouldn’t dare to act with fear of the consequences. Weak men create hard times.


  • Lemme guess. He’s gonna appeal and another judge will pause this decision while they take their time to review the appeal, because Trump shows daily how deserving he is of the benefit of the doubt.

    Meanwhile things keep escalating and people get hurt.

    Right?

    Keep giving fingers, keep losing arms. Trump relies on shortsightedness to advance, and there’s plenty to go around. You falter, he swallows you whole before you can even react. Be cordial, get taken advantage of, like a sucker. 100 out of 100 times. Guaranteed.


  • While I believe this may very well be the case (there sure are big red signs pointing to it, beginning with Musk) - it won’t do much unless there’s hard undeniable proof. And I mean, the kind of unignorable nuclear bombshell where they start scrambling and telling on each other to save their sorry behinds as a last ditch effort to salvage anything they can.

    And even then hardcore MAGA will still call it fake and in their desperation go even crazier before anyone has a chance to take them out of power.

    Besides, “every accusation is a confession”, as if by accusing their opposition of doing something it gave them the justification of “they did it so we are free to as well”. You know damn well Trump wasn’t going to leave it to fate a second time, especially after failling his insurrection to stay in power the first time.



    • Step 1: Claim you want a baby boom.
    • Step 2: Step in to remove authority from parents, while replacing them in the ‘education’ of the new generation.
    • Step 3: Enjoy elite life with an entire population of modern slaves who don’t know or dream of better.

    Vance and co. needs meat for his economic meat grinder when he reaches Trump’s age. Trump, egomaniacal as can be, is doing it “for the greater good”, whatever it may mean for him.

    The US’s founding fathers would be proud of how the nation they forcibly took away from the British Empire is being used as a dirty rag against every single democratic value and representation of the individual in a fair society. The very same values which allowed these wannabe kings to rise from peasants who would otherwise have to kneel before the british monarch.

    Shameless, to betray the very foundation of the nation that took them and their ancestors in and allowed them to prosper, to be able to enjoy the “american dream” they so want to deny others.




  • Console gamer here as well, though with a PC and redeeming my weekly Epic Games since a few years back. I sometimes play on my PC, but mostly games I don’t have on my console.

    Most of what I hear I believe it’s mostly due to the Epic Launcher being quite a bit behind standard, and the store not having great costumer service policies. I think Epic’s games with timed exclusivity don’t garner a lot of respect from the gaming community either, as they rather have freedom of choice to purchase their games on their main storefront.

    Now, I think it’ll be obvious, but all of what I mentioned is further impacted by the comparison between Epic (or most other launchers, really) and Steam. Steam might as well be called the “default launcher” at this point, and naturally not everyone can compete (or they don’t want to) with the numerous and consistently good business decisions Steam tends to have, which keeps it in the top.

    Not only that, and even though I still benefit from it, I’d say Epic’s strategy of offering weekly free games might feel like a sort of ‘obvious bribe’ to some, a cheap way to try and vainly make gamers turn on their main competitor. Which isn’t really moving the needle that much, because gamers preference for Steam isn’t due to free games, but good and consumer-oriented business practices.

    I’m sure from gamer to gamer there’s more depth to this, but I’d say that’s the gist of it.





  • I mean, every apologist and defender of capitalist apocalyptic hellscapes will have that view, sadly. So long as it makes them an extra buck it’s good for them, consequences to society or environment be damned.

    As an European who does advocate and see value in the use of AI, but not at any cost, I’ll take his opinion as a compliment. As they say, “I want AI to do my dishes while I create art, not for me to do the dishes while the AI produces insta-art”.

    And eventually if AI gets capitalistically out of hand and leads to many people in service-based economies to poverty and unhappiness we’re sure to see a revolution to restore balance, as many times in history when a few elites made things unbearable for the rest of the population. AI is here to serve humanity, that’s where the value is, not to serve only a select few.



  • My first thought seeing this news was “Why would Trump get such a plane for other future Presidents?”.

    Firstly, Trump being Trump would find a way to make the plane personally his, even placing some of those special Rolls Royce-made silent engines he likes so much. Secondly he already has his own Trump Force 1 to compete with the current AF1 - would he really be able to see another president flying around on his lux-plane while he has to return to the “poor-billionaire’s” TF1?

    Smells like yet another small sign that he isn’t really planning on leaving. Seems like he’s just getting his own upgraded Trump Force 1 under the guise of presidency, using taxpayer money, to serve him until he dies - not until the end of the term - and spend a heck-a-ton more taxpayer money in operating costs to fund his weekly golf trips.


  • I hear good things about this Pope, from how he spent a relatively long time in Peru, to how Pope Francis liked him and how both share about the same views on the world.

    I must confess I was a bit wary when I heard the new Pope was American, but at least he seems like a good one, thankfully.

    That, however, does not erase the very real pressure he’ll face from MAGA, who will undoubtedly try to make him their puppet through whatever means necessary, be it flattery, or even attempts at blackmailing behind closed doors - expect this especially if Vance or Trump rush to visit him now. In their mind he’s surely American before being Pope, ergo he’s expected to bend the knee to them, ergo they surely think they already own the Vatican.

    My hopes are up for Pope Leo XIV to show them how wrong they are, and prove the critics of his nationality wrong.


  • You don’t even need to ask. Donnie has a mouth as big as they can get. 110% guarantee if a single country worth naming “begged”, as he likes to put it, he’d be waving it in our faces like it was the biggest achievement made by mankind.

    But yes, do keep asking. He may not admit it, but it helps him know that we don’t forget his lies, and hold him to them. Not only that, the constant pressure wears him down and makes him even sloppier - even admitting in front of cameras he “doesn’t know” if a POTUS must uphold the constitution.

    All of it serves as recorded proof for when the reckoning time comes. For him, and the rest of his dear MAGA admin.



  • Well duh. What he means is:

    • Greenland yes, as it’s a largely undefended territory except for american forces already there. And let’s face it, it’s still uncertain what Europe and most of NATO would do in response, apart from strong-worded letters of condemnation. Which has precisely 0 effect on a sociopath like Trump.
    • As for Canada not yet, because it can defend itself. Maybe after a bit of slow Russia-style political destabilization in order to weaken it, then they attack.

    The art of the coward. Nothing short of a swift kick to the 'nads will stop a savage and animalistic neanderthal. They can’t be reasoned with, and while it’s a sad reality, it’s still a reality.


  • If things keep going on the current path, eventually it’s likely to happen, even if I really don’t like that idea and want to be wrong. The best hope at the moment is in the US dealing with its situation internally and regaining at least some sense of normalcy before it gets to a point of true non-return and external retaliaton. With some indirect push by other nations like tariff retaliation and cutting strategic benefits to the US, just enough for the people to wake up and fight the oligarchs, but not so much shock that it triggers an actual war.

    And I’m not joking. Trump literally said he rules America, as well as the world. He has stated that he won’t stand for Canada and Europe partnering up to compensate for the lack of the US partnership, and he’s won’t let go of his wet dreams of annexation for several territories. He wants to be remembered as a “great man” in the history books, and not just another footnote billionaire. That kind of ambition is dangerous. Hitler-level dangerous.

    For someone like him any excuse is valid. And just like he didn’t take his 2020 election loss lying down, calling it rigged and urging an insurrection, he sure as hell won’t leave the White House without sweat and blood being spilled, now that he’s got his hooves on it again. We are dealing with savages who think themselves superior, and won’t stop willingly.