Ah, good idea putting the fire in the tent, that way the fire will stay warm

Any predictions on how long it'll take for conservatives to start outlawing sterilizations for women?

Doctor of Computer Science

stringly-typed "100%"

yeah that tracks.

Ah the two genders, male and political

"Harris immediately framed her candidacy with a specific false reference to this case as a contest of 'prosecutor vs. convicted felon,'" Trump's filing says.

Harris' framing is an "inaccurate attack," it adds, without describing an inaccuracy. Harris is a former district attorney for San Francisco and attorney general for California; in May, Trump became the first former president convicted of a felony.

This is straight out of the reich wing playbook; they'll complain about how this or that is a lie, but they will never fucking ever actually specify what was the part that was incorrect. They just go "librul lies!" and their base eats it the fuck up

the former president's campaign has disavowed the project and recently went so far as to say its "demise would be greatly welcomed," while Trump urged his supporters to boo it at a campaign rally.

You'll have to excuse me if I don't believe for a fucking second that this is anything but optics. It's not like conservatives have to explicitly say they're following the playbook, but they obviously already are – many Republican lawmakers are members of the conservative organizations that wrote the fucking thing (see eg. this bit of news from TN)

Not sure how this one slipped through.

I'd bet my ass this was caused by terrible practices brought on by suits demanding more "efficient" releases.

"Why do we do so much testing before releases? Have we ever had any problems before? We're wasting so much time that I might not even be able to buy another yacht this year"

The persecution fetish conservatives have is just incredible.

Well, I guess when you're a psychopathic narcissist it's hard to imagine that everybody else isn't one too, so it's understandable that they think we want to put them in concentration camps because that's what they want to do to us.

Just goes to show that conservatives are the single biggest threat to civilised societies everywhere.

How do we deal with them? It should be obvious by now that something needs to be done, but the rest of us can't just go full conservative and shove them in extermination camps like they'd do to us

Conservatives are a cancer on society

It's fucking wild that conservatives listen to Trump and hear an intelligent and coherent person.

I love it that reich-wing lunatics are now eating their own. They suddenly think Andrew Tate is trans, ditto for that one cockwomble who shot protestors (Kyle something?), and now even Trump is a deep state operative.

Keep it up, conservatives. Maybe murder each other and not us LGBT+ folks for a change?

Trump's abortion stance suddenly falling in line with Project 2025 is certainly a shocking and unexpected turn, considering how adamant he's been that he's never even heard of it and Republicans are saying how it's all a "liberal" delusion anyhow.

(And yes that was sarcasm.)

Project 2025. Conservatives are planning to kick off a nearly literal fascist dictatorship if Trump wins

Gamers aren't persecuted anywhere near enough

I guess "consumer pullback" is one way to describe what's going on with the economy…

They call him the incoherent rambler. Everyone is saying it.

And everyone really is saying it, too

Trump is much better equipped psychologically to withstand ferocious criticisms than he is equipped to withstand mockery. Malignant narcissists go to great lengths to hide their fears and display a false or idealized self. Criticism targets the persona. Mockery, by contrast, can tap very deep fears of being exposed as flawed or weak. When the mask is the target, people with Trump’s psychological profile know how to fight back. Mockery, though, can cause them to unravel.

This seems to be very common with conservatives more generally. Criticizing them does nothing, but turns out that mocking their absolutely fucking bizarre beliefs drives them up the wall

Sorry, that means you're just as bad as the fash. You should be engaging them on the marketplace of ideas, just like people did in WW II when they stopped the fascists with kindness and debate

Republicans don't seem to believe that it was "one of them" who did it. They're blaming literally everybody else

The first time I saw a headline about this, just saying that the Supreme Court overturned "the Chevron doctrine" my initial thought was that I have no idea wtf they did but if the votes went 6-3 I know it can't be anything good.

Much to my consternation I appear to have been right.

Is… is this a real resume? Did an adult make this on purpose?

His dropping out seems very unlikely. Not impossible by any means, but unlikely. He doesn't seem like the person who's capable of admitting defeat, especially considering his legal troubles

Thank fuck this is no longer the case – the "non-smoking" sections were usually just 2nd hand smoke sections

This is the case with literally every conservative crowing about "free speech". They want full freedom for themselves so that no matter what they say there can't be any negative consequences or reactions, and everybody else can get fucked and die in an extermination camp

That'd depend on your local copyright laws, but it's probably illegal.

Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don't do anything fantastically stupid

That said, it's wonderfully cathartic.

Right‽ This was seriously the best rant I've read in ages; not only was it spot on, it was fucking hilarious.

This has to be the best way I've seen anyone describe what the problem with the current AI woo-woo is:

And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.

And it's usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I'm talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can't recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked

This is shocking! Shocking I tell you!

Ok I lied it's not very shocking, it's not like they only want to marry children:

Amazing take. Back in the 1920's you would have looked at the rise of the NSDAP in Germany and gone "not surprised given the jews there"

Not an American tradition, but a conservative tradition; in Finland we just had two literal neo-Nazis stab children in a shopping centre.

So everything now hinges on centrists and "moderate" conservatives not supporting fascists?

Terrific! It's not like that has ever happened before

Fuck, that explains a lot

Fucking Russian psychos use the majority of their missiles on civilian targets and now suddenly Putin has a problem with (alleged! I frankly don't believe it for one second) “indiscriminate shooting from various types of weapons, including missiles, at civilian buildings, residential buildings, and ambulances.”

Yup; success is relative.

It's somehow wonderful how masks-off many modern executives are. They're just outright going "rules are only for you fucking plebs. Now go sit in your cubicles and earn me some money", no more dancing around with the "we're all a big family" bullshit

Yeah like duh it's right there in the name, how hard can it be to find her?

Yeah, non-conservatives (mainly liberals) really need to get it into their heads that every single conservative either actively wants an authoritarian state that murders "woke" people and minorities, or if they're not outright for it they think that surely the leopards won't eat their face because they're on the right side.

Ultimately even a "moderate" conservative has fewer disagreements with literal neo-Nazis (oh wait, except the Nazis are leftists according to reich-wingers) than they do with anybody left of the fucking Strasserites. Even if a conservative is not calling for the extermination of {CURRENT_HATED_MINORITY}, they're still more than happy to support parties that either have fascist members or collaborate with fascists.

This is on clear display here in Europe; the "moderate" conservatives are lining up to kiss Meloni's ass, and they don't mind at all that FdI (Meloni's party) is a literal offshoot of the original Fascist Party and a huge percentage of their MPs and "lay members" have voiced their love of Mussolini.