But what about the zero people who used it? Whatever will they do?

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The medal doesn’t even mean anything. It’s like buying a purple heart at an auction; doesn’t make you a veteran. Of course, Trump would never understand that.

You, uh… You do know how absolutely fucked that is right? That you guys don’t have voting in prisons, that you can prevent convicts from voting?

Like, when you’re asking yourself “How did we get to the point where our president is openly flirting with cancelling elections?”, some of that is that you guys accepted as normal levels of anti-democratic behaviour that most democratic nations consider you absolutely insane for endorsing.

In Canada we literally set up polling stations in the prisons. You can be a serial killer doing multiple life sentences, you still get the right to vote. That is a bedrock, fundamental right that no one, especially not the government, ever gets to take away from you.

Maybe if the US treated voting rights in the same way, you might be a little less fucked up right now.

The thing is, OpenAI have been 18 months from running out of money since this bullshit all kicked off. Unfortunately, investors keep throwing piles of money at them.

Suggesting that any MAGA has the marksmanship to hit a crow.

That’s too simplistic a reading of how Trump behaves.

Trump is a liar and a conman. That much is true, and proven. He is, in many ways, one of the biggest liars in the world.

But he’s also really bad at it. Trump is, beneath everything else, a walking ball of id. He is a textbook example of what you get when insecurity and instant gratification meet. He is pure, unbridled impulse. And he’s really, really stupid. As a result of that, he has a very, very strong tendency to constantly say the quiet part loud. You see this time and time again. The GOP will concoct some elaborate lie to explain what they’re doing, and then Trump will just blunder into the room and openly admit what’s really happening. Because he can’t stop himself.

To be super reductive about it (it is more complicated than this, but we don’t have all day), a good rule of thumb is that if Trump tells you what he wants, he’s speaking from the heart. It’s when he tells you why he wants it that he’s usually lying. Not always - “It’s psychologically important to me” is so nakedly earnest, and so utterly damning, that it’s impossible to believe anyone would concoct it as a lie - but often enough. But when Trump says “I want…”, whatever follows will usually be the truth. He is ruled by his desires, and has no ability to keep himself from spouting them openly.

The intelligence is all over the papers my dude. Diplomatic talks between the US and Denmark keep breaking down because he keeps demanding they hand over Greenland. The US committing war crimes daily. They just kidnapped a sitting head of state. Trump has openly said that he does not consider himself to be bound by any form of international law or obligation. The US withdrew from several hundred international organizations and agreements (basically everything they were party to that wasn’t a trade agreement). Trump and members of his admin have repeatedly affirmed that military options are on the table as far as Greenland is concerned. Trump let slip that his primary reason for wanting to annex them is that “It’s important, psychologically, to me” (read “I need to map paint in order to feel like my useless and pathetic grift of a life actually meant something.”)

What more do you fucking want?

PUT. OUT. A. TORRENT.

Jesus Christ my dudes, this is exactly the sort of thing bittorrent is for.

Do they have to edit your domain into a connections file or some such

Pretty much. I don’t remember the exact details, but that’s close enough for the cat.

Sure thing bud.

If you can’t convince people to show up with signs and whistles, how do you plan on convincing them to show up with baseball bats?

You can’t build a revolution out of nothing. You have to start by building a movement.

No, as in the person installing the app to use the service has to edit a config file.

Yes, I have no issue editing config files. I’m self-hosting, that’s the point. All the technical load should be on me. But my completely non-technical friends should not have to edit config files to be able to access my self-hosted services. Everything, for them, should be as simple as possible.

I agree, but my point is that even in the minds of the people who think it’s OK to invade privacy like this, I still don’t see how this is supposed to produce useful results.

It can be self hosted, but to connect the clients to self-hosted servers you have to edit config files, so it’s a very user hostile solution.

Depends on the democrat. Plenty of progressives have shown that the way you steal votes from the right is by moving further left. Their biggest concern right now is cost of living. Focus on that and they’ll show up.

The whole thing with Rosa Parks is sad, but also a brilliant lesson for anyone trying to effect real political change.

For those who don’t know about this, Parks didn’t just spontaneously decide not to give up her seat one day. Rather, she was an activist with the civil rights movement who volunteered to deliberately recreate Claudette’s spur of the moment act of defiance, because she had a background that was clean of any issues that might have been used to attack her character, so she could more easily be turned into a figurehead and cause celebre by the movement. Absolutely sucks that it’s necessary to think like that, but it was smart of them to do so, and very effective. Parks still made a huge sacrifice and deserves to be lionised as a hero, but I for one will always try to mention Claudette in the same breath.

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It’s very important to note that Spider still urges people to vote anyway. You can be angry at the deep, deep inadequacies in the current political structures, and you can work to rebuild those structures, but while that work happens you still have to engage in harm reduction. Sometimes, harm reduction means voting for The Beast. It’s fucked, but it’s what you gotta do.

This isn’t just Rogan. There’s a lot of people feeling like this.

An absolutely fascinating polling number we’re seeing now is that - even among Republican voters - people generally see Trump as doing badly on immigration. This is a massive shift from how he was perceived before the election, where immigration was where he polled the strongest IIRC. Actually seeing his immigration policies in action has actually soured right wing voters on them.

And the reason is simple; in their minds, they truly, genuinely did not vote for this. They voted to kick out all the “Bad” immigrants, not the sweet old lady who bakes amazing churros and the nice man who runs the drug store.

It’s the Shirley Exception. They just assumed that the people they like would be exempt. Because they do not understand that you cannot build a machine for cruelty and then ask it to be kind.

The bad news is, these people vote. The good news is, these people represent a deep and serious fracture in Trump’s support, and there is a very real opportunity here for many of them to finally figure out how fucked up their thinking has been all this time.