hairofadog

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by hairofadog 13d ago
A peek inside: https://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2026/09/advance-tour-of...
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Don't go to the shoe shop to buy plates(naomialderman.substack.com)
15 points by hairofadog 7mo ago|0 comments
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
The question isn't whether they've been successful in hiding information. It's whether their goal is to hide information (or I would say, to control the narrative), which it clearly is. This is why the administration has gone
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
TikTok is hugely influential, and the younger people they're trying to influence don't read newspapers and don't hang out on X or Instagram (both of which also censor certain political content). https://www.npr.org
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Amazing to me how many of the issues that influenced swing voters in the past three presidential elections were nothing more than right-wing fever dreams.
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
No doubt the distraction from the Epstein files is a contributing factor, but it’s a mistake to think he won’t do incredibly harmful things simply because they seem insane and without purpose to us, who grew up post World War II. His decisi
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
It really is. We’ve put children with emotional problems in charge of the U.S. military and economy. Shameful and heartbreaking. I hope we can recover and rebuild alliances but I think that will be a multigenerational task.
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
They’re violating the U.S. constitution and committing crimes daily.
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Thanks. I appreciate your comments in this thread.
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
I'm hopeful that'll be the case. But can SECDEF (it's still called the Department of Defense, regardless of stationery changes) hand-pick the unit commanders and military officers?
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
The Secretary of Defense is a loyalist and will likely put people in charge of the operation who are on board with the mission to suppress protest. There's also just the chaos angle. From the same New Yorker article I linked elsewhere
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Two interesting bits I've read/seen on this recently: Can Trump Really Use the Insurrection Act? https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-trump-really-use-... > The other point that I want to make
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
I've been amazed that US CEOs haven't pushed back harder on the administration due to the threat of the rest of the world leaving US services like these. I know the goverment has a lot of power over even the largest companies, but
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
I'm asking this in good faith, but what can they do? The Trump administration is absolutely salivating for armed pushback. I think the best they can logistically do is refuse to help ICE (as local police are doing in some cities).
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
There's no evidence of noncitizens voting in meaningful numbers, but I'm aware that's a popular right-wing talking point.
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Really can't tell if you're joking or not
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
I think it's going to have to get very very much worse before it gets better. Too many people have no idea what's happening, and too many of the people who do know what's happening (including quite a few in Democratic leaders
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
> the left thinks that the right wants a power grab to stop left from coming back It would probably help if Trump didn't fantasize about this publicly all the time > the right thinks that if they don't keep their power now,
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
It's both the fact that they're going after people here legally and even U.S. citizens , and the brutality and unconstitutional nature of their tactics. They are literally going house to house kicking in doors without a warrant
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
The "interal bleeding" thing is so unbelievably ludicrous. He got a bruise because he was lurching for the car while juggling his phone in one hand and a gun in the other. She was clearly neither trying to, nor succeeding in &quot
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Let's say a third party was elected and started implementing certain policies. What would they have to do for you to call them fascist? Fascism is an actual thing, after all, so there must be some line that would separate fascism fro
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
That's not what's happening. There wouldn't be the backlash if they were primarily deporting "the worst of the worst", as they promised, using due process. Instead they're targeting everyone, including people h
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
They didn't attract the same publicity because * They didn't jack up the budget to a size larger than most countries' militaries * They didn't target primarily Republican cities and states out of vengeance for how those
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Right, that seems to me like an important distinction. Other people in this thread have said things like "Well you can draw people in a bikini with a pencil without their permission! Should we ban pencils, too!?" Honestly if someo
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
Real question as I don't use ChatGPT or Gemini: They publish images of women in bikinis or underwear in response to user prompts? Where do they publish them? I'm looking at Gemini and I don't see any sort of social aspect to
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
As you migth expect, their position is contradictory, working in their favor either way. They have passed bills making it legal to run over people as long as those people aren't members of the tribe: G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
The fourth amendment of the constitution says > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
They have released a version of the masked agent's bodycam. Seems to be another Rorschach test: they released it because they think it's exculpatory, but to my eyes it's even worse. He's engaged in a petty argument with
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
I saw your comment, vouched for the comment you're referring to, and it reappeared. I don't have a full understanding of how vouching works; it could be that I was one of several, or that it was only coincidental that it reappeare
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by hairofadog 8mo ago
No, she didn't.

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