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  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that's always threatening to burst to the surface. I don't know much about Minneapolis, but if they're anything like the midwesterners I've known, they're kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

  • Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions

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  • He can't pardon them for state crimes, only federal.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • That's not what the special elections are showing. In last years special elections, Democrats have gained, on average, 14 points in districts that Trump won. Miami elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 30 years. At the beginning of 2025, people were wondering if Republicans could hold on to the House. In 2026, they're speculating on whether or not Democrats will retake the Senate.

    And this is all happening while Democrats have hit historically low approval ratings. Only 18% of voters approve of the job they're doing in Congress, including -6% approval in their own party. And still, voters want Democrats in charge of Congress, 47% to 43%. People hate Democrats more than they have ever hated Democrats in the history of Democrats, and they are still hate Trump more.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • LOL, no. As I already said in this thread:

    Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

    Approval isn't changing Trump's actions, and he's actively talking about canceling the midterms (though using his ICE for voter suppression is more likely). The only hope is that enough neocons tell him that they'll support impeachment if he fucks up NATO.

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • They've done two big, "operations," in New York, and both of them failed spectacularly and immediately. The population density of that city basically means, no matter where they show up, within minutes there will be several dozen angry people chasing them down the street. They're getting constant harassment in fucking Minneapolis, they've got no hope of getting anything done in NYC.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • Maybe. MAGA is fracturing right now. Withholding the Epstien files really was too much for some of them, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's defection gave a lot of them permission to question and criticize him. Invading an ally for no reason might actually break through to good chunk of the average red hats.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • I read an article that claimed some top Generals are trying to distract him with an invasion of Iran (which is also really, really bad). Traditional neocons certainly don't want this, though; they don't want to throw away 80 years of military alliances. Still, if the president tells the Pentagon, "make me a Greenland invasion plan," they're gonna do it.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • Well, I hate to throw cold water on that comfort, but I'm not sure the numbers matter. Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

  • Trump says anything less than having Greenland in the United States’ hands is ‘unacceptable’

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  • I really want to stress how deeply unpopular this is in the U.S. The MAGA movement is about 30% of the electorate, so you can generally expect that even the dumbest, most insane Trump decisions have a floor of 30% approval. 9% of Americans support this, 86% oppose it. At minimum, two-thirds of Trump's most rabid, loyal followers are against this.

  • ’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale

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  • But it generates off what you put in, right? Like, if you fed it a script up to a certain point and said, "write a scene where Mike explains to the group what happened with [X]," it could do that, right?

    Because my experience with Volume 2 was that it was almost entirely exposition dumps or recaps. Episode 5 and half of episode 6 are essentially just characters going to different locations and explaining previous events or future plans. Like I said, I've never used AI, so I'm not an expert, but from what I've seen from ChatGPT, it doesn't seem impossible to write an outine, write the scenes you're most interested in, then say, "turn this summary into a full scene" or, "add dialog where these characters explain what happened in them in the upside down to Joyce."

  • ’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale

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  • What do you mean? I don't use ChatGPT, but I've seen it's outputs, and it seems more than capable of writing exposition dumps.

  • ’Stranger Things’ Creators Accused by Fans of Using AI To Write Series Finale

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  • Yup, this was my immediate reaction to Volume 2. There were large exposition dumps with generic dialog that could have been reassigned to any of the characters with minimal rewrite. It felt like they were having AI generate all the portions of the script they weren't interested in.

  • ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified

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  • Sure, ICE should be scared that someone might kill them, but a more interesting question is if a prosecutor could find 12 people in an ICE-occupied city that would convict someone of that killing.

  • you just can't escape: it permeates everywhere

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  • "It's hard to pretend anymore," is a strong statement given his profession.

  • History will not be kind to the USA

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  • OK. Weird it took five comments on the potential of Democrats adopting Democratic Socialism for you to realize you don't like Democratic Socialism, but I'm glad we got there in the end, I guess.

  • who bunks the bunkermen

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  • I am 100% convinced that the reason they're so obsessed with AI is that they're planning for societal collapse and trying to automate away all the skills and labor they're incapable of doing (which ie essentially everything). Their dream is to go down into a luxury bunker, let an automated security system kill any plebes that try to break in, and have a super intelligence take care of them.

  • History will not be kind to the USA

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  • What makes you think the party elites give a shit what they think?

    As I said, I think they'll be out on their ass. Schumer will not get another term in leadership. Jefferies might, since he kept the House together on shutdowns, but his polling is still underwater and his days are numbered. The rank and file will go where the wind blows. We've already seen this when normie-centrists started dumping AIPAC money because of their base. I'm sure leadership will fight it until they're ousted, and donor class will pivot to Republicans, but the average Dem politician would rather adopt a Democratic Socialist platform than lose their seat.

    One anomalous Mamdani cannot reasonably justify hope in electoral reform.

    Platner is also polling ahead or Mills despite the whole, "having a Nazi tattoo," thing. Kat Abughazaleh is in a dead heat with Biss despite Biss having the establishment backing. Richie Torres is getting a DSA primary challenge after he had to drop his bid for governor against Hochul, and Hochul herself had to pivot to supporting Mamdani (she saw how the wind was blowing). There's also Donavan McKinney primarying Shri Thanedar in Michigan, but I'm not following that one closely enough to say much about it. The point is, it's not just Mamdani, there are several strong DSA or DSA-aligned challengers that are doing well.

    Capital will do all it can to extinguish Socialism as it always does. This system was made by and for capitalists and cannot be used as the sole means of establishing a socialist system.

    OK, well, the entire philosophy of Democratic Socialism is blending public ownership with heavily regulated private businesses using the current system of democratic institutions. If you think that Democratic Socialism is impossible, fair enough, you're entitled your opinion and I'm not really interested in debating political theory. But even if you're right, and Democratic Socialism will be a failure, I don't think that means that the Democrats won't adopt it.

  • History will not be kind to the USA

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  • Polling shows capitalism is on a downswing while socialism is on an upswing, especially within the Democratic party. Socialism is losing its status as a boogeyman. Beyond that, Mamdani's Democratic Socialist platform is broadly popular across the country, and even as voters are voting heavily against Republicans in special elections, the democrats are still at historically low favorability levels.

    Again, when I say Democratic Socialism will be the norm, I'm not saying that the majority of Democrats will identify as Democratic Socialists. I'm saying thst the majority of Democrats will adopt the policies of the Democratic Socialists or be primaried by candidates that do (and, again, they'll probably frame it in the context of the New Deal rather than socialism). But the NYC mayoral election has made it clear that the corporate Democrats can no longer control the narrative, and I think it's just the beginning.

  • They have a point...

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  • Ok, so nearly all of them are in their 50s.

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    "Winner"

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I mean...violence is bad.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Seems Legit

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    He's cracked the case!

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    Ghosted

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    I have been waiting for this community my whole life

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not to get too topical, but...

  • Facepalm @lemmy.wtf
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    I want to thank Sync for placing this ad next to this post

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I thought he sounded fine.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    I'm begging you to learn how to use this term.