I said it right after Venezuela, it was a one time thing.

No country would fire first on America, because what’s the worst that could happen if they didn’t?

Now that ‘they abduct you and your family and take you to America’ is an option, countries are going to shoot first and risk war.

We’re going to see UN stuff move over to Europe as well, leaders aren’t going to want to risk setting foot here.

Why the fuck would you include their bullshit narrative with her picture?

One yelling at her to stay…

One yelling at her to drive away…

And one jumping out of a car and running up and grabbing her door handle.

Anyone would freak out in that scenario. An as long as ICE feel like they’re the only ones with guns, they’re keep doing this.

If they think citizens are armed, they won’t be so quick to do things to make us panic.

The White House did not immediately respond when asked for further details and a list of the organizations.

Silver lining, it was probably only 3-5…

It all starts with a little bill call the Telecommunications act of 1996…

And yeah, loads of people said it would lead to this shit.

But Silicon valley gave a shit ton of money to the Clinton’s for the Internet part, and telecoms for the part doing away with monopoly regulations.

The solution is simple: Everyone everywhere needs to classify Xitter as a porn site

I think a large part of it’s popularity has become the porn, because it passes all those filters. Especially since Musk backed conservatives are blocking porn in red states, but as far as I know, never twitter.

Treat it like a porn site and lots of Republicans need to give up their ID to show they’re old enough. They can’t VPN around it because social media hates VPN

But that doesn’t leave many options for the victims. Maddie, who said she’s a 23-year-old pre-med student, woke up on New Year’s Day to an image that horrified her. On X, she had previously published a picture of herself with her boyfriend at a local bar, which two strangers altered using Grok.

I’ve thought a lot of things would kill twitter…

But if every time a woman posts a picture of herself, and neckbeards reply asking twitter AI to sexualize her, and the AI responds right there with it where everyone following the original account can see…

I truly don’t understand how or why any women are still using it.

Still, on the long list of shit we need to fix with America, fixing the patent system is a big one.

Large corps buy them like lotto tickets and try to patent anything and everything they can.

Look how long WB has sat on the Nemisis system because they got a patent a decade ago on it. It wasn’t really a unique idea, but thousands of games have been prevented from doing anything similar.

The reason this stuff is important to understand, is so we can fight it effectively and prevent it from happening again:

Sociopathy is normal human variation…

It’s associated with criminals, because the earliest definitions required criminality, so the only population they’d check were violent criminals, which reinforced flawed beliefs that every sociopath was a violent criminal. Medical community is making progress, but it’ll likely take decades to shake that stigma so it can actually be studied properly.

Shit, a high enough IQ is almost guaranteed to come along with ASPD.

trump is way worse than just someone with ASPD, he’s most likely making a conscious effort not to care about others if it benefits himself, or even enjoys hurting others. Someone with actual ASPD doesn’t get joy from hurting people, they just don’t really care unless they’re putting a conscious effort into caring.

Which many do. But many people without ASPD want to cause pain, because they’re shitty people and fully understand what the people they’re hurting feel, if trump couldn’t feel the suffering of others in anyway, he wouldn’t go out of his way to hurt so many people.

How could you think this would be a better way to find out than just asking her what she meant?

Also, weird as fuck to be throwing yourself in drama like that, but as least your friend will find out your super messy if they haven’t. If they already knew, this is what they signed up for anyways

I mean, there’s a shit ton of variables…

You need to look specifically for people going from your current country, and the destination will change a lot of things.

Sometimes it’s very easy, other impossibly difficult.

See, your son would learn to deal with scenarios like this if he followed my advice.

With your plan he’s going to end up like you and be completely incapable of interacting with people who don’t treat him with kids gloves for being the owner’s kid…

You still can’t even comprehend that people would treat the owners son differently.

You are wildly out of touch, and if you cared for your son you’d make sure he wasn’t. You’re setting him up for failure but you don’t give a fuck unless the person warning you treats you like the owners wife.

Right, because your family owns the company, you’re not used to it and no matter how long your kid works at your company, he won’t understand it either.

The way for him to understand it, is to get a stereotypical job for his age group where he doesn’t have the same last name as the fucking owner.

Working for your dad is not the same as work experience…

I started going with my dad on weekend masonry jobs as soon as I could wipe my own butt, and was “working” as soon as I was able.

It was real work, and hard. But at the end of the day I was still working with my dad and that’s not the same.

Even if you own a large business with 100 people, everyone knows your son is the owners kid and the experience they gain won’t translate well.

Let your son get a normal job for a kid his age, unless the plan is full nepotism and you’re going to give him the company eventually.

It’s crazy how many people try to be smug about this.

All you’re doing is telling everyone it took shit this blatant and obvious for you to notice if you think this is a new problem.

I understand being ignorant of another country’s system of government, but how do you not know all the fucked up shit that’s been happening before this to think it’s new?

The “big 3” have been doing this shit for centuries, and before that it was just different countries.

Shuffling the countries around like you want to won’t solve shit. It just perpetuates the system itself…

Have you put any thought into this?

I think this study simply looked for generalizations of who would be most susceptible to CTs and wasn’t trying to focus on proving who is a ‘believer’.

The foundation of the study was flawed because “conspiratorial belief” isn’t always a bad thing, because real life conspiracies are a thing.

If they were looking for problematic conspiratorial beliefs, they should have used questions that correctly isolated those.

This research is completely worthless, which is so rare it’s almost impressive.

I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever

They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.

Cutting them off from “western banking”…

Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.

Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.

There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index. But the American NYSE is worth over 25 trillion. It’s the big one.

But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.

He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself.

Ironically what we’d see is tarrifs. America doesn’t make shit, and can’t afford to buy a lot of stuff now. So other big buyers can pressure the “producer countries” into marking up anything that goes in/out of America.

To reach their conclusions, the study authors focused on the idea of cover-ups, the belief that organizations and governments deliberately hide the truth from the public. They surveyed 253 people from several countries, asking them to rate statements such as “politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions” and “government agencies closely monitor all citizens.”

Uh…

Someone should let the researchers out of the lab occasionally…

If anyone disagreed with:

“politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions” and “government agencies closely monitor all citizens.”

Then they either live in some random Nordic utopia, or they’re the crazy ones.

Like, an international child rape ring involving multiple world leaders is the biggest news story of the decade, but only two people went to prison over it and one is about to get pardoned.

It’s 2026 and you’re crazy if you don’t believe in at least one conspiracy.

Yeah, but if we’re making a Venn diagram of that and trumpets, we end up with a circle…

There’s zero reason for capitalism to be involved in blood donation.

People give for free, but if you need it back it’s like a grand a pint.

I understand there are storage costs and stuff, but at least have it run by local hospitals into a common fund or by local governments.

There’s just zero benefit to it being privatized