BremboTheFourth

Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins

To clarify, by “issues” I mean “system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something.” I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

Again, so what? It’s friggin renewable energy, so what does it matter if we have to burn off some excess here and there?

Another major problem I see in fixing this: who the fuck wants to spend all that time sorting through literal fucking nonsense?

If the files themselves have become the distraction, then of course they haven’t been released. MAGA folks say diddling kids would be a step too far, but they won’t acknowledge it, no matter how concrete the evidence. Saying they believe one thing while their actions prove another is their whole MO. Take, for example, how they say they only oppose illegal immigration while also making it harder to be here legally (and now arrest people who are here legally anyway), or how they claim to be Christians who support the sick and poor, while gutting every program designed to fill those needs.

I don’t see what mechanism would be activated to get Trump removed, let alone enough other politicians that it would constitute a “reset.” It’d be far better for the rest of us with functional brains to be discussing the latest constitutional violations and corruption, like how Tom Homan took a blatant $50,000 bribe and isn’t being prosecuted because he has the magic R, or how the FCC is allowing anticompetitive corporate actions to go unchallenged (Intel and Nvidia’s newly announced partnership, Paramount paying Trump $16 million to get their merger with Skydance approved), and on and on. These are important stories that can keep people motivated to organize, to talk to each other, and to take real action. Not repeatedly filling every comment section with the exact same words.

Another concern is that the people likely to be implicated in those files are the same ones in charge of them, so the only way they could ever come out is in a state that is either heavily redacted or outright edited to replace the names of loyal Republicans with those of political opponents, and that means spending all this time specifically calling for the files is going to backfire if it ever does happen. We can already say with confidence Trump is likely a pedophile. He was good friends with Epstein, we have creepy correspondence between the two, we have fucking photos of them together, we have so many people coming out to say they were there, they were abused. MAGAs say they wouldn’t support a pedophile, but they’ll never believe Their Guy could be one. The evidence already exists! These are the type of people who called COVID a hoax even as they lay dying in their hospital beds.

I dunno, it’s not like Trump’s connection to Epstein should be forgotten about, but calls specifically for the files in every fucking comment section aren’t helping. Honestly, if you still really want to spam every comment section with it, just directly call him a pedo. It’s already clear, and we don’t need the files for that.

I’d take it a step further and say the Epstein files themselves are the distraction from all the brazen corrupt power grabbing Republicans are pulling right now. What would the release of the full, unredacted files even accomplish at this point? Sane people will feel even more justified in their hate of the admin, and the cultists will write it off as fake news. There is zero chance Congress impeaches and convicts, even if it comes out Trump was spending his time on the island literally sacrificing children to Satan.

Jesus fuck, listen to yourself. Same vibes as “I’m not racist, I just think you need help from white people before you can reach your full potential”

they do not have nearly enough people to demand obedience

Depends on who’s in charge of the bombs and drone swarms. I honestly think the only reason society still exists as we know it is that none of the conservatives are yet fully confident that they have complete, unquestioning control of the arsenal. We’re living in an era where it really only takes a few hundred people, maybe a few thousand, to kill millions. Hundreds of millions. Billions if they start using nukes. What do they care if they take out the people who kept the weapons working? These psychos would only have to use them once and then they’d have power feudal lords and kings could only dream of.

As horrible and inhumane as the US was during wars like Iraq and especially Vietnam, we were still constrained on some level. No matter how indiscriminately our troops were allowed to murder civilians, ultimately, indiscriminate killing wasn’t the main order coming down from very top. When Vietnam finally got so unpopular that even manufactured consent wasn’t cutting it for public support, we pulled out, instead of glassing the country and leaving as few survivors as possible. Again, not that Vietnam was in any way a moral war; I don’t want to minimize how many firebombs we dropped on innocent people, but there was some limit. Hell, even Russia has so far limited itself in how far it’ll go in trying to conquer Ukraine.

But… I’m not sure that’ll be the case for much longer if these fascists are allowed to continue to control the levers of power.

Honestly, even turning the thought into a sentence, putting letters to the words, is more work than his brain did to get there

Luckily they’re all backed by billionaire investors so they can afford to see the frivolous suits through. The self-censorship is something they do by design, not a response to any actual threat.

Honestly, those aren’t that much crazier than thinking smoking and drinking are somehow good for you. If this goes on, it’s only a matter of time.

I dunno if he’d put Musk on there. As far as I’ve seen all they’ve done is smack talk each other, I have very little doubt that behind the scenes the world’s richest man and the most corrupt man are still buddies

i dunno, i think there’s a pretty good chance the wsj just bends over and issues a retraction and apology without ever going to court, so trump gets to claim another legal “”“win”“”