At what point does this become securities fraud? Stock price manipulation by using obscene concentrations of wealth to prop up sibling companies?

This brings a new meaning to the idea of American exceptionalism?

Adam Curtis warned me about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_1985–1999:_TraumaZone

Every time I see some news from the USA now I’m beginning to wonder whether it’s me that’s losing touch with reality or the US. But it’s getting harder to accept what I’m seeing and hearing.

Send arrest photos.

/anal

That’s really not how that works.

I expect you’re quite worried about this situation but try not to be so dismissive of others, please.

Yes, in a very real sense it means that the Government can target their enemies with impunity. But in another very real sense it suddenly throws everyone over the barrier of having committed a ‘crime’ and may well remove any moral or ethical barrier one might feel in opposing the regime.

If everyone is guilty of crimes against the state, no one is guilty of crimes against the state.

The Tony Blair institute for peace in the middle east?

Who is advising him? ChatGPT?

Chipocalypse Now with fire shooting out the back.

Surely he is confusing Chicago with chipotle?

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman” - lying means nothing?

I’m sorry, but Wilson a Twink?

So it’s not an emergency? It’s on a rota?

Sort your DNS, your machine (and possibly your life) out.

You’re on lemmy. Such hypocrisy.

Thanks for your low quality input.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I got into computers at a young age because it gave me a sense of control over something. I didn’t understand everything, but I could do a lot of trial and error, read things and experiment, build cool things, and I shared a sense of community with some random internet strangers based on that knowledge.

In a world where we are so powerless in so many other ways, why did we insist on bringing that power dynamic into the new bright tech sphere? Why did we have to do that? (N.B. this is rhetorical questioning).

I don’t like how tech is evolving…

Yeah, I’m not sure I like how the axe in my hand is evolving. It seems to be going for the internet fiber.

Isn’t it just a small number of billionaires in a trench coat at this point?