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Comment So Trump is planning to run for a third term (Score 2) 24

And the Republicans know this and many of them have their own presidential ambitions. If Trump is successful in a third term then we are probably in for a permanent Trump dynasty with Baron taking over when Trump dies and then Baron's son taking over and so forth.

While it's true that the heritage foundation is fine with that since it would still just be a puppet regime for them plenty of Republicans are hoping to be that puppet. Trump has made billions being president.

So what you're seeing here is the Republican party trying to undermine and split from Trump in order weaken his position in the party so that they can prevent him from running for a third term.

What's going to make that hard is the Republicans do not have a viable candidate for 2028 besides trump. The candidates they have with a national profile who haven't already retired are all deeply weird and deeply unpopular.

That means it's likely the heritage foundation will push for Trump to run for a third term.

It is possible voters will reject that but they can probably make up the difference with basic voter suppression tactics.

I suspect after the midterms when the Republicans lose the house they will go harder after Trump but it's tough for them to do that because he is still in a position that he can endorse primary challengers against them. That's why you're seeing so many people drop out of politics and then go after trump.

Comment Re:The Roblox FUD in the USA has to stop (Score 1) 37

The real problem is this absurd implicit assumption that every childless moron and politician makes that every kid has a 1950s-style middle class nuclear family with educated and involved parents.

"Parents should be the ones who..." Well, lots of kids don't have parents. Lots of kids just have one. Lots of kids have parents who don't have the means (money, intelligence, education, support, etc) to raise them in your mythical ideal way. Lots of kids have parents who abuse them, traffic them, ignore them... Lots of kids are stuck in a system that is all but completely indifferent to them. Others are stuck in a system that is designed to funnel them into private prisons.

...and that's all the defending of Republicans that I can stomach for this week

Yeah, I figured that's where you got that bullshit.

Comment Re:The Roblox FUD in the USA has to stop (Score 1) 37

I figure they ignore the pedo problem because the company also preys on kids, just in different ways.

parental oversight can pretty easily eliminate that threat

Unlikely. Kids can access that cesspit in countless ways from countless places. It's not like they can only access Roblox from the family PC in the living room... Also, not all kids have families or guardians that are interested or capable of effectively monitoring their internet use. Hell, some kids have families that explicitly traffic their children, a horror that is a lot more common than you'd expect.

Comment Re:The Roblox FUD in the USA has to stop (Score 1) 37

For all the potential good, it comes with a lot of real harms.

Roblox is not a net good. Far from it. I'd go as far as to call it actively harmful. The company exploits its developers, mostly children, quite badly. A not insignificant portion of their users also exploit children, in the worst ways you can image. Roblox is a fractal of evil.

Comment Re:Here we go (Score 1) 21

The M.E. has a way of driving everyone crazy; you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Put HAZMAT tape around the area and warn everybody away. Leave them on their own, giving them no food nor weapons; if they bonk each other to oblivion, it's their problem, not ours. I think it's God's Insane Asylum.

Non-nuts have migrated somewhere quieter, leaving mostly nuts in place, a Sanity Filter. I'm just the messenger.

Comment Does anyone accept billionaires want this? (Score 1) 73

I know there are a handful of people who are kind of freaked out at the suggestion that we should put a halt to any new technology. But besides that knee jerk reaction is there anyone who genuinely wants to see these data centers built out?

We could just tell the billionaires no. We would have to take their money away because money is power but we could do that. There's about 8,000 of them. There's 8 billion of us.

We could just tell them no.

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