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We should propagate a conspiracy theory that when you vote the government collected your DNA so they can eventually clone a replacement citizen and replace you. They can sneaky confuse the system only if they never vote.

I'm sorry, but describing the change from the 80s and 90s as small really misses the mark. The changes were huge and substantial. Not fast enough, of course, but it was no small journey.

"The Trump administration has passed a resolution saying that Mexico will now be called 'America South' and Canada 'America North'. Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on it's maps app."

This is weird. The 90's were so homophobic it was normal. The people who were saying "it's ok to be gay" were considered fringe and extreme. This is the decade where it was subversive and radical for gay people to "come out of the closet".

In the 80's, people lost their jobs and there were news specials to talk about this hidden side of society that nobody knew about. In the 80's a significant amount of people were saying "yeah Aids is bad, but it's punishment for the gays so not really that bad..."

Jump to the 2000's and being gay was becoming a normal and open thing and society was adjusting to this idea. The liberal half of the country was already on board and saying "this is ok and normal" and the conservative/religious side of the country was still trying to hold on to their laws to punish and criminalize gay sex.

My point is that the 2000's were the good days and the 90's and 80's were the dark days of homophobia. Pointing back at the 2000's and saying "WOW, LOOK AT HOW THEY TREATED GAY JOKES" really misses how massively far we came in a few decades and how much worse it was even a decade before that.

It was probably part of a cost cutting plan too show they were trimming costs in order to get more funding from investors. It clearly didn't work.

The funny (ok, not funny) thing is that the law was intended to keep the people in the south from saying that slaves aren't really Americans... and since THEY aren't Americans, their children aren't Americans and their children, and on and on and on. So basically black people aren't part of this country. They can't vote and they don't have rights, and nothing will ever change that. And Thomas will probably be 100% on board with ignoring the constitution to suite his politics. How sad is that?

It's right out of Trump's playbook. You do something outrageous and evil, with just a smidgen of deniability.. it gets them attention. That's what they crave, to lead the news cycle, to be hated by the left but maintain enough deniability that the center and right will still be on your side. This is Trump 101.

This is exactly right. As much as some people don't want to hear it, this is the one true answer. This is what all life has in common, this is what defines a successful "life" on a global biological scale.

I'm a little surprised that most countries don't have laws that make it a crime for non-citizens or people outside their country to influence elections. For any country, but the biggest and wealthiest, this seems like an obvious thing. Nobody wants their larger richer neighbor coming and interfering with their elections.

If you consider Twitter like a newspaper or other media outlet, then the owner of the media outlet using Twitter's megaphone should violate all sorts of laws. At least that would be my expectation......

I actually like Tesla. I just hate Elon more. We came close to buying a Tesla once or twice, but now it's totally off the table.

Nah, I can understand apathy way more than I can the racism and hatred of the fascist Republican voters.

Republican propaganda outlets will tell them that there is no problem and they'll believe it. If not that, they'll tell them the problem is a fault of the "others", and they'll get even more on board the maga hate train. They're a lost cause.