"Oh no they've destroyed the magna carta with their magic camera lasers, we can't have democracy any more! Sorry guys, those are just the rules..."

I mean, if anybody would know about buffoonery (political or otherwise) it would be Kash Patel.

Even this is giving Rubio too much credit.

Not a smart one. I mean, wittingly or not, Trump is an asset to Putin's government, but this is not something anybody wanting *not* to look like a Russian agent would do.

On the bright side, at least they both have their shirts on.

JD Vance proving that indeed, stupid is as stupid does.

Trump graduated in '68, over half a century ago. This is not a recent phenomenon. If anything it was probably worse back then, before Affirmative Action and DEI programmes.

To be fair, printing money and burning it would have no actual fiscal consequence, so this would be functionally the same as doing nothing.

Goonhammer did an extreme version of this a few years back. Every player had to come up with the worst army list possible and they allocated the lists at random. Those lists were truly heinous.

This is very bad news. Nobody should be taking Haidt seriously on this. As so often, see @ifbookspod.bsky.social for their episode on his latest book.

Probably because the other two largest European NATO powers are Germany and the UK, and the historical resonance of war with either of them is rather different from a US perspective.

Not all convinced that monetising grotesquely offensive content and the tools to create it is morally preferable to giving it away for free.

It's crazy how you're making this sound like it's some kind of compromise. Elon Musk has *monetised* the machine for generating images of child sexual abuse (among other horrifying applications).

Or just "monetises image generator"

My "Fujitsu is not a parasite" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

"Find a reason" they're not going to have to look very hard now are they?

I think one of the problems we have is lots of fictional stories follow a single line of descent (sometimes with the same actors playing people generations apart) that can imply this stuff is more important and more concentrated than it actually is. We really don't grasp how many ancestors we have.

In fact China doesn't even come close. I've openly travelled to China multiple times as a Political Science editor and didn't give anywhere near this much info to get a visa.