Notices by gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social), page 4

@argv_minus_one no, but a large minority actively want that. Many Americans really are that cruel and selfish, and too many more may either simply not care or be driven away. Many people who voted for Milei did so not because they wanted what he said he would do, but rather came to hate what the Peronists were saying and doing so much that they simply told themselves it wouldn't really, actually, be that bad. This is whats really happening here, too.

@argv_minus_one that it comes accross as insulting, arrogant, and gaslighting, it will turn people away just as it did when the Peronists used this strategy and created a Milei landslide in Argentina. I don't expect miracles, but this approach and messaging is rather certain to lose the election.

@malwaretech When your now working 2 jobs where before you barely got by on one, and have to fish around McDonald's waste baskets for food, and they tell you it's the best economy "ever", while telling you "you have no choice but to vote for you know who", it's a guarantee of who will not vote at all. I am calling a Trump win, maybe even by a landslide, certainly not because I want to, but because the dems themselves are assuring it.

@glynmoody @denspier Indeed, even faster than the US invasion of Iraq. What took the US under two years to do (go from a victim to a far far worse war criminal and evil perpetrator) they took less than two weeks to accomplish.

@SwiftOnSecurity an open air above ground parking garage becomes an emergency shelter in a hurricane for the poor...or at least it was the only form of shelter I could find and access during Hurricane Sandy, behind a dumpster. That is what America is.

@STL_Inquiries yep, welcome to America, land of casual cruelty.

@Savvyhomestead Casinos make excellent money laundries because they take in vast amounts of cash proceeds already, so mixing in mob money is easy without anyone thinking its strange. The way you make a money laundromat disappear in Jersey? Bankruptcy court. Who ever later opens the books for dead businesses?

@Savvyhomestead Stone often dresses, as well as acts like what real-world mob gentry are actually like. There are some who seemed shocked by Sammy the Bull speaking "for Trump" or did not know he had mob connections. Here's something for those seemingly shocked; the other end of the Genovese "Parkway runs" was the Trump Casino in Atlantic City.

@MightySisserou there often is more. Injustice is like lice.

@earwigplanet @Hex @AnarchistArt Hench's can't Arch...

@MightySisserou I am still moved by the broken glasses of Allende every September 11th.

@MightySisserou the haitian slaves successfully rebelled for their freedom, and then were forced to repay France for it's loss of (human) "property", payments that lasted well into the 20th century.

@MightySisserou is there even justice??? I don't know, I never have reached that other end, and I don't even expect to see sight of it in my lifetime anymore.

@MightySisserou indeed, it is the road that never ends, not a hill you simply climb once.

@wdlindsy no doubt she sees herself a future supreme court trump nominee. Maybe she will get to take over Uncle Thomas's seat some day... I imagine, like Nick Haley, she can say she's black, too.

@spacehobo the 6502 was simple and cheap. It had a greatly optimized instruction set and memory model (short relative branches, zero page addressing, 8 bit offset over X or Y) if your code and needs really were more like in the range of a few K and for coding smart devices rather than powering behemoths like the Apple II, the Atari 400/800, or the much cheaper C64, crammed with as much ram as you can. Yet it ended up a general purpose chip for home computing well into the 16 bit age.

@spacehobo OS/9 was also rather cool, especially for real-time work.

It is fascinating in the US that if an employer deducts withholding, but never actually pays it and closes instead, the entire legal responsibility and liabilities can become yours.

@spacehobo and then there was also OS/9 to run on it...

@usluck Is Sammy trying to get on the pardon list?