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Comment Re:Meta (Score 1) 11

To be honest, if I had that much money I too would chase pie-in-sky ideas.

But this VR chase is stupid. Meta should purchase the Second Life or Roblox franchise, get a web-based world working well with FaceBook, and THEN gradually add 3D and reach stuff. He has it backward.

Comment Also play politics (Score 1) 31

Right wing politics do not result good economic outcomes. It's basically trickle down economics combined with corruption.

So they have to give their voters something. Some reason to keep voting for them even as the economy collapses.

Anti-science and anti-vaxx are the solutions they came up with. You might not have a job or a home but nobody's going to tell you how to raise your kids and nobody's going to make you get the fauci ouchie.

Comment This is another check and balance (Score 0, Troll) 70

And another protection that is failing you. Stuff like this is critical to keep capitalism functioning and it's all being torn down.

It's become painfully obvious that the billionaires don't like capitalism and don't intend to keep it around.

That would be the time to start asking what that means for you personally.

Comment Holy shit I didn't think this bot (Score 1) 54

Was so basic and limited that a few posts from me about how Trump fucks kids and me repeating several times in those posts did Trump fucks kids would get this crappy little llm bot to repeat it.

It makes me wonder if we couldn't do another santorum if we put a little bit of effort into it.

Like if everybody just went on to their socials and just started posting the unmitigated fact that Trump fucks kids and reminded people over and over and over and over again how Trump does in fact fuck kids if mnd be we could get the bots to start repeating the basic truth that Trump fucks kids.

Imagine if Trump would be known not as the former president but as the former Kid fucker.

Comment They don't care (Score 1) 54

As long as they can tell themselves that it was at least a teenager they think it's fine.

A depressingly large number of men in their 20s hit on high school girls because they are vulnerable and easy pickins. Now Trump went after girls as young as 13 with an emphasis on ones that looked Young. I think Trump is an actual full-blown clinical pedophile. And that's just the clinical definition he's certainly a pedophile by any reasonable person's definition.

But as long as there is the slightest amount of wiggle room people are going to give Trump a pass.

The men are going to do it because of what they did when they were young.

What's depressing is the women doing it. There's a thing humans do where if they suffer they want other people to suffer the same way. So women who are taking advantage of when they were young are going to sometimes be okay with other women having the same thing happening to them...

I have a trans friend who was briefly upset that younger trans girls were getting better treatment than she did when she was young. The funny thing was she knew what she was feeling was wrong but she couldn't help herself feeling it. To her credit she knew it was wrong.

It's just a thing humans do. Misery loves company. The sad thing is that thanks to the Republican trans panic my friend can no longer say the younger generation has it better...

Comment So while it hasn't been proven in a court (Score 2) 54

You can check the Wikipedia article on Trump's sexual assault claims and eight of them involve children.

That's in addition to 20 that at least involved adult women.

Now the first time a woman accuses a man of raping her when she was a child that's bad but he's famous and maybe... The second time you have to start to wonder but again maybe... By the third time we've got a pattern and by the 5th I don't think any reasonable person would not be believing the women. By the 8th he's practically a Catholic priest.

And again this is an addition to the other 20 women who came forward.

I am also not going to buy it that those women are just trying to get money out of him or fame. Trump has well-known mafia ties and lots of fixers that make credible threats. These are the 28 women who came forward despite all that. I think it's safe to say there are plenty more.

The only reason Trump isn't in prison right now is the statute of limitations. He has absolutely been convicted of raping a woman only under New York law it was an adjudicated conviction because of the statute of limitations and it wasn't technically rape because New York law says if you didn't do it with your dick it's just sexual assault. Which is actually kind of fucked up when you think about it.

So yeah Trump's a pedophile. There isn't a single reasonable person who would not come to that conclusion. The fact that he managed to escape consequences isn't going to change that.

Comment The scary thing about them (Score 1) 54

Is Facebook makes 180 billion dollars every year. And most of that is pure profit since they just don't need that many employees relative to that revenue.

That is way too much money for one single person to command.

It's not about some nebulous income inequality bullshit that you hear the left wing go on about at that point you're just being ordered around because somebody with that much money gets to decide what you do and how you live your life whether you like to admit it or not

Comment Re: Demented. (Score 1) 70

Honestly I don't think the sexists are the biggest problem. They suck don't get me wrong.

But there's a group of voters that doesn't seem willing to vote for a woman to be president even though they will cheerfully vote for a woman all the way up to Senate.

It's not a big group but thanks to voter suppression American elections are so close that they can swing the election in favor of Republicans.

The thing about getting Trump into office in the first place let alone a second term, it required every single system of American society, economics and politics to break down on a fundamental level.

It's kind of weird because relatively small effects were needed in combination to get us into this giant fucking mess. If any one of those effects hadn't been there our civilization would have survived.

Comment They aren't shutting it down (Score 1) 70

They are slowing down the deployments so that they can position themselves to be in control of it.

The people currently in control of our energy supply are going to make damn sure they stay that way. And we're going to help them because we are more easily distracted than a Chihuahua at a fireworks convention.

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