Eh. I’m honestly pretty convinced at this point that the ultimate intent was never really to make money with Twitter.

Sure, he would have liked to recoup his costs. But at the end of the day, eel on musk paid 40something billion dollars to buy one of the most prolific social media companies in the history of social media. It’s just a big megaphone with speakers in everyone’s smartphones. It’s a propaganda device. He is openly using it to try to swing public opinion towards Trump (amongst various other things), and has been since about 6 months after he bought it and “cleaned house”. He’s using it to try to directly affect the result of the election. That’s it. That’s his plan. And he thinks he’ll become cemented into Trump’s inner circle if he pulls it off.

I’ll just leave this here

And it also must be mentioned that the case was dropped due to some very definitely extralegal threats and strong-arming of the victim and her family.

Just 40? I feel like there’s got to be an order of magnitude more than that from over the years.

Primarily because all the billionaires outside of the US understand that the US leaving NATO (which imo will absolutely happen if Trump managed to gain a hold on power) would basically put them in existential danger from Russian expansionism, and potentially a full blown nuclear exchange + WW3 - because without us backstopping Europe, the Russians very well may be able to straight up saturation-strike most major European military bases, and just steamroll shit.

Don’t get me wrong - Russia is doing embarrassingly poorly against Ukraine, all things considered. But if the US becomes isolationist, Russia and China will likely take that to mean that it’s open season, and there really aren’t that many world powers outside of India that could credibly stand up to a full on combined onslaught from those two.

For fucks sake, the Democratic establishment just seems to be composed almost entirely of people who are absolute champions at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Seriously, I’m moving if Harris can’t pull out a win.

Emotional damage :(

Tbh those things are great little thin clients to leave near your couch, despite their age

Not even slaves - combination incubators/dishwashers/laundry machines.

I am 100% certain that DeJoy is subtly making matters worse with regard to ballot deliveries wherever he can, and particularly in swing states.

DeJoy fuckin’ around with ballot deliveries once again - it’s just more targeted on swing states this time around

Ngl it’s kind of a hilarious and baffling self-own with regards to the women’s vote. Like, genuinely, how is this in any way supposed to convince more women to vote for him? An antivax nut job with a literal worm in his brain…? Like… wut.

DAS enclosures are super easy to set up. Disk won’t be a big issue if you go that route.

If you’re planning on running containers, tbh I would not. The required virtualization layer (due to macOS being BSD-based) is going to make containers WAY less efficient. You’re better off with a system you can easily slap proxmox (or whatever distro floats your boat) on.

I mean he’s a shitty dude, but he’s done wonders to increase public awareness of heterosectionals.

I don’t think crew-served weapons are going to be used unless someone turns up with a goddamn killdozer.

Tear gas is almost certainly going to me more than enough. And if there are armed elements who actually try to take a potshot, they’ll be targeted surgically, not with area weapons. This is the US, not Russia.

Eh. They should hold congress in the place it’s meant to be held.

If any sort of armed insurrection approaches the Capitol next January, they will be aggressively subdued and arrested. The reason it wasn’t done in 2021 was because Trump wanted it to succeed, and so refused to do anything. Biden doesn’t want an armed insurrection of MAGA idiots to swarm the Capitol; ergo, there will be sufficient crowd control and defense, and QRF guard units will be deployed if the situation demands it.

The fact that you’re trying to seriously use the term “BlueMAGA” tells me all I need to know about you.

…right…?

Narrator: it was not a joke.

Biden:

hold my malarkey beer

Hey, man, that guy is not nearly brown enough to be a terrorist. We call the white ones “lone wolves”.

/s, but like also, sadly not really /s