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  • I don’t think that’s fair in this case, she’s been killing it. She’s been drawing hard lines and meeting Trump blow for blow…

    As for what’s important, she got concessions so far. Trump got to claim a win, but she let Trump use a previously negotiated deal while getting the US to commit to cracking down on the flow of guns into Mexico

    And now she’s fighting on the bullshit culture war stuff… But you know Mexico speaks a different language and isn’t changing the name on their side, right?

    The threats against Google are a threat to crack down on a massive US tech company, which is probably (undoubtedly) related to the threat of delayed tarrifs

    She’s playing the game. If only the liberals would wake up and realize the game has changed too


  • I’m cautiously optimistic they they won’t… Not because I have delusions about them growing some integrity suddenly, but because it means giving up all of their power. Their job would literally be to legally justify Trump’s actions post hock if they give up their authority

    They’ve spent years stacking the courts to legislate from the bench, they’ve pushed their own power to the limits. They’re (mostly) not doing it for Trump, they’re doing it for power and their backers. Plus there’s still some neo liberals on the court who will put the process above all else

    There’s still the question of what happens if the executive branch just continues to ignore them, but i imagine their common backers want some kind of rudder on the Trump/Elon missile


  • They can and will track this

    Normally, 100%. The US government has strict opsec and cyber security procedures, so even if someone gets in a neglected door they better have covered their tracks well

    But these are a bunch of complete newbies with no oversight. They’re not doing even the most basic compliance… They’re completely green, they don’t know what they don’t know yet. The oldest of them is a new grad, one is a high school grad. They’re also adversarial to the people who do the actual cyber security

    That being said, I wouldn’t take chances






  • I’m pretty sure it was a political message, just like Samuel L Jackson dressing up as “Uncle” Sam to narrate the show and one of the first lines being “the revolution will be televised, but you picked the wrong guy”

    Kendrick Lamar packs layers and symbolism into his work… The guy won a Pulitzer prize for one of his albums and destroyed Drake’s career and reputation in another, so much so that Drake sued everyone involved except for him. None of it is unintentional, one of his diss tracks uses nothing but the titles of Drake’s songs

    I mean, dude choreographed out the PlayStation controller buttons as he rapped about America being a rigged game… The amount of symbolism in that performance is insane, there’s no way the dancers being black wasn’t a choice in service to his message

    The man is savage when he tears into someone… Trump literally left just after, read into that how you like



  • Well it’s signed idiot of the East, but…

    It takes a relatable concept, combines it with a couple Korean tropes from manhua, and does it all with fresh art. It’s self referential too

    Now look at it in context. Clearly this is a webcomic artist, it’s not badly done, but it looks like it was done quickly. It has a message - “sorry, I didn’t have anything special to say, I’ll share the feeling of getting caught doomscrolling”

    Based on the name and the comic, the artist seems to have a self depreciating sense of humor… It seems in line with that

    It’s stupid. It’s layered. The layers are stupid. But it’s stupid and layered on purpose with a clear message. That’s art

    It reminds me of a video I saw today where someone bought a pineapple and put it on an exhibit for a laugh, and came back to find a glass case around it. He asked his professor about it, and the professor complimented the way the glass case pressed down on the pineapple leaves.

    The guy then owned up to it all, the venue decided to just leave it as is… But they said they had no idea who put the case on it





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    It’s not about egg prices. It’s a shorthand for inflation, it’s nailing Trump supporters down to this one metric

    These people are divorced from truth, but they want eggs. It’s hard to ignore how much eggs cost. It’s apparent how the egg section is half empty

    This is a drum beat for people to look through their lying eyes, to pay attention to the world around them despite the lies