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> Neoconservatives were hawkish members of the old Anti-USSR Left who were disillusioned by the Post Vietnam Democratic Party and travelled away from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

This is the same talking point parroted by another prominent right-wing commentator here, that implies that some neocons were... so far right that they were actually left?

> Supported by former Democratic intellectuals like Glenn Greenwald.

Glenn Greenwald is not and has never been a Democrat or member of the party or anything resembling that.

Elon Musk was a "Democrat" in the sense that as long as Democrat administrations handed his businesses grants and funding and tax breaks, he didn't shit-talk them. When he saw there was an opportunity to milk these things from Republican administrations, all of a sudden he became "Republican".


> Many commenters here point to login.gov as an example of the US government shipping good software.

Maybe. But in some ways, my experience with it was a heaping turd (registering my identity for the IRS):

"Scan the front and back of your Driver's License."

[upload scan of front of DL @ 200DPI]

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of front of DL @ 300DPI]

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

Huh. Maybe I'll try with a lower resolution.

[upload scan of front of DL @ 72DPI]

"Thank you, now please upload the back of your Driver's License."

Hmm, 72DPI worked for the front, so...

[upload scan of back of DL @ 72DPI]

"Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of back of DL @ 200DPI]

"Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded."

[upload scan of back of DL @ 300DPI]

"Thank you for verifying your Driver's License".


There are also bills and other measures (not to mention his own words) trying to support the idea of a third term for Trump.

You can argue that these measures are not serious or not a real threat or things like that, but it would be inaccurate to say that the prevailing R view is that there is no possibility of term-limit shenanigans.


Trump really is 1984 writ large.

> In fact he's putting into play Project 2025, the thing that he explicitly disclaimed knowledge of prior to the elections.

He did explicitly disclaim knowledge and awareness.

And he explicitly, previously, called them out as some "good people who have some very strong ideas that would be very good for the country".

What is amazing, sadly, is just how little this impacts or affects him.


Absolutely. "Conspiracy to commit abortion" is being proposed if not partly a thing in many states, and runs the gamut of anything from looking up info online, to traveling, to financially supporting or even giving a place to stay for someone doing this.

You parrot all this like there hasn’t been a huge conservative groupthink push at exactly the same time. Don’t act like cancel culture is an “intolerant liberal” thing (although that does make up part of it).

I’ve lost count of the number of businesses and celebrities that have been canceled and protested by the “intolerant conservatives”. Not to mention, some of those causes have been wholly made up. Nobody has been forbidden from saying “merry Christmas”, no matter how many times your uncle shares some post about it in Faceboook.


How does this differ from say StoryGraph?

I want to move on from GoodReads, but one thing that it does have is polished recommendations. I did my best to “import” a lot of my reading history into TSG and then asked for recommendations and it gave me a bunch of -extremely- similar choices, very homogenous, and narrow.


> Anyone who truly, honestly "didn't know" doesn't deserve to have a vote.

We are, unfortunately, a country where the most popular search on Google on election day last November was "Did Biden drop out?".

That's the lack of an educated electorate we have to deal with.


> There's no way that would fly for his people back home -- remember that they are as much of an audience as the Americans.

Well, them and the Russians. "Ooopsy, we let Russian state media in, however did that accidentally happen?!?"


Their course of action was bullshit. "Sure, diplomacy has failed you the last four times, and we've interfered plenty. So why not try it a fifth time?"

They expected Zelensky to be Charlie Brown kicking the football.

We have no fucking right to the "mineral rights" in Ukraine.


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