He is a piece of shit, regardless

100% agreed with that statement, but I wonder if he’s an even more hardcore MAGAt than he is zionist, because at least temporarily I could see those two fascistic movements coming into conflict with each other

I mean, I think the world needs more people who are trying to be Righteously Right about things than ones who dgaf and just take what they want, even if the righteousness can be a bit exhausting sometimes

Except in the current disorganized world we always just end up with one or two superpowers bullying the little governments and crushing all kinds of diversity anyway.

Also,

You can move to a country with less oppressive laws

That might work for the crafty and well-resourced individual who has a go bag and good OpSec and can actually hop borders and keep their heads down, but that sort of thing is nearly impossible for, like, a single parent working for a crap hourly wage, or an unhoused person dealing with an extended mental health crisis, or other more vulnerable people. Justice shouldn’t depend on geography.

invade

Real subtle /s

As of Friday evening, more than 48,000 of the migrants had voluntarily returned to Morocco, Spanish officials said.

Seems like a pretty important detail to leave out of the headline

Using my advanced powers of media literacy I am hearing you say the article doesn’t say what you just claimed it did and now you’re mad about being caught in a lie

If that was true why not quote the relevant section?

[Spain’s prime minister] attributed the mass crossing to “human trafficking mafias” that had taken advantage of a decision by Spain’s supreme court, which recently ruled that those intercepted at sea while trying to enter Ceuta, or Spain’s other north African enclave of Melilla, could not be summarily returned under special rules.

Also,

The Moroccan government is asking its citizens who have crossed the border to return home. Morocco’s ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich, said at an embassy event Thursday that the situation in Ceuta was “not wanted by the Kingdom of Morocco,” adding that it would “prefer legal, orderly, and safe immigration for everyone.”

https://time.com/article/2026/07/31/ceuta-spain-morocco-africa-explainer/ (arc)

Exactly, there was an interruption in government and policies there that the 21st century US didn’t have. Trump is a continuation of Bush (e.g. the president who founded ICE) where Hitler was a reaction to the reaction to Wilhelm.

If you don’t celebrate when George W dies you’re a bad person or ignorant of what a monster he was

Eh, Trump is using a bunch of laws and agencies Bush created where the Nazis had to undo a bunch of the Weimar Republic to take their country to hell. I think it’s more like Trump is to Bush what Stalin was to Lenin.

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about nuance

The state must prove things beyond a reasonable doubt before they’re allowed to use their power to punish someone. Individuals can use their own common sense and draw conclusions from the available information. Mine is telling me Platner is a rapist.

And one of them can be clearly worse

This decision is final.

If it was that easy for him to do this it will be just as easy for the next Secretary of Defense to reverse it, but the fact that he feels the need to say this and must recognize on some level that a vast majority of people at this point hate their guts and can’t wait to undo every last thing they’ve done is gratifying

Man, that game started out as such a good examination and denouncing of manifest destiny white supremacist bullshit with so many good little historical details, but then 3/4 of the way through the story

which was just some real cowardly bullshit

Even more than that, in a lot of ways this is the chaos he unleashed coming back on us. ICE was created by his administration as part of the overreaction to 9/11, and their whole strategy of “say person doesn’t have legal status, detain them in the cheapest and most dangerous facility possible, and charge taxpayers a king’s ransom to do it” was first dreamed up by the fucking ghouls in his DOJ, they just called them “enemy combatants” instead of “illegal aliens.”

Hard disagree, that hope and inspiration nonsense is totally ahistotical and the exact same thing boomers do with the 1950s and 60s (for them it was the atomic age and sexual revolution and being optimistic that fascism and world wars were behind them)

When the second world fell at the end of the Soviet Union the expectation was that the second world would become part of the first world and the third world would begin it moves towards being a benevolent second world and eventually become part of the first world too.

And a bunch of first world hopes that everyone would just forget all coups and death squads and other terrible stuff we did in the cold war, and hopes that we could all just finally forget about fighting for civil rights and the environment and other tough stuff like that because we’d somehow permanently solved those issues and could just turn everything over to markets.

It was also a time of a second coming of the civil rights movement, the 90s are when it became OK to be gay for the most part

Matthew Shepherd was murdered in 1998, legal rights like health insurance access for partners and hospital visitations wouldn’t come til decades later, we were still educating most people on the fact that AIDS wasn’t just a gay disease, etc.

1992 was The Year of the Woman, largely in response to and in spite of the Anita Hill debacle

But the Anita Hill debacle did happen, plus Jerry Seinfeld dated a high schooler and nobody thought it was weird, and whether or not sexual harassment was a real thing society needed to care about was still being argued (you can see this in all sorts of pop culture from the time, the whole attack on “political correctness” was all about dudes wanting to be able to say misogynistic shit at the office and not get called out for it)

There was an open-mindedness and a willingness to accept progress

Pundits on TV called black teenagers super predators and said they should be tried as adults and tons of states changed their laws to make it easier to do exactly that

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn’t read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I’d expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I’m just not getting AI vibes off of it