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If you’re not running your waifu on a local machine she’s just a digital prostitute.

Also, you literally had to scroll past a very long and insightful comment to get to that.

No I didn’t. It’s in the summary, appropriately enough.

Disney is not going to protect authors and artists.

Link to the article without the paywall

New York Times Sues Fediverse Commenter for Copyright Infringement

Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”

What insightful and meaningful discourse.

Yeah. I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised, but at this point I feel like it would be a surprise. For generations the slogans have sounded great but it’s time to put money where those mouths have been.

Go on, America, prove me wrong.

I see a lot of comments from Americans these days along the lines of “someone needs to save us!”

Home of the brave, indeed.

So more than half are okay with it or don’t care about it.

Nothing has changed since the election.

Do you know how much electricity your comment just wasted?

Tom8to, tom@to, IMO. The “groundwork-laying” is also a process of seizing power, there just aren’t quite so many guns going bang.

That’s not really the case, though. This rise of fascism has been building for decades now. It’s been a slow, steady, drip drip drip. Perhaps not so noticeable except from the outside - Americans are embedded in a pervasive atmosphere of propaganda. The Republicans have been getting more and more authoritarian over the years, more and more extreme, and the Democrats have been letting them. It’s been more than four years since the last violent coup attempt, after all, and those were the same people behind this play.

It’s not progressing fast. You just haven’t noticed its progress until now, when it’s nearly done.

Propaganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on.

The problem is, so do his supporters. If Trump says this and they believe it then Trump’s “normalized” the use of the National Guard for suppressing protests without even having to do it.

I’m on both. I like the sense of freedom here, I can say something like “Putin should be shot” without getting [ Removed by Reddit ]. But I also like the large population and set of existing communities over on Reddit.

Money cannot be a Nazi. Only people can be Nazis.

They can choose to take the money and not do whatever it is Musk is telling them to do.

This is the absolute black-and-white with-us-or-against-us purity spiral that I’ve been criticizing this whole thread. If you’re going to refuse to support a Democrat the moment he strays slightly from your perfect ideal, even by association rather than by any actual action, then you’re useless when it comes to helping America’s political disaster. You just keep screaming “Nazi, nazi, nazi!” And provide no actual benefit.

This discussion well and truly Godwinned.

And so Musk can instantly and trivially get you to drop your support for any Democrat he wants to. He decides who you vote for.

You’re saying choose the lesser of two Nazis.

When you have only two choices, then yes choose the lesser Nazi. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. You think it’s appropriate to chose the greater Nazi?

And you’re worth talking to? You’re fine with handing a vote to a Republican based on nothing other than where the funding for the Democrat’s campaign came from.

As I pointed out above, the US is a two-party system. You pick one or you pick the other. You’re picking the Republicans. Good luck with that.

The “and orders” part is something you’re assuming.

He’s buying a Democrat into power.

If Musk donated money to an animal shelter would you conclude that puppies must be evil? Look at what’s being done, not who it’s being done by.