Well tbf, I did read the tweet and immediately upvote in solidarity with her

It’s really sad but also kinda fascinating that there are definitely people who could read this and believe it’s evidence of the downfall of modern society caused by equal rights, instead of realizing that this bitch was just understandably tired and making a humor joke in an attempt to lighten the burden of having to face another day trying to roll the boulder back up the bullshit mountain created by the people who want to take away her (and everyone else’s) rights, dismantle society, and cause it to collapse.

And the most reasonable power you have is to “file a complaint.”

It happens way more often than most people realize, even in the U.S. and long before Trump. Most people don’t even realize it until it’s your loved one you’re left seeking justice for.

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized the idea of “parasites abusing the legal system” or claims about “frivolous lawsuits” are usually just conservative talking points.

Wealthy conservatives will always file the most frivolous lawsuits to intimidate and protect themselves, and they will also try to bribe or intimidate judges into ruling in their favor in criminal court, leaving family and friends of their victims the options of:

A. Seeking justice via vengeance or taking the law into their own hands, often winding up dead or in jail and continuing the cycle of injustice by ruining their own lives and the lives of their loved ones they leave behind.

B. Suing in civil court and taking on legal fees and countless hours devoting your life to seeking justice against people who have the gall to claim victimhood because they’re such self obsessed narcissists, they consider the innocent lives they destroy collateral damage (and you should say thank you /s).

C. Devoting the remainder of your life to speaking out against the people who murdered your loved one. This is where conservatives are the quickest to prove who the parasites filing frivolous lawsuits really are.

D. Just give up and do nothing/let the bastards grind you down. This is the option they would prefer you default to, so definitely don’t do that.

I would recommend in order option B. followed by option C. if necessary.

I don’t condone option A., and I truly believe option C. is the more rational and noble way to spend the remainder of your life if you can’t obtain justice via option B., but I would say morally speaking, even A. is preferable to D.

They weren’t on the Mayflower, but they were some of the OG immigrants that the people who emigrated on the Mayflower first said that phrase to.

The people on the Mayflower believed that my family’s culture would ruin “their” country. “Their” country, which had been totally uninhabited before they nearly starved to death until the natives took pity on them, and taught them how to survive made America great. /s

Not to humble brag too much or anything, but both sides of my family settled in Bumfuck TN a long time ago and never even went further north than Indiana. Then eventually came back to Bumfuck TN and MS. Not like they stuck around there because they had a lot of success and flourished, but I guess they just kind of dropped their shit and said this is an ok place to spread generational fatalism.

But I get what you mean, and aside from targeting immigration, I believe people like this are always capable of finding some way to use their power and corruption to hurt people who don’t bow down or cower before them. The value of a human life, and all the other lives it touches is absolutely meaningless if it gets in the way of their plans. But, the reality is, they’ll keep finding ways to break the law and abuse their power and authority to hurt people until they’re stopped. And they’re not going to be stopped until people push back as a collective.

It’s not going to be any one individual that stops it, but it will take people recognizing and acknowledging they have unfair privileges and advantages that make it easier to push back and say this is illegal and it’s fucked up, it’s always been illegal and fucked up, and it needs to be stopped. The longer that we only look out for ourselves, and turn a blind eye to what’s happing, the more they will continue to take. The more they take, the more emboldened and stronger they become, and the less power and opportunity we have to actually stop them.

I mean, I’m not breaking any laws. I’m a boring ass white mom closing in on 40 in a couple of years.

If they want to waste even more tax dollars to spy on me go right ahead. They can keep a record and explain in front of a judge in a few years why they thought it was so necessary to violate my constitutional rights just to learn all the juicy deets about my embarrassing health issues, oddly specific things I looked up at 3 am, and other weird shit that caught my attention and apparently poses a threat to national security.

I guess they can try to embarrass me, but as a consequence of the government violating my privacy and chipping away my dignity, I don’t really have much shame left. I also can’t think of anything that could be more shameful than what they’re currently doing to the constitution and the American people.

A long, long, looooonnng, time ago, I went on a date to see a movie. This was before smart phones were super common and neither of us really bothered to look into what the movie was about before we went. It was an Adam Sandler movie that came out after Punch Drunk Love (but way before he did anything like Uncut Gems), so we both went in with the expectation it would probably just be a light hearted comedy with maybe a few more serious moments sprinkled in.

We were already in a long term relationship and knew each other pretty well, so it wasn’t supposed to be a super romantic date or anything. It was more just lets hang out and spend a fun day together, so I made us some weed brownies and snuck them in to share so we could giggle and watch this funny movie together.

Here is the description of the movie we saw that day:

When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.

We’d already settled in and eaten the brownies, and they were just starting to kick in when we realized this wasn’t going to be as light hearted as we thought.

If you’ve ever ingested THC you might already know that some people can have a much more intense experience compared to what they’re used to having from just inhaling it. The person I was dating was one of those people, and eventually he realized he just couldn’t handle eating THC, but this date occured several years before he finally accepted that truth.

So, we sit through this movie, and I can’t really remember much of what happened other than the general theme of coming to terms with your own mortality. I don’t remember it being funny at all. I think there were jokes, but I don’t think we actually laughed the entire time except for the opening scene.

The movie finally ends and the credits start to roll. Everyone gets up around us and starts walking out, but when I stood up to leave he stopped me and asked if we could just wait until people cleared out a little more.

I said ok and we just sat there a while longer. The credits were still rolling, but we were the only people left in the theater and the ushers were standing at the back clearly waiting for us to hurry up and get out so they could sweep before the next movie.

He said something about not being able to go back through the lobby, and said he wanted to go out the door near the screen instead because it led directly outside to the parking lot.

We open the door, step out, and I guess it was kind of jarring for him to go from the dark theater directly into the extremely bright sunshine because he started having a panic attack before we could even reach the car.

I tried to calm him down, but he didn’t want to talk. We hadn’t eaten all day other than the weed brownies so I figured maybe he would feel better if he got some food, but I had also eaten a brownie and I didn’t want to drive too far.

Since we didn’t have smart phones I couldn’t look up what was in the area, but I remembered there was a Chinese buffet pretty close that I had been to once before. I figured that would be a nice quiet place for us to go so he could calm down.

Except when we got there, I guess a family was having a birthday party and it was absolutely packed. It felt more like a giant cafeteria and there were people at every single table talking really loud and celebrating. Then they started playing this same song over and over on a continuous loop like a weird horror movie:

Happy Birthday (Sheng Ri Kuai Le)

Like it would end and then just start up again like it was going to be playing for all eternity. It was so fucking bizarre I couldn’t help but start laughing because it was such a weird situation.

He was mumbling “oh my God,” over and over, but I thought he was just joking about it being so ridiculous. Then around the 5th time it started up again he was suddenly like “I have to go now!” and basically bolted out the door and back to the car.

We get back in the car, and he goes “I think I’m having a stroke. I need you to call 911!”

So, I tried to calm him down and tell him, Hey, you’re ok, you’re not having a stroke. I’m pretty sure you’re just having a panic attack. Let me just take you home so you can lay down for a while.

He kept begging me to call 911, so I started driving him back home. Then, while I was driving he pulled out his own phone and tried to call 911! and I had to wrestle it away from him with one hand while driving, and, then when I did manage to get it away he screamed at me “You bitch! I can’t believe you’re going to let me die because you don’t want to get in trouble!” 😵‍💫…

There was a good 5 mins or so of total silence where neither of us said anything. I get he was scared, but he’d never said anything like that to me before and I was pretty pissed.

Finally, I just told him if he wanted to go to the ER I would drive him, but if he called 911 and it turned out he was just having a panic attack, he could also end up in trouble.

That seemed to sober him up a bit and he calmed down enough to let me just take him back home for a while. I laid on the bed still annoyed about the whole day and pretty pissed at him while he searched the internet on his desktop to figure out if he was actually having a stroke (btw we had taken the brownies like 3+ hrs earlier by this point).

Finally after looking things up and convincing himself he was indeed having something like a stroke, he said he still wanted to go to the ER. I was so fucking annoyed by this point but I just threw up my hands and said fine, whatever. This is fucking dumb. Lets go.

We don’t talk the whole way there, we get to the ER and just sit in this busy waiting room still not talking. Finally they call him back and I stay in the waiting room.

I sat there by myself for an hour or so just kind of rolling my eyes and thinking about how fucking ridiculous it was, and how it had ruined the whole day.

Finally, a chaplain came out into the waiting room and called my name. Then he asks if I’m there with my boyfriend… And for a moment I had my own mini panic attack of “Ohshitohshit did they send the chaplain to tell me he was actually having a stroke the whole fucking time?!”

It turns out that nope, the hospital was just understaffed that day, and he was sent to give me an update. It turns out he was totally fine. It was just a panic attack, and the next day he thanked me for not letting him call 911.

Anyway, that was my worst date that turned into a very shitty day and ended with a visit to the ER.

Idk maybe Trump holds a quarterly workshop on how to blow Bubba and remain straight as an arrow.

Step 1: Turn off the lights, or ask Bubba to throw a blanket over his lap so God can’t see you.

Step 2: Blast the village people at full volume.

Step 3: Exchange a hearty “no homo,” followed by a nod and secret hand shake that ends with the gesture for zipped lips.

“At this time, I recommend that you immediately direct NOPD officers and staff to fully cooperate with ICE and CBP,” Murrill wrote in the conclusion of her letter.

Good lord, Liz Murrill is such a lame ass, passive aggressive, dickhead. You better help us terrorize families, be racist, and waste a shit load of money and manpower (even though there’s a fucking police shortage at the moment), or you’re gonna be in big trouble!

Who will police the police? This bitch apparently but only in order to insist they remove a federal consent decree that exists to protect civil rights.

I’m pretty sure I heard a rumor Liz Murrill got kicked off a greyhound bus for farting the alphabet and trying to bully a pregnant lady into an arm wrestling challenge. No idea if it’s true, but at this time, I recommend that you immediately direct everyone you know to assume it is.

A tow truck driver blocked the road leading to the house at the request of law enforcement, blaring the pro-police anthem, “Bad Boys.”

What a lame ass piece of moldy dog shit, walking around disguised as a human.

CNN also reported the case of a 22-year-old US-born mother who was chased home by federal agents in an SUV from the grocery store in Marrero. She told CNN: “I kept yelling at them, ‘I’m legal! I’m a US-born citizen! Please, leave me alone! I’m going home, my daughter is in the house. My baby is waiting for me!’”

“They’re not picking up criminals,” said Taber. “They’re picking up people off the streets, whoever they can catch – these are moms and dads coming home from work, ambushed getting out of their cars.”

The only thing that keeps coming to my mind when reading this is just how fucking disgusting this is.

How the fuck can anyone just be ok with this? Brain washing? Dissociation? The false belief that even if everything collapses around them, maybe they’ll be ok as long as they keep their noses out of it?

What is it that keeps people from acknowledging this is not fucking ok? If you won’t at least speak up, at what point will you accept your role as a collaborator?

They’re fascists

They’re nationalists

They love government interference and socialism as long as it’s for the right people.

But just because they’re National Socialists, you totally shouldn’t call them Nazis (bc it hurts their fee-fees and it’s now considered unacceptable hate speech). They prefer the term “Christian” Nationalists or Naxis

I didn’t see that, but in Memphis they’ve been arresting mainly poor people following pretextual stops.

Whatever you gotta do to meet a quota I guess. Seems like a really efficient way to prove you’re a dickhead on a power trip “making america great.”

Nazi paraphernalia was also found inside the home, including writing on a wall that says “Kapitulieren nein,” which is German for “No surrender.”

Do all Nazis think suicide is some kind of loophole/technicality? Like maybe it’s not really “surrender” if you forfeit?

It’s a _____ goal

Fucking ridiculous, preposterous, insane, horrific, fascist…

There are probably 5000 better adjectives to describe that goal.

I’m like 3 episodes in so far and have had a hard time not binging it all at once.

Ukraine’s defense relies increasingly on huge volumes of civilian data stored on cloud platforms. An adversary’s military may supply their targeting algorithm with an individual’s location, health, and online behavior. Military actors regularly mine, analyze, and repurpose social media posts.

It is not clear, however, that the deep learning systems integral to some of these new weapons can overcome the fog of war. These systems treat all data as objective representations of reality, when in fact information drawn from social media platforms is shaped by users’ emotional and cognitive experiences in ways that can skew its utility for wartime intelligence. The “learned knowledge” generated by analytic systems is probabilistic, not causal—leading to the risk that algorithms are “enforc[ing] their version of ‘reality’ from patterns and probabilities derived from data.”

These venture-backed firms view contemporary conflicts as live testing grounds.

Global digital platforms such as TikTok and Telegram illustrate the wider environment in which these dependencies are forming. Though neither company develops military technologies, both shape the information environment surrounding war. TikTok’s recommendation algorithm influences how audiences perceive the conflict in Ukraine, shaping global narratives and public opinion. Yet its complex ownership structure, rooted in Chinese parent company ByteDance and entangled with global venture capital, has sparked geopolitical concern. … These concerns highlight how platforms created for civilian use can also become entangled in the political and informational dimensions of war.

The overlapping interests of finance capital and private technology corporations transcend national borders, creating forms of influence that do not fit neatly into binary friend-or-enemy distinctions. ByteDance’s global investment network, spanning Chinese state-linked entities, American private equity funds, and international investors, illustrates this transnational ownership model. It complicates national regulatory and security responses, as policymakers must ask not merely who owns a given platform, but who controls the data, infrastructure, and decisionmaking power that states increasingly depend on.

This illustrates a deeper shift in the relationship between the market and the military. The problem is not that defense firms are publicly traded—Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have been for decades—but that contemporary defense-tech companies retain proprietary control over data-driven systems central to military operations. Their technologies are not merely delivered to the state; the companies are embedded in the decisionmaking architecture of warfare. When a firm’s market value depends on its perceived wartime success, its incentives may diverge from those of the state it ostensibly serves. This intertwining of commercial strategy, military dependency, and investor confidence represents a new kind of vulnerability for states.

What is at stake, beyond the conflict itself, is the nature of state sovereignty. The ability of states to govern, defend, and act independently is increasingly mediated by private technology firms and global finance. This is not entirely new. States have long relied on private contractors, but the kind of dependency has changed. Unlike traditional arms manufacturers, today’s defense-tech firms control the digital platforms, data flows, and algorithmic systems that underpin military decisionmaking. At the same time, civilian platforms like Telegram and TikTok shape the informational terrain of conflict, influencing how wars are perceived and fought.

I just want to make sure I’m understanding this.

•You have companies like Meta (just an example) working for both sides of a conflict via government contract, but not necessarily bound to either side of a conflict because of global venture capital/transnational ownership model

•We know Facebook/Meta has been intentionally manipulating the emotions of social media users for over a decade now

•That social media data is then collected and used to train military platforms, which may be directly or indirectly linked to the social media company

•These companies very likely have an incentive to create an endless war (and endless profits for themselves) by manipulating the emotions and behavior of social media users, knowing that data will be used to train military platforms

Basically, a private tech company could manipulate data to give one side of a conflict an advantage over the other, but it could also intentionally pit adversaries against each other in an endless loop by manipulating social media content, and by extension, manipulating the military platforms being trained.

A company could potentially profit from both sides of a conflict it’s manipulating because the states have turned to it and other big tech companies to help them reach “victory” in the endless conflict the company helped create. Correct?

I was thinking the same thing!

What?

There’s a few ways this could play out, so it seems to depend on whether or not we’re really “at war.”

Trump administration says we are (except he’s the president of peace so that doesn’t make much sense).

Most experts seem to say we’re not at war, so that contradicts the Trump administration.

So it would seem that solving this riddle will determine who is actually held responsible. Is it Hegseth for giving the illegal orders or is it the people that carried out the illegal orders for him?

I think morally both would be responsible. But legally, it’s going to take somebody clearing up whether or not this actually counts as a war.