Every day, Carl Sagan weeps.

Our very own "samurai class."

If we survive this, the American flavor of law enforcement needs to be retired for a Peelian based system.

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

Don't forget the second part, "... and everyone around him knows it, and is enabling his despotic impulses, while also taking advantage of it for their own personal power."

This admin is the single most morally bankrupt and corrupt in the modern Western world. And that's after Trump 1.0

And CNN let him off the hook with the T-Rex defense because they are F tier ~~journalist~~ infotainment specialists.

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Wow... gotta love that slip, and then just freezing up to trick them into thinking its a feed loss? T-rex defense worked on CNN in 2025.

We are truly fucked.

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It is places like these that I always attempt to firmly crystalize in my mind to carry with me when I am away from home/PNW.

There are few places where things grow so green and so vibrantly that help me pretend that I'm in one of those "green and good places" like in JRRTs stories.

Home.

This is by design.. they are antagonizing us into fighting back so they can declare martial law. The longer this goes on, the worse the behavior will get, all to get the fight they so desperately want. They need it because the MAGA sheeple are starting to suspect this wasn't what they wanted.

Not to mention, was the ICE vehicle clearly marked or flashing police lights? How would anyone know you aren't being attacked by randos?

As a former college journalist, you should be self aware enough that at this point, everything asserted by the govt should be treated as suspect until they provide evidence supporting their allegations. More likely, the poor people just didn't get out of the way fast enough for the speeding ICE ppl

I finally deleted my "friends only" FB account because the MAGA circus barkers found they could search my professions seniority lists against Twitter/FB for who committed thought crime against St. Kirk and report them to our HR.

It's just sparkling authoritarianism!

The hobbits out in force I take it? Getting that 3rd breakfast?

Only insofar as it's a useful example about how the character of a person is reflected in how they treat the least among them.

the "Christian" angle is not the core of this observation.

True, but in the context of this point, pointing out that how you treat those who have nothing to give you is a true measure of the character of a person is relevant.

This is still a good observation despite the fact that "there is no hate like Christian love." Both can be true.

Aka, the entire executive branch at this point.

Every single person is just trying to fellate King Trump the hardest so that they are closest to the big chair when he dies.

It's musical chairs, despot edition!

Probably CBP.

Also clearly not enough of you consumed enough sci Fi and understood the message about ai and it shows. /s

Your ass needs ~~Jesus~~ Ghost in the Shell!

Exactly. Their obvious desire to get back to the "red vs blue boring times while we all do insider trading and get rich while taking fat bribes, but only pay lip service to our values," instead of working for the people and defending the Constitution is exactly why we are in this mess.

Sure would be nice if the current crop of DNC leaders understood that they have a duty to the republic and Constitution to uphold their OATH that is far more important than getting that big donor fund raiser or winning their next re-election.

And lastly, much like a shitty workman blames their tools, a workman who also treats their tools poorly is also very likely a shitty workman.

How treating LLMs poorly is adjacent to how I would imagine that same person would abuse animals or innocent wait-staff; if they do one, I would not be surprised that they also do the rest.

Additionally, getting into the more philosophical and spiritual, enabling someone to manifest their worst urges is also psychotic, not to mention if you really are going to take the line of LLM eventually becoming sentient, how does this not also run afoul of Matthew 25:40, and...

Indeed. This is much along the same lines of how many LLMs have been found to assume or propagate some of the deeply flawed, or without awareness of the toxic nuances of modern Western society, including racism, patriarchy, and in the USA flavour, manifest destiny, etc

"How do we keep losing to a literal comic book villain?!?!?!" -DNC

*Insert Sponge Bob pointing at everything meme*

When you gaslight and shit on your base repeatedly, the base won't support you.

I would have preferred prison, and 4 years ago.

People need to stop using this meme for Trump.

He was never a good man like Theoden.

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Just missing a phone book!

A quote from Men at Arms Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you...

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Beware the good man.

GOP stands for: Grifters, Oath breakers, and Pedophiles.