Indeed, and losing plus being unable to accept that you are a loser is what seems to drive them. I have no doubt he would fully enjoy dictatorship if he were able to successfully obtain it but let’s be real, there are plenty of stories of leaders who want to be dictators and who try and fail. Napoleon is a great example. Although I guess it depends what you consider failure at fascism… Is there a set amount of time one has to control a nation? Personally I would say success is gaining power over a nation and remaining in power until you die and then successfully passing rule to your designated heir. That would mean Napoleon, Hitler, Saddam… all failures. Successful dictators? The Kim family. Stalin. Castro. Tons and tons of others, not going for an exhaustive list here. Another measure of success I suppose is how much harm does the dictator cause while in power? By that measure, Hitler would be a dictator and Trump I guess would be too. I think it all comes down to how can we mitigate the damage while he’s here, get him out as quickly as possible and then endure his ideology does not persist after he’s gone. We’re not doing so great on the first two but I am pretty confident the third will be easy because he is self-destructing spectacularly right now.

They can certainly keep trying loopholes and no question he has been allowed to get away with way more than any citizen, let alone president, should. But this is ‘Better Call Saul’ style lawfare, it seems very clever and kind of shocking that he can get away with it but gravity always kicks in eventually. His former biographer Michael Wolff has spent a shitload of time w him and I think correctly has said Trump is not some kind of evil genius, he’s not Hitler he is a Hitler FAN, and thus, quite stupid and quite crazy. He is chaos. And while you can get by on that for a little while, eventually it collapsed and everyone associated with him ends up dragged into the abyss. It’s possible he may walk away or pass away or whatever without consequences but make no mistake… He is and always has been, a deeply damaged and mentally ill person who cannot help breaking everything he touches. This guy burned away his dad’s fortune, self destructed a reality TV dynasty, served as president and STILL managed to become the first president to be charged w a felony and then he ran on exposing a pedophile network that HE WAS INVOLVED IN. Do the math man, apples still fall from trees and Trump ain’t magical. We may be about to witness the most spectacular and public failure in human history.

Hey man even John Gotti eventually faced the music

I mean, he barely won, I wouldn’t call that a landslide election. And Americans have been standing up left right and center all while still working our jobs and raising our kids… I’d call that pretty badass and I am still proud of us despite our shortcomings

Ya but that’s not something to gloss over. A true dictator would never lose. That one guy called him a pedophile protector straight to his face lol and wasn’t even fired So ya, my money is democracy outlives this fat sack of crap

Lightning rarely strikes twice and even John Gotti eventually went down. Whether he faces the consequences he DESERVES that’s another story even prison is too nice for that piece of shit… Keep in mind too, Trump CLEARLY has a severe personality disorder, I doubt he has been happy a single day in his life because ppl like that aren’t capable of feeling happiness or love so, either way, he will die a very unhappy man, that I can guarantee you. Only question is whether we, the people he has harmed, get the justice we deserve. We shall see.

Hah! Good luck with that… He loses in court like 90% of the time. He’s going to end up like the dude in South Korea.

Well hopefully those planning curriculums learn from this. Until then, computers at school and books at home. Turning luddite home schooling is not gonna help

Ya i mean i’ve been off social media and youtube for years and still get targeted advertising until i started using proactive privacy measures. So i would not bet against you.

I think you’re probably right too. A lot of this shit sounds scary but as we can see, these tech overlords are exceptionally well-funded but equally delusional about what they can accomplish.

Fuck these people

Ya i dont want to go all Alex Jones on this but seems the same number of people would have to be ‘in on it’ for either a spiriting away or a murder. Paperwork can be falsified. Ghislaines can be tricked. I looked into where Epstein is buried and given his faith there would have been strict burial preps that require certain groups to participate but there are no records they did. Strangely enough his gravesite is unknown, although there are probably more practical reasons for that…

Not saying I think there’s any THERE there just that’s where i go first rather than murder

Agreed, I’ve always followed the rule of if i’m gonna say anything, pretend everyone i know is in the same room, would I still say that thing and be proud of it?

Honestly the more of us who are generally sane ppl who contribute to society they fuck with, the better because it just makes them look rediculous.

That said, if I’m about to get punched in the face, I’d prefer to know if its coming so I can prepare.

Honestly, him still being alive and living free somewhere seems much more plausible than secret prison murder

it’s tough because we need to get the word out to people to advertise events like No kings and share info on ICE, most ppl don’t have the time between working 3 jobs and raising kids to properly research open source options. Those of us who know better have to reach out to those who don’t using their medium.

I always use VPN at bare minimum so I’m not personally worried but I know a lot of ppl who are more into activism than tech privacy who I wanna keep informed.

I only have a need for RAG and it works well, wouldn’t say I need w copilot either. Everyone probably has some use case for this stuff but it’s gonna be different for everyone, the basic llm conversation model it’s really just a stepped up interactive Google

Off with their heads! GO self-hosted, go local… toss the rest in the trash can before this crap gets a foothold and fully enshitifies

Wow, so utter incompetence and petty infighting then?

As everyone expected but her

I have a feeling this is not going to go well for them…