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I appreciate the concern but I doubt I'll be too broken up about the fate of my account on this website when I'm decomposing in a mass grave ten years from now

@BTGBullseye Hey! What is your opinion on the CFPB being gutted by the new US administration so that companies can keep getting away with the shit described in the OP?

Elon Musk's vision for America: (which I suppose is still more rosy than Donald Trump's vision for Europe, but uh yeah this man is not your friend)

idk, he and the woman in the video at least said that their intention was to reassure people. Not sure if that's still their intention now that all masks are off and the right feels invincible enough to not even bother with hiding the goal of reducing the American public to gut flora for any megacorp that licks the emperor's boot. But in case someone out there is still interested in persuasion, mind telling me how the American people are helped by taking away funds to education programs and community health centers for disadvantaged regions and poor families? Mind telling me how Americans are helped by illegally giving a bunch of 20-year old racists access to the personal information of millions of citizens, or how it helps to drain the swamp by giving the richest man on earth control over the agencies overseeing the government contracts that helped make him the richest man on earth, in addition to information about his competitors to those contracts? Mind telling me what could motivate the decision to force the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to only refer to missing trans children by their deadnames and scrub crucial guidelines for identifying and preventing child sexual exploitation subjected to that group? Any motivation besides abject cruelty or sympathy for child molesters from an administration that already tried to put a child molester in charge of the justice department? Mind telling me how it serves the interests of the USA and the free world to gut USAID and weaken worldwide pro-democracy movements while driving beneficiaries of aid programs in the hands of the Chinese People's Republic? Mind telling me how firing independent government watchdogs, weakening government oversight and removing barriers to bribery and foreign influence helps protect the American people against the elites? Would you tolerate it for one second if a Democratic president did these things?... A Democratic president besides Eric Adams of course? Mind telling me if you still believe Project 2025 has no influence on Trump's presidency whatsoever even when its draftees are now placed in key government positions? Mind persuading me that you and the criminals you're defending should be treated as anything other than enemies of the people?

Is this forum still safe to post on at this point? To be quite frank, this website is a mess; the layout is full of overlapping boxes and other unsightly features, the quote button is broken, embeds don't work properly, title pages don't show up half the time. I'm going to assume that this site has not seen any cosmetic upgrades since at least a year, possibly longer. Has it seen regular security upgrades in that period? Is someone able to guarantee that our accounts are as safe as they can be at the moment?

@BTGBullseye The topics I've seen people worry the most over when talking about the next four years since the election are LGBT+ rights, global warming, corporate power and democratic backsliding. Only the first of those is mentioned in any detail by the woman in the insufferable gloatfest of a video you posted, and it’s just to make clear that she’s fully on board and happy about transgender Americans being discriminated against and deprived of access to medical care (which makes the I hope one day you will join us sentiment expressed at the end sound laughably hollow; maybe I’ll consider joining you when you stop treating me like a criminal for wanting to use a public bathroom). Well, I guess there’s also some vague jabbering about protecting the common man from the corrupt corporate elites, and if a mere glance at the number of corporate lobbyists and captains of industry in Trump’s first cabinet wasn't enough to dispel that myth, then I’m sure she still believes it now even after the richest man on earth literally bought himself a government position, the freeze on all federal funding, the attempted reversal of civil rights legislation, the crackdown on workers rights and legal barriers on corporate power, the quid pro quo with big tech companies, the crypto scams etc. There’s a couple of points made here that were already demonstrably bullshit by the time this video was made, from her lies about abortion (people getting arrested for miscarrying or treating patients who miscarry is a staple of any country with draconian abortion laws, and Americans have in fact been prosecuted due to miscarriages, if not for the miscarriage itself being “suspicious” then on charges like child abuse or mishandling of a corpse. Also lawmakers in red states are in fact trying to make it possible to sue people for getting an abortion in a different state) to RFK Jr. joining Trump in order to better protect Americans against big pharma (RFK Jr. made an offer to both parties to suspend his campaign in exchange for a cabinet position and Trump was the one who followed up on it because they are both unprincipled pieces of narcissistic shit, but hey, now that he’s in there I’m sure he’ll at least take on big pharma and make sure Americans can afford medicine again… oh wait), but the thing that I personally find the most baffling is her point about America projecting its power and no longer supposedly being on the brink of war. Looking past the utterly absurd and grotesque threats of military force and annexation that the “candidate of peace” has since his election dished out against other countries that aren’t remotely a threat to the US, Trump is an absolute fucking pushover on the international stage. As we speak, Ukraine is embroiled in a horrendous fight for survival against an imperialistic and genocidal foe while Biden’s administration only supplied them with the bare minimum to stay afloat: the perfect time if there ever was one for a hard-ass Republican president to step in, arm America’s democratic European ally to the teeth and show those Russkies who’s boss. What have Trump and his cohorts done instead? Posit that Biden has done too much for Ukraine and make that a partisan issue, and indicate that they’ll force Ukraine to the negotiating table to give up half of its land and kneecap its army and still not allow them into NATO afterwards. What message does that send? Best case scenario, a people fighting against foreign invasion and oppression has been completely abandoned by the land of the free, home of the brave; worst case scenario, every dictator around the world with delusions of grandeur will now feel emboldened to put their own irredentist dreams into practice knowing America will not step in. The world is so much more dangerous and bellicose now that Trump is in power and it legitimately scares me to live in it. tl;dr Your video did not convince me that the president is not the embodiment of everything that could possibly be rotten and corrupt about a human being, sorry

Pretty cool stuff. Gets a little tedious towards the end though

Extremely basic trial-and-error stuff

Two years after this video Star Trek actually did end up revisiting the two planets from this episode... but it was mostly treated as a joke

It all started when Mario, the princess and I came to Dinosaur World for a vacation.

gave me an existential crisis and made me never want to touch video games again strongly recommended

Tigran Hamasyan - The Dream Voyager

DOMi & JD Beck - SMiLE