And they wore a pink ranger outfit while doing it? I have a new hero.
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The video of her (?) doing this at the hackathon is both boring and thrilling, as the crowd erupts in cheers when the sites are deleted. Good stuff. More of this please, world in 2026.
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Jesus. For “fun”, go to okstupid.lol and find the potatoes on the map near where you live.
Sad!
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It’s particularly topical to NZ because right now we’ve got 400k (~7% of the population)'s medical info being held hostage by a hacker group - so its a nice reminder that hacktivists also exist.
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Dear God, please take all of Ben Sasse’s cancer cells and transfer them all into Kristi Noem.
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Can we also please dissolve the American Gestapo (or “ICE,” as it’s sometimes called)?
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Abolishing the Republican Party and forcing every Republican official out of office in 2029 is the moderate position.
Ugh, are you really going “both sides” on this? You are aware Democrats can’t impeach unless they win enough seats in the midterms. They can’t just pull off a military coup.
No. That’s not a “both sides” argument. The Republicans are objectively worse. It’s an expression of frustration at the Democratic Party for its ineffectual opposition. Even Bernie Sanders has praised Trump for taking border security more seriously than his predecessor.
Are you criticising Sanders here or agreeing that Biden should have taken border security more seriously?
IIRC, Biden’s immigration bill was shot down by Republicans at Trump’s order.
I’m criticizing Sanders and using him as an example of what seems to be a general kid-glove approach to Trump and his policies (or, more accurately, whims).
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The American Century of Humiliation continues unabated and unabashedly.
Build up your social credit scores now, lads! Next year in Shanghai!
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You can’t fight authoritarianism with more authoritarianism
Should the Nazi Party have been kept around after WW2? Are we obligated to keep around an organisation that celebrates January 6th, illegally invades countries with no congressional authorisation, and cover up ICE shooting unarmed women dead? An organisation that’s deliberately trying to incite civil war, that will never change, and will come back even more radical and violent?
It’s not like we’ll turn the US into a one-party state, the Libertarian Party and the Green Party could become the opposition. They never attempted an insurrection at the US Capitol.
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The fact is, the Republican Party is now, officially and wholly, a terrorist organization. The cruelty is the point. They are taking away healthcare, they are taking away good wages, safe working conditions, and reasonable retiring ages. They are taking away environmental protections. They are consolidating power, hoarding wealth, and trying to launch forever wars to feed the military industrial complex while stripping other nations of their resources for the financial benefit of the one percent. On the social level, they are demonizing anyone with less than fair skin, anyone who questions their biology, anyone who’s language or religious beliefs they don’t understand, and anyone who might think a member of their own sex could make a prospective mate. They are taking away reasonable access to vaccines, they are cancelling cancer research grants. They are removing or cutting off welfare programs. The social security program has been stripped down to its wires. Anyone who wants to pick up a gun and shoot people is just listed as crazy, thoughts and prayers are given, but no gun reform is enacted. And when law enforcement agencies do the same, the victim is labeled a terrorist.
None of these things help or benefit anyone in any way, not even the ones who enjoy or encourage these things, except for the wealthy elite, and those who have been put in power. The cruelty is the point, the chaos is the point, the death is the point. Republicans, conservatives, right-wingers, whatever you want to call them: they hate you. They WANT you to die. Any of them who support the rest of the party, even if it’s only a particular thing they personally support and not the rest of the craziness, are still supporting a party that enacts that craziness, meaning they do support it even if they are not actively seeking it; it’s ok with them, so long as the things they want come to pass.
Having said all of that, it’s not further authoritarianism to disband, outlaw, and imprison a political party that now functions literally as a terrorist organization/death cult. Is it unfortunate that we must treat it as such and destroy it utterly? Yes. The difference is, once they are gone, we can then go back to respecting other’s political differences and allow other parties to rise, so long as they don’t become an organization whose entire purpose is the murder and suffering of their fellow countrymen and others.
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I think you’re confusing the right and the far-right. There are millions of Republicans in the US and hundreds of millions of conservatives in the world. They’re not all Nazis, and they deserve the same access to the democratic process and electoral representation as everyone else
Except, as I listed above, if they are voting for/with and supporting the Nazi faction of the party, they are guilty by association. They are ok with those people being in power so long as their own interests are addressed.
The independents and mid-conservatives who voted for Trump in 2024, for example, who are now saying they didn’t vote for this when looking at how the tariffs are collapsing the economy and the things ICE is doing… yes, yes they did vote for it. Every single one. Because, believe it or not, one of the few things Trump didn’t lie about is what he would do when he got back into power. He specifically said he’d put huge tariffs on almost everything and everyone. He specifically said there’d be mass deportations and ICE raids, and to those who though he just meant the illegals and criminals, he and his people also said they’d denaturalize anyone they could, meaning they were already going to ignore the laws and just try to deport anyone who looked less than white or sounded foreign. They said these things. They said it the whole campaign season and the years prior. It’s what they tried to do in his first administration.
And the people now saying they didn’t vote for those things still voted for him anyway, despite him saying he’d do those things. Because they didn’t think it would affect them, and because they didn’t want a Black woman in charge. That’s it. They thought they’d be ok, and they didn’t want a non-white, non-male in charge. And so they were willing to let everything that is happening now happen. It doesn’t matter if they don’t like it, it doesn’t matter if they didn’t want this part of it, or that they are personally appalled by it and condemn it; they voted for it! They were ok with it so long as they could benefit from it, and now that they’re not, now it’s an issue.
I guarantee you, if the economy actually was doing great, if we were all making money like kings, these same people would shrug at the illegal, immoral, and cruel actions this administration is taking. Guarantee you, not a doubt in my mind. Because the ones complaining now are only doing so because now they are affected.
But you know what, it would still be ok that they’re coming to this realization, if they would actually learn from it and base their decisions going forward on it. They don’t have to vote Democrat or turn liberal or anything like that. All they have to do is make a firm commitment that they will never vote against their own interests by voting into power millionaires and billionaires who tell them that they’ll fix their financial problems. That they won’t vote for hateful and incompetent people who ignore experts and focus on their own ambitions, regardless of how many times these people tell them that there are “men in women’s sports,” or how many Hatians are “eating the dogs and cats.” That they will stop voting for people who will only hurt them and others just because they focus on nonsense culture war issues.
If they would just learn from these mistakes and choose to never support or vote for these people again, either by voting smarter or not voting altogether if they don’t trust anyone, then it’s ok if they are speaking out now. Then, it would be ok to not lump them in with all the others, because they would show that they are genuinely capable of changing their ways. Unfortunately, the number of people who seem to be making such a change is sadly low.
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The correct answer would’ve been “no I’m not generalizing millions of people”, not to imply they’re fair game for their beliefs. I cannot reason with the mindset that anyone is a legitimate target
And that is correct; I’m not generalizing millions of people. I am saying plain what the reality is. Anyone who continues to support a political party, a movement, a group, despite knowing what they do, simply because they agree with a portion of what they stand for or believe in, is still sharing responsibility with that group/party for their actions, because they are supporting them. In the case of the Republican Party, anyone who still supports them, despite all they are doing, regardless of why they are supporting them and regardless of how much they disagree with their evil actions, is still supporting the group committing the evil actions, is continuing to support that group/party despite those evil actions, and as such makes them just as culpable for those actions as those carrying them out are, because they are continuing to voluntarily support those who do it.
And yes, that goes both ways. As a supporter of the Democratic Party, I share the responsibility of those members of the party whom I supported who ended up pushing for the TikTok ban and the continued support of Israel in its campaign against Palestine, and Biden’s inexplicable refusal to remove the tariffs Trump put in place in his first administration. I am learning from that by not voting for just any candidates associated with my party, but for those who were opposed to such corrupt views while still pushing for policy changes that benefit all Americans.
The difference with the republicans is, there are no candidates lining up to replace the current ones who are pushing for any legislation or policy changes that actually help people. They might be against things like invading other countries and ICE’s lawlessness, but they are still in favor of eliminating ACA and easy access to healthcare, curbing women’s reproductive health, funding public education that doesn’t conform to their worldview, etc., etc.. There are no reasonable alternatives with the Republican Party as a whole, so nobody can demonstrate having learned from their mistakes besides choosing to disassociate with the party altogether.
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