Since AI is writing the articles and people are doing a bad job editing the output, or not even bothering to edit it.

I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion

You understand completely, most of those folks didn’t watch the video(s) and if they’ve seen any footage of the incident it’s shortened clips that are edited to be disingenuous at best and downright lies at worst.

I don’t know what it is about people that make them think any law enforcement officer, ever, should be putting themselves in front of a vehicle when there is no danger to the community or bystanders if the person just left. It 100% is on that officer, that man should be locked up in prison.

It’s despicable, disgusting, and frankly un-American what is going on and sadly it’s going to keep going on until more blood is spilled.

So, based on your account age and posts … Are you a Russian troll or just insufferable?

The grander point is Trump is unfit under a number of metrics.

The even bigger point is he straight up should not be CiC - nobody here is trying to say a fat person can’t be CiC but it is super hypocritical with what bullshit is going on right now.

Because the Dems allowed open treason to fester. Trump literally should have been executed for crimes against the state.

Instead he was let off with zero repercussions and allowed to pardon the insurrectionist mob. Terrible consequences have ensued and will continue on.

As someone who is in a Discord with some MAGA tards … Yes, yes they are. They’re cucked so hard by Trump it’s sad.

What is that from?

Oh I know I was just making a joke 😅

Nah, a good take would be an achievement. Dumb shit takes is their bread and butter over in editorial land there.

As someone who actually watched the impeachment … Holy shit there is SO MUCH evidence that Trump’s campaign was helped by Russia and that he is basically a Russian tool. Like … Mountains of evidence that people just pretend doesn’t exist.

It’s wild AF to me honestly. People just don’t want to believe what the evidence says is the truth so they called it a “Russia hoax” and that’s that. All it took was saying the word hoax for all of Trump’s bootlicking sycophants to ignore their own eyes and ears.

Bro if you’re flying in restricted airspace near govt buildings you know what happens. You get intercepted by a fighter jet and either have a friendly escort out of the restricted area or you make friends with a missile and get obliterated.

I would not recommend trying to find out which will happen.

On a related note:

I’ve been wondering if drones could be adapted to essentially act as glide bombs that could operate without direct control input. Those probably would get around most protections especially if they had a glide slope that they’d stay on if their systems were jammed electronically. Like they get launched, fly to whatever altitude they need to be at to take a long glide down, and just go for pre programmed coordinates.

That’s probably something the war in Ukraine has either made a thing or it was tried and found to be dumb but I’ve not done research on it.

It’s not like civilians are gonna get their hands on true missiles and launch systems. But civies could find a way to put together some drones packed with explosives pretty easily I imagine.

Unfortunately, stupid breeds too fast for nature to fix it.

Pressing x to doubt

I don’t understand how Newsom can’t just order the CA national guard to not follow unlawfully given orders.

I’m not a lawyer but the statute in the Constitution that is written into the executive order as the authorization for it literally says the national guard are under control of the state Governor.

Why can’t Newsom give the guard orders and tell Trump to go fuck himself and see what happens? I guess at that point you’ll have conflicting orders from federal and state but, in theory, the national guard are under command of the state Governor and he’s their highest authority. So they should follow Newsom’s orders.

Like I said IANAL so I’m sure I’m missing something but for fuck sake this is outrageous. We’re rounding people up for not having a paper, they’re not even hardened criminals. If this was hardcore enforcement of actual dangerous people that would be one thing. These are just innocent undocumented migrants trying to live the their lives same as the rest of us.

This administration is really trying to fuck us all but in particular some of Trump’s most ardent supporters,

Same thing that’s been going on for millenia now. Humans being humans, look around the globe and through history. This is not new and we are not special.

Sucks though.

And here we see a sighting of one nature’s truly disgusting creatures.

The internet troll.

Right enjoy the MAGA boot leather.

Bro, I get it, but I’m a pragmatist more than an idealist. I hate our electoral system with a fiery passion too. I’m just operating in reality and trying to get the least bad outcome we can with what we have.

You can draw a line from the Tories and Whigs at the USA’s founding to the modern day Republican and Democrat parties.

They didn’t just spring from the ether, they were birthed from internal party politics. Why do you think the most progressive people we have in our Congress are Democrats or, in cases like the incredibly rare independent like Bernie, are working with the Dems?

It’s not a fluke. Being surprised that sitting on your hands and pouting that the party won’t pay attention to a person who won’t do anything to help them win is crazy.

What’s your pitch? “hey as someone who will do literally nothing to improve your odds of being elected you should pay attention to me!”. No, it doesn’t work like that.