You can’t assuage bullies.

2014: Russia occupies Crimea. “Oh well, there isn’t much you can do. Just let Russia have it and they’ll be content”

2022: Russia occupies more of Ukraine. “Oh well, there isn’t much you can do. Just let Russia have it and they’ll be content”

Anyone wanna place bets for when Russia comes for the rest? Because they will come for the rest.

I work in IT. Trust me, it’s well beyond a lot of people.

History is littered with cautionary tales. We never learn.

Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it;
Those who do study history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.

You’re a modern day Chamberlain. He thought Hitler would stop if they appeased him by letting him have part of Czechoslovakia.

I don’t need to tell you it didn’t work. Appeasing bullies never works.

If you give Putin part of Ukraine he will come for the rest in a few years. We already saw this with Crimea.

Democracy isn’t dying. It’s actively being taken apart.

We have tons of excess. The problem is it’s hoarded by a small tyrannical group of psychopaths bent on increasing their wealth at the cost of everyone else.

Once Musk has infiltrated the government’s payment system it won’t matter what the courts decide. He’ll just shut off the money. He knows that’s where the power is.

And what are they gonna do? They’ve dismantled the justice dept and they can cut funds of anyone else who challenges them.

The stupid thing is Trump thinks he’s in control, but it’s Musk who will have the power to fuck him royally. And Trump will be the one who gave it to him.

If you’re in Japan, it’ll show the regular name. The change is only in America.

I feel like the answer is here somewhere, close at hand.

If Congress doesn’t say it’s okay, it’s not official.

Absolutely. Resist. They don’t have to take your rights if you willingly give them up.

And actual privacy protection.

If Elon controls all the government payments, it doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not. He can just stop paying them all. He can stop paying the judges, and paying for courthouses. He would have near complete control of the government.

And Trump, like an absolute moron, is letting him do it. He has no idea that Elon will have all the power, and he’ll be left holding nothing. He doesn’t even see it coming.

It’s a solution to Trump not owning a hotel and golf course in Gaza.

Yes but were those polls taken on Twitter?! That’s the only valid poll to Elon.

It’s already started. They’ve already started the war, but right now it’s just civil war between the MAGAts and immigrants. Very quickly it’s going to expand to to others. They’ve already removed women’s bodily autonomy, they’ve been attacking transgender people for months, and they just created their religious task force to ‘defend’ Christianity. Expect attacks on those groups to ramp up in the coming weeks.

And marry your beautiful wife, Peg.