I’m going through the reciepts of this interview rn. Its absolutely wild how like… in love Trump is with Mamdani.

Like this is *w *i *l *d. The media trying to do all these gotchas on Mamdani and Trump the one coming to his defense.

Trump understands what power looks like, and this is something that liberals and some on the left, have never understood. Its how and why Trump has always been able to get away with the level of disrespect and abuse he provides his allies, and yet is a supplicant to others power in so-many-ways.

I mean Mamdani gets asked directly about the way he called Trump a fascist. Standing next to Trump. After getting called a socialist. And Trump just g_l_a_z_e_s him. Its all wrestling kayfabe. Its all imaginary. Its TV. Its a fugazi. Its shit talking. Its that when someone else who can raise their own stature recognizes you, that raises your stature.

Fucking wild…

Trump will literally just believe whoever the last person that talks to him is.

If you could surround them with the right people you could steer them anywhere.

So… about social security…

Also

Go on…

Bing has its uses

Porn?

this interview:

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/39081496

Is a great place to start. The journalist being interviewed was detained by ice and does such a phenomenal job communicating why it matters.

We’re gonna need to bring Bubba in to evaluate…

Ahh. So advocating that service members follow the UCMJ is sedition.

No that was masking during and since the pandemic.

I mean I’ve worked directly with ACLU lawyers on this matter, and have organized with the original members of the appeal for redress.

I went so far as to organize this panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsrwIJcxYWY&t=529s

Where we brought on lawyers, historians, other veterans, and political commentators, all of whom had specific experience (as in, had been involved in a military court in some manner) around the relationship around disobeying illegal orders.

And yeah. I stand by the point I made. As a service member you are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.

Let F be a geometric object and let C be the set of counterexamples.

F is a True Fractal ⟺ F satisfies all properties P₁, P₂, …, Pₙ

Where for each counterexample c ∈ C that satisfies P₁…Pₙ: Define Pₙ₊₁ := “is not like c”

The definition recurses infinitely as new counterexamples emerge.

Corollary: Coastlines exhibit fractal properties at every scale… except they don’t, because [insert new property], except that’s also not quite right because [insert newer property], except actually [insert even newer property]…

□ (no true scotsman continues fractally)

They said you was hung!

Words have meanings.

The world in 2025:

Some infinites are larger than other infinites.

I’ve only ever heard it called fascist by people at both a) have no idea what iran is or b) have no idea what a fascist is.

I just finished with it and its terrible in this regard. There is no disambiguation between “just the facts” and the author/ narrators political opinions and identity. Not to say those opinions are wrong or invalid but its incredibly important to separate them and to clearly identify which is which, which even the most amateur journalist understands.

Its the framing that’s the problem, and its often what a framing leaves out that ends up being more telling. You might re-watch it with a lens for what is missing rather than what is said, and honestly, its not my job to make the gaps in your political education apparent.

Just because something agrees with your bias, this doesn’t make it correct.

Minute 1:30, it calls them a “fascist dictatorship”…

Look, I’m not going to apologize for Iran in any manner. But calling them fascist isn’t, its not quite right. Fascism is a form of political identity. It has a specific meaning. The regime in Iran might be terrible, but its not fascist, per se…

Also the comments on this video are wild.

This video is hard to suffer through. I’d love to hear a deep dive, but I can’t stomach this.

Its not the best production value, but I helped put this together last year:

https://youtu.be/HsrwIJcxYWY?t=529

Its literally your job to refuse an illegal order as a US service member.