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RGB3x3,

Say Trump gets his wish and becomes authoritarian leader of the US, the god-king his voters want.

When he dies in less than 10 years, who’s going to take his place? What’s the end goal for the Republicans after Trump? Do they even have one? (Probably not).

RGB3x3,

All the tech companies in Texas would leave. As would most Democrats with the means to do it. There goes your highly educated workforce (Democrats tend to be more highly educated based on demographic data).

The US military would leave. And then there goes all the defense contractors too.

They wouldn’t be self-sufficient on their own. They’re only self sufficient because they’re part of the US.

RGB3x3,

He plays it up for the show. He’s not actually like that.

Watch any of his non “hell’s kitchen/nightmares” shows and he’s quite sensible.

And even in kitchen nightmares, he goes to really big lengths to actually help these people get back on track. Sometimes, they don’t realize how bad things are or get stubborn and need a kick in the pants to change.

G.O.P. Officials, Once Critical, Stand by Trump After NATO Comments (www.nytimes.com)

After Donald J. Trump suggested he had threatened to encourage Russia to attack “delinquent” NATO allies, the response among many Republican officials has struck three themes — expressions of support, gaze aversion or even cheerful indifference....

RGB3x3,

I’d say the 78% of the population that didn’t vote for Trump deserves to keep living.

Yes, in 2020, only 22% of the population voted for Trump. And yes, that does include children and those ineligible to vote, but I think it’s worthwhile pointing out that the US is very much under minority rule. Because those same people voted for the Republicans in Congress.

RGB3x3,

She has to be all in on fossil fuels because Republican voters are just too stupid and brainwashed to realize that renewable energy generation is just better for everyone and everything.

They have to stick to sucking on exhaust pipes to “own the liberals.”

RGB3x3,

I’d imagine there would be a way to automatically delete the file if you’ve watched a certain percentage and it’s been a certain amount of time.

IDK, I’m not a programmer.

RGB3x3,

The only proper stance to have on this is that Israel’s genocide of Palestinians must stop, Hamas needs to be taken out, and Netanyahu should be deposed.

Then, Israel needs to be split into a smaller section and land given back to the Palestinians.

Gaza and West Bank do not work as being surrounded by Israel. They are prisons.

The killing has to end.

RGB3x3,

Just look at per capita crime rates. US cities are typically less dangerous than suburban areas.

New York City has a per capita crime rate of 6.3 per 100,000.

Huntsville, AL has a crime rate of 387 per 100,000.

And that difference was actually a huge surprise to me when I just looked it up. But the problem is people look at the raw number of crimes committed and think cities are so dangerous. It’s actually the opposite.

RGB3x3,

This is how I know that either (1) God doesn’t exist or (2) if he does, he has a sick sense of humor.

RGB3x3,

In case people don’t know what Project 2025 is.

Here’s the document:

documentcloud.org/…/24088042-project-2025s-mandat…

AT LEAST READ THE FOREWARD. It very meticulously lays out their 4 goals:

  1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
  1. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
  1. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
  1. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty

In plain language they want to:

  1. Effectively make LGBTQ+ persons illegal, unable to marry, adopt, or even exist openly, nationally ban abortion, ban education about black history and systemic racism;
  2. hamstring or eliminate a bunch of government agencies like the Department of Education, the EPA, the DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, and to eliminate many positions within the federal government or install loyal puppets;
  3. close our borders completely, pull out of NATO and the UN, invest heavily in oil, coal, and natural gas while divesting in renewable energy and removing environmental regulations, and exert extreme control over tech companies and universities;
  4. create school voucher programs which very much are to allow parents to segregate their children and use tax dollars to fund conservative, religious, private schools at k-12 levels, and eliminate social welfare programs. Also includes the contradiction of “champion the dynamic genius of free enterprise” and “include antitrust enforcement against corporate monopolies.”

The whole thing is full of conservative buzz words, “anti-woke” rhetoric, and contradictions about free enterprise while wanting to exert control over people and “big tech.”

But it’s also dangerous because they’re going to attempt to consolidate power to the next Republican president. There are complicated and far-reaching consequences to the things they’re proposing that would take an academic paper to get into. For example, Ron DeSantis just signed a bill making lab-grown meat illegal because of the “global elite.” It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s part of the reactionary, anti-leftist, culture war bullshit the Republicans are on right now.

That summary should be enough to show why this is so dangerous.

RGB3x3,

Least effective Ninja gear for sure.

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Enchilada.

Perfect.

RGB3x3,

It may not be fake. There’s a fairly new disorder called ARFID that the kid may be dealing with.

It’s worth talking to a pediatrician in this situation.

Edit: but actually, the image definitely seems doctored.

Vivarium (2019) - Simple, slow paced, and deeply deeply weird (www.rottentomatoes.com)

This film got dragged for how slow paced and simplistic it is, but it honestly was perfect to me. It's one of the most unique and believable horror concepts I've ever seen and I thought it was executed to a T -- with the drawn-out nature of it just adding to the atmosphere. YMMV but I thought it was fantastic.

RGB3x3,

I was very pleasantly surprised by this one when I saw it a couple months ago. I had just stumbled on it when I was looking around for something scary to watch.

The weirdness of this one was right up my alley

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she and Kelce have been hailed as the All-American couple, a veritable Norman Rockwell painting come to life.

Okay, but they’re far above a real American couple in status, riches, and lifestyle. This may be the least important part of this whole thing, but they’re still part of the way upper classes with zero of the problems the rest of us have.

Can we stop worshipping the rich and famous in general, please?

RGB3x3,

Look, this is the system we have and it sucks, but the choices are “weak candidate” vs “evil candidate that is likely going to try to destroy our democracy.”

Voting third party means voting for the second guy, which is going to make our shit system even worse.

RGB3x3,

Okay, but explain to me how you’re supposed to tell the difference between a legitimate QR code and a fake one?

It’s trivially easy to make a mockup of a restaurant’s QR menu so that people scan it when they sit down, expecting to get an online menu.

RGB3x3,

Yeah, that’s the point. Don’t worship politicians, kings, and priests. Or anyone for that matter, except God… I’m atheist though, so not even “God” in my opinion.

RGB3x3,

Maybe with T.G.I Friday’s coupons?

RGB3x3,

“Releasing exclusively for Meta Quest 3”

Great, they told us upfront why I don’t need to care about it.

RGB3x3,

It’s really not a wasted search, but I agree this is not the community for the post.

Project 2025 is the Republican’s plan to essentially dismantle government agencies, consolidate power to the president, and make the LGBT+ community illegal. Among many other fucked up things.

The introduction of the document is absolutely essential to read. It’s truly scary stuff.

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