Reminds me of the story of a parliament full of apparatchiks clapping their dictator, with no one daring to stop, because it would mean a lack of loyalty, for which they'd be dragged out and shot...
>> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.”
Have you ever watched any part of any of his cabinet meetings? They are just 3 hours of people telling him how great he is in the most cringiest ways possible, each person trying to one-up the last with the ass kissing. So this autofill doesn't seem weird at all to me.
(I'm not saying its normal, I'm saying its expected).
> It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship.
It's not even the authoritarian dictatorship that scares me as much as it is how many regular people with nothing to gain and everything to lose happily and fully support it.
> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.”
It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship.