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Love of Learning, Writer, Game Design/Art, Atheist, 🚫Amoral Demagoguery. Open Mind, Zero Blocked. #BLM 🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Ally He/Him
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No, it's not. It's still up on his feed and Luckovich himself posted that he received a fake e-mail with the citation.
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Luckovich confirmed five hours before you posted this that it was a fake email. He did not get cited for it, and the cartoon is till up on his feed.
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Concerning in terms of how far he will take presidential pardons in terms of brownshirting.
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As an American, I deeply apologize. We tried very hard to keep these clowns out, but virulent angry "forgotten men" culture wars won the day.
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Trump's previously dangled one object at a time before ignoring the results of the original controversy and claiming a new goal which would be even better. His current tact is much more flooding the zone.
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Thank you for taking the time to check this. I remember the instance, I was wondering if his thinking evolved a bit on this more akin to an immediate overwhelming blitzkrieg, Caesar marching immediately on Rome too fast for Pompey to react, etc...
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Yea, was completely familiar with the tactic, just wanted the specific quote as a reference point.
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Do you remember which interview by chance? Or how long ago approximately it was?
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Eh to be fair though Zelenskyy is relevant to this conversation. Rare exception.
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I love these ancient web articles.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
"The company also will offer a light-usage program providing three hours of AOL per month for $4.95"
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Genuinely looks and feels like an external coup to completely disrupt the United States. We're being gutted from the inside out.
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I don't know anyone who benefits from the election of Trump/Musk more than our adversaries and Russia. This is like a double Christmas.
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"including failing to articulate why the agencies are changing policy." This is the best part. Trump couldn't articulate a ham sandwich, so the fact that orders can be challenged on arbitrariness and capriciousness is the chef's kiss.
I'm so glad fascists are often incompetent.
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SpaceX has already been awarded a contract as well. DOGE had very little to say. How odd!
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Not everyone wants to play childish word games with the President. He demands in truly postmodernist sense that you conform to his alternate reality, or be deprived of journalism.
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In a world of transactionalism, trust is not part of the equation.
Carl Sagan pointed out that Jane Goodall studies chimps in the wild because like humans in jail, being caged never brings out the best in us.
Removing latitude for human vulnerability and connection allows CEOs to see us as cogs.
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15 minutes and 10 seconds for your lunch break... Starting... NOW! (Starts stopwatch)
Every 10 seconds spent munching overtime counts as an additional parcel.
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Like the 20th round of documents being released about JFK and it's still the same guy who shot him.
Not that the info about the CIA isn't important or relevant, but nothing has fundamentally changed about the event.
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A short and sweet couple of paragraphs of explanation is there now, but it seems about right as it relates to current events. The reader may be aided in understanding the historical context of nationalist expansionism vis a vis irredentism/revanchism - pan-Germanism revised naming conventions also.
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Concerning!
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Even in the worst throes of one's rebellious teenage years, who does shit like this unless they are genuinely brought up devoid of morals, empathy, and curiosity? We see here the roots and makeup of what it takes to become an Elon supporter; a very dark nihilism and abusiveness.
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I prefer that it's targeted stuff like this more than across-the-board tariffs. If they can somehow hit either Trump voters more, stakeholders, or adjacent business interests, they can avoid hitting *some* of the people that didn't vote for madness as hard.
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... and one FEMA official recently ordered subordinates to freeze grants. Complaints by Musk/Trump about housing migrants in "luxury hotels." Instead of taking a nuanced or stepwise approach, Trump has suggested FEMA be completely terminated and states handle their own disaster relief efforts.
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... In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, Altman said of Musk "Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity. I feel for the guy."
* A constitutional crisis looms as Judge John J. McConnell insists that Trump is not unfreezing funds...
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* Elon Musk is attempting to buy out OpenAI for $97.4 billion, with pledges by various venture capital groups, to which Sam Altman rejected "We are not for sale." Altman is not the final say, and the board will rule on it...
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Still a concerning trend if so, essentially Hamilton's power of the sword co-opting the power of the purse by not faithfully executing and deciding by fiat. It's another example of reduction of pluralism, division of powers, and seeking compromise and conversation.
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How are you discerning which side is making an implicit agreement for tolerance? It seems to me that in the course of natural dialogue, there is a spectrum of agreed tolerance and intellectual honesty just as there is a spectrum, if skewed, of Trump supporters' intentions.
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While I think the spectrum is narrow, and that many if not the majority of Trump supporters are beyond reach, it's important to realize that there are in fact some that are there ready for debate. Refusing to actively look for genuine engagement will hurt more than help.
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Glad to hear it. Indirect costs were not some arbitrary luxury cost, but a baked-in part of how major universities funded everything from research projects, to infrastructure, to lab maintenance, to recruitment and competitiveness of institutions.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n...
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As Sam more or less alluded to, 9/11 truthers who would previously have had to go to a convention of conspiracy theorists may have been turned off by the face-to-face interactions they had to endure, and introspectively re-analyzed their entire world view. This is no longer necessary.
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"... if you had to live in a small village somewhere, even though you'd only be seeing a very limited number of people, they'd all be sort of weird in different ways rather than you finding all the people who are weird in the same way."
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... as people grouped by geographic proximity needed to accommodate a variety of interests and unite behind a broader set of values and common humanity.
Lifestyles and ideology are prepackaged online, "it sands a lot of the rough edges off..."
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with someone that has innate empathy. Higher order rationalizing is thus compromised/detached, at least on the human level.
Worth noting that CEOs have high rates of psychopathy versus the general population(numbers seem to range from 4% to as high as 21%). I'm sure we know some in particular.
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(amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, etc) turned off, and these areas responsible for empathy means that even if the dorsolateral PFC is developed properly later in life, it's receiving inadequate empathetic information to derive a moral code/impulse otherwise consistent...
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The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is the final part of the brain that develops at age 25, involved in rational thinking, planning, inhibition, abstract thinking. However, in fMRI, psychopaths when presented with moral questions frequently have parts of their PFC and parts of their limbic system...
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As women carry two X chromosomes, if they inherit a degenerate gene(version of MAOA) positively associated with psychopathy, the second one (usually) cancels it out, thus men typically pass on and present psychopathy.
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"Not sure what that means" encapsulates the past nine days of Trump's flooding the zone with nonsensical executive orders. Terrible intentions and ideas, and we're all kind of scanning the horizon to see if the guardrails are still up.
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The dumber and more accessible the content, the higher the amplitude of the algorithm. Ideas that flirt with the mind superficially rise to the top, and in the age of social media, anything that requires a pause in scrolling to think critically filters to the bottom.
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Jim Acosta has experience questioning dictators and strongmen and he probably knew exactly what he saw in Trump when he began holding his feet to the fire in 2015-16.
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Ursa Major*!
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When you meet Gen Z that have received a standard and good education, as should be expected, it's quite like manna from heaven. Just like anyone, they suffer under the weight of a dysfunctional system when they don't get good mental edification in their life experience.
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His world knowledge is just absolute minimum. Thighland, Button, Nambia. His SoD can't figure out the difference between ASEAN and Asian. Canada burned the White House, airports in the Revolutionary War, Frederick Douglass is still alive. Ignorance is the calling card for Trumpism.
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A little bit of both, I say, as independent social media news can also be credible if you are very careful and skeptical with your sources. But PBS NewsHour is absolutely awesome as well.
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Importantly, this time around, pretty much all of the major tech CEOs have bent the knee. This is exactly as it happened with industrialists finally bending the knee in 1933. There's a sort of aura of inevitability that we must "get along with him even if we don't like him"; instead, #Resist!
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Biden in 14th place seems a little bit much, but Trump is absolutely one of the worst if not the worst.