Americans should be so lucky!

• It came on the heels of a court case that said Trump could only build his ballroom if there was a legitimate security concern (and all the right wing media had posts ready for ballroom support)
• He (Trump) had never attended before now
• The response from the SS seemed… lacklustre at best.
• Karoline Leavitt said that everyone should watch because there would be shots fired.
• He (the shooter) was entirely ineffectual.
• Right wing women are so botox’ed that no one could see them being upset; right wing men were standing behind their wives.

Personally… fake is not exactly the answer, but it’s oh so convenient, and given that people were sending in tips about him before this, I suspect that if they hadn’t wanted this to happen, they’d have done security normally and he’d have been removed from the premises before he shot. But maybe I’m just underestimating how bad the US government’s security has become since they fired so many people.

Ah, lucky. All the banks around me seem to require it now. My kingdom for an independent authenticator they’d accept!

How do you get around 2FA? I was able to stay off of phones for so long, but the standard 2FA implementation has made it impossible.

I thought these were jobs Americans wanted to fill. I’m pretty sure I heard that line from Republicans… I guess I’m a little surprised they aren’t just bringing the ICE detainees directly out to the fields.

I suspect you’re significantly more screwed than just one next president.

This is how they kill open source.

I’m not surprised. People thought he was a good guy because he sued Apple and Google, but he did it for his own profit, not for the principle. And now he wants AI slop games for his own profit, too.

I would certainly say that anyone coming over for the explicit purpose of representing the IDF in some way is “IDF soldier” enough to ban. And I would further argue that anyone serving in the most recent conflict may need to be investigated further before being allowed in.

I think this is the argument people give for abandoning their pet dogs in the countryside. We all know the dogs never stand a better chance. I doubt the whales would either.

I remember it used to be girls getting this shit. Did we manage to protect them and leave the boys behind? Awful awful awful people out there.

I’m pretty sure Alberta would be its own state. But the rest of Canada is way too liberal for him to give us separate representation.

You guys, we have the best opportunity. Next time they hold a Rapture, we all just go completely cold turkey silent for like, three days. Let them all think they’ve been left behind. Then we all come back to social media and the rest of the real world on the third day like, “whoa, that was so cool, what was your favourite part of it?”

I thought I was clicking through to a satire site. Da fuq is this.

So, when I say this, I mean something more than simple citizen led movements. Those will curtail some trade, for sure, and I’m all for them.

In this case, I’m referring to the types of things that we plebs have no control over. There are a fair number of banking rules, for example, that are mandated by the US government in order to do business with US taxpayers. Some number of years back, for example, a bunch of banks globally just stopped allowing US taxpayers to have accounts, because of US laws that didn’t allow time for the banks to make the changes required, and imposed high fines if US taxpayers held accounts that weren’t reported to the US. (I’m pretty sure that US taxpayers are allowed bank accounts throughout the world again these days.)

Should the US try this kind of thing on a larger scale, I think that will either lead the banks towards debanking many individuals throughout the world as the US imposes sanctions on more regular citizens of other countries, a two-tiered system where the banks attempt to comply, or larger scale choices to not cooperate with the US on a financial level, which would affect every country that own American debt.

(I don’t want any of our politicians to feel worried about political violence, but I also don’t remember his open condemnation of any of it when Singh was threatened.)

I seem to recall him being fine with it when Trudeau was getting rocks thrown at him. I seem to recall him saying it was an overreaction when Freeland complained she was being followed around.

Am I remembering wrong?

Are they going to start sanctioning individuals all over the world? They did it with the judge in the Bolsonaro case, and it caused problems in Brazil generally. I suppose if they do it to large numbers of people outside of the US, it would end up forcing countries to stop cooperating generally with the US.

Side note, by her own definitions, JKR is illiberal. She is a fundamentalist. She is a totalitarian. And she definitely believes that some of her “political” opponents, trans people, should be punished with violence and death. What a telling post.

And PP sucks as usual.

England’s banning kids from doing all sorts of things and causing problems for everyone while doing it, so while I wouldn’t say this is bad per se, I do worry that it’s coming out of England.

Gross. Absolutely gross. Powerful old people are already living too long.