Even the "liberal" NPR is sanewashing Trump/Vance's plan to deport 30 million people as a housing policy. With such a pathetic performance by MSM you can be sure as they start to try to do this, and they already have details for that even if they don't have details for anything else, you can be sure that MSM won't do a fucking thing about it except try to normalize it. Yet another reason to never let Trump get anywhere near the White House. #uspoli #Election2024 npr.org/2024/10/31/nx-s1-51703…
A risk AI models face...is “model collapse”: the rapid degradation that results from AI models being trained on the output of AI models. We’ve been watching something similar happen, in real time, with the Elon Musks, Marc Andreessens, Peter Thiels, and other chronically online Silicon Valley representatives of far-right ideology. #uspoli #ElonMusk #SiliconValley #BillionairesShouldNotExist aaronrosspowell.com/p/silicon-…
WaPo already lost 8% of its subscribers. Good! One person laments about funding good journalism ending if subscribers cancel. They aren't reliably doing good journalism any more and haven't for years. I agree I am concerned about it, why I started subscribing after 2016 election. But they went to shit over recent years. I'm sending my subscription money to people doing much better work more reliably and hopefully with more employee ownership like 404 Media, Flaming Hydra, and individual writer's newsletters (not through Nazi bar Substack though). #rant #media #uspoli #BrokenPost npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-51684…
Whether the billionaires are proactively bending the knee to MAGA out of fear, self interest, or full blown MAGA love it is the preview how much they will help Project 2025 come to fruition not help save us from it. #uspoli #Election2024
If Trump, Musk, & his billionaire bully bros lose in 2024 they will terrorize everyone that doesn’t genuflect and kowtow sufficiently even more. If they win they will do the same but with the full force of the government which they’ll also make a full autocratic kleptocracy #uspoli #Election2024
I'm on Facebook a bit more nowadays. Doing some friend list maintenance I clicked on some of the profiles of die hard Republican connections that when I last looked years ago were not die hard-MAGA. I bring up them bringing non-MAGA but still die hard Republicans because while I didn't expect to have shared reality with MAGA Republicans I did expect to have radically different opinions but a shared reality with non-MAGA Republicans. Apparently that isn't even assured any longer. Their view of the world and mine are so far apart it puts Mirror Universe Star Trek episodes to shame. It is well beyond difference of opinions. We aren't even sharing a reality with any overlapping Venn diagrams except for the names of the two POTUS candidates. There was no golden time when realities overlapped completely. If this level of reality disconnect isn't the worst in modern times it is at least bad enough to make major conflict unavoidable, especially as it gets worse at the hands of people like Murdochs, Musk, purveyors of LLM AI systems, etc. Not good people. #uspoli #rant
With a US Presidential election coming up in a couple weeks The Cynical Historian has put up a great "10 Myths about American Presidents" video. How many myths have you heard and/or believe(d) in? #uspoli #history youtu.be/SGSbcQxgM8o?si=IZReiU…
Got a scare mailer from the Republican about the Democratic candidate for my state house race. Conflates BLM with "defund the police" (once again, great job on bonehead framing that you knew the media would screw us over with BTW) and "legislative advocacy" from BLM website of: "end qualified immunity" (sounds wonderful to me), "student loan cancellation" (again sounds wonderful to me, especially if we clamp down on all the diploma mill grifts), reparations (scary wording of something more bland when people get into the details). I'm sure it will have its intended effects for some "independent" voters. Meanwhile the Republican candidate is of course a theocrat grifter who recently was indicted on forgery charges. So anyway... #uspoli
The GOP to Trump grift pipeline will never end. Now it’s directly using state tax money to boot. Infuriating. According to the article the Trump bible every bible that is eligible is either the Trump bible or one he is connected to or was paid to endorse. #uspoli
'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms
I am all for putting substantial ownership & control of corporations into the hands of workers. This robber baron level of wealth concentration is bad for everyone. This cognitive dissonance response reminds me of the people on Medicare railing about the "socialist" Obamacare reforms. #uspoli #humor
DeSantis has brought communism to Florida apparently. Oh wait proposing anti-price gouging laws is only communism when a Democrat does it. My bad. #uspoli
Florida price gouging hotline activated after state of emergency declared in 41 counties
With the entire GOP going all in on racist tropes about black immigrants to the point that it’s leading to bomb threats, schools shutting down etc, can we finally say they are all too ridiculous to vote for until they clean up their act? Join the 21st century please. Thanks! #uspoli #Election2024
Baselessly accusing the Democratic DA of Austin of filling the streets with pedophiles and killers. Musk is just a monster with no redeeming qualities, like Bond villain level shit but with less style and stealth. #ElonMusk #BillionairesShouldNotExist #uspoli
Musk spent big trying to unseat a Texas prosecutor, but failed: report
Not living in a shared reality is a great threat. Less than 1/3 of Republicans think Biden actually won in 2020. More than 2/3 of them falsely believe millions of immigrants illegally vote. Why? Decades of GOP, Fox News, and RW media telling them that. We need to fix this ASAP. #uspoli #Election2024
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Megyn Kelly is full blown anti-vaxxer/COVID denialist and JK Rowling/LibsOfTikTok level anti-trans person. She is just hot garbage at this point. #uspoli #MegynKelly
Megyn Kelly Wails At Taylor Swift: "Eff You, Elite Snob" - Joe.My.God.
I think my favorite meme from the debate last night from one of Trump’s answers #uspoli #Election2024 #HarrisTrumpDebate #humor
