Yes, it’s in the air, it’s in what he says, the lies he tells, and whose emotions they’re aimed at. It’s in the American exceptionalism he sells.
That’s the vision the left has to fit into, and it’s been done before. Bernie was doing it in 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug
Compare that coherent vision of American exceptionalism with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk4ueY9wVtA
Tell lies that make them feel better than the lies the other guy is telling.
They’re libertarian business men who want little kingdoms of their own, they’re willing to play on fascism to get it, but they’re not going to be gunning people down in the streets. Especially not now interest rates are being cut by the fed, and the COVID recovery is ready to boost the economy again.
Part of why Trump won was people calling them fascist garbage and stupid. All the people Trump makes feel good about America took offense to that.
Trump bought into their offense by saying “I’m with you, I’m on your side, I’ll even drive the garbage truck. Hahaha”
… and the left’s only response was to double down with “you look stupid and crazy for not automatically agreeing with us, with no discussion or appeal from us”.
That same cycle of LEFT: “you’re a stupid crazy fascist”
RIGHT: “no we’re playing to make ourseves feel happy and edgy, and unpopitician like”…
LEFT: “Well that’s stupid and shouldn’t be popular”
Went on for 8 years. That emotional interaction/cycle was on repeat.The majority didn’t give them an off ramp or even try to appeal to them, or reason with them.
Studying fascism so you can call them fascist idiots better isn’t going to change the emotions at play, if anything it’s going to amplify them.
No, you have to make America’s history of exploitation and greed, of racism and corruption, of international business cartels, seem good and like winning. Because that’s how he makes them feel: like it’s fun and good and winning to be an American.
They’re saying they don’t want serious politics as usual. You’re saying “if I just call them fascist idiots better they’ll agree with me that they’re fascist idiots!”
That’s not a discussion that’s going to resolve any different or better by perfecting your very serious and sad and angry condemnation of them.
Will these stats end up in a trump lawsuit trying to prove he won?
…because democracy is a kind of nice thing to have. It prevents a lot of unnecessary bloodshed.
The article makes it clear that the Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft azure accounts, usually for large organizations involved with governments, infrastructure, legal professionals, science and technology.
It also states that the attacks can be disinfected by regularly restarting your router, but that this doesn’t prevent reinfection later.
The US intelligence services also says you should regularly restart your phone.
This is Microsoft’s posting about it which other news sources are quoting from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/
It has a recommendations section which suggests “credential hygiene” and strong passwords help.
They didn’t shoot survivors - they shot zombies to be. It was pre-emptive.
Were they really good ones though?
I have no idea where they got the idea the food is flavourless, not only is someone addicted to chocolate mousse, but there’s episodes where a diplomat from planet boring spends their whole time trying different gourmet foods/alcohols.
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You can actually point to Trump’s fake electors scandal, or the J6 attempt to taint the chain of custody for the state ballot counts before they could be certified at the Capitol, on the day and at the time the riot was orchestrated.
They’re real world Republican led attempts by Trump and co. to endangered the democratic process.
So what are you going to point to in the other direction? Do you have anything?
…and you better not say the Russian interference claims, because they were confimed by a bipartisan intelligence committee, not the Democratic party. The commitee was even led by Republicans.
It will be important to publicize which side is implicated ASAP - and do so clearly with an authoritative voice.
Get away with the first two, and you earn a warning, is that how law enforcement works now at the DOJ?
*qualirty
Good job making up a quote, then knocking it down. You should totally spend your life energy getting into tangential argument that only you give a shit about.
…but maybe write 3 paragraphs next time.
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It’s almost like sure Israelis and Jews can be trusted…
…but Zionists can’t?
Almost like Zionism is a religious affiliated cult of ideology.
Kinda like Christian Nationalism.
My comment applied to all nation states, that’s why they all have intelligence agencies.
Sorry, not everyone is willing to take: Random guy said it on a podcast, (or defender of Trump said it on a podcast cast) as a source worth listening to for trusted reporting.
Not to mention the rudeness of just assigning someone a podcast in an online discussion, or the fact the podcast had no relevance to the topic of whether Australian universities are self-censoring due to reasons of; Capitalist exchange.
No it’s a huge one, because it’s the most likely application of AI, AI site moderation will be the start of AI digital policing a field which risks growing larger and larger until it manifests as actual legal policing.
People don’t understand, they both speak the same language. They’re both natural grifters… What’s more Musk is probably better at it than Trump was. Trump needed lessons from Roy Cohn, who was a ruthless, damaged, low empathy, closet homosexual and self-hater.
Musk didn’t need that kind of mentor, he’s a natural grifter, and my bet is that Trump is fascinated by him. They do similar things in different ways.
Only in certain scenarios would this blow up, and Musk has already bent the knee to Trump, so those scenarios are unlikely.
Musk is a friendly fellow grifter Trump can use, and has power over, which is what Trump likes.
At best we’ll see Musk become a fall guy for Trump’s shortcomings. But seeing as Trump may later die in office, Musk might also avoid such a fate. Only time will tell.