er, One Punch Man, not One Punch Hero

I'm about halfway through watching Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Enjoying it quite a bit. Also the first season of One Punch Hero is hilarious if you haven't seen it.

It looks like that's exactly what it was intended for.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/...

BYD

yeah, the story is probably your normal paid bs, but this is more about business than anything else. BNY and others are sizing up to be a serious threat to western car companies.

the elephant in the room?
The elephant in the room is that zionist billionaires are using their vast wealth and influence to shut down protests against Israel's wars on US college campuses. You have Israel shutting down power, water, and basically slowly carpet bombing a city of 2 million into rubble. What's going to happen to those people? No one knows. Anyone with a sense of right and wrong knows that is wrong, but hell, you can't have people protest Israel. Got to shut that down right away, that's a bridge too far. The funny thing is that no one would care if it was US students protesting a US war. If the US was doing this shit there'd be protests all over the place, and the same people that are getting all worked up about college students not taking Israel's side in this war could care less about them protesting against the US government. Its because these students are protesting against Israel that they are trying to replace the head of Harvard for allowing it, and trying to claim that the slogan "from the river to the sea palestine will be free" is a call to genocide all jews. They can't stand people speaking out against their country and their wars.

A bunch of "also ran"'s arguing over whether we need to start WWIII with Russia or China first. Nuts.

wishes?

yeah, there's word that China could possibly start selling weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine, and next thing you know, oh hey, a couple of our intelligence agencies might have just figured out where covid came from. I think these official statements have more to do with our relationship with China than it does with the Jim nobody voter. It's politics all the ways down.

still nothing compared to the damage Purdue did

starlink was never intended to be a military communications network, and I doubt it can stand up to attack. It was probably stupid of him to offer it to be used as one in the first place.

I think I've had discussions with enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It's also the perspective of most people at the capitol on 1/6 and maybe Trump himself. Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions when you talk to them with whatever info they got from hannity or breitbart or wherever, they're not particuraly attached to them. Here are the facts, the actual confirmed facts, that shape their perspective.
The FBI and etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campagin. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc) These are generally the tea part people who give their kids a pocket constitution for their birthday and have founding fathers memos in their bios that talk about this. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence and forged documents is a big deal to them. Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing that the DNC paid for it when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew. This was true with everyone. From the CIA director Brennan and Adam Schiff who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion with Russia while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't. All the way down the line, in the end we learned that it was all fake.
At first many trump people were worried that there must be at least some collusion, because every media and intel agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing, and when it was clear that they had made it up people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their guy when that didn't happen. We know as a fact now, the Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign, the FBI KNEW the steele dossier was a DNC op, Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious, and they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying.
Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real to suspecting that it might be fake, to realizing that it was all a scam, then watching as every institution, agencies, the newspapers, congress, and mass media gas lit them for another year.
Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated, many quit because they were being bankrupt by legal fees. The DoJ, press and government destroyed lives and subverted an elected administration.
This is where people who's political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they had learned in civics class began to see the outline of a regime that had crossed all institutional boundaries to unite against an interloper.
GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in partisan terms, but a lot of trump supporters see that the regime is not partisan. They know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was an election with someone along the lines of Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush.
It's kindof hard to describe this to people on the left who are used to thinking of government as being described by self serving institutions and conspiracies (see Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD's) how shocking and disillusioning this was for people who encouraged their sons to enlist in the army, and hate the people who don't stand up for the Anthem. They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government, but the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any of the politicians which is saying something, because they see journalists as having betrayed the country and their jobs the most. This idea is important to clarify, the idea that the press is driven by ratings and sensationalism became untenable. If that were true they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true.
Look at it from their perspective, they watched the press behave like animals for four years, tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing because of CNN, and CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid, they cheered on a summer of riots. They have always claimed the media had liberal bias, they just thought that the press would admit truth if they were cornered, now they don't. It's a totally different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy the lives of regular people and spark mass violence. Time magazine told us that during the 2020 riots there were weekly conference calls involving among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and the members of the corporate media who framed the whole thing for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution. Through the summer, Democratic governors took advantage of Covid to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins, they lowered signature matching standards, and all sorts of rules. After the collusion scam and the fake impeachment the Trump people were expecting shenanigans. And in regards to the fake impeachment, we now know that Trump's request to Ukraine to cooperate iwth the DoJ regarding Biden's financial dealings (10% for the big guy) in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. And then you get into the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it. All the big tech companies now admit it was a "mistake" - gee, but ya know, the election's over, so who cares anymore? it goes without saying, if the NY Times had a Don Jr's laptop full of pics of him smoking crack, banging hookers, tons of family drama, emails describing direct corruption involving the president, and it was all backed up by the CEO of the company they were using the NY Times wouldn't have been banned. Think back, the stories about Tump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and being blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his political opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting true information. The reaction of Trump people wasn't "no fair!". That was how they felt about Romney's "binders full of women" comment in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by people who will use by any means necessary to exclude them from the political process. And even so, despite all of that they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13 million more votes than in 2016. As election night dragged on they allowed themselves some hope, but when the four critical states (and only those states) went dark at midnight they knew.
Over the ensuring weeks they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them one conspiracy after another. They'd latch on to one absurd conspiracy after another, like grasping at smoke, trying to put a concrete name on to what they knew was real. Media and big tech did everything to make things worse, everything about the election was strange, the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc, but rather than admit that and make everything transparent they banned all discussion of it (even in DM's!!!!)
Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would have been the story of the century if the parties had been reversed, suspicious about the outcome would have been taken very seriously. Look at 2016 for proof.
Even the court's refusal of the case gets nowhere with them because they see how the opposition embraced mass political violence during the summer riots. They'll say, with good reason, what judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house? It's fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and every single person in the country knows what that would have ment. Judges have families too. Hell, forget the ballot conspiracies, it's a fact that governors used covid to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (The constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. They knew it was unconsitutional, it's right there in plain english, but they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election, and what Judge would toss out millions of ballots because governor broke the laws? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct.
So to reiterate:
the entrenched bureaucracy and security state subverted Trump form day one, the press is part of that operation, election rules were changed, but tech censors opposition, political violence was legitimized and encouraged, and at the end of that trump is banned from all social media.
Sure, they've been led down some rabbit holes, but they're right that the government is monopolized by a regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them from getting it. Really Trump fans should be happy he lost, it might be the only thing that kept him alive.

Twitter is only worth as much as its ability to mold public opinion. If they've been massively overselling the reach that their platform has then it's not worth much to advertisers or potential buyers.

The opening sequence to Terminator 2

just more reason to switch to Teams