If you have friends in Europe, maybe ask them to buy for you and ship them to you declared as gifts. It won’t be cheap, but if it’s the only option…

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

If Mozilla wanted to achieve its stated goals, it would stay clear the hell away from AI, and it would move out of the US.

You know what? I’ve decided that it’s very important for my personal development that I should have access to all books, music, movie and cultural artifacts of any kind for free. I reckon it’s fair use.

So from now on, I will pirate everything I want to read, listen to or watch, and I will visit museums and art exhibits without paying the entry fee. Because it’s me and I’m special.

The Jan 6 rioters ARE very special, in a short bus kind of way.

Imagine the number of homeless people who could sleep in a shelter with the solid gold bribe fucking Tim Cook offered Trump alone…

Where’s the Epstein file, is the only question everybody should be asking the orange utan.

At 18, hardly. And you’re certainly not adult enough at 18 to be given the power to ruin other people’s lives.

trump and Mike Johnson convicted and executed by firing squad

Trump will probably die of old age, sadly. Vance might get to be tried though, if he takes over the regime.

But they won’t be shot. They’ll be hanged. Execution by firing squad is a military “distinction” - at least when it’s carried out as part of a lawful sentencing process - and it’s considered one notch above hanging, which is reserved for common criminals and is applied to particularly disgusting characters as a mark of shame.

That’s why a lot of Nazis were hung rather than shot. I don’t think we’ll think of high-ranking MAGA officials as worthy of a firing squad.

Only the top Nazis and the most egregious underbosses. Hundreds of thousands of former SS, waffen SS and Gestapo officers went through the denazification process for a few months, during which they underwent a kind of reverse brainwashing - which also served as a probationary period to make sure they weren’t ultra-Nazis trying to hide their true feelings - then they got reabsorbed into German civilian society.

Other German-occupied countries went through the same process. France for example, had roughly half a million civil servants who previously worked for the Vichy regime - some of them having done some pretty unsavory things.

It’s one of the great untold shameful stories of those countries, that everybody at the time swept under the rug because they - understandably - desperately wanted to move on, and also because, like it or not, the countries simply couldn’t function without rehabillating those disgusting people and their former skills.

How much more proof do we need that ICE is to Trump was the SS was to Hitler: his private lawless paramilitary force?

ICE will end up doing what the SS did. It’s bound to happen. And it will happen all the more easily because they’re not the best and brightest by a long shot, and it’s about to get a lot worse.

I’m not MAGA so I’m not that easy to gaslight.

Here’s Dean Cain’s new ICE uniform:

Aah! I bet the new FBI officials will release the Epstein files!

The way she moves her lips… she’s a star.
Now you’re thinking like a president!

Sounds more like thinking like a sex-obsessed old man to me.

Karma is a bitch.

the people running the show are *also* bumbling fucking morons.

The morons in and around the White House aren’t the ones running the show. They’re puppets, and the puppetmasters are the Heritage Foundation. And THEY are anything but morons.

descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism

This isn’t new.

One of the defining traits of fascism is that the private sector is in cahoots with the government. In fact, that’s the root of the words fascism: fasces in Latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private interests.

Corporations have no principles and no morals: whatever will make them more money, they’ll ro-ro with. When it takes colluding with an authoritatian regime, they have no problems getting onboard.

The danger today compared to IBM helping the Nazis is of course that today’s computers are vastly more powerful than mechanical tabulators. This is going to turbocharge the dystopia orders of magnitudes.

And finally, people have been lulled into a false sense of security and convinced to give away a lot more personal information than they should’ve for the past 25 years - the “I have nothing to hide, why do I need privacy?” fallacy. Now they’re going to find out why they should have been careful. I almost want to say “I told you so” every day, having been called a paranoid crackpot for the past 25 years, but it’s so sad and so too late that it isn’t even anything to gloat about…

I’m sure the first lady loves to be humiliated in public by her sugar daddy…

She sure doesn’t break the double-digit IQ barrier. Whenever she opens her trap, she sounds like such a dumb bimbo repeating her elderly fascist boss’ talking points verbatim.

Watching her eyes while she performs her brainless sycophantics duties feels like watching a 15W bulb in an empty fridge.