I believe him. He has a direct line to the Antichrist.

Yeah well, Finland has a tradition of shamelessly using unsavory regimes to keep the Russians at bay.

Do we call this Nazi concentration camps yet, or is this still a “slippery slope” and is Trump still cutely “flirting with authoritarianism”?

That’s exactly my point: you can never tell when you’re going to be put under surveillance. And people generally aren’t comfortable around someone wearing one of those invasive recording devices - even if they’re only potentially invasive.

That’s why Google gave up on their own smartglasses project.

Talk about a poisoned gift…

Nobody wants gifts from Israel, but Ukraine desperately needs the hardware.
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t…

No they’re probably right: it’s probably not on all the time, simply because the battery usage would be too high. What I mean was that it’s a rogue camera you can’t escape if the operator of the camera, or more likely Facebook, decides to turn it on for some purpose or other. I didn’t express myself properly.

And it’s gonna get a lot worse when you’re in a room with dozens of people sporting those hateful surveillance things.

It may not be on all the time, but the minute the wearer says, for example, “Hey Siri [or whateever Fuckerberg’s version of Siri is], please translate that menu in English”, then the damn thing starts recording - and possible flash a red light, if you say it does that - and you’re in the frame, you’ve already lost. Facebook has your mug on camera, whether you wanted it or not.

That’s my problem with these things: the whole idea of even using them implies that everybody around the wearer relinquishes their right to privacy by default, something I for one am totally not okay with.

If the wearer wants to submit to Facebook’s surveillance, it’s their problem. But those of us who care about not interacting with Facebook in any way, shape or form are dragged into the wearer’s choices and don’t have any say about it.

The problem with those AI glasses isn’t the AI part of it, but the always-on cameras with that terrible, terrible company Facebook always watching.

Whoever wears those things in public will have the same problem those who tried wearing Google’s smartglasses experienced a few years back: people who recognize they’re being filmed against their will will get angry, demand that the gormless geek doff the cameras, then punches will be thrown if the geek doesn’t comply.

Smartglasses - particularly those powered by privacy-invading monopolies - are socially out of place. They’re not really desired or welcome anywhere. Even Google recognized this and pulled the plug on their smartglasses project, and Facebook will too if they have any common sense.

The rich aren’t facing the law

The point I’m trying to make, as a regular Joe who isn’t mega-rich on the backs of everybody else, is that we’re better than that.

I’m only applying to Musk or Trump the standards I would like others to apply to me. If I was wrongly accused of being a pedo, however vile an individual I might otherwise be, I would like others to have the intellectual honesty to say they have no proof, even if they hate my guts.

Also, it reflects poorly on people who accuse others of things without proof. It certainly would feel good to go around saying Musk is a pedo because the man is so abhorrent. But it would also be wrong.

Until proof that he is a pedo comes out, that is. And boy do I wish proof comes out or what!

I honestly don’t think all people in the Epstein file are pedophiles, even if they went to his island, even if they went multiple times, anymore than all the people in Charlie Manson’s diary were loonies and serial killers. It does cast doubts on what they did or did not know, but it’s not proof of wrongdoing in and of itself.

What being mentioned in the Epstein file really means is that those are utterly disgusting people who are part of a disgusting elite. The friends they keep says a lot about them, and what that says isn’t good.

I do believe Trump is a pedophile however, even if he was only mentioned twice in the Epstein files - in the birthday card and in Epstein’s rolodex - because both clearly show that Epstein and he had something a lot more special, dark and unavowable in common that just partying together.

So no, absent more proof, I’ll assume Musk is “only” an obscenely wealthy, dangerous neo-Nazi with a ketamine addiction and a pedo daddy, but not a pedo himself. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the proof came out soon…

I wish everybody stopped talking about “test run” and “slippery slope”: we’re 200% IN the authoritarianism. In fact, it’s so authoritarian everybody can stop using the authoritarianism cutesy and call it what it is: FASCISM.

When the depression hits, people won’t need no statistics to figure out they’re in a depression.

You ain’t seen nothing yet. The orange utan is working hard to turn worsening poverty into a raging depression.

Newsflash: unlike traditional America, it seems like fascist America suddenly cares about soccer.

Here’s my take: fuck fascism and fuck soccer.

Yeah… And tomorrow he’ll get a text from Vladimir telling him he has a very large penis and he’ll change his mind.

Trump is a gullible simpleton who only reacts depending whatever is flying through his pre-dementia brain the instant he opens his trap, and whoever last flattered him or bribed him.

Are political commentaries from a loser really useful?

That is my opinion too. The United States is past the point where it can even hope to survive without a civil war.

I’ll believe it when I see it. So many things are supposed to blow up in the Republicans’ face, or wear the MAGA base thin, or create widespread discontent, yet Trump is still here and stinking up the place like a really tenacious fart in a particularly slow-moving elevator.

Some support…