Lina Khan was one of the best things to happen to the world in decades, and probably 99% percent of you fuckers don’t even know who she is.

And now we’re into the “class of people we’re legally allowed to torture” stage of fascism.

This already exists.

In New York wealthy business people pay small town sheriffs to deputize them. As deputies they now have a right to concealed carry, even in places like NYC that have very strict gun laws.

Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn’t complain if they did) you’d very quickly see gun violence go from “unsolvable” to “very solvable”.

Did you expect some kind of mass uprising to happen the very next day? A hundred million people out in the streets, all armed to the teeth, hunting CEOs for sport?

In this cartoon fantasy world of yours, what does “something coming from this” look like? Was his next stop going to be the White House where he would hold Biden at gunpoint until M4A is implemented?

Probably both if you can make the case for it. Funko for the false request, the registrar for not doing their due diligence in honoring it. Depending on the wording of the law the registrar may be off the hook however, so whether there’s a case to be brought there would be a question for their lawyers.

The DMCA doesn’t make false requests legal (I’m also not sure if this specific issue falls under the DMCA), but it does fail to define any meaningful penalty for making them.

That’s not the part I’m talking about fact checking. I’m well aware of how awful the UCP is.

If you think this person is a “moderate” voter then you really, really haven’t been paying attention to what they’re actually saying.

Where on earth did you get the impression that I was talking appealling to moderates?

People who are watching half their buying power disappear over four years aren’t moderates, they’re people begging to be radicalized. They’ll turn to wherever they are offered convincing solutions. A lot of these people voted for both Trump and AOC. They’re angry, and they want to burn the whole fucking system down. They like Trump precisely because they think he’s a molotov cocktail for them to hurl at Washington. There is nothing moderate about them.

I’m not talking about compromise, I’m talking about exactly the opposite. These people want a party that promises to fuck shit up. They’re really not particular about how. Fascism, hardcore anti-capitalism, whatever. They’ll take anything that promises to smash this status quo.

That’s exactly the problem the Dems have right now. Outside of a few members who are trying to push for more extreme rhetoric, they’re a party that basically doesn’t know how to be anything but moderate, when what they really, really need to be, if they’re going to capture the mood of the public at large, is angry.

Just look at the response to that CEO getting murdered. Across the spectrum, self-identified right and left, people are cheering, applauding, celebrating.

We are so far past moderate. We are literally at guillotines. If the Dems cannot recognize and harness that fact, they are doomed to be irrelevant.

Again, this kind of reductive thinking isn’t helpful. I’m not saying that everything that happened is Biden’s fault, but the reality is that people are, by and large, poorer today then they were four years ago. And Harris’ response to that was “We did a great job and I wouldn’t change a single thing.”

Promising “four more years of this” when “this” is utter shit is not a compelling argument.

I’m actually one of Biden’s biggest defenders. I genuinely think that he made a lot of very good choices, many of which could have yielded powerful long term gains for the left. His government’s stance on labour rights, consumer protections and anti-monopoly action was fantastic.

But none of that matters when voters scream at you that they’re starving and you reply “No you’re not.”

It’s easy to point and laugh at this, but the fact is that the Dems ran a poor campaign because they completely failed to reach out to voters like this.

This person is exactly why Trump won. They don’t understand or care why things have gotten worse over the last four years, they just know that they have gotten worse, and that’s all that matters.

And rather than acknowledge that and offer solutions, the Dems told these people to disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes, and claimed that the last four years had been great for the economy. That’s true if you judge the economy by measures like GDP, but when all of that growth is going into the pockets of billionaires while everyone else is paying more for less, that creates a lot of very angry voters.

The left need to figure out how to harness this anger rather than laughing at it. Otherwise we’re (even more) fucked.

We already have fission power, solar, wind, hydro, large scale battery storage, mechanical batteries (you can literally store renewable energy using a reservoir), electric cars, blimps, sail powered boats, etc, etc. We’ve had all of these technologies for quite some time.

And yet, we’re still burning coal, oil, and gas.

There’s no magical invention that’s going to fix the basic problem, which is that we have an economic system that demands infinite growth and we live on a finite planet.

Even if we crack fusion today, we won’t be able to build out enough fusion infrastructure fast enough to be a solution on its own. And we’d still be building those fusion plants using trucks and earth movers and cranes that burn diesel.

You cannot out-tech a problem that is, fundamentally, social. At best a hyper-intelligent AGI is going to tell us the solution that we already know; get rid of the billionaires who are driving all this climate damage with their insatiable search for profit. At which point the billionaires who own the AGI will turn it the fuck off until they can reprogram it to only offer “solutions” that maintain the status quo.

“Shortly thereafter, Altman pronounced “the dawn of the Intelligence Age,” in which AI helps humankind fix the climate and colonize space.”

Few things ring quite as blatantly false to me as this asinine claim.

The notion that AI will solve the climate crisis is unbelievably stupid, not because of any theory about what AI may or may not be capable of, but because we already know how to fix the climate crisis!

The problem is that we’re putting too much carbon into the air. The solution is to put less carbon into the air. The greatest minds of humanity have been working on this for over a century and the basic answer has never, ever changed.

The problem is that we can’t actually convince people to stop putting carbon into air, because that would involve reducing profit margins, and wealthy people don’t like that.

Even if Altman unveiled a true AGI tomorrow, one smarter than all of humanity put together, and asked it to solve the climate crisis, it would immediately reply “Stop putting carbon in the air you dumb fucking monkeys.” And the billionaires who back Altman would immediately tell him to turn the damn thing off.

It would be easier to find this credible if the names weren’t censored. As it stands there is, literally no way to fact check any of this. Screenshots are very easy to fake.

Do I find it believable? Absolutely. But propaganda is most effective when it tells you something you’re ready to believe. You haven’t even told us the new of this “pro-child-abuse group.” Some kindof corroborating details are needed here.

Y’know, I haven’t played Stalker 2 yet, but I feel like these guys get a pass on releasing a game in a rough shape given that it was developed in the middle of a warzone. Some extenuating circumstances there, I think.

Tribes was an incredible series. I’ve played every game in the series, but I think it really peaked with Tribes 2. That game was basically perfect. The movement, the gunplay, the vehicles, the maps, all of it was spot on.

There was never a social contract. Sorry, but that’s absolute nonsense. The power of the wealthy has always been engacted through manipulation, intimidation and fraud. Claiming there was a social contract between the wealthy and the rest of us is like claiming that there was a social contract between slaves and slave owners.

There’s no contract, there’s no agreement, there’s no relationship; that’s a fantasy concocted by the wealthy to justify their wealth. There is only power and exploitation. And exploitation will always grow worse over time.

They abuse us, and we let them abuse us because we’re not desperate enough to stop them.

Not yet.

But it’s getting there.

Y’know, it probably was that, now that I think about it.

They’re not. But also, I don’t exactly disagree. We just don’t really get a say in that part.