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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I don’t think this is trying to teach tens of millions, I think this is a scaled equivalent of me just standing in my kitchen, looking around and saying to nobody, “God damnit… What the fuck!” Before I take a moment to figure out what’s next.

    It’s very human. Many had a lot invested in the idea of a better future, that this all might be salvageable. Takes a minute to reckon with the reality here. We’re going to have to replace presidential debates with slap fights and primaries with Jello wrestling. For someone relatively younger with a family that they pictured hopefully supporting to grow to be good people doing good things in the world, just sucks to realize the “support” now means we need to start slapping them in the face as early as possible so that they have the most red and calloused cheeks possible to survive in the world we selfishly forced them into.

    Raising someone to be decent today feels like he would be as valuable as raising them to be the best VCR repair person in 2024. You have a severely limited and likely permanently outdated skill set. You might be able to enter a few small rooms where your talent is appreciated and useful, but more often than not you’ll walk around in a broader humanity that has no use for you or those like you.




  • Looks like that Kathleen person is making that claim, I’d reach out to them if you’d like expansion. I’m not on Twitter so can’t engage further. If anything, I imagine “starship” would be a common spell check correction of “starlink” as it’s a made up marketing word. To that, seems she’d be referring to the recently discussed rumors about musk starlink satellites somehow being involved in the collection/transmission of vote counts in some areas (I haven’t looked into or seen any direct evidence of that specifically), alongside things like Joe rogan just saying that musk “had an app” and he “knew the election result 4 hours before it was called”.

    I’m more interested in hearing more about the “under ballot” concerns and the person outlining the simple way to get clarity here with strategic confirmation of votes in a couple counties with especially prevalent shifts as illustrative of larger potential issues.



  • “When someone shows you who they are, believe them…”

    They’ve told you with the “eating the dogs” comments and hundreds of other examples… They aren’t afraid to confidently lie to win…

    They’ve told you they believe they are in a way that they would die and kill to win…

    Remember, years of false, unsubstantiated outrage is meant to dilute challenge to actual crimes and horror. Some things to think about…

    And here’s more about voting systems experts that tried to warn early about potential issues like this

    We can have measured confirmation, without conspiracy. We will review this election and make evidence-based arguments.

    The richest man in the world owns thousands of SW engineers that remain in his companies (after all with any morality have been purged through years of labor abuse). He joked with carlson about how he was completely fucked if trump didn’t win. What do you think the richest man in the world is capable of in that moment?


  • I see your angle, but it’s not good. This is just the heritage foundation and power hungry around him telling him he needs to go through the process to lay a “defensible” legal path. He says they need to do it, instead of him unilaterally just doing it by decree. So they do it, and if/when challenged up to the Supreme Court, they just say all the boxes were checked, technically legal, moving on.

    He’ll do that dance, initially at least, for them to support the “is he being presidential today?!!!” BS narrative that they couldn’t stop drooling over last time. He’ll eventually collapse and regress, but this time when mask comes off all the way (or more like skin peels off of his face, as the mask has been off) he has absolutely nothing left to lose. Things are going to get dark.



  • If you voted for stein, trump or stayed home…

    The hardest thing to accept is that, regardless, good Americans are still going to fight for those in the Muslim community if this administration gets in. You voted for this, indirectly or directly, and they are salivating at the pending opportunity to put you in camps, regardless of your actual background of citizenship, because you “Look foreign!” and that scares them.

    How can you be such poor students of (extremely recent) history? I sincerely hope that we don’t see the worst of what’s possible, but make no mistake, you’ve made the wrong bet and very likely voted for your own downfall.