Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Of course he will.

Guy is a memelord “Centrist”, of course caters to the alt-right. And even though he won’t officially own Twitter for a couple months he’s still been making it clear he wants to monetize the fuck out of it (because “Free” Speech), and what better way to get clicks and revenue than to let the clown back in the room to do his funny dances and make his silly noises.

@Meanlucario
yea I think I forgot the hyphen in call-out culture.

@YourPalContrail
I don’t know what that is. I’m guessing it’s the fallacy of “X did something bad as well, so Y’s crime wasn’t that bad” or something.

What do you mean?

I understand but you can’t expect them to be not violent when it comes to women having their rights taking away by dumbasses.

In the latest Ukraine news, Lithuania now recognizes the war as a genocide and Russia as a terrorist state. Likewise the Czech Republic has been elected as Russia’s replacement for the UN human rights council.

@Hali the Emoji girl
It’s an understandable fear, especially because there are so many Red States that will implement draconian abortion laws.

To say nothing of how people are now fearing that the the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage might be overturned next

In related news, the House just approved of another $40 billion in aid to Ukraine.

Uh, neat? I mean, that’s a full year of free College for the whole country IIRC. I’m glad we’re helping Ukraine but, uh, we sure seem to have a lot of money just lying around for war and other people’s war time and time again but never any for ourselves…

@Dustcan
That’s because people like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bobby Kotick, etc, just sit on all the people’s money due to monkey instinct.

@Dustcan
This money will help Ukrainian children have a chance at being old enough to consider going to college. It’s more important to the world to help Ukraine push back the Russian Aggressors than this money just sitting their as the Senate slaps down any bill that even mentions free college

@Dustcan
Silly Dustcan, institutionalized suffering of the poors is what fuels the economy!

no, not at all. It’s difficult to describe but it’s sort of this moral economy where you can dig up something and use it to to smear someone else while also lifting yourself up… actually Heres obama talking briefly about call-out culture

What about the $1.9 trillion that was spent on economic stimulus with The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021? Or the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law?

Fought tooth and nail to get and were more or less one offs. Always with the excuse of we not having the money.

Seems like Ukraine gets new multi-million aid every third week or so. I’m glad for them, but not looking forward to the usual song and dance when it comes to Americans getting aid.

I don’t know what else to say but I get these unnerving feeling about the fact that this country will again about to be ruled by an heir of was once ruled by a bastard of my parent’s era.

Wonder if his rule could any be different from his father… Will he be as ruthless… Will he be as ironclad… And will he emulate the same progress to this country as his father did before…?

Nope. I’m not paranoid, as much as I’ve never gave a fuck about politics in all my life, i’m just filled with a mixture of thoughts of either positive or negative about the future of this country just because he’s a bloody Marcos. Maybe I was just brainwashed as a kid back when I was in elementary school by teaching us why these guys are bad by the opposition of the former government.

Today is the day to anticipate Chat Control 2.0., the mandated private message surveillance scheme with error-prone algorithms.

By now, it’s understandable why so many matters have drained the rest of you to ill afford to give this topic the significant care (and scrutiny), yet I must say, to my EU brethren; be ready.

If I must tell what my private messages usually consist of, they’d be about NSFW requests/commissions and raunchy roleplays involving adults. The rest are about general communications on matters like gaming and news.

Or maybe that was the other way around and those guys ran a successful disinformation campaign to whitewash the crimes committed by their father that warranted kicking him out of the country 36 years ago.
I guess there’s nothing wrong with hoping that the apple fell further from the tree, but actions speak louder than words and it’s on those that Bongbong Marcos ought to be judged.
But what do I know? It’s not like I’m familiar at all with Filipino politics anyway.

@YourPalContrail
Sorry, I clicked the wrong reply.

@Dustcan
I think Musk is one of those guys that have so much money, they don’t have to give a crap what they say. “Fuck you” money, if you will.

@YourPalContrail
So building yourself up bu tearing others down.

@ElderD
So he thinks he has enough money to not fear consequences for his actions.

@Meanlucario
He’s the owner of Tesla, so…

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
There’s always hope.

The European Commission has presented legislation today about the dreaded Chat Control. Here’s Patrick Breyer’s comments on the matter:

“Apart from ineffective web blocking, the proposed chat control threatens to destroy digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption. Scanning personal cloud storage would result in the mass surveillance of private photos.

Mandatory age verification would end anonymous communication. Appstore censorship would be the end of secure messenger apps and patronise young people. The proposal does not include the overdue obligation on law enforcement agencies to report and remove known abusive material on the net, nor does it provide for Europe-wide standards for effective prevention measures, victim support and counselling and effective criminal investigations.

Von der Leyen continues to chart the territory of censorship, mass surveillance, anonymity bans and paternalism, while leaving the activities of child porn rings completely untouched. The proposed measures deprive the entire population of trust, self-determination and security on the net. This plan is nothing other than terrorism against our digital fundamental rights, which I will not relent to fight.”

And here’s a link to the regulation’s details if you wish to see for yourself:

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/system/files/2022-05/Proposal_20for20a_20Regulation20laying_20down20rules_20to20prevent_20and20combat_20child20sexual%20abuse_en.pdf