orclev

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Essentially Congress got tired of having to do actual work because it was taking time away from them soliciting bribes from corporations, which is the profitable part of the job, so they abdicated most of their responsibilities to the president.

Constitutionally the President doesn't really get to do much except work out the administrative details of everything Congress has ordered him to do. Since Congress abandoned that responsibility the president has a lot more control.

Trump still doesn't actually have the authority to do most of what he's doing, but he's abusing emergency war time regulations as justification despite this not actually being an emergency or war time. Everybody is just too chicken shit to call him on his bullshit though because then they'd have to own up to all the times previous presidents over the last few decades abused the same loopholes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Wait you mean the thing everybody with more than two brain cells to rub together has been saying since Trump started talking about tariffs? No way!

Once again the entirely predictable outcome has come to pass and MAGA are shocked that reality continues to ignore their fervent delusions.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is interesting in a "how far can you launch a pumpkin using an air canon" way, not a "you only need to cool this down to -40C to make it super conduct" way. It's a fun experiment with nearly zero practical purpose outside of some very niche edge cases. Wearable computing is probably the only realistic one at the moment for a CPU that you can stretch a little and runs incredibly slow.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Ah, so homegrown scum. I kind of lump them under the mega corporation header though as the goal for them is to eliminate regulations and oversight so they can pillage to their hearts content. Really trying to speed run that late stage capitalism dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Going to be real interesting to see where that money is coming from. My bet is some combination of the worst of the US political "thinktanks" like the federalist society, Russian assets, and mega corporations like Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But this doesn't answer the most important question, is it a didgeriphone or a saxodoo?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (10 children)

It's been what, less than half a year and the shine has already worn off him? If anything good could possibly come from this complete trash fire of an executive maybe it will finally convince some voters that the Republicans aren't actually working for them.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The 5th and 6th amendments say otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The problem is that most colleges, at least in the US, aren't really about expanding knowledge, they're about checking items off a list. The vast majority of your required coursework isn't supposed to be teaching anything, it's to pad out your hours and inflate your tuition. And for that privilege you'll be paying enough money every year to force the average person into multiple decades worth of debt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Is it still passing the Turing test if you don't think either one is human?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I agree with everything you said except this:

And of course she lost, because Trump did have an ambitious plan to transform America, and he convinced Americans his plan would leave them better off, and Americans looked at how they were better off under Trump's first term than they were under Biden and made the obvious choice.

Trump never had a plan ambitious or otherwise. He has always been inherently reactionary, and what he does do unprompted is always a complete failure. Americans were demonstrably not better off under Trump's first term, at best they weren't any worse off, but nothing Trump did his first term helped the American public.

Trump has spent his entire political career being manipulated by various groups, be it project 2025, Putin, or Rupert Murdoch by way of Fox News. He's a giant toddler perpetually throwing a tantrum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While you are right lets not pretend a Democrat majority Congress would have changed a damn thing. Democrats have been economically conservative for decades now. The only thing the two parties really disagree on is social policies. Both parties are perfectly fine with an oligarchy running things.

 
view more: next ›