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My man!

Same here.

South Korea's government managed to successfully impeach and convict him first, though.

Trump has been impeached twice (which is already unprecedented for an American president), but it failed both times because the bar to pass is 2/3 of the senate voting to convict, which simply cannot happen while Republicans control half or more of the senate.

Kinda loses its sting given how many years Germans have been making floats of Trump like this, though. Good sentiment, but I wish it amounted to something.

Not to say it's a waste of time or they shouldn't do this, but I'm just tired, boss.

I can just imagine if they succeed in revoking birthright citizenship:

"So as it turns out, your grandparents were only considered citizens because they were born here to immigrants who were not full citizens at the time, so their citizenship has been revoked. Which means that your parents were born to non-citizens, so their citizenship is revoked, too. And since that means you were therefore born to non-citizens, I'm afraid your citizenship is also revoked. This means you're to be deported back to your family's country of origin, which according to our records is...the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Wow, tough break, kid."

My guess is they'll also go after dual citizens if this keeps up. Say it's un-American to have conflicting national loyalties, then revoke the American citizenship of undesirables to seize their assets and deport them.

Ah, so this is why the news this morning was randomly reporting on Abercrombie's "comeback" featuring totally real and not-at-all astroturfed Tiktokers talking about how hip the company is again while putting on makeup.

Gotta control the narrative however they can.

You can to an extent. Misinformation (e.g. the shit antivaxxers believe) can be prevented by providing quality education to the masses, but that has been diminished by the right for years now, and recently by Trump in particular with his drive to eliminate the Department of Education.

It could also be addressed by restricting the spread of misinformation through broadcast and social media, but surprise, those platforms are all controlled by the right as well—even directly tied to the current admin like Xitter or Trump's own Truth Social.

An unproven fighter jet made by fucking Boeing of all companies.

I don't think VCs have "killed" value per se, more that they established conditions which were ultimately unsustainable and resulted in inevitable enshittification.

The 00's and 10's were absolutely riddled with tech companies that had seemingly limitless volumes of VC funding. They were not profitable in the slightest, but the funding kept coming because they got so big, they had potential, and everyone wanted a piece. The big companies wanted to use the advantage of basically "free" money to kill any and all competition before their VC funding was burned up, so they all offered "too good to be true" services that we all got used to which no one else could compete with.

Eventually the VC money began drying up as the economy got worse and firms began opting for safer investments. But the threshold has been crossed: the big players became entrenched and competition was eliminated wherever possible. No new competitors can grow because the same conditions fueled by VC funding in the 00's and 10's will likely not happen again. Meanwhile, the big companies that spent years operating in the red now need to turn a profit, so they start working on ways to further capitalize on their products and services. Hence we see rapidly rising subscription costs, paywalls, more ads than content, newer products that are worse than preceding ones in many ways, user data collection everywhere, mass layoffs/abusive working conditions, etc.

I'm just a bit worried about any potential schism among the Democrats because the electoral system in the US is still incredibly broken and will always gravitate towards a 2-party state.

To me, it seems easier for the Democrats to rebrand as more left-leaning than they currently are and try to remain a united front, rather than splinter into several competing parties.

If anything is to supplant the Democratic party, it would need to be one party supplanting the whole of the Democrats, or else Republicans will remain a plurality and retain control of the US government until the electoral process changes or their numbers diminish.

Truly an international dish.

It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.