You’re not alone. I see this shit and I say aloud “woww” and pass my phone to my partner. I’ve never seen such unhinged shit from the official white house communications team.
This is stuff any self-respecting 15yo would be embarrassed to post. I know they have been posting other cringey memes recently too. Seems like the person managing the account came straight from 4chan.
We did it Reddit Lemmy, we found a pixelated mess and made up a story about what it is.
April 23rd will be the first day that his administrations charges for obstruction of justice are delayed / postponed because [made up reason so the judge doesn’t have to do their job].
Just like happened last time.
And the time before.
And the time before.
First, they came for the “terrorists”, and I said nothing, because I am not a terrorist.
Then, they came for the “illegal immigrants”…
While this is definitely an escalation, and a dangerous one that should be called out and fought. I want to point out that American citizens have had NO due process and NO rights on Guantanamo Bay ever since Bush Jr started disappearing people and flying them over there under the guise of terrorism accusations.
These are US citizens who were abducted, taken out of country, and not even allowed a lawyer or told what their charges are, beaten and tortured - that the courts decided that was all more or less acceptable for, and further that it was also acceptable to be detained indefinitely.
Trump is a symptom, he is not the disease.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/court-rules-guantanamo-detainees-are-not-entitled-due-process
I hate influencers too so I get it, but I figure its mostly kids and young adults who grew up watching him, so I put the blame more on the systems and communities they grew up in.
Those kids should have been protected by say… A strong consumer protections board, or parents controlling their screen time & curating their viewing, government banning phones at school, or outright banning social media for kids, or a quality education teaching them media literacy - but all of those things are demonized as bad things that those socialist European countries have.
They discussed their plight a lot in Star Trek IV. Some relevant quotes and context here: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Whale
“Worries users” - is the USA an operating system now?
Is AI writing these posts? The statement makes sense in context in the full post, but the headline absolutely does not - leads me to believe yes, AI slop.
I agree. I mean he’s lied about delivering so many things over the years, why don’t they just point out that it’s another failure.
Instead they twist it into something he didn’t say - and lose credibility. Stupid.
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Budgets exist, we can’t shoot every show. So yeah… its not a zero sum game but its got a ceiling and it’s not that high. Especially when nowadays even reality TV trash like Mr Beast Games has a budget of $100 million.
The narcissist in cheif will just blame the Chinese, and they’ll agree because it’s less painful than facing that they did it to themselves.
It takes a lot of daily reinforcement to deprogram/unbrainwash people, so I don’t think it’ll happen fast unfortunately.
The german guy is playing it up for views but i do agree that’s pretty bad. In Australia we have similar laws - you must move aside for emergency vehicles, penalty is a fine and demerit points on your license.
And in practice it is unusual for cars not to move - usually someone elderly/distracted that didn’t see or hear them and probably should get a driving retest. The ambulance will squelch their siren / blast their horns as a reminder for people slow to move, but in my 20 odd years of city driving I have never seen an ambulance stuck like in OPs video - and yes, every major city gets traffic just as heavy as that with lanes just as wide.
This is a video of an ambulance running through fairly heavy traffic in Sydney that shows how rarely they get blockaded by traffic and how most drivers try to do the right thing. Low res unfortunately, but it is 11 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsplO_2l4hE
Lol you really don’t understand what etymology means do you?
The purpose of this thread is talking about why the Americans adopted a particular spelling - the evolution of the word, not who initially named it. Words change and evolve over time, as does their spelling. This is why Wikipedia dedicated an entire two page section to explaining how the word developed (etymology - remember?) and the people who popularized the spelling.
I’m done replying to you, it’s like talking to a brick wall and now you’re just being childishly abusive.
The most gen-x/millenial throwback thing about this set is the random card pack that has a chance to include a “signed cacodaemon rookie card”. Genuinely funny that you’d have to buy multiples of this set to try and collect the whole set of cards.
I don’t mind this stuff, I mean people spend stacks of cash on far more worthless and non-functional collectactables.
You’re literally arguing that the dude who named it that isn’t the reason it’s named that.
No, I’m not, I’m discussing the etymology of the word as Wikipedia states it.
This is the last quote I’ll drop from the Wikipedia article I’ve linked because really, you should be able to just read this yourself.
In 1892, Hall used the -um spelling in his advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903. It is unknown whether this spelling was introduced by mistake or intentionally, but Hall preferred aluminum since its introduction because it resembled platinum, the name of a prestigious metal. By 1890, both spellings had been common in the United States, the -ium spelling [aluminium] being slightly more common; by 1895, the situation had reversed; by 1900, aluminum had become twice as common as aluminium; in the next decade, the -um spelling dominated American usage.
This quote is from tthe etymology section, explaining how the spelling rose to prominence in the US - again, Americans drove this spelling adoption - Webster then HALL. Not ‘the Brits’. 🤦♂️
Some folks who work forces…
A bullet never went through his ear. The FBI amended their statement to say he was ‘grazed’ by a bullet or a bullet fragment, after initially questioning if he had been hit at all (because his medical team withheld all information from them during the investigation - which was unusual and suspicious). I mean you could see plain as day just a few weeks later when he removed the bandage his ear was almost completely undamaged.
They like this one though - he’s very easy to manipulate. Why get rid of him when they can just get everything they want from him.
Gun control means: mandatory background checks, waiting periods, bans on previously convicted violent criminals owning guns, potentially magazine limits or limits on fully automatic licenses to specific users (like you may need to demonstrate you have proficiency and be a member of a gun club). None of this goes against “the right to bear arms”.
It does not mean nobody can buy guns or that guns are taken away - this is the fearmongering always pushed by the very conservative, very pro-Trump NRA.