@mcnado The thing that drives me positively wild is that YOU CAN LITERALLY JUST GET A MICROSCOPE AND SEE GERMS YOURSELF!
All these people floating ridiculous "alternate theories" (misusing the word theory to instead mean "baseless claim" rather than theory) that it's all other things could literally just buy freaking microscopes.
Heck, if they think someone is magically beaming fake images into them, they could make their own microscopes. It's ultimately just lenses. It can be done.
@Catawu@mcnado I don't know. Gathering up innocent people and shoving them together in tent camps with only mylar blankets, improper food, unsafe water, etc etc during a raging pandemic (and really just any diseases existing) seems pretty darned cruel and non-human to me.
At this point it's less about a level of cruelty and more about trying to terrify as much as possible for them. They aren't more cruel, just they're more open as a terrorist cel.
@Catawu@mcnado It is truly scary how close we are indeed.
They'll probably start with intentionally spreading disease would be my guess. They've already taught America that anyone who gets really sick or dies from a disease was just weak and deserved to die.
A literal criminal, openly being criminal, yet somehow he convinces people that he's smart and that the good guys are evil.
If someone (I think Robin?) hadn't played a recording of him talking in private about tricking people he probably would have won. That doesn't work today....
@cwebber I've been trying to get this through to people since Trump floated the idea of having his political enemies executed before the election. (Back when every newspaper was repeating over and over that Biden was old and very pointedly ignoring that Trump was practically the same age but showing signs of bad dementia in comparison.)
ICE is essentially a gestapo. They can grab anyone off the streets, bypassing due process. You don't have to be an immigrant even. You don't get to show ID.
@carstenfranke@inthehands I'm given to understand that emergency personnel actually had trouble breaking through the glass on at least one occasion. So even this may not be good enough. They don't really design them to meet safety standards, just to satisfy Musk's desperate need to be a cyberpunk villain, so they kind of skipped over a lot of stuff like finding the right balance on parts like the glass.
@evan At first I was sort of inclined to think maybe just maybe they at least knew about the E2EE, but the more I think about what you just said the more I think you're right...
They really just used it so it could illegally delete their messages for them didn't they?
@Doreen32128@Bellison22 Honestly I doubt many of these are former conservatives (and MAGA will probably never admit they were wrong.) There are really just that many people on the left who want to see change.
Which to me is significant in the fact that this is a good reminder of how desperately the established democrats (who basically are conservatives in disguise anyway) have completely lost the left. AOC and Bernie are what real democrats look like, and people know it.
@Nonilex The GOP has been playing the right for fools for decades now. They've been working on those lines that convince people who think only of their own hate for others they never met and don't know for so long now that they have it down to a science. In truth the number of people who cheat those systems, just like the number of "illegal" immigrants who commit major crimes is actually shockingly low, but these people think there are whole crime rings formed around this stuff.
@vij I truly hate that I have to filter the name "Elmo" because people have arbitrarily decided to steal the name of a beloved and good-hearted character to represent one of the worst and most destructive nazis in recent times.
@dalias I feel like most modern cars seriously need third party open firmware replacements, but if any single one needed to be singled out above all others it is absolutely and unequivocally the Tesla line.
@futurebird Not to mention they generally at least were less evil. Not to say they weren't plenty evil enough, but geez what a world of difference. Not even in the same universe as people we're getting now like Musk.
@steter@HamonWry To be clear, while Russia owns the Republican party, the Republican party is still built on its own greed and utter disdain for all but the rich. Russia merely took advantage of that.
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