I mean, it's what I've heard people call it my whole life. Not to be an ass, but you could just politely tell me that and interact with my post. I'd prefer that.
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6912https://www.wired.com/story/everything- ... tatorship/
"IN PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s second term, everything is content. Videos of immigration raids are shared widely on X by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), conspiracy theories dictate policy, and prominent right-wing podcasters and influencers have occupied high-level government roles. The second Trump administration is, to put it bluntly, very online.
Trump and his supporters have long trafficked in—and benefited from—misinformation and conspiracy theories, leveraging them to build visibility on social media platforms and set the tone of national conversations. During his first term, Trump was famous for announcing the administration’s positions and priorities via tweet. In the years since, social media platforms have become friendlier environments for conspiracy theories and those who promote them, helping them spread more widely. Trump’s playbook has adjusted accordingly.
Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, says that social media, particularly right-wing social media ecosystems, are no longer just a way for Trump to control conversations and public perception. The administration, he says, is now actively making decisions and shaping policy based primarily on how they'll be perceived online. Their priority is what right-wing communities care about—regardless of whether it's real."
"IN PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s second term, everything is content. Videos of immigration raids are shared widely on X by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), conspiracy theories dictate policy, and prominent right-wing podcasters and influencers have occupied high-level government roles. The second Trump administration is, to put it bluntly, very online.
Trump and his supporters have long trafficked in—and benefited from—misinformation and conspiracy theories, leveraging them to build visibility on social media platforms and set the tone of national conversations. During his first term, Trump was famous for announcing the administration’s positions and priorities via tweet. In the years since, social media platforms have become friendlier environments for conspiracy theories and those who promote them, helping them spread more widely. Trump’s playbook has adjusted accordingly.
Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, says that social media, particularly right-wing social media ecosystems, are no longer just a way for Trump to control conversations and public perception. The administration, he says, is now actively making decisions and shaping policy based primarily on how they'll be perceived online. Their priority is what right-wing communities care about—regardless of whether it's real."
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6913I'm just being playfully sarcastic, apologies if it came across as more than that, I wouldn't read too much more into it.Frankie99 wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:19 amI mean, it's what I've heard people call it my whole life. Not to be an ass, but you could just politely tell me that and interact with my post. I'd prefer that.
Total_douche, MSW, LICSW (lulz)
Re: Politics
6914Oh, fuck I know. Those new things that connect the lid of recyclable bottles to… the bottle.kicker_of_elves wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 9:05 amTell him the libs demoted Pluto; he'll lose his shit.Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 8:12 am Can someone with Truth Social account @ Thump and tell him Pluto is no longer a planet. Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll get distracted demanding it’s reinstated as hashtag #therearenineplanets.
Woke gone mad!
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.
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6916https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-se ... s-revealed
Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis — these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out “illegals,” but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show.
A Border Patrol official outraged by ICE’s conduct has leaked to me this and other documents providing an unprecedented glimpse into ICE’s undeclared activities across the country. Many of these operations and their codenames have not been previously reported.
A 15-page long document, marked “LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE,” details 21 different “major” ICE operations resulting, so it says, in 6,852 apprehensions since June. From Operation Abracadarba, a covert effort to develop informants among immigrants in detention, to Operation Benchwarmer, which alone spans the deployment of 2,000 “intelligence assets” across the country, the document gives a sense of how aggressively ICE is scouring neighborhoods and developing sources to spy on immigrants and Americans alike.
Re: Politics
6917There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.
That always ends well.
That always ends well.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.
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6918Is anyone surprised that I.C.E. is the fucking Stasi?
I'd rather be throwing darts.
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6919I was reading somewhere the response to an invasion of Greenland has the potential to cripple the US for quite some time. We'd lose NATO, but then the EU would shut down all our air bases, call in our debt, seize our corporate headquarters and freeze their bank accounts, and cut the US off from western trade. Considering that mining companies don't think Greenland is worth the expense, because they could go there now and mine it with our agreements with the country, but they can do it cheaper elsewhere, and the fact that we have a military base there already with a military alignment, this is probably the dumbest move any one in history or in the future could make.Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:12 pm There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.
That always ends well.
But the US is motivated by Trump's ego alone, and he's only governed by his own morality, so we'll probably have WWIII where we end up crumbling from the weight of one man's dementia-addled brain being fed by absolute psychopaths.
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6920This made me LOL.Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:12 pm There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.
That always ends well.