IMO, eventually, all the inconsistencies, compounded bugs, added bloat from copypasta code, and "ai" slop added to non-FOSS OSes and software will reach a critical point, where nothing commercial will work or perform the functions they were designed to do; but it will still be able to get online, mostly because the boxes that make internet actually work all run on Unix/Linux.
332/365 "Sbalding" #dailyphoto
from a loading zone behind the office, I can't tell if designated trash place (most likely) or donation spot (slim possibility), but this fellow has seen better days
Never forget when they said the quiet part out loud at CPAC 2021 on a stage shaped in a white supremacist symbol.
Timothy Snyder creates a helpful lineup of statements Trump made at his fascist hatefest at Madison Square Gardens and statements made in the same venue at the Nazi rally of the American German Bund in 1939.
He concludes,
"If you like, see if you can tell which is which.
Once you have sorted it out, see if that makes anything better.
Donald Trump is working within a tradition, and he knows it."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/21
https://snyder.substack.com/p/rallies-at-madison-square-garden
Commenting on Trump's bloody fantasy about placing Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, Lucian K. Truscott notes that Candidate Bone Spurs dodged the draft and doesn't even know how to fire a rifle himself. Then he adds
"In the closing days of this campaign, Trump is defaulting to threats of violence and arrest."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/20
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/candidate-bone-spurs-threatens-liz
"Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, one of Trump’s most gleeful supporters, someone with troubling links to both China and Russia, has set up a one-stop shop: Joining false claims about the election with networks of fascists who’ll take to the streets."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/19
"In doing so, he will erode the democratic assumptions that undergird our current constitutional order. And he will have the total loyalty of a Republican Party that itself is twisting and abusing the counter-majoritarian features of the American system to undermine and unravel democracy in the states it controls."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/18
"Free of the guardrails that kept him in place the first time, affirmed by the Supreme Court and backed by allies and apparatchiks in the conservative movement, Trump will merge the office of the presidency with himself. He will shake it from its moorings in the Constitution and rebuild it as an instrument of his will, wielded for his friends and against his enemies."
~ Jamelle Bouie
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
/17
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/opinion/donald-trump-kamala-harris-election-power.html