They are both beholden to Putin, very likely afraid for their lives and rightfully so. Putin is a billionaire but he also has a state apparatus with global reach behind him that he is intimately familiar with. He has demonstrated repeatedly over the years that he is willing and able to use that apparatus to… make people fall out of windows, etc. And all of this doesn’t even consider the possibility of kompromat - these are all deeply bad people.

I believe Putin is the real mastermind behind everything that is going on and also that he has realized that Trump is of limited value to him in the White House. Trump’s cult gets him in, but he had four years already and really didn’t make a lot of inroads (not to mention his visibly declining health).

So in my opinion, this is Putin shuttling in someone who can be more useful to him. The canary in the coal mine for whether or not this is true will be to see if the infighting everyone is breathlessly predicting ever materializes. I predict it will not. Elon Musk will not end up like Anthony Scaramucci.

Nobody said they are. However, “a great fediverse alternative to Facebook” does not mean, in the minds of most people who might read it: “you could host a website that would serve as a great fediverse alternative to Facebook.”

Why is everything so glacially slow anymore. Fucking do something! I’ve been hearing about the demise of TiKTok for like three YEARS. Die already. Or don’t, I’m just sick of hearing about how it “might close” any fucking day now.

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You know, I never thought I would be praising Fallout for its prescience in predicting the future.

No, they just don’t give a fuck. The vast majority know it’s lies, they just want their side to rule and elections be damned.

How do you call something a “mistake” when you allowed it to continue for four fucking years?

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They despise FDR. Despise is too kind of a word for how they feel about FDR. That makes zero sense.

One would like to think so. The problem is that imagining a right-wing Republican willing to jackboot some motherfuckers is easy; imagining one who wants to out-FDR FDR? Come on.

Why do Putin and the billionaires he shepherds think that all this far-right democracy killing shit is so super duper? I marvel that they never seem to stop and think “this could eventually go badly for me.”

All they have to do is tell them the reason it has to be done is LIBRULS and boom. All anger directed at Nancy Pelosi, all is forgotten.

It should also be mentioned that it wouldn’t be running out if they didn’t cap the taxable income at $168,000. If you make $168,000 a year you pay the same social security tax as every millionaire and billionaire. BuT iTs InSoLvEnT

I just this year set up regular investment (part of my paycheck) into various funds to save for retirement privately.

Social Security got the structure it has after the Great Depression wiped… well, you know. Everyone. Out.

I’m sure your private equity will be run much more responsibly throughout your life though, no need for some big ol’ stupid government to guarantee your retirement or anything. Carry on!

When a woman calls the cops because her abusive SO threatened to kill her, they can’t do anything about it.

haha man this has honestly got to hurt, she licked his asshole clean baby, I mean spotless. And the thanks she gets is Voice of America? lol

He needs to say something to the public. Like “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” I don’t know where I got that from. Probably read it on the Internet or something.

ahaha that’s great

They were in a hurry to get the message out to everyone “the motive remains unknown.” They knew we would be looking to them for guidance on why anyone would kill a filthy rich healthcare CEO notorious for denying care to people. They couldn’t leave us hanging over a few simple spelling errors.

o well