Quick note for anyone going this route: take note of when Bandcamp Fridays happen and buy your music then. They waive their cut and much more of your payment goes directly to the artists! I take those days to go through my follow list and buy any new albums that have come out since the previous Friday.
I put them on my Plex server and use Plexamp to stream them. Jellyfin has Finamp that I hear is also good.
It's honestly more embarrassing for him to not play along. At least then you can use the "I'm a paid shill" defense instead of the "I'm a huge dumbass" defense.
For me the giveaway was 2^64 being 1.8*10^19 years from now.
I want them to start publishing the exact same hyperbolic stories they do in North Korea about the Kim family. I want to see a "Trump Family Never Poops" headline.
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Flood the zone.
I'm honestly surprised he seemed to forget his strategy that got him this far for a second. It's like an advisor had to sit him down and go, "Donald...just lie".
Cool! I need to rewatch the first, it's been almost 20y.
For the record, not everyone who isn't MAGA is a "good guy".
If this were 2016 I might agree with you. But the reality we have needed to accept for a while is that most Trumpers are also on hard times. They're just new to the relegated-class party as the middle class disappears, and they backed the wrong horse to solve the problem. Yeah there is a vocal minority of extremists in their mix too, but the vast majority of Trump supporters are just rural simpletons who saw their manufacturing jobs leave, see their tax dollars disappear, and are too busy working to keep food on the table to have any time to learn about the lies they've been fed about socialism and trickle down economics.
They saw a populist dark horse candidate say all the things they were feeling, and voted for him in 2016. And then in 2024 when inflation hit a bunch of millennials and zoomers, they did the exact same thing.
Until a critical mass figures out we're all complaining about the same root causes, we're going to keep getting a demagogue elected.
It's an uncomfortable truth that doesn't align with their reality. They would have to accept that they're wrong
I disagree that that's what's going on in their heads. I think it's more like being Catholic and finding out a priest is touching kids. You are able to convince yourself that that behaviour is the act of an individual, and has nothing to do with your beliefs. This is the power of religion over skepticism: it's able to convince a bunch of people to put blinders on, and only focus on the common goal. In Set Theory terms, it lets the group focus on the intersection of their beliefs, not the union. All the good parts are where we agree, any bad parts are peripheral and irrelevant.
This is the part that "both sides" do. Like it or not, this is just inherently human behaviour.
That's the theme that MAGA just doesn't get, and why the "both sides" arguments never hold water. I don't like anyone in the mega-wealthy class who believes the law is for sale, including the Trump family. MAGA claims to have the same distain for the "elite class", but always makes a special carve-out just for Trump and his loyalists. I don't get it.
It kinda mirrors the difference between monotheism and atheism: if you made a list of all the gods both groups don't believe in, the lists would look awfully similar, differing only by one. But good luck making that argument to a god-fearing Christian.
Uh, no, you don't do anything to them because this is clearly an expression of free speech reflecting the environment these kids live in, and clearly not a threat towards anyone whatsoever.
The only thing we need to do in response is fix the environment we've created where children think of school shootings so casually that they would make something like this.