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Step 1. Get a desktop instead.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit
Exactly. When the person who holds your purse strings decides they don’t like something, they can influence you by simply… taking away your financial backing.
I think the Soviets and the space race with the USA would prove that the “We have to build it faster, first!” isn’t just a capitalist thing.
Capitalism incentivizes it, absolutely. To be clear, I’m not making some “it’s human nature” argument, culture plays a huge role. Capitalist culture influences it greatly, but I think humans “racing” to achieve something before another does is outside the scope of just capitalism.
Somehow not considered testimony…
In some ways, you can almost see why trying to “erase” bad ideas is intoxicating, since humans seem endlessly drawn to them.
It’s like in tech circles, the joke goes that some Sci-Fi writer creates a horrible invention and includes a warning “DO NOT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS” and that warning, repeatedly, goes ignored. People are like “but we could make good profit from the Torment Nexus!”
AI is a good example. “If we don’t make the terrible AI, someone else will, so we have to make the Torment Nexus, errr, I mean AI.”
But trying to stop all these bad ideas is just Fahrenheit 451 with extra steps.
That’s the plan, yes. I think it goes a little farther than “hope” with these guys. They think they can manifest reality.
We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.
-Karl Rove
Devil’s Advocate: It’s been needing to be determined since fucking Nixon left office, and our entire government has been waffling about it for 70 years, because it’s a question they don’t actually want answered. It’s only convenient to them now as a reason to give Trump a legal time-out so he can make it to the election without more indictments.
The District Court in question has already defined official versus unofficial acts, which is part of why the SC released this so late on fucking purpose. Because even though the DC is ready to go with their findings, they’ll have to wait until October to kick it back up the chain to the Supreme Court when Trump inevitably appeals.
And also making it so that you can’t actually use a ton of the gathered evidence:
Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.
I think this is the part that’s going to fuck up the rest of Trump’s trials. Everything is going to suddenly be a private record.
You’re missing that the Supreme Court is taking the piss and the District Court they’re kicking this back to has already done their homework and defined the official acts versus unofficial acts. They’re ret-2-go but the Supreme’s did their job of punting this until at least October, since that’s when they come back from vacation. So when the District Court punts it back up the chain to the Supreme Court, they have to wait for the Supreme Court to reconvene. It’s fucking stupid, but it accomplished getting Trump nothing but a legal time-out.
Oh, ALSO:
Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.
They literally fucked us out of a ton of evidence with this part of the ruling.
(3) Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be immune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial. Pp. 30–32
This is how fucked we are. Right here.
Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.
So nevermind all that evidence you have of them planning it out in the open. Inadmissible in trial!
Get fucked Supreme Cunts.
Synema is not a Democrat, and it says so right there on the linked page. She switched to Independent after righteously screwing the party along with Manchin. For what it’s worth, Manchin changed to Independent as well.
Both parties are more successful as opposition parties than they are actually “leading.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
This is the NYT literally apologizing for their massive fuckups in the lead up to the War in Iraq where they basically just accepted the Party Line of what was going on. Democrats fell in line as to not be viewed as “soft on terror.”
They took Republican administration officials at their word and didn’t do anymore digging.
…but sure hyping up a war pushed by a Republican administration based on lies made up by that same administration is soooooooo liberal.
lmao narrative
Jesus Christ get a grip.
I guess the NYT definitely didn’t hype us up for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nope, never.
The NYT never breathlessly repeated the accusations of Weapons of Mass Destruction without questioning their sources as to the validity of those claims, yup.
You gotta be fucking shitting me.
EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
The NYT outright admitting they just sold the entire country lies for the Bush admin.
They got it from an AI because doing your own research is too hard, apparently. These are all Brave browser AI summaries.
This chucklefuck who doesn’t know how to do research thinks he can wing it using an AI.
EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
Here’s the NYT apologizing for their massive fuckups in the leadup to the War in Iraq because they were too busy NOT questioning anything the Bush administration had to say and were busy covering up stories for them. WHOOPSIE DOODLES.
Sounds real fucking liberal to me. /s
Man, maybe you’re getting downvoted hard because you’re busy using an AI to do your fucking thinking for you instead of digging up relevant information yourself to prove it.
Nice attempt at sidestepping how often they capitulate to Republican administrations.
Georgia’s largest newspaper or the New York Times aren’t right leaning at all
In fucking fantasy-land maybe.
New York Times literally sat on a story about illegal wiretapping on US citizens by the NSA for over a year at the behest of the Bush administration.
I would think someone with the username NoSuchAgency might be familiar with that…
The main people who the NYT are aimed at are literally rich New Yorkers with an extra house in the Hamptons. You can look at their Leisure section and it becomes ridiculously clear they’re catering to an elite set and not regular people.
Sorry, but the rich elite generally are way more conservative than your average person, even if they claim liberalism.
EDIT: Let’s not forget how absolutely HYPED the NYT was for THE WAR ON TERROR.
EDIT II: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
Excellent point, I wasn’t aware of that one. Not that we should always treat the past as indicative of the future, but rather, it’s clear that choosing such a path is playing with fire. For a litany of reasons.
Sadly, with Trump, we can’t afford to play with fire, period.
Money talks and Israel has the money, Palestine doesn’t. Same as it ever was.