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Once Kennedy was in at HHS, the lobotomies were sure to follow.

Fine, I won't complain when Yudkowski's followers take matters into their own hands.

How else are they going to be able to brag about their 90 trillion daily AI users?

And likes/is liked by his spouse.

Only according to the Castillan occupiers. Not the Catalans who live there.

Independent Media is basically anything that's not owned by Disney/ABC, Viacom, NBC Universal, CBS, Newscorp (Fox), or Warner Bros.

In theory, on the internet, anybody can set up their own website and release their material.

But in terms of sheer scale, every online punk zine combined doesn't have half the reach of each of the 'independent' websites funded by some natural gas lobbying firm or ghoulish right wing family (other than the Murdochs) or supplement company sold exclusively through a pyramid scheme.

We're gonna have a great leap forward, folks. "The Greatest Leap Forward", people are calling it. Now that I've liberated our economy we're gonna make everything here at home, some of you literally making things at home. Backyard steel mills, backyard chip fabricators.

We're gonna get rid of the pests, too. We're getting ahead of this bird flu, Bobby Kennedy, RFK, he tells me he's gonna Smash the Sparrows. We're not gonna have another flu like we did under Sleepy Joe.

They probably were intending/expecting arrests. There are probably protesters who didn't go into the library because they specifically don't want a criminal record (especially if they're on a visa or some such).

And you can see in the comments here how angry the arrests are getting some people.

That's the goal of a lot of nonviolent protest. Get your allies loud about it and split some moderates away from the authorities that they hadn't really thought of as "the bad guys" before.

If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party...

My man, there was room for hard-right current Republicans Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney. You know what their support brought to the ticket last November? Two votes in Wyoming.

How did the company named after the thing Sauron used to communicate with/spy on Saruman lose its moral compass?

A nepo baby, of course. They're famously really good at everything. That's why they're always getting hired to high up positions, right?

The VC guys who radicalized themselves in group chats with Humpty Dumpty, Peter Thiel, and Curtis Yarvin have come to like him.

But it's because over the last decade or so their libertarianism curdled into fascism.