Why doesn’t Biden just have Trump and the conservative SC judges shot for treason? It’d be an “official act” and therefore OK according to conservatives, after all. It’d make the world in general a better place, and also help stop the US sliding (further…) into fascism

Aww yeah they definitely deserve accessible options

That looks great, and your cat clearly likes the perch ❤️

Maybe it’d like a hangout spot even higher up? I saw a video a while ago where somebody had made a “cat path” high up on their wall with some sort of cylinders maybe 15cm (6") in diameter and max 45cm (18") long wrapped in twine, at maybe 1m (3’) intervals or maybe even a bit more, so that the “path” led to a hangout spot high up in the corner of the room. Of course you’d need to build that in a spot where the occasional falling kitty won’t land on your collection of priceless Ming vases and live land mines, or your 99" 4K OLED TV.

Wouldn’t even need all that much material. Could maybe use pieces of PVC pipe for the “path”, twine, that hammoc or whatever platform you’d want to have, and then the… uh, what’s the word in English… fasteners? Everything you need to attach all that stuff to the wall.

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Ah right I get you, a “how is he still kicking” instead of “why hasn’t someone fed him to a wood chipper”

But! “Abysmal” comes from “abysm”:

abysm

| əˈbɪz(ə)m |

noun literary

an abyss: the abysm from which nightmares crawl.

Most pleasant and humane conservative.

I keep repeating this, but “moderate” conservatives are mythical creatures much like unicorns or ethical billionaires.

Every conservative either outright supports authoritarianism, or would be fine with it as long as it’s their side in power because of course the leopards won’t eat their faces. “Moderates” will always choose co-operation with literal fascists over co-operation with the left because they ultimately have fewer ideological disagreements with them – just look at what’s happening here in Europe with all the “moderates” lining up to kiss Meloni’s ring (remember that her FdI party is literally a descendant of the original Fascist Party and multiple of its members including Meloni have voiced admiration of Mussolini)

Clearly “the system” isn’t capable of handling the threat of right-wing extremism and something needs to be done, but anybody murking Trump would probably make things worse, not better. He’d become a conservative martyr, and they could point to his death and say “see, we told you they’re violent” and use it to deepen hatred and oppression. This is what happened after the failed assassination attempt on Robert Fico

Whether that manifesto’s “reliable”, well, we’ll have to see. That recent immunity move by the SC is already a big step in the direction that Project 2025 wants to take the US in with their “unitary executive theory” bullshit – everything doesn’t hinge on Trump.

Far as Trump’s disavowals go, I’ll believe it when I see it – that man lies as easily as he breathes. I’ll be happily surprised if it does turn out he wasn’t lying, but that’s not going to be my default assumption. And it’s not like Project 2025 hinges on his enthusiastic support of the Project, just its goals – if Trump gets elected he is the one choosing which recommendations he’ll follow, and I don’t find it very believable that he wouldn’t be interested in eg. expanding executive power.

Lastly, that “Washington Post report” is another one of those vague articles featuring “according to sources familiar”.

That’s going to be what they publish every time the sources don’t want anyone to know it was them, but it’s not like the reporters don’t know their sources or don’t vet them –this “anonymous source bad” trope frankly reeks of the classic populist Lying press / Lügenpresse rhetoric. I really don’t understand how people think things should work if anonymous sources are bad

However, this does not apply to US soil. One of the benefits of state sovereignty is that federal armed forces can’t operate on US soil

From the Project 2025 wiki page:

In November 2023, The Washington Post reported that deploying the military for domestic law enforcement under the Insurrection Act of 1807 would be an “immediate priority” upon a second Trump inauguration in 2025. That aspect of the plan was being led by Jeffrey Clark, a contributor to the project and a former official in the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ). Clark is a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, a Project 2025 partner. The plan reportedly includes directing the DOJ to pursue those considered by Trump as disloyal or a political adversary

Oh yeah, extensions which make them non-regular definitely can make it possible, but just because it’s now somewhat possible with some regex engines doesn’t mean it’s a good idea

On pages that reader mode supports, you should see the icon on the right side of the address bar. Here’s an example from one of my tabs:

Damn, it’s a squid-eat-squid world

Oh yeah they definitely have uses, but there’s a real tendency for people to go a bit crazy with them. Complex regexen aren’t exactly readable, there’s all kinds of fun performance gotchas, there’s sometimes other tools/algorithms that are more suitable for the task, and sometimes people try to use them to eg. parse HTML because they don’t know that it is literally impossible to use regular expressions to parse languages that aren’t regular

Also National Socialism means they were socialists, much like the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democratic republic.

It just shows a total lack of understanding of what the NSDAP platform was. Nazi Germany was a corporatist (in the political science sense) and authoritarian capitalist country, and they eg. specifically privatized a lot of functions that had been public before, absolutely loathed the idea of welfare or supporting “unworthy” people in any way, and were quite enthusiastically supported by business interests starting from their early years. Socialism, ie. social ownership of the means of production and strong public services, is about as opposite as can be to what the economics of fascism are, not to mention the social side. Fascists literally murdered sick or infirm people rather than support them, because weakness has to be weeded out of society.

Like this contemporary caricature puts it, the NSDAP – the National Socialist German Workers’ Party – presented itself as the “Socialist Workers’ Party” when appealing to workers, and as the “National German Party” when appealing to “financially solvent circles”.

All of this is just completely beyond many conservatives’ capability to internalize – understanding any of that would mean they’d have to think some very uncomfortable thoughts about their own ideology, and the vast majority of them are fundamentally incapable of that sort of self-reflection.

Hey at least your brain starts working eventually, some of us aren’t that lucky 😅

That sort of intellectual dishonesty just really fucking activates my almonds. Like, I have absolutely no problem with ignorance, because not knowing something doesn’t mean you’re stupid or let alone malicious, just that you haven’t had an opportunity to learn about it, but this sort of “well I looked into it and turns out that black is white and up is down” twaddle is just… argh.

The reality of what Project 2025 is about is on full public display (they even have their own domain) and it’s so blatantly obvious that it’s essentially “institutionalized Trumpism”. Yeah there’s apparently been some friction lately, but anybody who thinks those people don’t fully back Trump is lying to themselves and others so much that it’s not even funny.