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Interestingly, unlike cases where publication like this was in the public interest, as with Reality Winner, Elon Musk has yet to be arrested.
Remember people that are completely full of shit are most often… Completely full of shit. Demand evidence for every claim and don’t accept false premises.
Been in data for ten years and data cleaning/validating is usually one of the first steps on any real analysis if you know what you’re doing.
So I’m not surprised that the Dunning-Krugers skipped it.
This didn’t seem correct to me. Ask far as I know the ISO 8601 standard is just about presentation, and has no start date (although you cannot go before year 1 in most systems that I’ve seen).
I found this article:
Which confirms the gist though.
Imagine if Kamala had gotten elected, chose her own personal gremlin, and then unleashed it to do this crap.
Conservatives would be livid!
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
BINGO.
They’d have likely embarked on a violent rebellion. I can’t say that would be wrong.
There probably are a lot of livid conservatives but we’re not going to hear about it. They rig the elections and they rig the media coverage.
Hours after this story published, a White House spokesperson said in a statement that DOGE did not share classified information ― even as NRO’s classified information was still accessible on DOGE’s website.
“DOGE did not share classified information, any assertion to the contrary is a lie,” said the spokesperson. “Yesterday the accusation was DOGE was not transparent and today the accusation is DOGE is too transparent. Stop the fearmongering, DOGE’s mission remains to cut waste, fraud, and abuse and are doing so with the proper security clearances and following the law.”
Lmao peak professionalism guys.
I cannot do jury duty anymore.
Sorry.
I cannot be impartial in this justice system.
That’s probably a good way to get out of it…
I don’t feel that our justice system is fair to everyone. People who are of non-white origin, non native or people who have a net worth of less than 1 million dollars do not get the treatment / benefits as people who do not fit in this group. Everyone in this court room is being unfairly treated by our justice system… you, me, them… Everybody. And until those who have are treated the same as those who have not… The have nots are not guilty.
Or what ever… someone more eloquent than I could probably whip that into a class warfare rant.
All you have to do is hint that you support jury nullification.
Then it becomes copypasta and judges get tired of having to sit through the same rant over and over.
I hate when people talk about getting out of jury duty. If you think the system is bad, jury duty is on of the few ways you can actually have a direct personal impact on it.
And “smart” people that make good money always get out of it. Leaving the jury pool in a sorry state. I’ve even heard it said that if you can’t get out of jury duty, you’re an idiot. Fuck Americans.
If you look through the DOGE twitter page he’s screenshooting canceled contracts and it’ll have the name and email of the persons that approved such projects. Totally illegal
Who cares if this ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who is STEALING AMERICANS JOBS posts CLASSIFIED INFORMATION Freely online? He’s RICH!
Musk’s latest circus act—pumping Doge with one hand while juggling national security clearances with the other—perfectly encapsulates our modern dystopia. The man treats classified protocols like Twitter reply guys, reducing state secrets to meme stock collateral. But let’s not pretend this is about one unhinged billionaire—this is the natural endpoint of a system that rewards algorithmic dopamine hits over actual governance.
The real joke? Regulators scrambling to apply 20th-century securities laws to 21st-century shitposting. We’ve built a financial infrastructure where “to the moon” has more market sway than quarterly earnings reports. Meanwhile, the plebs keep lining up for their daily breadcrumbs of crypto-hopium, blissfully unaware they’re just NPCs in Musk’s open-world RPG.
The crowd had gathered there to watch him fall, to watch their hopes destroyed
They watched them beat him, they watched them break him, they watched his last defense deployed
There was not a man among them who would let himself be heard
But from the crowd, from their collective fear, arose these broken words:
We are the dead
We are the dead
What have we done? (We are the dead)
What will we do? (We are the dead)
Where will we turn? (We are the dead)
Is there nothing we can do? (We are the dead)
How did it come to this? (We are the dead)
How did we go so wrong? (We are the dead)
We are the dead (We are the dead)
The poetry of despair is a fitting echo, but let’s not drown in the dirge just yet. The crowd you describe—beaten, broken, voiceless—isn’t just a passive victim; it’s an accomplice to its own undoing. They didn’t just watch; they cheered, they invested, they memed their way into this collapse. The “we” you invoke isn’t tragic—it’s complicit.
What have we done? We’ve traded agency for spectacle, governance for algorithms, and meaning for memes. The dead you mourn aren’t gone—they’re scrolling, refreshing, and buying the next lie. If there’s nothing we can do, it’s because we’ve chosen comfort over consequence.
So yes, “we are the dead,” but only because we’ve decided it’s easier than living with purpose.
I don’t know if you recognized these as the lyrics to a Protomen song or not
I genuinely thought it was some random prose—didn’t realize it was a song. Either way, the sentiment stands. Whether lyrics or not, it’s a mirror to the mess we’re in.
So Snowden’s actions are tacitly cool now, right?
That is a felony.
F elon
“…said one Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation from senior leaders.”
Because of course they do, because conservatives just a bunch of vindictive school children who would sell their own mothers to slavery just because they said they couldn’t have ice cream for breakfast.
Sure hope the people get to this point some day soon once they stop laughing at the danger they put others in:
Only the ones who saw it coming a decade ago are the ones who feel this way, like a slow moving nightmare come true while you scream away at all your friends and family only to be called a lunatic.
The ones who are unable to reflect / reason / see clearly / are stuck in propaganda are hard to move from their position simply because of the nature of how they got there in the first place.
So I have a stupid and ignorant question to ask:
I’ve seen arguments online stating that We The People cannot band together to sue Elon for accessing our personal information because he has been given “permission” by the president so to speak.
But
Can we sue him for being an illegal immigrant who is accessing our personal information?
Just hypothetical mind you.
Crimes for me but not for thee
Is there a good podcast that’s kinda like the keeptrack sub that walks you through the events of the day before, what it means, what the implications are, if this has happened before somewhere else, what the outcome was, what our options going forward, and on a scale of 1 to fascist, how fucking close are we?
I’m not sure if there’s one in particular, but I’ve found the following to be good:
The Bulwark
Amicus
David Pakman
Ezra Klein
On the written word front:
The Atlantic
Heather Cox Richardson
Paul Krugman
Tim Snyder
Talking Feds
Thank you!
you’re welcome!
Also, https://www.lawfaremedia.org/ is very good.
On Lemmy:
https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack
On Reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/
From that subreddit, there’s this substack, https://keeptrack.substack.com/p/project-2025-tracker-is-now-live which maintains this site: https://www.project2025.observer/
Here’s another good site: https://www.democracy2025.org/response-center
Actually, here’s a big collection of links that I think are useful for these times: 2025realitycheck.com/
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink
Specific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century
How you can protect democracy - by Quinn Raymond
Twenty Lessons On Tyranny - by Timothy Snyder
Democracy 2025 Response Center
How you can protect democracy - by Quinn Raymond
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services | Project Gutenberg
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