I can see you’re not absorbing what I’m saying, so… ok

In a vacuum you can say whatever you want, but in today’s media environment with bad actors and bots all over, posting anonymously online to repeat Big Oil talking points requires additional context. Nothing you’re saying is factually incorrect, but it just so happens to align with propaganda strategies.

That’s what makes it so effective as propaganda, they can hide behind “it’s not incorrect, it’s just facts” but the implication (and they’ve openly parroted it all over) is that everything is the fault of India and China and therefore we shouldn’t be trying to decarbonize and move away from fossil fuels.

But the implication by omission in your first comment is a literal talking point of API. It’s their entire thing. Just distract from implementing any real change by pointing to other countries. You can say that, but in the same post you should explicitly call out the entire other side of the coin.

This is a classssic Right/Big Oil bot talking point. Why do you think the climate is where it is now? What is the main country that has pushed so much CO2 into the atmosphere in the last 80 years that we’re even talking about this?

Yes, China, India and others need to reduce fossil fuel production and usage. But this talking point is typically used as API propaganda to push the blame elsewhere. Also where is that demand coming from? Again, it’s America and the West.

These fine folks are the direct reason that many millions or even billions will suffer. In every article like this please save and share, because they need to face justice for selling out humanity so that their next quarterly earnings can go up a little.

At some point we’ll learn how similar they really are

After all this is over and Stephen Miller is placed under arrest or whatever else it may be, I will celebrate in the streets.

Just like releasing his tax returns because “they were in an audit”

so you’re saying all the sex trafficking and stuff doesn’t mean it wasn’t consensual? I think by definition, sex trafficking means it’s not consensual.

“Horses typically mature to adulthood around four to six years old.”

So if the horse was less then 4 years old, it would be ephebozoophilia. Key sub-word in that word: BOZO

the sad thing is that even if he did release it, MAGA would have a very good reason to claim it was AI, because AI has gotten that good

Just like a jealous lover. Beautiful.

If raping children isn’t enough to get MAGA to leave the cult, then hopefully at least they’re homophobic enough that this very well could be the thing.

I’m a reddit refugee because they kicked me off for correcting some conservative subreddit, and those mods got mad. But I’ll just say, Lemmy/fediverse/whatever it’s called, has more crazy people like this than reddit does as a percentage of the total.

Also lost my virginity at 15, TO ANOTHER 15 YEAR OLD.

It’s a whole different story when it’s 50 year old fucks that rape a 15 year old.

On one hand, I’m absolutely horrified and surprised that the rightwing propaganda machine decided to go with this talking point, i.e. “it wasn’t that bad because 15 year olds are almost 18 so basically adults anyway”. They are literally excusing and covering for pedophilia (or ephebophilia as they’ve made clear, aka raping a child).

On the other hand, given everything else they do, I’m not really surprised.

Vance will be much worse in some ways given that he’s a full believer in the Yarvinist neomonarchist cult with Thiel, Andreeson, etc., and he’s somewhat more competent than trump (which is a low bar).

However, like you said, I think his time will be limited because he can’t control the idiot MAGAs like trump can. But the MAGA propaganda machine (Fox, Newsmax, OANN, TPUSA, etc.) will spin up around him and can probably suck in a decent amount of the MAGA cult. So all this to say… we’ll see lol

Nobody cares about his cult anymore. They will go down with the ship, and the world will be a better place without them. His supporters aren’t part of the question. I don’t mean conservatives who voted for the Republican candidate, I mean the actual cultists who have all his merch, pray to him, etc.

We can only hope it ruins his presidency, along with about a dozen others. I don’t care what political party they’re in.

And neoliberals aren’t above sabotaging the Dem party to get the reins back.

You can say that again

yeah, my initial reaction reading this article was “no it’s not, they won’t change anything”