• Tja@programming.dev
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      Of course they are winning, the American electorate made sure of that. Presidency, both chambers, Supreme Court, popular vote, etc.

      Project 2025 was known worldwide, now they are just implementing it.

      And the public seem to be fine with it, trump has one of the highest approval ratings in the world (despite being negative).

      Obamacare will be next, then Medicare, then contraceptives, then gay marriage…

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      The thing is you’re confused here, but it’s fine because he’s confused. It’s the wrong ABC. He thinks it’s the American broadcasting corporation. And you could be forgiven for thinking that because that’s all the identification we get here. This is actually the “Australian” broadcasting corporation. I’m not as familiar, but it looks like their PBS.

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        There were recent interactions with both nations’ ABCs. The OP article where he says “maybe we should go after you” is about US ABC, after a reporter asked about going after hate speech.

        In the one about Aus ABC the reporter asked about shady business deals, and the response was “You’re hurting Australia” and threatened to tell the Austalian “leader” that the reporter was setting a “bad tone”.

        US: https://youtu.be/Zxa8diaYNmQ

        Aus: https://youtu.be/TzO5nz7hJmo

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    I always assumed America would swiftly deal with a racist fascist criminal megalomaniac.

    Boy was I wrong.

    This nation is WEAK.

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      Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.

      That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.

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        Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.

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      Turns out conservatives were just waiting for one evil and horrible enough all along.

      And the Democrats… Jesus Christ are they useless. They roll over at the very sound of a stiff breeze.

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      Why would they deal with racists? USA as a whole never stopped being racist.

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      just no one is gonna be there like for Luigi, if we Americans had any balls he’d either be out of jail or someone broke him out, no balls, especially if you’re a dumb fuck Republican, hey trump imma shit on your grave you orange POS, come get me, boom shaka laka

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    There was period of time during Trump’s last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of “not the onion” headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.

    I remember one was like “Judge determines woman can’t prove she didn’t want to be set on fire.”

    This would fit in nicely.

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      Huh…I’m trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn’t want to be set on fire.

      I can’t think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also…how did THAT headline happen???

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        my lay person understanding of the law is that in situations like these you don’t need to prove what should be so overwhelmingly self-evident

        there’s probably some Latin phrase for it a lawyer would just know but when a thing is so far away from a gray area of reasonableness you’re fine

        you shouldn’t need hard evidence, people as a rule don’t like to set themselves on fire

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        Most of the time when weird questions like that involving consent come up, I assume it probably involved some kind of sex thing.

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        The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn’t know she didn’t want to participate.

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    Trump always had this knack of revealing his intentions when he thought he could just hit back at people.

    That’s nothing new.

    But what he reveals is indeed getting worse every day, or at least: every day of 2025 it is much worse than before that.

    This, ladies and germs, is narcissistic dictatorial megalomania. Let’s hope it he won’t last long.

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        Oh remember restaurants? So lovely how it used to be you know. The restaurants. Of course they were shut down by the terrible crime and the covid.

        Of course I’m a very good driver . . . yeah. Uh oh. Fart.

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    BREAKING NEWS: “President Cunt Cuntily Says Some Cunty Shit”

    ALSO: “European Union Stockpiling ScotchGuard Reserves in Anticipation of Future JD Vance Visit”

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    Trump is using the “bully pulpit” to bully people out of their constitutional rights.

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    O he will eventually, make no mistake. Longer he is allowed to be the tyrant he wants to be, all of his ‘threats’ are very real