That sounds more like how people have always used social media (e.g. bragging about any accomplishments they can, hiding any difficulties they’re going through, etc.) and how US based marketers have always used American Dream bullshit to pressure people into spending themselves into debt than any kind of coordinated foreign disinfo campaign to me

Beyond that, the fact that “people can come to the US and find prosperity and stability” is a lie seems to be the bigger underlying problem here

tl;dr, the local racists get big mad and protest a bit while the reasonable make arrangements and gather supplies, and then the migrants settle in and life moves on like it was all never any big deal to begin with (because it wasn’t)

there’s a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who’ve spent billions lobbying congress.

The donor class is willing to spend a lot of money to break those people and convince them that they’ll only ever get oligarchic bullshit or the blatant incompetence and violent bigotry of Republicans from their government

I bet these donations were at least implicitly contingent on being publicly announced like this

Seriously, it’s truly infuriating how much money there is to be made beating children in this country, but at least another one of these trauma factories is getting exposed and probably going to be shut down

This is something that needs to be said about all Republicans. Their party’s been indulging in fascist politics since Goldwater ran on opposing the civil rights act six decades ago, but we keep pretending there are decent people with the intellectual capacity to serve in office who identify as Republicans anyway for some reason. The uncomfortable but simple fact is that there are only idiot Republicans who don’t realize their party’s continued existence is a threat to the country and evil Republicans who do, and neither should be in any kind of government office ever.

Poltifact: “Mostly false”

Not the most evil bastard in history, but I think the world would be a vastly different and better place if Klemens von Metternich died young.

he did.

*organized labor forced him to do.

Also, I imagine they would look for ways to deny benefits to transgender veterans, veteran survivors of sexual assault who got discharged under corrupt circumstances, and other veterans they dislike for hateful reasons

All this, minus the respect part. The only thing different between them and the MAGAs is they have the small amount of intelligence required to know that in the long term Trump is going to hold them back and diminish their own power. This does not change the fact that they have been, for decades of their adult lives now, members of a political party that’s been implicitly and explicitly traitorous bigoted and anti-science since at least the mid 1960s.

His opponent is Kari fucking Lake, so I guess he figures we’ll just roll over and take it. The country is more fucked up and hopelessly mired in systems of violent subjugation than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime and I have no idea what to do about it other than share the news and volunteer in my community.

You might dig No Joy, Lush, Cindy Lee, the Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine

What the hell is shoegaze, anyway?

Ask four different people and you’ll get four different answers, but the term first started to get thrown at bands as an insult around the late 80s in the UK because guitarists in certain alternative bands would be using so many different effects during their performances they’d spend the whole show staring at their pedalboards (I think a review of a My Bloody Valentine show in particular is where the term got coined)

This isn’t about them using them for monthly reports, this is about them using LLMs for individual incident reports

Pulling from all the sounds and radio chatter picked up by the microphone attached to Gilbert’s body camera, the AI tool churned out a report in eight seconds. …

Oklahoma City’s police department is one of a handful to experiment with AI chatbots to produce the first drafts of incident reports. Police officers who’ve tried it are enthused about the time-saving technology, while some prosecutors, police watchdogs and legal scholars have concerns about how it could alter a fundamental document in the criminal justice system that plays a role in who gets prosecuted or imprisoned.

Yeah, these hypocritical dipshits are the first to cheer on Palestinians getting deplatformed and harassed, and they want me to give a shit that they were occasionally prevented from spreading misinformation about medical realities in the middle of a pandemic? A middle finger the size of the sun isn’t big enough for these assholes.

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Yeah, I’m not a Texan but I also disagree about this. Also, Austin has produced some amazing music over the years (for example, random Austin band I’ve been in love with recently is Being Dead).

Its still crazy to me so many people wanted to keep Biden.

There’s tons of people in the Democratic party who loved how “ineffective” Biden was at getting anything progressive done while he kept the taxpayer money to cops and for profit businesses flowing. They were making incredibly stupid arguments, but the hardcore Biden supporters were very much not stupid people.

I don’t believe that the party of any sitting president that was primaried ever won the election.

Probably because the party was already in a really weak position in the first place, which led to both the nominee getting primaried and the party still losing the general anyway. Like, if someone has a massive coronary and ends up dying during emergency heart surgery you’re probably not going to blame the surgery for killing them.

People who have decided they want to lie and manipulate are going to research the process and volunteer these statements. People who are actually fleeing for their lives and are traumatized, sleep deprived, malnourished, etc. are going to zombie sleep walk through their interviews. This policy is going to be great at screening out the people we should be helping and not do anything to stop anyone else.

The people who answer it less than honestly in order to gain access are diluting the believability of people

“Hey, this one person lied to me yesterday, so fuck these totally unrelated people today” is pretty far below what I think we should accept from our government

It is difficult to know how many people with legitimate cases are turned back because they don’t know to “manifest fear,” as the practice is known

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This is almost comically dystopian