Rhaedas

The original hypertext proposal was even more complex than what we ended up getting, connecting ideas both ways.

See, tariffs do help some people. Just not the ones that need help.

This is what you respond when they ask what you have to hide.

Shameful to pick survival of family over something that will make them homeless, locked up, or killed. /s

And yes, people both in the past and now in some places go that far to try and change things, or to just fight back. But those people also got put against a wall to make those choices, and unfortunately most Americans, even the ones in trouble, aren’t quite at that level yet.

Says in one of the great documents that people “are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” It’s human nature to deal with things than totally uproot them. This isn’t an excuse against rebelling, it’s just a reason why there isn’t more of it.

We can easily whataboutism to point to all the country leaders who are playing the game with Trump, saying they don’t agree but then when called on it don’t do much of anything to stop him. Compare this to Hitler and his first moves, the same things happened. Other leaders tsked and wagged fingers, the ones that didn’t just shrug it off as a temporary thing. It’s absolutely an American problem that should be dealt with here first and foremost, and that’s more complicated than a forum finger pointing can cover, but there’s blame to go around in different quantities. The whole economic tariff crap as an example - the world needs to stop playing with him and trying to come out profiting by cooperating. Shut it down, stop trading with the US, period. You don’t put out a fire by gently waving at it, you cut off its fuel.

On the first go around Congress told him that “quid pro quo” is okay, so of course he’s doing more this time.

Screw Idiocracy. People reference it not understanding there were positives in the negatives. This is “Don’t Look Up”, that nailed our current corrupt leadership and techno-corporate lunacy, as well as ignoring what is right in front of us because shiny things are more interesting.

One could say he has been and more, given the state of things. Just a tariff/tax would be bad, but he’s hunting citizens.

At this point any pee-involving evidence is minor compared to the rest.

Art of the kill

Thanks for clarifying what your definition is. Pretty much includes any form of government throughout history. Is this an anarchist’s pov?

If you’re going to try to narrow the definition that way, then most countries are fascists. Why don’t you visit the Wikipedia page on fascism and help them simplify what they classify as a very complex definition.

Which would make it far worse. Lower than WWII Nazis.

America wasn’t fascist then. I don’t think it is now (yet), but the leadership in power sure is.

The rhetoric, absolutely. The difference is that this idiot has a big, loaded gun that works.

Totally not a threat on on the life of another country’s official. Nope.

We need like a united nations organization to help push back on the aggressor. Like a league of nations or something.

Oh, god. We won because we were good at memes.

One thing I read once suggested that Homo Sapiens might have been better at communication and strategy against the stronger Neanderthals, so when there was conflict they’d tend to win and claim victory (and the women, which is why we have some Neanderthal genes). And maybe that also gave better adaptation traits when climate and other changes happened.

Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.