Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

"Both seek to subvert confidence in democratic systems—most especially in elections. And both seek to stoke feelings of persecution and existential danger in their followers."

Put this story together with the current finding that 74% of Republicans are salivating for a Trump dictatorship, and you can only conclue that America — and the whole world — are in serious danger.

#TuckerCarlson #Putin #Trump
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Tucker Carlson is not a useful idiot. Not precisely. The term implies naïveté, but he seems to know exactly what he’s doing. …

For the past several years, Carlson’s project has been consonant with Putin’s. Both seek to sow division in the United States. Both seek to flood the zone with s— so that people won’t know what to believe or whom to trust. Both seek to undermine confidence in institutions."

~ Mona Charen

#TuckerCarlson #Putin #Trump
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https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/tucker-carlsons-fatal-attraction

@nixCraft

AI got heavy investment in 2018 by murderous despots like Mohammed bin Salman.

AI investors are desperate to launch it in time to disrupt the 2024 elections & make a buck off the anti-democracy billionaires buying Trump a throne.

Bernie Marcus
#KochNetwork
Robert & Rebekah Mercer
Dick Uihlein
Peter Thiel
Omeed Malik
Larry Ellison
Elon Musk

Be prepared for an onslaught of AI generated BS in the prelude to the November elections.

They got Trump elected and prolonged a pandemic.

2/ Via Acyn:

Kennedy: I don't see how anybody could look at this bill and confidently predict it would have been an improvement.

MacCallum: The chief of the border patrol just said exactly that. #ClusterFox

You know what the coolest feature about the Web is?

(It's none of the things that have been added to it in the last 30 years.)

The coolest feature of the World Wide Web is that a fucking HTML page from like 1993 still renders perfectly fine today.

Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.

Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024

"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."

#Utah #BookBans

https://letutahread.org

Two things mustn't be allowed to happen:

1. #Russia mustn't be allowed to redraw #Ukraine's borders.
2. #Israel mustn't be allowed to take #Gaza / #Palestine or expel the Palestinians from their lands.

If the US/West fail to stop these 2 things, then the right of conquest, which became illegal after the end of WW2 according to UN intl law, will be normalized again. And if that happens, then the world will head towards WW3. It'll encourage copycats to do the same thing.

#World #News #Politics

🇷🇺 Some Russian banks appear to have maneuvered around a ban on shipping dollars and euros to the country by trading gold in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, according to research from a financial-intelligence company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-07/some-russian-banks-may-have-swapped-gold-for-dollars-report-says

The report:
https://sayari.com/resources/rpt-russian-banks-cash-for-gold/

#russia

‘Audience of One’: Alina Habba Gets Super Nasty and Tells E. Jean Carroll Not to Buy Anything Expensive https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/02/audience-of-one-alina-habba-gets-super-nasty-and-tells-e-jean-carroll-not-to-buy-anything-expensive/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If you like written how-tos rather than video how-tos, make sure that there's more financial incentive to write.

You might have noticed, but our society is doing more & more to steal the work of writers (and creators in general), while also laying off the few who had half-decent employment.

The reason there are a lot of video tutorials is that at least YouTube pays.

Be the person who subscribes to a writer if you want to encourage writing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/rightwing-activist-christopher-rufo-ties-scientific-racism-journal

Right-wing activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to "scientific racism" journal.

@shuttersparks

This is why I brush my teeth with my finger.

CHP Mojave: "Redrock Randsburg Road is closed between SR-14 and US-395. Please plan accordingly and take alternate routes until the road is repaired. Do not go around road closed signs or cross flooded roads/streams. " #CAwx #rain #mojave

@lovelylovely @shuttersparks @mjk_4mjk

The explanation is that you don't have to be white to be a white supremacist, but if you're not, then you have to work harder at it.

Enrique Tarrio is Hispanic man, so to appeal to the far right, he has to work twice as hard to be overtly white supremacist and anti-Hispanic.

AOC is a Hispanic woman, so to appeal to the far left, she has to work twice as hard to center whiteness and downplay feminism.

Being an identity traitor is hard work!

#uspol

@lovelylovely 96 percent win. Biden won SC by 96 percent while the MSM was citing bullshit polls that had him at 68 percent. Meanwhile they were touting Trump's 58 percent win as some HUGE deal, but turnout was absolute crap in Iowa.

„Wenn Nazis nicht Nazis genannt werden möchten, heißt das dann, dass sogar Nazis wissen, dass Nazis scheiße sind?“ (Sarah Bosetti)

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“Let’s be clear: None of this is hyperbole. Trump has made it clear he has no problem deploying any of these measures. Every idea expressed here originated with the former president himself. And so, he must be stopped. Because what I have described here is a point of no return.”

(Brett Wagner, now retired, served as a professor of national security decision-making for the U.S. Naval War College and adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.)